Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Over 70 Texas fairs, fests, fetes, and more

"...features two massive rotating labs with robotic arms, water rockets and ion engines, and numerous authentic space travel and..."

Oct. 4, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...self-titled LP resembles the Velvet Underground escorting the Bottle Rockets around lower Manhattan. Fraternal trio Amplified Heat is more..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW’s Big Third List

YFN Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Ought, and 572 more

"...BeatKing (Houston)..."

Jan. 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Football Watch

Football has begun and all is well in the land

"...as of press time), the NBA season is looming (Rockets vs. Lakers, Heat vs. Celtics opening night Oct. 26),..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

Coach's Corner

In search of more synonyms for "idiot."

"...This got him traded just nine months ago to Houston, which was sure, for some reason, it had just..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Taxing the Fans

"...His vision for the Eighth Wonder of the World, Houston's Astrodome, began the mad scramble for increasingly opulent sports..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Get ready for baby sea turtles, balloon launches, and more

"...SystemsGo Rockets May 2-4, Stonewall, www.systemsgo.org..."

April 30, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Catfish, outlaws, and armadillos

"...Deutsch-Texanisher Saengerbund Saengerfest May 5, Houston, www.houstonsaengerbund.org..."

May 2, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Eddie Stout Is a One-Man Historical Blues Society

On the eve of his Eastside Kings Festival the Dialtone Records founder remains doggedly preservationist

"...five-year stint in Dallas with Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, he landed an apprenticeship under Elvis Presley engineer Bob..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

An Interview With the Toros/Clippers Andre Barrett

"...have you spent in Austin? AB: I lived in Houston, in my first year I played with the Rockets...."

March 7, 2008 Sports Post by Matt Moore

TCB

SXSW 2005 plows a furrow of beer cans, cocaine, and music through downtown Austin

"...captured him autographing the posterior of some lucky se–orita, Houston "tamale king" Chingo Bling emerged to the head-nodding strains..."

March 25, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...musical portrait of Isaac Newton, while the Fourth Movement rockets into the early 20th century, when Percival Lowell was..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...his aunts after seeing the legendary cowboy at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Sadly, for someone who never..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...along to songs like "Friday Afternoon Pep Rally." The Houston trio even brought a guy named Bippy in a..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Jocks Itch for Cash

Hey Sports Fans, How 'Bout a New Stadium, Your Treat?

"...want to fix the hole in the roof. The Rockets don't like The Summit, which lacks skyboxes. The bottom-dwelling..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Column by Robert Bryce

Dinosaur Jr., Flo Milli, Estevie, and More Reviews From Thursday of SXSW

Standout sets from the clusterfest

"...chaps, and decorative cactus cutouts at Estevie’s prior non-SX Houston stop – hopefully how we’ll see her next. –..."

March 15, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

The Luv Doc: America’s 40th-Best City

Because Ted Cruz is the Rat King

"...100 to Ted Cruz dragging his roller suitcase through Houston International like he's a toddler on the way to..."

July 28, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...James Short, Olivia Kuan, Justin Baldoni, Andrew Calof The Houston Herricanes were a women's full-tackle football team from the..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Us explores the vast expanse of psychedelia employing synth rockets and sonorous progressions. Inspired by social evolution, the festive..."

April 23, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Baby sea turtles, Elvis Fest, and more!

"...24 Texas high schools will launch more than 80 rockets over four days as part of Rockets2017, May 18-21,..."

May 5, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Drifter

Mike Flanigin's accidental (and all-star) organ-grinding

"...of the Dallas blues scene, Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets featuring Sam Myers, were his model. It just so..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...Copeland, aka the Texas Twister, thus came up alongside Houston's Albert Collins in the Fifties, both masters of the..."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

(don’t Go back To) ROCKVILLE

R.E.M. Accelerates

"...and judging by its title intentionally so, “Supernatural Superserious” rockets an instant R.E.M. Hall of Famer. “Houston,” acoustic overlay..."

March 12, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Forgotten but Not Quite Gone

The 79th Legislature ends not with a bang, but lots of whimpers

"...Moreno was killed driving back to Austin from a Rockets-Mavericks playoff game in Houston. As for the high points,..."

June 3, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Day Trips

A beautiful area of Texas, Wharton County has hundreds of stories to tell

"...Looking like the nose cones of buried rockets, seven of the 10 buildings have faded red Native..."

May 7, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...were in fact the Gensler architectural firm located in Houston and Los Angeles. Gensler was responsible for the building..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Sweet Caroline

New face on the old-timey music scene: Caroline Herring

"...Gillian Welch, Tony Furtado, Blue Mountain, and the Bottle Rockets...."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

That was the week that was in the Live Music Capital…

"...set foot he did. The Beatles notably performed at Houston's Coliseum in August 1965, and Harrison's last onstage nod..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...that Steve Francis hanging out backstage? Save journalists, the Rockets superstar could be the brokest guy in the room..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...may be the easiest target ever to blow snot rockets into an Oval Office wastebasket. But it's hard to..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

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