Oxford

Fan Fighting League! Iroquois Steeplechase Cat Fight Edition (w/ VIDEO)

I'll be honest, until this weekend I didn't even know that the Iroquois Steeplechase in Nashville was a thing. Had no idea. Even after I found out it was a thing, after seeing my colleague Clay Travis (Nashville talk-show host and founder of outkickthecoverage.com) tweet that he was on his way out ... More >>

Zack Kopplin, The 19-Year-Old Face of the Anti-Creationist Movement

Having fought his battles in Louisiana, the Rice University student is now ready for Texas and any move to put faux science in the public schools here.

'Girls' Boy Makes Good

In movies and TV, Alex Karpovsky is only playing an asshole.

College Football: Bear Bryant Award Finalists Revealed (Aggies Will Be Happy)

If you're a prominent, successful college football player or coach, it is usually necessary to block out the second week of December. This is when most of the college football awards are handed out, the week after the regular season ends. For many, it's an exhausting, circuitous journey across the n ... More >>

The 30 Best Texas Albums

Ranking the 30 best Texas albums of the past 30 years seemed like an impossible task. We did it anyway.

Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, "Satan Hates Auburn" Edition

I was saddened on Thursday to hear of the passing of legendary college football historian and journalist Beano Cook, who passed away in his sleep at the age of 81. Back in the `80's and early `90's, before the television landscape was cluttered with literally dozens of studio shows all blending toge ... More >>

Shadowlands at Texas Rep: Enthralling Theater

The setup: The British writer and intellectual C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, finds love can come late in life, as he befriends and falls in love with the American poet Joy Gresham. The execution: Tall bookcases rise like cathedral spires on the handsome, flexible set, so many and so splendid ... More >>

Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

Another Wine Blog: Love born in the blogosphere. It's a beautiful thing. A few weeks ago, when I shared a glass of stinky, delicious Cortese (from Piedmont) with tandem wine bloggers Amy and Joe Power, authors of Another Wine Blog, they told me the story of how they met in the "pre-blog" era, in a ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

Last Night: Foals At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​Foals Fitzgerald's April 19, 2011 Just minutes after Fitzgerald's opened its doors for last night's Foals show, tickets were gone. The sold-out venue was packed before second opener Freelance Whales even hit the stage, and it's no wonder - Oxford quintet Foals, fresh off ... More >>

Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 3

Marco TorresTrombone Shorty​Craig Hlavaty: News coming out of the media tent: Don Henley of the Eagles had a stent put in his heart this past week. He will be singing and possibly playing guitar, but not exerting himself on drums. This could very well be the last Eagles show for a while - if e ... More >>

Rice University Residential College Guarantee: Not All Students Get What They Pay For

Photo by SkinnyOrangeCatRice: Getting crowded in here​Note to incoming Rice University undergrads (and their parents) expecting the full "residential college" experience: Be sure to read everything that you get on Rice letterhead.One of the universities' primary selling points is its residential c ... More >>

Connie Willis: Blackout

Going back to the future might not be an option in this sci-fi adventure story

Game Time: We Interrupt This Tebow Documentary For Seven Other Reasons To Watch The Senior Bowl

​Every year around this time, NFL prospects gather in Mobile, Alabama for the beginning of what amounts to a three-month job interview, complete with numerous forty-yard dashes, questions about their upbringing, and requests to "cough while I stick my fingers right...HERE!" It's a fascinating tim ... More >>

Higher Learning

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.

The Year in Albums

A Dream Team for Barack Obama

Is It True That Pandora Is Dying?

Brideshead Revisited Goes Back to the Book

The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series

Foals: Antidotes

This Just In: Radioheaded This Way

This Just In: New Radiohead Next Week (Really!)

The Good East German

A.K.A.: When your hero is a Stasi spy

Pastoral U.

Supergrass

Road to Rouen

Sister, Sister

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

Suth'n Comfort

The Coens score big with Ladykillers -- thanks to Hanks

Good Folk

Caroline Herring shows her South side

Through the Camera Lens

In Victorian times, you couldn't show an ankle, but you could photograph young girls all you wanted

Showdown at the Bar X

There ain't enough room in this town for Helen Phillips and her enemies

Calling the Behavior Police

Kevin Klean squeaks by in the moralistic Emperor's Club

Poetic Invention

Stoppard plumbs the passions and repression of Victorian gays

Impressive Iris

Eyre excels in the gripping story of a writer's descent into Alzheimer's

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Hostage Crisis: Day 143

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience and makes it beg for mercy

Blues Power

Now matter how slickly you package him, R.L. Burnside still exudes raw intensity

Empire's End

High drama and spirited romance spice up The Last September

The Insider

The Talented Mr. Stockman. A defeated politician resurrects himself in Seventh District heaven with a stash of campaign cash

Mellow Mamet

Director shows warmth for tradition in The Winslow Boy

Night & Day

December 31, 1998 - January 6, 1999

Balancing the Bench

Will race and bad blood play a part in the Guv's judicial picks?

Heroine Overdose

The Governess looks good but turns unlikable

Sisterhood Is Powerful

Pasta Point of No Return

So much Italian food. So overcooked.

Heart of Glass

Too much symbolism (and too little sex) shatters Oscar and Lucinda

Sour Success

Radiohead wants to prove it's more than just a "Creep"

Press Picks

Video Pulpit

A Houston judge takes his quest for juvenile justice into national syndication

Press Picks

The Chronicles of Lewis

Anthony Hopkins gets weepy in Shadowlands