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Tim Tebow, Star Of The Omaha Beef?

Yesterday, I got an e-mail from my friend R.J. Bell, founder of wagering infotainment website pregame.com. I love getting e-mails from R.J. because they always have the gambling spin on whatever the latest sports news is. You know how some people subscribe to services that send them inspirational e- ... More >>

March Madness Elite 8: 4 Winners, 4 Losers

And then there were four! (I know, on the list of lame, cliched, bloggy catchphrases "And then there was (however many are left)" is right behind "Houston, we have a problem." but I'm still a little rattled from falling for the Dream Shake's April Fool's Day prank. I'm running simple plays here, n ... More >>

College Football: National Signing Day 2013, A Decade Of Cautionary Tales

Beginning bright and early Wednesday morning, 18-year-old football players far and wide will finalize in writing their plans on where they will ply their trade for the next three to five years, causing high blood pressure in adults three times their age coast to coast and dragging the fax machine in ... More >>

Cambodian Weed

The invasive plant water spinach is banned in some states — and essential to Asian cooking. In a small village outside Houston, relocated Cambodians are growing and selling it across state lines, up North, out West, hoping to get rich.

Don't Fall for the Mystery Shopper Scam!

Like most of the rest of us, Algernon Morehead of Humble could always use a few extra bucks, so he looked online last month for ways to become a mystery shopper -- people paid by market research firms to evaluate the shopping experience at a variety of companies (usually retailers). He filled out ... More >>

Oklahoma Dust Storm

Jimmy Webb, songwriting legend, is still on the line.

Before We Cared: 10 Bit Players Who Became Superstars

On this day in 1965, British songstress Petula Clark reached number one on the charts with "Downtown," a pop classic with an unforgettable hook that has become a mainstay of oldies radio, film soundtracks and TV advertisements in the years since. The song even served as a plot point in an episode o ... More >>

Last Night: Glen Campbell At Stafford Centre

Photos by Jason Wolter​Glen Campbell Stafford Centre September 21, 2011 Thursday night may have been the most profoundly uncomfortable Aftermath has ever been watching a live performance. In the past year, we have seen many artists of advanced years in concert, from Merle Haggard and Willie ... More >>

R.I.P. R.E.M.: Goodnight To The Men On The Moon

remhq.comFeeling Gravity's Pull: R.E.M., 1980-2011​Sad news out of Athens, Ga. today: To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at ... More >>

Glen Campbell's 15 Greatest Hits - As A Guitarist

Yet another reason to love Pet Sounds.​In a few hours, Rocks Off will be down at the Stafford Centre, watching the sold-out first Houston-area stop on Glen Campbell's extended "Farewell Tour." It might be the only one, but the tour is booked well into 2012, so we figure there's got to be a Dos ... More >>

Charlie Fondow's Eccentric House Is On The Market

​Ten years ago we looked the owner and builder of an extremely odd Third Ward house, Charlie Fondow. The guy just could not stop adding to his house in the 2300 block of Wichita, whether it was gables, turrets or proposed Plexigas elevators. We learn today via Swamplot that the home is for sa ... More >>

Gorillaz's New Album Includes Song About Houston

​ Christmas morning, Rocks Off got to hear the new Gorillaz album, The Fall, recorded entirely on an iPad by leader Damon Albarn as the super-group made their way through the States on tour this past October. Most every city on the run got a song dedicated to it, including Texas towns Ho ... More >>

Walmart Wants to Be Friends on Facebook

​Although Texas has weathered the economic downturn better than most states, that's small consolation to those residents still unable to feed their families. According to research published by the Food Research and Action Center earlier this year, Texas has the 13th-highest rate of food hardsh ... More >>

John Fullbright: Woody Guthrie Sells A Lot Of Hamburgers

johnfullbrightmusic.com​John Fullbright, playing a writers-in-the-round with Jess Klein tonight at Anderson Fair, looks like the kid at the grocery store sacking groceries or gathering carts from the parking lot. The innocent look masks an old-soul singer-songwriter and one of the hottest youn ... More >>

Reporting from the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium: Chingo Bling Talks "Taco Circuit"

​A lot of rappers establish street cred by talking about hittin' licks and sellin' rocks. Chingo Bling raps about slangin' tamales and hot sauce -- which is what brought him to the Southern Foodways Alliance annual symposium last weekend. Known as the Masa Messiah, or the Taquero Vaquero, or ... More >>

Knight in Verbal Armor

Tom Cruise, please stop talking.

