New York University

Eater National's Talia Baiocchi Joins Wine Spectator Team

UPDATE AND CLARIFICATION: We received word from Talia Baiocchi that this post has caused some confusion. She is not leaving her position as wine editor at Eater National. She is picking up a weekly column for the Wine Spectator in addition to her current job with Eater. New York-based, twenty-some ... More >>

Finally, a Treat with Fun Size

The teen comedy that's not bad for you.

There Be Pirates Here: UH Ranks Third on List of University Students Using BitTorrent

According to a survey of Internet usage by TorrentFreak and ScanEye, the University of Houston ranks third on its list of universities that most utilize BitTorrent technology. For the non-nerd, BitTorrent is a technology that allows incremental downloading of very large files that can include pirate ... More >>

The Mountaintop

Crossing the Line: Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

The Stripper Reporter

Society writer's other job

Sarah Tressler: Houston Chronicle Society Writer By Day, Stripper By Night

It sounds like a bad rom-com book and movie, which no doubt its author hopes it will be -- society reporter for a big-city newspaper by day, stripper by night. That's apparently the life being led by Sarah Tressler, who began writing society stuff for the Houston Chronicle after Douglas Britt left ... More >>

People Who Need People

The perils of communal living in Martha Marcy May Marlene.

"Fair" Game

At DiverseWorks, curator Diane Barber sends up our city's new obsession with art fairs.

Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino

Shock the Junkie

Is ibogaine really an addict cure-all?

Aggies' Alexander Kemos: Well, No, I'm Not A Tufts Grad. Or A Navy SEAL, For That Matter

Alexander Kemos: Not a SEAL​When it comes to resume padding, there are two options. You can go small, like George O'Leary when he applied for the head football coaching job at Notre Dame and falsely claimed to have a master's from "NYU-Stony Brook University" and to have lettered in football a ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Poison Pen Reading Series: Ed Porter, Jason Koo and Taije Silverman

A former actor-turned-poet brings drama to the Poison Pen Reading Series

Ang Lee Retrospective

See the early work by the man behind Brokeback Mountain

He Said She Said: 10 Artists Who Never Got Their Due, Part Deux

It's the plight of every musician. You struggle and struggle to make it big in the business, only to find that even the most modest margin of fame barely comes with a modicum of respect. Even artists with a lot of influence on later, more popular musicians fall by the wayside in the annals of rock ... More >>

Shen Yun Performing Arts

Between the color and the spectacle is a thousand-year-old tradition of dance

Bayou Beat: Come Play Beatles Rock Band With Rocks Off, Watch Us On TV, Zeppelin Lounge Goes Bye-Bye, Black Crowes Admit "Houston Don't Dream About Me," etc.

​Rocks Off has managed to secure a copy of Beatles Rock Band, and because we're not selfish at all, we're inviting everyone to come play along with us at 7 p.m. next Wednesday at Coffee Groundz, 2503 Bagby. Pit your button-mashing skills against Rocks Off's house band, enjoy Beatles-themed dri ... More >>

Names In the News Ask Collective Soul's 7even Year Itch: Collective Soul's Greatest Hits 1994-2001

​Rocks Off enjoys reading The New York Times on Sundays. It's one of the few things in our topsy-turvy lives we can count on. However, several stories in this past Sunday's paper gave us serious cause for concern. The best way to help these people, we figured, was to take their problems to Georgia ... More >>

Now It's Even A Bigger Deal To Win A Tommy Tune Award

The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a ... More >>

Get Lit: Hamburger America: A State-By-State Guide to 100 Great Burger Joints, by George Motz

Unwelcome: The Visitor

Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions

I Love "Road House," Damn It

The Nanny Diaries

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Battles

The group's genre-defying music

Cred Sheet

A guide to being cool

Mama's Got a Brand-New Bag

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings carry old-school funk into the new millennium

Gettin' Windy in the City

The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

Secret Taping

Harvey Bott's drawings languished in his studio for 50 years

Take His Word

Jerome Vielman brings spoken word to Industry Cafe

Doggy Style

A poodle and a rottweiler tie the knot

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

Caveman's Valentine

Campbell Scott looks for lust in all the wrong places as Roger Dodger

Face the Facts

Nancy Burson has been morphing and manipulating images since the '70s. Can we now trust her photos?

Moonstruck

Dave Criswell dreams of living on the moon. He has a plan for colonization. Other scientists say his idea is 100 years too early. But he's ready now.

Apocalypse Wow

Thunderloo is funny, but not IBP's best

Infernal Reproduction

Infernal Bridegroom Productions has set up shop at the old Axiom

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

Letters to the Editor

Rotation

Music Reviews

A Dog's Life

A former Houston Post writer recalls how she pawed her way

to the top in Hollywood

Not Your MTV

Andy Mann treats video like abstract art

Out on the Town

Kids gather comfortablyfor a special prom

Family Foibles

Slums tries to please but plays it too safe

Love Conflicts -- Nailing Neil

Your Friends' writer/director takes a wicked route through relationships

One Little, Two Little, 40 Little Indies

Worldfest-Houston offers movies you won't otherwise see

Critic's Choice

Out of the Bars

Prodigal Ambitions

Houston's newest film production company shoots for the video moon