The Weekly Music Round Up, May 24th-30th The Free Press Pick of the Week!  THE ARTY FARTY KICK OFF PARTY! Come celebrate the preemptive kick off for FPSF! Live music, booze, beautiful works of art, and a really excellent location, plus tons of wonderful people! Everyone will be there! https://www.facebook.com/events/198936243587722/ Facebook link! This Week In Music:  Friday, May 24th Soundgarden- Live at Bayou Music Center The Black Angels, Pure X, Wall of Death- Live at Fitzgerald’s Saturday, May 25th Clutch, The Sword, Awful Dixie Witch- Live at House of Blues The Tyburn Jig, The Escatones, Darwin’s Finches, Super Robot Party- Live ... Read More »

If you’re not on the Noah Baumbach bandwagon you need to hop on and see “Frances Ha.” Baumbach’s latest film, written by Baumbach and the star of “Frances Ha,” Greta Gerwig, seems to deconstruct both the indie film template and the romantic comedy scheme. Gerwig plays a modern woman in the throes of indecision. “She’s an impulsive character,” maintains Baumbach in a phone interview with Free Press Houston. Indeed, one moment Frances is fretting over a nominal ATM charge and then at another juncture she randomly decides to fly to Paris for the weekend. All on the rapidly decreasing credulity of ... Read More »

The thing about Kon-Tiki is how it leaves you both with a sense of adventure as well as a feeling that one has control of their own destiny. Kon-Tiki is a narrative version of Thor Heyerdahl’s non-fiction account of how he led an expedition across the ocean in 1947 in a boat designed to mimic how people would’ve sailed 1500 years ago. In all Heyerdahl sailed 4300 miles over the period of approximately 100 days in a raft, albeit a huge raft larger than most living rooms, made of balsa logs in a successful attempt to prove that the Polynesian ... Read More »

To Boldly Go… The anticipation surrounding this movie had built up so much, and I’ve been so disappointed this year by a majority of the hype machines that have been dragging their collective weight across 2013. The Great Gatsby was apparently the Not So Great Gatsby, the Evil Dead was pretty much Less Evil and More Dead, so naturally I was skeptical about this new Star Trek. I bought tickets, and headed to see it, but not in 3D. I figure, if the movie is good enough in 2D, then it’s worth seeing again in 3D. The movie blasts off ... Read More »

By: Amanda Hart Photo courtesy of Librotraficante In March, FPH covered an important fight that was brewing on the steps of the State Capitol. Our favorite Houston Senator, The Great Dan Patrick, had introduced Senate Bill 1128 which would have redefined what Texas universities could classify as history.  That same day, Texas Republican House of Representative Giovanni Capriglione introduced House Bill 1938  which outlined the same goal as SB 1128. According to the bill(s), “A college or university receiving state support or state aid from public funds may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic certificate ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up: May 17th-23rd The Free Press Pick of the Week: Do something right by going to see the Wrong Ones, here is our album review for their new record which they will be releasing tonight! http://www.freepresshouston.com/music/nothing-wrong-about-em-review-of-the-wrong-ones-infinite-hallucinations/  This Week in Music- Friday, May 17: The Wrong Ones, Poor Dumb Bastards, Hell City Kings, Talk Sick Brats, The Swamps- Fitzgerald’s B.E. Godfrey, IDYL, Austin Smith, Eli- Fitzgerald’s Saturday, May 18: Born Liars (Record Release Party)- Fitzgerald’s Yngwie Malmsteen- The Concert Pub North Sunday, May 19: Gladys Knight- Arena Theater Barry Manilow- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilio Monday, May ... Read More »

For every fan of classic French film as well as affectionatos of foreign and art films comes Renoir. A biography of sorts this handsome movie depicts the late years of the impressionistic painter Auguste Renoir. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Renoir is really about the model who became a kind of muse to Renoir and subsequently became the wife of Jean Renoir the famous film director. We’re first introduced to beautiful actress Christa Theret as Andrée Heuschling as she lies her way to a meeting with the master painter. Even as she disrobes for a session we ... Read More »

National Ride Your Bike to Work Day: The League of American Bicyclists got together and decided to designate May as the National Bike Month, way back in 1956. Now, 57 years later, we are here to remind you that tomorrow, the third Friday in May, is Bike to Work Day! That means you, the responsible, Earth loving consumers that you are, get the chance to utilize all that empty bike rack space at your office, and forget about fighting your coworkers for a parking spot in your garage! Aside from all the added health benefits of riding a bicycle, some ... Read More »

Houstonians are outraged that a judge has tossed the case against animal fetish torturer Ashley Nicole Richards. Comments on the article include: - these sick sick piece of garbage scum bags have no place in this world - I sure hope when they get to hell they suffer long and hard I would love to meet up with these little cowards - This bitch needs to star in a snuff video and - THIS BITCH NEEDS TO DIE! So, people are kinda mad, but what about exactly? The torture of animals in general, or the fact this the act of ... Read More »

James Templeton is the driving force behind Houston’s LIMB, a band that escapes any kind of conventional labeling or shortcuts to thinking. His music utilizes both modern and traditional means, and this highly thoughtful, complex, and often times disorienting concoction makes use of sampled sounds through Ableton, live drumming, and probably more than you could imagine in terms of creativity. LIMB is about to release a new record, called But Rage At What, and to get things started, James starred in a video for the title track, which was produced by Jeromy.tv and Ella Egg Films. The video is a ... Read More »