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(White) Girl Power
July 25, 2007Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More
May 1, 2008It's Vacation (And Work) In Uganda For A Houstonian
July 31, 2008Today Is A Holiday, Dammit
Boxing Day - the day after Christmas -- is on most of our calendars, usually with the caveat that it has something to do with Canada. If Americans ever stop to think of it all, most of us grow up thinking it is related to the sweet science.It doesn't. Instead, it's a holiday with its origins in the stratified class system of Great Britain."Basically, it's Christmas for the working-class," says local antiques dealer Colin Gibbins, a native of Northampton, England. "The servants would box up the l
December 26, 2008Robb's Oyster Book
My new book Sex, Death & Oysters: A Half Shell Lover's World Tour was released January 1 and is now selling on Amazon. I'll make the rounds of Houston bookstores this week signing as many copies as I can find. It was a 2004 cover story by the same name in the Houston Press that got the ball rolling on this book project. It gave me a great excuse to go eat oysters in England, Ireland, France and Canada and in most of the places where oysters are grown in the U.S. I also managed to earn a place
January 5, 2009British India
August 4, 1994What Invasion?
May 2, 1996"Knitta, Please" Lives On And Goes International
It's been three years since we first wrote about Knitta, the Montrose artistes who were pioneering the art of guerrilla knitting.Since then the phenomenon has spread worldwide, according to today's UK Telegraph."Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing'" is the headline.You'll have to imagine hearing this in a plummy BBC accent:The phenomenon, called Yarnbombing, is thought to have originated in the US but knitters are now beginning to cover British streets in woollen 'tags'.Quite oft
January 30, 2009Highs and Lows
July 25, 1996Souls Shaken, Minds Stirred
February 6, 1997Scare Tactics
May 22, 1997Into the Groovy
November 12, 1998St. Patrick's Day Special: Flogging Molly, "Fuck You I'm Drunk"
Fun Fact: Before he found Irish-punk religion in L.A., Flogging Molly frontman Dave King sang in front of ex-Motorhead and UFO members in '80s UK hair-metal also-rans Fastway.
March 17, 2009News of the Weird
June 24, 1999InPrint: Bill Bryson
The author of I’m a Stranger Here Myself pays a visit to Houston
April 16, 2009Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival
May 22, 2008Fine Hour: Short Films by Humphrey Jennings
This Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s program shows a complex British filmmaker from multiple angles
May 15, 2008Celtic Scots and Hispanic Mexicans
May 1, 2008This Is England
Shane Meadows lovingly re-creates his Thatcher-era England youth, but loses perspective
September 6, 2007All Your Bass
April 6, 2006On the Right Track
March 16, 2006Mix and Madge
March 23, 2006Side Show
We are Siamese, if you please
July 12, 2007Family Ties
For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie
December 28, 2006Escalator Buffet
Bombay Brasserie's new second-story location will have to do for the time being
July 27, 2006Are They the New Beatles?
Nope. But the Arctic Monkeys might be the next Who
June 15, 2006The Business, with Roger Miret and the Disasters
Thursday, May 18, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717
May 18, 2006See Also: Vexing
V for Vendetta delivers less, not Moore
March 16, 2006Nine Black Alps
Tuesday, March 21, Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727
March 16, 2006The Hype of March
Who will be the band of 2006, and why you shouldn’t care
March 16, 2006Marrying the Mainstream
White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records
December 23, 2004Marrying the Mainstream
White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records
December 23, 2004Follow Your Snows
The Final Straw breaks the camel's back of Snow Patrol's obscurity
October 7, 2004The Prodigy
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (Maverick/XL)
September 30, 2004Curry for the Laddies
London Sizzler serves up Indian food made the British way
July 8, 2004Gastropub Crawl
The Red Lion isn't just another fake British pub -- it's an authentically fake British pub
February 26, 2004You, Spy
Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?
July 31, 2003Caged Angels
Chart-toppers in the UK, Ash is happy on the American club circuit. But how long will it stay there?
May 29, 2003Girls with Balls
The UK's Bend It Like Beckham scores big
April 3, 2003What Would Woody Do?
Billy Bragg and the Blokes want to know
October 24, 2002Playbill
Steel Pulse
July 5, 2001How Now Mad Cow?
Europe has a problem with diseased cattle. Should Texans be wary?
April 5, 2001Important Imports
The U.K.'s Travis is big in Europe really
September 21, 2000Slaughterhouse Five
The Gut Girls
September 16, 1999News of the Weird
July 8, 1999Lost Tuneage: Sweet (Formerly The Sweet)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_(band)Who 'Dat? From the land of England in 1968 came a band called The Sweetshop, featuring singer Brian Connolly, bassist Steve Priest, drummer Mick Tucker and guitarist Frank Torpey slogging it out on the pub circuit. By 1970, Andy Scott had replaced Torpey, and the band became The Sweet. A few singles and a record deal followed, but it wasn't until the band was paired with songwriting duo Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman that The Sweet began a U.K. chart attack with inno
May 5, 2009Top 5 Cold Drinks: Alcoholic Version
A lovely, limey caipirinhaA while back we made a list of beverages that hit the spot in hot weather. But we didn't include anything with alcohol the first time. An ice-cold beer usually does the trick, but sometimes a balmy evening calls for a beverage with a muddled ingredient or cocktail umbrella. 5. Caipirinha. Yes, Brazilians look better in bikinis than we do, but at least now we can drink their booze. For a while cachaça, the main ingredient in a caipirinha, was not readily available, an
July 8, 2009Cutout Bin: Censored and "Recalled" Album Covers
The Beatles, Yesterday and Today (1966) We start with perhaps the best-known example of a "recalled" album cover. When advance copies were sent to stores and DJs, there was an immediate uproar over the cover, showing the band covered in baby parts and bloody meat. All copies were ordered to be returned to the manufacturer. These copies were "pasted over" with a new cover and sent back to stores. Only a handful of copies escaped the "repasting" and are of course valuable collector items. Many
July 16, 2009Cutout Bin: Album Cover Wars!
​ The Party Boys, The Party Boys Epic (UK), 1987 Big hair /mustache combo: -1 Paisley vest: -1 Balding/long hair combo: -3 Mullet n' bolo tie combo: -3 Reeboks (-2 per shoe x 4) = -8 Eko guitar: 2 Thumbs up (-3 per thumb x 2) = -6 From England: -3 TOTAL: -23
August 27, 2009Sinking Ship
November 12, 2009
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