Michael Brown: “I’ve Become More Acutely Aware of How I Can Be Fleeced by Women.” He Really Said That.
Things got downright weird during Michael Brown’s testimony today, with attorney Robert Hoffman alleging that Brown’s new hobby is to take pictures of naked “young women” aboard his yacht, and Brown claiming that hundreds of thousands he spent on gifts for an ex-girlfriend could be construed as business expenses. He…
Amanda Feenstra, Dance Teacher: Female Student Says She Had Vibrator Sex with Her Too Many Times to Count, Cops Say
A 17-year-old Humble High School student has told cops that she and her dance instructor had sex too many times to count while the teacher’s husband was away. The teacher, Amanda Feenstra, faces a felony charge of improper relationship with a student. Court documents show the student said, “There were…
Josh Trevino: A Chat with the Prominent Texan Conservative Voice Outed as Malaysian Agent
After the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989, Western agents began probing the documents long squirreled away in Soviet-satellite archives. Among the documents unearthed following Prime Minister Eric Honecker’s democratic decisions was a money trail circling an Australian journalist named Wilfred Burchett. To those long critical of Burchett, who had…
All About Swishahouse: Label Bosses Tell (Almost) All at Rice U Seminar
This time last year, we attended the Awready! Houston Hip-Hop Conference at the University of Houston, an informative and thought-provoking event whose main purpose was the presentation and preservation of DJ Screw’s legacy and contribution to the city’s culture. In the same respect, Rice University’s Center for Engaged Research and…
Houston Pavilions To Announce Future With A Dranking Bash
We all know that the Houston Pavilions has had a dodgy past, with a revolving door of restaurants and bars coming through since it opened in 2008. There was that book store that seemed like a great idea, but dang if we don’t like walking more than ten feet, to…
Michael Brown’s Lawyers: He’s Broke, and Jeff Bagwell Is Trying to “Take” His Children
While Michael “Sex Advice Columnist for His Own Daughter” Brown testified in a contempt hearing in Houston this week, lawyers in Miami are continually filing a flurry of papers claiming, among other things, that Brown was too broke to fly his private plane, despite the fact that he recently filed…
Nazif’s Brings Affordable, Amazing Turkish Food to West Houston
Chalk it up to an exciting year for food in Houston, or just a recent spate of good luck. It’s barely March and I could already fill up this year’s list of 100 Favorite Dishes with the tremendous food I’ve been finding in Houston around every corner lately. One such…
Last Night: Lady Antebellum at Reliant Stadium
Lady Antebellum Reliant Stadium March 6, 2013 No doubt other critics do all sorts of mental gymnastics to rationalize listening to Lady Antebellum. This one decided the relentlessly sunny Nashville trio must function as some sort of control group, a way for folks like us to say of other pop-country…
Reality Bites: L.A. Shrinks
It’s safe to say we live in a therapist culture. I don’t know the exact percentage of Americans who currently seek some form of psychological assistance, but it’s enough that doing so is no longer something people are ashamed to admit. Which is a good thing, I guess. If talking…
Dynamo in Champions League: All Is Well with Tim Hanley in Charge
If there’s one thing the Houston Dynamo don’t do, it’s lose a match at BBVA Compass Stadium. And after last night’s CONCACAF Champions League victory over Santos Laguna, they showed they’ll do the same thing to Mexican opponents as they do to MLS clubs… Force them to listen to DJ…
Cover Story: Joe Sample Attempts to Bring TSU Back to Relevancy
Teaching jazz at Texas Southern University was probably the last thing on the mind of Joe Sample when the Phillis Wheatley High School graduate returned to his native Houston after tearing it up in Los Angeles for 40 years. But Sample, who left TSU in 1958 with members of the…
How to Complete a Saint Arnold Pub Crawl: Tips from a Pub-Crawl Pro
I’m fairly certain I’ve reached pro status when it comes to the Saint Arnold Brewery Pub Crawl. Quite the feat — I know. I’d like to thank my friends, the good people at Saint Arnold and myself for having way too much time on my hands. Texas’s oldest craft brewery…
Rocks Off’s Rodeo Concert Guide for “Bros”: Dierks Bentley
The Rocks Off Rodeo Concert Guide is our annual helpful(?) primer for those of you unsure about your HLSR music choices for the big event at Reliant Stadium. Date: March 6 Name: Dierks Bentley AKA: “Rhymes with ‘jerks.'”…
Love on the Run? Cops Say Justin Burns, Suspected Rapist of 6-Year-Old Autistic Girl, Hiding Out with Woman
Everyone takes a crazy road trip at one time or another. Sometimes the craziness comes from the people you’ve chosen to travel with. But if what the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says is true, Sarah Peterson has made a far, far worse choice in a traveling companion than you ever…
This Week in Food Blogs: Barbecue Wars in Spring
H-Town Chow Down: Can’t beat ’em? Call in the local government to squash your competition. At least, that’s the story told by Albert Nurick at H-Town Chow Down, where the Woodlands-based blogger reports on the barbecue wars between celebrated trailer CorkScrew BBQ and its brick-and-mortar neighbor up the road, Pit…
Top 20 Things We Need to See at SXSW Next Week
Next week the Rocks Off Action Team goes to Austin for Ess Ex Ess Dubya and another four days of fun, sun, eavesdropping and live music. And swag, of the free kind, not the kind that Justin Bieber is still trying to make happen. This year at SXSW, we’re looking…
Sailor Jerry Is Bringing A Tattoo Dart Board And Artist Oliver Peck To SXSW Next Week
From Tuesday until Saturday next week in Austin at SXSW, Sailor Jerry Rum (yum) is taking over the address at 1504 East Sixth Street, opening up two pop-up tattoo shops for the inking pleasure of festival goers, with one featuring legendary tattoo artist Oliver Peck, from TV’s Ink Master, on…
How Awkward Is Using MiO* in Public?
