Prozac

When Mom Pops

Real Life

Body Carving. Tattoos vanish under lasers. Piercings close up. But scarification is forever.

Getting Hoarse

Peter Shaffer's Equus doesn't speak as compellingly to modern audiences

Rotations

Peter Shaffer's Equus doesn't speak as compellingly to modern audiences

Critic's Choice

Wheel of Dysfunction

Same Old Sir

Wheel of Dysfunction

Shiny Happy Creatures

Wheel of Dysfunction

Lonely, Times Three

Wheel of Dysfunction

Press Picks

Wheel of Dysfunction

Talking the Talk

Wheel of Dysfunction

Press Picks

Wheel of Dysfunction

Rotation

Wheel of Dysfunction

Hot Plate

Wheel of Dysfunction

News of the Weird

Wheel of Dysfunction

Absurd Plays for the Holidays

Wheel of Dysfunction

Play It Again, Sham

A band reunion becomes gentle satire in Still Crazy

Cyberchondriacs

Generation DIY turns to self-diagnosing to save money.

CONTINENTAL CLUB'S SQUID SHIT

Generation DIY turns to self-diagnosing to save money.

Lucinda Williams

World Without Tears (Lost Highway)

Absolutely Fabulous

Paul Rudnick turns the Old Testament into a gay old time

Later, Floyd

Laser rock shows at the Museum of Natural Science go the way of the dinosaurs

Melissa Adams

In My Eyes (Independent Records)

The Bravery

In My Eyes (Independent Records)

Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

...otherwise known as the H-Town 20

No Duncan Allowed

The And 1 Mixtape Tour is for true street ballers

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

The Terrorist's Mind

New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

Baby Blues

Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

Deep-Sixed

Hollywood pounces on 6-6-06 with a needless Omen revival

One Dead Guinea Pig

A bad reaction to a drug trial sparks an investigation into Houston's Fabre Clinic and its founder

O'Doyle Rules

No Place Else to Go (Self-released)

Ride Like the Wind

NASA scientists fear tepid response when aliens encounter Christopher Cross

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

NASA scientists fear tepid response when aliens encounter Christopher Cross

Peter Case

Friday, September 26

Pleasant Grove

Saturday, October 26

Wet Dreamer

Andrew W.K. is oozing with gratitude. Watch out -- you might get it on your clothes.

Letters

Mental Health Madness, Residental Revelations, English or Else?

Incubus

Make Yourself; When Incubus Attacks! Vol. 1

Getting Sauza-ed

Notes from the (corporate-sponsored) underground

Driver 23, Where Are You?

Low-budget documentary about a deliveryman and wanna-be rock star takes some wrong turns

I'm Crushing Your Head!

The Kids in the Hall

In the Comfort of Cheese

Josephine's traditional Italian fare is the perfect antidote to the blues

Animal Magnetism

Sex, drugs and rock and roll make up Monster Magnet

Rotation

Sex, drugs and rock and roll make up Monster Magnet

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Sex, drugs and rock and roll make up Monster Magnet

Noncombat Deaths: Another Casualty of War

The mass shooting at Fort Hood was just one of a growing number of troubling military deaths, murders and suicides.

10 Topics You Should Never, Ever Tweet About

​One of the most universally frustrating and equally liberating characteristics about Twitter is that it's wholly unstructured and undefined. No rules, no guidelines, no instructions. When you sign up, you get suggestions at best, and vast white space at worst. You know, it's kinda like colle ... More >>

Game Time: Kentucky Derby 2010 Infield Olympics (Includes Mud-Wrestling Videos)

We guess Hunter S. Thompson was right -- the Kentucky Derby really is vile and depraved​I'm not sure what it says about the type of summer we're going to have here in Houston when an embedded video of 30 hornets wrecking a shop and mass-murdering 30,000 bees in a blog post about the Kentucky Derby ... More >>

Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister: East Texas Church Arsonists Sentenced to Life

Courtesy Smith County SO Daniel George McAllister and Jason Robert Bourque​The crimes that East Texans Jason Robert Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were convicted of last month were disgusting indeed. The two young men, sometimes working together and other times apart, admitted to torchin ... More >>

30 Seconds With Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth

James Sharrock​Rocks Off sat down with Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth to see we could find out about the front man and founder of the British goth-metal band, which formed in 1991, in 30 seconds. Rocks Off: What is the worst song in the world? Dani Filth: The Scissor Sisters' "I Can't Decide." ... More >>