Subject: College Station

• This Modern World

  March 20, 2007

• Too Bad A&M Doesn't Have a Law School

  June 26, 2007

• Friendswood Is a Great Place to Live. Or So We Hear.

  July 17, 2007

• Big State, Big Ideas

  October 12, 2007

• This Modern World

  March 20, 2007

• The College Football Review, Week Nine: Is Hawaii the Next Boise State?

  October 29, 2007

• Cover Story: Rotten to the Corps

  January 23, 2008

• Web Extra: Aggies Behaving Badly

  January 24, 2008

• Web Extra: More Aggies Behaving Badly

  January 25, 2008

• A New Reveille for Texas A&M

  March 12, 2008

• This Just In: Watermelon Good for Blood Flow (and Erections)

  June 30, 2008

• Beer Here: Saturdays at Saint Arnold’s

  July 11, 2008

• Aggies Dissed, Miss Out On Getting A Dangerous New Lab

  August 11, 2008

• Tunnel Mole Surfaces, Discovers SUV Assholes

  August 18, 2008

• College Football Preview, Lisa Guerrero Edition

  September 26, 2008

• ARchiTecture: College of Architecture Faculty Biennial 2009

  Web exclusive!

  April 2, 2009

• Bryan City Officials Trying To Star In Their Own Version of

  If you're a cop, you know what kind of call you don't want to get?Well, obviously, there's plenty of them, come to think of it. But take away all the death and dismemberment, the ones involving kids and buddies getting hit, and you know what must suck?Answering a domestic-disturbance call at the police chief's house.That has to be one delicate investigation.Bryan police chief Ty Morrow called his department early Sunday morning to say that he and his wife had had a fight, it had gotten physical,

  November 26, 2008

• Press Picks

  March 30, 1995

• Swinish Behavior

  March 14, 1996

• Letters

  April 4, 1996

• Three Of A Strange Kind At The Bush Library

  Good Lord, what a trio in this lede from a press release: "George Bush, 41st President of the United States, will present the [Drayton] McLane Leadership in Business Award to Chuck Norris in recognition of Mr. Norris's achievements as a martial arts legend, entrepreneur, and humanitarian."It goes on from there (Norris' book Black Belt Patriotism will be available for purchase at the event!!!), but the opening really says it all.If the event next Tuesday doesn't sound like the Ninth Circle of Hel

  March 24, 2009

• Rice Students Get Their Art Displayed On Billboards! In, Ummm, College Station

  Photo by west.mIt's not every day that college art students get to see their work displayed on billboards, but that's what's happening with a group of Rice seniors - they'll just have to drive to College Station to it.Rice University was kind enough to send Hair Balls a press release explaining how artist and professor Christopher Sperandio asked Lamar Outdoor Advertising if the company would be interested in showcasing local artists. To which Lamar said - and we're paraphrasing here - heck, yea

  April 3, 2009

• What You Missed

  May 11, 2000

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Photo by J.C. ReidThe pecans are held together with a sickeningly sweet cream made from sugar and nightmares.Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, where we try to put the week in some kind of perspective for you, before you go out on the weekend and obliterate it all. Monday was Memorial Day, also known as National Cookout Day. Robb Walsh paid tribute with his study of the grilling of Cajun stuffed peppers, which offset our normal aversion to vegetables by looking like little meat

  May 29, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: New Albums from Webb Wilder and Commander Cody

  Sometimes Lonesome, Onry and Mean flat dreads going out to the mailbox. Why? Because there's no telling what musical mediocrity or aural atrocity lies ticking like an Al-Qaeda dirty bomb inside those bubble-packs with faraway foreign addresses like Saginaw, Michigan or Sausalito, California. I haven't had my typing hand blown off yet, but my cranial lump has certainly taken some whacks to the eardrum lately. So it was a pleasant surprise to find albums by two old friends in a recent pack fr

  April 14, 2009

• “Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art”

  November 20, 2008

• Nappy Roots

  Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)

  May 16, 2002

• No Germ Lab for You

  Texans Get Dissed

  August 21, 2008

• The Gougers

  August 14, 2008

• Luv Ya Maroon

  February 7, 2008

• Rotten to the Corps: A Question of Justice at Texas A&M

  January 24, 2008

• Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

  November 15, 2007

• Conflict of Interest

  A gay Republican for City Council?

  November 30, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  October 26, 2006

• One More for the Road

  Local musicians regale us with more tales of woe, joy and debauchery

  July 21, 2005

• Ruthie Foster

  Runaway Soul (Blue Corn Music)

  August 22, 2002

• Cold Comfort

  Though their usefulness melted away long ago, icehouses continue to float to the surface

  December 21, 2000

• Blue Earth

  Behind the Sun (Rehab Records)

  November 16, 2000

• Stepping on Some Toes

  How many Aggies does it take to dance the Aggie Jitterbug? One to lead, one to follow and one to tell them to cease and desist.

