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Laura Bryant: Waco Nurse Lives Vegas High Life At ACM Awards

You win a contest, all expenses paid, to a major country-music awards show in Las Vegas. What happens next? Rocks Off will admit we had never even pondered that question until someone from Reliant Energy offered us a chance to interview the winner of Reliant's "Dream Trip of a Lifetime." The packag ... More >>

RodeoHouston Wants To Send You To Vegas

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is well on its way to drawing a couple of million more (mostly) country-music fans to Reliant Stadium again this year. Now the rodeo and Reliant Energy want to send one lucky fan to the Academy of County Music Awards in Vegas April 1. No foolin'. All the couple hu ... More >>

Brownouts & Rolling Blackouts: We Examine Reliant's Sometimes Odd Energy-Saving Tips

There I Fixed It/FailblogBe inventive.​ERCOT says it set a new record for electricity demand yesterday, and it won't be long before it's broken again. Reliant Energy has sent out a bunch of tips on how to conserve electricity during these heavy-demand 100-degree days. We present some of them. ... More >>

Last Night: Jason Aldean At RodeoHouston

Photos courtesy of Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo​Jason Aldean Reliant Stadium March 20, 2011 You can tell everything you need to know about Jason Aldean by looking at his steel guitarist's forearms Sunday. First, he had a steel guitarist. Of the handful of Rodeo acts Aftermath saw this year ... More >>

Annise Parker Appoints Committee To Study Continental Merger; Problem Solved

Some mellow mood music for the panel​Continental Airline's decision to merge with United and base itself out of Chicago wasn't very good news.But fret not: A committee has been appointed to study the situation.Mayor Annise Parker has announced the economic impact of the merger will be examined by ... More >>

Game Time: FREE BEER!...Now That I Have Your Attention, Behold My TEXANS HOME RUN DERBY Dream Team

The thrill of Celebrity Home Run Derby​Save the date!Free beer will be served at Nick's Place on Friday, May 28. Well, to be clear, since there are probably legalities involved in a bar literally giving away beer, someone will be paying for the beer -- and that someone is my co-host John Harris. ... More >>

Teflon Man

Now playing in River Oaks, Gary Ross has stayed one step ahead of trouble and judgments across the country.

Yes, We Admit It: We Have No Clue How To Judge A Two-Step Contest

Rocks Off has no idea how to judge a country two-step competition. A few weeks ago we were asked if we would take time out of our Friday night to judge Reliant Energy's Two-Step Showdown at Rebels Honky Tonk on Washington Avenue. Yes, that Washington Avenue. The one we spent our January mired in, r ... More >>

Texans Almost As Bad At Hitting Home Runs As Astros, Charity Event Reveals

Videos and photo by Craig HlavatyThe guys who get paid to do it aren't exactly tearing the cover off the ball -- the Astros currently rank 24th in the majors in home runs. So it's nice to see some fresh meat in the oddly-shaped confines of Minute Maid Park, even if it does only benefit charity and ... More >>

Rocks Off at the Reliant Rodeo Round-Up

Video and photos by John Seaborn Gray; music by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers Monday afternoon, Rocks Off headed down to Reliant Park to participate in the annual Reliant Rodeo Round-Up, a competition between local media "personalities" - Rocks Off supposes that's an appropriate term, thou ... More >>

Judge Not The Two-Step, Lest Ye Be Judged

Yeah, so we judged a Texas Two-Step dancing contest last night.That's pretty much the equivalent of Sarah Palin judging a Dance Salad festival, but we tried.You know it's bad when the only song you recognize in the half-dozen or so tunes in the warm-up is George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen, ... More >>

Two Bills For The Price Of One From Reliant

Customers of Reliant Energy received their December bills as usual. They probably freaked a bit at the price (as usual), but paid up.Then they received another bill for December.Not to worry, Reliant says -- they were just confused by the whole complicated process whereby 2008 becomes 2009. It invol ... More >>

Paola Mayorga's Latin Grammy Journal

[Ed. Note: Paola Mayorga is a 21-year-old Missouri City woman who won a contest sponsored by Reliant Energy for a trip to the Latin Grammys, including backstage and green carpet access and accomodations at the Four Seasons. Rocks Off asked her to write up her experience.] Paola Mayorga and her mot ... More >>

Useless Protest

Homeowners find the rules can change from county to county

What Can Brown Do for You?

New Orleans is about to find out

Business Alliances

Just by talking to Millennium Energy Ventures, you could become a listed client

Letters to the Editor

Rescue in a Box

Reliantly Unhelpful

The abyss of customer service gets deeper

Bite the Bone!

Losing Ugly

Remember when we praised City Hall? Forget it.

Letters

Best Place to Pretend You're in Blade Runner

Business as Usual

Despite a deregulated energy market, Houston is sticking with the home team

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Water Overdose

FotoFest 2004 will soak you to the bone

Talky? You Bet!

Sheila Jackson Lee's verbosity leads to a jackpot

The Highs and Lows of Life with Lee

The best and worst from the Brown days

Mayoral Field of Dreams

If you pay them, they will come

Edifice Complex

Another new sports facility, another round of hype

Overdose

Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

Some Very Reliant Directors

Board members on gilded strings

The Dome and Dylan

Knock-knock-knocking on Reliant's door

A Political "Little Enron"

A different energy outfit has close ties to local politicians

Attack of the Surf Punks

The Magnetic IV ride the waves of B movies and surf guitar gods

Fat Chance

When the weight can't come down, the linemen do

Missing Mantis

Colonel Mustard's been cleared. How about the contractor in the tanning salon?

Letters

Pull Back the Cover, Bellaire Brats, Do It Yourself

Red Light, Green Light

With billboards of windmills promising gentle, nonpolluting energy, Green Mountain offers Texans a new power avenue. Will they take it? Should they?

Energy Rules

The Chronicle performs a boosterism triple play

Booster Shot

A proposed Medical Center project gets big, big play

Plugged In

Like little Energizer bunnies, electric-car proponents keep going and going and going

Year of Living Dangerously

Sports palaces, city cell-phone shenanigans and subdivisions where Montrose once stood. Could any self-respecting survivalist leave the bunker behind?

Blocking Shots

We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

Arena Wars

"Environmental Darth Vader" pushed as campaign consultant