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  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    The 10 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Business Names in Houston

    Gained in translation​Legend has it that back in that glorious half-season when Randy Johnson was mowing 'em down for the red-hot Astros, Drayton McLane thought up what he believed was a brilliant way to part Astros fans from still more money had one of his famous food-service brainstorms. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Peter Kingman Lindsley: Infant Porn, for When Child Porn Isn't Sick Enough

    Prison time is coming for Montrose man.​A Montrose man has entered a guilty plea to possession of child pornography, and he's taken the "child" part of it to extremes. Peter Kingman Lindsley, 49, was found to have on his computer "3,805 digital images and 860 video files that depicted childre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Ten Tunnels Of Texas: Some Pretty, Some Odd, Some Bat-Infested

    Love tunnels not included​A while back we presented a dozen of the most beautiful bridges in Texas, a state most people don't normally associate with bridges. They associate it even less with tunnels. Texas isn't exactly a mountainous state, and wherever there's a big outcropping there's gene ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Another Sign You're Not From Houston

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Goose Creek ISD Can Get All Gay: ACLU Succeeds in Ending Web-Filtering of GLBT Content

    Overzealous filtering ends in Goose Creek.​Last month we told you how Baytown's Goose Creek school district was one of four nationwide targeted by the American Civil Liberties Union in a complaint over blocking gay-related material from school computers. One Goose Creek student trying to rese ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Arun Sharma, Pill Mill Doctor Found With $1.5 Million in Cash, Gets 15 Years

    Few questions asked​Arun Sharma, the Kemah doctor who ran wildly successful if not exactly overly supervised pain clinics -- and who had $1.5 million in cash in his house and safety deposit boxes when arrested -- got sentenced to 15 years in prison today. Sharma was also ordered to forfeit $4 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Houston Musician Mean Gene Kelton Killed In Car Accident

    Mean Gene Kelton & the Die Hards on Facebook​Longtime Houston musician "Mean" Gene Kelton, whose band the Die Hards has been a fixture at biker rallies and ice houses around the area for almost 20 years, was killed in a car accident Tuesday evening. The following update was posted on Kelton's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ

    Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Bon Jovi, Rock & Roll Hall Of Famers? It Could Happen...

    Stay classy, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...​This morning the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced this year's ballot of nominees, with the winners to be announced in December and inducted next March in New York. Fifteen names are on this year's ballot, ranging from hip-hoppers, proto-metal icons, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Gene Green: He's Got Everyone Wondering What He'll Do About Latest Clean-Air Bill

    Gene Green: Which way will he go?​Health and safety advocates will be watching U.S. Congressman Gene Green closely tomorrow, when his colleagues on the House Energy & Commerce committee are expected to introduce a bill intended to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products, such as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Online Auctions: Go Drunk-Bid On Some Houston Apartment Complexes

    Courtesy absauction.comPlease rate this( $6.3 million) transaction​Everyone loves to bid online, right?Especially if you've got a few million to spare. In that case, forget about vintage TV Guides or Hector Heathcote lunchboxes and instead use your bidding skillz on a Houston apartment complex.Fou ... More >>

  • Music

    April 1, 2010

    Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

    Courtesy absauction.comPlease rate this( $6.3 million) transaction​Everyone loves to bid online, right?Especially if you've got a few million to spare. In that case, forget about vintage TV Guides or Hector Heathcote lunchboxes and instead use your bidding skillz on a Houston apartment complex.Fou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Cops Cockblock Area Man

    ​In the wee hours of a Saturday morning late last month, police in the Liberty County town of Dayton were patrolling State Highway 146 when they encountered what must have looked like a a streak of metallic gray lightning. They claim to have clocked a silver, late-model, Mercedes coupe at spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

    Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Foodie Houston: We can't disagree with Jodie's statement that "Chris Shepherd R ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    A Quiet Hell

    Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Listology: Chase Hamblin Chooses His Favorite One-Hit Wonders

