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The Cavern and the Top 10 Iconic Rock Clubs In History

Last week back in 1957, the most famous rock club in England opened in Liverpool. There was absolutely no rock and roll on the bill that night. The Cavern Club was originally opened to mimic the cellar jazz bars that owner Alan Synter visited in Paris. There was a strict jazz-only policy in place ... More >>

Pasadena Walmart Employee Swipes Customer's Debit Card, Uses It at Same Store

Buddy Olvera might want to try some other career. This whole crime thing doesn't seem to be working out for the (now) former Walmart employee. Not even the Eye of Sauron takes in more than Walmart's security cams, so there is a plethora of video evidence backing up the Pasadena PD's claim (reported ... More >>

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Jordy Tollett, Former "Mister Downtown," Charged With DWI, Again

Former Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau honcho Gerard Jay "Jordy" Tollett, currently the Pasadena Convention Center general manager, has had yet another alcohol-related setback. This time, it's a DWI bust, courtesy of the police in the sharp-dressed political wheeler-dealer's hometow ... More >>

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Comment of the Day: Dumbest Homophobic Comment Ever?

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Comment of the Day: This Marriage Can't Be Saved

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Houston Needs An Urban Cowboy Statue, Y'all

​For the past month, you have no doubt been reading about a group in Detroit lobbying for a Robocop statue in their city to commemorate the fictional (we believe) robotic law enforcement titan created by the evil corporate goons of OCP, using deceased Detroit officer James Murphy. Detroit may ... More >>

Patrick Borrego, 40, Bayou Body Count No. 7

Dead in a bar parking lot​A man whose body was found at 5 a.m. in an eastside bar parking lot died later at the hospital, Houston police say. Patrick Borrego, 40, of Pasadena, "suffered sharp force wounds" and died at Ben Taub Hospital, HPD says. Police received a call saying a body had been ... More >>

Houston, You Are Terrible At Driving

We may not be Pasadena, but at least we're no Garland​Yesterday we learned that Houston traffic sucks, according to new info from the state. Today we find out that it might be better that cars are in crawl mode around here because Houston drivers, you suck.Allstate's annual rankings of safe-drivin ... More >>

Last Night: Ted Nugent At The Pasadena Fairgrounds

Photos by Marc Brubaker/ Click here for a slideshow​Ted Nugent Pasadena Fairgrounds July 11, 2010 It was one of the most offensive shows that Aftermath has probably been to, but that didn't stop us from buying a T-shirt. It was a show that would have made the cast of liberal pundits on CNBC s ... More >>

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Anyone have some whipped cream?

Upcoming Events

Of course you do. So do we.​One of summer's sweetest berries will be celebrated this weekend at the annual Pasadena Strawberry Festival, now in its 37th year. If you've never been before, you can look forward to an old-fashioned, small-town festival on steroids -- and we mean that in the best ... More >>

Casa Mariachi in Pasadena

​For a lazy Saturday night dinner, our family ended up in Pasadena. After some deliberation of where to go -- "Applebees?" "Ew! No!" -- someone suggested that we go to Casa Mariachi (5824 Spencer Highway, 281-998-2272). None of us had been, but it was near our gathering point, so we decided on ... More >>

Pecan Pie in a Jar

​Let's start by saying that Pecan Pie in a Jar is not meant to be eaten directly from the jar. One spoonful and I was sure this taste test was over before it began, but upon further review of the fine print, it turned out you actually need eggs to make it remotely edible. Was it better than m ... More >>

Recession Or Not, Pasadena's Getting Some New Theater

Byron Hagan and Marshall Hainley​Nobody told the Red Door Theater Company there was a recession going on. The plucky theater troupe launched their group earlier this year in, of all theater-starved places, Pasadena. With true Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney/"Let's Put on a Show" spunk, Artistic ... More >>

It's 110 Down, Much More To Come In County's Fourth of July DWI Crackdown

The first weekend of the county's DWI crackdown resulted in 110 arrests at "Hot Spots," the DA's office announced today. And the big weekend is still to come.The Hot Spots feature lots of patrol cars and a mobile lab with all that's necessary to get a blood sample for those who refuse the breath ... More >>

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Roses are red…hey, wait a minute — you’re not a rose!

Family Of Man Found Dead In Pasadena Jail Cell Sues

Photo by Olivia Flores AlvarezEliva Garza and Maria & Diana GonzalezLawyers for the family of Pedro Gonzales, who died while in Pasadena Police Department custody in 2007, today announced a federal lawsuit against the two officers the family says beat Gonzales just hours before his death, Jason ... More >>

It's Go Texan Day! Hope You Don't Have Any Out-Of-Town Friends Coming In

Today, of course, is Go Texan Day, marking the opening of the rodeo.It's the day when secretaries all over downtown wear "western" blouses and skirts, adventurous guys sport bolo ties and cowboy hats, and the rest of us cringe.Longtime Houstonians know to never, ever schedule any friends to come vis ... More >>

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Pasadena Napalm Division

Rosa's Photo Corner: Pasadena Rocks, Balaclavas and J. Mascis

"The sign that Pedro is wiping his ass with says 'Pasadena rules.'"

Artist of the Week: Lamb to the Slaughter

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. We headed out to the Pit ... More >>

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

Unlucky Pasadenans Arrive At The George R. Brown

At Least It Wasn't A TNT Factory

Vinyl Ranch’s tribute to Urban Cowboy

Leon’s monthly country-music installment pays tribute to classic country cinema

Not Exactly a Hallmark Moment: Video of California Meat Packing Plant Ain't Pretty

Christmas Chaos 2

Pro Wrestling Alliance star Booker T takes on RVD

The Carnicería Connoisseur: HEB’s Mi Tienda in Pasadena

Ozma

Ozma performs Tuesday, June 5, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Eastern Conference Champions and The Actual also perform.

Against the Odds

No betting shows on one sports-talk station

Those Damn Kids

In Pasadena, it's those damn adults

Book Learnin'

Another year of textbook follies

Best Place to Get a Tint Job and a Taco

Midnight Moving

Slap a light on your bike and take off into the night

Come Fry with Me

Valdo's misses some connections on its culinary journey around the world, but it's right at home with Gulf Coast seafood

Bye to the Good Ol' Boys?

The commissioner's race that could break the county mold

Faceplant

Saturday, February 23

Under The Volcano

Crown Central Petroleum spews, sputters and flares up. Neighbors of the plant view it uneasily, never quite sure when it's going to blow.

Clear Your Mind

The Mind Eraser at Fiddler's Lounge

Turnstyled and Junkpiled

The strange, savage and sweet life of Mickey Dunlap

Letters

Letters

D.on't

P.olice S.emis?

Semi-Safe

Pasadena police wanted bad trucks off the road. Then big-rig politics wrecked their plans.

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Maxwell's Demons

If you get crosswise with Larry Maxwell, beprepared to go to court

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?