Vietnam

War/Photography

Images of battles won and lost paint us all with the brush of brutality at a searing, resonating MFAH exhibit.

This Week in Deliciousness

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we firmly believe that crawfish have been mollycoddled for far too long in this city. With that in mind, get prepared for this crawfish season with a little primer from our own Katharine Shilcutt. It's simple, easy-to-follow, and - f ... More >>

Breaking It Down

It may not be PTSDs or brain injuries that pose the most long-term danger to our surviving vets from their Middle East tours.

''Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage''

Ingredient of the Week: Black-Eyed Peas

Happy New Year! Forget that pesky diet; start off 2012 on the right (lucky) foot with some black-eyed peas. (We're talking the legume, not the music group.) Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's for good luck and prosperity has long been a southern tradition. Some say it stems from Rosh Hashana, ... More >>

The 10 Best Warplane Films, According to Real Aviation Buffs (No Top Gun, Thank You)

Featuring a proto-beatnik jet pilot​With the possible exceptions of horses and ships, no other non-speaking entity has starred in so many motion pictures as the airplane. And we love airplanes. We love them so much we've probably seen every last airplane movie worth watching, and even more tha ... More >>

Las Puertas: 10 Things You May Not Know About The Doors

"Hey Robby, don't try to look too not-stoned in our press still. Thanks, buddy."​On this day in 1965, The Doors began recording demos together, laying down some songs set to Jim Morrison's freaky poems. Nearly 50 years later, the band is an exalted classic-rock group, firmly implanted in that ... More >>

Photobombs Through the Ages

The pinnacle of modern-day photobombing​Photobombing might have reached its peak at the Golden Globes when Michael Douglas PB'd his way into a picture with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie. The phenomenon has become popular on the internet, of course, and as with everything el ... More >>

What Is Classic Rock Today?

​What is classic rock in 2010? 15 years ago, it was was the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, anything Eric Clapton touched and every band your dad played in his car while he was making out with the girls he met before your mom. That's how we know classic rock: Big riffs, big voices, in ... More >>

The Top Five Bank-Robbery Scene Soundtracks

​It's been quite a summer for bank robberies in the Bayou City. It seems like more banks are being plundered than ever before by a rogue's gallery that includes the XXXL Bandit, the "Master of Disguise" and the Bicycle Brigands. Whether coincidence or felonious response to a dismal economy, th ... More >>

Nancy Ames: This Is What KUHT Fundraising Needs Again

KUHT, always with the fundraising and "Viewers Like You" and all that.They think they can get us to donate with some cheap Les Miz collector's CD, a totebag and some doo-wop reunion concerts? No chance.KUHT used to take this stuff seriously. As evidenced by the above clip, featuring Houston songstr ... More >>

Has Eminem Rescued His Reputation On Recovery?

​Eminem is an interesting fellow. He was when he lit the world on fire with The Slim Shady LP back in 1999, and when he followed that up a year later with The Marshall Mathers LP. He was even interesting when he clumsily scrapped together some songs in 2009 and called it an album (Relapse, or, ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Believe It Or Not, There Are Worse Ideas Than Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft

I can't wait to hear her English accent.​It's been a rough week: we found out the BP oil spill may spread across the Atlantic Ocean and threaten England's blessed shores (which, let's admit it, would be pretty hilarious) and dealt with the campaign in Afghanistan supplanting Vietnam as America ... More >>

Top 8 Post-2000 Soldier Songs

​Like many of you, Rocks Off has friends and family members who have served (or are serving) in our armed forces. Memorial Day is when we honor the sacrifice so many of them have made - and are still making - fighting America's wars. Songs about the hardships suffered by soldiers and their familie ... More >>

What About Bob?

Patti Smith's new book makes good on her 20-year-old promise to Robert Mapplethorpe.

"Dead Landscape"

Jennifer Pastor goes hand-to-hand with images of war

Vietnam Vet to America: Stick Veterans Day Where The Sun Don't Shine

​Dave Collins is a Vietnam veteran, and he wants to abolish Veteran's Day. "I would also like to see yellow-ribbon stickers outlawed along with 'We Support the Troops' signs in business and all the other feel good BS of that ilk," he adds in a personal commentary he e-mailed to his mailing list.Ha ... More >>

Want to Levitate the Pentagon? These Songs Might Help

​On this date in 1967, some 50,000 protesters marched on the Pentagon with the intention of levitating it and exorcising any "evil spirits" within. The effort was led by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, poet Allen Ginberg, and Ed Sanders and satirically-minded rockers the Fugs. As we all know, th ... More >>

Lonestar and Laundry & Bourbon

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Buried Treasure Found In Galveston

Michael Pate, a contractor helping clean up Ike debris off Galveston beaches, noticed a sturdy US Army ammunition box half-buried in the sand earlier this month.Thinking it'd be useful, he dug it out and opened it. Inside was a somewhat odd collection of stuff, the Galveston County Daily News report ... More >>

“I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia”

See what cultural revolution looks like at this exhibit of films from young Asian artists

Al Green Goes All Rambo

Get Lit: Doo Wop: The Music, The Times, The Era, by "Cousin Brucie" Morrow with Rich Maloof

Drenched In Blog: Being Thankful for JFK Conspiracy Theories

Werner Herzog

Herzog on his acting career, Mike Tyson, and the hearts of men.

Phat Promises for 2007

New Year's resolutions of the stars

Smells Like Victory

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Free At Last

A harrowing journey leads to America, and then to someplace better

Buggin' for Bling

Michael Stadther's Treasure's Trove is a real gem

Playbill

AmeriCCan Splendor

Culture Clash is a smash at the Alley

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Legend of a Lady

Suriyothai gives early Thailand an epic identity

Air Raid

Old Masters and Young Guns

Filmmaking in 2002 wasn't just for the boys

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

A Well-Rounded Production

Miss Saigon is more than just glitz and helicopters

Breaking God into Movies

The Deeper Meaning of Movies: Entertainment Culture and the Big Picture

Reel Worlds

Houston mines international gold with the Pan-Cultural Film Festival

Weird TV

Public Places, Private Emotions

Maya Lin's Topologies

Oh, Bui!

Three Seasons shows off a young director's purity and purpose

Houston Press 10th Anniversary Issue

The Press was born in Houston, in the late '80s. And that should tell you something.

Letters

Going Down

Air Force One nose-dives into an ocean of ennui

Press Picks

Coming Unraveled

Loose Ends tries to tie a decade together, but ends up falling apart