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Moving Sidewalks Dust Off Their '60s Brooms In NYC

This weekend the Moving Sidewalks, best known as the band Billy Gibbons was in before ZZ Top formed, were once again a living, breathing, kaleidoscoping musical being. Gibbons and the other Sidewalks - Tom Moore (organ), Dan Mitchell (drums) and Don Summers (bass), all of whom still live in Texas - ... More >>

DeAndre Jordan's Dunk Immortalized By The Voice Of WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross!

In 2013, one of the biggest gauges of your brand, your legacy, your relevance is what I like to call the "Google ______" test. Put someone's name in Google and what are the first three or four items that Google self-fills in as related topics after that name. If my "Google _____" test for DeAndre J ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Coline Creuzot, Soulful Pop/R&B Singer

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. Who? Singer Coline Creuzot came onto our radar when her management team suggested that ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Food Critics: Jonathan Kauffman, Lauren Shockey and Hanna Raskin Weigh In

We don't expect you guys to read every little thing we write. After all, Eating...Our Words publishes at least ten posts per day. But every once in a while, a topic arises on which we've pontificated in the past -- and in those cases, we like to re-run a previous post which we think still addresses ... More >>

How the Mafia Helped Your Mama Do the Twist

Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s By Joel Selvin & John Johnson, Jr. with Dick Cami Thomas Dunne Books, 304 pp., $24.99 As far as dance crazes go, the Twist might go down (swiveling, of course) as the best known of all time. In 1961 and 1962, the sligh ... More >>

Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, "Taking The Escalator" Edition (Also, Praise For UConn's Jim Calhoun)

Sitting and watching Jim Calhoun's retirement press conference as I type this post, and I got to thinking....it's nice to build something. In 1986, Jim Calhoun inherited a UConn men's basketball program that was 12-16 the year before and to that point had won just four NCAA tournament games in its ... More >>

You Better Run: 10 Other Great Pat Benatar Songs

Pat Benatar is one of the greatest vocalists of all-time, the woman behind numerous memorable hits such as "Heartbreaker," "You Better Run" and the ever-popular "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." However, she has had many other great songs throughout her career, from albums such as In the Heat of the Nig ... More >>

Bun B: On the Road with the Trill OG During Gumball 3000

Bun B is a busy man. A quick search of this publication finds him supporting the local music scene, doing his duties as an associate professor at Rice University, rallying over social issues and even receiving an official proclamation from the mayor of Houston. He is active in the local food-truck s ... More >>

Carls' Jr. Testing New Ice Cream Burger

5 More Frosty Food Fakers

SXSW: Why Are We Here?

That headline is not any kind of existential plaint; Rocks Off was legitimately curious. We know why we're at SXSW - it's our job. But it's a broad, broad spectrum between those of us doing some kind of business here this week and the hordes of people in Austin purely to party. So, because we are s ... More >>

John Edgar Birdwell: West U-Bred Ex-Con in Trouble Again, This Time for (Allegedly) Stealing Jewelry from Sleeping Date

Let this be a lesson to all you online daters out there...Always run a records check on the people you choose to bring home, and if their name turns up nothing at all via Google, be afraid. Very, very afraid. According to a criminal complaint filed over the weekend, an area woman failed to perform ... More >>

Christian Lopez, Overtaxed Yankee Fan, The Sequel (Where He Becomes A Charity)

Christian Lopez: Now sponsored by the champagne of bottled beers​That's it, you win, Christian Lopez. I give up. You all remember, Christian Lopez, right? (It's only been like 24 hours since I last wrote about him. Please tell me you remember.) Just in case, Lopez was the ample Yankee fan wh ... More >>

Matt & Kim Talk Lady Gaga, Erykah Badu, Naked Videos And New Music

Right On! PR​This weekend the Houston Press welcomes New York indie duo Matt & Kim to town to headline this year's edition of the Houston Press Music Awards, along with Trae tha Truth and Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights. Rocks Off will be giving away a bunch of HPMA wristbands today and t ... More >>

Once A Meal, Always A Bibas

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttHaritos Bibas outside the new Bibas Diner, in the old Bibas' One's A Meal location.​Haritos Bibas is 77 years old, but that isn't stopping the lifelong restaurateur from opening what is -- by his estimation -- probably the 30th restaurant he's owned and operated thr ... More >>

Game Time: Buddhism Announces That It Has Dropped Tiger Woods

  So there you go. Tiger Woods is sorry. Or so he says. If we can sift through the 15 minutes where time stood still in sports bars around the country, if we can somehow ignore all of the "hostage crisis"-level coverage this is getting on CNN, ESPN, and the Oxygen Network, then we can all step ... More >>

He Said She Said: Songs for Your New Year's Eve Party, Part 2

​ When it comes time for He Said to make a party mix, you would think he would go for some classic metal or punk rock. But you would be totally wrong. When it's time for single boys and single girls to drink, mingle and start making questionable choices, we can leave the Motorhead and AC/DC for th ... More >>

2008 HOUSTON PRESS NEW YEAR'S EVE GUIDE

Kiss 2008 goodbye in style

HOUSTON PRESS NEW YEAR'S EVE GUIDE

Kiss 2008 goodbye in style

Capsule Stage Reviews: Metamorphoses, Secret Order, Sunshine Boys, Times Square Angel

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beatrice and Benedict, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Secret Order, Times Square Angel

Overnight Express: Simply Red Does Bobby "Blue" Bland

Pet Project

It's cat versus dog at the MFAH

Hometown Legend

Coming of age and stayin' alive on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens

2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

¡Viva la Revolución!

A rogues' gallery of rock and rollers reflects upon the USA's big day

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown

Technical Difficulties

Slick, expensive and clueless, Fox Sports Grill is a sports bar that can't deliver a hamburger

Christmas in July

Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

The Halo Challenge

Master Chief, a weapons-toting super-enhanced human, is the only being who can save the earth. A video gamer from Texas is the world champion at helping him do just that — thousands of times over.

New Year's Eve Guide

Where will you be hoppin' when the ball is droppin'?

Playbill

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Neo Nuthin'

The Fleshtones have got your garage-rock revival hanging low

People Person

Bob Knox's work comments on the world we live in

Popping Along

James Rosenquist's workmanlike, old-school approach keeps coming up with new challenges

POWerful Images

Comic book characters reign in this CAM exhibit

Line in the Sand

Squeezed by new development on Galveston's west end, fishermen are trying to hang on to an honored Texas tradition: driving on the beach

Double Standards?

Plus: Defining Moment, Egg on the Face, Get Off Death Row!

New Digs, Old Tricks

The Riviera Grill has moved downtown, but it doesn't know how to make an urban statement

Big Talkers

The smart Sprecher sisters engage in 13 Conversations About One Thing

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Welcome to the M-Machine

Back to the Beat

Source pays homage to Kerouac and company

Tour de Farce

Accidental Death brings lively fun

Friendship in a Box

Rotation

All-Terrain Vehicle

Rock, country, punk, pop: Freewheeling Old 97's don't discriminate

Northern Exposure

Canada's favorites, The Tragically Hip, try to conquer the lower 48 without violence

Yee-haw City

The Cowboy Way takes a fun ride through New York