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Here, Eat This

A beginner's guide to Korean cuisine.

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves.

Reliant Bark: Flyball and Frisbee at the World Series of Dog Shows (w/ VIDEO)

Check out our slideshow of the World Series of Dog Shows and our post on cute puppy memes. If you think dog shows are all about stuffy trainers walking poofy poodles before a table of judges, you're missing out on one of the most fun aspects of canine competition: the games and agility events. Here ... More >>

Hausu (House)

EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left the Building

See also our EDC slideshows: Day 1, and another Day 2 Day 3 Twenty years after rave culture first entered the American mainstream, the success of a festival like Electric Daisy Carnival begs the question: Can electronic dance music retain its authenticity, warehouse roots and peace, love, unity ... More >>

Outernational Brings The Fight To House Of Blues Tonight

Coupled with dynamic rhythms that somehow flow together like streams of water, their ripped-from-the-headlines lyrics of liberation struggle had the audience literally -- at least in the case of one wild fan in a Mexican wrestling mask -- hanging from the rafters. -- Nick Turse, Village Voice Mile ... More >>

The Stripper Reporter

Society writer's other job

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Rumor: Eminem To Perform At Tonight's Shady Records SXSW Party

Most of the world's biggest rappers - Jay-Z, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, T.I., 50 Cent - have performed in Austin within the past week, are about to perform, or are at least in the city partaking in the SXSW festivities. Rocks Off was leaving Stubb's late Thursday night and heard Snoop Dogg performing ... More >>

Let the Super Bowl/Human Trafficking Stories Begin Again!

It's a staple of every Super Bowl: Politicians pumping up the idea that a tidal wave of prostitutes, many of them underage, are about to descend on the host city. News outlets lap it up, and no one pays any attention to post-mortem comments from cops who say they didn't notice any real increase in ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Responds, Claims Feature Profile Was Lies Written by a Socialist

Responds is probably the wrong word to use when you consider the long rebuttal Jackson wrote regarding Gus Garcia-Roberts profile on the former SNL cast member that ran this week in Village Voice publications including the Houston Press. Jackson claims that Garcia-Roberts wrote things that were fal ... More >>

Rohmer X 2: Le Rayon vert and 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle

Concussions: Avoidance, Protection and Better Helmets

Daniel Kramer​Justin Landers, head athletic trainer at Katy High School, leads me to a secret stash of football equipment. The attic-like room, which is only accessible by one skinny wood ladder, is floor to ceiling and wall to wall with hundreds of helmets and shoulder pads. Landers combs th ... More >>

Jay-Z & Kanye's Throne Tour Stop Delayed To December 5

Toyota Center's Web site is now listing the Houston date of rap titans Jay-Z and Kanye West's joint tour to promote their forthcoming album Watch the Throne as Monday, December 5, rather than the previously announced Wednesday, October 26. Promoter Live Nation confirmed the change, but has not se ... More >>

Prog-Rock Bassist Enters Stupid Criminal Hall Of Fame

GroovehouseCoheed's Claudio Sanchez: Now auditioning bassists.​Sometimes when Rocks Off interviews this musician or that one, we'll ask them what they do to kill time on the road. Some of them read, others take in the local sights if they have time, obviously a lot of them listen to music. The ... More >>

Got A Smartphone? Get Our Best Of App

Best Of: there's an app for that.​You totally trust Houston Press to help you find the best margaritas in town, the best place to watch wildlife in this urban jungle of ours, and the best place to be glad you're alive, right? Now we can help you make the most of 31 other cities, thanks to a ne ... More >>

SXSW: Local Band Makes Good, A Wild Flag, DJ Quik & A Witch

Photos this page by Marc BrubakerBuxton​Marc Brubaker: For Rocks Off, sometimes SXSW isn't about seeing new bands or drinking until Sixth Street becomes a blurry swath of humanity. It's nice to check in with our hometown boys and see how they are received by the ears and arms of the masses in ... More >>

Balaclavas, Moccs, Fat Tony Place In Pazz & Jop Poll

Show of hands, everyone who is surprised this is No. 1.​Music writers all know that once they get their Village Voice Pazz & Jop ballot in their e-mail inbox, that it's time to tally their loves from the last year. It's sort of like the leaves changing or the first freeze of winter coming. You ... More >>

