Cars and Car Design

Truth in Advertising

La Dolce Vita

The New Slums -- Coming Soon to Houston?

Playbill

Coming This Week

A Hold-Out In The Obama-McCain Election

The morning commute into town left me near a late-model Range Rover, bottle-blonde, soccer-mom Tanglewood type at the wheel.The luxury car featured two bumper stickers: One, a small decal with the McCain logo and a big drawing of kissy lips that said "Read My Lipstick." Sort of clever, if you're the ... More >>

Driving Your Dream Car Ain't A Green Thing

This year, all the gift ideas Hair Balls keeps hearing about are green, green, green: The Chron recently suggested a bamboo hard drive, crocheted purses made from aluminum can tops and used books as environmentally friendly options.Which is one reason Hair Balls' eyebrows were raised by a recent ema ... More >>

Letters

This year, all the gift ideas Hair Balls keeps hearing about are green, green, green: The Chron recently suggested a bamboo hard drive, crocheted purses made from aluminum can tops and used books as environmentally friendly options.Which is one reason Hair Balls' eyebrows were raised by a recent ema ... More >>

Pasta Tense

A tale of twin take-outs that were (almost) family

Joel Carmona's Last Ride

A confused custom car show, and a dispute over money, mar the memory of a beloved community activist

Dish

A confused custom car show, and a dispute over money, mar the memory of a beloved community activist

Art Car Macho

Mike Scranton's creations are the evilest looking things in the parade. And he'll wrassle anyone who says otherwise.

Best Used Car Lot

Lawrence Marshall Antique Cars

Best Speed Trap

Memorial Drive/Woodway, from Loop 610 through Memorial Park to Crestwood

Best Time and Place to See Street Racers

Westheimer

Los Magnificos Car Show

Web exclusive!

Vanishing Point

This 1971 film believes Easy Rider would be better in a Dodge

Maserati

This 1971 film believes Easy Rider would be better in a Dodge

Revolution in Chrome

In the '70s, Jim Harithas's radical chic collided with the CAM. Twenty-five years later, he's back, gunning his engines at the Art Car Museum.

Classic Chrome

In the '70s, Jim Harithas's radical chic collided with the CAM. Twenty-five years later, he's back, gunning his engines at the Art Car Museum.

Maserati

Maserti and My Education will perform Tuesday, June 12, at Walter’s on Washington, 4215 Washington.

Mexican American Culture

Can't take the rancho out of the wab

Greek Heros

The Hot Rod Grandma is cooking up some fabulous Greek food and stunning sandwiches over in Bellaire

Letters

The Hot Rod Grandma is cooking up some fabulous Greek food and stunning sandwiches over in Bellaire

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Clara Harris

A Lil' Car Show

See tricked-out cars and hip-hop stars courtesy of Sucka Free

Best Greasy Spoon

Pig Stand No. 7

Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Art Car Museum

Road Warrior

Roadster Grill

Best Car Wash

Minit Man Car Wash

Plugged In

Like little Energizer bunnies, electric-car proponents keep going and going and going

Taking Credit

A lawyer gets charged up -- really -- over a convict's financial plight

Road Show

Drive By Dancing

All's Dell

So long to slackers and laid-back lifestyles. Now that cash-rich techies have taken over, can Austin survive the great digital divide?

Tit for Tat

A big anonymous boob bars a large fake breast from the medical center food drive

Ford Honcho Tells Houstonians The Domestic-Car Market Ain't Dead Yet

Mark Fields, the flashy young head of Ford's Americas division, ran through the many woes of the auto industry before a group of mostly white-haired local car dealers who gathered for a luncheon yesterday at the Galleria Westin Hotel. There were the massive stock dips and job losses, the government ... More >>

A $2 Million Car, A Pelican And A Lagoon

A Bugatti Veyron, sans pelican​Here is a sentence with so many strange and wonderful parts in it that it's best just to let it speak for itself:A Lufkin man drove his $2 million Bugatti sportscar into a Galveston-area lagoon after being distracted by a pelican.First, who spends $2 million on a car ... More >>

American Graffiti Car Show

Drive yourself back to 1973

$7 at Yia Yia's Roadster Grill

​Where: Yia Yia's Roadster Grill, 5210 Bissonnet, 713-432-1800 What $7 gets you: A fat, sloppy Avocado 'n' Swiss burger ($5.50) with fries or onion rings ($1.25, if paired with a sandwich), or a Philly steak sandwich ($6.95). Tucked in the confusing tangle that is the Bellaire/Bermuda triang ... More >>

Stirred and Shaken

Rebels Honky Tonk's Mother-Effer

Note To Fans: Don't Give Paul Wall The Finger

Updated at 4:43 p.m. to include Wall's apology. When last Paul Wall came to TMZ's attention, it was for some iPhone video he shot of a rather... disgruntled Whataburger customer after his SXSW showcase with Chamillionaire in March. Rocks Off just watched the video again, and it's still hilarious. ... More >>

10th Annual Village Art Car Show

The Houston Art Car Klub trots out its latest creations

Why No Latino Rappers At The Box's Los Magnificos Car Show?

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place -lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good- so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail. ... More >>

Rudy Erik Candia: Facebook, Lunar Eclipse Used To Woo 12-Year-old West U Boy. (Allegedly)

Photo courtesy DPSRudy Erik Candia: On the run​Late on the night of December 20, 12-year-old Alex (not his real name) asked his dad if he could go meet a friend and watch the lunar eclipse from the parking lot of a Med Center oil-change joint. His dad told him no. The West U family was leaving ... More >>

Michael Brown and Wife Divide Up the Luxury

A Maserati, a Lamborghini...​Further talk of an alleged hit man in ex-hand doc Michael Brown's divorce case was averted today when lawyers for Brown and his wife signed "agreed temporary orders" divvying up the couple's bounty. And boy, is it a bounty -- especially for a dude who filed bankrup ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Hand Doctor Michael Brown and Tax Cuts

​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 >>

Back in Business

Life returns to the Richmond Strip.

Perv Learns Lesson: Don't Mess with Lake Jackson Teens; They'll Spit in Your Face

City of enchantment. And spit.​You're rolling in your gold-colored SUV and you see a 13-year-old girl walking home from school. Playa that you are, you ask her if she "needs a ride." Pro tip: First, determine if she's from Lake Jackson. Because apparently Lake Jackson 13-year-olds know how to ... More >>

Alex Ford, Convicted of Drunkenly Driving a Maserati into a Cop, Asks for No Jail Time

Officer Terry Sheets faced loss of a leg ​Last year we told you about Alex Taylor Ford, now 23, the Houstonian who drove a Maserati into a College Station police car, hitting an officer who suffered severe leg injuries as a result. She blew a 0.164 after the incident; a jury convicted her of ... More >>

Alex Ford: Maserati DWI That Injured Cop Gets Six Years

Alex Ford: 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone​Despite her fervent plea to avoid prison time, Houstonian Alex Ford -- who drunkenly drove a Maserati into a College Station cop, severely injuring the officer -- was given a six-year sentence and a $10,000 fine yesterday. She was also ordered to pay more th ... More >>

How Not to Drive a One-Week-Old Lamborghini

Photo by Fox 26You gotta walk before you run, son.​You are the absolute cock of the walk, coming out of an upscale bar at 2 a.m. early Monday. You stroll over to your new $400,000 Lamborghini and, because that's what Lamborghinis are made for, you make sure everyone appreciates your taste and ... More >>