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May 9, 2012
Specialty Rolls and Customer Service Make The Blue Fish a Solid Washington Ave. Destination
See more photos of The Blue Fish in our slideshow. Despite the popularity of sushi, many of us still cringe at the idea of eating raw fish. I remember the first time I tried it, during my early twenties. No amount of coaxing, reassurance, or gentle prodding could get me to taste it until my colleag ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
The PasDoctor Geronimo Manifesto: A Presidential Run and a Birthday "Tepee/Tent-Residence" Orgy, Starring Cameron Diaz
Jessica Cooley / Lufkin Daily NewsPasDoctor Geronimo has quite the bash planned tonight.Hair Balls' old friend PasDoctor Geronimo is back at it this week. This time around he's not in trouble with the law. Instead, the Lufkin man, whose "white man's name" is Douglas Paul McCoy, has filed a ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
The Funky Chicken: Good Stuff in the Mailbox
Yeah, it's like that.Once again our mailbox has filled to overflowing with CDs (and zip files). The desk looks like a Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown of jewel cases, and the entire room is littered with (largely unread) piles of hype-and-tout. And while much of what comes over the transom ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Pop Rocks: Twilight vs. Harry Potter And 9 Other Geek Throwdowns
Still the only crossover I'd pay to see.Anyone watch the MTV Movie Awards? Anyone? I didn't think so, mostly because I suspect the majority of Hair Balls/Art Attack readers are over the age of 12. And while I have no intention of revisiting the whole "'Music?"Television line of jokes, I did ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
The Girls Gone Wild Bus: Where It Should Go In Houston
Photo by Marc BrubakerWe have better suggestions for Houston spots for this bus to visitWhen the Girls Gone Wild tour bus is spotted around town, as our own Katharine Shilcutt nodded to on Twitter, people are wont to talk. Speculation begins to pop up, and the town starts abuzz - where is it, ... More >>
Music
December 9, 2010
Wu-Tang Clan
Photo by Marc BrubakerWe have better suggestions for Houston spots for this bus to visitWhen the Girls Gone Wild tour bus is spotted around town, as our own Katharine Shilcutt nodded to on Twitter, people are wont to talk. Speculation begins to pop up, and the town starts abuzz - where is it, ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
KTRU Color Chart Shows Local Radio's Dull Future
Brittanie SheyEvery time it seems like the story of the controversial Rice-University of Houston deal to sell Rice student station KTRU's over-the-air facilities to U of H is slowing down a little, it always gets a little more interesting. Most recently, the activist group Friends of KTRU fi ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Feeling Comfortable at Baker St. Pub & Grill
The shepherd's pie. The folks at Baker St. invited me out to sample some of their comfort food items. I occasionally go to the Baker St. out in Willowbrook to watch a little football on Sundays. It had been years since my last visit to the Rice Village location, but I had fond memories of a ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Five Groups We'd Pay To Break Up
Why do people support so much bad music? What if people paid awful bands to quit instead? Weezer fans are willing to try. Sick and tired of being let down by his favorite band, last week a fan jokingly offered Weezer $10 million to split up. Naturally, this had Rocks Off thinking of other ac ... More >>
Culture
September 9, 2010
Special Mexican Independence Day Edition
Why do people support so much bad music? What if people paid awful bands to quit instead? Weezer fans are willing to try. Sick and tired of being let down by his favorite band, last week a fan jokingly offered Weezer $10 million to split up. Naturally, this had Rocks Off thinking of other ac ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
Trevisio Touts a Texas-Sized Happy Hour
Photo by bhamsandwichAll this and more can be yours...A common complaint of Medical Center denizens -- whether they're in the area to work, to receive treatment or to visit someone in one of the maze-like hospitals -- is that there are very few decent places to eat and drink. (You thought we ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
"Fashionable Felon"? You Call This Fashionable, FBI?
