POLL: Which is the cheaper costume - Sara Palin or that lady that carved the backwards B in her face?  I dunno, but thank god for those two, because now we all have some cheap ways to dress up in a hurry.  Oh crap, what about dudes.  Hipster once again.
FRIDAY
Rusted Shut (12″ Relase Party) and [...]

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You know, there are more websites and blogs popping up it seems like every week to cover the goings-on in town, and one of them has really hit the ground running, already setting up a monthly event over at the Caroline Collective. That website is indiehouston.org, and their event is called Final Fridays. [...]

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We love Pittsburgh, we really do. Mad shouts to all our people rocking the yellow and black. If there are two things we don’t like about your city, it would have to be 1) Your Hilton Hotel and its lack of Internet and 2) How all those beautifully changing leaves on your trees [...]

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Cannot deny it, the folks at the Free Press have put together another WHIPS OF ACES lineup for their twice-annual block party. All this week, we’ll be helping battle your OH NO, WHICH SHOW TO GO? malady with a shot in the arm of our thoughts on some recent releases by Block Party acts. And [...]

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Sometimes, our cruel and dictitorial editor in cheif won’t permit us to go out for our traditional weekday 80s-style Three Martini Expense Account Lunch (we usually have the Savings and Loans Bailout Burger with Keating Fries - mmmmm) and we’re forced (unfairly) to order takeout and actually work.  Horsehockey!  So, today we’re starting a new [...]

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Oh man. Look at that little baby. Oh man. She’s beautiful. It’s like Tony Balls and Sabra Laval had a lovechild made of FOUR STROKE POWER. Oh man. Let’s start off by giving BIG UPS to friends of humanity Dana and Shelia Wright of Sugarland, whose generosity is matchless like [...]

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UPDATE 7:29PM - The show at the Mink tonight is Cancelled
CAN YOU FEEL IT, BUMPING ON YOUR STEREO?  No, that’s not an old fav from Supergrass, what you’re hearing is the sound of marquee show after marquee show falling off the walls and into the bin of RESCHEDULE or CLOSED.  Rather than do like we [...]

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OOOOOOOOOH FIZZLE BIZZLE. You know, in the midst of a truly LOL Vice Presidential vetting disaster, it’s harder than Gary Hart to compete for your attention - and we recognize this. But fortunately, some news that will in no way raise to the DailyKos or Redstate radar has come across our desks and [...]

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Hahah.  We love stories from tour. And seeing how there aren’t too many of Houston’s Beautifulest headed out for rubber on road adventures in ‘08, we were glad to see that the fine men of Listen Listen bucked the trend and booked themselves a tour of this here beloved Lone Star State (not a bad [...]

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UPDATED: ok.  turns out there is a show in Montrose afterall. This is a weird weekend kinda, and not just cause we’re recommending shows at Fitzgeralds, Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar and Double Dave’s Pizza (to some of you it will also be weird that we’re all frosted tips about a weekend at the Shady Tavern [...]

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