Subject: East Texas

• Celebrating Houston's MasterMinds

  We pass on a bit of luck to the recipients of our first creativity awards

  January 22, 2009

• EVERGREEN Wildflower Hotline

  March 26, 2007

• One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

  November 22, 2006

• Sunny Day

  October 19, 2006

• Cover Story: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose

  July 18, 2007

• A Monster in East Texas! Or Something Like That...

  July 30, 2007

• One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

  November 22, 2006

• Here Comes the Black

  June 25, 2008

• Banking Disaster -- Texas Style

  July 16, 2008

• Home and Garden Show Postponed

  September 16, 2008

• Barbecue in Black and White

  May 1, 2003

• Chess Pie: A Southern Tradition

  Chess pie is one of those forgotten vestiges of old Southern culture, like RC Colas and Moon Pies, that hasn't yet been snapped up by nouveau foodies and made trendy again, as has been done with greens, grits and pork fat. It's all for the best, really.  Chess pie isn't supposed to be trendy.  It's supposed to remind you of your grandmother's house, the warmth and the soft smell of pie crust in the oven, of afternoons spent talking with family and without a TV or other distractio

  December 29, 2008

• Swamp Thang

  September 29, 1994

• Ray Stevens Lives!!!

  November 24, 1994

• The King Catfish Ranch

  If you're looking for shining examples of the local indigenous cuisine while driving Highway 59 through East Texas and you've already had your fill of barbecue then its time to pull over for some catfish. I purchased this fried catfish dinner with cole slaw, french fries, odd cylindrical hush puppies and fried pickles at the Atlanta (Texas) David Beard Catfish King restaurant. I seem to recall the meal was $3.99 without the fried pickles. David Beard, The Catfish King, is a local legend in thes

  January 9, 2009

• Life after Death?

  April 27, 1995

• And The MasterMind Winners Are.....

  Last fall the Houston Press asked readers to send in nominations of people who were breaking new ground in the arts around here.The lucky winners have been named and will be getting a $2,000 check at a dinner Saturday and -- perhaps more importantly -- they are profiled in the Press today. (Well, maybe the check is a bigger deal.)It's all a part of the Press' Artopia bash, dedicated to food, booze, art and fashion.Who are the MasterMinds? A husband/wife team of visual artists, a group of high s

  January 21, 2009

• The Great Sucking Sound

  November 19, 1998

• Border Bound

  April 29, 1999

• The Former Chron Employees' List, So Far (Updated April 3)

  So far we've been limiting our list of laid-off Chron people to names readers might recognize; we've heard from some current and ex-Chronsters that they'd like a master list, since no centralized information is coming anywhere else.With that in mind, here's what we've heard so far. Other names are still to come (we believe a lot more copy-editing types are victims, as all the separate departments' copy desks are rolled into one), and if there are any mistakes on the list we'll be happy to fix it

  March 24, 2009

• Greater Houston's Greatest Pits

  August 24, 2000

• The Art of Smoke

  August 24, 2000

• Best Barbecue Restaurant

  Drexler's Bar-B-Que

  September 20, 2001

• Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

  January 10, 2008

• Miranda Lambert

  November 22, 2007

• How to Hide Your Weed

  February 1, 2007

• Party On, Dan

  Who knew HPD gave away free heroin shots?

  December 2, 2004

• Step Right On Up

  It's better to receive than to give

  October 7, 2004

• Best Barbecue Restaurant

  September 23, 2004

• Best Place to Pretend You're in the Hill Country

  September 23, 2004

• Strings Attached

  Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?

  June 17, 2004

• Sunnyside Sup

  Reid's is an awesome barbecue time capsule

  March 25, 2004

• Best Place to Buy an Engagement Ring

  A.A. Benjamin

  September 25, 2003

• A Dozen Brisket Sandwiches

  The best black East Texas barbecue within an hour of downtown

  May 1, 2003

• Best Barbecue

  Thelma's Bar-B-Que

  September 26, 2002

• Best Nonprofit Organization

  Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Texas

  September 26, 2002

• Popsy

  Thursday, June 27 and Sunday, June 30

  June 27, 2002

• War Dance

  Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.

  August 23, 2001

• Calendar Editor Shoots Up

  Shooting people is fun

  May 31, 2001

• Fish Tales

  Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  December 28, 2000

• The Curbside Critique

  (Houston Sculpture 2000)

  May 25, 2000

• Reeling

  Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So does the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  April 6, 2000

• Jungle Fever

  At the Rainforest Café, the atmosphere roars like a lion, but the menu purrs like a kitty

  March 9, 2000

• Where Angels Fear to Tread

  When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas

  January 20, 2000

• The Church of the Immaculate Barbecue

  Heaven has its smoking pits too -- at New Zion Baptist Church in Huntsville

  July 28, 1994

• Dewberry Season

  For a couple of weeks in May, the wild blackberries known as dewberries are ripe in East Texas. The right-of-ways alongside railroad tracks are a good place to pick the intensely flavored blackberries. You also can buy them on the side of the road. The intersection of Highway 290 and Highway 6 just west of Houston is a very popular place for wild dewberry stands. A quart of berries goes for around ten dollars. You can sometimes buy dewberry pie too. Ms. Tompkins, the woman who ran the stand

  May 14, 2009

• Road Trip!

  May 21, 2009

• Grass-fed Beef: Healthier Hamburgers

  Photos by Robb Walsh​Grass-fed sirloin hamburger steak is downright delicious. No doubt grass-fed beef raised without antibiotics and hormones is better for you too. Grass-fed sirloins lack the marbling that makes for tender steaks. But grind it up, and you get all the bold herbaceous flavor without the tenderness and texture problems. My hamburger steak was a little dry -- after all, the meat is something like 95 percent lean. But if you ground up this grass-fed beef at home, and added a

  September 15, 2009

• Superthief

  September 24, 2009

• The Great East Texas Ten-Ton Oil Pump Heist

  ​On one hand, you have to tip your John Deere hat and salute this little feat of deep East Texas Redneck ingenuity and derring-do. On the other hand, you just have to wonder WTF they were thinking.The Web site of Jasper radio station KJAS picks up the tale: According to Jasper County Deputy Mike Smith, he was on routine patrol on Highway 96, just north of Kirbyville, at about 5:00 when he spotted a 1/2 ton Dodge pickup truck struggling to pull a 16 foot lowboy trailer with a ten-ton oil pump

  October 20, 2009