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First Look at Hubcap Grill and Beer Garden in the Heights

Photo by John SuhThe cheeseburger: how I judge a burger joint​I'd never had a taste of Hubcap Grill before, so when they opened up their new grill and beer garden in the Heights last week, it moved to the top of my list of places to try. A few days ago, the temperature was over one hundred, a ... More >>

A Cooler Coke: Guaraná Antarctica

​Each Tuesday and Thursday for the next five weeks, we'll be taking a look at alternatives to cokes for the sticky Houston summer that lays ahead. The first beverage we're examining in this series isn't exactly a hidden treasure. Guaraná Antarctica, produced in Brazil since 1921, is not only ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants In The East End

Photo by frankienoseThe indescribable Orange Show.​My great-grandmother lived in the same little house off Navigation, home to dozens of kids and family gatherings over the decades, until the day she died. Although she never once spoke a word of English, she was clever and sly; she could under ... More >>

Getting Stuffed at Big Bite Night

Photos by Marco TorresGuests snacking on an assortment of foods from Ra Sushi.​There's something discomfortingly meta about gnawing the spicy flesh off a piece of jerk chicken as you stand, staring idly, next to an exhibit filled with stuffed fowl: Atwater's prairie chickens, ducks, cranes, al ... More >>

The World Cup Is Coming To Houston! The Trophy, At Least

​While Houston won't be hosting any World Cup games anytime soon, fans of the world's most popular sports can at least lay they eyes up on the world's most coveted trophy.The World Cup trophy is coming to the University of Houston and will be on display as part of a soccer festival that will featu ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Randy Eddy of Mugsy's On Richmond

Drunken MonkeyJust don't ask him for a lemon drop...​After five minutes of sitting at the bar, you would think Randy Eddy knew everyone. He's been a bartender for 16 years and at Mugsy's (2239 Richmond Ave.) for as long as we can remember. Almost every person who walked in shook Randy's hand o ... More >>

Odd Pair: Peeps and Toad Hollow Risqué Sparkling Wine

​We know Easter is coming when Peeps start popping up in the grocery store candy aisle. To be honest, we think they taste pretty bad, but we still have a soft spot for these nostalgic Easter classics. Maybe that's why they're the bestselling non-chocolate Easter candy. What you may not kno ... More >>

Middle-of-the-Road

Neither horrific nor disasterrrific, Cormac McCarthy adap takes the path of least resistance.

Questions Continue To Rise About Houston-Based Lifeguard Program

Photo by Todd SpivakJohn Hunsucker​John Hunsucker is not a medical doctor. This is one of the first points his many critics tend to make.They make it because Hunsucker, who runs Houston-based NASCO (National Aquatic Safety Company), the third-largest lifeguard training organization in the nation, ... More >>

Five Things To Change About Baseball

​Chron.com's Anna-Megan Raley had a posting last week dealing with what five changes you would make to baseball were you to become the commissioner. Then she lists the changes that would be made by Roy Oswalt, and Oswalt provided a somewhat decent list: decrease interdivisional matchups, shorten s ... More >>

Houston Rockets To Lower Ticket Prices -- Wait, They Meant "Raise," Right?

There is only one actual major league team in Houston to ever win a world title. The Houston Rockets. And there is only one legit major league team in Houston that ever makes the effort to field a winning team every season. And yet there is only one legit major league professional team in this c ... More >>

Houston Rockets To Lower Ticket Prices -- Wait, They Meant "Raise," Right?

There is only one actual major league team in Houston to ever win a world title. The Houston Rockets. And there is only one legit major league team in Houston that ever makes the effort to field a winning team every season. And yet there is only one legit major league professional team in this c ... More >>

The Red Carpet Calls For Two Rice Students

Asking questions on the Oscars' red carpet is not quite as glamorous as getting asked questions on the Oscars' red carpet, but two students from Rice are hoping fervently they get the chance.The team of Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel (hopeful correspondent and cameraman, respectively) is among the top ... More >>

Santa Baby

What a few musicians want under their trees this year

Not Easy Being Green

LEED certification is oddly expensive in Houston

Going Green Costs A Fortune In Houston

Bottled Water and KBR Lawsuits

Water Works

Elvis Takes a Milby Coed to the Carhop

Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

Did you know that '80s cover band the Spazmatics has clones from coast to coast?

"Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones & Associates"

Otabenga Jones & Associates teach us a few things at the Menil

John Royal's NFL Picks, Week Eight: Take the Texans. That's Right. The Texans.

A Day in the Life

Miss Pop Rocks: Ice Cream and Marie Osmond

Losing It

Our intrepid columnist goes camping and finds it a bare-bones affair

Cross-Dressing Confessional

The deflowering of a Rocky Horror Picture Show virgin

Polite Conversation Can Be Boring

Our Nightfly correspondent breaks out the faux-hawk

Best Beats from the Bayou

H-town's top ten rap jams

A Wedding and a Funeral?

Maybe, if the Vikings prevail in Moira Buffini's Silence

Tom's Diner

When David Cronenberg picks up a pistol, Violence begets comedy

Git'r Spun!

Countrified DJ Jester the Filipino Fist is the stand-up comedian of scratchers

Great Balls of Fire

The Arcade Fire's vast, spastic music will have you confused, thrilled and begging for more

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Just in time for New Year's Eve, The Nightfly and friends put a few hangover drugs to the test

Super Unison Brothers

Ryan Chavez and Andrew Morgan wave good-bye to Hands Up Houston

Rockin' in the Free World

Soundtracks for your Election Night shindigs

A Trip to Bountiful

The Innkeeper is the best country venue in town. Too bad it's 50 miles away.

Super Mario Brother

The youngest Escovedo rides his sin-breathing Dragons into town

Mr. Mom

Eddie Murphy plays Daddy, once more, just be "Cos"

Dark Riders

The good, the bad and the ugly rock-star performance contracts

Glamorous Youth

Sharon Osbourne put the local kids of Pure Rubbish in front of millions on MTV. Then things fell apart.

Roger Cooper

Oenophile, Bert Wheeler's Liquors, 6518 Westheimer

Sunny Side Up

A customer steps in to keep traditions alive at the Yale St. Grill

Letters

Full-time Friendly, In the Hood, Humanitiy's Teacher

Paid In Full

Sensitive, saccharine and practically messianic, Pay It Forward works like a charm

Ant-icipation

Ant Farm explores the fine art of... waiting

The Curbside Critique

(Houston Sculpture 2000)

It Takes One

Lonestar returns to the Lone Star State in a blaze of glory

Rotation

Now They're Cooking

Rich Stuff

Regine's may not be light on the pocketbook, but it's lovely on the tongue

Taking It to the Street

El Taconazo is a transforming experience, in more ways than one