Subject: Troy

• Mike Gundy, Jenni Carlson, Bobby Reid and Chicken. Which One Is Not Like the Others?

  September 25, 2007

• Aftermath: Cruefest at Toyota Center

  July 24, 2008

• Never Mind the Blackface. What About When Robert Downey, Jr. Played Jesus?

  August 14, 2008

• College Football Preview, Scarlett Johansson Edition

  September 5, 2008

• The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Two

  September 9, 2008

• Football U: Texas Roundup, and Then Some

  September 22, 2008

• The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Four

  September 25, 2008

• Thunder Rolls

  A '60s British TV series gets an extreme makeover

  July 29, 2004

• College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 29, 2008

• City Life, Family Strife

  May 19, 1994

• More than Dough

  April 25, 1996

• Myth and Reality

  March 13, 1997

• Humblebees

  June 19, 1997

• The Great Decolorizer

  June 19, 1997

• Kontroversy

  November 19, 1998

• When the Circus Comes To Town

  February 11, 1999

• College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 29, 2008

• For a Good Time, Call…

  Diners at Garson can now feast on Persian food without being hit on

  September 27, 2001

• Empire Strikes Back in Mongol

  The film paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

  June 26, 2008

• Empire Strikes Back in Mongol

  June 5, 2008

• Um, This Box Is Baroque

  March 16, 2006

• Gator Aid

  Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, alligators are everywhere in southeast Texas. So now the state is going to make it easier for you to shoot you one.

  May 25, 2006

• Killing Time

  In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  November 3, 2005

• Best Beats from the Bayou

  H-town's top ten rap jams

  October 20, 2005

• Cowboy Troy

  Loco Motive

  June 16, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 1, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 10, 2004

• Thrilled to Death

  Riders may get more than they bargained for when they head to amusement parks this summer

  June 3, 2004

• Big Fat Greek Bloodletting

  Brad's ripped and The Iliad's shredded in the scintillating spectacle Troy

  May 13, 2004

• Well-Dressed Rebels

  Revolt of the operagoing socialites

  May 13, 2004

• Strings Attached

  Operatic popster Rufus Wainwright exits "gay hell" and enters his most fertile period

  March 11, 2004

• Letters

  August 21, 2003

• Letters

  July 31, 2003

• Mr. One-Man Show

  David Cross is funny as hell. So why isn't he laughing?

  November 21, 2002

• Clear Channel Cajun Invasion

  April 5 through 7

  April 4, 2002

• Toro! Toro! Toro!

  Home to pop queens and dance hall kings, Texas is still bullish about the music market

  January 3, 2002

• Westward Ho!

  Houstonian Bridger chronicles the evils of manifest destiny with A Ballad of the West

  April 26, 2001

• Black Action Figure

  Classically trained Stefon Harris fights for love and freedom inside his jazz grooves

  April 12, 2001

• Drag King

  Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

  February 1, 2001

• Kristi's Gift

  She gave up her infant son to two strangers who became her friends. Now, more than two years later, she's still in his life, visiting regularly. In an open adoption, they're all doing their best for Ryan.

  December 21, 2000

• Mommy's little angel

  Marshall Ball can't talk. So he listens to God. Everyone else listens to Marshall.

  March 16, 2000

• Real Life

  Merry Matzo Ball. Houston's Jewish singles mambo away the Christmas blues

  January 6, 2000

• For This Year's Graduates: Five Memorable Ceremonies

  Class of 2009, as you go out into the real world, you'll be welcomed by a sputtering economy, rising consumer debt, and increased threats from abroad. It's just like the 1970s, except you'll have the added fun of spending the next 30 years paying off your student loans. Congratulations! Here are some graduation clips to enjoy while you fill out those Sallie Mae forebearance forms.5. I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) Thanks to Schaefer beer and [harmless tobacco], I actually remember very little a

  May 29, 2009

• Straight from the Sole: Houston's Best Metal Bands

  You know Soledad. He's the vocalist from controversial Houston rap-metal act Daylight Coma. He's got a lot to say. Sometimes it's insightful, sometimes less so, but it's almost always said with conviction. This week, in honor of the fast-approaching HPMA, we asked him who he thinks are Houston's five best metal bands. Rocks Off: The Houston Press Music Awards are right around the corner. You being you, how about if you give us the five best metal bands in town? Surely no one will have a proble

  July 16, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Band of Heathens, Glen Campbell, Mastodon, Thursday, etc.

  ​The Academy Is..., The Secret Handshake, Set Your Goals, Mayday Parade: Thu., Oct. 22. Warehouse Live. All Time Low, Hey Monday, We The Kings, Friday Night Boys: Wed., Oct. 28. House of Blues. Band of Heathens (CD Release Show): Fri., Sept. 11. Warehouse Live. Brand New: Sat., Oct. 31. Verizon Wireless Theater. Buddy Guy: Sun., Oct. 18. House of Blues. Buju Banton: Thu., Oct. 22. House of Blues.

  August 4, 2009

• The Week In TV: The World Series Ruins Everything

  Parks and Recreation, yet another reason to love NBC​The weather is cool, Halloween is in the air, and I just redesigned the Pontiac Aztec. This is the week in TV Land: • For being a weak network overall and the home to some truly awful medical dramas, NBC can bring the funny. This week it handed down full-season pickups for Parks and Recreation and Community, both solid shows that have been holding fairly steady in the ratings while also being, you know, entertaining. This week's Comm

  October 26, 2009

• The Music of True Blood, Episode 1.5: Playing Chicken With the Train, and an AIDS Burger

  Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. With Season 2 just completed, Rocks Off is now working our way backwards through the episodes we missed as HBO begins reruns. Episode 1.5, "Sparks Fly Out" Country Rap is a lot like Albanian folk dancing... and we're not going to explain that comparison. Just take ou

  November 6, 2009

• The Week In TV: Art of the Dushku

  We'll always have Bring It On...​I'm waiting for winter, I'm tired of Joseph Fiennes, and I can't stop raving about Wade Boggs' Carpet World. This was the week in TV Land: • I've been a little remiss in advising you to watch Parks and Recreation, which is my bad, as I heard a kid say the other day when I yelled at him to get off my lawn. It's a funny, quick little show cut from The Office's cloth but able to stand on its own, and it's the most unsung component in NBC's rock-solid two-h

  November 16, 2009