Myanmar

Revolve Dance: Nexus

Our Top Ten Picks For Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011

Photo By Marc BrubakerBest Coast at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010​This weekend the Rocks Off team will cover their third Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, at the festival's new home Auditorium Shores. Each year this fest seems to get bigger and better, without losing it's grimy luster. Is it the Austin City ... More >>

Love, Shelby

Shelby Lynne smolders on Tears, Lies, and ­Alibis.

Game Time: The Dysfunctional Macs

​I'm sure if all of you have heard, but Tracy McGrady has set a target date to return from microfracture surgery, and that date is November 18. What he's going to do once he comes back or whether he's even ready to come back are secondary issues, because chances are if you heard this news when it ... More >>

Rocks Off's Picks for This Weekend's Fun Fun Fun Festival

You can think of this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin as the indie, metal, and hip-hop little brother of the more staid Austin City Limits Music Festival. The fourth edition of the two-day event held in Waterloo Park in Austin starts tomorrow afternoon. Per our stated life path, Rocks Off will ... More >>

Free Rice-Cookers Help Out Burmese Refugees Here

Photo by Mike Giglio​A crowd of Burmese refugees gathered in the parking lot Sunday afternoon at the Sun Blossom Mountain apartment complex on Ranchester Drive -- which was the subject of our recent cover story on Houston's refugees -- and waited for John Glenn to shout their names.A local company ... More >>

Aftermath: U2 at Reliant Stadium - One Love, We Get to Share It

Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshow​A day or two before U2 (and love) came to town, a friend emailed us a joke. At least we think it's a joke. It really doesn't have anything to do with U2, except that it has everything to do with U2. "I was so depressed last night thinking about the ... More >>

The Burmese Come to Houston

Get in, get out. Refugees have a shrinking window of support until it's time to fend for themselves.

The Number Of Burmese Refugees Will Just Keep Growing

​A new stream of refugees began flowing out of Burma (or Myanmar) last month. Burmese troops broke a 20-year cease-fire with ethnic groups in the country's northeastern Shan region, causing an estimated 30,000 to flee across the border and into China.The fighting is part of a trend toward more vio ... More >>

Trying To Connect With Houston's Burmese Community, Via John Glenn

Photo by Mike Giglio​I threw a football at a refugee and demanded to know where she lived.Her voice wavered, and her answer was hard to hear. So I leaned over and cupped my hand to my ear, waving the hand in a circle first, like Hulk Hogan trying to rile a crowd. Apartment 1212, I finally made ou ... More >>

On Being Watched in Burma

Photos by Mike Giglio​I remember his nose. Thick gray hair spouted from each nostril, all the way down to the old monk's lip, like smoke from the snout of a dragon. He sat on some steps inside the gold and glittering Sule Pagoda in central Rangoon. The monk was bald and missing teeth, and a cinna ... More >>

Refugees In Houston Struggle With The Health-Care System Even More Than The Rest Of Us

A Bhutanese refugee has been holed up in his southwest Houston apartment for months, downing pain killers. This isn't the new life he had in mind. Rubber sandals cover the mat outside the spare, dim apartment. The man is embedded in an easy chair. He periodically winces and grabs his stomach. ... More >>

Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

Soy Bombed

Michele Brangwen

UH Prof, Mia Farrow Tour Third World

Bayou City Art Festival

Enjoy the artdoors this weekend

Universal Soldier: 'Rambo'

Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going

Top 10 Most Hated Rappers

Who made the shit list

Turkeys of the Year

The 2006 Collectors Edition

Bombs and Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Remaking the Band

Will the Pixies 2.0 thrive like Mission of Burma, or stumble like Urge Overkill?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Sawyer's Adventures

"Contemplative Spaces" explores the sublime in blue and yellow

Legend of a Lady

Suriyothai gives early Thailand an epic identity

Strange Days

Theater LaB and Atomic Cafe take us from a Squeamish religious sect to drinks with cannibals

Nature vs. Nurture

Roxy Paine turns fake flowers and painting machines into high art

International Film Festival 2000

Film Reviews

Auto Erotica

The Ladies Car Wash

Imprints of the Eras

Desi Dance

The music is called bhangra, and it's the sound of a whole new way of being Indian. Or Pakistani. Or Bangladeshi.

Lil' Stevie's Year in Review

Beyond Dreck

John Boorman's new film has some, uh, interesting color tones