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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 yester ... More >>

The Insider

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 yester ... More >>

Brothers of the Road

'The I-69 "NAFTA Highway" is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Thanks to your tax dollars, it's already provided a very good one for the underemployed brother of Tom DeLay.

A Family Affair

Roland Garcia has the political backing to be the U.S. Attorney for South Texas. He also has a brother imprisoned for murder and drug trafficking -- a fact he somehow forgot to tell his congressional sponsors. That may not be enough to disqualify him, but

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 ... More >>

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 s ... More >>

Jose Miguel Yamal Latin Jazz Quartet

Da Camera opens its daytime concert series

Roger Creager

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

Punx-Mas Fest 3

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

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

History's at Steak

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

Banana Republicans

A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

Great American Sway

Plus: Sterile at UH, Rolling On, Motor Madness

Win a Few, Lose One

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

G-strings

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

Rewriting the Good Book

Corpus Christi casts Jesus as a South Texas gay guy

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 Tex ... More >>

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 beachi ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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.

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 e ... More >>

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, Sterl ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Thanksgiving Nightmares

​Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for pumpkin pie, good cheer, sweaters...and loved ones swilling booze and going at it. Yes, Thanksgiving family tension -- if not outright violence -- is a tradition as time-honored as postprandial football. Inspired by this recent article in the New York Times, we as ... More >>

Church Goes After People Who Like Free Cars, Beer And Getting Laid

​How will you celebrate the resurrection of God's only son? Well, if your family is observing this wonderful holiday at a church that's not giving away free cars and TV's, you're a chump!Corpus Christi's Bay Area Fellowship Church is giving away over $2 million in prizes -- without a catch -- &nbs ... More >>

Houston Roller Derby

Women, fast skating and sharp elbows - sounds like it's game time

A Weird Pop Heaven Via Bay City's "Happy Radio"

​Along Rocks Off's various Texas travels, we almost never listen to an iPod or compact discs anymore. Anything we could pop in wouldn't match the rhythm of the road; the Stooges or Metallica don't really jive with Highways 59, 71 or 77. In today's world of satellite radios, streaming tunes on your ... More >>

5 Songs That Are No Day At The Beach

This past weekend, Craig's Hlist spent a good solid two days at the beach playing in the surf down off Mustang Island just south of Corpus Christi. It was one of those mental-health weekends that if we hadn't have taken, we would have ended up throwing beer bottles against the wall at an old folks' ... More >>

Twilight, Cleavage, Drugs & Wiccans: Five Highlights From Texas' Banned-Books List

Twillight: Celina ISD just wants to save your from "Team Edward" geekdom, kids​As we noted earlier today, things are generally looking up in the banned-book department, especially in the Houston area.But the latest annual report by the ACLU of Texas does contain some stuff that shouldn't be ignore ... More >>

Hey Gary Kubiak: Driscoll Middle School Has A Play For You

All of Houston knows that Gary Kubiak apparently doesn't know how to call a fourth-and-short play. We don't know if this play, from Corpus Christi's Driscoll Middle School, was on fourth or third down or what, but it obviously worked.

Johnny Perales: Porn On Work Laptop Lands Corpus Asst. City Manager In Hot Water

No longer scheduled in Corpus​We coastal Texan men are apparently a randy, lonely lot. Even as Galveston cops plucked the Seawall Spanker -- a publicly masturbating surfing aficionado -- from his car on the edge of the Gulf, another case of [presumably] jacking off in a manner unbecoming of a ... More >>

Weed In Texas: The Top Seven Stories Of The Year

Merry Christmas: our Top Weed Stories. ​It's been a decent year for potheads. So what if Prop 19 didn't pass in California, because medical marijuana laws, even in places outside that dirty hippy state, expanded. This year ends with two more states, Arizona and New Jersey, along with Washington, D ... More >>

Fifteen-Year-Old Bride Detained After Fracas in Corpus Walmart

Old enough to marry and get arrested in a Walmart​An 18-year-old man, his 15-year-old wife and a 19-year-old friend of the couple were jailed in Corpus Christi after a fight with store security at a Walmart. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a rent-a-cop confronted the trio after ... More >>

School Bans Christian Group in Order to Keep Out Gay Group

We let you in, we have to let EVERYBODY in​A Corpus Christi-area school district is so determined to keep a gay student group from forming that they're kicking the Fellowship of Christian Athletes off campus. The Flour Bluff ISD is making the move so it can say no groups not directly tied to ... More >>

Drunken Wee-Hours Whataburger Drive-Thrus: A Proud Texas Tradition

I'll take a Whatachicken with fries and a large vodka.​Shamefully, all too many of us have been there: out in the bars since happy hour, it's now a quarter-past closing time. We stagger to the car and suddenly remember we haven't eaten a thing other than beer nuts since lunch. Hunger cuts thro ... More >>

Texas: Immigration Detention Capital of the Country

In Texas, illegal immigration is often extremely lucrative.​Texas is number one again today. To our trophy case of great honors, we add Most Beholden To Private Corporations, When It Comes To Illegal Immigration. The Detention Watch Network recently released aggregated data about the big busi ... More >>

Sex Equality in the Workplace: Not in Texas

All things not being equal....​If you're looking for cities where women are not treated equally in the workplace, welcome to Texas, according to a report by US News & World Report. They've ranked cities all across the country on gender equality, and four of the bottom ten are in the Lone Star ... More >>

David Garcia, Corpus "Gangsta," Shows How Not to Fight a Gang Injunction

Don't start none, won't be none.​In response to a recent wave of street crime, Corpus Christi has become the latest city to experiment with gang injunctions, tools whereby law enforcement bars certain people they claim to be gang members from associating with each other, in person or over the ... More >>

The Sonoma Burger and Salted Caramel Duck Fat Fries at The Burger Guys

Mai PhamThe Sonoma Burger at The Burger Guys. Applewood smoked bacon, cheddar, avocado, arugula, aoili​I am happily burger-obsessed. I crave them, I find them, I eat them, and I enjoy them. I repeat this process regularly, and last week, the process led me to what has got to be one of Houston' ... More >>

Woman Smokes Too Much Weed, Falsely Tells Cops She Stabbed Her Mother

All too true​Let's face it, if you have a self-diagnosing of "I smoked too much weed," then any explanation you give for your subsequent actions is bound to be a bit, say, convoluted. And so it was with a Corpus Christi woman who called 911 to say she had stabbed her mother and was about to s ... More >>

More Than 20,000 Deported from South Texas in 2011, Feds Say

La Migra piles up the numbers.​The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced its deportation numbers today for fiscal 2011, which ended in September. Nationwide almost 400,000 were deported -- an ICE record -- and more than 20,000 were deported from South Texas, the agency ... More >>

Corpus Man Steals Beer Twice, Gets Beaten Up, All in One Evening

Beer: the cause of and solution to 99 percent of life's problems since 5000 BC.​For most people, a single day in which you were beaten badly enough by a group of men at a bus station to require a hospital visit and were caught (allegedly) swiping beer not once but twice would qualify as rock b ... More >>

Somehow, Red Bull Has Become Very Important To Underground Rap In Texas

​A white guy, two black guys and a Mexican walk into a club. Harharhar. This coming Wednesday, February 1, Warehouse Live will host the inaugural show of the Red Bull Skooled tour. (If you've any concerns about the validity of the relationship Red Bull has rap, you're encouraged to read th ... More >>