Subject: Reality Shows

• Idol Chatter

  March 1, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  March 1, 2007

• We Like Patrice Pike

  December 8, 2006

• We Like Patrice Pike

  December 8, 2006

• Miss Pop Rocks: Do You Know Who I Hate? The Olly Girls.

  August 31, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week Ten: Reality TV Bites

  November 2, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks Hearts Project Rungay

  January 18, 2008

• Scott Baio is 46…and Annoying as Hell

  March 5, 2008

• Greatest American Dog: The Elimination Ceremony

  July 9, 2008

• Tonight: Cornbreadd's Season Finale Watch Party at Boondocks

  Courtesy MTV The Cast of Tha Money & Tha Power; Cornbredd is at far left Cornbredd rocks the Westheimer Block PartyHouston MC Cornbreadd, frontman for vicious rap-rockers Tha Fucking Transmissions, is one of those people you call with a couple of simple questions and wind up on the phone with for 20 minutes. That's hardly a bad thing; he's as congenial a person as you'll ever want to meet, but he always tells it like it is. Rocks Off rang him up Thursday afternoon to discuss

  January 22, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Final 13 Results

  Ray Mickshaw/ Fox Nunez out: Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you, Jorge (middle).A new wrinkle in the elimination curve! The return of a prodigal Idol winner! A performance from a self-important pop-rap blowhard! Two more contestants falling under the proverbial sword! The first of the dreaded Ford-sponsored videos-cum-advertisements! Gratuitous decolletage courtesy of Paula Abdul! This...is American Idol! * Get this: the judges can perform one 11th-hour stay-of-exec

  March 12, 2009

• I Have a Problem With The Hills. Like a Drug Problem.

  Photo courtesy of VlastulaSeriously.  Why do I torture myself?  Why do I find myself creating an appointment television relationship with MTV's reality show, The Hills?  And by reality I mean as real as Heidi Montag's tits.  Frankly, I think it's pretty much basically sick to be a thirtysomething married woman who is so deeply obsessed with a show that follows a bunch of vapid, rich Los Angelitos in their early 20s who are rich because they are vapid.  (Make sense

  April 9, 2009

• Legally Blonde the Musical

  Omigod, She’s Here!

  February 5, 2009

• A Gift of Christmas — LIVE

  Web exclusive!

  December 18, 2008

• 18th Annual Houston International Jazz Festival

  Ruben Studdard, Hiroshima and the “Sax Pack” head up Bubba Thomas’s yearly ode to all things jazz

  July 31, 2008

• Last Comic Standing Auditions and Showcase

  NBC’s comedy reality show hunts Houston for humor

  February 21, 2008

• Very Merry Pops

  The Houston Symphony take Christmas tunes from Muzak to merry

  December 13, 2007

• Miranda Lambert

  November 22, 2007

• Fashion Junkies

  January 19, 2006

• Best of the Last

  January 26, 2006

• Killer Ratings

  April 6, 2006

• Il Communication

  June 15, 2006

• A Tale of Two Brooklyns

  July 13, 2006

• Five Times August

  Five Times August performs Saturday, May 5, at Mojo Risin', 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505.

  May 3, 2007

• The Head of the Class

  Allen Hill leads the cheers for Houston's only American Idol contestant

  February 22, 2007

• Royal Flush

  February 15, 2007

• Houston Chopper

  Meet Roman Blum, the next TV biker star

  December 7, 2006

• Live

  Live appears Friday, September 29, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600.

  September 28, 2006

• K.T. Tunstall

  Saturday, September 16, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  September 14, 2006

• Various Artists

  Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen

  August 18, 2005

• Whitney's Dookie Bubble

  Being Bobby Brown is not all fun and games

  July 14, 2005

• Shooting the Stars

  Snarky comedian Kathy Griffin stops by Houston to dish on Hollywood's elite

  February 17, 2005

• Tall Cool One

  Strapping comedian Gary Gulman and fellow Last Comic Standing alums hit the road

  November 4, 2004

• There's a Doctor in Your House

  Put down those Doritos -- the cameras are rolling

  December 4, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 4, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  October 23, 2003

• That '60s Show

  Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

  March 6, 2003

• Suchu Goes to Hell

  A dance troupe forsakes the happy ending for something more sinister

  February 20, 2003

• Reality TV Bites

  Shani and Chad Walter lost one of their twin baby boys. Thanks to Houston Medical, thousands of Americans got to witness their pain.

