Phil McGraw

Uh Oh, Royce White May Have Knocked Up Another Groupie #BeWell

The NBA's D-League's playoffs begin this week and, for interested Rocket fans, just know that your Rio Grande Vipers are taking on a bunch of things called the Maine Red Claws (presumably with Mr. Krabs as their mascot). Barring a last minute wager (Can you wager on the D-League?), the extent of my ... More >>

Five Sports Radio Calls That Should Be Banned from the Airwaves

I have always listened to a lot of sports talk radio. I've written about it over the last few years here as well. On the whole, I find it to be interesting, informative and rather entertaining. My fiancée will sometimes ask on a Sunday afternoon when the car radio gets switched to a sports station, ... More >>

Boom. Penn State Fires Joe Paterno (w/ a VIDEO chronology) & CNN Kicks ESPN's Butt

They are...Penn State​"Joe Paterno is no longer the head football coach, effective immediately." -- John Surma, Vice Chair, Penn State Board of Trustees Boom. Nothing is forever. We all knew there would be a day when Joe Paterno would no longer be the coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. ... More >>

What Your Favorite Color of M&M Says About You

naathas​We all have our favorite color of M&M. The one that you reach for first when there is a big bowl of candy staring at you. I have even heard about people who will only eat certain colors and then throw away the rest. While I think that's a bit extreme, I admit that I like to segregat ... More >>

Me And Charlie Sheen

​Barely a week has passed since Charlie Sheen's Krakatoa style career meltdown and it's already hard to think of anything new to say about it. You've already got warlock pictures, expert rehab advice from Dr. Drew (who's already threatening to topple Dr. Phil as Most Annoyingly Omnipresent Med ... More >>

Ted Williams: Golden-Voiced Ohio Beggar Reportedly Now in Texas Rehab

Ted Willaims might be on South Padre Island​In a sadly predictable story, it seems like for Ted Williams, the Ohio beggar with the golden voice, his Internet super-celebrity proved to be too much, too soon. Now informed speculation has it that the 53-year-old former soul radio DJ will be a te ... More >>

Pop Rocks: A World Without Oprah

So long, suckers.​The 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show kicked off yesterday with a John Travolta dance number, an appearance by Paul Simon (of "and Garfunkel" fame, not the deceased U.S. Senator), and an announcement that Oprah would take the 300 studio audience members in atten ... More >>

Pop Rocks: You'll Be Sorry When They're Gone

​Harvey Pekar died yesterday. What was lost in the usual exercise of macabre one-upmanship -- as everyone rushed to update Twitter and Facebook in an effort to be the first to break the bad news to all their friends -- was the fact that most of them were only aware of Pekar's existence thanks ... More >>

Hunter Gatherers

Is comedy on the menu?

What Do YOU Want To Do With Your Life??: Bad Dads In Music Videos

Sorry ladies, he's taken. By my mom.​This weekend is Father's Day, a holiday in which fathers all over the Hallmark Empire receive cards and gifts ranging from power drills and bourbon to celebrate them sticking it out for the duration of your ragged existence on earth. Craig's Hlist and hi ... More >>

Get Lit: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life By Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey Ward

​In addition to his long career as one of modern jazz's finest trumpet blowers and composers, Wynton Marsalis has waged a sort of one-man PR campaign for jazz education. He extols the virtues of the music as a current and lively art with a rich history - as opposed to a genre whose best days and p ... More >>

When Publicists Attack: Enter Jimmy's F***in World of Product Euphoria at Your Own Risk

​Rocks Off doesn't mind a good charitable cause, but idiotic over-hype - even for a good cause - is a no-no. We received an email today from one Jimmy Cunningham, whose company has the intriguing name Product Euphoria. According to Cunningham's press release, "Product Euphoria is putting another g ... More >>

The DWI Bride and Houston's Love for Rush

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

Musicians on Twitter

Is the "microblog" Internet phenomenon the next leap forward or just a tweeting waste of time?

What Makes Cornbreadd Run

How the Houston rapper turned a near miss on MTV into a victory for himself — and his city

Capsule Stage Reviews: Acting Whore, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Electile Dysfunction, To Kill a Mockingbird

Capsule Stage Reviews: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Electile Dysfunction, Madama Butterfly, Rumors, To Kill a Mockingbird

Capsule Stage Reviews: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Electile Dysfunction, Madama Butterfly, Rumors, Shylock, the Jew of Venice

Marilyn Logan

“The Money Lady” reads from I Can’t Afford to Marry You

Get Lit: No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever, by Aviva Yael & P.M. Chen

Get Lit: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, by David Hajdu

Golden Globes, Whoppers, Dr. Phil, Michael Cera and Hannah Montana

Miss Pop Rocks Edition

Dr. Phil Is An Asshole

Georgia Rule

La Lohan elevates -- but can't save -- Georgia Rule

The Sole of Houston

Hi. I'm John Lomax, and I'm a pedestrian. My friend, Uncle Tick, and I walked down 16-plus miles of Westheimer. This is our story.

Trust the Man

Stale romantic comedy has neither romance nor comedy

Some Like It Hot

And they could be in for mild disappointment at Nidda Thai

Dan Crump

Truth Is

Getting Rogered

The soap opera continues

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Filthy McNasty

Love, hate and how I earned my new name in the trenches

Booking It

These travel narratives are as much about the teller as the terrain

...And Justice for All

Rock's prime offenders face the music

Woman's Best Friend

A Buddhist dog talks in Pam Houston's (partially) true tale

Houston Resolutions

Ten ways to make our town a better place

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A Pair of Aces

John Evans and Jesse Dayton drop career-defining records two weeks apart

Family Man

Christopher Titus turns dysfunctional into comical

Take This Love and Shove It

The best X-rated breakup songs

William Hung

Inspiration (Koch)

Somebody's Gonna Feel This

Kid Rock leaves our scribe waiting and worried by the phone

Five-Year Bitch

It's hard to care when an ill-matched couple calls it quits

Get Your Kicks

A Texas filmmaker looks at small-town life through a windshield

There's a Doctor in Your House

Put down those Doritos -- the cameras are rolling

Ludacris

Chicken & Beer (Def Jam South)

Here Come the Drums

Dhol Beat International takes the stage at Lotus

Cho-Zen One

Tall Orders

Local tailor clothes the NBA

Jenny from the Crock

Don't be fooled by the rocks that she's got, J.Lo's just a Maid in Manhattan

Love Under the Umbrella

John Harvey's Eros: A Circus just needs a ringmaster