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Santa Claus

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Brew Blog: Boulevard Nommo Dubbel

    Photo by Nicholas L. HallIt's a Christmas Miracle!​We here over at Brew Blog (just me, really) thought it might be nice to spread a little bit of holiday cheer this week. Sure, I could just review another winter-themed beer, but I thought our time would be better served with a little story abo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011

    Santa’s Cool Holiday Film Festival

    Photo by Nicholas L. HallIt's a Christmas Miracle!​We here over at Brew Blog (just me, really) thought it might be nice to spread a little bit of holiday cheer this week. Sure, I could just review another winter-themed beer, but I thought our time would be better served with a little story abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Modern Holiday Classics Veer Off from Feelgood and into Cynicism

    This week, as Christmas movies began their assault on cable and network television, it occurred to us that in the past decade or so, holiday film tastes have begun to veer from lighthearted feelgood affairs and straight into stress-filled, caustic celebrations of the things we will all hate for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Free for All: The Post-Thanksgiving Day Edition

    Look, it's Black Friday (and dark gray Saturday and Sunday, or whatever they call the rest of the weekend), and if you aren't going shopping or to the movies or fighting with relatives, what else is there to do? We've come up with a few suggestions. And they all have the advantage of being free. F ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2011

    62nd Annual Holiday Parade Presented by H-E-B

    Look, it's Black Friday (and dark gray Saturday and Sunday, or whatever they call the rest of the weekend), and if you aren't going shopping or to the movies or fighting with relatives, what else is there to do? We've come up with a few suggestions. And they all have the advantage of being free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Sick of Nickelback? Remove Them with Nickelblock

    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.​The holidays are a time for miracles and small gestures of goodwill by your fellow man. It's also a time of pushing and shoving and trampling to save 15 bucks on a flat screen that has the resolution of an iPhone. It's a complicated time of year. But, so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2011

    Winter Wonderettes

    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.​The holidays are a time for miracles and small gestures of goodwill by your fellow man. It's also a time of pushing and shoving and trampling to save 15 bucks on a flat screen that has the resolution of an iPhone. It's a complicated time of year. But, so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Friday Night: Ke$ha At Verizon Wireless Theater

    Photos by Jay Lee​Ke$ha Verizon Wireless Theater April 29, 2011 Before Ke$ha even hit the stage for her sold-out show Friday night at Verizon Wireless Theater, we saw limos full of prom-ready teens pulling up to the venue, mounds of glitter were embedded into the cracks in the pavement surrou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Pop Rocks: "Getting Too Old For This Shit" - A Cinematic History

    The first?​Time marches on. There comes a point in all of our lives when the inevitability of our eventual demise goes from esoteric concept to concrete fact. There's no set schedule for when awareness will strike; maybe it's the first time your back gives out, or when you find yourself squint ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Ally ASL Goes National Via ABC News, Yahoo!

    ​Rocks Off is a modest sort of music blog. We generally need both of our arms for typing, so we don't want to risk breaking one of them patting ourselves on the back. But once in a while, through hard work, dumb luck or (most often) some combination of the two, we push over the first domino in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Bun B, Rap Superhero, Feeds The Needy... And What Else?

    ​Bun B is many things: Beyond-influential rapper, college professor, entrepreneur and trillman (totally just made that word up). But above all else, he's long been recognized as a decent, caring and wise person. It's why any time his name is added in the tagline of anything good or worthwhile ... More >>

  • Music

    December 16, 2010

    A Fistful of Soul

    One righteous vintage vinyl party.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Breakfast with Santa Claus at Yale Street Grill

    ​As mentioned earlier this week, Yale Street Grill (2100 Yale, 713-861-3113) is one of my favorite places to grab a low-key breakfast. But not just for chicken fried steak. I can still remember the first time my father took me to Yale Street as a child. That first visit was for milkshakes, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    A Memorial Video For Dead Santa

    ​Hey kids! Bet you totally forgot that today is the anniversary of the death of Santa Claus! Well, technically it's the anniversary of the death of Saint Nicholas, who kicked the bucket this day in 346. Nick is the best-known basis for the modern figure of Santa. The son of wealthy parents, h ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    Andrea Bocelli: My Christmas

    ​Hey kids! Bet you totally forgot that today is the anniversary of the death of Santa Claus! Well, technically it's the anniversary of the death of Saint Nicholas, who kicked the bucket this day in 346. Nick is the best-known basis for the modern figure of Santa. The son of wealthy parents, h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Springsteen Web Site: '78 Summit Show Best Video Ever

    ​ Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, "Fire," live at the Summit 12/8/78 Since one of the extra goodies is a complete video of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's December 1978 concert at the Summit, Rocks Off is sure Houston's Boss fans don't need much more reason to buy the expande ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2010

    10th Annual Village Art Car Show

    The Houston Art Car Klub trots out its latest creations

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Springsteen Darkness Reissue Includes 1978 Houston Show

    ​Did you know Bruce Springsteen mentions bygone downtown venue Liberty Hall in his song "This Hard Land"? Of course you did, because Rocks Off is contractually obligated to mention it every time we post something about The Boss. So now that's out of the way, here's something else Houston-re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Courtney Love Helps Christmas Come Early

    Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshow​Not that it ever happened to Rocks Off growing up, but can you imagine turning in your wish list to Santa Claus a few weeks before Christmas and getting everything you asked for? The new Playstation, Star Wars toys, the go-kart, new little brot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Pop Rocks: Your George Bailey-Free Christmas Viewing List

