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  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Fried Beer Wuz Robbed

    Try making this at home.​The overall winner of this year's Big Tex Choice Awards (the much publicized food awards at the annual State Fair of Texas) was an underdog from three brand-new competitors: the fried Frito pie. And although I'm happy for the gentlemen who won (as happy as you can be t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Ingredient of the Week: Mache

    balise42​What is it? Pronounced "mawsh," it's also known as lamb's lettuce. At Whole Foods the other day, a woman picked up a prepackaged container and asked herself aloud, "What's mache?" I had no idea. But thanks to this story on NPR, I now have a little background to go on. Mache is a sal ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2010

    Paula Poundstone

    Ignore her past; this comedian has earned her way back onstage

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    KUHF: It's Going 24/7 News And Talk, But It's Not Adding Staff To Do It

    More airtime to fill; no new staff to do it​So now that KUHF is going 24/7 news and talk -- taking Rice's KTRU to the graveyard as it does so -- we should be getting a whole lot of new local programming, with more reporters and staff to produce lots of additional news product?Not so much.We'll let ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    KTRU News Roils, Saddens Local Music Community

    UPDATED (5:35 p.m.) to include comments from Rice's B.J. Almond and a new Facebook count. The fate of KTRU's annual outdoor free concert in the spring is one of many things that has yet to be decided.​News of the University of Houston's impending purchase of Rice University student radio stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    KTRU: Is UH About To Buy Rice's Station And Transform It From Unique To Bland?

    R.I.P., KTRU as we know it?​Could the end of KTRU as Houston knows it be upon us? Our sister blog Rocks Off has heard that Rice student station at 91.7 FM, long one of Houston radio's few outlets for underground, avant-garde and local music, may about to be acquired by the University of Houston f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Cartoon Band To Play Toyota Center

    My my, we're busy today. Rocks Off this sent this into the Twitterverse earlier, but for all you non-tweeters, Gorillaz, the UK hip-hop/electronica/rock band composed of Murdoc Niccals, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs - the cartoon avatars of Blur's Damon Albarn and his pal Jamie Hewlett - are pencile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Houston Locals Musicians Film Video With Dallas Native, Head to Austin for Release

    • Fat Tony, Tom Nguyen from The Ton Tons and Kyle Vento from Simple Success teamed up with director Tedric Huff to play the backing band for Dallas artist Angela Carter in the new video for her song "Love Anymore." It looks like they had tons of fun. • Roky Erickson spent about 30 minutes las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Drink With Mike Stinson, Help Terrible Eagle, Learn How Weed Won The West, Buy Summerfest Tix At Urban Outfitters

    MCM's boss came across the above video of Mike Stinson's "I've Got No One to Drink With Anymore," from the local honky-tonk transplant's brand-new (and excellent) album The Jukebox In Your Heart, while he was waiting for her to turn in this article. As a staunch proponent of Coors Light, he strongl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2010

    The Krayolas

    MCM's boss came across the above video of Mike Stinson's "I've Got No One to Drink With Anymore," from the local honky-tonk transplant's brand-new (and excellent) album The Jukebox In Your Heart, while he was waiting for her to turn in this article. As a staunch proponent of Coors Light, he strongl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Sarah Vowell Comes To Beaumont (Of All Places)

    ​Something about the idea of Sarah Vowell, that This American Life star, regular NPR contributor, droll historian, frequent Jon Stewart foil, voice of Violet of The Incredibles and all around Person Who White People Like coming to Beaumont was utterly irresistible.It seemed like the exact inverse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    ZZ On NPR -- Everyone In Houston Has A Story About Them

    A few weeks after they taped the show when it came here, you can listen to the bearded ones of ZZ Top as they play "Not My Job" on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me."Were three guys; we know three chords," Dusty Hill says of recording the group's new album."Everyone in Houston has a ZZ Top story -- eit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    How Ex-Runaways Manager Kim Fowley Stole The Mayor Of The Sunset Strip

    ​The Runaways opens nationwide next Friday and one of the things Hollywood Shuffle is most looking forward to when the film hits Houston theaters is how delicately director Floria Sigismondi will treat the character of Kim Fowley, whom HS likes to refer to as the Creepiest Man in Hollywood. Hey! A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    SXSW Aftermath: Mexican Spazz-Punk, Sulky Broken Bells, Spoon In The Pocket

    Photos by Craig HlavatyMexico's scuzzy Hong Kong Blood Opera​ We stopped off Red River at Barbarella to see Mexico City's Hong Kong Blood Opera, decent Blood Brothers-style spazz-punk, buoyed by electrics and plenty of howling by the band's co-singers. If anything, they engaged the crowd and we hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Still Not Sold On SXSW? How About Smokey Robinson, High On Fire, She & Him, Band Of Horses, Drive-By Truckers, Deer Tick, Anya Marina, Black Angels, Major Lazer...

    Today the organizers of the SXSW Music Festival announced their showcase schedule for the music portion of the industry fest starting on March 17. This is the news Rocks Off has been looking for, so let's get it on. We are now one month away from Sixth Street and one of the world's biggest conglome ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    OMG!!!111!!1! Zac Efron Loves Us!!1!!! Totes!1!!

