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  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Alvin Fielder Talks Free Jazz, Working for Tricky Dicky and About Dying A Few Times

    Photo courtesy of Nameless SoundAlvin Fielder​Alvin Fielder helped found the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago, worked for the Nixon Administration and spent much of his life running the family drug store. However, hearing him talk about all of his accomp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Alvin Fielder and Nameless Sound: A Profile on the 2012 "Resounding Vision Award" Winner

    Out of all of Alvin Fielder's accomplishments -- co-founding the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), contributing to free jazz and improv essentials, working for the Nixon Administration and running the family drug store -- winning Nameless Sound's "Resounding Vision Award" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Tuscapalooza: As if You Needed an Excuse to Drink Beer

    groovehouseAll-You-Can-Eat crawfish for a cause.​The string of tornados that tore across the Southern states on April 27, 2011 inflicted damage comparable to a category-five hurricane. It killed more 300 people and left thousands more homeless. The impact was especially severe in Tuscaloosa, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Pickaninnies & White Trash: A Hilariously Un-PC Old Textbook From England

    From the book: "'How' is the Indian's way of saying 'How do you do?'"​You never know what you'll find in a Houston antique shop. For instance, there's The Wonder Book of Children of All Nations. It appears to be intended for schoolchildren, published in Great Britain in, say, 1920 or so, and ... 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 >>

  • Dining

    August 13, 2009

    The Scoop

    We all scream for Houston's best ice cream

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    Get Off The Bus, Fat Kids

    We all scream for Houston's best ice cream

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

    We all scream for Houston's best ice cream

  • Music

    September 8, 2005

    My Darlin' New Orleans

    What hath God wrought?

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Katrina & The Waves

    Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Oral Argument

    The duel of the tongue vibrators

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Credit Check

    Kids rack up university credits right there in high school. And their districts and colleges ring up ample revenues in the process. But are the students really learning?

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Letters

    Kids rack up university credits right there in high school. And their districts and colleges ring up ample revenues in the process. But are the students really learning?

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1998

    The French Connection

    Kids rack up university credits right there in high school. And their districts and colleges ring up ample revenues in the process. But are the students really learning?

  • Music

    April 24, 1997

    Fixed Up

    Shawn Colvin's made A Few Small Repairs, and she's ready to show them off

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    The Insider

    Shawn Colvin's made A Few Small Repairs, and she's ready to show them off

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