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Dallas Most Superficial City, But Houston's Close, "Study" Says

In the annals of pots, kettles and blackness, there is this: An online-dating service calling out a city for being superficial. Since that city is Dallas, we can't disagree, but that's not the point, dammit. There are a lot of good things about making decisions on people via their online-dating pro ... More >>

The Complete SXSW Overflow Festival 2013 Guide: Week 1, Part 2

This year Rocks Off would like to help our readers get a handle on all the acts playing Super Happy Fun Land's SXSW Overflow Fest, and event that is longer than SXSW itself, with almost as many bands. There are nine nights left to go, and "season passes" are still available. See superhappyfunland.co ... More >>

Hornets to Become the Pelicans? Dear NOLA, Blame Utah

The city of New Orleans has been forced to suffer many indignities when it comes to sports. Whether it was the long period of disastrous play by the "Ain'ts", so bad that fans came to games at the Super Dome with paper bags over their heads; or the fact that the team currently known as the Hornets e ... More >>

Congratulations Galveston, You Are Only 96 Percent Honest

A few weeks back I told you about Honest Tea's "honesty experiment" where they planned to set up a few unmanned kiosks across the country offering their bottles of iced tea for with a jar asking for $1, with payment based on the honor system. Many of you were rightfully confused, asking where the "h ... More >>

App of the Week: Apps That Helped on My Vacation...and a Few That Didn't

A few weeks back, I took a two-week vacation that saw me visit three states and travel by plane, car, shuttle and even by boat for a few minutes. It was all within the U.S., but I found my need for technology surprising. Because I work for myself, I did bring a computer for occasionally catching up ... More >>

Kaskade's Moment

On-the-go DJ/producer might be electronica's very own superhero.

Houston: More Hipster-Friendly than Salt Lake City and Dallas, At Least

Earlier this month Travel and Leisure asked their readers to rank 35 American cities on the quantity and quality of their live music scenes, coffeehouses, microbrews, and independent boutiques. They also asked their readers to quantify more ineffable qualities such as the quirkiness of a city and h ... More >>

Cowboy Diaries: Rhen Richard -- He and His Bro Look to Make It All the Way

True cowboys are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they'll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will spotlight one person with enough dirt on his boots to call him ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Hunger Games Trailer, Reviewed By A Non-Reader Of The Books

​I don't know much about The Hunger Games. It's nothing personal. Plenty of people enjoyed the series, but my stack of "need to read" books stands at about 50 titles already and generally swings between ponderous historical tomes and crime novels of the Dennis Lehane/George Pelecanos variety. ... More >>

ICP's Violent J Talks Texas, Faygo & The Juggalo Family

"Texas is my favorite state" Next Tuesday, Detroit's Insane Clown Posse invades Houston for the third time in as many years for another night of Faygo and Juggalo family fun at Warehouse Live. This will also be Rocks Off's third jump into that sticky, harrowing breach. The past two years have bee ... More >>

Dynamo Earn Point in Tough Road Draw

Courtesy of Houston DynamoCam Weaver hopes Jamison Olave gets the right ball.​The Houston Dynamo bounced back from a two-game losing streak Saturday night with a scoreless draw at Real Salt Lake. For long stretches of the match, the Dynamo outclassed the class of MLS in Rio Tinto Stadium, wher ... More >>

Maple Leaf Pub's New Creamsicle

Craving Creminelli

​One of the items from Liz Thorpe's cheese-tasting class that I didn't mention earlier this week was the soppressata that some of you may have noticed sitting in the background. That soppressata was from Creminelli Fine Meats, an artisan meat producer based in Utah, where a third-generation I ... More >>

HPD Takes To Cyberspace To Fight Gang Crime. Next Thing You Know, They'll Be On MySpace

Courtesy stophoustongangs.org"Kids" "throwing up" "gang" "signs"​A slew of top cop brass from the city, state and federal levels assembled today to announce the latest weapon in the fight against gangs in Houston. A Web site. In 2010. Late as it is, the site could be useful. As the press releas ... More >>

