Texans Electric Touch Top Amazon’s MP3 Chart
Photo by Alexandra Valenti Another Austin band with Houston ties is off to an audacious start. Rockers Electric Touch’s Live EP topped Amazon.com’s MP3 Albums best-seller list this morning. Although at the moment they’ve yielded the top spot to Beck’s brand-new (and, to be honest, a little underwhelming) Modern Guilt,…
Aftermath: Harry and the Potters at Walter’s on Washington
Photos by Alex Begley What do you call punk rock for kids? Pid Rock? Kink Rock? Maybe just Wizard Rock, the genre that Harry and the Potters have summoned up around them in last five years. For those of you without literature-obsessed teenagers, Harry and the Potters are a brotherly…
Houstoned Is Not Long for This World
Editor’s note: The following announcement appears in this week’s paper. Why are we posting it here? Because Houstoned is soon going to become Hair Balls, and we thought you’d like to know, since you are reading Houstoned, after all. We promise all the same great content; there’s just going to…
Be It Ever So at Humble Cafe
Up at the Humble Cafe, they call this monster a “Humble Burger.” The patty is a whopping ten ounces of hand-formed ground beef. The square buns are made from dense, sweet bread and well-toasted to stand up to the juicy meat. Lettuce, tomato and purple onion are standard; mustard and…
Where Is It? (The Loneliest Barbecue Pit in the World)
Yesterday’s guessing game turned out to be easier than we imagined. This one should be a bit more difficult. — Jay Francis…
Greatest American Dog: The Elimination Ceremony
“The Bachelor” has the rose ceremony. Tila Tequila’s got her keys. Tyra dramatically flips over headshots. It’s got me thinking about CBS’s new reality show, “Greatest American Dog” which premieres July 10. I have to admit I’m getting a little nervous. According to the show’s Web site, “Twelve extraordinary teams…
Tonight: Dustin Welch at Under the Volcano
Anyone who caught Dustin Welch opening for Mark Germino last month at Anderson Fair, or for James McMurtry at the Continental earlier this year, is already aware of a singular talent rising through the ranks of Americana music. Welch, the son of Oklahoma songcrafter Kevin Welch, brings a new level…
Aftermath: Geto Boys at Warehouse Live
Photos by Mark C. Austin. For a slideshow, click here. Better Than: Grandma’s potato salad and watching the fireworks downtown. As a born-and-raised Houstonian, I haven’t witnessed firsthand much legitimate local history. Watching the 1986 Astros in the NLCS with Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan was huge, and the horror…
Where Is It?
As a way to round out our week of Tex-Mex, we offer up this photo for your guessing pleasure. — Jay Francis…
Slideshow: Cocktail Party at Anita’s Bar and Grill
Anita’s Bar and Grill, named after everyone’s favorite drag queen, Anita Bump, officially opens today for business, but last night there was a cocktail party to kick things off. The place is in the Hollywood Super Center. Anita was there looking gorgeous and working the crowd, which seemed to be…
SugarHill Studios Moves to Caroline Collective
Temporarily, anyway. The long-running Houston recording studio, normally headquartered at 5626 Brock, is shifting all its operations except for previously scheduled recording sessions to the Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline, between 2 and 6 p.m. this afternoon. SugarHill president Dan Workman will be handling his usual editing and mixing duties from…
This Just In: Not All Serial Killers Are Sex-Depraved Evil Geniuses
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a new report concerning the myth of the serial killer, titled “Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators.” The report highlights a couple Houston-area killers to disprove some myths. One is Coral Eugene Watts, who was arrested in the city and later confessed to…
Slideshow: Bloodless Bullfighting in Rosenberg
Saturday marked the first time in more than 20 years that the Houston area has seen a bullfight. Sort of. Actually, it was more like a Smackdown. Matadors fooled the bulls with their smoke-and-mirror red capes until the bulls were falling-down tired, then the matadors reached between the horns and…
Ozone Awards, Tastemaker DJ Contest Headed to Houston
Southern rap journal Ozone magazine announced today it will hold its third annual Ozone Awards and the accompanying TJ’s DJ’s Tastemakers Only DJ conference at the George R. Brown Convention Center from August 8-11, which makes two major music-industry events to come calling this year; the ninth annual Latin Grammy…
Texas Food at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.
