Subject: Friendswood

• Houston to Austin and Back Again

  June 29, 2007

• Friendswood Is a Great Place to Live. Or So We Hear.

  July 17, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Mental Death

  November 26, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Top Five Videos of 2007

  December 18, 2007

• Some Dogs Enjoy An Ike Break

  September 15, 2008

• A Whole Lot of HEB Stores Are Now Open

  September 16, 2008

• The Worrisome List Of The Missing

  September 23, 2008

• Curiouser and Curiouser

  Ex-congressman Stockman is labeled a co-conspirator in prescription fraud

  June 7, 2001

• Don't Mock Us

  A book that's impossible to read

  June 12, 2003

• Drunk Drivers: Here's The Person Who's Giving You Hope

  October 27, 2008

• Santa Round-Up Part Five: The Crying Game

  This and every Christmas season the most important person is the baby Jesus, with a bearded, white-haired toy factory owner coming in a close second. Every year we flock to the malls to sit in our kids down on Santa's lap. Sometimes they run off screaming, while others take to the old guy just like they would an elderly relative.Santa Round-Up #5Sunday December 21, 2008, 1pm Sharpstown Mall "I was involved in a volunteer-only military action in Cambodia back in the sixties" Santa Paul informs me

  December 22, 2008

• Into the Den of Stockmania

  June 13, 1996

• Slab o' Trouble

  June 27, 1996

• Changing the Channel

  December 25, 1997

• Looking for Laura

  March 12, 1998

• Up To Date on '98

  January 7, 1999

• Feuding Friendswood Bands to Throw Down at Baybrook Mall

  Rocks Off been so far removed from mall culture that we had almost forgot that Hot Topic existed. Not that we ever meditated on where on 14-year old girls get their "Twilight" shirts and metal gauntlets from or anything... Apparently local Hot Topic locations have been hosting acoustic shows by local artists, aiming to cultivate a grassroots scene away from those bands with shirts on their trendy brick walls. We got wind of a Ladyheat gig coming up soon at Katy Mills, plus a few scattered o

  March 13, 2009

• Aftermath: "Beatdown" at Baybrook

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty "These aren't the droids we're looking for."Friday, Aftermath ran over to Baybrook Mall after work to catch the guerilla acoustic show in front of the Hot Topic, pitting Friendswood's own "Christian death metal" band Hematidrosis and scum-punkers 10th Grade Cutie. Nothing was set afire. No guitars were wielded as axes in some sort of teenage gladiator session in front the venerable counterculture outfitter. In fact, 10th Grade Cutie didn't get to play its cove

  March 16, 2009

• Aftermath: Clint Black at RodeoHouston

  Photos courtesy Houston Livestock Show & RodeoNot only does Clint Black know how to play to the home folks - after being introduced by his daughter Lily, he said hello to Tomball, Spring, Pasadena and his hometown Katy (but where, Aftermath would like to know, was Friendswood?) upon taking the RodeoHouston stage Friday night - but he was responsible for what has to go down as hands down the oddest moment in this year's concert series, if not ever. Unless ZZ Top decides to do something

  March 17, 2009

• 10th Grade Cutie Makes Good on Power-Ballad Promise

  Fresh off harassing teen metal bands and Lemmy-fying suburban ice cream shops, Friendswood freak-punks 10th Grade Cutie booked time in a San Antonio studio for a demo session. This new track, "Flying on the Wings of Love (In Space)" was recorded in less than an hour and features singer Rex Ronan crooning like one of Sebastian Bach's bastard tour children over a lamenting saxophone and power-ballad piano lines. It pretty much sounds like it was recorded before these boys were even born

  March 24, 2009

• News Hostage

  July 15, 1999

• iFest: This Is Our Party

  Better music than ACL and fewer hippies

  April 16, 2009

• Houston Music Map

  Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  June 5, 2003

• Almighty Municipality

  With League City controlled by the Christian right, citizens can rezone - and repent

  March 2, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  August 10, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  March 16, 2006

• These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston

  March 2, 2006

• Houston's Best Public High Schools

  February 23, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  February 16, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Wicket Games

  July 1, 2004

• Letters

  April 22, 2004

• Behind the Happy Face

  Labor pains flare in a worker's fight with Wal-Mart

  October 30, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• On the Outs with Indigos

  Plus: Paving Lunatics, Statue of Limitations, Batty over News

  January 9, 2003

• Not Worth A Dam

  Clear Creek is on the rise, and local flood-protection methods have been helpless against it. Soggy residents, tired of being perpetual victims, are ready for a fight.

