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April 9, 2012
Top 10 Worst Sports Stadiums, In Honor Of ASU's "Tampon With Wings"
This week, Arizona State University unveiled artist renderings of an overhauled Sun Devil Stadium. The project, which will eliminate some 16,000 seats and install a canopy-type roof at the circa 1958 venue, was spearheaded by new ASU athletic director Steve Patterson. (If you remember, Patterson was ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Paula Powell: Complains of Sexual Harassment; Ordered to Write Essay on Improving Her Attitude, She Says
Paula Powell says she was working in the corporate offices of Waco's Assisted Living Centers for a little more than three years before she began being sexually harassed by a supervisor. She complained to the company about the behavior, she says in a lawsuit, and the company took action: She was ord ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
All Retro Everything: This Week In Houston Rap Videos
Ah, rappers and music videos. Some are vehicles for self-promotion, others are tools used to promote a message, a gaggle of asses or some good ol' wholesome debauchery. In the case of the Houston rap class, music videos are always eye opening glimpses into the future, either telling what a talent co ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Clifton Grasham-Reeves and Kaci Pomerenke: A Tale of Two Texas Sex Cases
Is the Texas justice system simply a crapshoot? Is there still an enormous double standard when it comes to sex crimes? Or has Jerry Sandusky cast a huge shadow over future sentences for all those convicted of sex crimes against children? A while back we introduced you to the tale of Clifton Grash ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
The Eight Toughest Soldiers Texas Ever Produced (Featuring Heroism, Betrayal & Many Dead Bodies)
Audie Murphy, starring in the story of his own lifeOur 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 >>
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October 25, 2011
Mosquitoes: A Tiny, Highly Annoying Musical History
The Texans are in first place (for now), the Texas Rangers may become the Lone Star State's first-ever World Series champions tomorrow (ouch), and early voting for the November 8 mayoral/City Council election started Monday. The Houston Press Music Awards showcase is less than three weeks awa ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
TCU to the Big 12: What's Changed Since the Southwest Conference Went Kaput
Earlier this week, Texas Christian University officially accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference, which sort of models the old Southwest Conference, a division that the Horned Frogs competed in from 1923 to 1996. We gotta tell you, horny toads, compared to '96, the league is goi ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Five Reasons Why Texas A&M Just Ruined College Football
It's an emo day to be a college football fan. Today, Texas A&M basically ushered in the era of the college football superconference when the Southeastern Conference extended an invite to the university. (That legal threat lobbed by Baylor an anonymous Big 12 school is idle at best.) Well don ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
College Football Week 1 Recap: 10 Things
Coming up roses, againCollege football is back, and probably for the first time I can remember, the feeling that the return of football brought with it more than anything else was relief. Finally, we can stop obsessing over agents, runners, tattoos, memorabilia, and Nevin Shapiro. The games ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Cracker: A Belated Hillbilly Revelation At Fitzgerald's
Photos by Jason WolterSometime after Cracker deposited Rocks Off's jaw on the floor of Fitzgerald's Thursday night, we decided reviewing the show would be superfluous. Our buddy Lonesome Onry and Mean was standing next to us the whole time, and we told him afterward it was hard to think of an ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
The 5 Best Dessert Menus
Photo by Gary R. WiseTres leches done the right way at Samba Grille.Toward the end of Lent, one faithful observer emailed me with a plaintive request: I am a native Houston who has been displaced to Texas A&M in College Station (read: total dearth of anything approaching the kind of food I'v ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
DPS & Fee Amnesty: Great Deal No One Knows About
Take advantage of this special offer NOW!! Tell 'em the Houston Press sent ya!!The Department of Public Safety is offering an amnesty deal for people whose licenses have been suspended for failing to pay certain fees, but most people don't know about it. Until April, drivers who've lost thei ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Today Is Baylor Day In Houston. Act Accordingly
Baylor Day comes with certain rulesThings you probably didn't know: Today is Baylor Day in Houston -- with a fancy proclamation and everything. It all has to do with the Texas Bowl, in which Baylor is making its return to post-season football after a long absence. (If you're aware of how dif ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Wu-Tang Clan's Best Pop-Culture References
Rocks Off can't rightfully remember the last time the whole Wu-Tang Clan was ever in Houston, if they ever have been. For some reason, we keep wanting to think they came once with Rage Against The Machine around 1997. In 2007, they came to Dallas on the Rock The Bells summer tour with Nas, Ta ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Six Songs That Shoot First, Ask Questions Later
If there's one musician whose advice is worth heeding, it ought to be Johnny Cash. But when the Man in Black sang "Don't Take Your Guns To Town," a whole lot of musicians must not have been listening. Perhaps they were tuning in one of Cash's other songs that takes a different point of view - ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
Upcoming Events
Photo by Micah TaylorIf you're a lady who loves lager, there's a new(ish) club in town for you: Texas Girls' Pint Out is a group of hardcore beer nerds and geeks -- labels which they bear proudly -- who also happen to be women. They're in the process of organizing all manner of events for the ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Bush's Chicken in Georgetown
Tam VoAs a Baylor Bear, I always do two things when visiting Waco: eat at Bush's Chicken and then regret eating so much at Bush's Chicken. It seems most colleges or universities have their own local food joint that started out by surviving on the continual stream of students spending Mommy an ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Rand Paul's Aqua Buddha: Another Baylor Mystery
Aqua Buddah, God -- it's all goodRand Paul, son of our own Ron Paul and -- hard as it may be to believe -- a serious contender to become the U.S. Senator from Kentucky -- (well, maybe the "Kentucky" part is not that hard to believe) is in the news today because of a brief item from GQ.It addresse ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Soyrizo: Even Better Than The Real Thing?
