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Billy Joel: Still Kicking Ass (First Leg)

One Sunday morning a few weeks ago, my wife and I watched the Billy Joel concert documentary The Last Play at Shea. When my daughter stumbled into the den to ask about breakfast, we were soiling Kleenexes and wiping tears from our eyes. "Did you take your meds this morning, Dad?" she asked. I trie ... More >>

The Best Shows In Houston This Week: Tame Impala, Dropkick Murphys, Zac Brown Band, Nosaprise, Etc.

Tame Impala With The Growl Fitzgerald's, February 25, 8 p.m. Tame Impala's late-2012 effort Lonerism plays like the Beatles circa Abbey Road channeling T. Rex's The Slider, with a hefty helping of early '10s dream-fuzz. The Australian act has come along way from opening for MGMT in 2010, a tour in ... More >>

Eli Young Band: "We Like to Stay Busy"

Now more than a decade old, the Eli Young Band is the rare Texas country act whose lyrics are not dominated by their home state and its musical heroes. Their music is largely fiddle-free, rather cut from the same cloth as pop-rockers like Tom Petty, Matchbox 20 and the Wallflowers, and if someone in ... More >>

Report: Sara Evans, Billy Currington Playing July 4 Fest

Culturemap, the Houston Web site that loves rubbing shoulders with celebrities and other "insiders" but is generally content to limit its music coverage to the kind of artists familiar to the average People magazine reader, has unleashed a scoop that will surely have the rest of Houston talking unti ... More >>

Headlines We'll Never Believe: "Why Beyoncé Is Beyond Embarrassed She's the World's Most Beautiful Woman"

In case you are just now emerging from your isolation chamber, Houston's Beyoncé has been named People magazine's Most Beautiful Woman. According to our friends at CultureMap, she is "beyond embarrassed" about this. To which we cheerfully say: Bullshit. As evidence, CultureMap cites this "behind ... More >>

The 5 Browns

Crystal Gayle

Last Night: Glen Campbell At Stafford Centre

Photos by Jason Wolter​Glen Campbell Stafford Centre September 21, 2011 Thursday night may have been the most profoundly uncomfortable Aftermath has ever been watching a live performance. In the past year, we have seen many artists of advanced years in concert, from Merle Haggard and Willie ... More >>

Top 10 Musical U.S. Presidents

"The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music." - Gerald Ford gwu.eduWhen else are we going to use this picture?​Today is President's Day, and if you'll think back to high-school U.S. History, you'll remember that potential Commande ... More >>

Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.

Houston Symphony: Chris Botti

The Grammy Award winner partners with the CWMP Pops

Jessica Simpson Feels The Pain Of Bullying Victims

Sorry sweetheart, but even Tim Gunn would've made fun of those pants.​There's been a lot of talk about bullies lately. The suicides of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi and Hamilton Middle School's Asher Brown have prompted renewed calls for bullying prevention, leading to things like the It Gets ... More >>

Margo Timmins On Bono And Her Torontonian Music Recommendations

​Margo Timmins and Cowboy Junkies slide into town tonight for their first Houston gig in quite a while. It seems everyone Lonesome, Onry and Mean has talked to about them remembers their gig at Numbers back in the day. We recently had a wide-ranging, one-hour-plus interview with Timmins, most ... More >>

To Live Is to Fly

Canada's Cowboy Junkies ­enter their 25th year louder and ­angrier than ever.

Randy Quaid, Wife Jailed In California

Quaid, not flashing his Golden Globe this time​Randy Quaid, one-half of the Pride of Bellaire Quaid Brothers, is in a California jail, People magazine is reporting.A judge there got fed up with the actor and his wife missing court dates in connection with non-payment of a $10,000 hotel bill. The t ... More >>

25 Texans Highlights Of The Decade

​As we come up on the end of the decade, I thought I would look back at some of the city's professional sports franchises and throw out some of their highlight moments. I figured I would start with the Houston Texans.1. February 18, 2002: The team's very first draft choice was in the expansion dra ... More >>

Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

BREAKING OMG Important!! Tom DeLay Out Of Dancing With The Stars

​People magazine, which has become the place to go to find news about Tom DeLay (and that says a lot more about Tom DeLay than People) is reporting that The Hammer is out of Dancing With The Stars.Stress fractures have become too painful for the wussy Republican, who cried sissy tears at no longer ... More >>

Requiem for Michael: The Last Rock Star

Amid the past two weeks of Michael Jackson worship, the details of his drug use were slowly leaked out. The man had done enough painkillers and random legal narcotics that would make all-star druggies like Keith Richards and Lemmy Kilmister shudder and cower away. It's funny that this small and spri ... More >>

Death Rumors Swirl About Houston's Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze, one of a handful of famous Hollywood types from Houston, has been sick for a long time.Today, rumors started coursing throughout the Internet and Twitter and whatever that the end had finally come.His publicist, however, is denying the rumors, according to this article that doesn't q ... More >>

Comics, MasterMinds, Revolutionaries, Apartments and Transsexuals

Comic Love

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

Everybody’s Gay…Even Miss Pop Rocks

Star Jones Reynolds and Her D-I-V-O-R-C-E

“Blind Philosophy”

Wayne Gilbert pairs ashes to ashes for artwork

Beer and Porn

Once again, the TABC tries to ruin bachelor life

Golden Ruhl

Stages Repertory Theatre showcases a theatrical phenom with Late: A Cowboy Song

Dance Fever

HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

The Odd Couple

The French Housekeeper focuses on a frustrating relationship

Flush 'Em All

2002 -- the year Houston nightlife cleaned its colon

Best Effort to Inject Houston into Culture

The Way to Somewhere, by Angie Day

The Last Stand

After decades of delivering what downtown readers wanted, the old Globe has given up

Bridges II the Bend

Two tiny publishers from Houston land the sequel to Madison County

Opera Is Cool

The "Elvis of Opera" plays down his pop-star status

Tamarie's Time

Whole Foods, hard wit, the legacy of Lucy and offspring of hippies have helped the woman of Tamalalia take Houston by storm. But where's she really headed?

Best Friends

Kay Poe and Esther Kim

Amplified

Out In Sight

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

Party Hearty

Clever and comical T3 ends too quickly

The Insider

Press Picks

More Panting than Painting

Picture This

Foto Fest '96 moves downtown to take a look at the city

Mr. Bad Example

For 20 years, Warren Zevon has danced with madmen and outlaws

Northern Exposure

Canada's favorites, The Tragically Hip, try to conquer the lower 48 without violence

The Insider

Selling Selena

Teresa's Treasures

Teresa Rodriguez's up-for-auction goods tell a lot about Teresa -- and Houston

Room with a Voodoo

With good reason do the see-and-be-scenesters flock to Tony Vallone's reorchestrated Anthony's

Grunge Puppy

Paw from Lawrence, Kansas: modest Midwest guitar desperation