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January 17, 2002
Hell and Back
Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors
Film
December 16, 1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Buried Treasure Found In Galveston
Michael Pate, a contractor helping clean up Ike debris off Galveston beaches, noticed a sturdy US Army ammunition box half-buried in the sand earlier this month.Thinking it'd be useful, he dug it out and opened it. Inside was a somewhat odd collection of stuff, the Galveston County Daily News report ... More >>
Dining
October 17, 1996
Back to Wok
A pair of Asian pioneers return to blaze new (if familiar) paths
Film
September 25, 1997
New Studio, Same Old Stuff
DreamWorks's first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns
Music
May 28, 1998
Free-for-All
DreamWorks's first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns
Blogs
March 13, 2009
Suckfest - Sorry, Buzzfest - XXII Lineup Announced
Hey, didn't Korn break up after this album? They didn't? Our bad.In the midst of getting our collective Rocks Off panties in a twist over SXSW next week and the impending sweat-stained Westheimer Block Party, it's easy for us to forget what it's like on the other side of the music-snob fence. ... More >>
Calendar
February 19, 2009
Buffalo Soldier Mutiny: Houston, 1917
Memorial Park wasn’t always a park — it was once an army camp, and horrible things happened there
Dining
October 25, 2001
Stirred and Shaken
El Tiempo's Cuba Libre
Calendar
April 3, 2008
First Film Thursdays at Dean’s: Austin FilmWorks
Get a sneak peek at what Steve Mims has to offer
News
March 27, 2008
Bayousphere: Rough Riders at the Houston Rodeo
After rolling around in the dirt, these cowboys and cowgirls clean up pretty well
Film
March 8, 2007
The Host
Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside
Home Entertainment
December 15, 2005
Virtual Quagmire
The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire
News
August 11, 2005
Who Cares?
Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.
Culture
April 15, 2004
Capsule Reviews
A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions
Culture
April 8, 2004
Boys to Men
Testosterone levels soar at DiverseWorks
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March 11, 2004
Teenage Wasteland
Two artists ask how boys become men in a videocracy
News
February 1, 2001
Celebrate Good Times
The Bush inaugural is a wonderful, wonderful thing
Music
December 9, 1999
Helping Hands
Coming This Week
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May 1, 2009
The FBI Makes Things Go "Boom," And We Have The Video
(Note: The explosions get bigger the longer you stick with the video.) For the better part of this week, FBI bomb experts have been teaching area cops the Xs and Os of improvised explosives, like the ones made by shoe-bomber Richard Reid or the one that killed college student Matthew Rugo in his Tex ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Sean Hannity To Torture Houston's Wallets
Photo courtesy bobgo29What would you pay to see Sean Hannity in concert? No, we don't mean seeing him be waterboarded -- although he said he'd do that for charity, and Keith Olbermann offered to pay $1,000 to an Army charity for every second Hannity stood it, Sean-o somehow hasn't agreed to it yet.H ... More >>
Music
June 18, 2009
A Gulf Coast Juneteenth
Photo courtesy bobgo29What would you pay to see Sean Hannity in concert? No, we don't mean seeing him be waterboarded -- although he said he'd do that for charity, and Keith Olbermann offered to pay $1,000 to an Army charity for every second Hannity stood it, Sean-o somehow hasn't agreed to it yet.H ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2009
For the Fourth Of July: Worst Cinematic Attempts At Patriotism
This weekend, as we come together to celebrate Independence Day, let's do our best to remember what this holiday is all about. It's more than merely dodging DWI checkpoints on your way home from backyard barbecues and trying to decide between the Jon & Kate 8 or Deadliest Catch marathons on TV ... More >>
Film
July 23, 2009
Set to Explode
As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.
Film
November 5, 2009
Got Your Goat
We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
Culture
November 26, 2009
SPECIAL LONG-LETTER EDITION
We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
Blogs
March 24, 2010
G.I. Blues: A Soldiers' Playlist
Today is the anniversary of one of the truly momentous occasions in popular music: On March 23, 1958, Elvis Presley reported for induction into the U.S. Army, thus opening up a thousand alternate timelines for musical historians to formulate "What if he hadn't?" scenarios. For the next few years, ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Army Helmets Made By Beaumont Prisoners Are Recalled For Safety Hazards
Vic Morrow, dealing with the scum who made him a crappy helmetIt looks like it's getting harder to find good help these days -- especially when the help are federal prisoners: earlier this month, the U.S. Army recalled 44,000 helmets manufactured by Beaumont inmates working for Federal Pris ... More >>
Calendar
May 27, 2010
Christopher Farnsworth: Blood Oath
So the president of the United States has a vampire for a bodyguard - damn, D.C. must be rougher than we thought
Film
July 8, 2010
Captured in Afghanistan
American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.
