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  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Bluegrass Great Doc Watson Hospitalized

    Word has come that Doc Watson, beloved 89-year-old flat-picking genius and elder statesman of the Americana music scene, has been airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after suffering a fall at his home. According to reports in Bluegrass Today and the Raleigh News & Obser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    5 Songs for Jesus' Grandma St. Anne's Day

    ​If you grow up without any religion, you either avoid all trappings of it like the plague or you absolutely love to explore it. Rocks Off is firmly in the latter camp, and nothing gets us more excited than the culture of Saints in Catholicism. We've written many a letter to Wizards of the Coa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Houston Led Nation in Population Growth in Last Decade, Rice Finds

    Rice U video No city in America grew more in population in the last decade than Houston, a Rice study said today. And if you don't believe it, they put out the slick video above to erase any doubt. Houston added 1,231,393 residents between 2000 and 2012, the study of census figures said; the next ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Houston's Same-Sex Couples More Likely to Raise Children

    And they may just live in Houston.​The Atlantic's blog has crunched some numbers from a recent gay survey and census data, and it's found that when it comes to raising kids, Houston's same-sex couples are near the tops in the nation. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area had the seventh-highest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    This Week In Set Lists: Pixies, Kings Of Leon, Tom Petty, Rush, Etc.

    GroovehouseKings of Leon, Toyota Center, October 2009​Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Avianca Cortez, 13, Detrihanna Davis, 13 and RaShaunda Raleigh, 17, Bayou Body Counts No. 173-175

    Three teens' lives wiped out​Intoxication manslaughter charges have been filed against a man who prosectors say was drunk when he ran a red light and broadsided an SUV, killing three passengers.Sajan Timalshina, 25, was driving a Toyota Camry on the feeder road at Beltway 8 and the Eastex Freeway ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2010

    Lilith Fair's Top 5 Headline-Grabbing Moments

    ​Friday, while Rocks Off was enjoying a blissful if soggy day off, Lilith Fair canceled the final ten dates of this year's summer resurrection, including all three scheduled Texas stops. The news was hardly shocking: One headliner, Norah Jones, had already bailed, and The New York Times report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Carolyn Rodriguez: From Selling Crack to Prescribing "Medicine" for the Soul

    One of the first things Carolyn Rodriguez, the Houston-based female singer and rap artist by way of Arkansas, by way of North Carolina, said to us is that she doesn't like bios. "When you make a bio you have to keep it politically correct," she tells Rocks Off. "You can't tell the real story." She' ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    If You Don't Know Them by Now

    Through word of mouth alone, Smitty's has become a Third Ward staple.

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    With or Without You: Memoirs of a U2 Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    ...I may regret this.​So there was a time, not long ago by geological reckoning, that I was a U2 fan. Growing up during the pre-Internet late 70s/early 80s in a town where the only place to buy music was a Camelot Music in the mall limited your options somewhat. Nevertheless, the Edge's loud, ring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    The Daily Beast: Houston -- You Are "Mildly Retarded"

    ​The Daily Beast has ranked the IQ of each of America's 55 metro areas with populations over a million. Here is how they arrived at the concept of a municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher educ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    The Angry Mob at U of H Was Not After "Informer" Rapper Snow's Autograph

    Courtesy Justin Crane What it is, bro: Snow (left) and U of H Park Party organizer Justin Crane​Welcome to another installment of our still-unnamed, in-their-own-words series on musical goings-on in Houston that perhaps could have turned out better for some of the parties involved - coming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Now It's Even A Bigger Deal To Win A Tommy Tune Award

    The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a ... More >>

  • Music

    February 12, 2009

    Annuals, Jessica Lea Mayfield

    The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    The City Of Houston Takes On Orbitz And Priceline

    The City of Houston and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority are currently suing multiple travel websites such as Orbitz and Priceline over tax revenues it claims the sites owe it. Online travel sites pay wholesale prices to hotels for rooms and then customers book those rooms at a mark-up fro ... More >>

  • Music

    December 11, 2008

    The Shredder

    One Show, One Sentence

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008
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    August 12, 2008
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    June 13, 2008
  • Music

    September 13, 2007

    The Rosebuds

    One Show, One Sentence

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2007

    Good Karma for Carr

    One Show, One Sentence

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2007

    Good Karma for Carr

    One Show, One Sentence

  • Music

    April 5, 2007

    The Rosebuds

    Night of the Furies

  • Music

    March 22, 2007
  • Music

    April 20, 2006

    Jones Family Singers

    9 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

  • Film

    March 30, 2006

    Puff Piece

    Thank You for Smoking's satire falls short of incendiary

  • Culture

    March 9, 2006

    Hell Above

    At the Alley, chivalry and honor survive in the face of horror

  • Music

    February 9, 2006

    Same As It Never Was

    A former Nightfly wanders north downtown Houston one last time

  • Music

    October 20, 2005

    South Austin Jug Band, with the Ringers

    Friday, October 21, at the Last Concert Cafe, 1403 Nance, 713-226-8563.

  • Music

    January 13, 2005

    She's Gone (Away from) Country

    But Tift Merritt's latest release, Tambourine, is up for Best Country Album

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Turkeys Fly

    Houston actually pulls off one crazy week

  • Music

    February 7, 2002

    Ice Ice Baby

    Varnaline's Anders Parker goes cold when asked about his inspiration

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Volume, Volume, Volume

    COC may be edging toward the mainstream, but the metal specialists still refuse to conform

  • Music

    January 15, 1998

    Tupelo's Curse

    COC may be edging toward the mainstream, but the metal specialists still refuse to conform

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    East End Transit

    Why have bus lines to Mexico bloomed all across the East End? Maybe because it's a family affair.

  • Music

    April 24, 1997

    Corrosive Talent

    Why have bus lines to Mexico bloomed all across the East End? Maybe because it's a family affair.

  • Music

    January 30, 1997

    Modest Intent

    Why have bus lines to Mexico bloomed all across the East End? Maybe because it's a family affair.

  • Music

    September 12, 1996

    The Tesh Touch

    So John Tesh was a TV star? Hey, don't blame him -- he didn't want it.

  • Culture

    August 24, 1995

    Got On the Bus

    Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

  • Music

    October 20, 1994

    Bad Motocaster

    Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

  • Music

    September 8, 1994

    Damn Good Southern Jangle-pop

    Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

  • Music

    March 17, 1994

    Rotation

    Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

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