Gentle Giant Revisit First Three Proggy Releases
They did not achieve the success of some of their Prog Rock contemporaries, and especially on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. But English band Gentle Giant had (and have) a hardcore fan base of their experimental music during their 1970s lifespan. Even if there was no such thing as…
Hendrix, Zeppelin Get the Coffee-Table Treatment
For your favorite classic-rock fan this upcoming holiday season.
Warlung Coughs Up a Winner On Debut LP Sleepwalker
A sound that’s hard to walk away from, and face-melting live sets.
Fist In the Air: The Best of the Week
A rundown of seven days’ worth of what to dos in and around Houston music.
21 Best Things to Do in Houston This Week: A Skeleton Fashion Show and Tacos
Check out the Houston Press calendar for even more things to do.
Houston Press Singles Club: football, etc., Mourning Bliss, Only Beast, etc.
Introducing our readers to the best music coming out of Houston today.
East Texas Pines, SugarHill Studios Fuel Lee Ann Womack’s Dark New Sound
Formerly a pop-country chanteuse, she’s now something entirely different.
NFL Football Week 6: Browns-Texans — Four Things to Watch For
After a week like last week, it’s prudent to sit back and assess where the Houston Texans truly are heading into the meat of their schedule. I mean, you lose J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus within a few plays of each other, and you have Deshaun Watson balling out like…
Houston’s Best Bets This Weekend: Dream Machine Is Back On
Dream Machine is back on, Hocus Pocus is que’d up and ready to go at the Houston Zoo and the Houston Italian Festival is cooking up something good. Family-friendly or all night art ragers, these are the weekends Houston is known for. Keep reading for more of this weekend’s best…
NFL Football Week 6 — This Weekend’s Best Bets
Well, it had to happen eventually. After six weeks of avoiding a losing weekly mark, I was in the red last weekend. Truth be told, in real life, I was 3-3, as I got Tampa Bay at +5.5 and avoided the push against New England. But I am honest, if…
Protomartyr Brings Some Heat Back to Rock’s Chilliest Genre
Happy accidents are the best part of making music, explain the acclaimed Detroit post-punk group.
Ten Things to Do in Houston for $10 or Less (All Free), October 12-18
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At Long Last, Here’s a Doc About What It’s Actually Like To Be an Exorcist
The biggest shock in Federica Di Giacomo’s Deliver Us, a doc tracking the everyday toil of exorcists in Sicily, comes when the priests, at last enjoying a respite from the writhing/spitting/yowling parishioners who occupy their days, admit to each other what you’ve probably thinking for the previous hour. “It’s a…
Moldy Around the Edges, Dixie’s Tupperware Party Is Mostly Fresh Fun
Oh Dixie. You with your Peggy Bundy high-as-heaven ginger hair, southern drawly accent, red gingham Little Bo Peep-ish dress and killer red suede stiletto pumps hawking Tupperware at us with all your heart, soul and more than a smattering of four letter words and sexual innuendo. Among your dick jokes…
Five Food Expressions That Need to Go Away
There are terms we have come to accept in the world of food. We got used to Emeril’s Bam!” every time he put some spice in his dishes. Guy Fieri throws the term “flavortown” around like bad money. Celebrity chefs aren’t the only ones who seem to have the lost…
A Half-Century Later, Night of the Living Dead Still Shocks
Fifty years ago, in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night and The Dirty Dozen rocked American cinemas. And somewhere in a field outside Pittsburgh, George Romero and John Russo were shooting on black-and-white 16mm film a low-budget movie that would found…
78/52 Hacks Thrillingly Into Psycho’s Most Infamous Murder
The numbers in the title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene refer to the number of setups and shots that were required to create the shocking cinematic savagery that occurs less than an hour into the director’s 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. You know the scene: It killed off star Janet Leigh’s character…
A Jane Goodall Documentary Proves Entirely Worthy of Its Subject
When I first saw Brett Morgen’s 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, I was shocked that the film somehow matched the rollicking, mercurial energy of its subject, producer Robert Evans. Morgen reimagined the use of archival footage and voiceover, and the style he pioneered has now been mimicked…
Marshall Makes a Likable Legal Thriller From the Real Life of Thurgood Marshall
America may be crumbling, but here’s at least one truth that might be cheering: They’ve finally figured out biopics. Ever since Walk Hard kicked its ass, that hokiest, flabbiest, most hilariously reductive of movies genres has become, like horror, the rare genre where the studios allow filmmakers to take risks,…
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Harvey Victims Sue Progressive Over “Bait and Switch” to Reclaim Flooded Trailer [UPDATED]
With a $5,000 check from Progressive Insurance deposited in their bank account, Paula and Frederick Bakley were at a Wharton RV dealership, touring a few on the lot with a salesman, when Frederick Bakley’s phone rang. He didn’t want to be rude, ignoring the call while the RV salesman went…
Texans GM Rick Smith’s Former First Round Picks Are Coming Unglued
The Houston Texans ebbs and flows with their on-field product over the last decade have swept up and swallowed a head coach, numerous assistants and countless players. When you bottom out at 2-14 in 2013, and then sit on 9-7 for three straight seasons, burning and churning through quarterbacks like…
Upcoming: Chynna Rogers, H.E.R., Iva Dawn, Lil Pump, P!nk, Sam Smith, U.S. Bombs, Wolf Parade, Xavier Omar, etc.
