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Crash Reports

Crash Reports

Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.

By John Nova Lomax

Incoming

Depraved Houston, a jacked-up rodeo and Jennifer Aniston

Music >

Music

Ultimate Victory

Ultimate Victory

Fences with Paul Wall mended, upcoming tour planned, Chamillionaire is comfortable being the rapper next door.

By Ben Westhoff

Noise

Corky's Debt

The Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson isn't sentimental about much...except Houston.

By Chris Gray

Nightfly

'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

Comedy and jazz commingle downtown in the clouds (or smog, whatever).

By Shea Serrano

Chatter

Whiskey in the Jar

The Blaggards warm up for an Irish tour by rocking the Rory Miggins Memorial Irish Stew Cook-Off.

By Chris Gray

Restaurants >

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Mex on the Beach

Mex on the Beach

The wild tropical seafood restaurant Yelapa Playa Mexicana was named for a beach on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

By Robb Walsh

Hot Plate

Marvelous mollusks at Stella Sola

By Paul Galvani

Stirred and Shaken

TAPS HOUSE OF BEER'S PEAR PLEASURE

By Glenn Livet

Dish

Table Seven

By Paul Galvani

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Arts & Entertainment >

Theater

A Toast to <i>Tosca</i>

A Toast to Tosca

The Houston Grand Opera delivers sex, violence and some amazing music.

By D.L. Groover

Good Turn

Turn of the Screw

By D.L. Groover

Artbeat

Capsule Art Reviews: "Body in Fragments", "Dana Frankfort: Pictures", "Robert Pruitt: The Forever People", "Ron Hoover — A Retrospective: 1972-2006", "Wishing Well for Houston"

By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

Encore

Capsule Stage Reviews: Un ballo in maschera, A Picasso, Thunder Rock

By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams

Ask a Mexican

SPECIAL NARCO EDITION

By Gustavo Arellano

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  • Miami New Times

    Sex, Drugs, Gambling--and Football

    Heading to Miami for the Super Bowl? Don't leave the hotel without our guide to vice in the Magic City.

    By Michael J. Mooney and Gus Garcia-Roberts

  • City Pages

    Life in the Blue Zone

    Daredevil Dan Buettner's latest trick? Bringing the secrets of immortality to Minnesota.

    By Erin Carlyle

  • Phoenix New Times

    The Greatest Dane

    Bigger than Shaq and proud of it, the world's tallest dog may be living in Tucson.

    By James King