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Here, Eat This

A beginner's guide to Korean cuisine.

Openings & Closings: Pico's Mex-Mex and More Are Movin' On Up

If this week's roundup of openings and closings had a theme song, it would be "Movin' On Up" from The Jeffersons. Pico's Mex-Mex is doing just that, by vacating its old Bellaire location to move into the recently closed Maggie Rita's at Richmond and Kirby. The Houston Chronicle's Alison Cook broke ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Tacos

Picking the 10 best tacos in Houston is something akin to picking the most beautiful women in Texas. There are far too many options to do any justice by limiting the list to just 10. Instead of trying to pack the list with an arbitrary top 10, I spent the past three weeks pilfering other taco list ... More >>

Breaking News: Funnel Cloud Warning for Fort Bend County

Click 2 Houston is passing on a weather report warning of possible funnel clouds this morning in Fort Bend County. The report says that rapidly developing thunderstorms coupled with "a very buoyant atmosphere" will lead to funnel clouds. Their report follows:

The Real Deal at Taqueria La Macro

Taqueria offers al pastor-style meat cooked on a classic trompo.

Deepwater Horizon: Asian Hotel Owners Decry Proposed BP Settlement

Around 800 hotel owners have plans to descend on BP's headquarters along I-10 West today, condemning a recent proposed settlement between the embattled monolith and thousands of business owners because, apparently, they weren't invited to the get-lots-of-money-from-papa-BP party. A U.S. district j ... More >>

In Photos: Trompos de Mexico

In this week's cafe review of Northside restaurant Taqueria La Macro, which specializes in tacos de trompo, we take a brief look at the history of the trompo itself, which I was excited to find in Houston proper: And sure enough, sitting right there in the open kitchen surrounded by sanitation-main ... More >>

Intertek Oil and Gas Workers Screwed Out of Moolah, Says Lawsuit

Local oil, gas and chemical inspectors have been getting jipped out of overtime wages, according to a collective action lawsuit that was recently granted approval by a judge in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas. According to the suit, employees for Houston-based Intertek USA ... More >>

Garrick "Joker" Hastings: Ties Up Hooker, Beats Her, Sets Her on Fire

Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who told friends he had beaten and burned a prostitute for ripping him off. Garrick "Joker" Hastings said the woman had robbed him of $6,000, so he had her kidnapped and taken to a Channelview trailer where he beat "the prostitute with a metal rod, tied her up ... More >>

We Love Food

Our 100 favorite dishes in Houston.

Running on Empty: Robbery Suspects Busted When Getaway Car Runs Out of Gas

In the recent critically acclaimed movie Drive, dreamy heartthrob Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He has some simple rules that the crooks hiring him must follow. For example, there is a very narrow window of time when Gosling's character will remain on the sc ... More >>

Eliseo Gonzalez Jr.: 300,000 Child-Porn Images Weren't "Perverted"

Eliseo Gonzalez says he's not a member of this choir​Federal investigators were looking into a members-only web message board dealing with child pornography and noticed one enthusiastic user named "panchovilla." They eventually traced panchovilla to a Channelview arrest, which happened to be ... More >>

Gas Station Sushi: 8 Fine Foods in Funky Places

Gas station sushi from Natto: better than you expected, huh?​I read yesterday's Bon Appetit article on "Undercover Grub: Great Food in Surprising Places" with interest, hoping to catch a glimpse of a Houston restaurant in amongst the soda fountains and airport terminals. I was disappointed to ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, Gathered Up and Google Mapped

View 100 Favorite Dishes: The 2011 Edition in a larger map Now that it's been a little over a week since we wrapped up this year's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes, you've hopefully had a chance to digest some of the dishes on the map -- and I mean that both literally and figuratively. I know at lea ... More >>

"Driving While Taking Upskirt Pictures" Lands East Texas Pair in Pokey

Photos Angelina County JailApril Peeples in front of the cameras again.​It sounds like May 17 was a busy day for Angelina County sheriff Kent Henson. While he was at the scene of a meth lab bust, his radio crackled with news of a burglary in progress nearby, so he hopped in his car and sped of ... More >>

Play Frisbee, Have a Picnic, Catch Some Catfish

Catching catfish as a kid with our ranch hand, Billy Garrett.​The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is about to give Houstonians another activity at their local parks: fishing. Now, plenty of folks already fish at parks around Houston. My personal favorite spot is at River Terrace Pa ... More >>

At Home at Julio

Monterrey expats flock to Tacos del Julio.

