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The College Football Preview, Week Four: Longhorns in Jail and Cougars with Excuses

The College Football Preview, Week Seven: Babes. Lots and Lots of Babes.

Over the Hills and Not That Far Away

Guitar Center Gives the Drummers Some

Make It a Funky Weekend

Tunnel Mole Surfaces, Discovers SUV Assholes

Downtown Streets Getting Crowded Again, And It Sucks

Diner's Notebook

Rotation

A Baton Rouge Soap Opera (Starring Sheriff's Deputies) Comes Here

Photo by de*Seems like hurricane evacuees are not the only ones who flee Louisiana to Houston for safety. A Baton Rouge family recently escaped here to get away from the local cops, whom they claim maliciously prosecuted them repeatedly after the family tried to expose corruption at a homeowners ass ... More >>

LITTLE PAPPAS SEAFOOD KITCHEN'S MANGO MOJITO

Photo by de*Seems like hurricane evacuees are not the only ones who flee Louisiana to Houston for safety. A Baton Rouge family recently escaped here to get away from the local cops, whom they claim maliciously prosecuted them repeatedly after the family tried to expose corruption at a homeowners ass ... More >>

Red Stick Ramblers

Photo by de*Seems like hurricane evacuees are not the only ones who flee Louisiana to Houston for safety. A Baton Rouge family recently escaped here to get away from the local cops, whom they claim maliciously prosecuted them repeatedly after the family tried to expose corruption at a homeowners ass ... More >>

Vinyl Heads

They're turning to needles, looking for purity

School Discipline, Lisa Nowak, Terry Abbott, GHCVB Gay Ads

Some people still favor Texas's zero-tolerance rules

The Terms

Saturday, August 12, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

Displaced in the Diaspora

New Orleans mayoral candidates are looking for votes -- and finding them in Houston

Walk Away, Walk Away

And we will follow as local music figures recall tales of U2

Mary Gauthier

Mercy Now

New Angels in Rock Heaven

Scoring the grim reaper's 2004 harvest

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

Drop Everything

"Funk Jazz Fridays" get rolling at Cafe Brasil

Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

Rocker Robbery

The theft of his trailer capped a bad week for John Evans

A Call to Arms

Gary Ray is going to Russia for the glory of his sport. For the honor of his country. For a chance to win one more arm-wrestling contest.

Jazzed

Opelous Café adds spice to downtown

Pyramid Scheme

Two, four, six, eight.Come and watch us levitate!

“Louisiana’s Most Wanted: Charles Barbier and Hunter Roth”

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Five Spot: The Illustrious Dustin Prestige

Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.We suspect the goal of every music writer is to be able to answer "Who are you ... More >>

Top 5 Sauces That Make Chains Worth Visiting

​A purist would say a good bread or steak should stand on its own -- to sauce is to sin. But if A1 is the cardinal crime of fine dining, these sauces prove the opposite: a fine one can slather salvation over a culinary insignificancy. 5. Chick-fil-a Polynesian Sauce- In the world of fast-foo ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: Cafeteria Edition

​ As with other restaurants, a cafeteria's quality varies, depending on management and food freshness standards, which -- as habitual readers of this column know -- often has little to do with menu pricing. The shadow of the Houston health inspector has recently fallen upon the following:The D ... More >>

If You Don't Know Them by Now

Through word of mouth alone, Smitty's has become a Third Ward staple.

Catfish at Tony's in Baton Rouge

​ We went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on a road trip this holiday season to see some family, and our sister told us about a grocery that filets live catfish and fries them to order. I dropped everything and beelined it for Tony's Seafood & Deli. Sure enough, near the entrance there is a huge c ... More >>

Moonie Bergeron's Cajun Meats

​"Let me make you a little snack pack for the car, honey," Joyce said as she prepared the Styrofoam container. Joyce and Miss Peaches were the two women behind the counter at Bergeron's Cajun Meats that morning. Joyce heated up one of Bergeron's signature chicken patties, a spicy ground poultr ... More >>

Krabby Patty Sandwich

​On the way to Baton Rouge, I hit Lake Charles around noon and decided to take a break. The crab cake burger at Mazen's Seafood on Prien Lake Road made a decent lunch. The crab cake was a nice blend of crabmeat and seasoned breading served with lettuce, red onion, and cherry tomatoes on toaste ... More >>

