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How To Be In A METAL Band: The Blunt Version

With the SXSW trash bags barely at the curb, some musicians are licking their wounds. Discouraged perhaps by a bad sound system, disappointing turnout or their ham-fisted (or shit-faced) fellow bandmates, some are no doubt deciding to pack it in and pursue the straight-job route. Kinko's is always h ... More >>

Wine Time: Know Your Champagne from your Chamat

Antonomasia is the figure of rhetoric whereby a proper name becomes a common name. In the U.S., we say Xerox for photocopy. Kleenex for tissue paper. FedEx for courier (as in I FedExed a package). And here in Texas, we say Coke for nearly any kind of sparkling soft drink. But when we call a Prosec ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

A response from Village Voice Media​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in The New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds ... More >>

Not-So-Classic Hot Wheels: The 10 Un-Hottest Hot Wheels Imaginable

​Hot Wheels was, for a while, perhaps the coolest invention ever. Built to go much, much faster than the staid old Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels also came with a DIY track where you could start them off high and have them leap off a ramp into something expensive in the living room, thereby earnin ... More >>

Professor Bun B Visits The OccupyHouston Protesters: "There's Strength In Numbers"

Photos by RizohBun B (left) with protestors at the Occupy Houston demonstration in front of city hall Tuesday.​If Occupy Wall Street was a song, it's sounding like a global hit right now. The movement continues to proliferate, with factions popping up in over 70 cities, including Boston, Chica ... More >>

Can a Gabacho be More Mexican than a Mexican?

And why would a image of the Virgin of Guadalupe cause so much controversy?

Made in Texas

Think all bourbon comes from Kentucky? Think again.

Ruins in the Park

The search for remnants of Houston's past

Houston's Worst Delinquents for Fines and Fees: An Appraisal

Are you on the list?​Mayor Annise Parker announced today a coming crackdown on the almost $1 billion in fees and fines owed to the City of Houston by various business entities and people. So pay up if you owe. They're talking about suing, slapping boots on cars, etc. The city also released a ... More >>

Don't Kill the Messengers

How bike couriers plan to survive the internet age.

One Live Humpback Whale: Local Fantasy Tour Riders

​Everyone probably knows that top-selling bands like Van Halen routinely demand everything short of the moon and stars for their tour contract and rider, but specifically No Brown M&Ms. Some bands have a schedule for required nourishment, or in Rush's case, for booze. The "Weekly Booze Schedul ... More >>

Local Spotlight: Bee Wilde Honey

​What: Heavenly honey from a guy that's gone from a figurative worker bee to a literal beekeeper. Kenny Reed started his corporate life as a FedEx courier. He earned a respectable living at a respectable company that most any guy would be thrilled to work for. And he liked it. But one year ... More >>

Tag, You're It

A doc about street art, sort of. Brought to you by Banksy, kind of.

Houston's Anne-Kathrine Ubberud Learns The Hard Way About Immigration Law

America, you will soon be free of this (we assume) terrorist​Ever-vigilant of illegal aliens taking over our state and country, Hair Balls jumped at the chance to look into the case of Anne-Kathrine Ubberud, a Norwegian citizen who will have to leave Houston Wednesday, after 17 years in the U.S.Ub ... More >>

Vision Quest

Uncle Charlie is the best concert-poster artist in Houston — and he's legally blind.

Truth in Advertising

Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.

Hide Your Home Videos

Photo by Josh HertzHosts and curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett introduce another video clip at a recent Found Footage Festival in New YorkYour most embarrassing home videos are probably long forgotten, and buried in a basement closet somewhere. Make sure they stay that way. Nick Prueher and Joe ... More >>

The T. Boone Pickens Road Show

A former wildcatter and corporate-takeover tycoon preaches alternative energy across America.

Burglar Unknowingly Steals Museum-Quality World War II Stuff

A Houston burglar was doing what he does in a Spring Branch house -- grabbing electronics and jewelry -- when he noticed two FedEx packages filled with something. He grabbed them and took off."He probably thought they had Christmas presents in them," Amy Smith, Crime Stoppers spokeswoman, tells Hair ... More >>

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Enter Mindy McCready

A Houston burglar was doing what he does in a Spring Branch house -- grabbing electronics and jewelry -- when he noticed two FedEx packages filled with something. He grabbed them and took off."He probably thought they had Christmas presents in them," Amy Smith, Crime Stoppers spokeswoman, tells Hair ... More >>

Totally Commercial: Super Bowl Color Commentary with Miss Pop Rocks

A Houston burglar was doing what he does in a Spring Branch house -- grabbing electronics and jewelry -- when he noticed two FedEx packages filled with something. He grabbed them and took off."He probably thought they had Christmas presents in them," Amy Smith, Crime Stoppers spokeswoman, tells Hair ... More >>

Toxic Town: Suffer the Children

Carcinogen samples from local schools are off the charts

No Fun Allowed

Who hates parades? Councilman Mark Goldberg.

Running Over the Defense?

Clara Harris argues that Justice Nuchia, the ex-chief of police, has never met a conviction he didn't like

Shooting Star

Houston’s busiest filmmaker relies on Zen calm — and guerrilla tactics

Turkeys Fly

Houston actually pulls off one crazy week

The Cow Says "Oink"

Which Houston restaurants are swapping pork for veal?

Spontaneous Architecture

Phoebe Washburn rides into Rice Gallery on a cardboard wave

Showdown at the Bar X

There ain't enough room in this town for Helen Phillips and her enemies

Land of the Free

"Made in USA" gives patriotism a twist

Strong Medicine

Christine Borland makes art out of the questionable ethics of science

Power House

What do Lakewood Church and its pastor Joel Osteen have that most mainline Protestant denominations don't? People. Lots of them. And in an assortment of colors.

Two Hearts Beat as One

A boy and his mysterious surrogate father search for security in Atlantis

Winging It

For business or pleasure, here comes the Great Butterfly Chase

Air Sic

In cargo holds or plane cabins, critters are taking more than flights of fancy

Letter Bombs

Dittborn's airmail art challenges your assumptions about his Chilean background

Special Delivery

With Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis unearths the part of Tom Hanks we've been hoping to find: His brittle humanity

The Theater Shopping Network

Apparently What Women Want is a feature-length commercial

Street Scene

Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and the ballad of 2100 Lexington

Lights Out

Fireflies are dissapearing from the night sky

A Dog's Life

A former Houston Post writer recalls how she pawed her way

to the top in Hollywood

Cell Phones

Not even prison officials can silence the irrepressible King of Con

Murphy Magic

Eddie saves the comic Bowfinger from Steve's blahs

Letters

Eddie saves the comic Bowfinger from Steve's blahs

DisUnion

Rent by charges of corruption and ineffective representation, Teamsters Local 988 may be driving itself to destruction

The Insider

Rent by charges of corruption and ineffective representation, Teamsters Local 988 may be driving itself to destruction

Poor Boy Riches

At Original New Orleans Po-Boys, the treasures are Southern-fried

Halloween Hangover

NIN was an unexpected treat, but Hole was a sorry trick

The Houston Press 1993 Menu from Hell

Abandon all hope, all ye who swallow here