On a purely mathematical level, musicians had it far easier than chefs at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in D.C., which this year sought to teach sunburned tourists on the ways of Texas. After all, a single song, delivered with a well-tuned guitar and a clear voice by, say, Guy Clark,…
Monday Monday: Gravy Train and Burning Brides tonight
Apparently, just because it’s the Monday after a long, nasty July 4 weekend doesn’t mean the music stops anytime soon. Can someone please call Rhianna? So, anyway, tonight we’ve got crazy South Florida club kids Gravy Train at Walter’s, with Bridez, Harlem and PRKL8R. They’re endorsed by everyone’s favorite pottymouth,…
Slideshow: The Vans Warped Tour at Sam Houston Race Park
Fearless field correspondent Craig Hlavaty went almost all the way to Spring to send us these dispatches from the Vans Warped Tour yesterday…..
Cindy Brady Barfs During a Radio Show Despite Lisp
Okay, how can I start this post? I guess I’ll just state the facts. Susan Olsen, the woman who played Cindy Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” showed up hung over for an appearance on 107.9 FM The Jet in California, and there’s footage here of her running from the microphone…
Krystal Hamburgers: The Sliders of the South
The last time I ate a Krystal hamburger was in my freshman year at UT. There was a Krystal across the street from my off-campus dorm. The place was open 24 hours and I dimly remember stumbling in there while slightly inebriated at three in the morning and stuffing my…
Over the Weekend: Geto Boys, Willie Nelson, Hot Dogs and Vintage
What a weekend. That third day makes all the difference. Anyone else check out the downtown fireworks? We wound up watching them in White Oak Park, surrounded by Spanish-speaking families. Viva America! The Geto Boys at Warehouse Live Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill couldn’t be stopped on Friday night…
A Second Look at Murals in Houston’s Mexican Restaurants
All this talk of Tex-Mex over the past week made us nostalgic for this slideshow of restaurant murals we ran last year, courtesy of photog Melissa Ferstl. We think it’s worth a second look. Here’s hoping you’ll agree. — KP…
Slideshow: Willie Nelson at Sam Houston Race Park
Because one just isn’t enough, here’s another slideshow from the weekend, this time of Willie Nelson and friends at the horse track. — KP…
Slideshow: Geto Boys at Warehouse Live
We’ve just loaded up a batch of images from the Geto Boys at Warehouse Live. To be continued? — KP…
Review: Moscow Rules, by Daniel Silva
A Russian journalist dies and once more Gabriel Allon, the mysterious Israeli agent/fine picture restorer, ends up back in Moscow, a place he loathes, a place where he almost died once. Bestselling thriller writer Daniel Silva has gone to the new Moscow, one of sudden self-made millionaires working at the…
Morning MP3s: Keene Street Party Edition
Well, too bad about Andrew W.K., but really, are you going to let that stop you from going to this afternoon/evening/night’s big Keene Street Warehouse party (1620 Keene Street). Didn’t think so. Let’s get started with some video from Houston natives and your brand-new headliners the Octopus Project. “Music Is…
Re-Scattering Willie Nelson’s Stardust, 30 Years Later
By 1977, Willie Nelson had been called a lot of derogatory things in his decades-long struggle to make it in country music. But even the most open-minded person could certainly forgive his record company, management, friends and fans for believing that besides writing the song “Crazy,” he’d gone a little…
The Hot Dog Holiday
Russell Baker has observed that eating hot dogs seems like the patriotic thing to do on the 4th of July, despite the fact that hot dogs aren’t any good–and probably never were. I feel his pain. I have eaten a lot of bad hot dogs on this holiday. And it’s…
Weekend Music: Happy Birthday, U.S.A.!
“Hey, baby,” X, Dave Alvin and Robert Earl Keen have all sung. “It’s the Fourth of July.” Wow, already? Instead of sitting on the stairs smoking a cigarette alone (nice image, John Doe), why not check out some music? Assuming you’re recovered from this morning’s Geto Boys video onslaught, here…
Twelve Best Sports Books of All Time
We here at Ballz are all into lists. And since earlier this year I did the best sports movies, I thought I’d share with you my choices for the 12 best sports books. 12. Everybody’s All-American, by Frank Deford. This is the story of an All-American college running back growing…
Happy Birthday, America!
