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Norman (Oklahoma)

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Go Way Out to Eat: 5 Favorite Dining Destinations

    Food & Wine magazine recently featured a series of articles on culinary destinations, or "...the world's best food pilgrimages," as they put it. While it was indeed interesting, I must say that places like Bangkok, Rome and India are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to food travels. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Jerry "The King" Lawler Piledrives Clipper Fan: Old School WWE Wrestlers for Each NBA Playoff Series (w/ VIDEO)

    People laugh dismissively when I say it, but the more they can incorporate WWE performers and the general WWE "way" of entertainment, the more enjoyable other genres of sports will become. No, I'm not talking about the predetermined outcomes of matches (The NBA has already incorporated that aspect o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Football! This Weekend's Best Bets

    The Flacco Factor: Always keep it in mind​It's the first weekend of football in November. In college football, this means we get into nut-cutting time, weekends that completely weed out the real championship contenders. This weekend includes a quasi-final four in the SEC with the huge LSU- Ala ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    9 Musical Costumes Couples Should Avoid This Halloween

    Norman See/last.fmNice threads, but... yeah. Don't go there.​The other day, a friend of ours asked us for our opinion on some ideas for "couple costumes," as in Halloween, including Han Solo and Princess Leia. Ugh. Do you happy couples really start this early in September? Rocks Off thinks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Football, Etc. Prepares To Enter The Draft

    ​Shoegazing and emo music are not really Rocks Off's resident snarky goth's glass of absinthe, but in our opinion, any Houston band chosen to represent our criminally unrepresented city deserves a look. So with some trepidation, we wandered into the realm of Football, Etc. and their new LP The ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    The Boys Next Door

    ​Shoegazing and emo music are not really Rocks Off's resident snarky goth's glass of absinthe, but in our opinion, any Houston band chosen to represent our criminally unrepresented city deserves a look. So with some trepidation, we wandered into the realm of Football, Etc. and their new LP The ... More >>

  • Music

    May 20, 2010

    Collision Course

    Indie-pop charmers the Wild Moccasins tighten up and toughen up on their debut LP.

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Houston Is Under Attack

    Bedbugs threaten our slumber.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Game Time: If You Like The Texans Pick Of Kareem Jackson at #20 GIMME A HELL YEAH...Hey, Who Let All These Crickets In Here?

    ​I would have to say the NFL's taking the first round of its draft and transforming it from hardcore niche sporting event on Saturday afternoons to Must-See TV Thursday night melodrama was a success in its first year. We got plenty of shaking and moving (seven draft night trades involving firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    World Music At iFest, From Galveston To Colombia, West Africa And Oklahoma(?!)

    Over the next two weeks, Rocks Off will be previewing acts performing at this year's Houston International Festival Saturday and Sunday and April 24-25 broken down by genre (loosely, anyway) and with a guest pick from a true insider: iFest Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell. We begin with tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Game Time: Road Trip Edition, The Middle And The End

    ​(Cue cheesy announcer voice:) "When we last left our our venerable 1560 The Game crew of Pendergast, Nuno and Ramzanali, they were checking into the Norman, Oklahoma Days Inn at 2:30 in the morning, readying themselves for three days of free continental breakfast and lumpy mattresses. To read ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Game Time: Road Trip Edition

    ​At some point, there is an age you reach where climbing into an SUV with three of your buddies to drive a ridiculous distance to a backwater town to watch football, drink beer, fart, and pretend you're 22 again becomes old. I don't know what age that is, I just know I haven't reached it yet.Las ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry

    Tattoo me, tattoo you

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    A Few of Music's Biggest Tattoo Enthusiasts - Besides Rocks Off, Of Course

    Don't act so surprised... As we can fatefully attest, rock and roll and tattoos go hand in hand. The first time Rocks Off saw a grizzled punk rocker walk by at Fitzgerald's back in the '90s with two sleeves full of tattoos and a chest full of nautical-themed art, we mentally pointed at him and said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Documentary About Tattoo Legend Being Shown Tonight At Rocbar

