Prague

Main Street Theater's Richard III is punk-goth magnificence

In Search of Spring Break: Then and Now

How Spring Break '89 stayed with me

Knocked Out

Medical effects of concussion far worse for kids.

Game Time: Okay Rockets, It's Your Move In The "Summer Of Trying To Be Moderately Interesting" In Houston

Photo by Daniel KramerYou're on the clock, Morey. Entertain us​"Can you really not be aware we've been building a RICO case against Tony Soprano for five f**king years? And then you blow this popcorn fart?" -- Federal agent to local prosecutor in Sopranos episode "Soprano Home Movies""Popcorn fart ... More >>

Game Time: Twitter -- My Houston Sports "Follow Friday"

Follow me....to freedom!!​I'm not going to lie, I was a little bit crushed. I read Craig Hlavaty's fantastic overview of the Twitter universe (or as named in the article, "The Twitterverse"; somewhere Dwight Shrute and his "funtivities" -- short for fun activities -- approve), and in it he manage ... More >>

Game Time: Richard Justice vs David Anderson In A Steel Cage Studio Match

Photo courtesy 1560 The GameAnd another thing, Anderson...​In radio, sometimes you have good shows, sometimes you have bad shows. Occasionally, if you're lucky and/or good, you have a moment happen on air where you go "Okay, our audience didn't get that anywhere else on the dial this afternoon." ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Mike Sims of Rudyard's

​For the last ten years, Mike Sims has been working at Rudyard's British Pub (2010 Waugh Dr.). But he hasn't always been the bartender. He started out helping a friend bar-back, and then he moved to working the door. Eight years ago, he started working as a bartender.

South Bayou: Where And When Houston Artists Are Playing In Austin This Week

​Monday afternoon, when Rocks Off was scouring our email, MySpace, Facebook and various other Web sites for the following information, this thought occurred to us more than once: "Why are we wasting our time telling Houstonians where to go see people during SXSW who they can see practically anytim ... More >>

Run Through The Jungle: A Zoological Field Guide To SXSW 2010

​ Even if you've never pulled a trigger in your life, SXSW is, on some level, an exercise in hunting. Rocks Off had no idea how true this was until earlier this afternoon. As we were looking over the schedule at sxsw.com, we got the brilliant idea to note every band named after any kind of animal, ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Galveston Ghosts

Photos by Brittanie SheyDash Beardsley starts the tour.​Dash Beardsley is a legend, both in his own mind, and in real life. The Robert Plant look-alike, owner and operator of Ghost Tours of Galveston, shows up for tours wearing a floor-length black duster, silver rings on every finger, and sun ... More >>

What Is Pul-A-Pul?

Photos by Nick DiFonzoTo find out, a trip to Schulenburg and the recently revived Sengelmann Hall is in order. Schulenburg lies exactly halfway between San Antonio and Houston along Interstate 10. While the small town itself was formally established in 1875, Czech and German settlers had already m ... More >>

The Con's on You

Despite its stylish trappings, The Brothers Bloom is no joke.

Behind the Metal

Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil.<

Classic Rock Corner: Ian Gillan's Deeper Shade of Purple

www.gillan.comThough best known as the talented tonsils behind British hard-rock legends Deep Purple, Ian Gillan has also found the chance to log in some serious studio and road time both fronting his own bands and as a solo artist. Gillan's new CD, One Eye to Morocco (Eagle Records) finds th ... More >>

Houston's SXSW Strategy

Seeing the Elephant

Hot Sounds, Summer in the City

A few local discs to sizzle with

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy, and comes up aces

Suburban Outfitters

Life and style outside the Loop are examined in "Fashioning Arcadia"

Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

Screen Playing

Hollywood mixes and mingles at the Austin Film Festival

Czech It Out

But listen to Jenufa more closely than you watch it

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Modern Vintage

Photo shows at Sicardi Gallery and FotoFest merge the past and the present

Club Directory

Photo shows at Sicardi Gallery and FotoFest merge the past and the present

The Great Gatekeeper

Wasi Townsend hopes to open the door to your heart with his new band, Snowshoe 'n' Lewis

Thunderbald

Bond is reincarnated -- sort of -- as a shaved-head punk in xXx

The Great Restaurant Sale

Detoured downtown becomes a buyer's market

Doorman for a Day

Freshly Febrezed, The Nightfly mans the velvet rope

A>S>H>S to A>S>H>S, Bust to Bust

Hounded by the authorities, an experimental band and its mortifying collaborators look for a home

Racket

Local music goes unnoticed in the Bayou City

Sugar & Spice

The Sweet Girls pretend to be bad and try to be good, but Houston's newest social club fails at both

Cutting Through the Fog

A heated debate in the back room of the City Council chambers

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

Run Out on a Rail

Metro's light-rail construction has some businesses already pulling out of the station

Meet the New Boss

John Nova Lomax

Beat-niks

Two DJ crews refuse to conform to standard rave procedures

The Thrill Is Gone

The 12-bar refugees from Billy Blues seek shelter at other venues

Lost in the '90s

Having spent the last decade in a Kafkaesque nightmare, Beaver Nelson finally emerges as Austin's next big thing

The Sound of Movies

Mark Berger

Council's Cell Phone Phanatic

Todd talks up a storm at taxpayer expense

Taking Clubbing Too Far

Hyperia

1999 Houston Press Music Award Winners

Hyperia

Peerless

Ballet's strong cast complements strong theatrical choreography

A Star in Reborn, Again

Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.

Not a Pretty Picture

Are Dominique de Menil's children radically changing her museum?

Too high. Period.

Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie.

An Up-the-Hill Battle

Jack and Jill asks whether a woman can find love without losing herself

Little Orphan Commie

Kolya is sweet, charming -- and shameless