Listology: Nava of The Last Place You Look's Favorite Vocalists

This weekend Thee Armada gets a proper send-off at the band's supposed final show ever at Warehouse Live Saturday night. Armada singer Josh Caddy is moving on to another band, and his bandmates are calling it a day. Some of Houston's best alt-rock bands are opening, including The Last Place You Loo ... More >>

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Texas Traveler: Holy City

Photos by Brittanie Shey​Traveling for the holidays? If you'll be near Wichita Falls you should consider crossing the border to the north to explore the village of extraordinary weirdness known as The Holy City, near Lawton, Oklahoma. Nestled in the measly foothills of the Wichita Mountains, ... More >>

Aftermath: Jimmy Webb at the Dosey Doe Coffeehouse

Rich Connelly​ Jimmy Webb was a one-man hitmaking machine back in the 1960s, cranking out an incredible number of long-remembered songs in a three-year period. He's never replicated that success (possibly no one could), but he's continued to write songs, musicals, a book and tour with a one-man sh ... More >>

Jimmy Webb

Now It's Even A Bigger Deal To Win A Tommy Tune Award

The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a ... More >>

Tough Month To Be A Houston Flier

October was really a tough month to be an air passenger in Houston.The federal Bureau of Transportation has released its latest survey of flight delays, and Houston plays a prominent role in it.The third-worst airline when it came to on-time arrivals was our very own Continental. Almost 19 percent o ... More >>

House of Lightnin'

Her Space Holiday, with Lymbyc Systym

Capsule Art Reviews: "AES+F," "Agustina Nuñez: Little Polymorphous," "Flicker Fusion," "The Thames Mudlarks"

Flock to "Flicker Fusion"

Don't miss the powerful, curious animation screening at DiverseWorks

Greyhound Racing

Tracks and breeders struggle as attendance declines

Letters to the Editor

Invincible

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Dissecting the Dirty Dozen

Common Cold

Harold Ramis's Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

When Wild Musicians Attack!

Ryan Adams is headed this way. Where does he fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Playbill

Sweet Charity

For years Tom DeLay has used nonprofits to help himself. Now the heat is on.

¿Quién Eres Tú, Mun2?

Mun2 wants to be the new home for Latin culture -- without the Spanish

Tribal Warfare

Carroll Cocchia says she's one-third Indian, and is trying to bring local Native Americans together. Detractors say she's white, and is helping to tear them apart.

Withering Heights

Others may label it a monument to mishmash; Charlie calls it home

Letters

Shining Example, KTRU Blues, Not So Nice

Keeping the Faith

Houston Jews and Christians favor peaceful coexistence

The Play's (Not) the Thing

All the world's a stage in the toothless Big Kahuna

Killing Time

The case against him died from lack of evidence. But Texas still plans to execute Odell Barnes.

News of the Weird

Partners for Pay

Young women taxi-dance for dollars, at the price of innocence lost

Jazzed

After years of groundbreaking music, Pat Metheny is looking for more barriers to shatter

Show 'Em Your Money!

Fixed Up

Shawn Colvin's made A Few Small Repairs, and she's ready to show them off

Soul Men

Okay, the name is stupid. But Soul Coughing is still a great band.

Press Picks

The Poison Connection

A "gas leak" in a Matamoros chemical plant wafts a poison and paper cloud toward a corporate office in Houston