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Warrior Class: Hitting the Stage

Everyone is battling for his own private piece of the action in this play at the Alley.

The Worst Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two

Ed. Note: Brought to you by our tired, dusty and very tolerant friends at LA Weekly and OC Weekly. Here's everything that bothered us about Coachella's second weekend. Hey, at least there was no dust storm! Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irrit ... More >>

Eyes on Texas

North Korea Is Aiming Nukes at...Austin?

Pope Francis I: Five Questions We Want Answered About The New Guy

We've got white smoke; we've got cheering crowds, habemas papem, as they say. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio got the gig and, even though his name ends in a vowel and looks like it should be preceded by a nickname, he's not Italian. For the third time in a row, the College of Cardinals has elected ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Tailgating at Triniti and the World's Largest Fondue Party

Craft beer fans are in for a double treat this month: In addition to the upcoming Stone Vertical Epic tasting next Thursday, December 13 at The Flying Saucer downtown, The Hay Merchant will be hosting a staggering Shmaltz tasting this Saturday featuring 16 different beers from Coney Island and He'Br ... More >>

Christ, It's Another "Red Dawn"

North Korea (and audiences) go home unhappy.

Alleged Election Night Domestic Assault Has Local Attorney and Obama Fan Facing Felony Charge

An alleged domestic assault on election night has a local defense attorney and marine Iraq vet facing a felony family violence charge. According to court records, David Christopher Hesse was drinking beer and watching election returns with his wife Sandra Hesse in their Clear Lake-area home on Nove ... More >>

Wayne the Train: "I Just Don't See a Tour Bus In My Future"

One goes into an interview with Wayne "The Train" Hancock expecting to confront the ghost of Hank Williams, because the singer has made a good living the past 17 years channeling Hank and other classic country acts. And, as expected, Hancock, who broke onto the roots music scene in 1995 after appear ... More >>

Heart's Ann Wilson: Still a Fanatic

Rewind: Last Night: Heart at House of Blues (March 11, 2012) For decades, Heart has been one of the premiere, best-selling and most influential bands in rock. Starting with 1976 debut Dreamboat Annie, the group structured around Wilson sisters Ann (singing) and Nancy (guitars, occasional singing) h ... More >>

Houston's Austin Tice, Missing: The Most Dangerous Of Assignments -- Freelance Journalism In A War

When Houston journalist Austin Tice left for Syria eight months ago to cover the country's devolution and nascent civil war, he melted into a country that has become, both anecdotally and statistically, the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. He did it as a freelance reporter, pos ... More >>

Comin' Up: Happy 70th Birthday, Paul McCartney

By now you all know that today is Sir Paul McCartney's 70th birthday. Over on chron.com, there is a wire story on the milestone with a curious headline: "Say It Ain't So: Mop Top Paul McCartney Turns 70." Now does this mean that it's a shame he made it seven decades of service, or does it suck that ... More >>

Breaking It Down: The Hard Stuff

Painkiller addiction is one of the largest and fastest-growing problems among today's younger veterans.

Father Figures: 100 Famous Musicians' Paternal Professions

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 widely syndicated across the state, incl ... More >>

Chris Cornell's Best Non-Soundgarden Cuts

​Today is Chris Cornell's birthday, and the Soundgarden lead singer only seems to be getting younger, even at 47 years old. Seriously, last two times we have seen him, his voice keeps regressing back to the early Soundgarden days and he seems to be getting more spry. He lives in France with hi ... More >>

The 11 Sexiest, Coolest-Looking Cold War Jets

The F-106: The delta wing in all its glory​Jet aircraft, particularly the fighters, represent a Freudian's play date. Long, slender, blisteringly fast, spewing bullets out the tip and, until recently, powered as much by testosterone as by kerosene (the main ingredient in jet fuel -- what a dis ... More >>

Das Racist: Deconstructing The Rappers' References

​Over the past two years, Das Racist has been a Pitchfork favorite and highly revered for their witty, perhaps smarmy delivery of mostly historical and pop-culture references. The duo - trio if you include their hypeman, Dap, and quartet if you include their hypeman's hypeman, Lakutis - is com ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "California Cool," "Christian Eckart: The Absurd Vehicle & Other Propositions," "Plenitude," "Pteridomania," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"

Capsule Art Reviews: "California Cool," "Christian Eckart: The Absurd Vehicle & Other Propositions," "Plenitude," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines," "Tony Smith: Drawings"

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"

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"

Capsule Art Reviews: "flickerlounge: Short Films by John Herschend, Ben Peters and Lily Sparks," "Plenitude," "Pteridomania," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"

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"

Cougar on Prowl in Katy

Mom sexts her teen son's friend

Friday Night: KISS At The Woodlands

Photos by Groovehouse​KISS Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 17, 2010 For more photos from the show, see our slideshow here. There are those who say that KISS is dying. Fans have heard this before. ​Even before WWII, fathers sternly told their children that comic-book superher ... More >>

Local Spotlight: Angela's Oven

​ What: Fresh baked breads from a baker with military precision. Jerry Shawn never dreamed of being a baker. He happened upon it, quite literally. Shawn started baking -- or at least trying to bake -- when he was in the Marines, stumbling upon an Italian cookbook while weaving through a gara ... More >>

Houston Is Under Attack

Bedbugs threaten our slumber.

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 >>

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 >>

The Facts of LifeBag

Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. Th ... More >>

The Facts of LifePack

Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. Th ... More >>

Santa Round-Up Part Five: The Crying Game

This and every Christmas season the most important person is the baby Jesus, with a bearded, white-haired toy factory owner coming in a close second. Every year we flock to the malls to sit in our kids down on Santa's lap. Sometimes they run off screaming, while others take to the old guy just like ... More >>

Aftermath: Samantha Ronson at Rich's

She wasn't there. Yeah, I know why you clicked this headline. Lindsay Lohan was not at Rich's last night with her ladyfriend DJ, Samantha Ronson. Sorry, we had to get that out of the way. Last night at Rich's, all manner of celebrity-stalking, Perez-reading, catty-hating denizens were out in brute ... More >>

Ornery, Possibly Horny Brazoria Judge in Trouble

R.I.P. Benny Thurman, Original Thirteenth Floor Elevators Bassist

Sign Me Up

They'll take Iraq over Houston

Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

World Trade Center

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the twin towers

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

Letters to the Editor

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Man with the Mike

Ernie Manouse chitchats with visiting stars

Peace Through Art

"Made in Palestine" humanizes the Middle East conflict

Wooing the White Guy

Nicolas Cage plays the real protagonist in World War II epic about Navajo codetalkers

An Open Mike

He wants to castrate pedophiles and purge the courts of politics. He has assailed fellow jurists, lawyers and lawmakers. He's maverick Mike McSpadden, a tennis ace with a tomahawk tongue.

The Way Back

Funding cuts kill work programs as well as treatment services

News of the Weird

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