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Harris County Attorney Sues Sharpstown Hotel Over Drugs, Prostitution, Violence

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan, in conjunction with the Sharpstown Management District, filed suit against the Plainfield Inn off Interstate 59 and Bissonnet on Wednesday. The hotel is known around the country -- it must be because they mentioned that TWICE in the press release -- for its prostit ... More >>

Vince Ryan Takes on the Crips and Bloods in Court Again, Including Trae The Truth's Alleged Shooter

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan has established a new battleground in his fight against the Bloods and the Crips. The arena' s still the same -- a civil courtroom where his office seeks an injunction -- but the target is yet another apartment complex. Ryan has sued over complexes in various part ... More >>

Damesha Traylor: Rare Woman on DPS Most Wanted List Is 5-4, 270 Pounds with a "Sexy D" Tattoo

It's been more than ten years since a woman has made the Texas Department of Safety's Ten Most Wanted List, but we don't think anyone is going to tell Damesha Roshun Traylor she doesn't deserve the honor. Traylor is a 5-4, 270-pound ball of "Sexy D," according to one of her tattoos. (The other says ... More >>

Southern Discomfort: Kinky On the Road

The one-liners come out of Kinky Friedman's mouth so fast you need a protective shield. "The only thing Rick Perry managed to do with his Presidential campaign was to make George W. look like Thomas 'Fucking' Jefferson." "Real people don't get into politics. The only people who get into politics ... More >>

UGK's Top 10 Most Insightful Songs, Part 1

blastro.com​There's a big difference between being a fanatic and fan of someone's music. We all know this, but let's spell it out for the slow kids in class. For instance, Rocks Off is a fanatic of Death Cab for Cutie. We love their deep cuts as much as the widely known "Soul Meets Body." We ... More >>

CB Kings Break Down The Dynamics Of Suburban Rap

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>

Wilber Adalid Rodriguez: Homeless Man Murders Another Over National "Honor"

Some things are better left unargued​You'd hope that San Antonio residents Wilber Adalid Rodriguez and Jose Antonio Rodriguez would find a way to get along. As the old blues song goes, they were both poor boys a long ways from home: the 24-year-old Wilber hails from El Salvador, while Jose, 28 ... More >>

Third Ward Heat

Mayor, police grilled on HPD beating.

Bloods & Crips: Harris County Gets Its Permanent Injunction Against Them

PLUS they're hit with attorney's fees!!​A judge has made permanent the temporary injunction she earlier granted against the Bloods and Crips gang, a first in Harris County. The civil injunction bars 47 gang members from an area around the Haverstock Hills apartment complex in northeast Harris ... More >>

God-Fearing Gangster

National buzz builds, but J-Dawg has already lived a rapper's life.

Dr. Brown's Dubai Detention

Sex toys get hand doc in trouble

Cougar on Prowl in Katy

Mom sexts her teen son's friend

Crips and Bloods: The Details On Harris County's Plan To Get An Injunction

Where's your injunction?​It's time for the Bloods and Crips to lawyer up. Harris County is taking a bunch of gangsters to civil court. "This is a grand day in Harris County," DA Pat Lykos said this morning during a news conference. Lykos filed a public nuisance lawsuit today against 33 "known m ... More >>

Bloods And Crips: Harris County Is Coming After You (With A Civil Injunction)

Civil injunctions are coming​Lawyer up, all you Bloods and Crips on the northwest side. Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos will announce tomorrow the county's first civil injunction filed against a gang, targeting "members of the Blood and Crips gangs who have continually preyed upon t ... More >>

The Top 10 Female-Friendly Rap Songs

streethop.comLadies Love Cool James: LL Cool J on The View​Chris Rock once said that women don't pay attention to rap lyrics. Truth be told, most casual hip-hop fans - male and female - rarely pay attention to lyrics. As long as the beat is catchy, they'll drop down and get their eagle on all ... More >>

Annise Parker's Star Wars Choice: She's With The Bad Guys

City of Houston photosSo that's what Stormtroopers look like when they take off their helmets​ We'll admit freely that we're not the biggest Star Wars fans in the world. Given the fanaticism of some Jedi followers, it's an easy claim to make.But we thought -- and correct us if we're wrong -- that ... More >>

Behind the Lyrics: Bunz is Twin City's Lifeline to Houston Hip-Hop

[Ed. Note: We temporarily interrupt our real-time SXSW coverage to give you something else to read about for one of the last times this week.] Richmond and Rosenberg are tough places to describe, partly because there are many faces to the two towns, which are referred to on the streets as just one ... More >>

The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influen ... More >>

Six More Mysterious Musical Deaths We'd Like to See Reopened

That's Brian Jones, who is still dead, in the lower right corner.​Original Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool 40 years ago. It was declared "death by misadventure," a cause of death that probably didn't come as a shock to those who had been aware ... More >>

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 >>

Mostly Metal: Isis vs. Mastodon

As you might read in the print edition of this week's Press, the experimental metal band Isis will be at the Meridian tonight. All of Isis' albums since 2002's Oceanic have explored similar territory: long, unhurried songs that blend doom-metal with the noodly, spacey guitar work characteristic of p ... More >>

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

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Totally Fucked Up

Perhaps the best-named band of all time

Five Spot: Five Reasons Not to Mess With Trae

A Modest Proposal: Teach the Gangbangers Respect

Trae

Houston's "King of the Streets" doesn't mince words

Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

The DA doesn't make deals. And that's why Jesus Salazar is living the free life in Venezuela while a teenage girl lies dead, stabbed 26 times.

Gang Lite?

A new kind of gang in Texas and Houston promises protection but no lifelong commitment

Snoop Dogg

Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

Gooooaaaal!

A few locals are afflicted with World Cup mania; also: Chango Jackson, KPFT and what touring bands really think of Houston

Throw Them Horns Up

UT's national championship and the rise of Texas rap – coincidence or symbiosis?

How Low Can You Go?

Let's see with the last installment of our guilty-pleasures project

Books, Bullets and Guns

TSU was failing in campus safety long before Ashley Sloan was gunned down

Cowboy Noir

Riding horses, sucking dust and planning for the big time

Tales from the Crip

Author Claire Theriot Mestepey isn't afraid to be politically incorrect

Gangstas in Paradise

Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

Sick Kids

For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

Lightweight Wood

Easy banter and nostalgia add up to boredom for this MTV effort

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Break's Over

The Crip Patrol Rolls

Disabled activists take businesses to task over accessibility