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April 14, 2012
Robin Gibb Of The Bee Gees Falls Into Coma
Robin Gibb, one-third of fraternal British/Australian '70s disco-pop superstars the Bee Gees, fell into a coma Friday night in a private London hospital, according to wire services. Reuters reports that Gibb, 62, is surrounded by his family. He was hospitalized for pneumonia earlier this earlier t ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Top 10 Most Outrageous Onstage Incidents, Antics & Meltdowns
Everyone has their meltdown moments, no doubt about it. We make mistakes and, most of the time, we try to correct them. We have them because we are all human. Unfortunately, though, when you are in the spotlight, your hurts, tantrums, mistakes and meltdowns are all magnified for all the world to se ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Hank Schyma: Southern Backtones Singer Is Fearless Tornado Chaser
If you saw the dramatic footage out of North Texas Tuesday, hopefully from the safety of your living room or gathered around a TV at work, you know that weather events like those tornadoes can make pretty compelling television. And someone has to head straight into those storms to film all that vide ... More >>
News
March 29, 2012
Radio Blues
If you saw the dramatic footage out of North Texas Tuesday, hopefully from the safety of your living room or gathered around a TV at work, you know that weather events like those tornadoes can make pretty compelling television. And someone has to head straight into those storms to film all that vide ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Law and Order: Top 10 Best (Or Worst) Musicians' Arrests
Nobody is above the law - not even musicians even though some of them may think they are. However, some of their outrageous behavior has become legendary. Others have spawned rumors, killed their careers and/or made them the butt of many jokes. In fact, this makes me wonder why there is not a cele ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
Wine Time: Houston Native Wine Celeb Ray Isle Talks Texas Wine
"I grew up in West University, and later in the Braeswood/Meyerland area," said Food & Wine executive wine editor Ray Isle when he and I chatted over email yesterday. "I left Houston after college -- I went to Rice, which is also where my dad taught -- and moved to Austin to be in a crappy band." I ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Ingredient of the Week: Dark Chocolate
First, a quick and dirty lesson on the varieties of chocolate: Unsweetened chocolate is all cacao and no sugar, making it incredibly bitter. It is also known as baking chocolate and is usually found in the baking aisle of grocery stores in the forms of blocks or bars. The sugar is added separat ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Ferris Bueller 2: What Might Have Been
With the death of writer-director John Hughes in August 2009, all hope of a truly great Ferris Bueller sequel went out the window. It was a concept that had been bandied about the whole two decades since the original's 1986 release, with star Matthew Broderick even remarking that he and Hughes just ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Rape, Scandal, Greed and Cockfighting -- The 2011 Sports Year In Review
2011: Penn State's horrible yearYou know how, in the series 24, the way a season unfolds? How just when you think there has been some sort of resolution to the bad guys being bottled up, right then and there a new (often worse) layer is introduced, and ultimately in like Hour 22 Jack Bauer wi ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Death Penalty Is Going Out of Style, New Report Says
Texas is still doing its partAmerica, you just ain't the criminal-killin' place you used to be. A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center says that for the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, less than 100 executions took place in the U.S. There have bee ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2011
UT Sports, George Greanias: The Turkeys of the Year Runners-Up
Almost, but not quiteNot everyone can be a winner. Not everyone can be such a loser that they become a Houston Press Turkey of the Year. But while we don't give out participation ribbons, we do think there were some candidates who only barely eked out our 2011 winners. So we salute these in ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Popcorn Fart Of The Year -- CBS' Mike McQueary Interview
The historic Snow Globe Interview, shortly after it began and shortly before it ended"Tonight on Evening News Mike McQueary breaks his silence and opens a window for me into his emotions." -- Armen Keteyian on Twitter yesterday late afternoon At about 4:45 yesterday afternoon, it was this tw ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Boom. Penn State Fires Joe Paterno (w/ a VIDEO chronology) & CNN Kicks ESPN's Butt
They are...Penn State"Joe Paterno is no longer the head football coach, effective immediately." -- John Surma, Vice Chair, Penn State Board of Trustees Boom. Nothing is forever. We all knew there would be a day when Joe Paterno would no longer be the coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Liquor Treat: Using Leftover Halloween Sweets for Six Candy Cocktails
Photo by terren in VirginiaCandy overload. Must. Make. Cocktails.Once Halloween has come and gone, I'm always left with a giant pile of Halloween candy. I have eaten it, tortured people by bringing it in to work, and baked it into all kinds of cakes and desserts. But this year, I plan on tryi ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
C-SPAN Geeks Unite! The Bus Is Coming to Town!
