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The Five Most Bizarre Moments of the 2013 NRA Convention

There were plenty of moments that you expect from an NRA Convention. You expect to see fear-based rhetoric with the best of them -- you count on hearing the murmurs of confiscation and tyranny, of the misguided concept that the only way to keep a government at bay is the 9mm wedged into your wife's ... More >>

Ramin Bahrani: Expand or Die

For At Any Price director Ramin Bahrani, bigger films demand bigger targets.

Seven Depressing Things About Scary Movie V That Have Almost Nothing to Do with the Movie Itself

Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: SHO, Astros and Croquet?

Hey, boys and girls, it's the weekend again. I bet you didn't think you'd make it here from Monday, did you? We assume the next few days are all filled up with plans for antiquing, buying groceries, working in the garden, eating sensibly and going to church for Easter. HA HA HA! We're kidding. But ... More >>

Burgers Off the Beaten Path: The Hideaway

I keep finding new reasons to love The Hideaway on Dunvale, and therefore new reasons to drive west on Richmond until I hit Dunvale -- a corner of the city's that is actually rife with terrific reasons to head west. In the strip center across Richmond from The Hideaway, you'll find two of the best ... More >>

Chavez High Students Ready To Tear Up The Texas Mile With Their 561-HP GTO

High school kids with a car that can bomb away at 180 or so mph? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Instead it's a learning experience that's turning out to be a fun ride with no end in sight. This weekend, the 10th annual Texas Mile competition will play host to an extremely competitive field of ... More >>

MTV's Early VJs: Where Are They Now?

vegastripping.comMTV's original VJ crew (l-r): J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter​When it comes to the attention spans of teenagers, entertainers are on borrowed time. Which might explain the turnover rate of MTV's Video Jockeys, or VJs for short. Currentl ... More >>

The Shuttle's Souvenir Load

20,000 flags and 10,000 patches aboard

NBA Draft Rewind -- 1986, The Worst Draft Ever

Plus the shorts sucked​As much as those who construct teams in sports would like to think that they have a formula and a blueprint that they can go execute with any team in any market and be successful, the fact of the matter is that even for the best personnel men in the best-run organization ... More >>

Top 5 Celebrities Who Tried to Go All NASCAR...and Failed

Kyle Busch: Qualified to break traffic speeding laws.​If you're going to travel at more than 80 miles an hour over the limit, you should probably be a professional speedster and not a celebrity with run-of-the-mill driving know-how. On Tuesday, Kyle Busch, a championship-winning NASCAR driver ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Debt Collectors, I Am Barbie, Four Places, [title of show]

Dale Earnhardt Died Ten Years Ago Today: Five Highlights from "The Dale Trail" in His Hometown

Celebrating The Intimidator​Ten years ago today the NASCAR world was rocked to its core by the death of Dale Earnhardt. He drove cars, we're told, and did it very fast. If you see a vanity license plate from a Southern state with a "3" on it, the driver is an Earnhardt fan and probably does n ... More >>

Atoning for the [Cinematic] Sins of the Father

A poor *black* kid? They'll never buy it.​That rumbling you heard yesterday was the muted "harrumph"-ing of thousands of American film journalists after news of the Will Smith/Jay-Z Annie reboot was confirmed: Overbrook Entertainment has formally announced a partnership with Jay-Z for future ... More >>

Dennis Ray Anderson: Convicted Killer Who Kept Corpse In Barrel Is Considered Dangerous

Photo courtesy HCSODennis Ray Anderson: Yes, he's dangerous​You serve a long prison term for murdering a woman and her three-year-old granddaughter. You're now wanted because you've been keeping a corpse in a barrel in your backyard, someone you most likely killed.You have no money, you're on foot ... More >>

World Cup: 25 Things An Outsider Learned

What? No "Heil Shitler" headline?​With the U.S. soccer team defeat to Ghana on Saturday, I thought I would note some things I noted from the World Cup this year.1. From my readings on the internet and twitter, it appeared that the U.S. soccer team was coached by Gary Kubiak. The team had bad fi ... More >>

MTV Struggles to Remain Relevant By Naming A Twitter Jockey

​This week MTV announced an online campaign looking for the network's first-ever TJ, or Twitter Jockey. Unlike the video jockeys of the cable station's past, these folks would instead live-tweet from MTV events for a year, earning a salary, and live in New York City. In addition to Twitter, th ... More >>

It's the Wife's Fault

Can't enjoy child porn at home? Try school.

American Idol: Release The Kracken!

​Last night's American Idol results show was present in association with Warner Bros.' Clash of the Titans, and the intro featured -- I swear -- movie footage and text like "Heroes are not born, they are made," as if these kids aren't just trying to land a record contract but somehow save all ... More >>

Idol Beat: Release The Kraken!

​Last night's American Idol results show was present in association with Warner Bros.' Clash of the Titans, and the intro featured -- I swear -- movie footage and text like "Heroes are not born, they are made," as if these kids aren't just trying to land a record contract but somehow save all ... More >>

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 ther ... More >>

The Distillery: The Cool Kids' "Going Fishin'" mixtape

Photo by Hryck. Chuck "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll (Michigan) and Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed (Illinois) - the Cool Kids, to you - may qualify as the 00s' biggest teases. Since 2007, they've unleashed a cavalcade of individual tracks and mixtapes, massaging Internet buzz into a sort of droning hum: 80s ... More >>

The Stars of HISD

"Prominent" takes on new meaning

Joel Osteen Teams Up With Guns N Roses To Rock Your Face Off

Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

Ultimate Fighting, Schmighting

Self-Hating Mexican Americans, and Rednecks of All Colors

Blood on the Ice and Fans in the Stands

John Royal’s Friends’ Top Twenty Sports Moments of 2007, Part Two

Last Night: Storyville at Warehouse Live

THE SHILOH CLUB

JOLLY RANCHER

Mixed Media

Split Personality

PK's Blue Water Grill has the soul of a funky fish house and the body of a fashionable seafood restaurant

Making Scents of the Stars

A buyer's guide to celebrity fragrances

Anchor man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Primus

Primus appears Friday, November 3, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas. Call 713-230-1600 for more info.

Veh-Ree Theen Pancakes

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

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 7

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?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

White Trash

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

Car Trouble

Herbie the Love Bug is back, and he bites

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

War Is Afoot

"Eyes Wide Open" brings statistics to life

Here Come the Drums

Dhol Beat International takes the stage at Lotus

Getting Carnal

Sexcapades come to Conroe ISD

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Chow Time

Could the Food Network finally be coming to Time-Warner's analog offerings?

Renewable Energy

Houston's ever-evolving Soular Slide looks for its place in the sun

Contemplative Spaces

Four artists work out their issues in intimate gallery shows

Fun with Rednecks

Bill Engvall