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Bolivar Peninsula

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Crawfish Joints

    For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants. Along wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    The Five Worst Tropical Weather Events in Houston History

    The hurricane that hit Galveston in 1915 didn't have a name, but it left a mark.​Houston and Galveston, like any cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the U.S., are always vulnerable to tropical weather. The scariest of these events is most definitely the hurricane, with its fierce wind ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 17, 2011

    Suck the Head!

    The Top Ten Crawfish Joints in Houston

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Houston's Top 10 Crawfish Joints

    Photo by Tony ChenYou must make the crawfish do a puppet dance for your amusement before eating it. Fact.​Yesterday, we showed you the proper way to eat crawfish. Today, armed with that knowledge, we're going to show you the best places to eat them in Houston. It may not officially be crawfis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    An Oyster by Any Other Name

    Pepper Grove oyster on the half shell at Branch Water Tavern.​At this past weekend's inaugural Foodways Texas symposium, one of the most eagerly anticipated seminars wasn't held in a conference room, and it didn't come with a PowerPoint presentation. Attendees instead slurped down all manner o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Texans-Cowboys Isn't Until Sunday, Spend Your Saturday Morning Cleaning The Beaches

    Do it for the crabs.​Tomorrow morning, rain or shine, thousands of Texans across the 367 miles of state coastline will take to the sand, gloves on and plastic bags in hand. Call it a goodbye and thank you to summer, and hello fall.Groups will be gathering at 28 sites at 9 a.m. for the annual Adopt ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2010

    Our Mother of Mercy

    How far did cardinal go in tearing down Ike-ravaged church?

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    This Week's Cover Story: Ire Greets Dedication Of Bolivar's New Catholic Chapel

    Civil War over a Bolivar church​Ordinarily, the dedication of a new church building is cause for unbridled, unqualified celebration. Such is not the case in Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula, where the circumstances surrounding the dedication of the new Our Lady By The Sea Chapel and Catholic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    He Said She Said: Did We Shave Our Legs For This? More Cornball Country Comedy

    Not all country music has to be about down-and-out truck-driving lifestyles, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, abusive husbands and the dissolution of the American Dream. More than any other genre, country lends itself so nicely to parody and self-satire. The best country music is self-referential, where the artist k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Texas Traveler: Bolivar Mardi Gras

    Photos by Brittanie Shey​When Texas Traveler last went to the Bolivar Peninsula, she got a flat tire in the sand, and the small towns of High Island and Crystal Beach were still struggling to rebuild a year after Ike. The flat tire incident was scary -- a nail no doubt from one of the many des ... More >>

  • Music

    December 24, 2009

    Hayes Carll

    Photos by Brittanie Shey​When Texas Traveler last went to the Bolivar Peninsula, she got a flat tire in the sand, and the small towns of High Island and Crystal Beach were still struggling to rebuild a year after Ike. The flat tire incident was scary -- a nail no doubt from one of the many des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    The Archbishop Outlines Which Galveston Churches Are Not Long For This World

    ​The list of Galveston Catholic churches that the Archdiocese wants to tear down is out, and it's somewhat grim reading.The Galveston County Daily News reports that Archbishop Daniel DiNardo wrote island parishioners of the plans, not making everyone all that happy in the process.Among those that ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2009

    Life, Post-Ike: The Comeback Kid

    Without as much to lose as Galveston, Bolivar surges ahead in its recovery.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Boudin Balls with a Gooey Surprise

    Photo by J.C. ReidOn a recent trip to the Bolivar Peninsula with a carload of friends, I stopped in the small town of Winnie, Texas for a quick pit stop at the local Texaco gas station that had a hot food counter serving mostly pizzas and fried foods. These counters, combined with a few picnic tabl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Texas Traveler: Bolivar Peninsula

    Photos by Brittanie SheyCrystal Beach, TexasSometimes vacations don't always go as planned. Texas Traveler hadn't been to the Texas Coast since last summer, a month or two before Ike hit. We'd seen the footage and heard the stories -- it was just too depressing to imagine our favorite beaches cover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Stingaree Music Festival and Texas Crab Festival in Crystal Beach, Texas

