Football and fries at Nadine’s Irish Mist

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The panic sets in at the first incomplete pass. Or the first fumble. Or the first broken tackle. Your shoulders sink slightly, your head lowers somewhat and as you stare into your half-empty pint glass, you fix your fears on the worst: This season is going [...]

Click your fingers applauding RTX

PHOTO by SASHA EISENMAN
RTX is 20 fully-stocked Guitar Centers descending in full flight on Roky Erickson—Sunset Strip shred-rock with camouflaged alien complexities within, led and fed by singer Jennifer Herrema, ex of Royal Trux and an unreconstructed original-source rocker to rival Hasil Adkins. (“Jennifer,” says bassist Kurt Midness, “tends to throw [...]

A Flower Girl’s Dream doesn’t just tiptoe through the tulips

PHOTO by JEFF GOULD
It’s not uncommon to find Sheri Cervantes running around her store in a wetsuit, sopping wet with sand still dripping from her hair, rattling off plant facts while putting together the most perfect, colorful bouquet of flowers you’ve ever seen.
“This is the only [...]

I got into work last night for the first time since returning from SXSW and this was in my little waitress cubby box:

Don’t hate me, man. Hate the blowjobs.