Vegan migas con chorizoThe reason I first started eating Soyrizo had nothing to do with health concerns or the welfare of the animals that were going into the tasty Mexican sausage with the trademark bright-orange grease. No, it was a much more selfish reason than that. I was living in a sma ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Discount iFest Tickets Through KPFT; GaGa On Sale Next Friday; Husk Blows Away; Free Ani D Tickets & Poster Show
Courtesy of iFest.orgThe 40th anniversary of iFest is coming up next weekend, and this year music from the Caribbean will be spotlighted, with headliner and President of Funkadelia George Clinton (right; no relation to that other President). KPFT is also turning 40 this year, and for a limited ti ... More >>
Music
August 13, 2009
Billy Joe Shaver
Courtesy of iFest.orgThe 40th anniversary of iFest is coming up next weekend, and this year music from the Caribbean will be spotlighted, with headliner and President of Funkadelia George Clinton (right; no relation to that other President). KPFT is also turning 40 this year, and for a limited ti ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009
This Week In Deliciousness
Whataburger stickers, coming soon to a hipster near you.Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, the only place in town still selling Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies out of the back of our station wagon. Speaking of suspicious meat, this week started off with a rather angry rebuking of inner-skirt ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Midtown's, er, Houston's Favorite Shots
Photo by bichromephotoThe last time I can recall doing a shot, I was in college at a townie bar called Tom Cat's. The shots were being passed around in test tubes - a very novel idea to a 20-year-old who'd never consumed alcohol outside of Waco, Texas. I slugged back two Buttery Nipples - a shot m ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2009
Swine Flu Can't Beat (A Carefully Wrapped) God
The Compak CompaniesWith what is surely the Black Plague of the 21st Century bearing down on all our souls, the last place anyone wants to worry about swine flu is church. So some institutions, like the Austin Diocese, are suspending or altering communion.The story in the Waco Tribune includes a let ... More >>
Music
March 19, 2009
Roy Hargrove Quintet
The Compak CompaniesWith what is surely the Black Plague of the 21st Century bearing down on all our souls, the last place anyone wants to worry about swine flu is church. So some institutions, like the Austin Diocese, are suspending or altering communion.The story in the Waco Tribune includes a let ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2009
The Roosevelt Special at the Original in Fort Worth
Commenting on the Palmetto Inn's Number #10 Dinner, a plate of cheese enchiladas with chili and queso Jim Sherman wrote: "Needs a sunnyside-up fried egg on top!" That reminded me of another famous Tex-Mex dish--the "Roosevelt Special" at the Original Mexican Eats Café on Camp Bowie Boulevard in F ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2008
Baylor Says That's Not A Noose, That's A Swing
The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2008
College Football Review: Tulsa Beats Rice in Douchebag Bowl
The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2008
College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition
The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2008
You Can Ignore Evolutionary Theory In Texas
The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried t ... More >>
Dining
June 5, 2008
Bootlegging Dr Pepper
The demand for sugar-sweetened Dublin Dr Pepper has never been higher — just ask the bootleggers
Music
December 27, 2007
Music Deaths
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
Blogs
November 14, 2007
The Trial of the Galveston Cat Killer
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
Blogs
June 1, 2007
Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
Blogs
April 26, 2007
Great Q at Hearne's Gas N Chew
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
Blogs
April 26, 2007
Great Q at Hearne's Gas N Chew
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
Music
March 8, 2007
SXSW Preview
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
News
June 15, 2006
Letters to the Editor
The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns
News
December 8, 2005
Girls Gone Wild
It's a regular bacchanal in one small town
News
December 9, 2004
Letters
It's a regular bacchanal in one small town
Music
November 27, 2003
Computer Error
When it comes to local facts, don't rely on Allmusic.com
Music
May 16, 2002
Nappy Roots
Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)
Music
July 26, 2001
Billy Joe's Blues
Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses
News
December 14, 2000
In God's Country
William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. Little did he realize he would be crucified for his cause.
News
July 13, 2000
Death Row Show
The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.
Film
April 6, 2000
International Film Festival 2000
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March 11, 1999
Rotation
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April 9, 1998
Mash and Trash
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January 1, 1998
Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit
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