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May 16, 2012
Comment of the Day: A New Job For That Apocalypse-Ranting Teacher
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Gilberto Montezano: Valley Cop Avoids Jail After Shaking Down Motorist For Beer
For the third time since August, a cop in the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg has been terminated and faced criminal charges for varied forms of corruption. In the most recent case, in April of last year, 30-year-old Gilberto Montezano pulled over a truck driven by Miguel Guzman and evidently to ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Reality Bites: Full Metal Jousting
There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. The premise is familiar: take 16 people, divide them into two teams and pit them against each other in a series of contests leading to a lone winner. It could be a variant of Survivor or Road Ru ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
The Bloody, Sexy Beginnings of Valentine's Day
When you're giving your significant other overpriced flowers and candies tomorrow, remember this: You're celebrating the brutal beheading of a dude who just wanted to help horny youngsters. There are many myths and theories about the beginnings of Valentine's Day, but we turn to the History Channel ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Reality Bites: MonsterQuest
There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Admittedly, the concept of MonsterQuest initially struck me as woefully similar to that of...certain other reality shows, in that I was sure we'd be following around a bunch of yahoos using dubi ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Oscar Categories That We Wish Existed
By now you have all seen this year's Oscar nominations, released yesterday, in Beverly Hills, California. Nine films were nominated for Best Picture, including Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse, The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life. Fun stuff, espe ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
''Discovering the Civil War''
By now you have all seen this year's Oscar nominations, released yesterday, in Beverly Hills, California. Nine films were nominated for Best Picture, including Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse, The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life. Fun stuff, espe ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Upcoming Events: Hairy Bikers Heat Up Houston
Hairy Bikers hosts Bill Allen and Paul Patranella will be in town tonight at District Lounge.The History Channel came to Houston recently, and the bloggers behind spicy food blog Eat More Heat were tapped to help the show Hairy Bikers with the Ultra-Hot Chile Burger Challenge that will be fea ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Lemmy & HeadCat Mates Walk The Rockabilly Walk
You could say that the members of roots-rock trio HeadCat got together to pay tribute to the King. But instead of the baby Jesus of Bethlehem, these three wise men -bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), drummer Slim Jim Phantom (ex-Stray Cats), and guitarist/pianist Danny B. Harvey (ex ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Loch Ness Radio: The Wind Cries Nessie
It's a well-known fact that band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying to find meaning in the oddest monikers. Well friends and enemies, your faithful name-gamer is back after spending some time locked in a windowless room being questioned by three guys with ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Five Very Bad Father's Day Gifts
Father's Day: What are you gonna do? You are forced by the powers that be to get something, unless your Dad has passed on to his reward. And if you're a Dad yourself, then you have to resign yourself to books from that one author someone saw on your shelf (never mind that you hated that book), tool ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Joel Gregoire: One-Man Metal Extravaganza
If there is anything that Rocks Off loves about the modern music era it's that the ability of individual people to put out their own elaborate albums has never been easier. Meet Joel Gregoire, an instrumental metal maestro by trade and former member of Stride. He's releasing his new album Der ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Bin Laden's Favorite Performers -- Whitney Houston, MacGyver Dude, Etc. -- Offer Twitter Silence On His Death
Losing a big fan is apparently hard on Richard Dean AndersonWhen you're no longer in the absolute prime of your career, it can be disheartening to lose a hardcore fan. That's the only reason we can think of that several specific stars haven't tweeted their thoughts on the death of Osama Bin ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Hide and Seek
Fourteen-year-old Andrew Mosier was abducted last August. It wasn't by aliens.
Culture
April 14, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "Donald Baechler: Sculptures and Paintings" "Larassa Kabel: and all of this so far from Heaven" "Mark Bradford: A 20 Year Survey" "Regine Schumann: Chameleon" "Kate Breakey 2011: Painted Light"
Fourteen-year-old Andrew Mosier was abducted last August. It wasn't by aliens.
Film
April 14, 2011
Lincoln Memorial
Redford helms another dull history lesson.