I Put A Spell On You: The Vixens And Visuals Of Voodoo Fest

Photos by Mark C. AustinMGMT: "Ruh Roh! Better play something off the first album!"​Village Voice Media dispatched Houston photographer Mark C. Austin to New Orleans this past weekend for the Voodoo Music Experience, the Crescent City's annual three-day Halloween engorgement of live music and ... More >>

Dustin Dominiak, Christine O'Donnell's Kiss-And-Teller: Get Ready For The Pubes

Suitable for mailing?​Earlier today we mentioned the latest fracas involing Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell -- some jerk wrote about what he called his "one-night stand" with her three years ago, one in which she refused to have intercourse, which to us kind of stretches the mean ... More >>

Juarez: Children's Lives On The Mean And Deadly Streets

Juarez is a special hell for kids​Juarez has become the murder capital of the world, as drug wars spiral out of control and authorities appear helpless to do anything about it.It's hard enough living there as an adult, but it's a special kind of hell for kids.About 10,000 of the city's half a mill ... More >>

Has the "Foodie" Backlash Begun?

Courtesy of Toothpaste For Dinner​Late last year, all of the sister papers in the Village Voice Media chain were informed that we were no longer to use the word "foodie" in blogs or in print. The reason? "Foodie" has not only become overused but has developed a strongly negative connotation: A ... More >>

Houston Press Is Looking For A New Web Editor

​With Houston Press web editor Katharine Shilcutt on her way to becoming our new food critic, we're looking for someone to take over her duties as web editor.The web editor creates, manages and promotes our content to grow community and readers. There is also a lot of work with photographers f ... More >>

Cymbals Eat Guitars

SXSW News: Adds Include DEATH, Voivod, Neon Indian, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Trae Tha Truth and Chamillionaire & Paul Wall, Together Again

This past week a few Houston musicians began getting their dreaded SXSW rejection notices; most notably we heard that Robert Ellis' entry was not accepted. That's a tough bullet to take, considering how well his band does on Wednesday night at Mango's and the quality of his solo album. Either way E ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: John Conquest Turns Both Barrels on Country-Music Poll

People have often referred to Lonesome, Onry and Mean as a curmudgeon (look it up), as a guy with a permanent hangover, bad temper and well... you get the idea. But compared to Austin-based 3rd Coast Music publisher (and main writer) John Conquest, LOM is a pussy cat, a cookie and a warm glass of m ... More >>

KISS Online Takes the Pruning Shears to Rocks Off's Already-Favorable Review

Photos by Jay Lee/ Click here for a slideshow​ Rocks Off welcomes any artists' opinion of our critiques of their work, be it one of our more shining reviews or the instances where we pull up out the six-shooters and make them dance for their musical sins. But it's when you take our entire review, ... More >>

Jay Reatard

Sub-Prime Beef

Readers give props for calling Obama to task.

Magazine Actually Claims Harris County Can Govern Itself

​Reporter John Mecklin worked a long time in Houston for the old Post; he also served as an editor at the SF Weekly, the San Francisco paper in our very own Village Voice Media chain.He's now editor at a magazine called Miller-McCune, a publication started by a Southern California philanthropist; ... More >>

Annual Pazz & Jop Results Released

Congrats, TV on the Radio! This morning our sister paper in Manhattan's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop poll, where hundreds of music writers and editors rank their favorite albums of the past year in what has to be an absolute nightmare for th ... More >>

A Murder of Crows

Toxic waste comes home to roost in Mac Wellman’s avant-garde play

Fava Favorites at Mint Café

Honoring Sally Yan Yan Ng

The MFAH remembers a film fan

“Extremely Shorts 11”

Aurora Picture Show celebrates its ten-year anniversary with a program of short films

Vijay Iyer

This acclaimed young jazz pianist is worth all the accolades the press showers on him

High on Fire Reviews the Reviews

Over the Weekend: SXSW, Rockets and Fishnet

SXSW: Carbon/Silicon, Ting Tings, Santogold, MGMT, The Cribs, White Rabbits, Supersuckers and Robyn

Murder, MySpace, Babysitters, Betrayal: The Best National True Crime Stories of 2007

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

The bad boys of folk music hit the big screen

Solidarity, Baby

Two Village Voice Media Higher-Ups Thrown in Jail Last Night

Heartless Bastards

The Heartless Bastards perform Wednesday, January 17, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Letters

Best Rock and Roll Theater

A Soap Opera

What's Sex Got to Do with It?

Author T Cooper wants to know why gender matters so much

Punk Through the Ages

Rude Mechanicals adapts Greil Marcus's punk chronicle for the stage