Everything That’s Left to Know About the Eagles Is Here
The Eagles FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Classic Rock’s Superstars By Andrew Vaughan Backbeat Books, 352 pp. $24.99 I’ve long written the praises of Backbeat’s “FAQ” series on many of music’s (and, in particular, classic rock’s) biggest performers and bands. This latest entry is on the fractious feathered friends out…
Susan Tedeschi’s “Wheels of Soul” Speed On to Houston
During the summer months, audiences in recent years are used to seeing multi-act package tours, especially of the classic-rock and ‘80s vintage. The format allows the concertgoers to hear more hits of their youth (and a better ticket price), while allowing the acts the chance to play larger venues than…
Phase II of the Sauce Factory Begins With Rodji Diego & Rizzoo Rizzoo
As a family or crew or however you want to label them, The Sauce Factory cares very little about tradition. Tapes and tracks issue from the collective frequently, most of them without warning or even a decree. The only town crier when it comes to a Sauce Factory release is…
Upcoming: Avant & Ginuwine, Desaparecidos, Indigo Girls, Lucero, Miguel, Motörhead, Sylvain Sylvain, etc.
4th Annual CCA Concert for Conservation with Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sat., September 26, 4 p.m., $40 to $125. Sam Houston Race Park, 7575 N. Sam Houston Parkway W., Houston, 281-807-8700. Abbey Rode: With Already Gone. Sat., July 25, 8 p.m., $12 to $16. Main Street Crossing, 111 E. Main, Tomball, 281-290-0431…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Bud & Burger Night
Woodlands Craft Beer and Music Festival @ Town Green Park Friday – Saturday 2099 Lake Robbins Explore more than 100 craft beers at this two-day festival, featuring an excellent lineup of bands and DJs alongside some of the best craft beers in the country, of course. General admission, music-only, and…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Sundown at The Grove Returns
The Root to Leaf Dinner at Underbelly, 1100 Westheimer, is coming up on Monday, June 29 at 7 p.m. The multi-course feast – hosted in honor of Chef Steven Satterfield’s cookbook, Root to Leaf – features dishes inspired by recipes in Satterfield’s cookbook, which celebrates seasonal produce and Southern cuisine…
5 Jerks that Show Up in the Comments in Confederate Flag News Stories
Since the racially-motivated shooting of nine people in Charleston, South Carolina there has been a backlash against the rebel flag, perceived as a symbol of continued inequality and racism in America. Calls for it to be removed from any public building have been heard and the flags are disappearing from…
Meet Def Perception, H-Town’s Jammin’ Hip-Hop Band of Brothers
In a city with no shortage of hip-hop acts both dope and wack, the Def Perception crew has no trouble standing out. For one thing, there are a lot of them — it’s a six-piece group, comprising a pleasant variety of skin tones. What really set them apart, though, are…
James Caronna Is Losing Hope on New Album
There is no artist I have enjoyed watching grow in Houston more than James Caronna, and his latest album, Tell My Father, is proof that the road to fine music runs straight through Hell. If you’ve missed him before, Caronna is a dude who started out writing pleasant but fairly innocuous…
The 5 Best Things To Do In Houston This Weekend: Big Two-Hearted Festival, Don Winslow and More
On Friday, ska music and a celebration of vine-ripened, unmodified tomatoes come together in SKAMATO, one of the new works seen in the Big Two-Hearted Festival. “It’s pronounced like tomato, ska-mato,” Michele Brangwen tells us, laughing. “I knew that I wanted to do something about the food industry, and I…
Openings and Closings in Houston: Another Tacos A Go-Go, Barringer Bar Reopens and British Food Coming Soon
After moving to its new location, Barringer Bar & Lounge is back, this time at 108 Main in the historic Brewster Building. The space was originally a dry goods store when it opened in 1872. It’s probably safe to say that now the speakeasy-style establishment sells more wet goods than…
Is Shinyribs the New Parrothead Nation?
