Subject: Baytown

• Mayor McCheese Could Not Be Reached for Comment

  February 5, 2007

• Kinky Talk

  July 11, 2006

• Happy Record Store Day

  April 19, 2008

• Houston Still Seeing Job Growth (Thank Christ)

  July 29, 2008

• No Saggy In Baytown

  July 30, 2008

• Another Day, Another 1,300 Pounds Of Benzene Accidentally Released

  August 19, 2008

• Where To Get Supplies From FEMA

  September 15, 2008

• Let The Polluting Begin Anew!

  September 18, 2008

• How Not To Blog About Ike

  September 26, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

  Fred Hartmann Bridge

  September 20, 2001

• The Early-Voting Rush Isn't Everywhere

  October 27, 2008

• A Handy Guide To Terror Targets In Houston

  Sometimes it seems like organizations that want to protect Americans from terrorism end up doing all the terrorists' research for them. The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, has compiled a handy guide to the nation's most vulnerable chemical facilities, complete with how many millions of lives could be taken were the terrorists to win. And guess what? Twenty-seven of the 101 "most dangerous" chemical facili

  November 26, 2008

• "Chili When It's Chilly" Chili Cook-off

  January in Houston is when Rodeo season really starts to kick in. One of the most popular events is the "Chili When It's Chilly" Chili Cook-off sponsored by the Baytown/Highlands Subcommittee of the Houston Metro Go Texan Committee. This year's event took place January 9 and 10 at San Jacinto Mall in Baytown. The event was open to the public for a small admission fee. More than 50 teams participated to cook one or more dishes during the competition. All proceeds raised during the event on behal

  January 13, 2009

• The Hotel Business Sucks Everywhere But Houston. Thanks Ike!

  November was a very tough month for the hotel business, according to Smith Travel Research, which tracks these kinds of things.Occupancy rates dropped from November 2007 in all of the top 25 markets except one -- Houston.Houston's occupancy rate climbed 11 percent over the previous November to a rate of 70 percent. Compare that to St. Louis, which had an occupancy rate of just 50 percent.So it seems the rest of the nation -- and the world!! -- has finally discovered the magic of Houston in Novem

  January 16, 2009

• The Fire Next Time?

  April 18, 1996

• Days of Living Dangerously

  April 18, 1996

• Letters

  November 14, 1996

• Your Chance To Drive A Top-Of-The-Line Dragster

  If you've ever wanted to race a full-blown, 8,000-horsepower NHRA dragster down the strip, this crummy economy is giving you the chance. If you can afford it.Urs Erbacher, who as you well know is a four-time drag-racing champ, is offering to train drag fans at his Baytown facility and then let them race his back-up car at an actual event.He's doing it, according to drag-racing site go2geiger.com, because he needs the cash to keep his team sponsored for the full 2009 season."Prospective racer

  February 17, 2009

• Where The Stimulus Jobs Will Be, By Congressional District

  Photo by dcJohnThe winners and losers of Barack Obama's stimulus plan can be figured out -- to a degree -- by a new study by the White House's Council of Economic Advisors.It breaks down by congressional district how many jobs will be created or saved by the act; the big loophole there, of course, comes from the words "or saved." It's a lot harder to quantify whether a job would have been lost without the act than it is to find a job directly created from stimulus funds.But, for what it's worth,

  February 19, 2009

• Static

  February 19, 1998

• Waste Not, Want Not

  March 12, 1998

• "Gulf Coast Beach Boys" the Coastliners Return...with the Beach Boys

  Still 'Alright'

  October 30, 2008

• Reality Bites, Slams and Spears

  The WWE floods Houston with Bad Blood

  June 12, 2003

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  October 2, 2008

• Creole Heritage Zydeco & Crawfish Festival

  Great music and all the mudbugs you can eat — who could ask for more?

  May 29, 2008

• Buxton: A Family Light

  April 3, 2008

• Ten Years After — the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

  Where are the bands and nominees today?