    Christmas, Christmas time is here. Time for ulcers to bleed freely and the roughly 22 percent of the U.S. population who identify themselves as "other than Christian" to smile through clenched jaws and wait for the adult contemporary stations to stop playing Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Uprising

    2009 wasn't a great year for albums, but songs were a different story.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    He Said She Said: Our Christmas Musical Wishlists, Part 2 - LPs Nobody Can Buy

    ​When He Said was four years old, all he wanted for Christmas was big brown tape recorder that Play Skool put out so he could record his own imaginary radio shows and crazed ramblings about He-Man. Santa Claus brought it that year, and He Said wore that thing out over the next few months. For Chri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 10, 2009

    Very Merry Pops

    The Houston Symphony plays updated versions of the holiday standards

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Last Year's Broken Toys: The Most Depressing Christmas Songs of All Time

    Lin Pernille Photography​ The Christmas season is supposed to be one of joy and fun, of eating way too much and making drunken mistakes at your office Christmas party. Yet every year we're confronted by songs that frankly aren't in keeping with the holiday spirit. Although it's an urban myth that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Our Five Favorite Heavy Metal Christmas Carols

    ​Every year the Christmas gods try to throw us the same old boring and tired holiday music. Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and Hall & Oates are just fine, but this member of Rocks Off needs the blood of the innocent and punishing power chords under his dead, decaying tree. We sought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Santa Claus Is Coming to To Sink the USS Arizona...

    Last night was a first in the history of what founder/director Bryan Taylor believes is the ten-year history of the Santa Claus Reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Thanks to the mucky mire that was Market Square last night, the mock aerial/naval combat took place inside of Warren's. Watch th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Can Rocks Off Withstand an Entire Hour of Sunny 99.1's Holiday Programming?

    ​Since Thanksgiving night, local dentist office-core radio station Sunny 99.1 FM has been pumping out non-stop Christmas tunes as they have been doing now for quite a few years. It's a Houston phenomenon and an ominous bellwether for the coming holiday. You pretty much know when you can hear Vanes ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 25, 2008

    SPECIAL YEAR-END EDITION

    ​Since Thanksgiving night, local dentist office-core radio station Sunny 99.1 FM has been pumping out non-stop Christmas tunes as they have been doing now for quite a few years. It's a Houston phenomenon and an ominous bellwether for the coming holiday. You pretty much know when you can hear Vanes ... More >>

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Santa Baby

    What a few musicians want under their trees this year

  • Music

    December 18, 2008

    The Best Christmas Album of 2008 is... Metal?

    What a few musicians want under their trees this year

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Santa Round-Up Part Three: At Least When You're Done Juggling Quadruplets, There's A Beer Waiting

    This and every Christmas season the most important person is the baby Jesus, with a bearded, white-haired toy factory owner coming in a close second. Every year we flock to the malls to sit in our kids down on Santa's lap. Sometimes they run off screaming, while others take to the old guy just like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Retro Active: The Five Best '80s Christmas Songs

    Christmas seems to activate a latent part of all musicians' brains that inspires them to spread their holiday cheer all over a perfectly good season. (The scientific term for this part of the brain is called "My Accountant.") Musicians in the '80s were certainly not exempt from this need to whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Tonight: Gentleman Auction House at Rudyard's

    Lauren Winchester Within about 20 seconds of "A Banner Year," the opener of Gentleman Auction House's new Christmas In Love EP, the St. Louis indie-pop hydra has managed to recall Belle & Sebastian, Arcade Fire and another dozen or so boy-girl bands that are equally earnest and invigorating. I ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    Jean Eustache: Film as Life, Life as Film

    The MFAH presents a ten-day celebration of the bold French director

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2008

    Bubba Roese, the Mayor of Graball, Speaks of BBQ

    The MFAH presents a ten-day celebration of the bold French director

  • News

    March 13, 2008
  • Calendar

    November 15, 2007

    “Seasons of Sharing”

    Children’s Museum of Houston explores holiday traditions from around the world

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Zach Galifianakis Is King of the Bears

    Children’s Museum of Houston explores holiday traditions from around the world

  • Home Entertainment

    December 14, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of December 14

    Children’s Museum of Houston explores holiday traditions from around the world

  • Culture

    July 13, 2006
  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Horse Flesh

    Texas struggles with what to do with its overabundance of Equus caballus, while Europeans wait with open mouths

  • Home Entertainment

    October 6, 2005

    Our top DVD picks for the week of October 4

    Texas struggles with what to do with its overabundance of Equus caballus, while Europeans wait with open mouths

  • Music

    December 18, 2003

    I'm Not Dreaming of a White Christmas

    No snow and no Bing for Racket

  • Culture

    November 27, 2003

    What the Dickens?

    The Masquerade Theatre's Scrooge is haunting -- for the wrong reasons

  • Calendar

    June 26, 2003

    To Beer or Not to Beer

    The Montrose Beer and Gun Club plays coy

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    All I Want for Christmas Is...

    A shopping list for your favorite political types

  • Culture

    December 5, 2002

    A Nut for Nostalgia

    Houston Ballet's Nutcracker has nothing new to say, but it's fun anyway

  • Calendar

    February 11, 1999

    Ho, Ho, Ho

    Houston Ballet's Nutcracker has nothing new to say, but it's fun anyway

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    Santa's Selves

    Inside every tired fat man, there's a merry prankster trying to get out

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    The Insider

    Inside every tired fat man, there's a merry prankster trying to get out

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