A constantly updated guide to upcoming concerts in the Greater Houston area.
Texas Renaissance Festival Ups Its Camping Game
Enjoy most of the comforts of home in the middle of the state’s biggest medieval theme park.
Here Are the Houston Wine Pros Competing at Iron Sommelier 2017
Wine. What do you know about it? Probably not as much as the 14 sommeliers competing at this year’s Iron Sommelier competition, a swanky fundraiser and tasting event that benefits The Periwinkle Foundation. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the competition goes down at the Houstonian on November 9 at 6 p.m…
Astros Come Back to Beat Red Sox, 5-4, Advance to ALCS for First Time
Stop me if you’ve read this before: The Astros take a first inning lead. The Red Sox come back. The starting pitchers get pulled early. There are questionable bullpen moves. But this time the game stayed close until the final out as the closers, seldom used in this ALDS, battled…
Houston, Would You Care For a Dance?
First-rate dance productions, as many in Houston’s arts community know, don’t come cheap.
Adventure and Spice: Chengdu Taste Brings Another Sichuan Experience to Houston
It’s a well-known, everyday recipe in the world of Sichuan cooking, but the simple, spicy, deep-fried chicken cubes with dry chile peppers are seriously good at Chengdu Taste. Dark-meat chicken is best for this preparation, with each piece completely encapsulated in a crispy, light-golden batter of cornstarch. The amount of…
Principal Bertie Simmons Files Complaint With Feds After HISD Sends Her Home
Neither Furr High School Principal Dr. Bertie Simmons nor her pool of supporters are willing to accept Houston Independent School District’s dubious justification for her removal from the school last week, pending an investigation into the distinguished educator’s alleged bad behavior. Namely, that the five-foot-tall, 83-year-old Simmons threatened a student with…
ACL Fest Artists and Audiences Stand Against Terror
“For eight hours a day, people put their differences aside; they all stand in the same crowd and watch people that they love.”
Ai Weiwei’s Refugee Doc Human Flow is the Rare Movie That Deserves to be Called “Stunning”
You’re right not to trust a film critic who calls a move stunning. But let me say this about Human Flow, the epic new documentary surveying the scope of the global refugee crisis, from Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei: It stunned me, in the truest sense of the word. Again and…
Intimate Doc The Departure Finds a Monk Teaching Potential Suicides What Death Truly Means
“The goal is for you to experience ‘departure,’ ” Rinzai Zen monk Ittetsu Nemoto tells the visitors to his temple in rural Japan early in The Departure. “Today, we’re holding this retreat for you to find out what it means to die.” Lana Wilson’s follow-up to the deeply empathetic documentary…
The Homey, Polyamorous Pleasures of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincere and often endearingly campy sensibilities to any cinematic style — spy spoofs (D.E.B.S.), Disney family flicks (Herbie: Fully Loaded), comic-dramas (The L Word), sexy vampire…
Seriously, Adam Sandler Triumphs in Netflix’s The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) premieres on Netflix Oct. 13 Adam Sandler’s core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, he weaponizes it with humiliating ruthlessness. (In his worst ones, it wafts pathetically off him like the day-after stink of a drunkard.) Now, he’s…
Houston Ballet Moving The Nutcracker to Hobby Center and Smart Financial
The crown jewel of Houston’s holiday performing-arts calendar is going on tour.
The Black Angels and Car Seat Headrest Play to a Nearly Empty House of Blues
No overpowering rock-star personalities or celebrity cult following here. Or many fans, sadly.
Get Ready for an Intimate Experience With HGO’s La traviata
The somewhat bumpy road HGO encountered in mounting this production seems appropriate given the history of Verdi’s now-classic piece.
NFL Football, Week 5: Chiefs 42, Texans 34 — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
With the rapid ascension of Deshaun Watson as the Texans’ starting quarterback and focal point of Bill O’Brien’s retooled playbook, there is little debate that he is now the most valuable player on the Houston Texans, and I mean that more merely anecdotally than I do as some sort of…
This Week in Harvey Relief: Chefs Unmasked Helps Houston Hospitality
The Houston Food Bank is sharing the money raised from the sale of its #TexasStrong shirts with other Texas Gulf Coast food banks. Proceeds will be split equally (20 percent each) among Coastal Bend Food Bank, Food Bank RGV INC, Food Bank of the Golden Crescent, Southeast Texas Food Bank,…
EPA Soon to Announce Whether the San Jacinto Waste Pits Will Be Removed
When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt toured the San Jacinto Waste Pits site after Hurricane Harvey ripped through the area, he said the federal agency would make a decision by October 14 about whether to remove, dredge or permanently cap the waste pits. In other words, the debate over what to…
Shows of the Week: Arranging Quality Time With New Dad Pete Yorn
The livest live music in the Bayou City for the second full week of October 2017.
