HISD and a paid trustee get entangled in the spreading empire of a private firm touting safe alternative schools for troubled kids. So why are some students and parents so scared?
More Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurants are on their way to Houston. Last August, Robb Walsh told you about the new chain location at 24004 Southwest Freeway in Rosenberg brought in by John Hooff who told us he plans 10 in all in Houston
Now, the big kahuna Bob Dorfman, president of TCH (Tampa, Columbus, Houston) has hit town, ready to open two of what he says are the 50 franchise outlets he plans for the Houston area alone. (He's already in Tampa and this week is opening his first one in
Carroll Cocchia says she's one-third Indian, and is trying to bring local Native Americans together. Detractors say she's white, and is helping to tear them apart.
You've probably heard the expression "getting off the grid" more times than you can shake a BlackBerry at. These days, completely eliminating yourself from civilization (temporarily, mind you; for other self-removals, please see here immediately) is a task almost exclusively reserved for David Copperfield and Harry Potter. Furthermore, "risky behavior" usually includes embarking on an extended trip without bringing your laptop. Madness! Absolute madness!
But this is the gre
Photo by Jasmine&RosesCalvin Trillin has lobbied to replace the Thanksgiving turkey with spaghetti carbonara --something to do with Columbus being Italian, I think. In the Tex-Mex Cookbook, I pointed out that Juan de Onate and his Mexican pioneers held a Tex-Mex thanksgiving in El Paso decades before the Pilgrims ran into Plymouth rock. So there's plenty of precedent to skip cooking turkey.
Here's a lovely pork chop recipe for Thanksgiving. The sauce was inspired by my father, who
