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4/20 Day: 14 Bongs Based on Movies That Should Not Have Bongs Based on Them

Hey, it's 4/20 day! Be glad you don't live in Boulder, where the University of Colorado is trying to end the annual massive on-campus celebration of the day by barring any visitors and spraying the quad where it's held with "a foul-smelling fish-based fertilizer on the grass." Bummer. Here in Hou ... More >>

Keith Judd: Totally Qualified Texas Prisoner on Presidential Ballot (Democrat, of Course)

Just when we threw up our hands in despair over the dearth of worthwhile presidential candidates, a federal prisoner in Texas has made it onto the ballot in West Virginia. Keith Russell Judd, who's serving 210 months in a decidedly un-oval office in Texarkana for making threats while on the Univer ... More >>

One Year After Woman Gets Masters In The Beatles, We Hunt Down Most Bizarre College Music Courses

A year ago today, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy of Ontario became the first person in the world to earn a master's degree in The Beatles. I'm not quite sure what she's doing now, but I do know she could probably kick anyone's ass in Beatles trivia. This little anniversary of her graduation got me think ... More >>

Reality Bites: The Bad Girls Club - Las Vegas

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch all of them, one at a time. There comes a point in reviewing shows showcasing the embarrassing antics of tattooed subhumans (Jersey Shore) or the plasticine über-rich (Real Housewives of X) where you start realizing th ... More >>

The 10 Best Food-Centric TV Episodes on Netflix, For Your Post-Thanksgiving Food Coma

Before I had cable, I invested in Netflix's streaming video service. It continues to be the best $7 I spend each month, despite the service's recent, public misadventures. And anyway, Netflix is where the new episodes of Arrested Development will eventually air, and that news more or less made up fo ... More >>

Do Mexicans Hate Puerto Ricans?

And do matanzas only happen in New Mexico?

O RLY? Rockets Sending Out Open House Invites, Season Ticket Offers

O RLY, Kevin McHale?​There is a classic Internet meme characterized by a photo of a silly-looking bird with the phrase "O RLY?" written across it. The meme was designed to signify someone's response to an outrageous statement, usually posted on a bulletin board. For example, Nerd One might say ... More >>

It's Pi Day, Pi Day, Gotta Get Down on Pi Day

​In keeping with Rocks Off's latest obsession, compiling soundtracks for oddball holidays, we were tickled pink as a chorus girl's nipple to learn that this Friday is Pi Approximation Day. The holiday was first in 1988 by a physicist named Larry Shaw, who made everyone march in a circle then ... More >>

In Run-Up to Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch, NASA Allows Rare Peek Behind Mission Control Curtain

Photos by Troy Fields​Check out our pictures of the final round of space shuttle simulation training at NASA's Mission Control. Space. If you are anything like me, you've probably started to take it for granted. Save for disasters like the Columbia explosion in 2003, the country as a whole no ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

The Brisket House rules their brisket with an actual iron fist.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we kind of want our old pizza delivery job back just so we can hang out in the walk-in freezer. Yes, it's hot as balls here in Houston, and that's why we started t ... More >>

First Look at The Tasting Room at CityCentre

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttThe grouper crudo photographed beautifully. If only it tasted that way, too.​Before my wine or food (or even my dinner date) had arrived at The Tasting Room at CityCentre last night, I thought that I'd already had the place mostly figured out. The shiny new space sa ... More >>

"Hannibal's On The Jazz:" A Stephen J. Cannell Retrospective

​If you were born before, say, 1976 (the year of my little sister's birth and hence my arbitrary demarcation line for coolness), you probably spent a healthy chunk of your prime TV-watching years enjoying the programs of the late Stephen J. Cannell. The longtime writer/producer created some of ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith, Obsessed With Death In A Cheerful Way

​With The Reluctant Graveyard, indie-pop singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith has crafted the most gorgeous, lush, and sunny record ever about death and dying. Corpses, organ donors, coffin salesmen, shot-down gangster doppelgangers, and zombies (both literally and the '60s Colin Blunstone va ... More >>

Romeo and Juliet

The Actors from the London Stage believe less is more...than enough

Capsule Art Reviews: "Body in Fragments," "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil," "Dana Frankfort: Pictures," "Robert Pruitt: The Forever People," "Wishing Well for Houston"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Body in Fragments", "Dana Frankfort: Pictures", "Robert Pruitt: The Forever People", "Ron Hoover — A Retrospective: 1972-2006", "Wishing Well for Houston"

Space Invasion

Enter Lawndale's otherworldly realm.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween. Check out our updated listings.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

PBS's Guru Of Extreme Skateboarding Twinkies & Ants Wearing Pants

Lois Bernstein​Skateboarding Twinkies, ninja squirrels and space hamsters are making their way to Houston, with Commander Mark leading the way. Things might get a little weird. Mark Kistler, the self-styled Bob Ross of children's art, will be holding drawing camps in the area over the next two we ... More >>

In Honor Of Will Ferrell: The Five Biggest "Summer Blockbuster" Duds

That thud you heard last weekend was Will Ferrell's career settling noisily back to earth. With a budget estimated at over $100 million, Land of the Lost was supposed to propagate the 2009 summer blockbuster season (handily inaugurated by the new Star Trek) and continue Ferrell's successful box-offi ... More >>

Eminem's Comeback: Yay or Nay?

So Eminem is back. Eminem. A man who is a paradox wrapped inside an enigma and served with two joints and a beer. The man has totally homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, yet he has performed with Elton John and is, by all accounts, a loving single dad to his little girl. He seems dumb as dirt in som ... More >>

The Force Is Weak with the Long-Delayed Fanboys

Millennium Albatross

A Boy and His Dog

The end of the world as conceived by Harlan Ellison, the “most contentious person on earth”

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Leonard Nimoy’s The Full Body Project

Everyone’s favorite Vulcan brings his logic to full-figured women

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Her One Little Secret

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Fire Flies

The fourth Harry Potter rushes through its paces

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Thunder Rolls

A '60s British TV series gets an extreme makeover

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A Funny Thing

The Alley Theatre mixes it up

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

Silly Humans, The Matrix Is for Kids!

Revolutions runs a playful joyride through a nifty vision of hell

Mr. Mom

Eddie Murphy plays Daddy, once more, just be "Cos"

Tradition!

A wintertime classic returns

Flirting with the Empire

More and more, science fiction writers are using the Force to survive

Frozen Dinner

In Ice Age, three mammals and a baby get warmed over

Sexual Healing

A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

See-Worthy

Disney's old-school Atlantis strikes gold under the ocean

Boot Camp

A pumped-up U-571 recalls Wolfgang Petersen's famous German submarine drama

The Yenta

The nice Jewish boy of my mom's dreams-for a hundred bucks?

Very Bad It Is

Berg's sour script kills off suspense as well as a stripper

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998