The 2011 edition is coming!!It takes a certain kind of nerd to admit it, but we will -- C-SPAN is on our regular, limited weeknight channel-clicking rotation. First, see if there's breaking news on CNN, then see if there's even a low-rent college football game, and then on to the glories of H ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Yao Ming and the Fight Against Shark Fin Soup
Will Yao Ming's star power be enough to save an endangered species?As beloved as Yao Ming is to Houstonians, it's no match for the affection held for him in China. And the former Rockets basketball player is hoping that his high profile in his native country will encourage his fellow countrym ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2011
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. This week, we're spotlighting some national sites with local interest, as well ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Where Are We Eating?
Last week, we touched on the tasty goodness of arepas when we looked at CNN's list of the world's 50 most delicious dishes (and where you can find them in Houston). This week, we're spotlighting yet another place in town where you can find arepas. But does the arepa below look familiar to you? R ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
CNN Goes In-Depth on Houston and Katrina
It's all about us.CNN's series Defining America has taken a long look at Houston and its absorption of Katrina evacuees. "Houston, the sprawling, business-friendly oil city, has absorbed some of New Orleans, a compact mecca of music, merriment and food," the report says. One of the main sub ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Pop Rocks: The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said, To Feed Hugh Hefner To Sharks
Hef's gonna need a bigger boat.As you may have heard, Shark Week kicks off Sunday on the Discovery Channel. The seven days of (decreasingly) informative marine documentaries and (increasingly) lurid reenactments of REAL LIFE ATTACKS and exposing DEADLY WATERS and what not provide a welcome br ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
CNN Won't Answer Questions About Its Child-Sex Trafficking Crusade
CNN reporter Amber Lyon has made a crusade out of trumpeting the "fact" that "100,000 to 300,000" children are enslaved into sex trafficking each year. As our sister paper the Village Voice pointed out, in a piece we ran in the print edition, those numbers are almost certainly a gross exagge ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Cruel Summer -- Andre Jones (1969-2011)
Notable deaths: They do come in threes sometimeIn a recent blog post about Major League Baseball realignment, I expressed the following sentiment: The best memories for most sports fans are the ones that took place from their mid-teenage years through their late 20s. Generally, for most of u ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
Ron Paul: Yes, People Are Still Laughing If You Think You Will Be The 2012 GOP Nominee
Lake Jackson's favorite congressman, Ron Paul, proudly announced to the nation yesterday that no one's laughing at him anymore when he says he could become the Republican nominee for president and maybe get in the White House. "They mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary po ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
Top 10 On-Air Gaffes: A List Inspired by Pattie Shieh
This current Houstonian locks down the top spot.As an ode to the "spit" blast uttered last night by Pattie Shieh of Fox 26, Hair Balls looks back at the top 10 on-air fuc_, uh, mess-ups of all-time.
Culture
May 12, 2011
Why Don't Mexicans Want to Learn English?
And Is Mexico a Tea Party Paradise?
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Gabrielle Giffords: What She Looks Like Now
Giffords: A CNN special on her recovery at TIRR airs Sunday.Very few people have laid eyes on Gabrielle Giffords since the congresswoman was shot in January. She did appear, in a blurry fashion, in a long-distance shot as she boarded a jet at Ellington Field to go to her husband's shuttle li ... More >>
Dining
May 5, 2011
Shisha and Chardonnay
At Skewers, you can smoke, drink and eat classic Lebanese food.
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Rough Justice: Bloodthirsty Bar Greets Bin Laden's Death
ericalessandrini.blogspot.comOsama bin Laden is dead. Following a late dinner at Van Loc Sunday, Rocks Off was a block or two away from Leon's Lounge when a friend texted us the news around 10 p.m. When we entered the bar, our buddy Lonesome Onry and Mean's daughter in the military had just ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Bin Laden's Favorite Performers -- Whitney Houston, MacGyver Dude, Etc. -- Offer Twitter Silence On His Death
Losing a big fan is apparently hard on Richard Dean AndersonWhen you're no longer in the absolute prime of your career, it can be disheartening to lose a hardcore fan. That's the only reason we can think of that several specific stars haven't tweeted their thoughts on the death of Osama Bin ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
April 29, 1992: Ten Songs About The L.A Riots
It was 19 years ago today that the Los Angeles riots began after four white police officers, caught on videotape beating the African-American Rodney King after a drug-fueled high-speed chase, were acquitted by a Simi Valley, Calif. jury. The rest of the world watched in shock and sadness as ... More >>
News
April 28, 2011
Fix the Justice System
Readers weigh in on falsely accused John Kinsel.
Blogs
April 27, 2011
Leo Berman Not Buying Obama's "Birth Certificate" Stunt; Has Greatest Question Ever
Leo Berman: Not convincedTHANK GOD state rep Leo Berman is still bringing the crazy when it comes to President Obama's place of birth. Obama, tiring of all the attention still being devoted to this issue (CNN has been pounding it lately), Obama asked for, received and released this morning t ... More >>
News
March 24, 2011
Wall of Shame
CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled.
