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Top 5 Old Songs Ripe for Hipster Updates

After having grown up in a pop-music culture that every day grows more adept at rehashing, re-imagining and (let's be frank) flat-out stealing sounds from those who came before, today's indie bands are no strangers to aping their influences. And unlike post-punk and grunge before them, this class do ... More >>

Some Real World Techie Advice for Petraeus, His Wife, His Mistress and Cheaters in General

I'm no Dear Abby (she's shorter than me), but reading the sordid details of the David Petraeus affair and how the whole thing blew up in his face causing him to resign from the CIA helped to confirm the fact that way too many people do not understand technology and need some help. Oh, sure, my first ... More >>

Dogs Seized From Spindletop Need a Loving Home, So What's Your Deal?

A dozen dogs seized from the Spindletop Dog Refuge last month are still at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter and in need of forever homes. So what the heck are you waiting for? They all vary in breed, age, and temperament, but they're all the same in one crucial way: they've all languished in th ... More >>

George Lopez: I’m Not Going to Lie

Friday Night: Rev. Al Green At Arena Theatre

Rev. Al Green Arena Theatre April 27th, 2012 Mark my words. If you check the local hospitals exactly nine months from now, you will surely see a spike in activity in the maternity wards. Al Green gets everyone and anyone into the baby-making mood. Even the comedian who opened the show alluded to th ... More >>

Keep It Up: 5 Songs For Viagra

It was on this day in 1998 that your email inbox was changed forever when the FDA OK-ed the use of Viagra for use in treating erectile dysfunction, the first pill in the United States approved to do so. The drug was originally researched as a treatment for angina, but doctors noticed that while it w ... More >>

Save Yourself: The 10 Worst Online Retailers

Ads like this are the only reason to visit AmericanApparel.com...if you like that sort of thing​It's frustrating enough to shop for friends and family members during the holidays. Do I get my 80-year-old aunt a gift card to Kroger or H-E-B? Decisions, decisions. Unfortunately, some online mer ... More >>

Happy 30th, Britney! Maybe Now You Can Finally Put These Performances Behind You

The face that launched a thousand Bob Doles​Where were you in...'81? Rocks Off was in junior high, spending long, solitary afternoons in his bedroom listening to Moving Pictures and Dark Side of the Moon and wondering why no girls seemed to be interested in playing Squad Leader. But 1981 also ... More >>

(Not So) Odd Pair: Wine and Sex

​The publication, last week, of the first English-language translation of the Japanese manga comic Drops of God by Tadashi Agi (a pseudonym for brother and sister Shin and Yuko Kibayashi) aroused my, ahem, curiosity. I have not yet read it but am dying to. The editors of the prestigious Br ... More >>

Eight Businesses We Expect Will Be Getting Custom Texas License Plates Soon

​We recently wrote about a new crop of Texas license plates with a variety of themes, most of them sports related. One of the designs, however, was for the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain that isn't even based in the Lone Star State. We certainly understand the passion of a sports fan, but ... More >>

Gourds Unleash Old Mad Joy On Unsuspecting Public

Joe Ryan​As an album title, Old Mad Joy sounds like redundancy when placed in the context of Austin roots rock gonzos the Gourds. As anyone who has ever been in earshot of the band or its records, if the Gourds could bottle the music and sell it at the drug store, the corporations who manufact ... More >>

True Blood: Drunken Vampires & Danko Jones

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. ​Gothtopia first read Dracula at age 8, and Anne Rice's Inter ... More >>

En Wang: Yes, a Man Named Wang Gets Three Years for Selling Fake Viagra

A satisfied customer​En Wang is one great name to put on a business card, especially if you're selling fake Viagra. And since your company is called Jiao Long USAO, you can get even more creative and emphasize some words. Wang isn't around to hear this advice, however; he is on the run. That ... More >>

Where's the Blueberry? New Report Exposes the Truth

LarryB08So healthful...and expensive. ​Little. Blue. Packs a powerful punch. No, we're not talking Viagra, we're referring to the blueberry. King on the list of "superfoods," blueberries are chock full of cancer cell inhibitors and anti-inflammatory agents. In addition, recent research has f ... More >>

"Come On Buick, Light My Fire."

