Child Development

Five Fabulous Authors for Kids

Douglas Demmon: Former National Park Ranger Convicted of Child Porn

National Park Rangers are an American icon, with their Smokey-Bear hats, green uniforms and eagerness to help everyone enjoy the great outdoors. And then there are the Park Rangers like Galveston's Douglas Demmon, who has entered a guilty plea on charges of distributing child porn. Demmon, 65, is ... More >>

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Messiah for Kids

National Park Rangers are an American icon, with their Smokey-Bear hats, green uniforms and eagerness to help everyone enjoy the great outdoors. And then there are the Park Rangers like Galveston's Douglas Demmon, who has entered a guilty plea on charges of distributing child porn. Demmon, 65, is ... More >>

Buffalo Bayou Boat Rides

National Park Rangers are an American icon, with their Smokey-Bear hats, green uniforms and eagerness to help everyone enjoy the great outdoors. And then there are the Park Rangers like Galveston's Douglas Demmon, who has entered a guilty plea on charges of distributing child porn. Demmon, 65, is ... More >>

Mesquite ISD Cop Pepper-Sprays Squirrel As Students Shriek In Protest

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. This clip is going around the web, of an officer apparently with the Mesquite ISD polie force, pepper-spraying a squirrel. Highlights: One student believes the cop is about to Tase the thing, which would have been exciting; also, the middle school ... More >>

Powerade® NCAA® Youth Clinic - University of Houston

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. This clip is going around the web, of an officer apparently with the Mesquite ISD polie force, pepper-spraying a squirrel. Highlights: One student believes the cop is about to Tase the thing, which would have been exciting; also, the middle school ... More >>

Children's Parade

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. This clip is going around the web, of an officer apparently with the Mesquite ISD polie force, pepper-spraying a squirrel. Highlights: One student believes the cop is about to Tase the thing, which would have been exciting; also, the middle school ... More >>

Winter Wallace Doodles Up Support For Autism Research

​Winter Wallace, local singer-songwriter and front woman of the Winter Wallace Band, has the voice of a celestial being and, evidently, the heart of one too. Wallace recently started a project called "Autism & Art," where she will be collaborating with artists across various media to raise mon ... More >>

Richard Leakey: Why Our Origins Matter

​Winter Wallace, local singer-songwriter and front woman of the Winter Wallace Band, has the voice of a celestial being and, evidently, the heart of one too. Wallace recently started a project called "Autism & Art," where she will be collaborating with artists across various media to raise mon ... More >>

Baby Barnaby's: A Good Place to Bring a Baby?

alex-s​Baby Barnaby's has received no lack of attention over the years, much of it from this publication, including a Best of Houston® award for Best Breakfast and one for Best Gay-Friendly Restaurant. The food is tasty (like Katharine Shilcutt, I'm partial to the green eggs), the portions la ... More >>

First Friday Poetry Reading: Mike Guinn

It's Mike Guinn, not Jones

Bingo! The Documentary

Go for the win, baby, go for the win

Justin Lewis: Katy Junior High Science Teacher Busted For Kiddy Porn

There's been a Pedobear sighting in Katy.​A Katy seventh grade science teacher has been arrested for possessing and promoting child pornography, the FBI announced today. The cul-de-sac-land home of Justin Wallace Lewis, 40, was stormed yesterday by Houston cops. Lewis was in the county jail last ... More >>

Mary Karr book signing

Get lit with this author’s third memoir

The Ever After

Mirror, mirror on the wall, can't you make us all get along?

Head Start Enrolling Kids Too Rich To Qualify, Including In Texas, GAO Reports

Get a Head Start, even if you're keeping a poor kid out​The problem with the Head Start program is that it's always been an exclusive, good-ole-boy club where only poor and disenfranchised kids can matriculate. The doors are flung wide open to ragamuffins, only to be slammed shut in the faces of e ... More >>

How To Help Your Pudgy Six-Month-Old Kid Drop Those Pounds

​It's never too early to give your children body-image issues. Doctors at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have just published a study showing how they detected obesity in 6-month-olds."Children who were obese at age 24 months were highly likely to have been obese at age 6 month ... More >>

Honor Society

​It's never too early to give your children body-image issues. Doctors at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have just published a study showing how they detected obesity in 6-month-olds."Children who were obese at age 24 months were highly likely to have been obese at age 6 month ... More >>

Alley Theatre Young Performers Winter Studio

Kids get some time on stage while they’re out of school

Attention Deficit Improv

Web exclusive!

India.Arie

Web exclusive!

Houston Attorney Represents Another Tarnished Evangelist

Houston attorney Don Ervin has apparently become the go-to guy for (allegedly, allegedly) sleazy televangelists.Ervin represented Jim Bakker (of PTL and Tammy Faye fame) when he was fighting charges of mail fraud; now he's representing Tony Alamo, a 74-year-old preacher accused of crossing state lin ... More >>

OMG SALMA HAYEK BREASTFEEDING WTF!?!

OMG OMG OMG Salma Hayek breast fed a baby in Sierra Leone OMG OMG OMG! Seriously, what is this, the next Yalta Conference? You would think so, given the reaction of the popular and not-so-popular press. Google "Salma Hayek breastfeeding" and you'll get such lovely quotes and comments as "Lucky ba ... More >>

Memorable Onion Rings at Cheddar’s

OMG OMG OMG Salma Hayek breast fed a baby in Sierra Leone OMG OMG OMG! Seriously, what is this, the next Yalta Conference? You would think so, given the reaction of the popular and not-so-popular press. Google "Salma Hayek breastfeeding" and you'll get such lovely quotes and comments as "Lucky ba ... More >>

Blue October, Foiled for the Last Time

CD Review

Barber of Seville

Opera to Go! presents Figaro and his friends

Rev It Up

Roaring engines, screaming guitars and...Net safety?

Giving Moore

Roaring engines, screaming guitars and...Net safety?

Don't Cry for Her, Israel

Roaring engines, screaming guitars and...Net safety?

Why?, with Aqueduct

Wednesday October 26, the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

Fannypack

See You Next Tuesday

Best Easter Bunny

Rick Hurt, a.k.a. Rainbo de Klown

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Why does it bother people when toddlers still breast-feed? Could it be about sex?

Best Kids' Meal Toys

Mission Burritos

News of the Weird

Mission Burritos

Dark Summer Day

Mission Burritos

Helpless Hands

GCCS was supposed to help the poor. But after letting $15 million in anti-poverty funds slip away, the question is whether it can help anyone -- even itself.