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So Delicious, a Caveman Could Eat It

Paleo-friendly restaurant menus abound in Houston.

You, Too, Can Shop for Groceries by Light Rail!

When I tell people that my husband and I share a car, and have for the entire three years we have lived in Houston, we get a lot of funny looks. It's true that the logistics don't always work out, but we almost always make it work. Note the "almost" -- that's the little word that forced me to get ou ... More >>

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to What's Happening This Hallowen

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to Halloween

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to Halloween

Houston Zoo Boo

Let's Get Spooky

Here's our guide to what's happening this Halloween.

Jacob Thompson: $20 Gets You A Tat And Minor Surgery (Allegedly)

Jacob Thompson: The doctor is in​Not many of us would confuse James "Jacob" Thompson with a medical doctor, but to an unidentified 16-year-old East Texas woman, the fact that the Groveton man was something of a tattoo artist was qualification enough for her to ask him to perform minor surger ... More >>

Let's Get Spooky

Our guide to Houston's best Halloween haunts.

Head Out

Our guide to Halloween's best haunts

Zoo Boo

Elotes la Estrella

​In the parking lot of the Fiesta Mart on Fulton is Elotes la Estrella, a food cart that specializes in the Mexican street food elote - roasted corn covered with chile, mayonnaise, grated cheese, lime and salt. It is freaking fantastic. This is one of my favorite places to get elote - I order ... More >>

What's My Crime: Match The Mug Shot To The Misdeed

1. Rudy Camarillo​To paraphrase Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Your face, my thug, is as an open book, where men may read strange matters." We got to wondering how much you could tell about someone by just looking at their mugshot, so we pieced together this photo array of ten men and women, all of ... More >>

Palma Garcia Marlen-Beatrice, 30, Bayou Body Count No. 181

Photo courtesy HCSOWeird, but surprisingly successful, way to kill your wife​Back on May 13, 48-year-old Pedro Cueva-Ferman thought he had come up with the perfect way to get rid of his wife and get clean away with the crime, according to allegations in a probable cause warrant on file at the Harr ... More >>

Recipe: Beer Bread

​We swung by Fiesta Mart to nab baking supplies this week and happened to find Guinness on sale for $6.99. It occurred to us we that should include the 250-year-old beer in our baking run, so we hopped on the Internets and, working from several similar recipes, came up with the following pla ... More >>

Top 5 Grocery Store Openings of the Decade

Photo by athomsonThe hot dog section at an H-E-BYesterday, we recounted the top five grocery store closings that had a significant impact on the Houston supermarket scene during the past 10 years. But for as much as we may (or may not) miss AppleTree or Albertson's, we've had some much better grocer ... More >>

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween. Check out our updated listings.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Trails to Terror

2008 Halloween Guide

All He Wanted Was a Pabst

The Nightfly goes out for a quiet Sunday drink and winds up in a Mexican bordello downtown

Cirque du Soul

UniverSoul Circus puts the funk under the big top

Best Horchata

Fiesta Mart deli

Best Local Television Commercial

Fiesta Mart

Strange Fruit

People pay lots more for organic produce, but are they getting their money's worth?

Then There Were None

Health Department fires a final whistle blower