Vietnam

Start the Revolution! 10 Songs About Historical Events

If you ever look at music throughout time, along with a history book -- they kind of complement each other. Some of the greatest songs in rock, R&B and rap have chronicled history both social, major news events, sports, entertainment and political. In my opinion, many times, the song is about what ... More >>

When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?

When The Beach Boys Went To The Movies

The Beach Boys have embarked on a 50th-anniversary reunion tour this year, kicking off the media blitz with a Grammy performance featuring everybody from Maroon 5 to Foster the People. As one of the pioneering rock bands of their era, the Beach Boys made a return to the spotlight that was met with ... More >>

RFK, Shot 44 Years Ago Today: Definitive, Indisputable Answers to 5 "What Ifs?" About His Political Future

Forty-four years ago today, Robert Kennedy was shot in an L.A. hotel's kitchen and died a day later. He had just won the California primary and ended his victory speech with "And now it's on to Chicago and let's win there!" But would he have won there? Would he have beaten Richard Nixon? Let's tak ... More >>

JFK At 95: What If He Lived?

Had he not been felled by assassins bullets back in 1963, President John F. Kennedy would have turned 95 years old this week. That's if old age and some tragic and wacky Kennedy curse accident wouldn't have done him in first. Would he and Jackie have spent their entire lives together, or would the ... More >>

2012 Vietnamese Festival

The Rise of Single-Dish Restaurants in America

Like it or leave it, restaurants specializing in macaroni and cheese -- that ultimate "white people comfort food," as my baffled brown friends call it -- are becoming increasingly popular across the United States. From Connecticut's J.B. Mack, which bills itself as "America's 1st Macaroni and Cheese ... More >>

The Eight Toughest Soldiers Texas Ever Produced (Featuring Heroism, Betrayal & Many Dead Bodies)

Audie Murphy, starring in the story of his own life​Our war heroes are presented to us in different varieties. There are those we create for ourselves, in the mold of what we think a hero should be: David Crockett (nobody but Walt Disney called him Davey), astride the ramparts at the Alamo goi ... More >>

Green Berets' 50th Birthday: Five Best Pop-Culture Moments

One hundred men we'll test today, but only three win the Green Beret.​The Green Berets, at least the unit everyone thinks of when they think of the Green Berets, are 50 years old tomorrow. President Kennedy, on one of his romantic James Bond flights of fancy, approved activating the U.S. Army' ... More >>

My Favorite Meatball Banh Mi at Thim Hing

Mai Pham​Walking into Thim Hing Banh Mi (11107 Bellaire Boulevard at Boone), it's as if I've been transported to somewhere in Vietnam. The grayish-green linoleum has seen better days, the Formica- topped tables are chipped, the dark-brown diner chairs have that circa-1970s look, and if I worr ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

According to foraging experts, there is food in this picture. Hahahaha. Those silly bastards.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where in ten years we'll make a fortune when we start auctioning off our stockpile of Four Loko. We kicked the week off with a cautionary f ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

A gentleman from Animal Farm lays out some bait to capture the elusive ManBearPig, said to be delicious if prepared properly.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where trading leftover Halloween candy has eclipsed fantasy football around the office. We've even got a st ... More >>

Guitar Zero: Played It 'Til My Fingers Bled...

No, this song is NOT about the year of Woodstock and the Moon Landing. It was the summer winter of '69 2010. Robert told me to come up with five songs I wanted to learn how to play (on guitar, in case you weren't keeping up). The Wife, seeking to maximize the parental utility of my music lessons, h ... More >>

Banh Cuon and Bug Juice

According to an expert, North Vietnamese food without water beetle essence is like a hot dog without mustard.