Photo courtesy FBITerrible lighting, awful pose -- this is a fashion shoot?The FBI has put out an alert for someone it's calling "The Fashionable Felon," a woman who robbed a Wachovia Bank branch on the northwest side yesterday afternoon.We realize the FBI was not created to be an arbiter of fash ... More >>
Culture
May 27, 2010
SPECIAL ETHNIC STUDIES EDITION
Photo courtesy FBITerrible lighting, awful pose -- this is a fashion shoot?The FBI has put out an alert for someone it's calling "The Fashionable Felon," a woman who robbed a Wachovia Bank branch on the northwest side yesterday afternoon.We realize the FBI was not created to be an arbiter of fash ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Rocks Off's Rodeo Concert Guide: Brad "Not Jake Gyllenhaal" Paisley
Date: March 11 Name: Brad Paisley AKA: "Isn't That Jake Gyllenhaal?" Genre: Freemason country Best Known Song(s): "Alcohol," "She's Everything," "Ticks," "Ow, My Back" Key Demographic: Confused Brokeback Mountain fans, people who only eat the vanilla section of Neapolitan ice cream Previous HLSR A ... More >>
Music
March 11, 2010
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Date: March 11 Name: Brad Paisley AKA: "Isn't That Jake Gyllenhaal?" Genre: Freemason country Best Known Song(s): "Alcohol," "She's Everything," "Ticks," "Ow, My Back" Key Demographic: Confused Brokeback Mountain fans, people who only eat the vanilla section of Neapolitan ice cream Previous HLSR A ... More >>
News
February 25, 2010
Thank God He's An Idiot
Child-porn producer pleads guilty
Culture
February 4, 2010
Capsule Stage Reviews: Un ballo in maschera, A Picasso, Thunder Rock
Child-porn producer pleads guilty
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Houston Music Fight Club: Chris Wise vs. Cody Swann, Chris Ryan vs. Frank Beard, Washington Avenue vs. Westheimer
So this past week, Houston Music Fight Club began getting solicitations from various local musicians to be matched against other strummers and pickers around town in their cage matches. Rocks Off looks around. We see a lot of new faces. This means a lot of you have (happily for us) been breaking ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2009
Upcoming Events
Jenny Wang and a bag of miracle berries The Berry Fairy is back in town! After taking her popular Miracle Berry Parties on the road, Jenny Wang is back in Houston for another series of the popular "flavor tripping" events. The term "flavor tripping" refers to the manner in which your tasteb ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
No Reservations: Montana
Photo by gaby53mtUsually Anthony Bourdain is a hedonist. He indulges in food, alcohol and not a few off-color sex jokes, no matter what city or what audience. But this week while visiting Montana, he exits out of the fast lane. Maybe it's the mountains, but in the first 20 minutes of the epis ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Kemah Still Being Pretty Damn Casual About Its Future
Photo by Daniel KramerKemah is at a crossroads where some residents want to keep the city an eclectic, fishing-village-type place, and others want to turn the town into a mini South Beach, with high-rise condos lined up along the shore. That's what Robin Collins, a city councilwoman, told us at t ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009
Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke: "Thriller" at Midnight at Numbers, Free Tickets and More
What's the best thing about going to see live music? Frickin' air conditioning, because even the dingiest dive will be pumping out some sort cooled air to calm down all you crybabies who forgot sometime after Ms. Pelz's tenth-grade IPC class that we live in a humid-as-shit subtropical climate ne ... More >>
Music
June 25, 2009
Soul Power
Houston throwback singer Leela James does it again.
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Listening Room: What's Been Tickling Our Earholes Lately
As Rocks Off has noted in our periodic Mail Call entries, even though the tide of promo CDs has been greatly reduced by the digital revolution - Rocks Off can count on one finger (the middle one) the times he's actually used the streaming/download email link publicists are ever more fond of these d ... More >>
News
September 11, 2008
Bacliff Wiggers
The other kind of white gang
Music
May 22, 2008
Notable tour sponsorships in U.S. history
Take It On the Run
Music
October 4, 2007
The Rough Guide to the Music of Vietnam; The Rough Guide to Latino Nuevo; The Rough Guide to Salsa ; Bokoor Beats; Bonde de Rolê, With Lasers; Kenge Kenge, Introducing Kenge Kenge; The Budos Band, II
Notable recent releases from beyond borders
Film
July 27, 2006
London Fog
Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy
Calendar
March 24, 2005
Righteous Party
Get some Easter Salvation at the Jungle 13 weekend
News
February 10, 2005
Mixed Blessings
Opposing sides will grapple over gay issues this week
Music
November 4, 2004
Playbill
Opposing sides will grapple over gay issues this week
Music
August 12, 2004
Midtown Getdown
Rich's goes straight, and the wait for a first-class, midsize Houston venue could be over
Music
July 1, 2004
Take This Love and Shove It
The best X-rated breakup songs
Calendar
June 24, 2004
What Was That?
Horton hears a Who in Seussical
Film
December 25, 2003
A Mountainous Achievement
Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War drama on-screen
Calendar
August 14, 2003
Hushing Up
What's all the fuss about Hush?
Music
July 3, 2003
Killah Priest
Thursday, July 3
Film
January 9, 2003
Ground Zero Hour
A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's moving meditation on 9/11
Music
November 21, 2002
Culture
Live in Africa (RAS Records)
Music
November 1, 2001
Ballads Nuevo
Corridos get updated with drugs and guns
Music
October 18, 2001
I Want My M(ontrose) TV!
Video killed the radio bars, at least in Montrose
Film
September 6, 2001
Not Dead Yet
A tarted-up Holy Grail lives to fight (rabbits) another day
News
January 18, 2001
Letters
Full-time Friendly, In the Hood, Humanitiy's Teacher
Music
August 3, 2000
World Jazz
Highlights from the Houston International Jazz Festival
Film
April 27, 2000
Empire's End
High drama and spirited romance spice up The Last September
Calendar
January 27, 2000
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Globetrotters
Culture
October 28, 1999
Oh, Brother!
Oh, Kay! may not be okay by 21st-century standards
Music
September 9, 1999
Wunderkind
Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine
News
June 8, 1995
The Insider
Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine
Culture
May 19, 1994
Hot Sauciness
Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine
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