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December 29, 1994
The Year of Living Anxiously
Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?
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November 3, 2008
Gloom And Doom For Uninsured Texas Children
Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?
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November 24, 1994
Sheila Keeps Quiet
Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?
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April 6, 1995
The Wendy Card
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
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January 28, 2009
Artist of the Week: The Sans-Bayonet
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. It was recently menti ... More >>
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January 1, 1998
Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit
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. It was recently menti ... More >>
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August 20, 1998
Letters
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. It was recently menti ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
Ron Paul, Crusading Against All Pork But His
Photo courtesy Ron PaulOf all the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who do you think has the most earmarks in the omnibus spending bill? Some RINO from up north?Nah. It's our own Ron Paul, stalwart criticizer of government spending (that's not in his district.)Fox News is touting the s ... More >>
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April 29, 1999
News Hostage
Photo courtesy Ron PaulOf all the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who do you think has the most earmarks in the omnibus spending bill? Some RINO from up north?Nah. It's our own Ron Paul, stalwart criticizer of government spending (that's not in his district.)Fox News is touting the s ... More >>
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July 15, 1999
News of the Weird
Photo courtesy Ron PaulOf all the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who do you think has the most earmarks in the omnibus spending bill? Some RINO from up north?Nah. It's our own Ron Paul, stalwart criticizer of government spending (that's not in his district.)Fox News is touting the s ... More >>
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November 23, 2006
Online Fun
You, too, can patrol our borders
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May 18, 2006
A Fallen Star Is Born
Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers
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December 23, 2004
Rapping on Heaven's Door
Can Christian hip-hop save Enock from his demons?
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May 6, 2004
Lessons to the Left
Young conservatives start to monitor liberal college profs
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February 19, 2004
Race for the House
Chris Bell finds it's lonely being white on this campaign trail
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September 25, 2003
Best Role Model
Terry Hershey
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August 1, 2002
Shore Thing
Plus: Driving Us Nuts, Cheap Thrills, Gong Wrongs
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September 21, 2000
Best Republican
State Representative John Culberson, winner of the GOP nomination in the Seventh Congressional District
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March 2, 2000
This Bud's for John
John McCain's family
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June 17, 1999
The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker
Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.
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August 17, 2009
Tom DeLay to Debut the "Bitch Slap" on Dancing With the Stars Next Month
News is leaking out of Hollywood that former U.S. House Majority Leader and mugshot model Tom DeLay will be part of the cast of next season's ABC hoofer ratings smash Dancing With the Stars. What hasn't come out yet is DeLay's plans to debut a new dance called the "Bitch Slap," an arm-movement-heav ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Stranger Musical Pairings Than Dancing With the Stars' Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke
Dancing With the Stars announced the pairings for its upcoming season Monday - like you care - and while some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and...that Russian chick in the finals, local interest is still focused on fo ... More >>
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November 26, 2009
Turkeys of the Year
In a highly competitive 2009 field, Governor Rick Perry is the biggest gobbler of them all.
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February 18, 2010
Out of the Past
Stuck in the asylum with Martin Scorsese — head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane.
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February 23, 2010
They Were Kinky Before Kinky Was Kinky: Musicians Who Have Held Public Office
From Ted Nugent to Bruce Springsteen to those adorable Dixie Chicks, "Masters of War" to "George Bush doesn't care about black people," musicians have never been shy about voicing their political opinions. But when it comes to putting their money where their mouths are and filing the necessary pape ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
Greenpeace Says Dow's Freeport Chemical Plant Has Lousy Security
You won't be smiling when the leak comesThink all those toxic chemicals stockpiled at industrial plants around Houston are safe and secure? Well, think again.According to Greenpeace, the giant holding tanks and railroad cars full full of hazardous materials are ripe for disaster -- be it by terro ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Beauty School Dropouts
HISD might close cosmetology program.
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November 11, 2010
DJ Premier: A Pillar Of Hip-Hop History
Maybe it's leaving behind our twenties and embracing our thirties, but we've been so concerned with the past lately... history, that is. We've been talking to our grandmother in the last few months about her life as a young child growing up on the Texas border. You truly don't know someone b ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
FAIR-y Tales
Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.
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December 14, 2010
What's So Damn Controversial About Cleaner, Safer Food?
The plant was filthy and infested with vermin, with holes as large as 2 ½ feet in the ceilings leaking water and runoff from the air conditioner units onto the finished product stored below. Records posted on the web by attorney Bill Marler show that executives at Peanut Corporation of Ameri ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Just What America Needs: Four More Texas Votes In The U.S. House Of Representatives
Texas is a big winnerRepublicans in the Texas Legislature have already been salivating over the opportunity to redraw Congressional districts with little to no interference from those annoying Democrats. The U.S. Census just handed them another gift: Four more seats to mess with. A 20 perce ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Return to Sender
What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?
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December 28, 2010
"Auld Lang Syne," In All Its Many Colors
Harry: What does this song mean? My whole life, I don't know what this song means. "Should old acquaintance be forgot" - does that mean we should forget old acquaintances, or if we happen to forget them, that we should remember them, which is not possible because we've already forgotten them? ... More >>
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December 31, 2010
Top Ten Celebrities This Decade Who Crashed and Burned with Video Evidence
And a partridge in a pear tree...Last week, we gave you our list of celebrities who manage to save their careers after difficult times. This week, we go a different direction. If we have learned anything from TMZ, it's that people love celebrity scandals and the more salacious it is, the more ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
What To Do When The Crowd Yells "Free Bird!"
