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Astros Opening Day 2013: Fans Weigh In With Hopes & Opinions On AL Baseball

For as long as I remember, I've been a baseball fan. Which is kinda strange considering I never played Little League, didn't learn how to hold a bat or catch a ball until my best friend taught me in high school, and my father's favorite sports team are fútbol-playing goats (Las Chivas Rayadas de Gu ... More >>

Patrick Mies Is Obsessed With The Spartan Death Race. Is That A Bad Thing?

Patrick Mies II is a very intense individual, the kind who will barely let you get a word in edgewise in a conversation. I have called him to talk about his participation in something called the Spartan Death Race, and I have just inadvertently become a part of his first challenge. Mies, 33, is one ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Flying Solo," "Gilad Efrat: Negev," "Jonathan Faber: Surface," "Peat Duggins: Wreaths"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Flying Solo," "[Houston Times Eight]," "Jonathan Faber: Surface," "Joseph Havel: Hope and Desire," "Shane Tolbert: Talk of Montauk"

Capsule Stage Reviews: Assassins, Body Awareness, Fleaven, Murdering Marlowe, The Oldest Profession,

Capsule Stage Reviews: Body Awareness, The Italian Girl in Algiers, La Bohème, The Oldest Profession, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

The Eating Our Words 100: Benjy Mason of Down House

Eating Our Words has embarked on a project to profile 100 Houston culinarians of all fields, practices, careers and backgrounds. This isn't a Best of Houston list, it's not a 100 Favorites list and it's not in any particular order. Instead, the Eating Our Words 100 is a way to introduce our readers ... More >>

5 Bands That Thankfully Still Aren't Getting Back Together

With all the bands reuniting these days, it's hard to say anything is forever in the world of music. Bands are even getting smart and putting themselves on "indefinite hiatus" rather than actually "breaking up." See, they're just going away for a while. A "break up" would be too much of a commitment ... More >>

Top 5 Food Products Whose Containers Are Better Than Their Contents

When I was a tween, I had a weird fixation with Snapple bottles. I thought the label design was cool, and I liked the way a whole row of empty bottles of different varieties (including the abandoned line of sodas) looked lined on my bedroom window pane. Exciting times, let me tell you. I've since gi ... More >>

Last Night: Explosions In the Sky at Warehouse Live

Explosions In The Sky, Zammuto Warehouse Live June 17, 2012 Our neighbors from just a few hours away, Explosions In The Sky, dropped in Sunday night to keep the Texas pride going and share more of their elaborate musical talents with not a single lyric spoken. Many may know, Explosions in the Sky ... More >>

The Best LP Side Ones Ever

Spurred on by the realization that both David Bowie's commercial breakthrough Let's Dance and Queen's News of the World had solid, sturdy side ones on their vinyl releases, I then began the hunt for other great vinyl slabs with amazing side ones. Of course, the idea is that this could only include ... More >>

One Year After Woman Gets Masters In The Beatles, We Hunt Down Most Bizarre College Music Courses

A year ago today, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy of Ontario became the first person in the world to earn a master's degree in The Beatles. I'm not quite sure what she's doing now, but I do know she could probably kick anyone's ass in Beatles trivia. This little anniversary of her graduation got me think ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Nutcracker

"Eat More Kale" Guy Pisses Off Chick-fil-A; Unlike Cows, He Can Spell

Vermont folk artist and small businessman Bo Muller-Moore has gone and done pissed off the folks over at Chick-fil-A with his "Eat More Kale" T-shirts. Muller-Moore began printing the slogan when his kale-farmer friend asked him to make T-shirts for friends and family. "Eat More Kale" seemed to ca ... More >>

Mitch Burman: Rock-Star Club Owner Totes Up His Dues

Photos courtesy of Mitch Burman​Mitch Burman, owner of Jet Lounge and all-around rock star, has worked and played hard for the better part of two decades in Houston's music scene. It's all paying off now, but success didn't come easy. Besides being a successful business owner, Burman is also ... More >>

