Subject: California

• (White) Girl Power

  July 25, 2007

• California Might Know How to Party, But Morgan Ensberg Ain't Gonna Find Good Mexican Food There

  August 1, 2007

• Not Exactly a Hallmark Moment: Video of California Meat Packing Plant Ain't Pretty

  February 4, 2008

• Paying the Price

  Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

  October 26, 2000

• The Rally at City Hall to Protest Proposition 8

  Hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Houston City Hall this afternoon to protest the passing of Proposition 8, California's constitutional amendment taking away the right to marry for same-sex couples. Along with the passing of other anti-gay measures across the nation, Prop. 8 made November 4 a day of mixed emotions for many of the progressives in attendance, who say they went to bed ecstatic about the election of Barack Obama but woke up the next morning to find out not everything had

  November 15, 2008

• Ain't Nothing Wrong With A Texas Mathbook

  Teachers in a California school district are up in arms over the fact that publisher McGraw-Hill mistakenly sent unedited copies of math textbooks riddled with errors. In addition to typos and problems with the answer-keys, the books, approved for California academic standards, came with covers for the company's Texas books.(The Texas books feature cowboy armadillos sitting around a campfire; we haven't seen the California covers, but we understand they feature Ponch from CHIPS).    Ha

  November 25, 2008

• Find Out Which Houstonians Were Anti-Gay In California's Prop 8 Fight

  Gays -- and the people who love `em, like `em or just don't know why the government needs to mess with `em -- are still pissed about losing Proposition 8 in California, which banned gay marriages. And they're doing something about it.(The semi-inspiring sequence over a similar election in Sean Penn's Milk is also adding to their activism.)They're poring over lists of contributors and boycotting businesses and people who contributed to the drive for the ban.They've broken down contributors by sta

  December 2, 2008

• Free Tickets for Doors Tribute Band at House of Blues Tomorrow

  About two dozen tickets for tomorrow night's latest installment of House of Blues' tribute-band series - weird scenes inside the goldmine from Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Doors fans Wild Child - are available until 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Press offices, 1621 Milam, Suite 100. First come, first serve, as always. Seriously, HOB ought to think about turning all these tribute nights into some sort of subscription series. - Chris Gray 

  January 2, 2009

• MySpaced Out: Gram Rabbit Stirs in the High Desert

  Gram Rabbit, "California Christmas" In case you're still in your holiday hangover mode like I am, here's one wonderful holiday YouTube video that our gallant Mr. Rocks Off left out of his holiday onslaught. Cute doesn't begin to describe this one. While we are on the subject, high desert California psychedelic art rockers Gram Rabbit are in the final stages of recording their fourth full-length. According to producer and good old Amarillo boy Ethan Allen, the new album will have more of "a high

  January 6, 2009

• The Proposition

  November 24, 1994

• Letters

  February 16, 1995

• ConocoPhillips Keeps A Ball Or Two

  Houston petroleum giant ConocoPhillips never realized just how much people loved their balls.Not "their balls" in the sense of the guts it takes to charge four bucks a gallon for gas (Am I right or am I right, people?!), but their balls as in the red, round "76" signs that dot their gas stations.ConocoPhillips is updating its look and losing the balls. And that has pissed off some people, mostly in California, who grew up entranced by the rotating signsA Wall Street Journal blog notes that the c

  January 26, 2009

• The Gospel According to John

  June 6, 1996

• Wrap It Up

  May 22, 1997

• News of the Weird

  November 26, 1998

• Best Drive-thru Eatery

  September 21, 2000

• Wet Backs

  Can water shortages be blamed on Mexicans?

  April 16, 2009

• Mexican Homophobia

  October 30, 2008

• Letters

  Cell Medicine, Best Bamboozle?, Onward Christian Soldiers

  October 25, 2001

• Amnesty and Margaritas

  September 4, 2008

• SPECIAL CATHOLIC EDITION

  September 18, 2008

• Resolution Relief

  California Pizza Kitchen

  December 27, 2001

• The BellRays and Architects, with Vice and Deadbird

  May 29, 2008

• Rafael Espinal: Five Wines That Will Blow Your Mind

  November 29, 2007

• Is Lou Dobbs Lying about Hospital Closings?

  Mexican-American Culture

  November 15, 2007

• Mail Call

  Lights Out

  September 13, 2007

• 5 Wines That Will Blow Your Mind

  July 26, 2007

• Oh, Baby Baby

  June 7, 2007

• Throw Rag, with Los Skarnales, Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys and Hell City Kings

  Tuesday, August 30, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

  August 25, 2005

• Paper, Plastic or Chocolate

  McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant

  September 30, 2004

• Best New Club

  Stuka

  September 25, 2003

• Sand and Sweat

  Hard-bodied volleyball players face off in Galveston

  August 28, 2003

• Katy Pie

  Pizza Bella

  March 13, 2003

• Is Zin In?

  Zack Ateyea gives up the ghost of continental cuisine and bets the bank on a California red

  October 3, 2002

• Best (Big) Menu

  The Cheesecake Factory

  September 26, 2002

• Paris Matched

  Laurier Café is turning out Parisian bistro food at Paris, Texas, prices

  April 4, 2002

• Getting Stomped

  August 30, 2001

• Letters

  Anime Crackers, Dot-com-plaint, Corps Dispute

  August 16, 2001

• Science Made Easy

  How to avoid bacteria this summer? Don't eat shit.

  July 19, 2001

• Red Light, Green Light

  With billboards of windmills promising gentle, nonpolluting energy, Green Mountain offers Texans a new power avenue. Will they take it? Should they?

  June 7, 2001

• Pure Gold

  Kaneyama

  January 25, 2001

• Uncorking a Bargain

  A champagne buyer's guide

  December 28, 2000

• Pumped Dry

  Gas station dealers find big oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction

  November 2, 2000

• Price Paradox

  Speaking off the toque: Ronnie Berman

  October 26, 2000

• News of the Weird

  April 15, 1999

• Sushi Safari

  After years of denial, our critic learns the truth: She has to eat it raw

  January 2, 1997

• The Worst Brisket I Ever Ate

  Photos by Robb Walsh​Sampling the goods at shade-tree barbecue stands is one of my favorite pursuits. So when I saw a smoking barbecue trailer with a crowd around it in a parking lot on Fry Road just north of the Katy Freeway last Saturday, I pulled over and checked it out. The sign advertised smoked meat and homemade sides, so I ordered a plate to go. It was kind of pricey at $15. When the proprietor opened a roasting pan to get my brisket, my heart sank. The piece of meat didn't have any

  August 27, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Braving the Rain to See !!!

  Photos by Groovehouse​California dance band !!! must have found conditions at Emo's last night slightly more favorable than today's rainy conditions, but neither the rain nor the lack of climbable surfaces stopped them or the fans from enjoying the day.​More photos of the fun are below the cut.

  October 3, 2009

• The Uninsured and Language History

  October 15, 2009

• FDA to Ban Raw Gulf Oysters in the Summer

  ​You won't be eating raw live Gulf oysters in the summer anymore if a promised FDA ban takes effect. At the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference meeting in New Hampshire on Saturday, an FDA official announced that as of 2011, the agency would no longer allow fresh, live oysters from the Gulf to be sold between May and October. The ban is intended to reduce illnesses and deaths from vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that thrives in Gulf waters during the warm summer months. Sales of post-

  October 19, 2009