Subject: Corpus Christi

• Sweat Science

  June 18, 2007

• Houston Hurricane Reporting, or Maybe We're Not All Gonna Die

  August 16, 2007

• Jesus On a Stick

  July 15, 2008

• Oh No! Lots of "Hello Dolly" Puns!

  July 21, 2008

• No More Family Guy For Star Furniture

  August 7, 2008

• Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

  August 29, 2008

• Rocks Off Crashes KTRH's 10th Inning

  September 3, 2008

• Crashing KTRH's 10th Inning

  September 3, 2008

• InPrint/Methodist Hospital Studio Series

  April 2, 2009

• Cutout Bin: Sharon Pillack's A Fisherman's Dream

  Sharon Pillack, A Fisherman's Dream (Jak Se Mate Records, 1983) So there I was, just walking down the edge of the creek from my favorite fishing hole. The largemouth weren't biting and my pole seemed limp in my hands. I rounded the bend, and there she was: a bleached-blonde beauty with bobbers and a tackle box a working man like me could only dream about. She handled her rod like a pro, and caught my heart hook, line and sinker. Mind you, it was all a bit blurry; I'd already polished off

  December 4, 2008

• Cyberdreams

  December 1, 1994

• Man Wants To Lick Hooters (In The Courtroom)

  Nikolai Grushevski, a man from Corpus Christi, has filed a lawsuit because Hooters wouldn't let him work as a waiter, which we guess would be called a Hooters Boy. "Hooters tries to circumvent the law by referring to its waiters as 'Hooters Girls.' Hooters is wrong," claims the lawsuit, filed yesterday in federal court in Corpus. "Just as Southwest Airlines attempted nearly three decades ago with stewardesses, the waiter's position addressed herein is being limited to females by an employer '...

  January 9, 2009

• Selena, Crossing Over

  April 13, 1995

• The Insider

  February 27, 1997

• Brothers of the Road

  May 22, 1997

• A Family Affair

  December 18, 1997

• Amazingly, That Plan To Restore The Replica Columbus Ship Is Foundering

  Photo by Brent and MariLynnIn news that will shock absolutely everyone but the 95 percent of the people who predicted it, there's a good chance that the replica of Christopher Columbus's Nina won't be heading to Kemah in time for the May regatta.As we mentioned last month, the Spanish Consulate and the city of Corpus Christi announced bold plans to repair the battered replica ship, which was slowly sinking into the bay. The consulate wanted to tow it to Kemah (Que?) for the annual regatta and th

  February 26, 2009

• Life On The Rodeo Road: Don't Trust Canadian Doctors With Your Credit Card

  Photo by Paul KnightName: Zach DishmanAge: 26Hometown: BeaumontEvent: Bareback RidingI got into rodeo because my dad rodeoed, and his dad college-rodeoed at Texas A&M. I started getting on calves when I was real young, and at ten years old I was going to youth rodeos. By the time I got in high school, I was real serious about it. If I didn't rodeo, I would farm and ranch, because my dad and them did that, so hopefully I'd be a part of it. It's not always the most cash-flowing business, and I

  March 17, 2009

• Storm Damage

  September 2, 1999

• Jose Miguel Yamal Latin Jazz Quartet

  Da Camera opens its daytime concert series

  September 25, 2008

• Roger Creager

  With a new CD release, this singer is strummin’ from his Texas soul.

  August 21, 2008

• Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

  Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  July 31, 2008

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

  January 24, 2008

• Punx-Mas Fest 3

  December 13, 2007

• I See Hawks in LA

  Sig's Lagoon in-store at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 3710 Main, 713-533-9525; Continental Club at 10 p.m., 3700 Main, 713-529-9666

  March 9, 2006

• Best Popsicles

  September 23, 2004

• History's at Steak

  August 14, 2003

• Banana Republicans

  A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

  March 20, 2003

• Great American Sway

  Plus: Sterile at UH, Rolling On, Motor Madness

  May 2, 2002

• Sound the Retreat!

  When the going gets hot, federal prosecutors head south

  October 4, 2001

• Best Politician

  Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  September 20, 2001

• Win a Few, Lose One

  Service station dealers record a couple of victories in their court battles with parent oil companies

  March 8, 2001

• G-strings

  Without the right music, strip-club routines can come undone faster than a dancer's outfit

  January 11, 2001

• Rewriting the Good Book

  Corpus Christi casts Jesus as a South Texas gay guy

  October 21, 1999

• News of the Weird

  April 1, 1999

• The FBI Makes Things Go "Boom," And We Have The Video

  (Note: The explosions get bigger the longer you stick with the video.) For the better part of this week, FBI bomb experts have been teaching area cops the Xs and Os of improvised explosives, like the ones made by shoe-bomber Richard Reid or the one that killed college student Matthew Rugo in his Texas City apartment three years ago. But on Thursday afternoon, it was show time.Raw chickens and tires were blowing up all over the place at the Harris County Sheriff's Office training facility in Humb

  May 1, 2009

• Houston (Kinda) Hitting The Big Screen Again

  Chances have improved that we'll be seeing Open Road, a movie that takes place at least partly in Houston. The film picked up a distributor yesterday.And why shouldn't it? The cast includes noted motherlover Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Mary Steenbergen, Harry Dean Stanton and Lyle Lovett. Wim Wenders is the executive producer.The story supposedly centers around a road trip taken by Timberlake to see his estranged father, a former baseball star who's dying in Houston.No scenes were shot here

  May 12, 2009

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• Corpus Christi: Home of the Whataburger