  September 5, 2002

• Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson

  May 7, 2009

• Houston's Favorite Playboy Model And WWE Diva Heads To Jungle, Says She Can Kick Stephen Baldwin's Ass

  Photo by Craig HlavatyThings seem to be going well for Torrie Wilson. After a ten-year stint as a pro wrestling diva, the former Miss Galaxy and Playboy cover girl has settled down in Houston and opened her own Melrose-themed clothing store. But a week from today she'll be abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle. This can only mean that a new reality TV series is upon us. It's an American spin-off of the UK's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, which mates Survivor with Fear Factor by sticking f

  May 20, 2009

• Idol Beat: The One

  Mea culpa: Yi. I typed this entire post - then accidentally closed the Mozilla Firefox window and lost everything. Let this be a lesson to every blogger out there: compose in Word. For real.Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxAmerican Idol winner Kris Allen practices his "Who, me?" showbiz face. Let's not belabor this: Kris Allen won. It is not, in fact, gay folks' time. I'm not especially surprised, but I am disappointed. What can you do, though? Adam Lambert will drop an amazing album someday. Kris wil

  May 21, 2009

• Houston's Torrie Wilson: Back From The Jungle, Still D-List

  Photo by Craig HlavatyIn May Hair Balls intrepidly reported that local WWE Diva and Playboy cover girl Torrie Wilson would be dropped into the middle of a Costa Rican jungle as a contestant on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, NBC's not-so-hit reality TV show that also featured people like Sanjaya and Patti Blagojevich. The finale aired on Wednesday night. It turns out many of Wilson's predictions came true: The Hills' Heidi and Spencer Pratt were no match for the jungle (they quit almost i

  June 26, 2009

• The Octomom Belongs In Jail

  ​I am not kidding on this one.  Nadya Suleman, the mother of five billion children, belongs in jail. Why? Because she recently signed a deal to have a reality show made about her life. Her moneymakers, including the world's only surviving octuplets, will get paid about $250 a day.This woman is a pimp for children. That is all that she is. Her kids should have never been allowed to go home with her in the first place, and the second the ink was dry on the contract, Child Protective Service

  July 28, 2009

• Grease

  September 3, 2009

• Taylor Hicks And Dominic Fortuna: Two Blue-Collar Stiffs Working Their Butts Off

  Photo courtesy TUTS​Turns out Dominic Fortuna, who deftly plays the WAXX DJ Vince Fontaine in the national road company of Grease now at the Hobby Center, was a former contestant on the reality show Grease: You're the One that I Want! -- the reality series that searched the United States for budding stars to put in the lead roles of Danny and Sandy for the 2007 Broadway revival.He drove five hours to the Chicago audition from his home in northern Michigan, drove home the same night and came ba

  September 11, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Bad Luck, Chuck

  If you watch this, you're going to need to explain yourself​The arrival of another Dancing With the Stars results show always fills me with a queasy mix of relief and dread. Relief, because it's only an hour long instead of two, and another couple will be eliminated, bringing us all that much closer to the end of the season and, presumably, freedom; dread, because the results are stretched to the breaking point over an endless and lamentable parade of bad pop numbers and curious stage perf

  October 14, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Do The Hustle!

  ​It's week five of Dancing With the Stars, but I don't know how many are left. I don't have the commitment to count the couples and do the math, plus there could be special eps or extra fillers or reunion shows or who knows what all. Basically, I know there's an end in sight, I just don't know when it'll arrive. Tom Bergeron's breathless intro revealed that some of the contestants have been dealing with the flu, which has knocked the blond guy dancing with Joanna out of commission, so sh

  October 20, 2009

• 3rd Annual Galveston Pride Fest

  October 22, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Suck It, Maxim Model!

  Kelly Osbourne gives her best "suck it, you model bitch" pose.​This is it. The ninth week of Dancing With the Stars has now come and gone. Only now do I understand the bittersweet joy of watching a baby grow up. This week's pointless encore command performance was Mya's salsa, which had earned her a perfect 30 the night before. Len Goodman touted her "tooty fruity booty" in his intro, which was as physically repulsive as you'd imagine. There was also even more filler and teases than ever

  November 18, 2009