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Houston Marathon Committee Announces New Courses for 2014 Race

The folks at the Houston Marathon Committee are always looking for ways to improve the annual event, both for the full and half marathons. One surefire way to do that is to change the course. Frankly, I've never fully comprehended how a person could run that far. I have friends who have done it and ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The First Church of Texaco, The Language Archive, True West

Wesley Lavender: Caught Showering After Taking a Hummer from a Woman Who Left it Running to Buy Cigarettes

A woman in a Hummer stopped at a gas station to pick up some smokes and left her SUV running in the parking lot. This sounds an awful lot like the first line in a really weird joke, but it's actually something that happened according to a report in the Corpus Christi Caller Times. A 55-year-old wo ... More >>

2013 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon (& 2013 ABB 5K)

Taste Test Marathon: The Power Bar Challenge

Photos by Christina Uticone​With the Chevron Houston Marathon looming, running and fueling and hydrating are trending topics online and off. My preferred workout fuel is actual food, although I've been known to supplement with a bar or a shake along the way when short on time. Generally I save ... More >>

40th Anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon

Free for All: Art Without a Price Tag

We've got our weekend figured out and it's filled with everything from Olympic runners to e-books to comics. On Friday, we'll be at "and everything in between," the latest exhibition of Curtis Gannon's artwork. The show, at the Spacetaker ARC Gallery, is a collection of new works by Gannon, featurin ... More >>

Tort Reform: Rick Perry's Latest "Emergency"

Tort "reform" will solve all our problems​The AP is reporting that Governor Rick Perry has declared yet another right-wing hobbyhorse to be emergency legislation: a tort reform bill. Republicans reflexively shout "tort reform!" at the drop of a hat, even though Texas -- via the big corporate ... More >>

Carb-Loading for the Marathon? Here's Where to Do It

Photo by Eda CherryCarb-loading: Serious[ly awesome] business.​In the book Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, the necessity of carb-loading before any highly strenuous, acutely physical activity is explained as, basically, the hoarding of glucose -- your body's fundamental energy source ... More >>

39th Annual Chevron Marathon Houston

Four Loko No Mo'

Drink faces Texas ban.

Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ

Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

Bob Cavnar: Five Questions With A Deepwater Horizon Expert

Bob Cavnar is not happy with investigative efforts so far​Bob Cavnar is an oil-industry insider who quickly became an expert-in-demand for reporters covering the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting Gulf oil spill. He's written a book on the event, Disaster on the Horizon, and will b ... More >>

Top 5 Food Network Chef-Inspired Halloween Costumes

You can be Mario Batali in just a few easy steps.​Halloween is upon us, yet again. And every year, Halloween costumes get either sluttier or blatantly, intentionally lamer. (Witness our sister blog, Art Attack, for more ideas on how to achieve the latter.) So what does a food-loving, non-slut ... More >>

'Funeral for the Gulf' Endures Weak Turnout, But Message Is Still Made

Photos by Chasen MarshallStrength in any numbers​A wise Hairballian philosopher once posed the question: If a demonstration happens in Downtown Houston and few come out to participate, does it still happen?In the instance on Thursday afternoon, the answer was yes. Though well intentioned, the "Fun ... More >>

Chevron Protests Result In Arrests Downtown

Photo by Liana Lopez Carted away in comfort​ At least four protesters were arrested this morning at a demonstration outside a Chevron shareholders' meeting downtown. The protesters moved past temporary police barricades and sat on the ground after they were refused entrance into the buildin ... More >>

Big Rip of Amen Recordz Breaks Down The Convenient-Store CD Economy

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 it to introducinglisto ... More >>

"Why Can't It Be More Like Jazzfest?" Rick Mitchell Debunks The Top 10 Gripes He's Overheard About Houston's iFest

All photos courtesy of www.ifest.orgOzomatli: 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Bud Light World Music Stage​ A couple of days ago, Houston International Festival Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell emailed Rocks Off and asked us if we'd mind reprinting something he wrote for the blog on iFest's Web ... More >>

The Weekend In Photos

Not everyone was at the Houston Chevron Marathon this weekend, even though we couldn't have had more perfect weather for it. Some of you were at pubs and clubs, some of you were getting your roller derby on, some of you were at a burlesque show (naughty!) and some of you were at our very own Artopia ... More >>

A N00b Runs the Houston Chevron Half-Marathon

Photos by Jason McElweenie / Click here for a slideshowRunners in the marathon, some of whom dressed like Disney characters.​Every January for the last several years I have stood on a curb along Allen Parkway, cheering for my friends in the early hours of a Sunday as they competed in the Chevr ... More >>

Fast As You: Rocks Off's Playlist for Sunday's Houston Marathon

anythingaboutcars.comThe 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner. Please keep your drooling to a minimum.​ The drinking stops tonight. Rocks Off is joining 30,000 other crazy, hardy souls to run the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Half Marathon this Sunday. (We're running the half - it's only our second race ... More >>

Chevron Kicks Out Activists From Its Marathon Expo

​A group of marathon runners were kicked out and banned from the Chevron Marathon Expo for displaying material that was critical of the oil company, but one of the runners tells Hair Balls that the group is continuing as planned. "We are still going to, at least try to, run the race on Sunday. We ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Year In Houston Movies

Like most years, 2009 wasn't hugely eventful for Houston as a movie town. There wasn't a big, locally filmed tentpole release like Armageddon, and most news revolved around the death of one of the city's biggest celebrities or, to a much lesser extent, the inaugural Cinema Arts Festival.Some movies ... More >>

Violence And Kidnapping In Nigeria Makes Its Way To Houston Courtrooms

photo courtesy of beckstir01 Kidnappings, pipeline bombings and vigilantism has become a way of life for both offshore oil workers stationed along the coast of Nigeria as well as the oppressed native insurgency groups who carry out the violence. (Check out this week's feature about one Texan's re ... More >>

Boudin Balls with a Gooey Surprise

Photo by J.C. ReidOn a recent trip to the Bolivar Peninsula with a carload of friends, I stopped in the small town of Winnie, Texas for a quick pit stop at the local Texaco gas station that had a hot food counter serving mostly pizzas and fried foods. These counters, combined with a few picnic tabl ... More >>

12th Annual Texas Children's Hospital Kids' Fun Run

Get up all you baby couch potatoes, it's Fun Run time

Places That Are Open -- Constantly Updated

Tensions Are Rising

Texaco Gets A Little Closer To Oblivion

Bummer: Downtown YMCA to Be Demolished

High Gas Prices: Protests, Segways and Prostitutes

Angry Scots and pidgin tongues

Chevron Houston Marathon

Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

Bright Idea: Scalping Entries to the Houston Marathon

Woodwind Lakes: Danger — Baby on Board

Two feet below the inviting backyard was a sludge pit bubbling toxic waste

Woodwind Lakes subdivision built on oil and gas field turns on neighbor who pointed out the contamination

Everybody, Run!

Kurtis Blow

Saturday, October 4

Dude, Where's My Car?

Regina Ruiz

Letters

Boiled by Oil, Try Gas Station Work, Rollin' with Ralph

Pumped Dry

Gas station dealers find big oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction

Paying the Price

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Name-Calling at the Pump

Lessee dealers in the gas business

Driving Ambition

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