Subject: NASCAR

• Get Your Motor Running

  April 17, 2007

• Tunnel Mole on Speed

  May 25, 2007

• Popping My Roller Derby Cherry

  August 20, 2007

• Re: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday: Roller Derby All Star Competition

  September 17, 2007

• Big State, Big Ideas

  October 12, 2007

• The Astrodome Speaks...

  November 2, 2007

• Top Ten Sports Moments of 2008

  10. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 to become the first woman to win a major (NASCAR, Indy, Formula One) auto race. 9. Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine won his 300th game, then retired at the end of the season, to just about cement his selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in five years. And if Randy Johnson signs a contract and can stay healthy for two to three months, he'll join Glavine next season on the list. 8. As of this writing, the Detroit Lions have yet to win a foot

  December 25, 2008

• Turning the Screw: TxHustla, Beanie Sigel, Lil' Wayne, Ciara, Kanye, Tupac, Akon, Usher and More

  September 8, 2008

• Rock and Roll Dream Team

  Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  August 26, 2004

• On Their Backs

  Sugar Land spreads its legs

  June 9, 2005

• A Dream Team for Barack Obama

  November 6, 2008

• The Famous And Not-So-Famous Of HISD's "Prominent Alumni" List

  You probably don't realize it, but the Houston school district's website has a page dedicated to prominent alumni, listed by high school.Unfortunately, many of the "prominent" alumni are politicians, especially current and former HISD board members. Any definition of "prominent" that includes HISD board members is probably a little too loose for our taste, but we guess the people who put the list together like to keep board members happy.With that in mind, here are Seven Things About HISD's List

  December 22, 2008

• Monster Jam: Absurdly Huge Trucks to Crush Cars This Weekend, Unprovoked

  Ballz is losing confidence in the upcoming third Batman installment. Many people might see this as Super Bowl weekend, but I know that, for some reason, there are many of you out there who see this Saturday as being the most important day of the weekend. That's because it's the Monster Jam at Reliant Park. That's right, the place is being invaded once again by rednecks in jacked-up trucks that shatter eardrums and shake foundations to their cores. I don't get this event. I never have, an

  January 29, 2009

• Amplified

  July 22, 1999

• Monster Jam: Absurdly Huge Trucks to Crush Cars This Weekend, Unprovoked

  Ballz is losing confidence in the upcoming third Batman installment. Many people might see this as Super Bowl weekend, but I know that, for some reason, there are many of you out there who see this Saturday as being the most important day of the weekend. That's because it's the Monster Jam at Reliant Park. That's right, the place is being invaded once again by rednecks in jacked-up trucks that shatter eardrums and shake foundations to their cores. I don't get this event. I never have, an

  January 29, 2009

• Top Ten Sports Moments of 2008

  10. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 to become the first woman to win a major (NASCAR, Indy, Formula One) auto race. 9. Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine won his 300th game, then retired at the end of the season, to just about cement his selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in five years. And if Randy Johnson signs a contract and can stay healthy for two to three months, he'll join Glavine next season on the list. 8. As of this writing, the Detroit Lions have yet to win a foot

  December 25, 2008

• Stephen Hunter

  October 9, 2008

• Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

  July 24, 2008

• Self-Hating Mexican Americans, and Rednecks of All Colors

  May 29, 2008

• Alonzo Bodden

  A comedian makes cracks about his own discomfort

  December 27, 2007

• Jetsetters Invited

  April 27, 2006

• Vroom with a View

  May 11, 2006

• Are You Ready for Some Fútbol?

  August 3, 2006

• Grand Prix of Houston

  NASCAR can’t monopolize 200-mile-per-hour excitement

  April 19, 2007

• THE SHILOH CLUB

  June 28, 2007

• Farce of a Champion

  December 14, 2006

• Veh-Ree Theen Pancakes

  Don't be self-conscious — enjoy a crepe or two at CoCo's

  October 19, 2006

• No Parking Zone?

  An inner-loop park is still on the endangered list

  October 5, 2006

• Road Rage

  In FlatOut 2, life is a highway strewn with carnage

  August 31, 2006

• Starburst

  The Velvet Melvin

  June 8, 2006

• Shell Game

  Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

  May 18, 2006

• Cowboy Up

  We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke

  April 13, 2006

• Redneck Renaissance

  Gretchen Wilson’s return to town makes us wonder, What’s really behind all these songs about Wal-Mart, cheap beer and NASCAR?

  November 3, 2005

• White Trash

  There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

  August 4, 2005

• Mean Streets

  NASCAR has nothing on Houston freeways

  July 14, 2005

• Gravity Games

  Future racing stars gun it at the Greater Houston Soapbox Derby

  June 2, 2005

• War Is Afoot

  "Eyes Wide Open" brings statistics to life

  February 3, 2005

• Bash-Free Zone

  Is the Texas Book Festival protecting George W.?

  September 16, 2004

• The Bull Market

  Young bucks ride for a shot at the big time

  January 8, 2004

• White Dork Down

  Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

  December 4, 2003

• The New Constitution/Stroller

  On 4 (Audello) / Six Inches off the Ground (Compadre)

  October 23, 2003

• Popsy

  Thursday, June 27 and Sunday, June 30

  June 27, 2002

• Reptomania

  The Austin Lounge Lizards steal hearts and minds by feasting on sacred cows

  May 17, 2001

• Austin Lounge Lizards

  Never an Adult Moment (Sugar Hill)

  December 28, 2000

• Contemplative Spaces

  Four artists work out their issues in intimate gallery shows

  May 18, 2000

• Fun with Rednecks

  Bill Engvall

  March 23, 2000

• Crash Course

  November 25, 1999

• Aftermath: Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Photos by Kim Douglass What is this place? Where it's OK to wear tank tops that cut off mid-abdomen with a pair of Daisy Dukes and a straw cowboy hat? And is that Bret Michaels eating nachos? A place like this could make any outsider feel like Alice only instead of a wonderland, they may be at a NASCAR championship. Nope, wrong, there are no cars, glasses of milk, or overabundant smell of gasoline - only Bud Light tallboys, bleach blond hair, and lower-back tattoos, but what brings all of this

  July 1, 2009

• Season Tickets for Monster Jam? Really?

  Photo by Block Party Press​Somehow or another, I ended up on a Reliant Park event email list. And whenever there's some kind of event for which tickets are available, I get an email. I generally ignore these emails, but I got one the other day that grabbed my attention. It told me that there are season tickets available for Monster Jam in January of 2010. My first thought was: well, they must not think the Texans are going to make the playoffs. My second thought was: season tickets

  August 27, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: In Which Rocks Off's Black Heart Is Melted And We Meet Vinnie Testaverde

  With another ACL comes another chance for us to sharpen our snarkening knifes and go out hunting the wilds of Zilker Park searching for only the best in surreal public displays and the fancifully misguided and miscalculated public faux-pas. On with the show! ​These two chill-ass dudes made us wish we would knock someone up soon, because we have so much cool stuff to teach kids, like right now. It has to be most ricky-tick before we got all old and we stop hunting to name our child Spike, Lemmy

  October 3, 2009