Cancer

Speed Rack Nationals: Wild Card Voting

Talented women shaking up classic cocktails at obscene speeds is already fun, but throw breast cancer fundraising into the mix, and you've reached another level of intoxicatingly good karma. While San Antonio bartender Karah Carmack won Miss Speed Rack Texas this past January, it's not too late to ... More >>

Last Shot: A Concert Photographer's Battle With Cancer

[Ed. Note: This post originally appeared on Heard Mentality, the music blog of our sister paper OC Weekly. Longtime concert photographer and OCW contributor Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events f ... More >>

Consumption For A Cause: Does It Really Help?

In high school and in college, I consistently volunteered my time at hospitals, food banks, shelters, and, one summer, even overseas teaching English to 6-year-olds in northern India. Yes, my motivation stemmed in part from the fact that such activities looked good on medical school applications, b ... More >>

Saint Patrick's Day Guide

Our lucky guide to a green world of pubs and parades

RIP Norma Zenteno: Houston Guitarist And Music Scene Mainstay

Earlier this week I reported to you about local musician Norma Zenteno and her brave fight against Stage II breast cancer and a benefit being held in her honor this coming Sunday at SRO Sports Bar. It is now my sad duty to report that she has passed away this evening at the age of 60, according to ... More >>

5 Post-Holiday Juice Cleanses You Can Make at Home

So you've made it through the piles of stuffing and gravy at Thanksgiving, the heaping plates of fried latkes and donuts at Hanukkah, and the 18 trays of Christmas cookies your aunt made. Now, you have to fit into that now super-tight fitting outfit on New Year's Eve. Shit. Well, dont worry -- we'r ... More >>

Coogs for the Cure: Great Sports, Great Cause this Weekend

The University of Houston Athletics Department's Coogs for the Cure is giving you a chance to have fun while raising money in the battle against breast cancer this weekend. Come cheer your favorite team, whichever one it may be, when UH takes on Rice in volleyball and soccer, and then takes on the U ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Big Bites and Triniti Meets Treble Clef

If you went to the recent LaB 5555 event at the Houston Museum of Natural Science (which featured our own mixology competition), you know how awesome the new paleontology hall is. What does that have to do with food? Big Bite Night is just around the corner, that's what. And if you've never gone in ... More >>

RIP Leo Aston: Local Guitarist, Leo Trio Leader Passes Away

Local blues guitarist Leo Aston has passed away. According to posts on the Houston Blues Society and Houston Blues Museum Facebook sites, Aston finally succumbed to cancer in the early hours this morning. The leader of the Leo Trio, Alston was one of the good guys in the Houston blues scene. He had ... More >>

Dr. Khaled Jabboury: Incredible Story of a Proven Cancer Doctor Getting Steamrolled by the Insurance Giants

It's a Thursday afternoon and Dr. Khaled Jabboury greets a patient in the waiting room of his office at the West Houston Medical Center. The woman, though it's not immediately noticeable, is facing the toughest challenge of her life. As Dr. Jabboury has proven, she has come to the right place. For ... More >>

Dumb: Burglarizing The Home Of Two Sheriff's Deputies. Cold-Hearted: Taking The Cash They'd Raised For Cancer Victim

We can be pretty sure that the cops will be active in hunting down the perps behind a Monday burglary in Galveston. That's because a) the home that was hit belongs to two Galveston County Sheriff's Office deputies, and b) among the loot taken was money from a fundraiser for one of the deputy's rela ... More >>

Eat Spaghetti, Help Houston Gay Leader Tim Brookover Fight Cancer

Tim Brookover: Eat some spaghetti and help​Tim Brookover has been the editor of OutSmart magazine, a key staffer for city councilmember Sue Lovell, and is currently president of the Houston GLBT Community Center. He's also fighting cancer at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and racking up some di ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: David Guerrero of Samba Grille, On His Fight with Brain Cancer at 27

Photo by Mai PhamExecutive Chef David Guerrero of Samba Grille, a year and a half after having brain surgery​When I asked to interview Executive Chef David Guerrero of Samba Grille, I knew very little about him. I didn't know that he'd been diagnosed with brain cancer at the young age of 27, ... More >>

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In a Pinch?

