Email Author John Nova Lomax

2009 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Hustlers Brass Band's Big Top Residency Begins Tonight

  published Nov 24, 2009

  Dismal weather getting you downr Short days got you singing the bluesr Are you hungry for some free red beans and rice and funk-drenched brass-band jamsr Got five bucksr Then get on down to the Big T... More >>

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  How To Make a Bad Day Worse: Eat Your Weed In Front of a Cop

  published Nov 24, 2009

  When 32-year-old Terance Eugene McCullough was pulled over last February for speeding on Highway 59, the policeman asked McCullough about the strong smell of marijuana emanating from his ride. McCullo... More >>

• Houston 101: Sig Byrd, Houston's King of True-Life Noir

  published Nov 20, 2009

  rOf all the columnists in the history of Houston journalism, Sigman Byrd was easily the darkest and the most literary. From the late 1940s to the early '60s, Byrd wrote a column called The Stroller f... More >>

• San Antonio Blogger Has Had Enough "Free South Park Mexican" Sentiment

  published Nov 18, 2009

  A little over seven years ago, we wrote about the South Park Mexican trial. The rapper, born Carlos Coy, had it all: money, his own record label, a nightclub and, most importantly, the ear of a genera... More >>

• Taking Tibet By Motor Home: Two Houstonians RV On The Roof Of The World

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Houstonians Harriet and Dr. John Halkyard love to travel in motor homes. They are also good at it. In 2005, the couple recounted their adventures in Mexico and Central America in the book 99 Days to ... More >>

• Vietnam Vet to America: Stick Veterans Day Where The Sun Don't Shine

  published Nov 11, 2009

  Dave Collins is a Vietnam veteran, and he wants to abolish Veteran's Day. "I would also like to see yellow-ribbon stickers outlawed along with 'We Support the Troops' signs in business and all the oth... More >>

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  Ever Been Fingerprintedr Well, You Might Just Be... I Dunno, Oh, SATAN!

  published Nov 10, 2009

  rPam McLaurin is a teacher in Big Sandy ISD in Polk County in deep East Texas. The Texas Education Association has asked her to submit to a background check. McLaurin, who has taught for 20 years,... More >>

• Metro Vice President To Homeless: Stay Off Our Train

  published Nov 06, 2009

  Todd Mason is the vice president of real estate services for Metro. At the time of his hiring, there was some concern that by hiring Mason and dabbling in big-time real estate development at and aroun... More >>

• New On The Web! More Party Pics and Coverage of Rich People!

  published Nov 04, 2009

  Heartbroken fans of Clifford Pugh, Shelby Hodge and Heather "Shopgirl" Staible take solace -- the trio of ex-Chron lifestyle scribes have a new home online at Culture Map Houston, which debuted a few ... More >>

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  Australian Oreo Cookie Ripoff Ignites Debate Over "Creole," To The Bafflement Of Houston Creoles

  published Oct 28, 2009

  It's a never-ending debate around these parts. What is Creoler Is it the same as Cajunr If not, why notr And let's say you were an Australian supermarket chain and were looking for a name for your in... More >>

• Australian Cookie Ignites Debate Over "Creole," To The Bafflement Of Houston Creoles

  published Oct 28, 2009

  It's a never-ending debate around these parts. What is Creoler Is it the same as Cajunr If not, why notr And let's say you were an Australian supermarket chain and were looking for a name for your in... More >>

• Take This Tie and Shove It Part II: Houston As Fashion Capital For The Hot World

  published Oct 21, 2009

  Yesterday, we shared the vision of urbanist and blogger Andrew Burleson, who dreams of a Houston in which we dress for the weather at all times, even at work. It's his view that this would lower energ... More >>

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  The Great East Texas Ten-Ton Oil Pump Heist

  published Oct 20, 2009

  rOn one hand, you have to tip your John Deere hat and salute this little feat of deep East Texas Redneck ingenuity and derring-do. On the other hand, you just have to wonder WTF they were thinking... More >>

• Take This Tie And Shove It: Local Urbanist Thinks Houston's Rebirth Hinges on Dressing For The Weather

  published Oct 20, 2009

  Andrew Burleson hates wearing dress clothes. He also believes this cultural hangover from our distant European ancestry costs too much money, is completely illogical and ruins much of Houston's social... More >>

• Dive Bar Eats: At Best, A Mixed Bag

  published Oct 14, 2009

  This week's feature is all about Houston's best dive bars. Dive bar food in Houston is a pretty hit-and-miss affair. If you lump icehouses in with the overall class of dive bars, as you must in Housto... More >>

• Dive Bar-ology 101: What A Dive Bar Is Not

  published Oct 14, 2009

  These days, there are a lot of misconceptions about what constitutes a dive bar. Going by lists on sites like Yelp and Citysearch, and especially this laughable list from the Houston Chronicle, appar... More >>

• Forchuns Tolled

  published Oct 13, 2009

  We spotted this beautifully painted sign outside a Flower Alley fortune teller's house. There should probably be an asterisk after that bottom claim. With four of 15 words misspelled, this seer is cle... More >>

• Dive Bars

  published October 15, 2009

  Somewhere in a godforsaken stretch of near northwest Houston, a very drunk man wearing a Texas Longhorns cap is smoking outside the front door of... More >>

• We're So Houston: Young Twinn Sets It Down For His City

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Rocks Off loves songs about Houston. Here's a pretty good new one by a rapper called Young Twinn. While the video doesn't offer much we haven't seen before - please, one shot of the skyline as seen f... More >>

• ISO A Femme Fataler Jail Babes Has The Hook-Up

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Can't find a match on Match.comr Can't get it in tune on eHarmonyr Desperate for a young hottie, but not exactly a catch yourself and unable to fly to Russia for a mail order brider We've got a datin... More >>

• Ghost Riders: Way of Life

  published October 8, 2009

  On March 30 of this year, Leigh Boone was cycling along Lower Westheimer near Dunlavy. Suddenly, two fire trucks collided mere feet from Boone.... More >>

• Ghost Riders: Easy Come, Easy No

  published October 8, 2009

  Bruce Blackwell, a retiree now living in Friendswood, misses his old neighborhood in suburban Chicago, not least because of the Prairie Path.... More >>

• Ghost Riders

  published October 8, 2009

  Cisco Rios lived to ride his bike. The 25-year-old waiter longed to ditch his job and make that passion his livelihood. His buddy Matt Wurth,... More >>

• The Daily Beast: Houston -- You Are "Mildly Retarded"

  published Oct 05, 2009

  The Daily Beast has ranked the IQ of each of America's 55 metro areas with populations over a million. Here is how they arrived at the concept of a municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had b... More >>

• Sell-By Date, Schmell-By Date: Where to Find the Cheapest Groceries in Town

  published Oct 02, 2009

  Eating Our Words recently became acquainted with and enamored with Capital Sales, a "scratch-and-dent" grocery store on the corner of Almeda and Binz. The sign out front declares discounts to 30 to 60... More >>