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February 17, 2012
Happy Birthday Billie Joe: An American Idiot Turns 40
"I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out"? Well, not quite...Today, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day turns 40. Eighteen years ago, in the time known as 1994, he turned 22. Two weeks earlier than that, his band's major-label debut, Dookie, had hit store shelves. That album would go on to sel ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
G Gallery's "Escapism:" You Will Want to Follow the White Light
Disclaimer: Forgive us for this lowbrow reference used to describe an exceptionally superb collection of artwork. During a recent visit to G Gallery in the Heights, we were reminded earlier today of the movie Joe Versus the Volcano starring Tom Hanks as the downtrodden Joe, who slaves away in a dr ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Hollywood FLOSS Goes To The Movies On New "Attack"
hiphopwired.comRocks Off counted 37 actor references in Hollywood FLOSS's new song, "Attack of Hollywood," so we decided to ask the rapper about some of his favorite actors, movies, and get up to speed on his upcoming project. Rcks Off: You're playing with Dead Prez tonight at Fitzgerald's. ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Cover Story: Austin Fires Back
Feelings have been hurtSo I'd gotten up at 5 a.m. and spent the day at NASA's Mission Control, where along with about fifty other writers, talking heads and camera crews from Houston, New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, I'd been granted unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the final full- ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Oprah Vs. Bob Dylan: A Side-By-Side Showdown
Photo illustration by John Seaborn GrayIn case you've been under a complete self-imposed total media blackout - how do those work, by the way? - you no doubt know this week is a pretty important milestone in the lives of two of America's most important cultural figureheads. Maybe the two most ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Doing Time, Wrongly
Finally, a chat with our cover subject.
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Golf -- My Masters Facelift
Cue the pyro and short skirts....First, for those asking, my second annual recap of Jim Rome's Smack Off radio show will be up tomorrow sometime. If you missed my first one last year, it was a true tour de force. It, too, went up nearly four days after the actual event, so my procrastination ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Five Artists That Make Deadlier Weapons Than Creed
Nooooo!!! Anything but "One Last Breath"!!!The headline is promising: "Norwegian Boy Fends Off Wolf Pack With Heavy Metal." Pretty awesome, right? Picture the frozen steppes of Rakkestad - we're just assuming there are steppes there - and it's after 2 p.m. in the wintertime, so the sun has ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Remembering Our Friends, The Mujahideen
Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about the President's management of the Afghanistan War, exposes some pretty significant divisions between Obama's civilian advisers and the U.S. military on strategy concerning what is now America's longest war: Book excerpts published yesterday sugges ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Top Eight Weirdest Saturday Night Live Musical Moments
This past Saturday was Steve Martin's birthday and, if you're old enough, you may remember back to a time when the snow-capped comedian/actor/musician was more than just a comedy archaeologist, exhuming the corpses of classic comic franchises and defiling the shit out of them. No, he actually ... More >>
Film
June 17, 2010
Toys Are Us
In its third installment, Pixar's juggernaut turns morose.
Blogs
June 11, 2010
50 Cent: Polite, Soft-Spoken, Can F You Up
Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, albeit sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. We'll incorporate the number five in there somewhere. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Lionel Deluy/ Interscope Records50 Cent is one of th ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Texans Cheerleaders In The Far East: Stuck In An Airport And You Can't Get Out Of It
Try the wasabi-flavored Kit KatsThe Texans cheerleaders are headed to Japan on an Armed Forces Entertainment tour, because our brave service members want to hear what Matt Schaub is really like. Or maybe they want to look at cheerleaders.Texans cheerleader Lindsay (as always, first names only to ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Is Z-Ro Too Big To Get Big?
Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, albeit sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. We'll incorporate the number five in there somewhere. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. A lot of the time, it's easy to pick what to write abo ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Paul Wall's Got Your iPhone Goin' Nuts
Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, albeit sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. We'll incorporate the number five in there somewhere. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. April 23, 2010. That was to be the most glorious day ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
The Week in TV: We Can Only Mock the Living
It's almost Christmas, I'm tired of shopping, and I keep yelling "sharkfarts" at everyone. This was the week in TV Land: • Most of the major shows and networks were in repeats this week, which threw my viewing habits off a bit. It's not like I only watch the big four networks; in fact, I ... More >>
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July 20, 2009
Playing Neil Armstrong On The Screen: The "Jesus Curse," Redux
Photo by NASAIn the old days of Hollywood, they used to talk of "the Jesus Curse" -- any actor who played JC on screen was thereafter soomed to obscurity.Does the same thing happen to actors who play Neil Armstrong? There aren't as many Apollo 11 movies as you might expect, but the evidence still is ... More >>
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May 8, 2009
Houston, We Have A....Ah, Forget About It. How Jim Lovell's Kid Learned About His Dad's Adventures
Houstonians have always had a special place in their heart for Apollo 13, the Tom Hanks movie that chronicles the only moon mission that didn't make it.(And for the mission itself, of course, which unfortunately enough gave us the "Houston, we have a problem" cliche that leads to lots and lots of la ... More >>
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January 8, 2009
Charlie Wilson's War Continues
We wrote in August about the brouhaha over UT's plans to name a chair in South Asian studies for Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. Rep played by Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson's War.UT professors protested, saying Wilson had done far more harm than good over there.Now a niece of Benazir Bhutto, the late ... More >>
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December 10, 2008
Artist of the Week: The Favorites
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. We like to fancy ourselv ... More >>
Film
January 31, 2008
Universal Soldier: 'Rambo'
Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going
Film
December 20, 2007
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains
Demme follows Carter's controversial book tour, and ends up with the same old narrative
Film
December 20, 2007
Charlie Wilson's War
All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie
Blogs
December 12, 2007
Charlie Wilson’s War, Now with Less 9/11
All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie
Film
September 28, 2006
Men Behaving Badly
Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy
Home Entertainment
June 1, 2006
Jesus Wept
Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?
Music
January 26, 2006
Gay-Unit
Twisted G is most definitely not trapped in the closet
Calendar
January 19, 2006
Barnes Is Noble
A pair of iconic authors stop by for a literary treat
Film
December 15, 2005
Homo on the Range
Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain
Home Entertainment
November 17, 2005
A Very Long Run
Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain
Film
February 24, 2005
Great Clips
Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary
Film
September 9, 2004
His Guy Friday
A gay movie buff takes tips from Cary Grant
Calendar
August 19, 2004
Don't Pass Glass
Twelve artists show us what the clear stuff can do
Film
February 12, 2004
Adam 'n' Heave
50 First Dates is a patchy toss-off strictly for Sandler fans
Film
December 4, 2003
Not the Sweetest Thing
What a bad feeling -- and taste -- Honey leaves behind
Film
December 19, 2002
'Tis a Foine, Foine Loife
In the holiday insta-classic Evelyn, Pierce Brosnan forms a family bond
Film
December 5, 2002
Funeral Rights
A Texas family confronts death, homosexuality and repression
Culture
August 22, 2002
Fallon Fast
Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen
Culture
November 22, 2001
War on War Books
Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?
Calendar
November 2, 2000
Breaking God into Movies
The Deeper Meaning of Movies: Entertainment Culture and the Big Picture
News
June 29, 2000
Surefire Plan
Inside Houston
Film
November 25, 1999
Building on Perfection
As funny and flawless as the original, Toy Story 2 suffers only from being second in line
Calendar
May 6, 1999
DJs in Daylight
As funny and flawless as the original, Toy Story 2 suffers only from being second in line
Film
December 31, 1998
Year of Yearning
The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses
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September 3, 1998
Letters
The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses
News
April 23, 1998
Letters
The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses
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April 2, 1998
Night & Day
April 2-8, 1998
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January 22, 1998
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April 2-8, 1998
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January 30, 1997
Sound Check
April 2-8, 1998
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September 8, 1994
Wagons Ho Hum
April 2-8, 1998
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