Bellaire High School

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Travis Tritt, Adam Bricks, John Digweed, etc.

Good Job Underground Fitzgerald's, April 13 Spring's Good Job Underground has been one of the most underrated rock duos of the past few years around these parts. If you have an El Ten Eleven itch that needs scratching, or miss prime Helmet, here's your band. Straight-ahead, low-fat metal riffs with ... More >>

Houston Babylon

Four of the spookiest true tales in our city's history

Chef Chat, Part 1: David Grossman of Branch Water Tavern on Faking It Till You Make It, His Time at CIA in New York, and an Externship in San Francisco

Branch Water Tavern 510 Shepherd 713-863-7777 www.branchwatertavern.com This is Part 1 of a three-part chef chat series. Parts 2 and 3 will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. Driving north on Shepherd Drive towards Washington Boulevard, it's hard to miss the sleek wooden lines of the b ... More >>

An Afternoon with the Artists

Electric Touch: Their Sinister Plot Exposed

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. Posters extolling the virtues of Austin's Electric Touch were freakin' everywhere at SXSW, so when the band decided to bring their dog-and-pony s ... More >>

Higher Taxes, Fewer Teachers: HISD Readies Itself for a Tough Sell

Margaret DowningTerry Grier and the board face tough financial decisions​Higher taxes, a sweeping change in bus times, a cut in the number of police officers in the schools and an end to special school adjustments that for the noted T.H. Rogers elementary and middle school alone would mean a l ... More >>

Homeless High

On the Furr campus, kids are getting the chances they need.

Semi-Comeback for the Tower Theater

Plus: Rites of Bellaire - It's not hazing, it's fun

High School Girls Wrapped In Plastic And Slathered In Whipped Cream & Chocolate: Just Fine With HISD

Welcome to the Bellaire High volleyball team!​Here's what you need to bring if you go to the annual Bellaire High School girls' freshmen volleyball team sleepover: Whipped cream, chocolate pudding, a plastic tarp and plenty of Saran Wrap. No, you sick bastard, not for any immoral purposes, bu ... More >>

Amid Boos, HISD Trustees Adopt New Way to Fire a Teacher

​The Boo Birds played the Houston ISD Administration Building last night and it was a standing room only crowd.The school board -- well, seven of them (trustees Manuel Rodriguez and Carol Mims Galloway weren't there) -- stood behind their earlier vote and went 7-0 in a final vote on the propos ... More >>

CECIL'S STRAWBERRY KAMIKAZE

Cecil's Strawberry Kamikaze

​"You happy with those?" a twentysomething stranger says, aiming an inebriated finger at the two shots sitting on the bar in front of me at Cecil's Tavern (600 W. Gray, 713-524-3691). The Strawberry Kamikazes, which were a lovely shade of rose, had come recommended by the bartender. "Sure," I ... More >>

Millions & Millions On School Improvements Getting Voted On Today: You Getting Any?

Photo courtesy HISD​The Houston school board plans to vote later today on $121.5 million in school improvements over and above the projects approved in the 2007 bond election.Because each of the nine trustee districts has exactly the same amount of overcrowding/undercrowding and facilities in need ... More >>

Tommy Tune Award Nominees Announced; St. Agnes Kicks Ass

Logo courtesy TUTSTUTS' Tommy Tune Awards have become a big deal -- they're the Tonys for high-school musicals.Which may sound lame, but the ceremony is actually pretty nice and the productions some of these schools put on are impressive.As always, they're not to be confused with these high-school T ... More >>

Bianca Noons Tribute

Bianca Noons Tribute Concert Next Friday at Bar Rio

  Neutral Sisters Kyra and Bianca Noons Bianca Noons, who passed away peacefully November 29 after lying in a diabetic coma for a year, was half of Houston sibling reggae duo the Neutral Sisters, memorably profiled by the Press' John Nova Lomax in a 2003 cover story. "Two African-born, ... More >>

High School Musical, Houston Style

High School Photo Contest: Primary Winners

High School Photo Contest

Our photographers headed Back to School

Dinner Is Served

Our latest round of high school photos focused on food

Tidal Wave

An outstanding selection of high school photos makes judging extra tough this month

That's Game

Announcing the winners from last month's photo contest for high school students

Astros Update

Letters to the Editor

Adventures in Spokemanning

Letters to the Editor

Mind Reading

Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

Mixed Blessings

Opposing sides will grapple over gay issues this week

Double Trouble

Juan Diaz just wanted his citizenship. The feds wanted a drug-running felon.

Dialing for Dollars

Crime Stoppers and its rewards get a mixed reception from students

Game, Set and Match

Former tennis player Melinda Mones serves up an ace with her self-titled debut

The Grim Rapper

Plus: A Deserving Katie, Junk School Junk Food, Going Back

Hearst 1, Baylor 0

The Chron's owners hire (gasp!) an outsider to run things

Stepchild?

Is Westbury High the victim of neglect? Or do jealous parents just mistakenly think HISD takes better care of other schools?

Letting Go

HISD settles with parents over CEP punishments

Letters

Pull Back the Cover, Bellaire Brats, Do It Yourself

Spaced Out

Bellaire's solution to the student parking shortage: Ban every space

Plugged In

Like little Energizer bunnies, electric-car proponents keep going and going and going

Going Public

Everybody knows that HISD is supposed to be second-rate. So why are private school kids defecting back to the district that nobody wanted?

Getting to the Show

Minor leaguers toil away, hoping for a shot at the majors. One of them, Round Rock's Jason Green, got a call from the Astros, giving him a chance to live the dream. Others labor on.

Letters 08-10-2000

Spaced Out

Is legitimate safety or something more behind the push to curb Bellaire High parking?

Amplified

Rick's World!

Heavy on Their Feet

Raising a Red Flag

Former Bellaire High School student shakes things up in the Capitol

What Went Wrong at the Rice School?

The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

Press Picks

Moving Stories

David Rousseve patches movement and narrative into something unique

Press Picks

Hardball

How softball coach Holly Nuber won the state championship -- and lost her job