  July 26, 2007

• A Force in Drag

  March 30, 2006

• The Bards of Baytown

  Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly

  July 27, 2006

• Close to the Vest

  Some HPD officers aren't so hot about safety

  August 25, 2005

• Boobs, Balls and Beer

  Check out what's brewing for Super Sunday

  February 3, 2005

• Puke Fest '04!

  Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly

  November 25, 2004

• Advantage: MILFs

  Women 35 and up serve it up

  March 4, 2004

• Nitrolicious

  High-performance engines -- and drivers -- whip through Baytown

  February 5, 2004

• Bigger and Battered

  Where does Baytown Seafood get those enormous shrimp?

  May 1, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• Air Raid

  March 27, 2003

• Best Tree

  Live oak at Elizabeth Baldwin Park

  September 20, 2001

• Letters

  Mind Games, Bad Form, Executioner's Wrong

  December 7, 2000

• In the (O)Zone

  What's the fuss, TNRCC? We've got air to die for.

  September 28, 2000

• Best Racetrack

  Houston Raceway Park

  September 21, 2000

• Prog's New Face

  Deadwood Forest isn't your father's progressive rock band

  February 17, 2000

• Phenomena

  December 26, 1996

• MP3 of the Day: Ghost Mountain

  ​Rocks Off had heard a lot of great things about Ghost Mountain, but until the Buxton 7-inch release party, the Baytown-based electro duo's merit had yet to be proven. When the two high-schoolers took the stage, we thought it was some kind of joke. No way could tracks like "Good Heart" and "Eye Rings" come from the brains of two guys that still need a friend's older brother to buy them alcohol. But lo and behold, when Ghost Mountain launched into their set, they were the geniuses, indeed. "Goo

  July 29, 2009

• ExxonMobil Fined $600,000; We Think They Can Come Up With It

  ​Let's be honest.There aren't a lot of "bad days" for a global petrochemical company that made a record $45.2 billion profit last year, so we'll just say ExxonMobil had a less than stellar day on Wednesday when state regulators penalized it more than $600,000 for environmental crimes.ExxonMobil's oil refinery and chemical plants in Baytown were responsible for $496,201 of the penalty and its Beaumont refinery accounted for the rest.The penalty, finalized in Austin in an agreed order by the Tex

  August 13, 2009

• Arrest Made In That Infamous Baytown Arby's Prank

  ​Baytown police have filed charges against one of the "men" who pull idiotic phone pranks such as making people drink urine or having them break windows in hotels. They do this by convincing the listeners they are talking to officials of some sort, and some kind of emergency action must be taken.On July 5, one of the pranksters, Shawn Powell, called an Arby's in Baytown, where he lives, and convinced an employee to activate the restaurant's fire-control system, loosing a hell of a lot of foam.

  August 27, 2009

• Another Texas Arrest In That A-Hole Prankster Ring

  The Smoking GunNewly arrested prankster​The Smoking Gun continues to stay on top of the effort to out and punish the juvenile a-holes (some of them sex offenders, some of them merely Mom's-basement types) who go around ruining property and people's days with "pranks."The hilarity involves calling restaurants or hotels, convincing employees to turn on fire-control systems, break windows or even drink a pale liquid that turns out to be urine. They then brag about it online.TSG did a masterful jo

  September 10, 2009

• Ceviche at El Sinaloense

  ​On the southwest side of Baytown, sandwiched between the giant ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery and the City Hall, is a neighborhood I call "old Baytown." It's an area of older shops and houses, with what appears to be a largely Hispanic population. Market Street runs through the middle of it. I came here one Saturday morning to visit a Mexican seafood restaurant I had heard about called El Sinaloense (3002 Market St.). Patronized by local Mexican Americans as well as blue- and white-collar w

  November 3, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  They run a great coffee shop, but the ambiance suffers a little from all the squished mushrooms and empty turtle shells lying around.​ Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where we have a lovely bouquet and notes of walnut and oak in our boldly earthy flavor. Effervescent, but never insistent. Robb Walsh started us off with some foreign mustard favorites. Sadly, French's did not make the list. They're French, right? No? Okay, we're totally lost. Luckily, Robb ca

  November 6, 2009