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 >>

"Metal, Dude!": Ten Juicy Quotes From The Ultimate Metal Movie

​With hair-metal legends(?) Ratt playing Warehouse Live this evening, Rocks Off decided we'd take a look back at the definitive document of that era of metal in Los Angeles: Penelope Spheeris' rockumentary The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years. Ratt isn't featured in the fi ... More >>

Houston Wins March Madness Tournament!!! (Not The One You're Thinking Of)

​In an incredible upset, Houston has swept through the brackets of March Madness and taken the title.It's not the Coogs, and it's not the basketball championship.But if you're wondering who would win the tournament of having the worst traffic of all the cities hosting March Madness games this year ... More >>

More Fallout for Toyota

Plus: Why are Mormons annoyed with Houston?

Lord Save Us: Houston A Finalist For The 2012 GOP Convention

An elephant stampede may be coming, and it will look like "Oliver's Army"​Hotline is reporting that the Republican National Committee has picked four finalists for the 2012 GOP convention, and Houston is one of them.We have to assume that they mean Houston, Texas, so be prepared to face horror.The ... More >>

SPECIAL YEAR-END EDICION

"Stenciling Power"

Somewhere over the rainbow…is the face of Mormon founder Joseph Smith

The Major League Soccer All-Star Game Gets The Biggest Houston Stage, But Who's Going To Be On It?

​When Major League Soccer announced late July that the 2010 All-Star game would be played in Houston, there was much speculation as to where the event would be held. The Houston Dynamo currently call Robertson Stadium home, but Reliant Stadium is just so much prettier.The Dynamo front office hel ... More >>

Doug Supernaw's Woes Continue: Arrested In Utah

In May of 2007, we covered the travails (to date) of Doug Supernaw, the troubled Houston-bred one-time country music star. We just received word that the singer is in trouble again, this time in Utah.Two years ago, Supernaw was facing a bevy of charges including nonpayment of child support, driving ... More >>

Literacy Advance of Houston to Honor Hannah Storm

Every now and then I like to step away from the snark and write about something good that's going on. Today is one of those days. On May 1, 2009, Literacy Advance of Houston will be honoring ESPN SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm as its Champion of Literacy as part of the organization's Champion ... More >>

Literacy Advance of Houston to Honor Hannah Storm

Every now and then I like to step away from the snark and write about something good that's going on. Today is one of those days. On May 1, 2009, Literacy Advance of Houston will be honoring ESPN SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm as its Champion of Literacy as part of the organization's Champion ... More >>

COMMUNITY BAR'S F.M.B.

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Our Man Reports From The Sundance Film Festival

Former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker is reporting from the Sundance Film Festival: Despite the economy being in the crapper, and competition for A-list stars from the Obama inauguration, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, with its film lovers, business types, and members of the press, has ... More >>

A Mainstream Mormon's Test of Faith

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but the effects linger

Houstonian Wins A Million, Doesn't Come Back To Houston

SPECIAL TORTILLA CONTEST EDITION

Band of Annuals

The news from Salt Lake City isn’t all bad

Rockets-Jazz Game Five: Return of the Streakers

The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Sugar Bean Sisters, The Turn of the Screw, Young and Fertle

Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

Did you know that '80s cover band the Spazmatics has clones from coast to coast?

Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Jersey Boys, Love, Janis, Sugar Bean Sisters

Capsule Stage Reviews: Caroline, or Change, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Sugar Bean Sisters

Low Self-Esteem, Flirting Double Standards and One Intelligent Mexican

Mexican-American Culture

“Forgers, Fakes and Pirates: Faking the Book”

See original printings of the Texas Declaration of Independence and Adolph Hitler’s autobiography – Not!

Dear Diary

Pink Pop

Music genres that are coming soon

Big Love, Texas-Style

Polygamists live in a compound on our state's dry western plains

Torino It Off

This horrible Winter Olympics game doesn't even medal

Not on Your Nelly!

Nelly Furtado refused to forget her roots or dress like a tramp. She won a Grammy anyway.

Rocker Robbery

The theft of his trailer capped a bad week for John Evans

The Beach Boys

Hawthorne, CA: Birthplace of a Musical Legacy (Capitol)

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

Stormin' Mormon

SLC Punk! shows young rebels, but not their relevance

Big Story

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?