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"And even though I sound different, you can motherfuckin bet this: I'm repping this for Houston, Texas." — Marcus Manchild
Twenty-two-year-old Marcus Manchild's career...
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Yes, Prohibition, Craft of Cocktails (5175 Westheimer), the two-story bar located in the Galleria, has a Prohibition Era, speakeasy theme. No, we are not going to make any...
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By Craig Hlavaty, Shea Serrano and William Michael Smith Published:
November 17, 2011
Saturday's Houston Press Music Awards Showcase was spread out, with 50 bands playing over five areas and some 11 stages, which meant most of our photographers and writers were...
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This is a conversation that had to happen, even if it wasn't supposed to.
iLL LiaD, aka Brandon Rodriguez, is sitting in the lobby of McDonald's in St. Luke's in the Medical...
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Howard Hughes was an amazingly curious man. His history is filled with all sorts of interesting nuggets.
Born in Houston in 1905, he built the city's first transmitter radio...
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The irony of the situation was just too great, we suppose. That's why it didn't happen — because it couldn't happen. The universe wouldn't let it. It sounded a little...
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In October 2008, I watched one of the most important people in my life die a horrible, prolonged death. Cancer, they said, was eating her insides. Nothing could be done....
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The fact that you're unable to name, without Google's help, one single football player of consequence who has ever come from the University of Central Florida seems like it...
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There was some construction being done in the front of the house, so maybe someone knocked over a ladder or something, he remembers thinking.
He was in the back of the house...
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It's a trap. It's so clearly a trap that you briefly consider that it might not even be a trap. But it's a trap.
If you open a venue and decide to call it Hearsay (218...
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Dan Aykroyd is one smooth-talking S.O.B.
Besides doing more with his life than any six people you know personally — were you aware that he's been in more than 70 movies,...
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First off, eff Edloe.
Edloe is your exit if you're coming down U.S. 59 intending to visit Highland Village hideaway Mercer (3302 Mercer). Somehow, depending on which direction...
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A man is standing in the upstairs room of Avant Garden (411 Westheimer) clad in a lace-trimmed camisole. After we talk to him for a few minutes, however, his androgynous attire...
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"One Headlight," the 1996 hit by Los Angeles alt-rockers the Wallflowers, is still a fun song. Know where you wouldn't expect to hear it performed live? Firehouse Saloon (5930...
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Founded in the mid-'90s, Goodie Mob is one of Southern hip-hop's most revered acts. The Atlanta foursome, led by rotund crooner Cee-Lo Green in his pre-Gnarls Barkley days,...
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You're probably gonna wanna sit down for this.
The Roman Catholic Church, the governing religious body for about one-sixth of the world's population, is a sham. Yeah, we know...
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Though the decade seems to have fallen out of favor with the people that make those ironic T-shirts for Urban Outfitters, the '80s were a proper good time. All kinds of...
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Within the Houston nightlife experiment, few variables seem to be as underappreciated as the go-go girl. Hers is a thankless job, really, even more so than that of busboy....
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J.R. Rosenstein, a tall, crazy-eyed member of local rock band My Own I who's currently hanging out at far west Houston's Blue Door (11124 Westheimer), is all
kinds of fun. In...
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JUZCOZ just got off the stage at its EP release party at Isis Houston (1010 Prairie), one of downtown's newer night spots. The noteworthy
New-Age hip-hop duo was way...
