The Bad Drugs, fresh off a rollicking performance at Big Star Bar, were too pumped to let the night end on Saturday, May 5.
After leaving the Heights-area drinkery, the band headed to the drummer's ...
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You got a scene of a half-occupied cafe patio, a generic grocery store item and some old bored woman.
These belong in the canon of the greatest artworks ever!
No they don't.
Though folks have be...
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Something had to be done.
After today's Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation board meeting -- and pending acceptance from Harris County Commissioners Court -- the Reliant Astrodome will be...
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There's noise that steadies itself in between electroacoustic, drone and neoclassical. Then there's noise that doesn't teeter on anything (for... More >>
It's a Thursday afternoon and Dr. Khaled Jabboury greets a patient in the waiting room of his office at the West Houston Medical Center. The woman, though it's not immediately noticeable, is facing th...
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A former employee tells Hair Balls that the incident involving a mom who threatened to shoot up Marshall Middle School is just the tip of the iceberg at the "troubled and confused" institution.
"Whe...
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Paul Connolly, a seven-year vet of Houston's improvised music community, hopes that his recently minted Brave New Waves Sound Series will be up to snuff with the other experimental-music happenings ar...
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It's not often that an artist gets an opportunity to collect his or her work of the past quarter-century and hang the output on a gallery wall.
Along with an art exhibit, there's another reward that...
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The long wait has ended for Lee West III, the University of Houston graduate who had sued Omega Psi Phi over alleged hazing incidents in 2009.
Hair Balls learned today that the case, filed in Harris ...
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On Wednesday, Sotheby's set a new world price record for art sales, bringing in $44.6 million each for Roy Lichtenstein's Pop Art painting Sleeping Girl and Figure Writing Reflected in a Mirror by Bri...
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Imagine you're a teacher's aide in your East Texas hometown. You're looking to maybe score a better position so you come up with an out-of-the-box idea. In your mind, it's soooo good that you just got...
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In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council passed on October 10.
While a Houston Police Department officer is confiden...
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Things have been quite noisy since Houston's new noise ordinance became law.
In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council...
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"Dollar Bill" won't be receiving a paycheck from Texas A&M any longer because on Tuesday, A&M athletic director Bill Byrne announced his retirement.
A few weeks earlier, Aggie president R. Bowen Lof...
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There's noise that steadies itself in between electroacoustic, drone and neoclassical. Then there's noise that doesn't teeter on anything (for... More >>
One has been contributing to Houston's potent art scene for years with his mixed-media surprises. Another is soon off for the Pacific Northwest, where he hopes to put the finishing touches on a graphi...
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Maine has won the latest version of the United States Peace Index's "Most Peaceful State" competition.
Texasr Forty-sixth most peaceful.
This result simply means that Maine is a big pile of bo-ring...
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It's dead. For real this time.
This week, the British Journal of Photography reported that Fujifilm -- who makes the wonderfully saturated and potent negative and slide films for 35 millimeter, mediu...
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The Michigan Wolverines may have ushered in the official Twitterized world of college football by painting #goblue in two spots on the Michigan Stadium turf for its spring game.
(Yeah, yeah, Mississ...
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Elizabeth Dunbar, who was recently hired as the executive director of DiverseWorks ArtSpace, is making things happen at her new post.
Along with creating new jobs at one of Houston's top art venues,...
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Some celebrate a quarter-century of existence with some boring cake. For its 25th anniversary, The Menil Collection is constructing a freaking building, one that will be a one-of-a-kind cathedral to v...
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Damon Smith expected to enjoy Houston when he moved here in August 2010, but not this much.
The Bay Area transplant -- an internationally established double bass player, who has shared a stage with P...
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The East End is more than just an area of town, according to Lupe Olivarez. "It's like the beating heart where things get made so the city can conduct business and live," he says.
Olivarez, a longt...
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There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