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Tommy Lee Jones for Senate: Crucial Updates
Since our item on Houston attorney Geoff Berg's campaign to draft Tommy Lee Jones for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, things have been moving fast. 1. Tommy Lee Jones still has had nothing to say on this. 2. But the story has been picked up by CNN, the Dallas Morning News, ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Cleveland Gang-Rape Coverage: Controversy Doesn't Die
A "clusterfuck of fail"?The heat over media coverage of the Cleveland gang-rape doesn't show much signs of slacking, as critics question whether stories in The New York Times and Houston Chronicle displayed a "blame the victim" tone. A round-up of the latest (We've asked Chronicle editor Je ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
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. Eatocracy: CNN's food blog has partnered with Food & Wine to announce the 100 n ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Gabrielle Giffords: Get This Woman Toast STAT
Probably not the first thing we would have orderedThere's a breakthrough on Gabrielle Giffords's road to recovery in Houston: She wants toast. Okay, perhaps more important, she asked for it. With her voice. "It's very good news," Giffiords's spokesman C.J. Karamargin told CNN. Well, only i ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
CNN Celebrates Houston's Brother-Filled Marine Batallion
CNN has a piece up that celebrates the 1st batallion of the 23rd Marine Regiment that's stationed at Ellington Field. The Texas reserve unit has gathered fame because it has five sets of brothers, as the Houston Chronicle reported a while back. The unit is set to deploy to Afghanistan soon, so kee ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Happy Hour Scene: Hans' Bier Haus
The Place: Hans' Bier Haus 2523 Quenby 713-520-7474 The Hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays The Deals: $1 off all beer (no liquor served) The Scene: On Tuesday, Hans Bier Haus didn't seem like the kind of scene that would inspire condo owners to allegedly destroy property and potent ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Joel Osteen Is Confused About Both Gays and the Death Penalty
Houston's own Joel Osteen and his wife Victoria took to the national airwaves last night on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. The net has been buzzing for a while, of course, about the pre-released clip above where Osteen sounds very, very confused about gays. We tuned in last night and -- besides being ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Mexican Pop Singer Fights Rape Allegations, Racism
The latest chapter in Mexican pop singer Kalimba's life saddens us for a number of reasons, but the possibility of never hearing his music again is not one of them. If you haven't heard, while recording his latest album in El Paso, Kalimba was held by the U.S. Border Patrol on suspicion of ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2011
Gabrielle Giffords Coming to Houston
Gabrielle Giffords with her astronaut husband, Mark KellyCNN is reporting that family members say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be coming to Houston Friday to begin her long rehab process. The victim of the Tucson shootings will move to an unnamed facility here, but one with "military surgeon ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2010
Animal Abuse: The Five Worst Houston Examples In 2010
Humans: Will you ever learn?We like to think that animal abusers will not only get a lump of coal from Santa this time of year, but a pitchfork-in-the-ass from the Other Guy in Red as well. For those of you who like to keep tabs on just how low the human race can sink, here's a roundup of some of ... More >>
News
December 23, 2010
Juggalo Hijinks
A Facebook crime spree.
Blogs
December 17, 2010
NFL -- Bob McNair's Delusion, Twitter Madness And The Weekend's Best Bets
Orange slices for the Texans!"I wanted the team to know not only how close we think they are but how close our competitors think they are to being an outstanding team." -- Texans owner Bob McNair, presumably not being held at gunpoint nor under the influence of any drugs or alcohol What Bob ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Comments Of The Day: Debbie Riddle, Author
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
December 15, 2010
State Rep Debbie Riddle's Magnum Opus (Of 96 Pages)
It is its own Cliff's NotesDebbie Riddle, the state rep from Tomball who camped out in order to pre-file an Arizona-like immigration bill, and who is one of a triumvirate of Texas politicians to look utterly foolish being interviewed on CNN, has become a published author. Taking Back Your Co ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
State Rep. Leo "Birther Bill" Berman: CNN With Another Texas Beatdown
Texas State Representative, Leo Berman, you have joined the hallowed ranks of Congressman Louie Gohmert and your colleague Debbie Riddle: You have been utterly humiliated on CNN. Berman, as we reported earlier, has introduced a "birther" bill in the Lege, demanding that no candidate can get a Texan ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
An Ethiopian Breakfast at Sheba Cafe
Photos by Troy FieldsWhether you've grown tired of typical breakfast and brunch places, whether you're on the hunt for something exotic and new or whether you are simply interested in seeing traditional breakfast foods in a far different setting, breakfast at Sheba Cafe will suit you to a T. ... More >>
News
July 21, 2005
Doctor Nice
Steven Hotze uses a warm, easygoing manner to peddle natural hormones to women, at thousands of dollars a pop. So who cares about credentials or documented results?
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