  Photos by Craig HlavatyThis past weekend, we visited the hometown of Whataburger, Corpus Christi. The burger chain is based there, but the center of operations will be moving to a bigger complex in San Antonio in the next few months. The move is a sad one. The chain has been based in Corpus since 1950, when Harmon Dobson opened up its first location there in the middle of town off Ayers Street. Corpus is teeming with Whataburger locations -- there are almost a dozen by our count off the main

  June 25, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Whataburger stickers, coming soon to a hipster near you.Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, the only place in town still selling Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies out of the back of our station wagon. Speaking of suspicious meat, this week started off with a rather angry rebuking of inner-skirt and low-quality outer-skirt steak. Please write your congressperson. After that, Sarah Rufka took in a late-night meal at Max's Wine Dive that seemed to consist entirely of bread and cheese (in other

  June 26, 2009

• Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground: Songs for Farrah Fawcett

  Though her death has since been eclipsed on headline-news outlets and celebrity-tracking blogs by Michael Jackson's, Corpus Christi native Farrah Fawcett passed away Thursday after a painful struggle with cancer. She was 62. Remembered mostly for her performance as Jill Munroe in the campy 70's action show Charlie's Angels, some forget that Fawcett later became a critically successful dramatic actress, winning a Golden Globe for the 1986 film Extremities, in which she played a would-be rape vict

  June 26, 2009

• R.I.P., Charlie's Corpus Christi Angel

  Farrah Fawcett, the pride of Corpus Christi, has died of cancer at age 62.We'll have a proper remembrance of her up soon, but for now here's her nude-in-a-shopping-mall scene from Robert Altman's Dr. T & The Women.

  June 25, 2009

• La Migra Arrests A Whole Bunch Of Gang Members

  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency -- ICE to illegals and legals alike -- has announced the results of a big round-up of gang members in Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi who are undocumented aliens."Operation Community Shield" resulted in the arrests of 116 gang members and associates, ICE spokesman Gary Palmore says."The gang members taken into custody during the enforcement action are linked to at least 14 street gangs, including: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Surenos Trece, Aryan

  June 30, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Sea Center Texas

  Photos by Brittanie SheyAbout an hour south of Houston on 288, in a modern residential neighborhood in Lake Jackson, stands Sea Center Texas, an aquarium and educational center operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. As aquariums go, it's not the state's fanciest, but it does include exhibits dedicated solely to environments along the Texas coast, from offshore depths to jetties to salt marshes. Outside the facility there is a long boardwalk showcasing a coastal wetlands environmen

  July 6, 2009

• TEA Releases Further Details On School Rankings

  ​The Texas Education Agency has released the 2009 school rankings -- let the talk of how schools are gaming the system begin!!Results are searchable by district, by category, by all kinds of things.The 12 HISd schools that have been ranked "unacceptable":High Schools -- Jones, Kashmere, Lee, Sterling, Westbury, Worthing and Sharpstown. Not many surprises there.Middle Schools -- Attucks, Dowling, Fondren, Ryan, and the Walipp/TSU school.No HISD elementaries were ranked unacceptable, according t

  July 31, 2009

• Some Counties Are Seeing More Paupers' Burials, But Not Us...Yet

  ​"Hard Times Come Again No More," wrote Stephen Foster, but they have.And so some people, much as they like, can't afford to bury their dead. In Corpus Christi, for instance, requests for pauper burials are up 13 percent.Once again, though, it looks like Houston is dodging the economic bullet a bit.David Turkel, director of Harris County's Community Services Department, tells Hair Balls the only bump in pauper burials he's seeing is due to the weather."We haven't seen a spike that is unusu

  August 7, 2009

• Eight-Liner King Enters Guilty Plea

  ​A major operator of the 8-liner machines that are so popular (and illegal) around here and the rest of Texas has entered a guilty plea that will cost him over $1 million, state attorney general Greg Abbott announced today.Gordon Graves, the 72-year-old founder of Aces Wired, entered the plea in a Corpus Christi court, ending a long legal battle over the machines.The 8-liners are like slot machines, but of course it's illegal to gamble in Texas. The law allows you to give a token prize, howeve

  August 17, 2009

• Houston Music Fight Club: Pizza Dude vs. Jerky Guy and 10th Grade Cutie vs. Everyone

  ​In this episode of Houston Music Fight Club, we yet again pit some of Houston's skuzziest and rocking local musicians and personalities together for a fight to the death. Or at least to the sore hand, bloody lip, and maybe a few tears. Some dudes fight when they cry; we've seen it firsthand. We don't know what causes it, because we have never seen those UFC cats blubber when they simulate homoerotic foreplay every few weeks. What gives? We once saw two burly hosses scrapping outside some tool

  August 26, 2009

• Bayou Beat: More Live Nation Ticket Deals, I.J. Gosey at Discovery Green, Bob Fuldauer Leaves Meridian, Tony Campise In Serious Condition

  farm1.static.flickr.com/I.J. Gosey​ We have a winner in our Live Nation "Club Passport" photo contest - we think - but are still awaiting a judge's ruling. Stay tuned. Live Nation has expanded its "No Service Fee" promotion once again, to include pretty much every show coming to House of Blues or Verizon Wireless Theater: Mat Kearney, Hanson, Peaches, Three 6 Mafia/Rakim, Stryper(!), Bob Saget, Raphael Saadiq, Cafe Tacuba, Anvil, O.A.R., Regina Spektor, 311 and our pals the Pogues, to name

  October 21, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers, Part 2

  He Said Grandpa Songs He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage. The man was arguably one of the biggest musical influences in He Said's life. The intrepid and stealthy Grandpa Gonzalez is kicking the around the country somewhere on a sweet motorcycle or driving through the Midwest in his gigantic RV and his chihuahua with Grandma Ana watching a movie in the back. Seeing that He Said is one-hal

  November 5, 2009