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Molly Flogs Houston

Flogging Molly makes the walls sweat at the House of Blues.

By Angelica Leicht
Feb 27, 2013

I wish I were Irish, and so does half of Houston, apparently, judging by the February 17 sold-out Flogging Molly concert at the House of Blues. Flogging Molly, L.A.'s seven-person Celtic punk band, blend traditional Celtic, Irish and folk with ridiculously loud and boisterous punk music to create a sound...
Yoko Ono Turns 80, Still Weird as Hell

By Angelica Leicht
Feb 15, 2013

Yoko Ono, never one to bend to the rules of societal convention, has got this old-age shit down to a science. Screw bridge club and Metamucil; this soon-to-be octogenarian is putting your grandma's ideas about the twilight years to shame. True to form, the famed conceptual artist/musician/fashion-designer/philanthropist/Beatles destroyer (to a...
Dum Dum Girls "Coming Down," Out of Their Clothes

By Jef Rouner
Sep 4, 2012

I have a deep place in my heart for Dum Dum Girls. Their music is a kind of aching, empty light that is like being shot with some sort of experimental anesthesia before a doctor restructures a deformation. Think of it as Adele, but produced in an alley where crime...
30 Seconds with The Boxing Lesson

By Jef Rouner
Apr 20, 2012

Progressive psychedelia is an acquired taste...acquired by being awesome, that is. Austin's own Boxing Lesson may be one of the best modern practitioners around. If the Legendary Pink Dots teamed with the Cult, you might get somewhere near the throbbing frontal lobe fuck of their work. Seriously, "Health is the...
Aurora Gets into Fluxus with Artist-Designed Membership Cards

By Brittanie Shey
Feb 23, 2012

Aurora Picture Show is seeking several artists and crafty-minded people for help creating and spreading a grassroots art project across Houston. That project will be the making of several hundred credit card-sized micro works of art to serve as membership cards for the roughly 300 member-donors to the micro cinema...
A Single Plum, Floating in Perfume, Served in a Men's Hat: Fake Yoko Ono Tweets

By Craig Hlavaty
Nov 30, 2011

We've razzed Yoko Ono on Rocks Off a bit this past year. This week we poked fun at her Facebook presence, and we even did an analysis of how some feel she continues to matter in the art and pop worlds. We made the argument that she helped usher in...
Yoko Ono Just Wants to Be Liked...on Facebook

By William Michael Smith
Nov 25, 2011

OK, Facebook finally went too far last night when it casually offered me a chance to "like" Yoko Ono. Six others I'm somehow connected with via F-book (and I'm starting to wonder why I'm connected to them at all) "like" the 78-year old Mrs. Lennon. So when does an "artist"...
Troubled Fantasy: Creepy Wax Figures Of John Lennon

By Craig Hlavaty
Oct 10, 2011

It's a big week for Beatles fans, which is like saying it's a big week for people who like air and water. Yesterday was John Lennon's 71st birthday, and tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of "Imagine." The Martin Scorsese-directed doc on George Harrison's life, the beyond stellar George Harrison: Living...
Why I'm Going to Buffalo Wild Wings Instead of Colton & Farb Gallery

By Gene Morgan
Sep 14, 2011

I haven't been in a while, but Buffalo Wild Wings is kind of incredible. It offers 14 distinct sauces for its wings. You can get something called "Asian Zing" dumped all over your chicken bits and simultaneously watch 43 billboard-sized televisions. Colton & Farb Gallery offers a similar yet more...
Yoko Ono's "Imagine Peace" Billboard Returns to Houston for Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

By CAROLINE EVANS
Sep 6, 2011

Starting early this morning, Houston downtown commuters could see the simple, two-word phrase that has become symbolic of positive thinking in times of crisis, "Imagine Peace," hovering on a billboard above I-45. The billboard, a public art installation designed by Yoko Ono (and based on John Lennon's legendary song "Imagine")...
Four Musicians Roth Vs. U.S. Would Have Jailed (NSFW)

