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Wyclef Jean Squanders Relief Funds, Heralds Apocalypse

Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock, USAF​It's been a while since we predicted ... More >>

Noel Sosa-Ruiz: Bizarre End For Man Who Killed His Kids' Mother At Her Office

Photo by HPDNoel Sosa-Ruiz: Tries to escape to Cuba​The death of 29-year-old Yodani Cruz-Rojas was odd enough -- the father of her children walked into the suburban dentist's office where she worked and killed her in a hail of gunfire -- but now there's an odd finale. The suspected killer, No ... More >>

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. Food in Houston: Important news first: Anonymous Eater is back! Sort of. Our on ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Anthony Davis of Reggae Hut

Photo by Mandy OaklanderAnthony Davis, chef of Reggae Hut​Reggae Hut, the colorful joint on Almeda Road in the Third Ward, serves up delicious Caribbean fare. Customers gobble up oxtails to the sounds of Bob Marley, his lyrics painted elegantly across the walls. Anthony "Tony" Davis is the man ... More >>

Film Collage

Johan Grimonprez's stunning work screens at the Blaffer Museum.

Comment of the Day: Cockfighting and Endorsements

​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 >>

Patio Perfection at Brenner's Blue Bar

brennerssteakhouse.com​A college roommate once theorized that the best times are often had near bodies of water. It's not surprising that she went on to live for many years in Hawaii. I, on the other hand, moved to Houston. In the land of freeways, strip malls and suburban sprawl, it's easy ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

Los Van Van

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

Alex Cuba

​Ask, and you shall receive. Joanna O'Leary was wondering about good places in Houston to dine solo, and reader Gilgameshstockings had a few suggestions: Rioja, Dolce Vita, Poscol, Vieng Thai, Sushi King, Kanomwan, Tan Tan, Doneraki, Jamaica House, One's a Meal, Zake, Aladdin, Niko's, Cova, ... More >>

First Look at J'Ouvert

The restaurant also happens to have wicked awesome to-go containers. It's the little things...​J'Ouvert is a huge holiday in the eastern Caribbean, celebrated from Trinidad to the Dominican Republic, that precedes Carnival each year. It's also a brand-new Caribbean restaurant that just opened ... More >>

Jamaica House Cuisine & Culture

The restaurant also happens to have wicked awesome to-go containers. It's the little things...​J'Ouvert is a huge holiday in the eastern Caribbean, celebrated from Trinidad to the Dominican Republic, that precedes Carnival each year. It's also a brand-new Caribbean restaurant that just opened ... More >>

Chris Stewart: Klein HS Star Takes On Unique Challenge At Notre Dame

Photo couttesy NDChris Stewart in Haiti, helping with earthquake relief​Chris Stewart was a highly recruited lineman coming out of Klein High School; he chose to go to Notre Dame.After a few bumps, he's thriving, and right now he's taking on a challenge no Irish football player has ever tried: Goi ... More >>

Bob Marley: Think You Know Him, Mon?

​Bob Marley: The Untold Story By Chris Salewicz Music journalist Chris Salewicz hasn't been afraid to tackle the big names in print. In addition to his work as a features writer at NME from 1974-81 and active freelancer, he's previously penned biographies on Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Mick ... More >>

Tropic Thunder

Serving up home-cooked Jamaican soul food.

Peanut Butter Miracles

Amid the chaos that is Haiti, Dr. Patricia Wolff has made ending child malnutrition her life's work.

