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Corpus Christi

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Suspect Arrested In May 4 Rap Shooting

    Jordan Wilson, the former member of the Alief-area rap group FDAB charged with murder in the May 4 shooting death of his ex-bandmate Toyurean "T.O.Y." Young, has been arrested, the Houston Police Department said this morning. According to HPD, Wilson, who had reportedly been feuding with Young on T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    More Texas Cities Considering Bans on Plastic Grocery Bags

    Brownsville set a trend last year when it became the first city in Texas to ban the use of plastic grocery bags in nearly all consumer settings. Brownsville mayor Pat Ahumada told the New York Times that the ban had eliminated 350,000 plastic bags per day, a decrease that "transformed our city from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    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 this, whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Willie Avery: Calls 911 After he Gives Guy $10 To Buy Weed And The Guy Doesn't Come Back

    Willie Avery: Who ya gonna call?​You're only supposed to call 911 for emergencies, and Willie Avery of Corpus Christi clearly thought he had one. He had given a man ten bucks to go buy him some weed, and the man had shockingly not returned. So naturally Avery called the cops. At first he tri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Golfers Menaced by Troll Armed with Machete and Tomahawk; Also, Long Blades a Trend in Weird Coastal Bend Crime?

    A good walk ruined​A golfing foursome came upon an unexpected and highly unusual hazard as they approached the 15th hole at Corpus Christi's Oso Beach Municipal Golf Course Wednesday morning. The men -- all in their 60s and 70s -- would later tell police that just as they were preparing to tee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Tropical Storm Don: Will Houston See Any Effects?

    Is that a cone of uncertainty in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?​As we thought, the forecast models, using the data from the National Hurricane Center reconnaissance aircraft came into fairly good agreement last night on the track of Tropical Storm Don and, unfortunately, it d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Andres Gonzales Assails Son-In-Law With Futile Twin Machete Attack

    Nueces County JailAndres Gonzales: Machete man​The thought of our own father-in-law waiting for us with glassy eyes and bad intent in our carport armed with not one but two rusty old machetes is one of the more unlikely and alarming prospects we can envision, but that exact scenario just unfol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    There's Just Something About That Snoop Dogg

    ​Recently, Rocks Off's sister had a baby. That, of course, means that we were required to travel to the city where the child currently lives in, Corpus Christi, and comment on his specific attractiveness. Now, this is hardly an inconvenience; we were amped to see King Roman, the teeny tiny ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Kevin Shumate: Bow & Arrow Practice With Pussycats As Targets

    Even The Nuge don't bow-and-arrow no pussycats​Generally, when dudes are described in police reports as "shirtless white male wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat" the next words usually aren't "was stopped by officers and given the key to the city for being a distinguished, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Samantha Michelle Hamilton: Iced Tea Heist Could Equal Many Years In Prison

    Photo courtesy Nueces County SOSamantha Hamilton needed her iced tea​If you're gonna take an aggravated robbery charge, whatever it is that you robbed most aggravatedly should be worth it. After all, this is a first degree felony we're talking here, punishable by five to 99 years or life in pris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Banned Books: HISD Goes From Worst To First

    Denene Miller's Hotlanta: Banned in Cy-Fair​Banned Books Week begins Saturday, and the ACLU of Texas has put out its annual report on censorship in the state's schools.One highlight: "[W]e were pleased to see that Houston ISD, the largest school district in the state and the one with the most chal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Burger Break at Padre Island Burger Company

    The First Date burger at Padre Island Burger Company​Eating at a restaurant near the beach is like dining at a theme park. In either case, you get wrapped up in the atmosphere and the moment forgetting about what it is you're really eating and how much you're paying for it. Anyone ever ordere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Speed In A Hunstville School Zone, Get Fined $312

    Houston makes the top 10 list for big fines​The school year has begun in some places, and that means school zones are up and cops are watching for violators. In some places you can't text or talk on your cell in a school zone; in every place you can't speed in one.What are the worst places in Texa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Brew Blog: Deschutes Brewery

    ​Many excellent West Coast and Pacific Northwest brewers have long shown the good sense to ship their wares to Texas, and Deschutes Brewery has now joined the party in a real way, too. The Bend, Oregon brewery has inked a deal with Ben E. Keith Beverages to expand its local reach. Of course ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Comfort Food at Cream Burger

    ​"I've had a terrible day," my friend grumbled. "Terrible! I need meat." "Burger or steak?" I asked. "Burger," she quickly replied, a scowl still on her face. "Definitely burger." And so we were off to Cream Burger (3481 Elgin). The little burger shack in the Third Ward, just on the edge of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Mayalino And Chingo Bling Square Off On Twitter

    "Fuck it. If they want to use this shit against me in trial, I don't give a fuck, nigga. As long as the nigga got his head blown off, I'm happy." - Mayalino, "187" ​"Deporting All WetWacks" (Houston Press, May 27, 2010) turned out to be a controversial piece of work, to say the least. The fal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes: #69 Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Bar at La Paletera

    ​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Pre-K In Danger, Tax Rolls Down, HISD Looks For The Rabbit In The Hat

    ​Houston ISD's tax rolls look to be down 4.32 percent in the next year, with a loss of almost $5 billion in assessed values for 2011 over 2010. Most of the lost money is coming from lowered commercial property values, with the least decrease among residential property owners.Things could be even w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Corpus Christi Diocese Hit With Priest-Abuse Suit

    Photo courtesy Diocese of Corpus ChristiBishop Carmody​A Corpus Christi man is suing the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi for sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of a priest who died in 2008.Identified only as "John Doe," the plaintiff says Thomas Meaney began abusing him in 1971, when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Food Fight: Battle Pad See Ew

    This is "real" pad see ew, which is increasingly difficult to find in Houston.​Everyone has different standards by which they judge restaurants. Atmosphere, service, price, quality of the food -- all items that come into play when weighing restaurants against one another. In that same vein, ev ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2010

    More Fallout for Toyota

    Plus: Why are Mormons annoyed with Houston?

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Toyota And Unintended Acceleration: A Lawsuit And A Car Show

    ​Toyota has announced during the last several months a series of recalls to fix the problem of its cars accelerating out of control. Last week, in perhaps the most dramatic move, the company said it would stop selling eight models of cars and trucks. Each of those fixes involved floor mats or gas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 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 d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 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, Sterl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 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 associate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 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 W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    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 bobber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

    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 bobber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    No More Family Guy For Star Furniture

    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 bobber ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 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

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    How Mexican Is Mexican Enough?

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

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2008

    Oh No! Lots of "Hello Dolly" Puns!

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

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Jesus On a Stick

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

  • News

    January 24, 2008

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

    Thanks to A& M and a district attorney, two cadets escape punishment for beating in a student's face

  • News

    October 20, 2005

    Speed Racers

    Every kid wants an ultra-fast sport bike -- until the day he dies

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Popsicles

    Every kid wants an ultra-fast sport bike -- until the day he dies

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Every kid wants an ultra-fast sport bike -- until the day he dies

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2004

    Duck, Duck, Goose

    Jennifer Monson's Bird Brain flies into town

  • Calendar

    June 20, 2002

    The Ridley Riddle

    Why are sea turtles coming to Galveston's shores?

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Sound the Retreat!

    When the going gets hot, federal prosecutors head south

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Politician

    Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  • News

    September 2, 1999

    Storm Damage

    Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    The Insider

    Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  • News

    April 13, 1995

    Selena, Crossing Over

    Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

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