Only a week before the July 1 publication of a cover story with the premise that Shinyribs is the fastest-rising comet on the Texas scene I wrote for the Austin-based quarterly Texas Music, the band played Under the Volcano Wednesday night. They proved my thesis beyond all doubt. The scene at…
Part 2 of Slim Thug’s ‘Hogg Life’ Film Flashes Back to 2005
“I keep motivating the youngsters to keep chasing the check,” Slim Thug remarked before an early screening of the second part of his autobiographical documentary, Hogg Life, Wednesday night. He was standing in all black, admittedly high from smoking a weed-laced Swisher beforehand and taking photos with fans and friends…
Beth Moore Resigns From Fundraising Job at UT-Southwestern Medical Center
Beth Moore, the subject of this week’s Houston Press cover story, has resigned from her fundraising position at UT-Southwestern Medical Center, D Magazine is reporting. In this week’s story, we examined the finances of a Houston charity founded by Moore in 2010, CancerForward. Since its inception, the charity has spent more than…
Sound Engineer Lauren Oakes Apparently Taking Over Fitzgerald’s
Significant news out of Fitzgerald’s this afternoon, where highly respected sound engineer Lauren Oakes has apparently been tapped to run the historic venue once its existing partners depart to run the new White Oak Music Hall this fall. Writing in Free Press Houston, the paper’s publisher Omar Afra says Oakes…
Anthony Graves Appointed to Crime Lab Board
Well, this is certainly encouraging: An exonerated death row inmate and the attorney who helped free him have been appointed to the board overseeing Houston’s crime lab. Anthony Graves, who served 18 years for killing six members of a Burleson County family in 1992, told the Houston Chronicle, “I’m excited…
Houston Rockets: Trade Rumors Swirling Around Terrence Jones On Draft Day
Among good NBA teams last season, no squad was more snake bitten with injuries than the Houston Rockets. Three of their five starters at the beginning of 2014-15 wound up missing sizable chunks of the season (or in the case of point guard Patrick Beverley, the entire postseason). Still, as…
Cory Branan Is Totally Fine Being a ‘No-Hit Wonder’
Cory Branan has pared down his touring operation about as far as he can: right now it’s just him, his guitar and his van. Learning to “slug it out early,” says the Memphis-reared singer-songwriter, helped him hone the kind of fortitude necessary to walk out onstage in front of crowds…
A Dead Dog, An Injured Cat, and a Vicious Online Campaign
A Garden Oaks-area family has accused a neighbor of gunning down their dog in cold blood, and their supporters have mounted a social media campaign against the man, who told police the dog attacked one of his cats. Mitchell Weigand shot the dog, a 3-year-old pit mix named Bigsby, the…
Just Another Day, Another Borrachera For Los Skarnales
At the beginning of Los Skarnales’ new video for “Wait A Minute, Güera,” the first single from the longtime vatos rudos’ new EP Another Day, Another Borrachera, the band members are approached by a mysterious fair-skinned beauty in a 1950s-era Cadillac. Front man Felipe Galvan is carrying an equally mysterious…
Dan Patrick Thinks Texas Monthly Was Mean to His Friends
It was no surprise when Dan Patrick made Texas Monthly’s Worst Legislators list back in 2013, the last time the magazine did its post-session wrap-up of the biennial madhouse we call the Texas Legislature. Patrick, as a state senator, was worst kind of ideologue throughout the session, a bully who…
2015 NBA Draft Preview And Prop Bets
The NBA Draft is tonight, and it’s hard to says that it’s “finally” here. After all, the NBA Playoffs just ended what feels like a few hours ago (It’s actually been like a week or so.), so it’s not like we’ve had a major basketball jones going on for weeks…
Will Pride Be the Same Without Montrose?
It was nearly 40 years ago that anti-gay crusader and orange juice lady Anita Bryant helped mobilize the local LGBT community. With Bryant scheduled to perform at the Texas State Bar Association’s gathering at the Hyatt Regency, thousands of gay rights activists, wearing black armbands with pink triangles, marched through…
The Foreigner Shows What You Can Learn if You Keep Your Mouth Shut
The setting is a remote fishing village. The lead character is a man with few social graces who pretends to be a foreigner who speaks no English, mainly because he doesn’t want to engage with other people staying at the lodge. The hardest thing Alley Theatre Company actor Jeffrey Bean…
100 Favorite Houston Dishes 2015: No. 86, Fish & Chips at Good Dog Houston
Phaedra Cook is eating her way through Houston and counting down her 100 favorite dishes of 2015. It’s a collection of personal favorites that is also indicative of Houston dining. It’s a scene where a vast range of dishes coexist: highbrow and lowbrow; local and international; cheap and expensive; modern…
Slaughter & the Dogs: Forever Heavyweight Rock and Roll
Some bands labor for years, trying to forge a sound that shakes up the status quo. Some bands like Slaughter and the Dogs simply explode like the Big Bang right from the get-go, helping change the course of history. By gigging with the Sex Pistols in 1976, releasing the first…
Tifa’s Boobs Apparently the Biggest Concern in Final Fantasy VII Remake
A little while back I celebrated the announcement that there would be a HD remake of Final Fantasy VII with a little list of suggestions to nudge the production toward what I think would be a better game. D’oh, I missed the two most important aspects of the game; Tifa’s…
Chef Chat, Part 2: May and Eddie Chan Of Café Chino — China In Houston
Houston is known as a multicultural city — a true melting pot of people and cuisines from around the world. This is the final installment of our miniseries where we take a look at the chefs responsible for creating authentic dishes from several different nations right here in Houston. As…
My Girl Took Part In An Orgy. Help!