  May 4, 2000

• Nice Guy, Nice Songs

  From 4-H to Miss Molly, Hadden Sayers keeps aiming for the next plateau

  January 26, 1995

• Serious Q: Barbecue 101 at Texas A&M

  photo by Robb Walsh It's not too late to sign up for the most serious barbecue seminar in the state. BBQ 101 is a three-day professional training session sponsored by the National Barbecue Association at the Texas A&M Meat Science Center in College Station. The class will be held next week beginning on the morning of Tuesday May 12 and ending on Thursday May 14th in the afternoon. The class is intended for barbecue pros, but open to anyone. Participants will spend a lot of time in a meat locke

  May 5, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Bluebonnet Wine Trail

  While in Navasota lovin' on some alpacas, Texas Traveler had a hankerin' thirst. So we got on our trusty iPhone and found the closest winery, a funky l'il shack called the Purple Possum Winery. While in the air-conditioned comfort of the Purple Possum's tasting room, we met a lovely couple we'd seen earlier that day at a local diner. "Are you on the Wine Trail too?" they asked us. The Texas Highway 105 corridor might not be as well-know for it's vineyards as, say, Napa Valley, but there are a

  May 25, 2009

• A Judge Delivers His Verdict Too Late

  July 2, 2009

• Food Fight: We Need Your Help

  Last week, the Houston Press started a little war of words on Twitter and on HAIF about the best pizza in Houston. Apparently, there's a disturbing number of people in Houston who honestly believe (whether because they've never eaten anywhere else -- not even at a Chuck E. Cheese -- or because they're legally insane) that Double Dave's has the best pizza in town. Look, we're not in College Station, people. There is better pizza out there. Trust us. So for this week's Food Fight, we're pitti

  July 7, 2009

• The Disaster That Is College Station

  ​Via Swamplot, we've learned that College Station is a disaster. On purpose.Popular Mechanics offers a fascinating look at a 52-acre site near Aggieville that has been modeled to look like a town in the aftermath of a man-made or natural disaster. Finally, there is Disaster City itself, the urban search-and-rescue training ground. If you save lives, this is where you come for your skills training, to learn Superman moves like breaching building structures--being able to go through walls--and s

  August 5, 2009

• For Teddy: Our Favorite Dead Kennedys Songs

  ​That's right, we went there. Longtime Massachussetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, better known as Teddy, passed away late Tuesday night at age 77. News media sites have already gone to Defcon 2 - "A Famous Person Not Named Michael Jackson Has Died" - so Rocks Off thought we'd take a different approach. Seeing as how the last of the Camelot brothers has finally shuffled off his mortal coil, we decided to take a look at some of the more infamous songs by the band who - if not for the assassinatio

  August 26, 2009

• Long Duck and Other Delights

  Photos by Robb Walsh​You don't know anything about wine, but you know what you like? There's a new wine store for you. Wine Styles is a retail outlet that demystifies the complicated world of wine. There is a white wall and a red wall. The whites are divided into the categories "crisp," "silky," "rich" and "bubbly." The reds are organized into "fruity," "mellow," "bold" and "nectar." The wines cost $12 to $25 and are mostly from small wineries you've never heard of.

  September 8, 2009

• The Nine Five Movies You Must See On 9-9-09

  It's September 9, 2009, a date which has absolutely no significance to anyone except those celebrating Shane Battier's 31st birthday and people who regularly say things like, "Well of course you're having communication issues; you have retrograde Saturn in your 5th house." Today also marks the release of the movie 9 which promises to delve deeper into the world of post-apocalyptic rag dolls than any film before.We at Hair Balls have never been ones to ignore pointless calendar shenanigans, howe

  September 9, 2009

• George H.W. Bush To Aggies: Please Don't Be Aggies When Obama Visits

  ​President Obama is headed to College Station Friday, at the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush, to speak about community service and whatnot.Obama, having already spoken at Notre Dame earlier this career, apparently decided to find an even more hostile environment. (Next stop: Bob Jones University! Then Al-Qaeda headquarters and then, The Woodlands.)Bush obviously is hoping very much for a polite, respectful reception for Obama in Aggieland. He also has a pretty good idea of just

  October 15, 2009

• The Obama Invasion Of Aggieland Has Almost Begun; Where To Get Live Coverage

  Photo courtesy The Battalion​Some Aggies got upset with our interpretation of President George H.W. Bush's open letter to them saying "Chill out, brosephs, when Obama comes to town."Now the President is in town, and how are they doing?You can follow along at The Battalion, the campus paper, which is offering all kinds of live coverage of the event, which is designed to promote volunteerism (and Marxism, we have to assume.)The paper reports 600 protesters have shown up at Spence Park in College

  October 16, 2009