Texas AG Greg Abbott Grabs The Spotlight In Fight Against EPA's Tailpipe-Emissions Rule

Greg Abbott leads a mostly southern uprising​Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wants everyone to know that he is doing everything he can to stop the federal Environmental Protection Agency from trying to implement greenhouse-gas limits on cars and trucks. In the latest of a series of lawsuit ... More >>

Gun Control: Texas Is A Namby-Pamby Liberal State, New Study Shows

Don't mess with Texas, Brady Center​If there's one piece of pride Texans can hang their hat on, it's that our legislators can be counted on to bring the crazy when it comes to (lack of) gun control. So it is with a heavy heart we bring you the state-by-state rankings of the Brady Campaign to ... More >>

What Are Houston Chefs Cooking This Thanksgiving?

Photo by Carbon NYC​Thanksgiving: A day to gather with your loved ones and give thanks? Or a day to display your culinary prowess to friends and family? Increasingly, the emphasis has been on the latter in the past few years, as people try to dress up the traditional Thanksgiving spread and im ... More >>

Dancing With The Stars: Ready... Aim... Fire!

getreligion.orgElvis' shot-up TV wound up in a museum. Steven Cowan's probably won't.​As someone who is both left-handed and left-footed, and has carried a bizarre taffeta-related phobia with us since childhood, Rocks Off generally goes out of our way to avoid Dancing With the Stars at all cos ... More >>

Friday Night: Tim & Eric At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​ Tim & Eric, Neil Hamburger FItzgerald's November 12, 2010 It took Aftermath a while to "get" Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Awesome Show (Great Job). We were a fan of their original Adult Swim offering, Tom Goes to the Mayor, but at first unfairly lumped in their m ... More >>

Liz Thorpe on Maligned Cheeses, Haven and the Houston Dairymaids

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttI want to be Liz Thorpe when I grow up.​Yesterday, we took a look at the new Murray's Cheese kiosks that are springing up in Kroger stores across Houston (well, in three stores...so far). Liz Thorpe is the vice president of Murray's Cheese Shop and a noted expert in ... More >>

StubHub: Houston Is More "Rockin'" Than Vegas, Less So Than Hartford and Milwaukee

Craig HlavatyThe Phish of the Southwest and king of Houston's summer concert hill: George Strait​Online ticket broker StubHub.com released its annual list of America's Top 20 "Most Rockin' Cities" Friday, with Houston holding steady at No. 17 for the second year in a row. We probably would have be ... More >>

Downtown Attraction The Grove

A destination restaurant that only sometimes gets it right.

A Short History of Shrimp Grits

Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>

In Need: Signal to Noise

Houston experimental-music journal needs a hand

Re-Scattering Willie Nelson's Stardust, 30 Years Later

Healthy For a Day (or Two): Marathon Dining at Ziggy’s and Field of Greens

What a Dump: Get Ready for the Super Bowl

The Art of Noise

Signal to Noise founder Pete Gershon turns his private collection into art

I Am Legend

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works

Get Lit: Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips, by National Geographic

Playbill: Johnny Falstaff

News to Use

A Pearland guy causes a Beltway firestorm

Digital Manual

The MFAH puts on a watershed exhibition of works by Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom

Letters

Frankincense and Popcorn

Coffee and conversation at Blue Nile

Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Democrats' dilemma: the difference between antiwar and anti-U.S.

Tipsy Gypsies

Gogol Bordello combines Balkan folk traditions with a theater of anarchy

Chris Whitley

Friday, May 3

Immodest Proposals

The solution to Houston's image problems? Spin them away.

Pigskin Parade

A nonevent gets blanket coverage

Giving Up the Ghost

The only thing deader than the haunted spirit in What Lies Beneath is the movie itself

Symphony for Orchestra and Bullhorn

Composer Eve Beglarian

Back to the Beat

Source pays homage to Kerouac and company

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News of the Weird

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June 18 - 24, 1998

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