(Don't) Book 'Em, Dano: 42 Artists Who Have Absolutely No Business Touring Together

​ When Rocks Off received word last week that indie duo The Big Pink was embarking on a 2010 tour with NYC's A Place to Bury Strangers, our initial thought was, "Cool," followed closely by, "Ew." For once, there's a promo poster we really have no desire to see. But then our next thought was, "Coul ... More >>

Deep-Fried and Still Alive: 5 Culinary Practices As Cruel As the Chinese Deep-Fried Fish

The video above is fairly graphic. Do not watch if you are faint of stomach or heart. By now, most people have seen the video circulating the Internet which features a fish that has been deep-fried, being consumed...alive. Yes, the fish is still alive during the deep-frying process and while it's ... More >>

Enough About Mi

Is the authentic little Vietnamese noodle shop Banh Cuon Hoa #2 too adventurous for your tastes?

$13 at Pagoda

Photo by Robb WalshWhere: Pagoda Vietnamese Bistro & Bar, 4705 Inker St., 832-673-0400 What $13 gets you: A cup of pineapple seafood soup ($5) and a big bowl of vermicelli salad ($8) or a Vietnamese sandwich ($4) and a bowl of pho ($8). Pagoda is an authentic Vietnamese restaurant with a chic mode ... More >>

Remembering 1969, Part 2: The View from Brazil

Note: Part 1 is here. While anti-Vietnam protests escalated in both sides of the Atlantic , the scenario was quite different in Brazil: in March 1964, a military junta toppled democratically elected president João Goulart and installed a cruel dictatorship that stayed in power for two decades - in ... More >>

Remembering 1969, Part 1: Altamont, Rosemary's Baby, Santana at Woodstock and More

1968 might have been - at least politically - one of the most turbulent years of the '60s. Students rioted left - specifically, the Left Bank in Paris - and right against the war in Vietnam, while back home racial tensions escalated, especially after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The po ... More >>

For Wayne Dolcefino's Probation: Five Trespassing Movies

KTRK's investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino has done a fair amount of good, exposing mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and safety issues concerning the fire department and public schools.Then again, he also devotes significant energy to rooting out handicapped-parking cheats and wading chest-deep ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: War, Still "Hard to Believe"

Photos by John Moulder I'm always looking for good lyrics that make sense of the current military situation. I recently got Slaid Cleaves' fine new album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, which contains this wonderful verse in the song "Hard to Believe": "Here comes another blown up kid from ... More >>

Houston Company Exploits Vietnamese Workers, Suit Claims

A Houston company has been exploiting Vietnamese workers by promising big bucks, bringing them over here to work near the Ship Channel and then gouging them for rent and transportation costs while putting them up in dilapidated housing, a lawsuit claims.Thus it has been in America since...well, sinc ... More >>

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Representative Al Green Fights His Own Vietnam War

Across the Universe

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

For What It's Worth

Anniversaries

Rescue Dawn

Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

What You Call Hell, He Calls Home

PESCE'S

LONG ISLAND ICED TEA

Your Government at Work

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

Rationality Will Not Save Us

In the latest documentary from Errol Morris, Robert McNamara considers the lessons of war

The New Art

Contemporary craft is more than macaroni place mats

Ride On, Baby

The Lipizzaner Stallions soar through an equine ballet

A Tale of Two Critics

The coffee is strong and the pastries are excellent, but Le Bec Fin isn't your typical French cafe

Bangkok on Everything

Terry Allen's lost post-Vietnam-era soundtrack re-emerges decades later

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Solid Soldiers

Vietnam's first battle delivers a real dread of war so lacking in Black Hawk Down

Desperately Seeking Sandwiches

With Givral's temporarily out of commission, Houstonians scramble to get their banh mi thit fix

Best Vietnamese Restaurant

Vietopia

The Rise of Saigon

The musical makes a splashy regional debut despite an awkward launching pad

Real Life

When He Was King: The city that convicted Muhammad Ali now hosts a film about the boxing legend

Letters

Combat Reality

Spielberg desanitizes WWII with the powerful Saving Private Ryan

Press Picks

Letters

Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Have a Pepsi

Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)

The Sound of Muzak

Jason's Lyric puts cliched words to an inept tune

Standing at the Gates of Heaven

Oliver Stone is knock-knock-knockin', but he just can't get inside his latest Vietnam epic