As the daughter of immigrants (I’ve got you already, don’t I?), I’d like to take a minute today, on America’s birthday, and reflect on what makes America so grand. And before any of you accuse me of being facetious, let me tell you…I may be a left-leaning, “Democracy Now”-listening ex-hipster…
Geto Boys’ Greatest Hits, Video Style
[Ummm… I feel like I should point out that, unless you were literally born yesterday, you should realize many people could consider the following content extremely NSFW. Like that’s going to stop you. Carry on, then.] I have to say, as someone who hasn’t listened to much rap in the…
Steroids and Roger Clemens: Legal Brief Says DNA a Done Deal
Yeah, I know I said I was on vacation, but as Al Pacino said in The Godfather: Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” This time, the thing pulling me back in is, of course, The Rocket. And I really should have spotted…
Midday MP3s: Music from the Jonx and Sew What
The Jonx: Something fishy this way comes. Here are a few MP3s to preview the latest installment of the Free Press’ “Recession Thursdays” tonight at Numbers: three from headliners the Jonx’s 2006 album No Turn Jonx Red and a demo of “Highway at Night” from the trio’s forthcoming LP, plus…
John Royal Takes a Little Break
A place, where nobody dared to go, I call it vacation. Yep, that’s right. I’m taking a week off. So when you don’t see my posts next week, that’s why. I need to rest my little brain and reenergize my batteries. Don’t worry, I haven’t been suspended. I’m not in…
Tripping Down Tex-Mex Memory Lane
Raul Molina Jr. took over Molina’s Main Street location in the late 1940s–he was 19 years old at the time. Today, Molina’s Mexican Restaurants are run by the third generation of the Molina family. The oldest location is Molina’s Cantina at 7901 Westheimer…
Party Priest Andrew WK Cancels Keene Street Show
Andrew W.K. attempts the world’s first Cheetos OD. Noted party monster Andrew W.K. has canceled his scheduled appearance at Saturday’s Golden Ghost Collection clothing-line launch party at the Keene Street Warehouse (1620 Keene) for reasons about as vague as you’d expect. “I’m very sorry that the Houston show fell through,”…
Astros-Dodgers: Carlos Lee Homers, Houston Loses 4-1
Do you ever find yourself watching an Astros game yet you just know, despite what the score says, that there’s absolutely no way the Astros are going to win the game? I was thinking this during the first inning last night. Even though the Dodgers were only up by 1-0,…
A Map of the State’s Vintage Tex-Mex Restaurants
Robb Walsh’s “Temples of Tex-Mex” gave us such a hankering for old-fashioned tamales, chili con carne and cheese enchiladas, we decided to make a map of the places he mentioned. Road trip, anyone? — KP View Larger Map…
Massive Improv
Massive Improv is exactly what it sounds like — improv on a massive scale. While most improv companies perform short skits, Massive Improv goes on for half an hour or more. “What we do is called long-form improv,” says co-director Michael Garcia. “It’s closer to unscripted theater than anything else.”…
Astros vs. L.A. Dodgers
Tell your boss you have an imaginary doctor’s appointment and head out to catch the Astros in the last of their four-game home stand against the L.A. Dodgers. Yes, the Astros are a few games out of first place, but hey, it’s Thursday afternoon and there’s a game going on…
“100th”
Well known for their vivid, vibrant painting, artists Blakely Bering and Austin James have also found success as dealers through their Bering & James Gallery. The gallery is hosting a milestone exhibit titled simply “100th” (it’s their 100th show). The exhibit, appropriately, features work by Bering and James. Expect ultra-colorful,…
Leonardo’s Renaissance Table
The great artist Leonardo might have been from the town Vinci, near Florence, but he spent a lot of time in Milan. It’s the difference between Florence and Milan cuisine that’s the focus of Leonardo’s Renaissance Table, an accompaniment to the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s current show “Leonardo da…
“You, The Exhibit”
The center attraction of “You, The Exhibit” at Health Museum of Houston is — surprise — you. This is the first new permanent exhibit the museum has put together since its opening 12 years ago, and it makes the most of the latest technological advances. There’s the Body Scanner, which…
Little Shop of Horrors
There’s theater and then there’s theater lite, and this summer, the Strand Theatre in Galveston is happy to supply the latter. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s popular confection Little Shop of Horrors is full of ‘60s-style doo-wop tunes that keep everyone humming along. The dark comedy focuses on a skid-row…
Galveston ArtWalk
The Galveston ArtWalk’s promotional team describes their event as “more than just a street festival,” and we agree. Galleries and shops all over Galveston’s historic downtown district will open their doors for the early-evening event, which features classes, lectures, music and, of course, art in a multitude of mediums. Galveston…
“Picture This!”
