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Playbill: Sister Sister y Los Misters

That's a Lot of Photos

…But That Doesn’t Mean the Sex Is Safe

How Mexican Is Mexican Enough?

College Tuition In Texas Just Keeps Going Up

Jennifer Fitts

Friday, August 15

Static

Friday, August 15

Press Picks

Friday, August 15

Night & Day

March 19-25, 1998

Seemen Mixer

March 19-25, 1998

Shades of Gay

March 19-25, 1998

Capitaine Blood

March 19-25, 1998

Do Not Go Gentle

Former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby fights on for better, more diverse education in Texas

Letters

Former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby fights on for better, more diverse education in Texas

Elaine Bradford: “Museum of Unnatural History”

Local crocheting taxidermy artist creates new tails and tales for her latest exhibit

Chess Masters at UT-Brownsville

An open-admissions university has become a national powerhouse in the collegiate game.

Creationism, Food Not Bombs, Fake Panhandling

Texas may okay creationism degrees

Double Trouble

Two juried shows stir up the Houston art scene

Talk to Mee

A dialogue with a local indie punker about the cultural cringe

Shorthanded

Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

Chillin' with tha Eskimoz

We have a Whatachat with the guys behind the fast-food rap video

Porn to Be Wild

Just what was on the probation director's computer?

Letters

Just what was on the probation director's computer?

Best Graffiti

Chicken Boy

Reptomania

The Austin Lounge Lizards steal hearts and minds by feasting on sacred cows

Fade to Black

The wasted life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell

The Insider

Where Have All the Women Gone? Discrimination charges spotlight UH's lack of female leadership

If Halloween Is Coming, So Are Offensive Costumes

​The "Illegal Alien" costume causing uproar amongst immigrant rights activists, anti-immigrant supporters and free speech advocates is the first major faux pas of this Halloween season. While anti-immigrant supporters are scrambling to find the costume, immigrant rights activists are calling for ... More >>

Cougars Want Sex, UT Study Determines

Talking to the Longhorns​If Hair Balls ever approached a bunch of cougars (the human kind) and asked a series of questions about their sexual fantasies and escapades, we'd probably get pepper-sprayed. But when a team of researches at the University of Texas-Austin did it, they got published. ... More >>

Whites Not A Majority In UT-Austin's Freshman Class

UT's freshman class becomes majority-minority​For the first time, whites don't make up a majority of the freshman class at the University of Texas at Austin.Students self-described as "white" make up 47.6 of the incoming class (that 47.6 percent equals 3,464 students). Last year it was 51.1 percen ... More >>

Despite Suicide, UT Still On Lockdown

Grim news on UT-Austin's website:September 28, 2010 at 9:38 amThe university is open.A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Police are searching for possible second shooter.Lock doors, do not leave your building. The incident has been going on since shortly after nine this morning, and included ... More >>

UT Speech In Favor Of Concealed Handguns Will Go On Tonight

Photo courtesy DPSColton Joshua Tooley: He concealed his gun​Colton Joshua Tooley didn't take anyone with him in the incident at UT-Austin today, but he scared to death students and parents who followed events breathlessly on the net.Many of the stories mentioned that a speech was scheduled for to ... More >>

Rice Sudents Had A Great Sexual Year, Apparently

Rice gets it on​Today in Self-Serving "Studies," we have what is no doubt highly sophisticated and peer-approved from the people who make Trojan condoms.They're put their annual report on "sexual health" on America's college campuses, looking at such things as condom availability, health center ho ... More >>

Is Ex-Velvet Moe Tucker A Tea Partier Or Not?

