The Bronx

Bronx Bombers: Gimme the Loot

Adam Leon's stellar first film - and TV show - toasts the tag artist.

Free Press Summer Fest '13 Announces Postal Service, Stooges, Cat Power, TV On the Radio, Social D, Geto Boys, Calvin Harris, etc.

Moments ago, the lineup for the 2013 Free Press Summer Festival was announced online at fpsf.com. Let's get to it, shall we?

Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice Offers Life Lessons to Houston

Stories of life challenges and the determination to overcome them is something that will always attract attention and admiration when we select our role models. On Tuesday night inside Cullen Hall at The Wortham Center, a room full of admirers welcomed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as she sh ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: 59 Diner, Taco Milagro, Catty Corner and More

Right now we feel like Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. We could have told everyone this disaster was going to happen. Maybe not as quickly and drastically as it did, but with so many butterflies flapping their wings in Peking, plus what we witnessed when we worked there in college, it was inevitable ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Instagram Man Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson's concert photography on Instagram (at @listenyoungman) first caught my eye about a year or so ago, and became almost a daily part of my social-media life when I got the photo app myself earlier this year. You can always spy Mr. Jackson snapping pictures with his phone while lurkin ... More >>

New Cracks in the Frack

Pesky little complaints like pollution, flaming water and abandoned homes continue to cast doubt on the argument that drilling into shale will benefit all.

This Woman Made Me Drink Merlot

"The thing I like about the Houston wine scene," says the Houston Wine Merchant's Marcy Jimenez (above), "is the Gulf Coast attitude. We're a little more relaxed than the folks to the north of here." Marcy was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island, New York. But she cut her teeth in the New Or ... More >>

March Madness -- The Most "Live" Teams At Each Seed, 1 through 16

Last year, the Final Four made its way to Houston and in a turn of events entirely emblematic of the type of sports year Houston sustained in 2011, we wound up with arguably the most underwhelming collection of four teams ever assembled at college basketball's marquee event. The highest seeded team ... More >>

ACL: The Sound (Or Lack Thereof) & The Fury

Photos by Chris GrayYes, that stage is as far away as it looks.​When a bleary Rocks Off arrived at the media area this morning, there was some chatter about Stevie Wonder's supposed sound troubles, and more online, both in our review and the Austin American-Statesman's. (By the way, we've upda ... More >>

ACL: Batman's Bale At Bingham, Nick 13 is a 10 On Sunday Afternoon

Marco Torresoh hai Batman!​The widget on our phone says it's only 91 degrees here at Zilker Park but we don't believe that voodoo. The humidity and heat pounding the park reminds us of Houston. We smell Pasadena and our fair city's taco trucks all the way from Austin. Our day started by walk ... More >>

Prince Royce

SXSW With LOM: Gourds Kill, Grandfather Child Wins, Candy Golde Shines

Donica ChristensenWhat the Gourds saw from the stage at Friday's Vanguard Records party​Day Two found Lonesome Onry and Mean at the Vanguard Records day party, where the label was intent on showcasing several of its newest acts. While Viva Voce may not be the best band name ever, the Pixies-is ... More >>

My March Madness Selections (And Lots Of Helpful Links)

It's bracket-ology BABY!​I made this public service announcement on my radio show this week, but seeing as many of you are scrambling to fill in your brackets at the last minute, I feel compelled to print it here and remind all of you of the following: If Sports talk radio hosts (like myself) ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: A Catered Affair, Plaza Suite,

Fun Fun Fun Extra: Blood, Hot Dogs And Clown Powder

Photos by Marc BrubakerJacob Calle (center) doing God knows what.​Check out FFFFest's veritable midway in our slideshow of crowd shots. If music wasn't your bag during this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, you could take a foot bridge to Waterloo Park's east side for a cavalcade of human ... More >>

Aggies And Horns Want Part Of Your Electric Bill For Their Struggling Sports Programs

Aggie Energy: Making sure Aggie jokes never go out of style.​It seems like we've heard a joke before about how many Aggies it takes to change a light bulb. It wasn't really funny then, but considering that Texas A&M, specifically Aggie athletics, is getting into the energy business, we're sure ... More >>

What The Firk? Houston's Firkin Fest Is This Weekend

​What is a firkin? Well, it's half a kilderkin. But its volume of measurement is not the point here. The relevant point is that a firkin is another name for a cask of ale. As in beer. Often, unusually excellent beer. So it is with great pleasure that we remind you about Houston's first Firki ... More >>

Kaz Is Gone, But The Astros Pain Endures

Photo by Aaron M. SprecherWhen the world is upside down, Kaz won't still be around​Kazuo Matsui is gone. He is no longer a Houston Astros. Things are well with the world. All of the Astros problems are solved. World Series, here they come.Okay, not really. The Astros still suck. They're goin ... More >>

Game Time: Cinco De Mayo...Frenchies, Bye Bye-Oh!!