Blogs
April 11, 2011
The Five Horniest Presidents America Has Produced
Warren G. Harding, sex machineThe Reelz channel finished up its Kennedys mini-series last night, the production that was chased from the History Channel because JFK fans hollered about inaccuracies or too many dramatic liberties. The series itself seemed rather rote, although Greg Kinnear wa ... More >>
Culture
April 7, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "First Take: Okay Mountain" "Heimir Bjorgulfsson: The Classical" "Larassa Kabel: and all of this so far from Heaven" "Mark Bradford: A 20 Year Survey"
Warren G. Harding, sex machineThe Reelz channel finished up its Kennedys mini-series last night, the production that was chased from the History Channel because JFK fans hollered about inaccuracies or too many dramatic liberties. The series itself seemed rather rote, although Greg Kinnear wa ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Robert Alvarez: TV-Star Gang Cop Accused of Inmate Sex, Abuse of Power, Theft
If the producers of the History Channel's documentary series Gangland are to be trusted, Edinburg police investigator Robert Alvarez was one of the top cops in the Rio Grande Valley. The 47-year-old was tapped as a starring talking head in Gangland's episode on the Tri-City Bombers, the Valley's mos ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Wilber Adalid Rodriguez: Homeless Man Murders Another Over National "Honor"
Some things are better left unarguedYou'd hope that San Antonio residents Wilber Adalid Rodriguez and Jose Antonio Rodriguez would find a way to get along. As the old blues song goes, they were both poor boys a long ways from home: the 24-year-old Wilber hails from El Salvador, while Jose, 28 ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Tea Party: At The Race Track With George Washington
Photos by Craig HlavatyNo treading allowedOn Saturday afternoon I visited the North Houston Tea Party's "I Will Vote" rally, held at the Sam Houston Race Park. This was my second Tea Party rally in six months, following on the heels of the one in April at Discovery Green where my photographer was ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Five Disturbing Films, Plus Five More For Good Measure
I'm going to the unrated remake of I Spit On Your Grave next week. The original, I should point out, was rated "R", though I still doubt the new one will pack the same punch the first one did back in 1978 (Roger Ebert described sitting through it as "one of the most depressing experiences of ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
Pamela And Jack Wright: Houston's Pawn Stars
Photo by schemacomaWhere dreams are made....We know we're a little late to the game, but Hair Balls recently became a fan of Pawn Stars, the History Channel's beer-gutted, blue-collar answer to PBS's effete, pinky-sipping Antiques Roadshow. (Which we also love.)Thanks to its Las Vegas setting, an ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Houston Wok: Yes, there's a recipe for Korean stuffed peppers (which look like ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
The Week In TV: Time Runs Out for 24
Cancellation: The light at the end of our tunnel.I miss Spring Break, I'm awash in cancellations, and I don't get your reference to the Cookie Crisp Wizard. This was the week in TV Land: • As I wrote last week in my post about The Office, it's possible for a show to overstay its welcome a ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
The Week In TV: Jay Leno's Flagpin And, For Some Ungodly Reason, An Animated Joe Dirt
Winter's back, the sun is gone, and Fox just put another Joss Whedon show out to pasture. This was the week in TV Land:• So, Jay Leno went on Oprah's show last week to talk about his side of the whole late-night debacle. (Out of every weird thing about the interview, tops was the American flag ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
How to Digitally Dump Your Beau or Babe
She's no good, he's no good, you're no good, baby, you and your fizzled-out flame ain't no good. Face the music, friend. He tells you he wants you, yet he actually repositioned his nether regions away from your eager mouth when you tried to go bobbing for apples last evening. She says you' ... More >>
Calendar
September 17, 2009
Warfare in Early China and the Pottery Army of the Qin
Web exclusive
Culture
June 18, 2009
Credit Crisis
The fight over who pioneered the TV plays out in The Farnsworth Invention
Blogs
June 3, 2009
They're Making A Documentary About The Dome, And They Want Your Family Keepsakes
Via the always-entertaining Bayou City History blog at the Chron we learned of a budding documentary about that quaint old abandoned building that used to be the Eighth Wonder of the World.Chip Rives, one of the producers/directors/writers of The Dome, tells Hair Balls he and his partner have do ... More >>
Calendar
May 15, 2008
“Houston’s History Is Well Marked and All Around You, Explore and Enjoy”
The Heritage Society hosts a talk about Houston’s many noteworthy sites
Calendar
January 10, 2008
Sandra Worth
A historical novelist with an expertise in feudal England comes to Borders
News
October 5, 2006
Waiting for Friedman
Knocking back a few with the Kinky crowd
News
January 19, 2006
Hollywood Halo
Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits
Film
December 23, 2004
Crash and Yearn
Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic
Calendar
May 20, 2004
The Passion of Brian
Move over, Mel, it's the second coming of Monty Python
Culture
February 1, 2001
Drag King
Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved
News
July 1, 1999
News Hostage
Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved
News
March 12, 1998
The Insider
Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

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