MY SISTER USES MY THINGS WITHOUT PERMISSION Dear Willie D: I’m 16 and my sister is 19. She is always wearing my clothes, my shoes, my makeup, my jewelry; everything. I’m sick of looking for my stuff and finding out later that she has it on. My mom refuses to…
13 Bands You Should Make Time For at the 2015 Warped Tour
Turn away, jaded music fan. It’s that time of year again, when kids not old enough to drink head to the hot concrete of NRG Park for a day of bands you’ve probably never heard of but have more Facebook likes than you can fathom. You were those kids once,…
It’s A Banned Old Flag: The Stars And Bars In Pop Culture
The Confederate flag has had a rough run of it lately. Before we get into it, I know the current subject of our debate isn’t the *real* flag of the Confederate States of America (nor is it technically the “Stars and Bars”) but actually the Battle Flag of the Army…
2015 NBA Draft: Five Potential Targets For The Houston Rockets
The NBA Draft is tomorrow night, and if you’re feeling a Pavlovian “Holy shit, didn’t the NBA Playoffs just end like three hours ago?!?”, then it probably means you’re more of an NFL fan than you are an NBA fan. After all, the buildup to your NFL Draft happens literally…
Court Rules Houston Baptist University Can’t Block Birth Control Coverage For Employees
A federal appeals court this week ruled that Houston Baptist University can’t block birth control coverage for its employees just because the college’s religious leaders harbor a “moral objection” to certain forms of contraception. This week’s ruling by the federal Fifth Circuit Court of appeals is particularly important for a…
Why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Made the Right Call
Imagine you were asked to be one of a few members on the nominating committee for your family’s Cousins Hall of Fame. Never mind why such a thing exists, it just does, okay? Now, pretend that you accept the responsibility of celebrating your heritage and let’s assume you are one…
Chef Chat, Part 1: May and Eddie Chan of Café Chino — China In Houston
Houston is known as a multicultural city — a true melting pot of people and cuisines from around the world. This is the final installment of our miniseries where we take a look at the chefs responsible for creating authentic dishes from several different nations right here in Houston. Eddie…
Houston Zoo Euthanizes Grizzly Bear
Back in 2007, the Houston SPCA seized two grizzly bears from someone who, for whatever reason, couldn’t properly care for them. The grizzlies, named Boomer and Bailey, were kept in tiny cages and had become obese from lack of exercise. When the SPCA found them, both were in very poor…
Peyton Manning-to-Texans Trade Rumors Set Twitter Ablaze Tuesday Night
Our last image of Peyton Manning is that of a quarterback limping off the field, downtrodden and beaten at home (again) in a playoff game to close out the 2014 season. Shortly after the Broncos’ loss in the divisional round to the Indianapolis Colts, reports surfaced of Manning’s injuries including…
Memorializing Modern Technology: Rashed Haq’s “Relics & Industrious”
Man-made objects pass many of the same milestones as their human creators—conception, birth, activity, age, and death. Yet, the lives of tools are rarely captured or memorialized, with many tools forgotten not long after the have been replaced by the latest upgrade. Interested in the intersection of science and technology…
More Details Emerge in Darryl Hamilton Murder-Suicide
A worried call from an ex-husband is what sent police out to the 11500 block of Island Breeze on Father’s Day, where officers ultimately found former professional baseball player Darryl Hamilton and his ex-girlfriend Monica Jordan dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Police on Tuesday released the recording of a 911…
What It’s Like to Be a Dancing Bug at Electric Daisy Carnival
I never truly appreciated peripheral vision until last Sunday night at Electric Daisy Carnival. The blue bug mask covering the bulk of my face is cartoonishly flirtatious, with big, heavily-lashed eyes that obscure tiny sight-holes. All that is visible is what’s directly in front of me. Forget the headaches that come…
The Eminently Quotable Kacey Musgraves
Houston Press: Describe the difference between country music that’s made in the Southwest and Texas compared to other parts of the country. Kacey Musgraves: Texas music seems to be a little more sassy at times. Is that your mom talking in the preamble to “This Town,” and has it ever…
Ted 2 is Bumpy and Imperfect, But You’ll Laugh and Laugh
Some movies are indefensible, and Ted 2 is one of them. Not only is this a movie about a libidinous, foul-mouthed stuffed bear; it’s the sequel to an earlier movie about a libidinous, foul-mouthed stuffed bear. But I laughed and laughed at Ted 2 — as I did at the…
What Happened, Miss Simone?: Netflix’s Nina Simone Documentary is the Film We Need Now
One of the nastiest tricks the bastards ever played was to convince so many artists that it’s best never to be strident. In the name of aesthetics or audience-pleasing or just not wanting to come off as shrill, a great many artists deny themselves — and their art — both…
