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  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Houston Rockets 2009 Draft Lottery Posse -- Final Scorecard

    I've mentioned this in previous posts, but one of the most amazing and envy-inducing pictures I've ever seen is a picture on Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's Mobile Uploads page on his Facebook account. It's a shot of a blackjack hand, split three times (for four hands total), with a blackjack ... More >>

  • News

    March 1, 2012

    They Were Kings for a Moment

    The feds attack online poker, killing livelihoods and a $2.5 billion industry.

  • Music

    February 2, 2012

    The Adicts

    The feds attack online poker, killing livelihoods and a $2.5 billion industry.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Terrell Owens' Downward Spiral (w/ VIDEO of his workout)

    Finding fitness, if not a job​"I definitely feel there are some teams out there that are interested." -- Terrell Owens after his workout on Tuesday "Just because they weren't there doesn't mean they weren't interested. I can guarantee that all 32 teams were interested." -- Owens' agent Drew ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    In the Cards

    Houston's funkiest sports bar is but one outpost of Houston's biggest poker league.

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Happy Hour Scene: Darkhorse Tavern

    ​ It was sometime during our field sobriety test that we remembered how much we absolutely love Washington Avenue. We were thinking a lot of things when the officer asked us to step out of our vehicle, but chief among them was all the fun that we'd have at jail and who would be calling Tyler F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Game Time: A Hand Of Blackjack At The "Atrocious Football Game Management" Convention

    ​EXT. HO-CHUNK CASINO IN BARABOO, WISCONSIN -- NIGHTThe sun is setting behind the main casino building and the marquee at the front of the parking-lot entrance reads "2009 ATROCIOUS FOOTBALL GAME MANAGEMENT CONVENTION." This is the annual gathering where football coaches at the college and pro lev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Guy Wins $350,000 At The World Series Of Poker, Remains (In) Humble

    ​Humble resident Jonathan Tamayo says his mother didn't approve when he started gambling online a few years ago, but after winning $352,832 in the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas earlier this month, he says, "she warmed up to it." The 23-year-old hasn't had the need to use his hos ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009
  • News

    May 14, 2009

    Mind Games

    Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Battle station: Kroger’s

    Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

    Mike Ness, with Jesse Dayton

    Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

  • Film

    March 27, 2008

    Counting Sheep with 21

    This flick doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close.

  • Film

    December 13, 2007

    The Walker

    A gay escort finds himself at the center of a classic D.C. scandal.

  • Music

    April 12, 2007

    Live Sports Cafe

    Poker Night

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Joe Satriani

    Saturday, April 29, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    Houston Hold 'Em

    There are plenty of opportunities for poker here, legal and otherwise

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    HUSH Money

    Big cash is in the cards at the Houston Hold 'Em Tournament

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    The Perfect Rhyme

    The lyrics flow at the Starving Poets Poetic House Party 3

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The lyrics flow at the Starving Poets Poetic House Party 3

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2003

    Slim Down in Houston

    The lyrics flow at the Starving Poets Poetic House Party 3

  • Film

    March 13, 2003

    The Winter of Our Discontent

    Rose Troche uses the Altman method to reveal more suburban discomfort

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    Trumped Out

    Drug testing in world-class bridge bounces a medal-winner

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002
  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001
  • Culture

    October 28, 1999

    The Antihero

    Is Bill Davenport's art stupid? Yeah. Brilliant? That, too.

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Rotation

    Is Bill Davenport's art stupid? Yeah. Brilliant? That, too.

  • News

    September 4, 1997

    Do You Believe in Magic?

    Hundreds of Houstonians do. For them, Magic: The Gathering isn't just a card game, it's a way of life. And at times, it can be a lucrative one.

  • Film

    May 29, 1997

    Black to the Future

    In The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye creates her own history

  • Culture

    February 16, 1995

    Odd and Odder

    Playhouse 1960 tries to give life to a Simon dinosaur with a sexual switch

  • News

    November 17, 1994

    Sunday in the Church with George

    Playhouse 1960 tries to give life to a Simon dinosaur with a sexual switch

  • Film

    June 2, 1994

    The Mild, Mild West

    Maverick proves harmless -- and charmless

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