Not official Nike footwear.​Like most of Western society, I'd figured I was pretty much numb to the use of popular songs in commercials. I don't know how far back the practice dates, exactly, but I remember the anecdote from No One Here Gets Out Alive about Jim Morrison shooting down the sugge ... More >>

Sex Please, We’re Sixty

Twitter Follow Friday -- My 24 Favorite Tweets From @OMGFactsSex (with commentary)

It's all about the sex​It's a bye week Friday, so we don't have the Texans defense to kick around this week. So I'm going to use my Friday post as a forum to do the new and exciting Friday activity that's sweeping the nation -- telling people to follow other people on Twitter! Riveting! Actuall ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: The Flying Saucer

​The Place: Flying Saucer705 Main St. 713-228-9472www.beerknurd.comThe Hours: Tuesday through Thursday 4-7 p.m.; Friday 4-8 p.m.The Deals: Daily drink specials. Mondays, for example, feature $3 pints and on Wednesdays, you can get 23-ounce beers at pint prices. The Scene: It was sometime durin ... More >>

A Valentine's Day Sure Thing

Photo by shalawesome​Let's face it; you want to get lucky this Valentine's Day. Well, we hate to be the bearer of bad news, but chocolate isn't going to get you there. Neither are oysters, caviar or champagne. We know all the men out there have their heads in their hands, groaning, "Great, w ... More >>

Hiding on the Backstreets, Part 3: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Last (and Final?) Four Houston Shows

[Ed. Note: This is the final installment of our series reminiscing on Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's long history in Houston. See here for the '70s, and here for the '80s and '90s.] April 18, 2000: E Street Band Reunion Tour, Compaq Center (the Summit) Daniel Kramer​"It was on this to ... More >>

Top 5 Cheesiest Soft Drink Commercials

Coca-Cola Hilltop Commercial Thirty years ago, Coca-Cola imagined itself as the arbiter of world peace. Let's just buy the world a Coke and everything will be hunky-dory. Today, America is often despised as a "Coca-Cola" culture, and Coke itself is blamed for the skyrocketing rates of obesity and ... More >>

The NFL's RedZone: God's Gift To Football Fans

​For a Texas resident, I don't watch a hell of a lot of football. I went to UT, so I'll try to tune in for a significant Big 12 game as opposed to the annual Little Big Horns versus Louisiana-Monroe or Rice.Being a Texans fan makes Sunday especially excruciating, and anyway I -- like many people ... More >>

Up Close And (Maybe Too) Personal At TUTS's Cabaret

Photo by Bruce Bennett Photography, courtesy TUTSTheatergoers taking in TUTS's production of Cabaret (Recommended, although blue-haired TUTS's version of Weimar Republic "decadence" isn't exactly R-rated) have several seating choices -- way, way back in the depths of the cavernous Hobby Center, up a ... More >>

Aftermath: B.B. King at House of Blues

Photos by Mark C. Austin   B.B. King deserves a break. If the genial Buddha of the blues, now 83, would rather spend the bulk of his two-hour set bantering with the sold-out crowd about Viagra (groan) and the wayward ways of womankind instead of, you know, singing and playing, he's earne ... More >>

If You're Gonna Be Extradited, It Might As Well Be For Selling Fake Viagra

Randy Gonzales can be proud, indeed: He is the first man ever extradited to the United States for selling fake boner pills. Top o' the world, Ma!!!! Gonzales was sentenced today to 20 months in federal prison without parole for selling fake Viagra and Cialis over the Internet. Agents seized ov ... More >>

Buttermilk--The New Yogurt?

Houston Women Will Test What Everyone But Doctors Call Female Viagra

Hef and His Lady Split (Or, The Most Pathetic Story Ever)

This Just In: Watermelon Good for Blood Flow (and Erections)

Viagra and Roger Clemens: New Information Pops Up, er, Arises, er, Reveals Itself, er…

Wendy Wagner Takes Home the Hunting Prize

Finesse Mitchell

Former SNL cast member rings in the New Year at the Laff Stop

Houston Ballet's Fall 2007 Mixed Repertory Program

The Houston Ballet gets provocative with its mixed rep program

Drenched in Blog: Fair Warning

UNDER THE VOLCANO'S

STRAWBERRY BASIL MARGARITA

DVDs

Dear John

(Man) Love and War

Fountain of Youth

The kids in Shulton's Youth have talent, ambition and a record deal. But is that enough?

Fly Ballas

T-Mac and fellow all-star hoopsters trade the court for the diamond

Beefcake

Something kinky's cookin' at Nooky's Erotic Bakery

The Black Godfather

The wit and wisdom of Andre Williams

"Red" Hot

DJ-producer Tony Moran stops by South Beach for a scandalous Valentine's Day party

Stiff Mussel

Tall Cool One

Strapping comedian Gary Gulman and fellow Last Comic Standing alums hit the road

Mower Heads

Weekend racers circle the track on their John Deeres

Prelude to a Kiss

Speaking off the toque: Joe Mannke

Your Friend, the Germ

Microbes are the stars of this exhibit

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