By Jef Rouner
Jun 23, 2011

Standing up for the First Amendement is a hard row to hoe sometimes. Sure, it's fun when you can defend someone like Marilyn Manson, but it's a lot less fun when you realize you also have to defend people like the Westboro Baptist Church. Thems the breaks, though. If you're...
Playing the Silences

By Chris Becker
Mar 2, 2011

The 2009 comedy Untitled is an affectionate send up of New York City's pretentious and fashionably hermetic conceptual art and "new music" scenes. Its two main characters, a beautiful, black rubber-clad gallery owner and a scowling, piano abusing composer, share a passion for art and music, and mutual disgust for...
Yoko Ono: Five Reasons She Still Matters

By Craig Hlavaty
Feb 17, 2011

Friday, Yoko Ono Lennon, widow of John Lennon, turns 78 years old. She's still as vibrant and prolific as ever, staying in the spotlight, not only as the keeper of Lennon's flame but also as an influential artist and public figure. Here is where Beatles fans will scoff and say...
Musicians Do More In Bed Than Just... Sleep

By Chris Gray
May 26, 2010

Today is the anniversary of one of the most unusual events in a most unusual decade. On May 26, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their "Bed-In for Peace" at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel. It was the second of such boudoir-bound protests (or, if you prefer, media stunts); the...
Domy Movie Nights: Holy Mountain

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 film never became a cult classic – but it’s hard to see why not

By D. L. Groover
Jul 9, 2009

If you thought that Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1971) was an acid trip and a half, wait until you see his follow-up, Holy Mountain (1973). Virtually unseen for years because of problems with producer Allen Klein (who was also a producer for the Beatles), Holy Mountain was financed by John...
“what we want is too late”

Lawndale’s studio artists explore collaborative efforts separately

By Dusti Rhodes
May 22, 2008

In the exhibit “what we want is too late,” three artists explore collaboration — separately. The show features the work of Lawndale’s Artist Studio Program participants Lynne McCabe, Danny Kerschen and Teresa O’Connor. For her installation, McCabe sent out requests to friends and even celebrities such as Yoko Ono and...
Meet the Beatle

John Lennon's other art takes center stage in "When I'm Sixty Four"

Jul 21, 2005

Though vilified (unfairly) for "breaking up the Beatles" and (perhaps not so unfairly) for micromanaging her husband's life, Yoko Ono has done more than anyone else to extend the artistic legacy of John Lennon. New CDs, DVDs and books have appeared at regular intervals to satiate fans. (Though, honestly, we...
Mates of State

Team Boo (Polyvinyl)

By Geoff Harkness
Nov 13, 2003

Mates of State appear Thursday, November 13, at Fat Cat's, 4216 Washington Avenue. Palomar and Balikbayan are also on the bill. For more information, call 713-869-5263.
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jun 19, 2003

Thursday, June 19 The world's freaks can be divided up roughly into two categories: social and antisocial. Your typical antisocial perv stands on the sidelines at kinky events with his hands in his pockets, ogling the action just a little too intently. After 17 beers, he'll get up his nerve...
Down 'n' Dirty

Wood searches for the naked truth with Suchu Dance

By Lauren Kern
Jun 27, 2002

It's a wonder Jennifer Wood ever choreographs anything. According to her own press release, she's constantly battling her fears that the audience will think she's boring, conventional, tasteless, dumb, flippant, self-serious and not well rehearsed. In reality, Wood is none of these things, and if that needed proving, her latest...
Oh, Yoko!

The "widow of John Lennon" deserves a spotlight of her own

By Kelly Klaasmeyer
Aug 30, 2001

An exhibition of work by the widow of John Lennon" is how KUHF-FM led into its report on Yoko Ono's retrospective, "YES YOKO ONO," at the Contemporary Arts Museum. More than 20 years after the death of her husband, "the most famous unknown artist" still doesn't have a name, not...
Give This Piece a Chance

Yoko Ono continues to fight to get her late husband respect as a visual artist

By Dylan Otto Krider
Mar 15, 2001

In the '70s a New York gallery finally expressed interest in some of John Lennon's drawings. Until then, art spaces had refused even to look at the work of the man they condescendingly called a "pop star," albeit one of the best known in the world. Lennon jumped at the...

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