Corpus Christi

Tim Tebow Visiting Texas...to Speak in Corpus Christi

A few of you read that headline and thought, "Oh, dear God, no!" A few others of you read it and thought, "Oh, dear God, yes!" Either way, just like your thoughts, we're pretty sure Tim Tebow's visit to Corpus Christi will involve the big man upstairs. He will be speaking tonight at Whataburger Fiel ... More >>

Wesley Lavender: Caught Showering After Taking a Hummer from a Woman Who Left it Running to Buy Cigarettes

A woman in a Hummer stopped at a gas station to pick up some smokes and left her SUV running in the parking lot. This sounds an awful lot like the first line in a really weird joke, but it's actually something that happened according to a report in the Corpus Christi Caller Times. A 55-year-old wo ... More >>

Caution: Selling Your PlayStation to a Stranger at 2 a.m. Might Not Be a Good Idea

It's a sad sign of the times when people aren't even able to sell their Sony PlayStations at 2 a.m. to some dude they found on Facebook without getting stabbed. But that's just what happened to a Corpus Christi man this morning, according to the Caller-Times.

The Rocks Off 100: Festival Chicano's Daniel Bustamante

Who? Two weekends ago, Rocks Off attended the 33rd annual Festival Chicano at Miller Outdoor Theatre. We were surprised and delighted to see almost 30,000 fans of Tejano music come out to support a movement that many have written off as dormant and dead. The man behind the success of the event is M ... More >>

Javier Alan Correa: Corpus Man Indicted For Threatening Tennessee Mosque

The feds have indicted a Corpus Christi man for threatening a controversial Tennessee mosque with a bomb. Javier Alan Correa, 24, called the under-construction mosque in Murfreesboro last September 5 and said, "On Sept. 11, 2011, there's going to be a bomb in the building." The Mufreesboro mosque ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness: Pet Food, Pets As Food, and More

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating...Our Words, where the kinds of things we're filling watermelons with would make your head spin. I mean, sure, everybody goes with vodka, but how many of you have tried an Absinthe & Everclear bomb? Not many of you, judging from the relatively normal ... More >>

Federal Lawsuit Filed in Corpus Christi Over Lobster Baked Potato

It's the clash of the Longhorn Steakhouse titans down south in Corpus Christi, where a local chain of steakhouses with a similar name to the national LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants has filed a federal lawsuit over a lobster baked potato. It's more complicated than that, of course, but the lobster ... More >>

Man Robbed of Whataburger Dinner at Knifepoint

You know times are tough when muggers are in the market for anything you have on you -- including a sack of fast food. A Corpus Christi man found that out firsthand when he was held up by two robbers armed with a knife and a bat this past weekend around 3 a.m. outside a Whataburger. The man, whom ... More >>

Comment of the Day: One Man's Sexual Fantasy

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Houston Roller Derby

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Jose Miguel Yamal Latin Jazz Quartet

Da Camera opens its daytime concert series

Rocks Off Crashes KTRH's 10th Inning

Roger Creager

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

Punx-Mas Fest 3

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

Sweat Science

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

Banana Republicans

A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

Great American Sway

Plus: Sterile at UH, Rolling On, Motor Madness

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

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

Cyberdreams

A ragtag group of Houston filmmakers eye the future, and make a hit in Dallas