Ice Storm II -- It Cometh Again? (With a Closings List)

Photo by Abrahan GarzaThe re-reckoning​The forecasters got everything right about the big snowstorm that hit us last week, except for the fact it didn't include snow. It did include plenty of dangerous icy road conditions, though. Get ready: The sequel is here. It's been drizzling all day an ... More >>

What's Closed: Your One-Stop List, Updated Throughout the Day

​The announcements of closings due to the anticipated winter storm are beginning to roll in, the most significant so far being HISD closing all its schools and offices tomorrow. We'll be keeping a list of what's closed and updating it throughout the day, so check back frequently for news. Our ... More >>

Chinaberry Reflections

Houston Kid Rodney Crowell learns to "fail better."

Harris County Sues Chemical Plant Over Carcinogen Release

County attorney steps in where TCEQ won't​It's no secret that when it comes to penalizing industrial plants for violating their emissions permits and endangering public health, TCEQ (the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) is not a very tough sheriff. The state regulatory agency rarely take ... 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.

Houston Man Learns It Can Be Dangerous Appearing On Jerry Springer

​You know what's shocking?You go out to appear on The Jerry Springer Show, and you get involved in a fight where police are called.That's like going to see a Michael Bay movie and -- instead of the insightful character study you were expecting -- there's a bunch of explosions.An unnamed Housto ... More >>

Forklift-Drivin', ATM-Stealin' Band Of Brothers Finally Arrested

Photos courtesy HCSOIt took three years and officers from at least five different law enforcement agencies, but it looks like they finally nabbed the ATM crooks who used and then left fork-lifts behind as an odd sort of a calling card.The Harris County Sheriff's Office announced today that three bro ... More >>

A Non-HISD Teacher Gets Busted For Pot

Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

A Handy Guide To Terror Targets In Houston

Sometimes it seems like organizations that want to protect Americans from terrorism end up doing all the terrorists' research for them. The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, has compiled a handy guide to the nation' ... More >>

Rodney Crowell, Forever the Houston Kid

Gasoline Dreams

Houston Survivor Challenge

City Councilwoman (and ex-tribal member) Jolanda "Jo" Jones heads up a local, one-day version of the hit television series

Where To Get Supplies From FEMA

Hurricane Ike School Closings

The Top Five Texas Cheerleader Scandals

Cheerleaders Gone Wild: What's a Little Soiled Clothing on the Head Between Friends?

What Happened to Honky Tonk in Houston

Turn out the lights, the party's over

Houston International Fest 2007

The Bayou City's biggest festival continues making strides toward total recovery

Paradise by the Dashboard Light/Houston Music

Racket again ventures downtown in search of musical serendipity

Reality Nightlife

Get off the couch!

The Sick Old Man of the Festival Circuit

An open letter to the organizers and music bookers of the Houston International Festival

Life on the Sunny Side

A lucky few homeless people experience life ten miles out from the Pierce Elevated

I See London, I See France

A glimpse into the world of barroom lingerie-night models

Pattern Recognition

Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

Mow Betta

The grass is greener at the Lawn Mower Races

Visitors' Guide

Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

Summer Games

Everyone's a front-runner in the race to land the Olympics

Racket

Greg Wood is back with a new band, a new album, and a couple of jokes

Does Not Compute

Complaints question the tactics of educational computer marketers

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Sweet Deal

Why did county commissioners agree to subsidize a swanky golf resort that will benefit a wealthy Harris County developer?

Static

Trashing Houston

To a world worried about waste, Houston may offer an answer -- or at least a place for the garbage to go

Houston Haggis