​The Velvet Underground has certainly had an interesting second act. After Andy Warhol's favorite NYC "party" band soundtracked countless narcotic jags and laid the foundation for everything from punk rock to shoegaze, its members went on to very different lives: Lou Reed to street-life classi ... More >>

So You Want To Be The University of Texas Offensive Coordinator...APPLY HERE

What are the hours?​As a resident of the great state of Texas, it pains me to see our tax dollars being wasted. Case in point, somewhere in Austin there is a person who had to spend a couple hours of his or her day posting the offensive and defensive coordinator positions for the University ... More >>

Best Public School Bargains: UT, A&M But Not UH

UH: Not in the top 100 bargains​Kiplinger's has released its annual list of the best bargains among the country's public schools and Cougars, you ain't on it. Three Texas schools made the list -- UT-Austin, Texas A&M and UT-Dallas, which is in Richardson but who's asking? None of the schools ... More >>

Chanel Dizzle: Much More Than Just A "Barre Baby"

Chanel's Facebook fan page​Rocks Off was pretty much blown away by that video of angelic-looking YouTube user ChanelDizzle singing the dirty hits of members of the Screwed Up Click, which we posted about last week. So we decided to get in touch with her and find out if she had dreams of becomi ... More >>

Concealed Carry on Campus: (Conservative) Students Agree, Now Is the Time

What the sensible college student should be carrying​Things we learned today: "The Texas College Republicans and Young Conservatives of Texas don't always see eye to eye." Big Tent, baby!!! The claim comes in an announcement that -- despite the overwhelming variety of opinions among members o ... More >>

Great Minds

Our MasterMind winners speak up.

Ira Perez: Fierce As The Tiger She Will One Day Own

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. Ira Perez on FacebookR ... More >>

Dead People We Wish We'd Seen

​Regrets, sang Frank Sinatra, Elvis and Sid Vicious, I've had a few. (Or, for Sid, a feee-yooouuu.) So have we all. But if you review concerts for a living, there's nothing worse than someone you like dying before you get the chance to see them live. So for this week's Round Table, Rocks Off ... More >>

UH Holding Out for More Tier One Funds, Blocking Legislative Deal

Coogs pushing hard in Austin.​The University of Houston is the last holdout in a vote to set the funding distribution method out of a voter-backed endowment devoted to ramping up the number of nationally ranked universities in Texas. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are the st ... More >>

Aggies More Financially Successful Than Longhorns, Cougars, According to Study

​Looks like the tea sippers need to work a little harder and/or become a bit more driven to best the Aggies. PayScale recently published a study that breaks down earned income for college graduates. The 2010-11 survey, which is supported by 2010 United States Census data, is broken into two ... More >>

Joe King Carrasco's Life Is One Long Party Weekend

Photos via joeking.comJoe King Carrasco & the Crownettes in Pasadena, Calif.​The best one-word descriptor for Joe King Carrasco? After a 20-minute phoner with the Sultan of Tex-Mex music, Rocks Off is going with ebullient. Something in Carrasco's upbeat, positive ramblings signal that he doe ... More >>

Texas A&M Athletics: No Longer a Bridesmaid to UT?

​Maybe, just maybe, Texas A&M is about to stop being the University of Texas-Austin's bitch. On Thursday, the Texas A&M Board of Regents will meet in a closed-door, informational confab, according to a San Antonio Express-News report, to discuss the Longhorn Network, a 24-hour-a-day channel ... More >>

Scoremore: College Rap Promoters Bank On Diversity, Sharp Ears

He Shoots, He Scores: Scoremore's Sascha Stone Guttfreund​Sascha Stone Guttfreund is a 22-year-old UT-Austin graduate who has already accomplished more than most concert promoters who have been in the game longer than Guttfreund has been in college. In 2008, the Los Angeles native booked his ... More >>

Pharrell Launches New Qream Liqueur At Exclusive Event

Photos by Marco Torres​Pharrell Williams wears many hats. He's a Grammy-Award winning producer, singer, songwriter, rapper, and successful clothing designer. Amongst those things, Williams has picked up one more project to juggle. Friday night, Williams dropped into Houston for the launch of ... More >>

Cover Story: UH Grad Sues African-American Fraternity Omega Psi Phi for Alleged Hazing

​Lee West III, a University of Houston junior and Omega Psi Phi pledge, says that during underground pledging meetings for the African-American fraternity (which turns 100 years old next month) in February 2009, he was beaten with a television antenna, a paddle and a broomstick that eventually ... More >>

“Dennis Harper: Born in the Bayou”

​Lee West III, a University of Houston junior and Omega Psi Phi pledge, says that during underground pledging meetings for the African-American fraternity (which turns 100 years old next month) in February 2009, he was beaten with a television antenna, a paddle and a broomstick that eventually ... More >>