    Photo from justjared.com​ Breathes there a hotter man alive on the face of this earth -- nay, in this solar system -- than Zac Efron?And before you fans pile on us, we'd take the category to "the entire extent of the galaxy," but we just don't know what the stars of Zebon-17's version High School ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2010

    Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!

    National Public Radio's quiz show heads to Houston

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Spoon to Engage In Transference at Stubb's SXSW Wednesday

    Yes, Houston, they'll be back...​Whenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon - which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit - the one word that always comes to mind is "punctuation." No other band we can think of consistently crafts songs that are so heavily punctuated, from Britt Daniel's sharp-a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    Mary Karr

    Inprint invites a renowned/reluctant memoirist

  • Blogs

    December 25, 2009

    Curse Your Branches: The Top College-Rockish Records of 2009, Part 1

    ​Yeah, pal, that's "college rock," scare quotes very much included. Look, it's a meaningless term. As are "indie," "alternative," "hipster," etc., etc. Let's not overthink this: Here we have ten splendid records with an amorphous rock 'n' roll designation, albeit in a perhaps slightly more experim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Avoid The Cyber Monday Crowds By Shopping At These Sites

    Today is Cyber Monday, a special day drummed up by the National Retail Federation to trick people into thinking there's some special reason people should shop online today, as opposed to yesterday. Or two weeks from now. The Federation's idea was to drive people to www.CyberMonday.com, which f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    NPR Visits Houston To Examine Growth, Using A Soothing Voice

    ​You may have missed it this morning -- but a podcast should be available here (and part two is tomorrow)-- but NPR's Morning Edition came to Houston to look at how we handle growth.The network's Steve Inskeep said Houston represents the latest chapter of the Urban Frontier series because we have ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    Zoya Shuhatovich plays Shostakovich

    Web exclusive

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Bayou Beat: Three Fantastic on NPR, Beyonce Leads MTV Noms, Rocks Off Seeking Intern, More Live Nation Deals, etc.

    Mark C. Austin​ Congratulations to Houston's Three Fantastic, whose "Hot Summer Day" was chosen as NPR's "Song of the Day" Wednesday. Comparing it to "one of those half-remembered Sugar Ray hits from a decade ago," NPR's David Browne is a little taken aback by the band's idea of a "glorious summer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Another Record Store Day at Cactus Music

    Cactus Music and the Record Ranch is having another Record Store Day Saturday, with a lineup of events that borders on serious party happening. The highlight of the day will be a live appearance by red-hot San Antonio band The Krayolas (above). San Antonio's oldest and most respected rockero outfit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Slate Isn't Exactly Encouraging You To Go To The Houston Library Tomorrow

    Tomorrow morning the Houston Public Library is bringing in Cokie Roberts to talk about her book We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, which is somehow not subtitled (In Case You Were Wondering).We've never been big fans of Roberts; on the Sunday talk shows she's seemed to be pretty much Queen of the Conven ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    This American Life - LIVE!

    A National Public Radio favorite takes the big screen

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Andrei Codrescu

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    SXSW BBQ Panel: Brisket as Health Food

    The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    SXSW BBQ Panel: Brisket as Health Food

    The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008

    Why Do the "Car Talk" Guys Have a Cartoon and I Don’t?

    The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2008

    In the Shade: Shady Shots

    The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2008

    National Non-fiction Writers Conference in Texas

    The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    This American Life — Live!

    Ira Glass takes his show on the road…via satellite

  • Music

    September 6, 2007

    Arthur Alexander

    Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    There Is But One Story with Many Tellings

    Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2007

    Catfish Reef: Happy Woman Blues

    Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    Join the Corps

    Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

  • Music

    February 23, 2006

    Domino Kings

    Friday, February 24, at Blanco's, 3406 West Alabama, 713-439-0072. Saturday, February 25, at 2 p.m., in-store performance at Sig's Lagoon, 3710 Main, 713-533-9525.

  • Music

    April 15, 2004

    Mary Gauthier

    Thursday, April 15

  • Music

    November 13, 2003

    Joss Stone

    The Soul Sessions (S-Curve)

  • Calendar

    October 23, 2003

    Cleaning Rags to Riches

    Crappy gigs are grist for this humorist's mill

  • Culture

    January 16, 2003

    Strange Days

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

  • Music

    December 5, 2002

    John Prine with Iris DeMent

    Friday, December 6

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2001

    Overthrow the Revolution

    Factory Direct might be the Next Big Thing

  • Dining

    June 8, 2000

    Cowboy in the Kitchen

    Welcome The Houston Press's new food critic, Robb Walsh

  • Music

    January 6, 2000

    Amplified

    All People Considered

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Silence on the Dial

    Two weeks ago the FCC shut down Montrose Radio. Can the pirate station survive the bust? Can the pirate station survive itself?

  • Calendar

    June 11, 1998

    Naked Brunch

    Two weeks ago the FCC shut down Montrose Radio. Can the pirate station survive the bust? Can the pirate station survive itself?

  • Calendar

    June 9, 1994

    Press Picks

    Two weeks ago the FCC shut down Montrose Radio. Can the pirate station survive the bust? Can the pirate station survive itself?

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