  September 13, 2001

• Letters

  Green Diet, School Shame, Capital Con

  June 28, 2001

• Crispy Critters

  Opponents dog plans for a Pearland-area pet crematory

  March 22, 2001

• Letters

  Mental Health Madness, Residental Revelations, English or Else?

  November 23, 2000

• The Insider

  The Talented Mr. Stockman. A defeated politician resurrects himself in Seventh District heaven with a stash of campaign cash

  January 6, 2000

• Planet Friendswood

  June 10, 1999

• The Speedy-Mart In Friendswood, Meeting All Your Viagra Needs

  It's tough getting an edge in the convenience-store game. Exxon's coffee is as shitty as Shell's, the price for a pair of tallboys is about the same, gas is gas.So if you're Ashish Shrestha of Friendswood, and you're running a Speedy-Mart, you go the extra mile.Some over-the-counter, no-prescription-needed Viagra? Step right up. Oh, and have a Slim Jim while you're at it.KHOU reports that Friendswood police have arrested Shrestha on charges of delivering a dangerous a substance. (Dangerous.....t

  June 18, 2009

• A Cafe Bites Nibble

  Brett Floyd and Floyd Landry are partners in Floyd's Cajun Seafood and Steakhouse (1300 East Broadway, 281-993-8385), which recently opened in Pearland. "We opened the Floyd's in Webster in 2004, then another one in Beaumont in 2006, which had been a Don's Seafood for 38 years," says Brett Floyd, "and finally we found this building, which used to house Zydeco's and already had a Cajun image, so it didn't need much. There is a large customer base in Pearland and Friendswood. The area has grown so

  July 15, 2009

• Downtown Friendswood To Repeal Prohibition, Maybe

  ​For the first time since John F. Kennedy was president, it just may be legal to buy yourself a drink in downtown Friendswood without going through the charade of joining a "private club."The city council last night approved an effort to place on the November ballot a referendum on whether restaurants can sell not just wine, not just beer, but even -- hold on to your hats, Friendswood -- mixed-liquor drinks.That hasn't been allowed since April 1963, and the country has certainly gone to hell i

  August 18, 2009

• Ghost Riders: Easy Come, Easy No

  October 8, 2009

• Food Fight: Battle Gyro

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​To be fair, the gyro is as much American as it is Greek. It was introduced to both Greece and America around the same time in the mid 20th century, based on the Turkish doner kebab (which is what you'd order if you wanted a gyro in Britain, by the by). And although it still retains a certain elusive foreign quality, the gyro is as ubiquitous these days as the taco. That ubiquitousness can be good and bad. Gyros are a wonderful meal concept -- far more elegant

  October 9, 2009

• Inept Pregnant Woman Spoils Motorcylist's Getaway From The Cops

  ​You know what you just hate when you're on a motorcycle trying to get away from a DPS trooper because you're wanted on a burglary charge?Pregnant women who slam their cars into drug stores.The sad tale of 18-year-old Daniel Nuno of League City proves the point. Nuno was on his motorcycle in Friendswood yesterday, trying calmly to get away from an inquisitive DPS trooper intent on chasing him, when all of a sudden he saw a bunch of flashing red lights up ahead.Why? A pregnant woman had sla

  October 16, 2009

• House of Enchiladas

  ​Deep in Friendswood (it isn't that far away, people) is an establishment that has ballooned into an enchilada institution. It's called La Casita (18043 County Rd. 127), and Tom Hanks ate here during the filming of Apollo 13 at Space Center Houston. It's also the local dive of a recent Bachelor contestant. Weird. Friendswood. We had a half order of fajitas served with caramelized onions, green and red bell peppers, beef flank steak, guacamole, lettuce and pico. This dish served its pur

  October 27, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  MEATSPLOSION!​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've finally secured the patent on sourdough incense. This week started off with a bang, when Greenway Barista slammed the Luling City Market on Richmond, which is actually unaffiliated with the actual market in Luling City. We're allowed to do that, just steal a name and pass ourselves off as affiliated to those who don't know better? Well in that case, stay tuned for a blog name change from "Eating Our Wor

  October 30, 2009

• The Dallas Cowboys (And Friendswood), Keeping It Classy

  Photo via Deadspin​ Whitney Isleib is a Friendswood gal who's a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, which means she's willing to sell her dignity for fame. So she was probably hoping to become an Internet sensation one day.Not this way, though.The web is alive -- IT'S ALIVE!! -- with photos Isleib posted on her Facebook page of the Halloween party where she threw the 21st century to the winds and went in blackface to a party as Lil Wayne.

  November 4, 2009