“Kids with cancer” isn’t synonymous with happiness and joy. But it always seems that even gravely ill kids manage to be surprising wellsprings of hope; while their bodies may be vulnerable, their innocence seems to be immune. This is shown to be entirely true at the Houston Center for Photography’s…
Free Kick Masters 2008
Who needs David Beckham? Not us; we’ve got more than 30 world-class soccer players coming into town to vie for a $1.5 million pot in the Free Kick Masters 2008. The world’s strongest feet and fastest hands strut their stuff in this direct-shots-on-goal competition. You’ll see players including Ronaldinho Gaúcho,…
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
There’s a moment in Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson when the man himself sums his life up best. “I’m an idiot, I’m a fool, I know,” he says in an old interview, “but I’ve been a good read, right?” The legendary author and journalist said…
The Crow
Calling all conspiracy theorists: It’s Brandon Lee in The Crow. Based on a popular comic book, The Crow is the story of a rock musician who comes back from the dead to avenge his death. The film cost the young actor his life when, during a fight scene, a pistol…
War of the Roses Cycle
Imagine if the Bush-Clinton rivalry were an all-out physical war — and that it lasted decades. This is what life was like in -15th-century England, when the Dukes of Lancaster and York, and their respective families, battled it out in the War of the Roses. Shakespeare documented the struggle in…
Chevy’s Freedom Over Texas with Fireworks presented by Shell
It’s time to celebrate freedom like a true American: shrouded in corporate sponsorship. Chevy’s Freedom Over Texas with Fireworks presented by Shell (yes, that is the actual title) features volleyball brought to you by Bud Light, a beer garden brought to you by Budweiser, a military museum brought to you…
Jitney
Jitney is August Wilson’s answer to the 1970s. The play is the eighth installment of his two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning series chronicling black life in each decade of 20th-century America. Set in the station of a gypsy taxicab service in Pittsburgh (hence the name), it shows the impact of early urban…
Always…Patsy Cline
Houstonians can’t get enough of Patsy Cline; we just love that bouffanted queen of country music. And nobody knows that better than Stages Repertory Theatre. Celebrating its 30th birthday, the theater is bringing back Always…Patsy Cline — yet again. Created by Ted Swindley, the founding artistic director of Stages, the…
Patrice Oneal
Patrice Oneal has this to say about comedy today: “It stinks.” The comedian, whom you might have seen on The Office or Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, says this is because the wrong people are in charge of comedy: everyone. “Everybody has a fucking say. It’s like not everybody should…
Kathryn Casey
After writing half a dozen true-crime books, Houstonian Kathryn Casey decided to step into fiction with Singularity. The novel follows Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong, a criminal profiler out to solve the bizarre double murder of a millionaire businessman and his mistress. Killed in a swank Galveston beach house, the two…
ZZ Top Signs to Rick Rubin’s American Recordings
ZZ Top: Still with the legs. Rick Rubin was already working for ZZ Top – the Houston trio recently enlisted Rubin to produce its next album – and now ZZ Top works for Rubin as well. Billboard reported yesterday that ZZ Top has signed a new record deal with Rubin’s…
Moses Guest
Most of the band doesn’t live here anymore, but Best Laid Plans, the latest CD from Moses Guest (Continental Club, July 4-5) was recorded at Montrose Studios, so that makes them local, right? Of course it does. Or as local as they can be considering practically the entire disc is…
Temples of Tex-Mex: A Diner’s Guide to the State’s Oldest Mexican Restaurants
The recipe for chile con queso at Felix Mexican Restaurant predated processed cheese. Before there was Velveeta, old-fashioned queso was made with a flour-based tomato and paprika béchamel to which the cheese and cayenne were added. Felix’s queso had an odd gravy-like texture, and it tended to separate as it…
Miss Leslie: Between the Whiskey and the Wine