*Or any artificially flavored liquid beverage enhancer. I appreciate that many people prefer a little flavor in their water. As an adolescent girl in the 1990’s, I was quite smitten with Crystal Light and infused my water bottles for softball with their potent powders. I’ve since kicked my Crystal Light…
A Musical Celebration of the Oreo Cookie
Do you like cookies? No? Well at least now we know who the hidden aliens are and can send Roddy Piper to deliver fisticuffs and quips about the surplus of ass-kickings inversely proportionate to the scarcity of bubble gum. Seriously, though, cookies are awesome, and it was on this day…
Jonathan Leach at Gallery Sonja Roesch: This is What Perfection Looks Like
The year 2012 was a pretty good one for Jonathan Leach. The artist’s work was in nearly a dozen shows, from Portland to San Antonio. But mostly, he was all over Houston, including a fine art fair, a major survey of the contemporary Houston painting scene, and a show displaying…
Cowboy Diaries 2013: J.W. Harris, Rodeoing Is His Vacation
True cowboys are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they’ll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will spotlight one person with enough…
Sports Radio Fantasy Draft: Filling Out the Lineups of Two Local Stations with Talent from the Existing Four
One of the arguments against expansion in pro sports leagues is that it dilutes the talent pool. There are enough great players to fill out the lineups for 30 teams, but are there enough for 32? It’s an important factor to consider. On Monday, 1560 KGOW fired Adam Clanton and…
Is Beer the New Chocolate Milk After Working Out?
Several years ago, studies proved that drinking low-fat chocolate milk after working out replenishes the body and builds muscles with its combination of carbs and protein, which water lacks. However, researchers at Granada University in Spain have discovered that beer can hydrate your body after a workout better than drinks…
Get the “Led” Out: Five Other Famous Zeppelins
Led Zeppelin: one of the most famous and influential rock and roll bands of all time. The key word in there is influential. How many rock bands in 2013 do you suppose cite Zeppelin as a major influence on their sound? I’d say just about all of them, either directly…
Top 10 Doctor Who Video Game Easter Eggs
Video game programmers have been known to slip all kinds of references to Doctor Who into titles over the years. As part of our celebrations for the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the show, today we present the best cameos by figures from the Whoniverse in gaming. 10: One of the…
Good-bye, Downtown Macy’s (Nee Foley’s): Six Oddities You May Not Know, Featuring Massive Fallout Shelters, Ghosts & Spider-Man
It’s a sad sight walking by the downtown Macy’s these days — a cheap-ass “Going Out Of Business” hangs from its walls, and if you go inside you’ll find few floors open and everything — even the fixtures — on sale. It’s an undignified ending for the old store, which…
2013 Burger Bracket: The Sweet 16
Let the March madness begin: Our Sweet 16 semifinalists have been chosen for the 2013 Burger Bracket, which will narrow down 16 of the best burgers in Houston to a Final Four round over the next month. Those Final Four will bring their A-game to the final Burger Bracket match-up…
Here’s the Lowdown: The Boz Scaggs Interview, Part 2
Summoned to San Francisco by school friend Steve Miller to join his band on a couple of albums, Scaggs set out on his own with 1969’s Boz Scaggs, produced by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. It set the template for subsequent efforts like Moments, My Time and Slow Dancer. Record…
100 Creatives 2013: Danielle Burns, Art Curator
Art curator and professor Danielle Burns says she has the best of both worlds at the Houston Public Library where she coordinates exhibits using art and artifacts to tell stories about culture and history. Burns, who received her B. A. in history and political science from Prairie View A &…
JaMarcus Russell’s Quest to Become the First 350-Pound Quarterback Is Full Steam Ahead
My co-host John Granato and I have a standing breakfast bet (which I just now realized will have to be amended to something else at stake because we’re moving from mornings to afternoons on 1560 Yahoo! Sports Radio) and it goes like this: True or false: Out of these three…
Feel-Good Video of the Day: Diner Customers in Texas Stand Up for Gay Couple
An undercover camera crew in Farmers Branch — a small suburb of Dallas — filming the ABC show What Would You Do? in a typically small-town diner found something they didn’t expect in Texas: customers repeatedly standing up for a gay couple bullied by a waitress in front of their…
The 10 Most Bizarre David Bowie-Themed Items on Etsy
Somehow I’ve become an expert in messed-up offerings on Etsy at this job, and today I’m here to show you what dedicated, and slightly lunatic, fans of the Thin White Duke are handmaking just for you. Necklace It’s not that this necklace is bad, necessarily. The setting is nice and…
The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild and Joe Francis
With spring break right around the corner, it seems apropos that the Girls Gone Wild franchise has just filed Chapter 11. There was a time in our history when Girls Gone Wild infomercials were a regular staple on late night cable. Their name was synonymous with dirty fun and freedom…