Treme: Getting The Tribe Back Together

Hamsterdam: Treme gets a few Wire shoutouts.​This was the most Wire-heavy episode of Treme yet. We've already got Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters in major roles, but this ep was packed with shout-outs to David Simon's former series. One of Sonny's buddies mispronounced Amsterdam as "Hamsterda ... More >>

Treme: Getting The Tribe Back Together

Hamsterdam: Treme gets a few Wire shoutouts.​This was the most Wire-heavy episode of Treme yet. We've already got Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters in major roles, but this ep was packed with shout-outs to David Simon's former series. One of Sonny's buddies mispronounced Amsterdam as "Hamsterda ... More >>

Beaumont Weatherman Busts Rhyme; Ryan Seacrest Approves

​ Somebody call Swishahouse. Rocks Off has spent a fair amount of time in the Golden Triangle over the years, and the live-music options in the greater Beaumont-Port Arthur area are usually somewhat limited. In the next couple of weeks, for example, if you're not a fan of Pat Green, hillbilly hard ... More >>

Faith No More

Trembling before God in The Last Exorcism.

Five Other Ways HISD Can Pay Students And Parents

Possibly where this concept originated​The Houston school district, desperate to get grades and test scores up, is offering cold, hard cash to fifth graders who do their math homework. A kid who masters a bunch of "concepts" can rack up $440 from HISD.That can buy a whole lot of....books extolling ... More >>

ESPN GameDay Coming To....Waco?

Colleges all over the country drool at the thought of hosting ESPN GameDay. It's a mark of high honor and respect, and students try to outdo each other in raucously cheering on-camera behind the hosts.Baton Rouge, Austin, Gainesville, they've all hosted. And ESPN has now announced that they will be ... More >>

Five Reasons The Main Street Block Party Worked

Photos by Jim BrickerLady In Red: Tontons singer Asli Omar​ Were you there? You might want to look for yourself in this slideshow of crowd shots. Be sure to also check out the pics of the bands. Around 9 p.m. Saturday, Rocks Off was walking out of Tacos A Go-Go and ran into Main Street Block ... More >>

Angola Prison Rodeo Recap and Sweet Access to Cover-Story Subject John Kinsel

Steve JansenA poor sap about to get stomped upon (middle, underneath the bull) during Saturday's Angola Prison Rodeo.​Hair Balls attended this past weekend's Angola Prison Rodeo and all we got to say is that the event is super weird. The longest continuous prison rodeo, which began in 1964 at ... More >>

Five Rappers You Didn't Know Had College Degrees

​Myth: The ability to string rhymes together automatically kills brain cells, thereby making it impossible for said stringer of rhymes to obtain a college degree. Fact: Many of your favorite hip-hoppers are college graduates with funny-sounding honorary titles. Myth: Street education is a pr ... More >>

We're Rich: Houston Income Growth Tops Nation, Survey Says

It comes in, but it also goes out​Income in Houston grew faster than any other city in the nation last decade, a new report says. On Numbers studied U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.numbers and found that total income in Houston grew at an annual rate of 5.69 percent between 2000 and 2010. T ... More >>

A Very Special BCS Edition of 4 Winners, 4 Losers

Say what, Grampa?​For the first time in the history of my Texans fandom, their bye week left me with a palpable void. Sure, I love having NFL football in this city, even bad football is better than no football, so the bye week always feels a little weird. However, this season's team is a litt ... More >>

Houston Texans Grieving Process 1.0: At Least We're Not in Louisiana!

Ha-ha!​Forty-eight hours have come and gone since Sunday, and the Texans' loss to the Baltimore Ravens is still maddening and painful. How does one process the anguish coming out of a sporting event in which your team had every chance to win the game and put themselves one step away from th ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Sikica Crosby of Cecil's Pub

​I come from a long line of martini drinkers. One school of thought holds that the gin martini is the one true martini, but my grandparents enjoyed the vodka version of the cocktail nightly with the news for more than 60 years. Maybe my love for the vodka martini is hereditary? My grandfather ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Photo by GroovehousePictured: Delicious, resource-wasting crapsack.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're going to try to organize an anti-SOPA fundraiser. Here's how it would go: the menu consists of SOPA-pillas, delicious Mexican batter envelopes served wit ... More >>

Saturday: Main Street Block Party at The Island

Photo by Allison McPhailGetting their dance on.​Check out our slideshow of fans and bands at the Main Street Block Party. Eric Dean had something to prove to Houston after his Montrose Winter Social flop last month. Dean did as he promised, and delivered with the 2nd Annual Main Street Block ... More >>