When Leslie Sloan-Lindley reaches deep in her chest to pull up the emotion that sells honky-tonk songs, she hits the notes with power, depth and, most importantly in her genre, believability. Perhaps that’s not surprising, since she grew up in a country music family (father Jim, sister Hilary) and has…
Andrew W.K., Messiah-in-Waiting
“Would anyone like to share this beer with me?” asks Andrew W.K., just another gracious and Christ-like gesture, five loaves and two fish distilled into a single, gleaming bottle of Bud Light, but still enough to sate and thrill the masses. Or, in any event, what mere fraction of the…
A Super-Patriotic July 4 Playlist
With Independence Day Friday, it’s worth debating which songs qualify as the most patriotic ever recorded in these here United States, or at least which songs wanted to be. Here are the finalists. Neil Diamond, “America”: Diamond’s ridiculously catchy ode to the immigrant’s plight is one of the grand master…
Dethklok
Cartoon Network’s Metalocalypse series launched in 2006 with a simple but esoteric premise: What if the planet’s most popular band was an extreme-metal group that actually lived in a world filled with the guts and gore that the genre’s musicians (usually) only sing about? And what if it had fanatical…
The Geto Boys Reunite
Twenty years after three virtual strangers came together in a Houston recording studio, the Geto Boys’ legacy is secure. Individually and collectively, Bushwick Bill, Willie D and Mr. Scarface are among the handful of Houston artists whose names are recognizable the world over. Alongside the likes of Schooly D, Boogie…
Great Muffalettas at Table 7 Bistro
If you guess that the new downtown restaurant Table 7 Bistro is related to the two District 7 Grills, you guessed right. Husband-and-wife team Babak and Shelley Elham own all three places. “Our new place is not as casual as the other two places,” says Shelley. “It’s a little more…
The Great Waller: Ain’t Misbehavin’
By day, Thomas “Fats” Waller sold beboppy tunes on Tin Pan Alley. Come nighttime, when all the cool cats were out on the prowl, the jazz great traveled uptown to take part in the Harlem Renaissance. Lucky for us, many of those delicious toe-tapping tunes have been tied up together…
Historic Huaraches in Stafford
The “Huarache Macho” at Huarache Azteca Express in Stafford is my new favorite spin on the authentic Mexican breakfast. It’s a bean-stuffed masa platform that resembles an oblong pupusa topped with two fried eggs, crema, white cheese and fiery salsa. The combination of bland eggs and sour cream with incendiary…
Silver Spoon: “Designed by Architects”
“Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is filled with beautiful, desirable objects drawn from Walsh’s more than 800-piece collection. Looking at them on a scorching Houston summer day, you want to reach inside the MFAH’s vitrines, touch the cool,…
Capsule Stage Reviews: Electile Dysfunction, Snoopy, The Tamarie Cooper Show
Electile Dysfunction Radio Music Theatre has tackled the wild and wacky political season with this funny play, which is full of characters as kooky as the past few months have been. Writer/director Steve Farrell knows just how to put things into perspective. His silly show features the Jones family from…
Temples of Tex-Mex: Vintage Restaurants
Caro’s 205 N. Garcia St. Rio Grande City 956-487-2255 Since 1937 and Caro’s 3505 Bluebonnet Circle Fort Worth 817-924-9977 Since 1954 What to get: Tostadas and puffed tacos Both locations are run by the third generation of Modesta Caro’s family, and both offer hot, pillowy tostadas and puffed tacos in…
Hancock Is A Superzero
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the walking dead reborn as a superhero, was the filmmaker’s masterpiece. It remains the most quietly influential of all recent superhero movies, the unacknowledged template for…
Breakfast Time at Tel-Wink Grill
It’s always breakfast time: There’s something about eating breakfast at a random time that feels decadent. And at the Tel-Wink Grill (4318 Telephone Rd., 713-644-4933), no one will look at you funny for ordering breakfast at two in the afternoon. The menu has a whole page devoted to nothing but…
Community Education Partners Tries to Silence a Critic
Community Education Partners is, as loyal readers of the Houston Press know, the company that gets $17 million a year from the Houston school district to run schools for troubled students. There have been, it’s safe to say, complaints about how the company runs its schools. CEP has never taken…
