This podcast will make you popular and pretty. This week we discuss police brutality, Devin and Shelby’s wild weekend, why Newt Gingrich is a sex-god, and some other rubbish. Musical guest is Sarah Van Buskirk. Subscribe to FPH’s weekly podcast via iTunes or directly through any RSS reader, or download now. Read More »
By Jack Daniel Betz Tonight I plan to schlep over to Stereo Live to watch Calvin Harris tonight knowing full well the crop of amazing fuckheads that I’ll run into. The drinks will be expensive: there will be no lone star to speak of (unless that’s changed). There will be throngs of jail bait most likely lured there in hopes of finding Rhianna since that’s the only exposure they have this young Scottish artist. He provided a cheesy, bare bones, organ riff for that Rhianna song which has a name that escapes me. Some nonsense about yellow diamonds. But at ... Read More »
Houston has a wealth of events happening for film lovers in the coming weeks! The Iranian Film Festival celebrates 19 years in Houston and the Houston Palestine Film Festival kicks off its 6th season. This Friday and Saturday the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be hosting the second weekend of the 19th Annual Iranian Film Festival! This is the longest running film festival in the Museum’s history. The series continues at Rice Cinema on February 3-4. On February 2 the Houston Palestine Film Festival kicks off its 6th season with the Houston Film Commission’s First Thursdays at the Fairview and a very special screening ... Read More »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNfSjG3me0[/youtube] by Mills-McCoin Whenever I get the investigative itch, my father (a supreme genius in the field of economics) always reminds me to “find the money.” And, of course, he’s always right. The truth of any matter traditionally lies in the money-making or revenue-generating perspective. So when I heard that new Houston Astros owner, Jim Crane, announced his evil plot to change the name of our beloved baseball team, I nearly threw a baby dolphin at a nearby cactus. The fury that swelled within me was similar to when AT&T cut my iPhone data speed by 75% (I could hear ... Read More »
Driving to the Galleria area hotel to meet and interview Dallas Robert has me thinking about the weather because it’s chilly outside (around 50 degrees). After talking to Roberts about his role in the outdoors adventure The Grey I’ll probably never complain about the cold again. Roberts starts by confirming the movie was shot on location in upper British Columbia at temperatures that hovered at times around the 40-degrees-below-zero mark. Under the rugged direction of Joe Carnahan The Grey has a real Jack London vibe. You sense many things in this story of a handful of men who’ve survived a ... Read More »
By Jacob Calle: Magic Cyclops pulls into the driveway and comes inside Nordic Thunder’s home after a very long drive from Colorado to Chicago by himself. Someone shouts, ” Awesome! Magic has a car! Lets go!”. The poor guy didn’t even have a damn break and he’s back in the car taking a car full of air guitarists that flew in for the US Air Guitar Championship Finals from all over the United States. “Fuck! I’ve been driving non stop! How am I back in the car again!?”, exclaims Magic. Well that was this summer. Now the competition came to ... Read More »
By Jack Daniel Betz Come out Saturday to Super Happy to for a motley assortment of spaced out Houston noise, blues, and punk hosted by noise musician and performance artist David Larry Carol. The lineup includes psychobilly-punk-blues-noise band Darwin’s Finches, followed by punks Dada Moda. Then a performance by the endearingly obnoxious SHFL house band, The Annoysters. Closing it out will be a cacophonous coup of the stage by Clockpole. Clockpole’s Joe Ortiz said of the show, “there will be blood. Seriously, there will be blood. Black Magic Marker [Carol] is on the bill”. Darwin’s Finches front man Justin Clay ... Read More »
You know how in the summer there seem to be one or maybe two movies a week that opens. It’s the opposite in January with at least a half-dozen titles premiering this week alone. And that doesn’t even begin to cover the underground films shot last week in my bedroom by the Free Food and Drug Administration. Miss Bala comes from Mexico fully armed. This import at first seems like a send up of beauty pageants, perhaps not unlike the 70s satire Smile or perhaps a more lamebrain version of Miss Congeniality. No chance as Miss Bala rapidly escalates into ... Read More »
This Week’s Featured Show Saturday, January 28 2nd Annual Main Street Block Party @ The Continental Club The Big Top The Mink The Backroom (1PM-2AM) featuring What Made Milwaukee Famous, Power Trip, Caddywhompus, Empress Hotel, B L A C K I E, Brains For Dinner, Tax the Wolf, Venomous Maximus, Fight Pretty, League of Extraordinary G’s, Twenty Eleven, Another Run, White Crime, Purple, Bending Villa, Vox and Hound, A dream Asleep, Odessa, The American Heist, March to the Sea, England in 1819, Mills, Electric Attitude, The Dead Revolt, Buda Love, The Mahas, Howler, The Flamin’ Hellcats, The Literary Greats, Bang ... Read More »
The mind processes 3D films differently than regular films. Also the brain handles subtitled films in a different manner than films in one’s native language. Pina, a dance documentary by Win Wenders on Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater dance ensemble, unwinds in 3D and with subtitles. “The brain and the body process images differently, it’s true,” Wenders tells Free Press Houston in a phone interview the morning after Pina is nominated for Best Documentary Picture. “Regular movement can be so close to dance.” Wenders was born in Dusseldorf, which is close to Wuppertal the home of Bausch’s Tanztheater. The project was in ... Read More »