We've got you covered this St. Paddy's Day.

Facebook Bows Down to Houston's Leaky Boob

At least someone appreciates a leaky boob​We think Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich said it best: "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HEART OF A LEAKY BOOB!!!!" Facebook has learned that harsh lesson. Houston blogger/tweeter/Facebooker Jessica Martin-Weber, the founder of the Web site theleakyboob.com, ap ... More >>

The Most Awesomely Bad Pink Floyd Cover Ever

A few weeks back, Rocks Off was utterly enthralled with Roger Waters' rendition of The Wall, the masterpiece he created with his former band, Pink Floyd. Every note was pitch-perfect and the wall was strategically built onstage while the band behind Waters performed the album note for note. In fac ... More >>

NFL, College Football, Twitter, Pancake Bites and Bestiality -- Weekend's Best Bets

A regular Paul the Octopus​So last season I did these Best Bets posts on Fridays and made every attempt to conduct myself like an actual handicapper, coming up with reams of statistics and subjective observations to lead to a conclusion that I hoped made reasonable sense. End result? A predic ... More >>

River Oaks' Teflon Man Sues Wife Despite His Heroic Cancer Battle

Return of the Teflon Man​Last we heard from Gary Ross, the Teflon Man of River Oaks, he had e-mailed one of his lawyers about how he had colon cancer and was at death's door.But apparently Ross never lost the will to fight since that September 2009 e-mail: Last month, Ross sued his wife -- or at l ... More >>

Houston Cancer Clinic Trying Hard To Keep Under Wraps A Memo Criticizing It

​Buried within a convoluted Harris County District Court lawsuit over legal fees is a potential matter of public health -- a matter the public may never get to see.At issue is an internal memo -- temporarily sealed by the court -- discussing alleged cover-ups of medical malfeasance, tax fraud, mon ... More >>

A Quiet Hell

Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.

The Diary

A serious health scare, as soundtracked by Scarface's finest album.

Houston Female Firefighters Get In On The Calendar Act

​For years, the studs of the Houston Fire Department have been selling charity calendars to gay men all over the city. Possibly some women buy them, too.Now -- to top off a year when female firefighters have alleged harassment and abuse by colleagues and lack of support from supervisors -- the wom ... More >>

Milo Hamilton, Not Quite R.-ing I. P.

​Those of you who are still bothering with following the Astros, and who are still bothering to follow the Houston Chronicle's Jose de Jesus Ortiz's reporting on the Astros, were probably shocked the other day to read Ortiz's announcement that Astros broadcaster Milo Hamilton was suffering from c ... More >>

Crawl for Cancer

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Uninsured 20somethings Prefer The DIY Method

Linda, a 28-year-old blonde, walked into the tiny restroom of the tony Italian restaurant with a friend. Linda locked the door, and carefully filled a syringe with clear fluid from a vial and tied off her arm to find a vein. Her friend eased the needle under Linda's arm and pushed the syringe's cont ... More >>

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Pot Battles Cancer On Yet Another Front

Alex Arizpe Benefit

Toxic Town

Talk of the Town

Welcome Back from Iraq. How's That Boner?

Pretty in Pink

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Think Pink

Run over cancer at the Komen Houston Race for the Cure

Ill Will

A parolee fights leukemia -- and the constraints of ankle monitors

Boob Tube

Houston ladies get the chance to be Girls Gone Wild

Best Collector

Carolyn Farb

Fire, Work with Me

Fun on the Fourth

Lucky Charms

Artists contribute their time and effort to find a cure for breast cancer

Best Democrat

Billie McClain Carr, the long-serving Democratic National Committeewoman from Houston

Live Free and Die

Smokers' rights activist Dave Pickrell thinks his freedom is being stubbed out cigarette by cigarette. He's fighting to stop that, coughing all the way.

Sisters Morales

Things can only get better

Rodney Made Me Do It

Night & Day

October 15 - 21, 1998

Night & Day

October 8 - 14, 1998

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998

Reason to Live

First-time novelist Joni Rodgers wasn't so crazy for trying

Static

The Case for Gulf War Gate