Sooooooo.... Thursday, the U.S. Constitution was read aloud on the floor of the House of Representatives, an act that Rocks Off views as the government equivalent of doing your homework on the morning bus, but whatever. Just as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J. was reading the bit about the eligibi ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Tom DeLay Gets Jail Time
The Hammer gets the slammerTom DeLay's sentence has been handed out, and it's not a slap on the wrist: He's going to prison for three years with no probation on the conspiracy charges. DeLay was also sentenced by judge Pat Priest to 10 years' probation on a money-laundering charge, according ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Lack Of Social Safety Net Tying Many Musicians To Day Jobs
"I fantasize sometimes that my musical career would hit gold and help us escape these grim realities, but it's not something I really expect to happen." There are few issues in the current political climate more fraught with contention than whether or not the U.S. government will take a more ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
The ALL CAPS chicas
"I fantasize sometimes that my musical career would hit gold and help us escape these grim realities, but it's not something I really expect to happen." There are few issues in the current political climate more fraught with contention than whether or not the U.S. government will take a more ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Sheila Jackson Lee in the Muslim Hearings: YouTube Hit
The U.S. House's bizarre hearings on Muslims (sorry, "radical" Muslims) included a noteworthy speech by Rep. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim member of Congress, who teared up while remembering a Muslim first responder who died on 9/11. And then there was Sheila Jackson Lee. Love her or hate her, she ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Legislative Victory for Texas Beer
kMatherlyCheers indeed. Local breweries celebrate a win in the House of Representatives.Just as we were bemoaning the huge, wet bite the IRS took out of our savings account, along comes an example of tax dollars being put to good use. On April 21 the office of State Representative Jessica Farrar (D, ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Scott Hochberg: Politically Extinct Due To Redistricting?
Scott Hochberg has a target on his backA marathon session in the state House of Representatives has produced a proposed redistricting map, and it's bad news for two Houston Democrats: Scott Hochberg and Hubert Vo. Houston loses one district under the map, and in the game of musical chairs, i ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Legislature Makes Western Swing Official Texas Music
News Flash: Hank Williams still not a Texan nodepression.comBob "Willis" & His Texas PlayboysIt appears Rocks Off's efforts of a few weeks ago were all for naught. Despite presenting what we thought was a fairly persuasive San Jacinto Day argument to the contrary, earlier today the Texas L ... More >>
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June 3, 2011
Life After Rock Stardom: 7 Artists' Post-Musical Careers
naylandhouse.comFuture ordained minister MC Hammer wasn't kidding on his 1990 hit single "Pray."Let's face it. Not everyone is cut out for - or interested in - being a sixtysomething rock star. But what type of careers awaits a retired musician? Many rock stars stay in the music industry real ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
10 Politician Photos Sexier Than Anthony Weiner's Shots (NSFW)
If you've ever had any curiosity about how photogenic Anthony Weiner's crotch is, you're having a great week or so. (The answer, by the way, is "Not one-on hundredth as photogenic as he seems to think it is.") Weiner, who's taken a leave of absence from the U.S. House of Representatives to deal wit ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
You Won't Have Ron Paul to Kick Around Anymore (Unless He Wins the White House)
Ron, we hardly knew ye.Will the U.S. be able to survive without Ron Paul in the House of Representatives? We're about to find out. Paul's district newspaper, the Brazosport Facts, reports today that Paul will not seek re-election after almost a quarter-century in Congress. Instead, the 75-y ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
It's Pi Day, Pi Day, Gotta Get Down on Pi Day
In keeping with Rocks Off's latest obsession, compiling soundtracks for oddball holidays, we were tickled pink as a chorus girl's nipple to learn that this Friday is Pi Approximation Day. The holiday was first in 1988 by a physicist named Larry Shaw, who made everyone march in a circle then ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
8 Memories from Congressional Page Land: Sandwiches with the Speaker, Shaking Bill Clinton's Hand and Stealing KFC Decals
Qui-Gon in your room?Today, it was announced that the House of Representatives Page Program, a program both steeped in history and marred by scandal, is coming to an end. According to USA Today, House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cited the $5 million annual expenditu ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Funny HPMA Nomination Ballot Fails
It does Rocks Off's heart good to see that our Music Award nominations have stirred up so much debate. As we mentioned Tuesday, according to our Web people, there were some 9,000 nominations submitted across our 43 categories. Of course there's no way for us to really know, but as far as we ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
12 Music Business Predictions for 2012
Photo by Robert BejilWhere were we? Oh yeah, crystal ball and prophesies. You ready for this? OK. What follows is a list of events we expect to befall the music industry in 2012. Yes, these are etched in stone and should be regarded as gospel. Full prophetic titillation ahead.
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January 2, 2012
Brinson's "Tebowin'" Puts Christianity Under Center
Rocks Off is fascinated by Tim Tebow for the simple fact that he is one of the most divisive figures we have seen in the last decade. He parts the Red Sea of public opinion, like Obama does the U.S. House of Representatives. One doesn't need to live in Denver to understand this. Simpl ... More >>
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