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U.S. Armed Forces

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Celebrate Memorial Day with A Festive Fruit Pizza

    Memorial Day is just around the corner. With my brother, a U.S. Marine (oorah!), currently back home from his first deployment in Afghanistan, the holiday is near and dear to my heart. Wanting to make something special to celebrate and honor all those who have served and who continue to serve in ou ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 9, 2012

    Ron Paul and Sci-Fi

    Memorial Day is just around the corner. With my brother, a U.S. Marine (oorah!), currently back home from his first deployment in Afghanistan, the holiday is near and dear to my heart. Wanting to make something special to celebrate and honor all those who have served and who continue to serve in ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    WarBeast: Oh Fuck, They Have a Time Machine

    It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. Beth Burton​We try real hard to avoid metal bands here in the old What's in a Name? column. We still haven't forgiven Owl Witch for the abs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    The 6 Worst Air-Show Disasters: A Video Collection, Just In Time For Wings Over Houston

    Things can go wrong​Next time you go to an air show, take a look at the fine print on the ticket. Besides the usual stuff about acts of God and "Promoter not responsible if the frontman doesn't show due to injecting Drano into his balls," there's something else. It says they're really, really ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2011

    “Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War”

    Things can go wrong​Next time you go to an air show, take a look at the fine print on the ticket. Besides the usual stuff about acts of God and "Promoter not responsible if the frontman doesn't show due to injecting Drano into his balls," there's something else. It says they're really, really ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    The Michael Bay Movie Generator: 5 Easy Steps To Mega-Box Office Success

    Insert as needed.​Some controversy, if you want to call it that, popped up this weekend over Michael Bay's apparent use of old footage from The Island in his latest release, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which grossed a staggering $400 million over the July 4th weekend. We can infer two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Hot Stuff: Will The Texas Heat Melt Your Vinyl LPs?

    Note: All temperatures in the following article are given in degrees Fahrenheit. Here is a helpful Celsius conversion calculator. ​You might not have noticed it lately, but outdoors, rays of this thing called "sunshine" are hitting the Earth like the planet didn't bring the Sun a sandwich wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Pop Rocks: By the Dumb's Early Light

    Apu chose an alternate path to citizenship​There's a scene in The American President -- Aaron Sorkin's pre-West Wing exercise in wishful liberalism -- when President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) describes America as "advanced citizenship." It's a nice thought, especially in the fantastical conte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Patrick Regan and Ximena del Pilar Echeverry Arias: Husband-Wife Team Arrested for Running Guns from Houston to Colombia

    Dad, get me out of this one​A Houston-area couple has been charged with smuggling arms to Colombia, and a whole lot of weaponry was seized. Federal agents arrested Patrick Regan, 40, and his wife Ximena del Pilar Echeverry Aria, 25, who was a Colombian native, on Tuesday, prosecutors announce ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    American Grocers

    Samir Itani got rich sending expired food overseas to U.S. troops in the Middle East.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Rock Stars' Troublesome Family and Friends

    ​Wednesday, the NAACP released an extensive, in-depth study of the main six groups which provide the lion's share of support for the infamous Tea Party movement, and the results of their study are not encouraging. It chronicles a great deal of cross-pollination between Tea Party and white supr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Film

    July 8, 2010

    Captured in Afghanistan

    American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Barry Walter Bujol Jr. of Hempstead: His Al-Qaeda Career Gets Nipped In The Bud

    He'd received a book entitled 42 Ways of Supporting Jihad​A Hempstead man who told an undercover FBI officer he wanted "to travel overseas to fight in violent jihad for" Al-Qaeda was indicted today on charges of trying to help a terrorist organization.Barry Walter Bujol, Jr., 29, was arrested as h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    The Shameless Chef: Shit On a Shingle

    Bonus points if you can guess which ingredients go into the "shit", and which go into the "shingle".​I don't know if the soldiers still eat "chipped beef on toast" in the U.S. military; we'd have to ask Craig Hlavaty, Rocks Off's resident ex-military running dog. However, they used to, with the di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    From Fort Hood To Iraq, The Army's Dealing With Stress-Related Fatal Incidents

    ​A lot of people were shocked by the shootings at Fort Hood. Should they have been?Rick Anderson of Village Voice Media takes a look at how the Army handles issues of soldiers under stress, including a sergeant from Texas man who shot up a clinic in Iraq. In many respects, Sgt. [John M.] Russell's ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    Ask Not

    Web exclusive!

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    “Unite and Untie”

    The new exhibit at the Houston Center for Photography sees the war in the Middle East in terms of people, not policies

  • Culture

    December 18, 2008
  • News

    October 16, 2008

    John McCain's Neglected Veterans

    The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    Artist of the Week: Dem Southern Folkz

    The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Poor Treatment of Returning Veterans

    The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    Don't Make Labor Day Weekend Plans...

    The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  • Film

    December 20, 2007

    Charlie Wilson's War

    All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie

  • Music

    December 6, 2007
  • Culture

    September 13, 2007

    Art Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Culture

    September 6, 2007

    Art Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Film

    August 30, 2007

    No End in Sight

    Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devastates

  • Film

    July 5, 2007

    Transformers

    As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005

    Virtual Quagmire

    The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

  • Film

    July 28, 2005

    Bombs and Bikinis

    Stealth aims low but hits its mark

  • Music

    July 7, 2005

    Play "Free Bird"!

    Using the Bob-O-Meter to rate cover songs

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2005

    Made in Japan

    The MFAH pays homage to an American's love of Eastern film

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    Books and Bullets

    A gun shop and a school make great neighbors

  • Film

    December 23, 2004

    Second Run

    Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

  • Calendar

    July 8, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

  • Music

    June 10, 2004

    Playbill

    Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2003

    My Life in Oils

    David McGee gives good autobiography at DiverseWorks

  • Culture

    July 31, 2003

    Peace Through Art

    "Made in Palestine" humanizes the Middle East conflict

  • Calendar

    April 24, 2003

    An Evening of Torture

    The Amnesty International production "Torture Watch" isn't out to entertain

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Killing the Leaders

    The Amnesty International production "Torture Watch" isn't out to entertain

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Banana Republicans

    A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    Letters

    A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Mayoral Field of Dreams

    If you pay them, they will come

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Man's New Best Friend

    In the wake of September 11, security dogs have become must-have items. Prices have skyrocketed. There aren't enough German shepherds.

  • Film

    June 29, 2000

    What So Proudly We Hail

    Sure, The Patriot is mawkish nationalism disguised as summer entertainment, but we'll wave the flag anyway

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Sure, The Patriot is mawkish nationalism disguised as summer entertainment, but we'll wave the flag anyway

  • Film

    October 9, 1997

    Killer

    The bracing Licensed to Kill reveals the minds of hate criminals

  • Film

    October 20, 1994

    Love Madness

    Tony Richardson's last film is compellingly complex

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