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A beginner's guide to Argentine cuisine.

Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Argentine Cuisine

For this week's edition of Here, Eat This, we venture into South America, where hardy Houstonians possessed of a hearty appetite will find much to love in the pampas of Argentina. See also: - Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Nigerian Cuisine - Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Korean Cuisi ... More >>

SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

Yum, Fried Bubble Gum

Top 10 State Fair of Texas foods

Tango and Steak Night Tuesdays at MKT Bar Downtown

It's a Tuesday night, and as I enter the MKT Bar at Phoenicia Specialty Foods Downtown, there's this kind of hazy, underground, industrial vibe going on. Strains of poignant, dramatic tango music are coming across the loudspeaker, and dancers slide and sway across the concrete floor, some with the t ... More >>

7 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: Susan Alcorn, Steel Lounge Underground, Etc.

This ain't honky-tonk: Presented by They, Who Sound and Signal To Noise, Baltimore-based composer and avant-garde steel guitarist Susan Alcorn performs three sets starting 8 p.m. tonight at 14 Pews (800 Aurora): One solo, and two in trios with David Dove (trombone) and Damon Smith (bass), and Jo Bir ... More >>

iFest: Top 5 Argentine-American Musicians

The Houston International Festival enters its second weekend tomorrow, with featured musical acts WAR, Joe Louis Walker, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Texas Tornados, Del Castillo, Steel Pulse and lots more. Although iFest's performers come from all over the world, all around the main stages will be the sig ... More >>

The 2012 Houston International Festival - Chevron Argentina Living Museum

''Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini''

Eat Like an Argentine at These 5 Houston Restaurants

The International Festival (iFest) is upon us once again. And this year, the multi-weekend festival has chosen Argentina as its spotlighted country. That means that much of the music, art and -- most importantly -- food that will be showcased will be Argentinean. And for meat-loving Texans, that's a ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 3: Roberto Castre of Latin Bites Cafe - New Cebiches and More

Photos by Mai PhamCebiche de conchas (scallops), a new item from the Cebiche Bar at Latin Bites Cafe​Chef Roberto Castre of Latin Bites Cafe knows what it means to work hard. The last two days, he shared the details of how he worked up the ranks after graduating from culinary school in Peru, a ... More >>

Robb Walsh's Top 10 Ice Cream Experiences in Houston

With the weather heating up, we thought we'd revive Robb Walsh's favorite ice cream experiences, which he first shared in August 2009, in conjunction with his feature story on Houston ice cream parlors, "The Scoop." Photos by Paul S. Howell​10. CreamWorx 8817 Hwy. 6, Missouri City 281-778-273 ... More >>

NY Senator Chuck Schumer Feels the Awesome Power of Michael Berry

​Take that, New York Senator Chuck Schumer!!! You insult Houston at your peril while Michael Berry's here to defend it!!! The tiresome KTRH talk-show host has found a new dead horse to beat: the decision to spurn Houston when it comes to retired space shuttles. Pretty much everyone else got o ... More >>

Aluminum Show

Tango Buenos Aires: The Fire and Passion of Tango

Restaurants We're Excited About for 2011

​For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, right? Well, for all the new restaurants that disappointed us in 2010, there are many more coming in 2011 that we're awaiting with baited breath. Whether they be old favorites revived or entirely new restaurants, whether they be from ... More >>

Openings & Closings

Photo by GroovehouseShort ribs with chimichurri sauce at Tango & Malbec.​Last night saw the grand opening of Houston's newest South American restaurant, the oddly named Tango & Malbec (2800 Sage, 713-629-8646). No, it's not a supper club with cheesy dancers; it's an Argentinean establishment r ... More >>

Made in Lanus

Two couples, two choices, one reality

Cheer Up, Houston: Your Traffic Pain Is Way Better Than Moscow Or Madrid

There's an accident "in the clearing stage" somewhere​When IBM puts out a survey that features bar graphs and big circles somehow illustrating results, you can rest assured it is beyond reproach.So know this, Houston: Among 20 top international cities, your "traffic pain" is about as low as ... More >>

Argentina Café

Juan Mon's International Sandwiches

Photos by J.C. Reid​Juan Montero is an international man of sandwiches. Adorning the walls of his newly opened sandwich shop are pictures of him eating sandwiches in just about every world city -- Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and many others. And as it turns out, these gastronomic tra ... More >>

Family Business

Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro.

El Hijo de la Novia (The Bride's Son)

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Manena's Magic

The Argentinean deli serves great sandwiches and empanadas — but leave room for dessert.

Houston's Own Artisanal Gelato

Marcelo Kreindel, owner of Trentino Gelato The dulce de leche gelato was masterful: velvety smooth with that familiar thick sweetness, but not overwhelmingly so.  Some dulce de leche treats take on an overpowering, sickly sweet caramel flavor, but not this gelato.  Th ... More >>

Alejandro Sanz

Spanish singer/songwriter brings his music to the Verizon

Get Lit: Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips, by National Geographic

Tales from Transit: Proxima Estacion

Luis Fernando Roldan

Sicardi Gallery presents “Drawings”

Family Ties

For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie

"Argentine" Trip

Hunk o' Hernan

Two to Tango

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Anarchic Images

Santiago Cucullu has been to the Biennial and back

South American Spaghetti

Giannotti's serves up pasta and yerba mate

From Hell to the Theater

The Houston Press Indie Film Series makes its debut

Buenos Aires Virus

Continental Club dweller Glover Gill would sooner starve to death than give up playing tango. Not that guys who back Pavarotti and score Hollywood films waste away that often.

Diva of the Deal

How Enron's high temptress turned massive projects into a $2 billion wet dream for the company -- and an estimated $100 million profit for herself

Batalla de las Bandas

Friday, August 16

Immigration Problems

The Argentine parrilla loses its charm in the move north to La Estancia

Cry for It, Argentina

Evita boils down the complexity of its title character to a series of impressive leg kicks

News of the Weird

Cinematic Feet

Tango goes screen dancing

Anti-Swing Objective

Tosca takes up arms against a watered-down craze. Its secret weapon? Tango.

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

A Different Kind of Steak House

Chimi-Churris South American Grill has great steak and fabulous roasted potatoes

Bonjour, Neighbor

Unlike many that claim the homey name, Europa is no bogus bistro

A Glutton for Farce

Granny Steve Garfinkel gobbles the scenery and an anemic script in Main Street's La Nona