Patricia Wolff Tries To Save Haiti With Peanut Butter

​Patricia Wolff is not a doctor to be messed with -- she's a black belt who carries a stun gun and pepper spray. All three can come in handy in disaster-stricken Haiti.Wolff, a St. Luois pediatrician, is on the island trying to fight starvation and disease with "medika mamba," which is peanut butt ... More >>

Buena Vista Social Club Screens At Domy Tonight

Greetings from Florida. By the time you read this, Hollywood Shuffle will be well entrenched in the Sunshine State on our annual pilgrimage to visit family, douse ourselves in cuba libres and eat our body weight in Cuban pulled-pork sandwiched and plantains. It's long been a dream of HWS's to visit ... More >>

Orange's Orange Kapiriña

Greetings from Florida. By the time you read this, Hollywood Shuffle will be well entrenched in the Sunshine State on our annual pilgrimage to visit family, douse ourselves in cuba libres and eat our body weight in Cuban pulled-pork sandwiched and plantains. It's long been a dream of HWS's to visit ... More >>

"East End Live Art: Un/Natural Disasters"

Voices Breaking Boundaries uses art, music and poetry to address recent and past disasters in Pakistan, Haiti and here

Houston International Festival

Voices Breaking Boundaries uses art, music and poetry to address recent and past disasters in Pakistan, Haiti and here

The Caribbean At iFest: Pass The Kutchie To Neutral Sister, The Mighty Diamonds And Easy Star All-Stars

Over the next two weeks, Rocks Off will be previewing acts performing at this year's Houston International Festival Saturday and Sunday and April 24-25 broken down by genre (loosely, anyway) and with a guest pick from a true insider: iFest Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell. Today, the Caribb ... More >>

Artists for Haiti Benefit

The Houston arts community responds to the Haitian people's need for help

Recipe: Crab and Veggie Boil

​We are huge fans of good old fashioned crab boils. Screw the temperature - they make us feel like we're at an ocean-side resort, steps from warm, white sand and gently lapping waves. A recent trip to one of our favorite purveyors of specialty foods, Phoenicia, revealed a magnificent find: two ... More >>

In the Little Stalls Behind Caninos: Got Guayaba?

​The first guavas of the season are starting to appear in the stalls behind Canino's. Guayaba is the Spanish word for guava. The fruit is native to North America, and the word derives from the Arawak tribe of the Caribbean, who called a guava tree a "guayabo." The green-skinned, white-fleshed ... More >>

$13 at Reggae Hut

Photo by Mike GiglioWhere: Reggae Hut, 4814 Almeda Rd., 713-520-7171What $13 gets you: Any main course or seafood dish, which will be more than enough. Favorites include the jerk chicken and garlic shrimp, along with a Jamaican take on oxtail. We tried that, mainly because we weren't quite su ... More >>

“Recollections of Havana”

Web exclusive!

CINEMATHEQUE: Latin American “Third Cinema”

Curator Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado pairs two agit-prop classics

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

Meet Maya Deren’s unusual circle of friends

Tropical Heat at Caribbean Jerk Cuisine

Cooling off — and breaking a sweat — at this Richmond Avenue joint

“Lizards & Snakes: Alive!”

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is squeamish for squamates

Reggae Hut Cafe

What a jerk

Cuba Cine

What a jerk

Reggae Buffet

Neville Monteith warns local food lovers, "Look out, Houston, me cooking now!"

Best Jamaican Restaurant

Neville Monteith warns local food lovers, "Look out, Houston, me cooking now!"

Spotted Cock

Neville Monteith warns local food lovers, "Look out, Houston, me cooking now!"

Best Tanning Salon

Darque Tan

Feel the Steel

It'll all pan out at this weekend's Pan Jam Fest

Okra Worship

Pearl's serves up real food for the soul; Fusion Café brings a little soul to Rice Village

Patty Melt

Fusion Café

Stirred and Shaken

El Tiempo's Cuba Libre

Best Jamaican Restaurant

Caribbean Cuisine

Best African-Mexican Food Store

Mex-African Foods

Best Plantains

Cafe Piquet

Best Appetizer

Nachos cubanos, El Meson Restaurant

Hot Plate

Nachos cubanos, El Meson Restaurant

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998

Hot Plate

April 23 - 29, 1998

Major Macro

Asian Restaurant is one place that knows its vegetables