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Tear-Down

Plans to turn the Astrodome into a parking lot are just wrong.

Tear the Dome Down If You Must, But Not for a Freaking Parking Garage

I have spent most of my 44 years on this earth in the city of Houston. I started visiting the Astrodome when I was just a kid for Astros and Oilers games as well as the occasional high school football game. I even walked on the floor for one of them. After all the memories and all the discussions, I ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain, Part 2: Layovers, Twitter, Ruth Bourdain and the Dangers of Boredom

Yesterday, we caught up with Anthony Bourdain -- chef, author, TV host, publisher and recent Texas barbecue convert. We talked about his love affair with Austin (he used the word "quirky" twice, if you're counting) and his disdain for Dallas Morning News critic Leslie Brenner, why restaurants servi ... More >>

The 5 Best Discount Kitchen Items to Buy at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls

I love Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table as much as the next person, but I don't always love their prices. Wandering around the two stores and gawking at the beautiful displays can easily occupy my entire afternoon. But as soon as I'm through, I head to T.J. Maxx or Marshalls to get my actual kitchen ... More >>

B L A C K I E Completes Successful French, Canadian Invasions

For the last month, B L A C K I E, Houston's favorite act of musical warfare, roamed around Europe and Canada on tour, performing shows (both scheduled and impromptu) and yanking bolts from the Eiffel Tower. His shows, manic audio attacks blasted through homemade speaker cabinets sometimes as many ... More >>

Ruth Piller: Big-Firm Attorney Says Colleagues Photoshopped Her Face onto Totally Inappropriate Pics

Photoshopped images of a female attorney's face on the body of a stripper, a naked woman partially covered in sushi, and a woman in knee-high boots and leopard-print bikini are among a bevvy of e-mails at the heart of an Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint against the Houston law firm Hays, McCon ... More >>

5 Fun Facts About 2012 Masters Champion Bubba Watson

If you're a diehard golf fan, be warned that this post contains practically no Masters 2012 analysis, and I can virtually assure you that you won't learn anything new. However, if you're a casual golf fan who only pays attention to the sport when Tiger Woods is a) in the mix to win a tournament, b) ... More >>

Swamp People

Recent local releases by Screwtape, John Egan and Southern Backtones have Houston on the brain.

Moulin Rouge: The Ballet

The X Factor: Rain Delay and Judges' Houses

Photo by FOXJust wait until the "Judges' moms' houses" round!​First, this recap was delayed because the Wednesday night baseball playoff game was rain delayed, canceling that night's X Factor episode--yet another reason for me to hate baseball. Second, naming the latest round of competition "t ... More >>

Big Nudes

Helmut Newton's large-scale photographs of women exude power.

A French (Poodle) Street Wins the 3rd Annual Gingerbread Dog House Competition

Photos by GroovehouseSee more of the entries in the gingerbread dog house competition in our slideshow.​"I lived in Paris for two years; that's where I went to culinary school," explained pastry chef Rebecca Masson last night as she gestured to her entry in the 3rd annual Christmas Tail ginger ... More >>

Upcoming Events

Get ready for a boozy good time on Saturday.​Get your palates primed for the Texas Vodka Throwdown this Saturday night at Caroline Collective (4820 Caroline). The event, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m., is absolutely free (as long as you're over 21), but that's not the best part: The best part is ... More >>

Silly Me

The childish, funny, 3-D delights of Despicable Me.

The French Soccer Team: Five Movies That Would Have Ended Differently With Les Bleus In Them

When the going gets tough....​France is in an uproar over their soccer team, which has not only sucked to an incredible degree in the World Cup but which has also gone on strike -- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD CUP -- because their feelings were hurt.Why did they strike? One of the players criticized ... More >>

Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta.

She (Allegedly) Just Wants To Have Sex With A Hermann Park Statue. The Odd Thing Is, The Statue In Question Is Not Sam Houston

Objectum Sexuality from sergio on Vimeo. Via Swamplot, we get this video, about a woman who really, really really likes a statue in Hermann Park.It purports to be a documentary, complete with plummy British narrator, of someone with "object sexuality," a condition where people end up loving the Ei ... More >>

Tonight: Florida Indie Beach Boys Surfer Blood Sail Into Mango's

​Florida-based indie kids Surfer Blood pull into Mango's tonight, touring ahead of their upcoming Astro Coast LP. The band was recently anointed by Rolling Stone's online feature "Hype Monitor" as "bright and booming and hooky as FM radio in the late '70s." Rocks Off can hear traces of early "Blue ... More >>

Memorial High School Keeps It Classy, Plus, Lessons We Learned from the T-Shirt Fiasco

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

Five Things We Learned From The Memorial High T-Shirt Fiasco

​Yesterday we mentioned how the Memorial-Stratford high school football rivalry had gained national attention because of an obscene t-shirt that got shown on some women's websites like Jezebel.The t-shirt showed two Mustangs (Memorial's mascot) having sex with a Stratford cheerleader while high-fi ... More >>

ACL 2009 Day Two: Phoenix, Robyn Hitchcock and Them Crooked Vultures

Photo by Matthew Taplinger​The quality of the grass at ACL on Charles Attal's apparent birthday blow out (if projections for "Feliz Cumpleanos" were to be believed) was nothing to sniff at. The great lawn of Zilker Park was emerald and ready to absorb the dance steps of a sold-out crowd with h ... More >>

Asian Film Festival: The World

Three Chinese filmmakers present an Eastern travelogue

This Week in Deliciousness

The sandwich mesmerizes you with its exotic accent and mysterious foreign spices. Surrender to the sandwich.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've already started marinating the turducken. After E. Ting's N. Formative chat with Elouise Jones of Ouisie's Tabl ... More >>

Screen Plays

All The World's Fair Success Knoxville Had Could Be Replicated Here

Photo by Pro-ZakLocal marketing executive Manuel Delgado wants to bring a world's fair to Houston in 2020. He has been interested in world's fairs since he was a child, and that interest intensified when he worked for the expo in Seville in '92. "I've always been a big fanatic of world's fairs ... More >>

The Five Best Bond Themes

Critics may have found the 22nd James Bond caper, Quantum of Solace, "grim and downcast" (The New York Times), but audiences didn't seem to mind, turning out in sufficient numbers for Quantum to set a new 007 opening-weekend record of more than $70.4 million (domestic). But never mind the movie ... More >>

“The Grand Tour, Texas”

Omar Vera illustrates his trek to the Texas-style Paris, Florence and Rome

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Rush Hour 3

The third time's the guilty pleasure for Tucker and Chan's buddy-cop franchise

Avenue Montaigne

Life and art meet sweet in this breezy French comedy

Kicking A Team!

Kitty Litter

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

It's Le Bombe

A new restaurant has Republican bigwigs dancing on the grave of the French boycott

Best High-End Resale Shop

Love Hurts

Locked in a labyrinth of codependency, Lolly and Roger spend their days warily together

Flight of Angels

How immigration law screwed up what looked like a good marriage

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Deathray Davies

Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory (Glurp)

Film Buff

The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

Master Baker

Auchan Hypermarket

Olympic Moments

A marathon through the downtown tunnel, a rowing venue in a flooded Katy Freeway, the javelina throw -- how splendid, how Houston!

Lust Life

Director Wayne Wang searches for erotic truths at The Center of the World

The Food Experience

Copeland's works hard to offer enormous variety

An Artist's Life, and Love

HGO's updated La Boheme is as memorable as it is moving

Mr. Big

Houston sculptor David Adickes has one message for the art world: large is good