Illegal Immigrants and Sealed Documents
Online readers respond to “Dead End,” by Chris Vogel, June 19. Honor system: What part of “illegal” do you not understand? I know many people who have entered this country legally and they also resent those who bypass the “system.” These are people from countries that are devastated by war,…
Capsule Art Reviews: “Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand: Forced Fields,” “The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art,” “Ruth Pastine: Ever Present,” “Jason Salavon: Annex and Catalogue,” “Volker Stelzmann: Experimental Arrangements”
“Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand: Forced Fields” The collaborative – and married – duo of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand make art with their kids. But the results are neither dorky handprint ashtrays nor the prodigy products of driven yuppie parenting. In their installation at the Houston Center for Photography,…
The 2008 Vans Warped Tour, with Angels & Airwaves
For guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, abandoning the multiplatinum, permanent pop-punk prom that was Blink-182 for his own brainchild, Angels & Airwaves, is like attempting a promotion from the Monkees to U2. DeLonge (alongside three lesser punk-lite luminaries), you see, is now seeking something more thoughtful, grown-up and significant. Thankfully, he’s retained…
Bayousphere
We have to assume X guitarist Billy Zoom is playing a cover of Spinal Tap’s “Lick My Love Pump” here (in D Minor, the saddest of all keys). One member of the audience takes to heart the “licking” part, while the one in the green shirt seems to identify more…
Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
On Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay’s fourth album, producer Brian Eno attempts to use the same formula that worked for U2 by freshening up Coldplay’s reliable brand of emotive lyricism and comforting melodies with his signature ambient infusions. The result, though, is that Eno simply…
Jill Scott
Nearly a decade ago, Jill Scott’s debut album asked Who Is Jill Scott? The answer to that question just keeps evolving. Not only is Scott a Grammy-winning R&B singer who has easily transcended the neo-soul movement she helped establish, she’s segued into acting (she plays Big Mama Thornton in Hounddog…
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
Did music really use to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it’s just that life used to be less complicated, and music is simply a mirror of its times. Or something like that. Whatever the case, Two Men with the Blues was recorded live at…
RTX
With her bohemian-friendly lineage and Rolling Stones sleaze-rock tendencies, RTX’s Jennifer Herrema offered androgynous boy-girls the chance to borrow her balls for half an hour or so on last year’s Western Xterminator. Starting things off with the title track’s disarming acoustic incantation, fueling an almost freak folk-like fire, Herrema sings…
Los Lonely Boys: Forgiven
This trio of San Angelo-born brothers and their professed brand of “Texican Rock and Roll” have always shown great promise. After the sophomore letdown of 2006’s Sacred, Forgiven returns them to the level of 2004 debut Los Lonely Boys. But it still remains to be seen whether los hermanos Garza…
Kit Kittredge Is As American as Overpriced Dolls
To my ten-year-old daughter, the term “American Girl” means “that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won’t let me go near.” While we’re on the defensive, why should I? She hates dolls, and I — creeped out by row upon row of…
Idle Hands: Metal Gear Solid 4
How much of a game has to be interactive for it to actually be a game? I’m not being snide; it’s a serious query. If an experience is mostly passive, isn’t it just a movie with elements of gameplay, and not vice versa? Or does even the tiniest bit of…
Beyond Gonzo
“In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome.” So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hells Angels after riding with California’s motor-psycho Mongol hordes in the mid-1960s, a feat of embedded journalism that left…
Was Cesar Chavez Really Against Illegal Immigration?
Dear Mexican, Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don’t seem to understand the basic laws of economics, such as the fact that migrant workers who pick fruit, work in construction and do…