Mexico joins the not-so-exclusive "We kicked French ass" club​Go to any Cinco de Mayo celebration today and ask ten of the patrons what exactly they are celebrating and you're likely to get a range of answers that looks like this: -- Six drunks slurring that it's Mexico's Independence day -- Two ... More >>

Game Time: The Caballo Chronicles, Volume 2: A Look at MLB's 20 Biggest Contracts Ever

​This is my second go round living in Houston. Prior to moving back here in the summer of 2007, the last time I was an H-town resident was between 1994 and 2001. As an Astro fan, that means I was here when the Bagwell/Biggio nucleus finally broke through in 1997 and made the playoffs, I was he ... More >>

Hlavaty On The Hloose At SXSW: The Fader Fort, MGMT Rumors, Mariachi El Bronx, The Meaning of "Prison Wallet" And A BBQ Truck In Peril

Photos by Craig Hlavaty2:36 p.m.: Our man on the scene's wrist, not even three hours into SXSW.​ 2:04 p.m. Rocks Off Sr. to Hlavaty: "OK hoss, let's hear something about some music this hour." 2:22 p.m.: Hlavaty, by phone: "I gotta run over to the Fader Fort to pick up some credentials, and I'm do ... More >>

Ziggy's In Montrose Might Close Due To Parking Dispute

​Ziggy's Bar and Grill, the yellow restaurant in Montrose, is the latest business fighting with the city about parking, a problem usually reserved for all the new places popping up on Washington Avenue. Last week, Ziggy's owner met with city council, according to the restaurant's Twitter page, to ... More >>

Ziggy's In Montrose Might Close Over Parking Dispute

​Ziggy's Bar and Grill, the yellow restaurant in Montrose, is the latest business fighting with the city about parking, a problem usually reserved for all the new places popping up on Washington Avenue. Last week, Ziggy's owner met with city council, according to the restaurant's Twitter page, to ... More >>

Aventura

No Reservations: Outer Boroughs

Photo by duluoz_cats​Regretting having spent almost his entire life in Manhattan with nary a trip to the four outer boroughs, Anthony Bourdain took on the robust culinary scenes of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in this week's episode of No Reservations. It seemed like a familia ... More >>

Bring Me The Head Of This Bastardized Version Of Melrose Place

​Did the creators of this Melrose Place remake not take a note from the obvious failure of the "new" 90210? Did they not realize that you can only catch lightning in a bottle once?Yes, friends, apparently the CW is bringing back the `90s soap in September, and I, for one, am disgusted by this turn ... More >>

The Bronx Bar Somehow Has Never Heard A Complaint Against It

​Our item a while back on a black Army officer being refused admittance to the Rice Village's Bronx Bar stirred up some controversy, with a lot of people telling of similar incidents.Among the comments added to the piece was one from The Bronx Bar Group, presumably the owners or managers of the pl ... More >>

Minority Report

Discussion continues around Ask A Mexican and the Bronx Bar.

Bronx Cheer: Black Music Allowed at Rice Village Bar. Black People? (Allegedly) Not So Much.

The weekend visit to Houston had been going well enough for Army Sergeant Mohammed Sesay. Now stationed at Killeen's Fort Hood, he'd been back in the States for less than a week, after serving for over a year at Camp Bucca prison in Iraq, where he had helped guard the estimated 20,000-30,000 d ... More >>

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A Missing Gasp In Last Night's A Bronx Tale

Michelle Obama, Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale and the American Dream all collided yesterday during opening night of Palminteri's one-man show. A Bronx Tale, based in part on Palminteri's life, shows a kid named Calogero growing up in a tough New York City neighborhood during the 1960s. Pulled in on ... More >>

A Bronx Tale

Chazz Palminteri acts out the story of his life

Bronx Cheer

Ten years in, Bronx Bar is still the Rice Village slickster club

Midget Wrestling Mania

It’s a bite-size beatdown with Lil’ Nasty, Meatball, Toad and Pitbull Patterson

Over the Weekend: Football, Golden Globes and Bar Hopping

New DVD Releases

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

TGITiVo: The Bronx Is Burning

Takin' It To The Streets

Ownership Wrongs

Tremont Tower's management bars a condo owner from her own unit

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Don't check out -- check in with the Station's "Red Fall" and "Truth to Power"

Taking It to the Streets

The Bayou City becomes an urban adventure

Brutal Bronx

More than three decades after Indian, not much has changed

//Radiotakeover Tour, with the Beautiful Mistake, Anatomy of a Ghost, Emery and the A.K.A.'s

Friday, April 30

Poetic License

In Blue Car a troubled young girl finds her way through verse

Slanguage Arts

It's not your father's English class

K-Otix

Saturday, January 26

Best Postcollegiate Fraternity Experience

Bronx Bar

Rotation

The Wild Side, Circa 1954

Going All the Way freshens an overworked decade

What It Is, What It Was, What It Shall Be

A review of the films of '93, and hopes for an adventurous '94