    Photos by J.C. ReidReason to celebrateTwo of the biggest annual events at Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston are the Texas Crab Festival and the Stingaree Music Festival. In its 24th year, the Crab Festival traditionally has occurred on Mother's Day weekend and celebrates every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Documentary's Year-Long Study Of Bolivar Characters Ends With Ike

    Photo courtesy www.themessengerthemovie.comThe man who directed the new documentary The Messenger, Shawn Sterling Welling, is a self-described "self-absorbed, amateur film director" who happened to have a friend with movie-making equipment laying around. He literally stumbled upon The Messenge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Now Bolivar Wants In On The Whole Gambling Thing

    We've already noted that some Galveston residents are hoping that legalized gambling is the island's ticket for a post-Ike comeback; now it's Bolivar Peninsula getting in on the action.Galveston County Commissioner Patrick Doyle who represents the devastated area, tells KHOU the devastation is a big ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Searching for Hurricane Ike Victims

    Some may never be found.

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    The Search For Ike Victims In Galveston County Ends

    The job of looking for Ike victims in the debris piles and swamps of Galveston County -- a nasty, brutal job that drained the searchers both physically and emotionally -- is over.The county's second and final search for missing Ike victims ended recently with eight people from the Bolivar area still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Finally, Some Good News For The Bolivar Peninsula

    Good news has been in short supply on the Bolivar Peninsula since Ike hit, but something that could pass -- these days, anyway -- as good news was announced this week.Crenshaw, a pre-K-8 elementary and middle school on the peninsula, will reopen February 4, GISD announced to the applause of resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Ike's Wake -- The Video

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Music

    January 1, 2009

    2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    The Safest House In The World

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Always Look On The Bright Side Of Ike

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Over the Weekend: Avant Garden, Silver Jews, High Island, Oak Island and Galveston

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Chambers County Smacked by Hurricane Ike

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    It May Take Martial Law To Empty The Bolivar Peninsula

    This week's feature story by John Nova Lomax looks at the struggles on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in the wake of Ike. Photographer Dan Kramer filmed a video to accompany it, and art director Monica Fuentes edited it. We were going to hire Varnaline to write a new song to go with it, bu ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    San Francisco Wants to Help Us Recycle

    Helping Hand Spurned

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    If It's On TV, It's True

    Helping Hand Spurned

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

    Houston Music Festivals

    The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Random Checks at the Bolivar Ferry, Up Close Communications, Ted Poe, Gene Green and Mac Haik

    Galveston escapes with a close call

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    The Houston 100: From Mack Hayes to Hersal Thomas

    Galveston escapes with a close call

  • Music

    April 26, 2007

    Stingaree Music Festival

    Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

  • Best of Houston

    September 28, 2006

    SARTIN'S

    Despite natural disasters and failed marriages, this seafood joint lives on

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Crab Man

    Meet Doug Sartin, onetime heir apparent to a Texas barbecued crab dynasty

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Beach Patrol

    Hands off the Bolivar ferry, Al Qaeda!

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Ruffled Feathers

    The Audubon Society wants some killer birds to stay off its land

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Place to Launch Fireworks

    Crystal Beach

  • Music

    August 14, 2003

    Hothouse Flowers

    Groceries spoil in the heat, while the rest of Houston's music community blossoms

  • Calendar

    July 10, 2003

    Buff Bathing

    Get a perfect tan at McFaddin Beach

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Taking a Toll

    A bridge to Bolivar might be good for business -- but not for the birds

  • Dining

    September 6, 2001

    Blue Crab Standard Time

    Take your time when eating Gulf blue crabs

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Letters 08-03-2000

    Take your time when eating Gulf blue crabs

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    This Sand is Your Sand

    At the Village of Surfside, it's not just the beaches that are eroding. It's the Open Beaches Act.

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Promises, Promises

    Skeptics say the Port could break more pledges involving Bayport

  • Calendar

    February 25, 1999

    His and Hers

    Skeptics say the Port could break more pledges involving Bayport

  • Dining

    May 25, 1995

    Gulf Coast Fried

    At Floyd's Cajun Shack, the prince of funk rules

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    Sanctuary

    The oil is gone from High Island, but the birds still come. So do the bird watchers.

  • Dining

    July 21, 1994

    Hot Plate

    The oil is gone from High Island, but the birds still come. So do the bird watchers.

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