Red Sox Force Game Four After Rocking Astros Pitchers
Game Three did not go so well for the Astros on Sunday afternoon. Sure, the team took the quick 3-0 lead in the first inning and chased Boston starter Doug Fister after just one out in the second inning. Like in the first two games, the Red Sox threatened to…
Houston’s 10 Best Tailgating Beers
With the Houston Texans off to an encouraging start, fans have returned to one of America’s favorite pastimes, Tailgating. Tailgating is almost always a long event, lasting hours before, during and after a game. With that in mind, we gathered a panel of tasters to sample over 35 beers with…
Houston’s 10 Best Acts Under 21 Years Old
Everywhere we go, the kids wanna rock.
UH Cougars Stomp SMU Mustangs for 35-22 Win
The Houston Cougars (4-1) hosted the SMU Mustangs Saturday night at TDECU Stadium. There wasn’t much of a crowd, just 31,153, but those who where there saw a rather entertaining game that featured perhaps UH’s most consistent offensive performance of the season (both teams together accumulated over 1,000 yards in…
Classical Theatre Offers Flair and Fireworks in Mrs Warren’s Profession
As if you couldn’t guess by looking at Classical Theater’s playbill cover, Mrs. Warren’s profession happens to be the world’s oldest – although no self-respecting Victorian madam would ever have worn fishnet stockings. That fetishist leg adornment arrived years later. Beautiful and independent, Kitty and sister Liz parleyed their beauty…
21 Years Later, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Still Stun Together
A couple that embodies the phrase “we’d hate you if you weren’t so likeable.”
Astros Rocket Past Red Sox, Take 2-0 Series Lead
Game two between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox was pretty much a repeat of Game One. The Astros took the early lead. The Red Sox threatened. The starting pitchers struggled. The Astros hit a couple of homers. The Astros won 8-2, just like Thursday. The Astros lead…
Ken Paxton Also Under Investigation for Bribery in Kaufman County
He’s already facing three felony charges, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could possibly be tacking on some more after the Kaufman County district attorney announced that the embattled chief prosecutor is under investigation over there, too. On Thursday, Kaufman County DA Erleigh Wiley confirmed to multiple outlets that her…
Why Was an AK-47 Simulator Parked Outside an HISD High School?
As teens at Carnegie Vanguard High School were rolling up to school this morning, at least some of them likely spotted a trailer advertising free simulation tryouts with guns — inside of the trailer — parked right outside the school. It seemed, well, a little odd, to say the least…
Evening at the Talk House Is Both Airy and Impenetrable
I have a bet on the table for you theater gamblers. If you can tell me what Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House (2015) is about, the stake is yours. For I haven’t a clue. Catastrophic Theatre gives this ironic, dark comedy its usual pro overlay, but I think…
Russian Trolls Were Behind 2016 Houston Islamic Center Protest, CNN Says
An anti-Muslim rally organized in Houston last year by a group called Heart of Texas was actually masterminded by a Russian group called the Internet Research Agency, CNN is reporting. The “Stop Islamization of Texas” rally was held in May 2016 in protest of the downtown Islamic Da’wah Center’s opening…
Run the Jewels Establish Themselves (Yet Again) at Revention Music Center
The Brooklyn/Atlanta duo serves as a reminder of hip-hop’s greatness and promise.
After DACA Deadline Passes, Dreamers Storm Houston Congressman’s Office
Wearing their caps and gowns, DACA recipients stormed the front lawn of U.S. Congressman John Culberson’s office on the last day that they could renew their applications for the Obama-era program that protects them from deportation and grants them work permits and driver’s licenses. Chanting “undocumented and unafraid!” the several dozen…
Jose Altuve’s Monster Day Leads the Astros to an 8-2 Win Over the Red Sox
The Houston Astros kicked off the postseason on Thursday with a rather convincing 8-2 win over the Boston Red Sox. The game was actually a nail biter for the first few innings as neither Justin Verlander nor Chris Sale had their best stuff on the mound. But the Astros did…
Why The Fifth Element Is the Greatest Re-Watchable Movie Ever
When you find yourself quoting a movie at random and rewinding certain parts to get the lines just right.
Houston Housing Authority Again Asks Residents to Move Because of Flooding
One month in a shelter was enough for Brid’gell Rice. She had been a resident at Clayton Homes, a Houston Housing Authority public housing complex right behind the Buffalo Bayou — but she knew after she left for the George R. Brown Convention Center with her tote bag and her…
The Only Gun Control Conspiracy Theory That Makes Sense
What if people like Stephen Paddock are all agents of the gun lobby to increase sales?