    For the past three years, director Erich Weiss has been piecing together a documentary on the life of legendary tattooing pioneer Sailor Jerry. Tonight, Rocbar (530 Texas) hosts a special screening of Weiss' film, Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, complete with complementary Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum for tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Chef Chat: Chuck Krauthamer

    ​Chuck Krauthamer ("Craw'-tha-mer") has returned to his hometown to become managing partner and cook at the Sabine River Café (10001 Westheimer), located in the Carillon Center shopping plaza in Westchase. With 36 years in the restaurant business, Krauthamer has placed his bets on an elegantl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    A Chat with Norman Daughtery of Bailey's American Grille

    Photo by Sarah Rufka​To watch Norman Daughtery make a martini is a beautiful thing. The head bartender at Bailey's American Grille in Seabrook, he pours his ingredients slowly and precisely before furiously going to town with the cocktail shaker, whipping the ingredients until the strong drink ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2009

    Starlight Mints

    Photo by Sarah Rufka​To watch Norman Daughtery make a martini is a beautiful thing. The head bartender at Bailey's American Grille in Seabrook, he pours his ingredients slowly and precisely before furiously going to town with the cocktail shaker, whipping the ingredients until the strong drink ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    U2 Closer to Firming Up Reliant Stadium Date

    u2.com U2's free concert last Friday at Fordham University, the BronxUpdate: No Line did indeed debut at No. 1, selling 484,000 copies. U2 has sent out the equivalent of a "Save the Date" card. Today the Irish rockers, whose new album No Line on the Horizon opened to mixed reviews but d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    What the Hell. Go Texas Tech!

    I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    College Football Preview, Lisa Guerrero Edition

    I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Football U: Texas Roundup, and Then Some

    I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2008

    College Football Preview, Scarlett Johansson Edition

    I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

  • Music

    September 4, 2008

    Johnny Flynn: A Larum

    I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 2008

    Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

    Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    Texas Tech Is Dirty. We Can Prove It. We Just Can't Tell You How.

    Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2007

    Fighting Inaccuracies When Referring to Norma Gabler

    Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Mail Call

    Woodwind Lakes Edition

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2007

    Full Bluhm

    Woodwind Lakes Edition

  • Music

    March 22, 2007

    Mo's Place

    Bar review

  • Film

    October 26, 2006

    A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinks

    Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2006

    Football U., Week 2

    Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2006

    Football U., Week 2

    Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2006

    Dissecting the Dirty Dozen

    Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2005

    A Wedding and a Funeral?

    Maybe, if the Vikings prevail in Moira Buffini's Silence

  • Culture

    August 4, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    July 28, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Apartment

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Music

    March 11, 2004

    Starlight Mints, with Dressy Bessy, Four Men Walking and Deathray Davies

    Friday, March 12

  • Music

    October 9, 2003

    June Carter Cash

    Wildwood Flower (Dualtone)

  • Culture

    November 14, 2002

    Something Else by the Kinks

    IBP and the Starmaker prove you can't stop the music

  • Music

    November 7, 2002

    Ironing Out the Kinks

    Infernal Bridegroom Productions resurrects Ray Davies' A Soap Opera after 27 years in rock limbo

  • Film

    May 2, 2002

    World Wide Web

    Spider-Man does whatever a spider can and much more

  • Film

    July 20, 2000

    Giving Up the Ghost

    The only thing deader than the haunted spirit in What Lies Beneath is the movie itself

  • Film

    July 13, 2000

    Whistlin' Trixie

    You'll lap it up as the title character in Alan Rudolph's quirky comedy trips over her own tongue

  • Film

    December 10, 1998

    Son of Psycho

    Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic

  • Music

    July 24, 1997

    Fresh Focus

    Having tried the major label route, Wakeland is now happy to go its own way

  • Culture

    March 21, 1996

    On the Fringe

    Theater LaB finds itself a good home in subUrbia

  • Culture

    June 8, 1995

    Stage Notes

    Old Woes, Young Voices

  • News

    August 11, 1994

    Taking a Bite Out of...

    Revealed: Castratin' Mike's youthful indiscretion

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