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Happy Inventors Day! 5 Musical Inventors to Celebrate

On this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed February 11 to be National Inventor's Day, and commanded the observation of same by all of us less awesome citizens. The day was chosen because it was the birthday of Thomas Edison, who held more than a thousand different patents, including pre ... More >>

Stand Up Guys

A blow to Al Pacino's Legacy

The 10 Funniest & Weirdest Country Song Titles

Country music has come a long way as far as popularity goes over the years, from the likes of such bygone greats as Ernest Tubb and Eddy Arnold to current favorites Sugarland and Dierks Bentley. But it has always had some rather... interesting-sounding song titles to grace listeners' ears. Shall we ... More >>

Blue-Eyed Butcher: Lifetime's Susan Wright Movie, Viciously Reviewed By One Of Her Attorneys

Susan Wright is the Houston woman who tied her husband to their bed and stabbed him 193 times. Kelly Siegler is the prosecutor who re-enacted that scene in court, bringing in a bed, tying a fellow prosecutor to it, and then fake-stabbing him 193 times for the jury's sake. Lifetime has made a movie ... More >>

Relationships Suck: Top 5 Movies About Awful Couplings

There is nothing more wonderful than being alone on Valentine's Day! Naturally, we are being sarcastic. As one half of a couple, Valentine's Day brings potential surprise engagements, co-worker jealousy-inducing flower deliveries, overpriced prix fixe dinners, a reason to shop at Victoria's Secret, ... More >>

Heidi Klum and Seal Videos That Will Make You Even More Sad About the Break-up

Since the news of Heidi Klum and Seal breaking up after seven years of marriage hit the Internet, you've probably been listening to this song a lot. Seal built Heidi an igloo when he proposed on a ski vacation, for God's sake, and the couple renewed their vows more times than most of us have been ma ... More >>

Turn It On, Leave It On: MTV's 10 Best Music Series

"Henry Rollins asks Kevin Shields how much he can bench on the next 120 Minutes..."​This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of MTV, that loud, hyper-colored behemoth that changed pop culture and the music industry forever, endlessly providing viewers with visual and mental stimul ... More >>

Friday Night: Rick Springfield & Spin Doctors At Arena Theatre

Photos by Bob Ruggiero​Rick Springfield, Spin Doctors Arena Theatre May 27, 2011 Looking around at the Arena Theatre audience Friday - heavily populated by forty- and fiftysomething women on a little Girls Night Out - it would be easy to dismiss them as estrogen bombs just waiting to detonat ... More >>

Metro Etiquette

Five rules that should be added to light rail.

Eating Good in the Neighborhood at Sakura Japanese Steakhouse

esthereggy​When a trusted friend from the Inner Loop of Houston recommends a restaurant in Pearland to me, I listen. As such, I found myself heading down FM 518 to sample Sakura Japanese Steakhouse. My friend had advised me to try some of the sushi rolls, which he likened to those being off ... More >>

Victoria's Secret? She Hates The Astros

Heidi Won't Touch The Astros​The Houston Astros are getting absolutely zero respect as the season prepares to open. The organization has been called one of the worst in baseball. The farm system is ranked 26th. The major league club is picked to be one of the worst in the game. The Forbes va ... More >>

The Ten Worst Movies of 2011...In Advance

Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

So What's Up With Kanye's "Power" Video?

Some rappers happen to be thoughtful, intelligent people. Every Monday that isn't a national holiday or pre-empted by HPMA showcase coverage, Rocks Off will have some of them hear discussing issues relevant to their culture. Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​This Week's Panel: Paul Wal ... More >>

Marisa Miller's Boobies Are Not Rated T For Teens

Back in 2008, supermodel Marisa Miller filmed this commercial for an edition of Guitar Hero, but it was deemed too sexy for television. Maybe it was the gratuitous cleavage and ass-shaking by a half-naked Victoria's Secret model that pushed the censors over the line or their sworn allegiance to t ... More >>

Straight from the Sole: Houston's Best Metal Bands

You know Soledad. He's the vocalist from controversial Houston rap-metal act Daylight Coma. He's got a lot to say. Sometimes it's insightful, sometimes less so, but it's almost always said with conviction. This week, in honor of the fast-approaching HPMA, we asked him who he thinks are Houston's fiv ... More >>

RIP Bob Dylan?

At first, when Rocks Off saw this flyer (right) come over ye olde MySpace, we didn't really give it much thought. It looked like a decent night of tunes from a bunch of dead rockers - maybe some "Lithium", a little "Purple Haze." After all, the night is dedicated to rockers who have gone on to t ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Donald Baechler — Recent Paintings and Collages," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," "Museum of Unnatural History," "PRISMATTAK"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

Bar Refaeli, Sports Illustrated's New Cover Girl

Just keep in mind it's an ad; the hair is not her fault. This young lady is Bar Refaeli, swimsuit model and the just-announced cover girl for Sports Illustrated's 2009 Swimsuit Issue. This young lady is also the girlfriend of one Leonardo DiCaprio. Now let's think about this for a moment.

Bar Refaeli, Sports Illustrated's New Cover Girl

Just keep in mind it's an ad; the hair is not her fault. This young lady is Bar Refaeli, swimsuit model and the just-announced cover girl for Sports Illustrated's 2009 Swimsuit Issue. This young lady is also the girlfriend of one Leonardo DiCaprio. Now let's think about this for a moment.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Museum of Unnatural History," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Neva Mikulicz: Recent Work," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications," "Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North"

Capsule Art Reviews: Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings, Hot and Grounded, Neva Mikulicz: Recent Work, Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications, Susan Chen: Butterflies Shift North

Celebrity Wedding Present

Who has the upper hand in various musician-celebrity marriages?

N.E.R.D.: Seeing Sounds

Giselle Bundchen, Carrie Underwood, Bridget Moynihan and Jessica Simpson -- Yep, We're Talking Football

The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists

A new book compiles punk's greatest hits and biggest dicks

Scott Gertner's Sports Bar Live

Sports Bar Punch

Year of the Dog

Mike White's low-key directorial debut makes nice while slyly nipping at suburban America

Phat Promises for 2007

New Year's resolutions of the stars

What's Underneath

A seamstress makes Intimate Apparel at Main Street Theater

Scenes from a Mall

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Pantie Parade

The Alley Theatre unveils Steve Martin's Underpants

Monster Mash

Jackal and Hyde breed badass beats

More than Music

Hollywood goes Texan at the South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference

Flickering into the Future

A new exhibition redefines "art house"

A Bad Moon Rising

Research sheds new light on Van Gogh's Moonrise

Texas Monthly's Bullshit

The magazine offers yet another favor to a Bush

Taking the Plunge

Saad Mahmoud is a Rice engineering grad. Instead of fielding $60,000-a-year job offers, he's been trading manual-labor skills for rent-free living -- while waiting out one of the worst job markets in two decades.

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Highland Village

Best Reason to Go to the Galleria

Sephora

Non Mall Shopping Adventures

Shopping adventures

Letters

From the February 24, 2000 issue

Amplified

Out In Sight

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

Jazzed Up

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Strange Days

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