News
January 20, 2011
Prized Possessions
Homeless in Houston share their most important objects.
Culture
January 20, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "A Matter of Wit," "Plenitude," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"
Homeless in Houston share their most important objects.
Culture
January 27, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "James Drake: A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing," "A Matter of Wit," "Plenitude," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines," "Tony Smith: Drawings"
Homeless in Houston share their most important objects.
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Five Oprah Secrets That Would Have Been More Interesting
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Culture
February 3, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "flickerlounge: Short Films by John Herschend, Ben Peters and Lily Sparks," "Plenitude," "Pteridomania," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Culture
February 10, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "flickerlounge: Short Films by John Herschend, Ben Peters and Lily Sparks," "A Matter of Wit," "Plenitude," "Pteridomania," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines," "Tony Smith: Drawings"
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Culture
February 24, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "California Cool," "Christian Eckart: The Absurd Vehicle & Other Propositions," "Plenitude," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines," "Tony Smith: Drawings"
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Culture
March 3, 2011
Capsule Art Reviews: "California Cool," "Christian Eckart: The Absurd Vehicle & Other Propositions," "Plenitude," "Pteridomania," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Culture
March 17, 2011
Exactly How Safe Is Juarez?
Last week we started hearing rumors of a bombshell revelation coming on Monday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, a discovery Winfrey made late last year which she described as a "miracle" that she said "shook me to my core." Speculation ran rampant, from the predictable "lesbian relationsh ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
BP? Maybe Not - Five Other Possible Summer Fest Sponsors
Jermaine RogersToday is not only 4/20 and whatever the name for the Wednesday of Holy Week is - sorry, it's been a while since Rocks Off has been to church - it's the one-year anniversary of the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. It's also the latest April Fool's Day in history, because earlie ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
David Tabor: Who Says White Guys Can't Pimp?
Gregg County JailDavid Tabor: In the unforgettable 1999 documentary American Pimp, filmmakers the Hughes Brothers profiled nine of America's most prominent legends of the pimpin' game: people like Chicago's Don Magic Juan and San Francisco's Fillmore Slim. The film echoed in the works of Tex ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2011
The Astros' Jim Crane Era Begins: Get Caught Up On The Team With This Quiz
Do you recognize this man?For the first time in a long time, the Houston Astros will not be led by a hyper, motto-spouting grocery magnate. Drayton McLane has sold the team to Houston businessman Jim Crane. It may be the first piece of Astro news you've bothered with this year. The team was ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
Top 10 Musician WTF Hobbies
Zazzle.comMusicians are weird. Well, the good ones, at least. It's a little-known, beloved factoid. While artists' news, drama, and private lives are sometimes aired to the point of over-saturation, it becomes more interesting when we learn relatively kept insight into their rockers' offstage ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
Rocks Off Open For Bidness On Memorial Day
someecards.comJames McMurtry, "Memorial Day": Rocks Off has no idea what we're going to be doing on Memorial Day; we just know we're not going to be here, as in the office. We suspect Leon's Lounge will be involved somehow, because it usually is. But you should be here, as in on this very ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
R.I.P., Army Berets: Eight People Who Could Actually Rock That Look
Monk: Round Midnight is the right time for a beretWe read with mixed emotions the news that the U.S. Army is dropping the beret from its official combat uniform after soldier complaints. On the one hand, the overall foppishness of the beret tends to cancel out the otherwise serious, assertive ... More >>
News
June 23, 2011
Too Much Pavement
Houston's strip malls increase heat, pollution.
Blogs
September 16, 2011
Swoop, There It Is: Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting Hit Rosharon (w/ VIDEO)
Francisco MontesSkydive Spaceland in Rosharon is hosting this weekend the US Parachute Association's National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting, where jumpers "swoop" at speeds starting at 75mph towards earth while navigating an obstacle course on the landing field, all while being j ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
Green Berets' 50th Birthday: Five Best Pop-Culture Moments
One hundred men we'll test today, but only three win the Green Beret.The Green Berets, at least the unit everyone thinks of when they think of the Green Berets, are 50 years old tomorrow. President Kennedy, on one of his romantic James Bond flights of fancy, approved activating the U.S. Army' ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Father Figures: 100 Famous Musicians' Paternal Professions
Mr. Peppermint: Sire of a Surfer.If you're a Texan of a certain age, this week you've probably spent some time mourning the death of Jerry Haynes, the children's TV host better known as Mr. Peppermint. Haynes' show on WFAA-TV in Dallas, Peppermint Place, ran from the '60s to the '90s and was ... More >>
Culture
January 26, 2012
MasterMinds 2012
This year's winners have art, passion and history on their side. And now they'll also each have a check for $2,000.
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