Article Archive for April 2024
![The Big Uneasy](../../img/the_big_uneasy_large-300x212_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
People who know Harry Shearer only as the bass player from This Is Spinal Tap (Derek Smalls) or through his voice work in The Simpsons (Mr. Burns among others) are about to be surprised. Shearer’s …
![Testify – Cole Alexander of the Black Lips](../../img/Black_Lips_Zach_Wolfe_1_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
Black Lips (Photograph by Zach Wolfe)
The Black Lips‘ brand of 60’s inspired garage rock is the kind of stuff that immediately strikes a chord with anyone. It’s sassy, smart-ass, precocious, in your face, weird, and, …
![The Greatest Story Ever Sold](../../img/greatest-movie-poster-image-300x210_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
The Greatest Story Ever Sold explores the art of product placement, and once the film wraps you’ll have no doubt extracting monies from corporate entities to have their products appear in the frame of a …
![Fast Five](../../img/fast-five-20101214020415528-300x165_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
Time was when action movies had real explosions and effects. Nowadays movies CGI in all the mayhem, and the action sequences look patently false. Case in point Fast Five, the fifth in the serious of …
![FFW – The Free Press preview for April 28 – May 4](../../wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TIGERcomposite_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
This Week’s Featured Show(s)
Record Release Parties (WOOOOO!)
Thursday, April 28
The Literary Greats (CD release)
with
The Orbans, Beetle
@ The Continental Club
Pale
(CD release)
with
The Shiny Darks, Come See My Dead Person
@ Warehouse Live (Studio)
Satuday, April 30
The Energy
(CD release)
with
OBN III’s, …
![Latin Wave 6](../../img/asalto-al-cine-300x200_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
A wave of diverse movies from Latin America descends on Houston in the form of the Latin Wave 6. The sixth annual festival of films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia and Mexico unwinds at …
![Houston Hackerspace announces summer class series](../../wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/4793_7-300x224_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
Tx\Rx members constructing what looks like a baby tardis
By Alex Wukman
Houston’s one and only Hackerspace Tx\Rx Labs has announced there spring/summer class series. The two-year-old organization, headquartered at 2024 Commerce St., is composed of over …
![Testify – Ary Warnaar of Anamanaguchi](../../wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/robertson_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.gif)
Anamanaguchi’s “Airbrushed” Art by Paul Robertson
Ah technology. We use it and then discard it for the next shiny toy that tempts us with promises of better and faster computing. In garages and in landfills …
![Secret Mall: The Mall](../../img/Secret-Mommy-The-Mall-1-300x300_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
By Jacob Calle
Secret Mommy’s latest release is a 27 minute soundtrack to a Darren Aronofsky film that does not exist. These 8 tracks have no beginning nor do they have an end as they seamlessly …
![Tomatoes for Winning!](../../img/nm_charlie-sheen-drunk-300x231_w_80_h_80_zc_1_q_100.jpg)
By Jacob Calle
Charlie Sheen will be dumping his “Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour” here tonight at Verizon Wireless. You all may have heard that his tour has not been the best for him as people …