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Spinal Tap's Harry Shearer Bringing His Katrina Documentary to Houston

Harry Shearer: Bringing the Katrina story to the Alamo Drafthouse​Harry Shearer, known for being one-third of Spinal Tap, one-half (it seems) of The Simpsons and just about all of the syndicated radio program Le Show, has adopted New Orleans as home. He's become wrapped up in the city's recov ... More >>

Houston Musicians Explain Their Facebook Cartoon Pics

​For the last week or so, Facebook campaign has asked users to change their profile pictures to a beloved cartoon character from their youth. Some claim it's to bring attention to the plight of abused children. Others - like your humble reporter, who is currently sporting Link from the old Leg ... More >>

What Does Batman Have To Do With "Jingle Bells"?

somethingawful.com​Jingle Bells! Batman smells Robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost a wheel And the Joker got away. Everyone has heard this parody of "Jingle Bells." In fact, for a couple of years Rocks off had recited this version so many times that when called upon to sing the original ve ... More >>

Houston Texans -- R.I.P. 2010

Dr. Kubler-Ross is here to see you, Texan fans​In her 1969 book Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross describes in detail the five stages of dealing with grief and tragedy. Simply put, the human progression is to exhibit feelings of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (like ... More >>

Ten TV Shows That Need To Go Away Now

​We're barely a month into the fall TV season and have already lost three new network shows. My Generation, the show that was to catch us up on a group of high school graduates ten years after the fact (and presumably set to the music of The Who) pulled a Keith Moon after two episodes. Lone St ... More >>

Ira Glass

Ira Glass returns to Houston to let us in on the drama of presenting America to Americans

Five Things We're Not Looking Forward To In The Upcoming Fall TV Season

​Just when you were afraid the lack of fresh content on your television might finally force you to get up off your couches and engage in some meaningful interaction with your loved ones, here comes the 2010 fall season and its annual helping of canned laughter, reality shenanigans, and FCC-app ... More >>

Homer No Function Beer Well Without: Geeks Who Drink Present an All-Simpsons Pub Trivia Night

​Homer Simpson and beer are virtually inseparable. Just take a look at some of his finer quotes on the malty beverage: There are endless pages of them. It's fitting therefore that the Geeks Who Drink host an annual Yellow Fever night, an all-Simpsons pub trivia challenge. On August 18 at Taps ... More >>

The Week In TV: Enjoy Hulu While It Lasts

The good stuff won't be free for much longer.​My backyard flooded, I went half-blind on fireworks, and I am exponentially losing my agility. This was the week in TV Land: • As if to taunt my very desires, Hulu announced last week that it's launching Hulu Plus, a paid version of the site th ... More >>

He Said She Said: Our 10 Favorite Fictional Bands

​ It's a sad state of affairs when a parody band ends up being funnier/better/more entertaining that the original (we're lookin' at you, The Beatles). She Said started thinking of this list last week after making one in a million lifetime references to the fake band Blues Hammer from the movie Gho ... More >>

Game Time: Texans Battle Titans Tonight In The Most Important Athletic Event In Our's Nation's History

​Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together." -- Kent Brockman, Channel 6, Springfield (The Simpsons)If you are wondering what "this" was in that quote, it was the Bart Simpso ... More >>

For The Lebowski Bash: Five Dudes Better Than The Dude

The Big Lebowski has undergone a hell of a transformation since hitting big screens over a decade ago. A (very) mild financial success upon theatrical release, it's gone on to become a bona fide cult phenomenon, spawning "Dudeism" -- an online religion with over 60,000 ordained ministers -- and the ... More >>

TV Land: 30 Rock Is Back! And Some Other Stuff Happened Too

It was a long week in TV Land, so let's get some Cheesy Blasters and do it to it: • 30 Rock is back! 30 Rock is back! I know that some of you -- most of you? -- probably thought that Texas' victory was the best thing on TV this week, but that's because you're young and don't know much yet. Trus ... More >>

Marge Simpson In Playboy Two Franchises On The Way Down

​So it seems Marge Simpson is appearing in Playboy: Simpsons matriarch Marge Simpson is gracing the cover of Playboy magazine, becoming the first cartoon character in the publication's history.The November issue sees Marge posing on a chair with the distinctive Playboy Bunny logo. It marks the 2 ... More >>

¿Quieres Chingar?

amd other suave ways of getting in her chonis

Pinche Bumblebee man

In Memory Of Mr. Buck: Five Deer Who Fought Back

It takes a...special kind of person to confront a captive animal, kill it, and make off with its head. Brandon Gregory is such a person, and while we may wonder at his motives, we can at least take some comfort in the fact that the recently deceased Mr. Buck didn't go out like no punk bitch:During ... More >>

Heroic Boys and Mexican Families

Americans Recording Mexican Songs

The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

Hot Rod, Waitress, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, The Namesake

Teachers' unions, Harris County politics, scams

Support the union, go to jail

The Simpsons Movie

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

An Open Letter to Nick Lachey

Ten reasons why you're better off without her

Smells Like Victory

Playbill

Hollywood Holiday

Judith Owen and Harry Shearer spread some Christmas cheer, L.A.-style

Wigged Gigs

A selection of some of the wildest, weirdest, and most dangerous bands and shows in Houston history

Classics Rock

Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

Slow Down for Crabs

Blue Water Seafood's got a wonderfully crusty coastal feel

The War with Chirac

Guerin's Bistro fights the good fight while anti-French sentiment swirls about Houston and the United States

Bowling for Bands

Pinmonkey scores a strike against Nashville's solo-singer system

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

Cat's Eye

Red Cat manager Dan Bowie makes it his business to spot soul talent

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

Free-Range Chicken

No secret recipe here: The creators of Wallace & Gromit and Wat's Pig cook up a bucketload of inventive fun