    Chase Hamblin performs with Robert Ellis and the Small Sounds, 8 p.m. tonight at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington, 713-862-2513 or www.4215washington.com. Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind" Anxious changes, solid backbeat and sweet harmonies, this is a killer track. Amazing Australian '60s hit w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    The Smoking Gun Targets Two Houston-Area Internet "Pranksters"

    ​The Smoking Gun website has an extensive, entertaining investigative expose on a group of webheads who pull off expensive pranks nationwide.Posing as authority figures, they have phoned hotel rooms and fast-food restaurants and talked innocent people into doing such things as breaking windows (be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    The Mean Streets Of Houston's Suburbs

    Want to feel safe these days? Get youself out of those crime-ridden suburbs and move to Houston.That seems to be the message in the latest annual wrap-up of Texas crime stats put out by the DPS.Overall, the major-crime rate in Texas dropped three percent, and officials were crowing."The reduction in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    SXSW: Black Joe Lewis at the Radio Room

    Photos by Chris GrayThe very first live music you intentionally lay eyes and ears on at SXSW can be a very delicate choice, unless it's a complete no-brainer. So when Black Joe Lewis is playing three blocks from your hotel, you go. Lewis, a young Austinite who rolls up some 25 years of R&B histo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Worst St. Patrick's Day Ever: Getting Punctured By Hidden Hypodermic Needles

    It was St. Patrick's Day two years ago and traveling businessman Douglas Hodge of West Virginia decided to stop for the night at a Super 8 motel in Baytown. (Because if anything screams "luxury" it's the phrase "Super 8 in Baytown.") After getting ready for a good night's sleep, he leaned back into ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    The Early-Voting Rush Isn't Everywhere

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Let The Bidding For Galveston's HS Football Stars Begin!!

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Where To Get Supplies From FEMA

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2008

    One Definite Effect of 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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Houston as a Movie Stand-In: The Top Five

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Music

    May 15, 2008

    Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    The Houston 100: From Sir Douglas Quintet to Guy Clark

    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 rat ... More >>

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Lost in Rotation

    Rounding Up Recordings by HPMA Nominees

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2006

    Hogwarts Holiday

    Rounding Up Recordings by HPMA Nominees

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    Diary of a Mad Man

    Exploring the rights and wrongs of independent life for the mentally ill

  • Music

    September 8, 2005

    Fountain of Youth

    The kids in Shulton's Youth have talent, ambition and a record deal. But is that enough?

  • Music

    November 25, 2004

    Puke Fest '04!

    Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2004

    Advantage: MILFs

    Women 35 and up serve it up

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Nitrolicious

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

  • Music

    July 10, 2003

    Texas Decks

    Baytown native D:Fuse helps put Austin's dance scene on the map

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2003

    Reality Bites, Slams and Spears

    The WWE floods Houston with Bad Blood

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The WWE floods Houston with Bad Blood

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Air Raid

    The WWE floods Houston with Bad Blood

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Alien-ated Youth

    They're the next step in human evolution. But they're just like everybody else.

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Breaking the Mold

    Plus: Bias -- By Whom?, No Alternative, South Park Fallout

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

    Fred Hartmann Bridge

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2000

    The Harley Party

    Texas Motorcycle Rights Association

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    News Hostage

    Texas Motorcycle Rights Association

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Left Standing at the Church Door

    Bering Methodist stops all weddings if there can't be gay marriages

  • Calendar

    February 23, 1995

    Press Picks

    Bering Methodist stops all weddings if there can't be gay marriages

  • News

    October 20, 1994

    No Choice

    A Baytown woman says she got an unwanted anti-abortion earful from her doctor

  • Music

    August 25, 1994

    Alternative Notion Lollapalooza doesn't say much about its generation, but the music's fine

    y Brad Tyer

  • Calendar

    April 28, 1994

    Press Picks

    y Brad Tyer

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