Osama bin Laden

Assault on Wall Street

Uwe Boll's solution to the crash? Bloodshed.

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

Last Night: Jane's Addiction At Bayou Music Center

Jane's Addiction Bayou Music Center May 9, 2012 Perry Farrell is a twisted freak. Of course that's intended as a compliment. Farrell has become one of rock's most successful misfits of the past 25 years, combining an astute business sense with a sincere interest in the any number of alternative su ... More >>

The FBI's Most Wanted List Turns 62 Today: Songs About Eight People Who Made It

Today marks the 62 birthday of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a gimmick cooked up by J. Edgar Hoover and a friendly newspaperman. Through the years the list has mostly been filled with criminals no one has ever heard of, but there have been some famous names on it. Some famous enough to get songs ... More >>

Best Comics in December: KISS, Sex with Crystals, and Godzilla Bin Laden

Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge. This month we're going to abstain from our regular series in an attempt to give some other books space and also so this doesn't become a monthly column entitled: "Why Red Hood I ... More >>

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

Sheriff Asks Congress for More Money to Patrol Port

HCSOGive me more money, Garcia said.​Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia told a congressional subcommittee today that he needs more cash to protect the Port of Houston. "At the end of the day, it comes down to the ability of someone to patrol in a patrol boat or a patrol car," he told the Ho ... More >>

Special Soccer Edicion

Five Great Uses Of Music As A Weapon

Ed. Note: Jef With One F does not distinguish fiction from reality from video games. We let it slide because he accepts checks from the "Bank of Mordor"... we just hope it's not rubbing off on us. teecraze.com​Music is a weapon. That's what angry political bands will tell you. They'll bend yo ... More >>

Internet Radio Gives Goth A Sanctuary

​Due to a boo-boo during the installation of XM radio in Rocks Off's car, we know longer have a terrestrial radio antenna in our Matrix. Due to the fact that XM became about as empty and mindless as terrestrial radio shortly after the merger with Sirius, we no longer have satellite radio eithe ... More >>

Raging Moderate

Between Facebook rants, David Lowery juggles Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven and a solo project.

William McRaven, Supervisor of SEAL Team That Got Bin Laden: A UT Journalism Grad

William McRaven: Knows a pyramid lede when he sees one.​Don't mess with journalism majors!! A lesson Osama bin Laden learned to his regret recently; the last thoughts through his diseased mind were no doubt about how journalism -- especially University of Texas journalism -- had triumphed aga ... More >>

Out Today: Beasties Bite Back, Stevie Nicks Gets Witchier

​What's the best way to celebrate the elimination of Osama Bin Laden? Listening to the Foo Fighters' latest album Wasting Light for the fourth week straight, of course. Send help, or at least the announcement of a late-summer or early fall tour date. Come on, man, just one hit. This week's n ... More >>

NANO Reading Series: Ryan Dilbert and Irene Keliher

Louie Gohmert Makes Debbie Riddle Look Sane On CNN

You thought Texas came off bad on Anderson Cooper's show Wednesday when Tomball state rep Debbie Riddle blabbered on incomprehensibly about Terror Babies?It got worse for Texas last night.

This Week in Deliciousness

Hi there, Minsa! Take your seat next to Sun Maid raisins and Land-O-Lakes butter in the "Totally Bangable Food Mascots" section.​ Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where we're waiting until there's a public health care option to organize our Inappropriately Fried Fo ... More >>

Mother-effin Snakes In Our State!!

Photo courtesy USGS​There's nothing like a release from the U.S. Geological Survey headlined "Report Documents the Risks of Giant Invasive Snakes in the U.S." to get your attention. (Unless it's "Osama bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." But we digress.)Bottom line: Look out Texas, we got gian ... More >>

The Sheriff Of Crosby, N.D Protects His Citizens From Terror Better Than Adrian Garcia

​Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet wi ... More >>

Houston Airport System Won't Release Salaries....Because Of National Security Issues

A while back we wrote about the Houston Airport System exporting its vast knowledge of running airports to countries all over the place. HAS wasn't too forthcoming about the financial aspects of it all.A couple of months later, Mayor Bill White suddenly forced out the HAS director -- at least partly ... More >>

Oh, Christ: Original Limp Bizkit Lineup to Reunite

Because things aren't already bad enough out there right now, the original lineup of crotch-rocking mooks Limp Bizkit annouced today they are reuniting. Here, according to a joint statement by the band's Fred Durst and Wes Borland, is their reasoning: "We decided we were more disgusted and b ... More >>

Why All the Mexican Narco Hate?

The Five Best Super Bowl Movies

The Super Bowl is about more than just gorging ourselves on lite beer and fatty foods before calling in sick to work on Monday: it's about terrorism, and transsexualism, and the dread that comes from knowing your bookie is going to have your legs broken because Whisenhunt called for a meaningless 4 ... More >>

Good Morning, Houston -- You're A Target

It's near-freezing, there's a huge accident causing traffic nightmares, half the workforce has called in gay  (and half the others are coming in with hugely contagious flu symptoms just to show they're not gay), so who needs bad news?Houston, apparently.A Washington radio station has talked to ... More >>

We Can Believe In Body of Lies

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

Jesus On a Stick

Harold and Kumar Go to Prison

The duo get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two

Sara Hickman: Injecting Music Into the Death Penalty Debate

Guantánamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice

A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

Top Ten Country Albums, 2006 - Part II

Here's Your Insight, Pal

James Redfield's Prophecy is one divine mess

Un-American Dream

Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy

Lyin' Scion

How deep is this Toyota subsidiary's love of hip-hop?

Run, Dick, Run

Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

Phantom Menace

Joel Schumacher's version of a theater classic gets a tragic ending of its own

Rockin' in the Free World

Soundtracks for your Election Night shindigs

USA-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Clash Course

Warriors of the right take their battle against the left to the streets of New York

O.J. All Over Again

Charm trumps evidence with accused pedophile R. Kelly

Back Door to History

Thank J.R. Quinn for the gay celebrations

East Is East and West Is West

Except in the music of Indian-American DJ Navdeep

Bruce Springsteen

The Rising (Columbia)

Poi Dog Pondering

She beats the crap out of a white girl. He wants to destroy San Francisco. Together they are Lilo & Stitch.

Sacred Cow Au Jus

Jokes or criticism from the Chron? Nah, it's just fluff for Jus' Stuff

Half-Baked Notions?

Plus: Driving Them Crazy, Oyster Crabbing

Musicians Sound Off

For Nick Cooper, music and politics are hard to separate

Probing Questions

TV is less goofy on air, but not on-line

Golden Oldies

How many times can the Chronicle write the "How to be a Texan" story?

Quirky Yes, Al Qaeda No

Feds find weird art but not anthrax terrorists at the Art Car Museum

Hell of a Long Day

24 has been the most talked-about show of the season and for all the wrong reasons

News Hostage