Brazos River

The Found Treasures of Beachcombing

Beachcomber art from High Island to the Brazos River makes for a fascinating display with intriguing back stories.

The Sounds of H-Town

Cactus Music wants your help with a "Community-Curated Playlist."

Brazos River Bottom Bids Happy Trails After More Than 30 Years

Brazos River Bottom, the Texas-themed LGBT bar on the border of Midtown and Montrose, has announced that it will close at the end of March, with the following message on its Web site: The sad news is official. The BRB will close it's [sic] doors on Saturday, March 30th. We are still looking forward ... More >>

New Baylor Stadium: Now Texas Can Actually Have a Good College Football Venue

On Friday, Baylor regents gave a thumbs-up to the construction of a new $250-million stadium that will post up on the Waco campus and alongside the Brazos River. If Waco City Council green lights the $35 million tax increment financing zone funds that would be needed, then the 45,000-seat venue coul ... More >>

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Dance Clubs

With the term "dance club," there are two ways to go. There's the myopic view, where the term strictly means the glitzy, glamorous, fabulous clubs (once known as "discotheques") that maybe aren't specifically for dancing but certainly do include it in their arsenals, and there's the panoptic view, ... More >>

State and EPA Battle Over Fracking, Flaming Well Water

When Steve Lipsky blamed fracking for turning his water well into a flamethrower, he set off an epic battle between the EPA and Texas.

"Gulf of America"? Don't Stop There! Five More Equally Sane Name Changes Needed

A Mississippi lawmaker has completely and utterly disgraced Texas politicians by being the first to introduce legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And not because, as Stephen Colbert once put it when he made the same suggestion, "we broke it, we bought it." ... More >>

Texas's Nazi POW Camps: Five facts of an odd time

Nazi POWs in Texas: Five Facts, Including the Most Inept Escapes Ever

Texas used to be dotted with prisoner-of-war camps in World War II, a temporary home to thousands of Germans and Italians. Texas had far more prisoners than any other state, mainly because the first batch came from the North Africa campaign, and the Geneva Convention said prisoners should be housed ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: The Petrol Station

Photo by Paul Knight​The Place: The Petrol Station 985 Wakefield Dr. 713-957-2875www.facebook.com/PetrolStationThe Hours: Monday through Friday 3-7 p.m.The Deals: All $4 beers are $3.The Scene: On Wednesday afternoon, the Petrol Station, a little bar tucked away in the Oak Forest neighborhoo ... More >>

Hotel Time Again

Whiskey Boat looks up from two years of live rehersals and realizes it's a band.

True Blood, Episode 8: Lyle Lovett's Prison Song and Redemption on a Dallas Hotel Roof

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. Though we're picking up midway through Season 2, from here on out as ... More >>

All The World's Fair Success Knoxville Had Could Be Replicated Here

Photo by Pro-ZakLocal marketing executive Manuel Delgado wants to bring a world's fair to Houston in 2020. He has been interested in world's fairs since he was a child, and that interest intensified when he worked for the expo in Seville in '92. "I've always been a big fanatic of world's fairs ... More >>

Houston Musical Landmarks and the I.Am.We Collective

Toxic Runoff : Somerville Mayor Tommy Thompson Discusses the Public Health Situation

Brazos River Bottom

Dance lessons at the BRB

So Much for Waterfront Views

Gator Aid

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, alligators are everywhere in southeast Texas. So now the state is going to make it easier for you to shoot you one.

Hold the Salt

Too much of a good thing threatens the oysters in Galveston Bay

Game Four: A Bitter Sweep Ending

The Astros’ attempt to win without scoring somehow fails

Draining the Swamp

A scorched-earth management philosophy is sucking the life out of our region's wetlands

Gay Play

The nightlife scene is alive and well in the Montrose. Meet some of its stars.

Best Place to Hike

Brazos Bend State Park

Club Directory

Hell on Wheels

Breanna Brand rides out the legacy of Frog Town and family splits in her feisty race toward the BMX finish line

Small Wonder

The Hyde Park Miniature Museum has been dredged out of mothballs, but will it find a permanent home before time runs out?

Up a Creek

Diverting streams into the Brazos and Posh Amenity lakes has been great for fancy Fort Bend developments. But it's killing Oyster Creek, the lifeblood for legendary Texas cattle ranchers.

Raw Roots

Excavations for plantation artifacts - and the real truth - are unraveling the genteel gloss covering Texans' old notions about the slave era here

Out of the Loop

Danzoo scales back plans to entice gays out of their Montrose comfort zone

Got Legs

The perpetually self-doubting Todd Lewis stands tall on the Toadies' long-overdue second album

The Big Score

A roving band of young men took to the streets of Montrose, committing more than 20 armed robberies in one week, police say. One guy was shot. No one was killed. A lot of people were terrified. Most times, the robbers' "loot" was a couple of bucks.

Lines & Shadows

A former farmworker wanted only a utility system for her Fort Bend colonia. Seven years later, there's still tainted water and untreated sewage -- but raw words and the stench of politics flow freely.

Best Bicycle Day Trip

Houston to Fulshear

Buck Off

Bar X feeds the deer - and gets fed up with lawsuit threats

The Katy: Railing On

Fears of a future light train trouble Katy Freeway expansion critics

Jana's story

Everyone in Brenham was shouting about the rape case. Now the victim has her say.

Back to Her Roots

Press Picks

In The Rough

In its quest for a Municipal golf course, Lake jackson learned a valuable lesson: Never buy land without checking it out first. Unfortunately, the lesson came six years too late.

Press Picks

Murky Water

State Senator Buster Brown wants to make Lake Jackson safe for development. Guess who's one of the developers.

The Texas Rose Rustlers

They went in search of the vehicle of fragrance, and found adventure and companionship.

Swinish Behavior

Texas A&M's attempt to push an animal research center on a black neighborhood has raised a sour smell in College Station

Press Picks

The Exterminator

Tom DeLay, the bug man from Sugar Land, has always despised environmental regulation. Now, as House majority whip, he's in a position to do something about it.

The Year of Living Anxiously

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

Coming Out Aloft

A new Houston skydiving team finds liberation in free-fall