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The Six Most Iconic Station Wagons of All Time

The 2010s will forever be known as the decade of the crossover. But what is a crossover, exactly? It's a car that's trying its hardest to look like an SUV. Crossovers are the poseurs of the automotive world. My friend's car got totaled last week, and she called to ask me for used car advice. "What' ... More >>

Top 10 Coolest Cars under $25,000

Believe it or not, the average transaction price for new cars is more than $30,000 these days. That's a lot of money. But just because you're on a budget doesn't mean you have to settle for something boring. What you drive says a lot about you, and your average economy car doesn't say much at all. ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Cars of the Houston Auto Show (with Photos)

Concept cars are what auto shows are all about. With their nuclear hybrid propulsion systems, bamboo radio control knobs, and intergalactic navigation displays, concept cars give us a chance to look into the unlikely future of the automobile. Weren't we supposed to have flying cars by now? This yea ... More >>

The 30 Best Texas Albums

Ranking the 30 best Texas albums of the past 30 years seemed like an impossible task. We did it anyway.

When Car Commercials And Rock And Roll Collide

This weekend is the big Houston Art Car Parade, where children and adults of all ages can gander at their fellow Houstonians' labors of car love. Each car is a marvel to the ingenuity and the insanity of this race known as the modern Texan. The Art Car festivities have cars on our brains. Rock a ... More >>

William Johnson: Drunk When He Caused Five-Car Fatal Accident, Cop Say; Bayou Body Count No. 43

A drunk driver killed a 43-year-old man when he ran a red light and triggered a five-car pile-up, Houston police say William Thomas Johnson, 48, was driving his GMC Sierra pickup on the northbound Eastex Freeway service road when he ran a red light at Tidwell about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, Houston po ... More >>

The Best LP Side Ones Ever

Spurred on by the realization that both David Bowie's commercial breakthrough Let's Dance and Queen's News of the World had solid, sturdy side ones on their vinyl releases, I then began the hunt for other great vinyl slabs with amazing side ones. Of course, the idea is that this could only include ... More >>

10 Albums Guaranteed To Blow Your Car Speakers

G N' R: Keeping Best Buy In Business Since 1987​It started innocently enough, leaving a friend's house in the Heights, when during one of our epic air-drum solos to the Foo Fighters' "Bridge Burning," we heard the speakers on the left side of our car, a hearse-like HHR, just pop and die, reduc ... More >>

Chase Angelo Hawkins, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 83

Ambushed at an apartment complex.​A man was ambushed and shot multiple times in the back in a northside killing Tuesday night, Houston police say. Chase Angelo Hawkins, 20, was leaving a friend's apartment in the 500 block of Greens Road about 11:40 p.m. when he was shot. "Witnesses reported ... More >>

For Rappers, How Commercial Is Too Commercial?

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>

American Grocers: Joins A Stellar List Of Companies Ripping Off Troops

​This week's cover story in the Houston Press details the case of Houston-based American Grocers and its owner Samir Itani, charged with shipping expired food to troops stationed in the Middle East and ripping off the government with bogus shipping costs. As noted in the story, "the case stretched ... More >>

Forget Mr. Goodwrench: Five Other Ad Characters That Need To Be Retired

Flo will make this list pretty soon, we're guessing​General Motors has announced it is retiring the Mr. Goodwrench character from its advertising line-up.Which is probably a good thing, since a) We weren't even aware they were still using it, and b) It's probably not as big a selling point as it u ... More >>

Electric Car: I Drove The Volt And The Volt Won

Photo by Danny LopezThe electric car is here, but you can't ride it yet​General Motors and Nissan are in a tight race that could go down to a photo finish. No, it's not the Corvette Z06 vs. the Nismo 350z. They're in a race to see who can get the first electric car on the US market -- the Chevro ... More >>

Reduxion: Talking Kinks With Young Girls' Pete Tijerina

Find Young Girls on Facebook hereYoung Girls, dedicated followers of fashion.​When it comes to the Big Three of the British Invasion, the Kinks were always the Chrysler to the Beatles and Stones' Ford and GM - up there, but not quite that far up there. Nevertheless, among Anglophiles and songw ... More >>

There's Absolutely Nothing That Could Possibly Go Wrong With NASA's New Human-Looking Robot

Photo by General Motors​NASA and General Motors have announced a new space robot, called Robonaut 2, or R2 for short (The name "Desperately Hoping to be Relevant via Outdated Pop Culture References," or RHROPCR, was apparently rejected for being too long.)"Our challenge today is to build machines ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Tiger By The Tail

​With apologies to William Blake:Tiger! Tiger! Feeling lowIn the forests of OrlandoWhat errant hydrant (or 5-wood)Put that dent in your Caddy's hood?That silliness out of the way, here are some thoughts on the whole Eldrick Woods...thing.1. The instantaneous news cycle really is something to behol ... More >>

The Awful Truth

Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick).

Stirred and Shaken: Cava Bistro's Southern Belle

Photo by Troy Fields​Alissa, the lovely GM at Cava Bistro (301 Main, 713-223-4068) came up with the idea for the Southern Belle one lazy Sunday afternoon by the pool. See, she and her girlfriends were just chillaxin', catching some rays, and they needed a poolside thirst-quencher. So our hero ... More >>

A Darker Look at Che's Revolution

After Guevara destroyed his family and his fortune, Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader to his grave.

Wild Rides

Between serious safety and environmental concerns, the Toyota Prius isn't the angel that everyone thinks it is.

The Electric Car Is Alive And Kinda Well In Houston

Drive Me Crazy

Catfish Reef: Truckin' With Albert Collins

Catfish Reef: Truckin' With Albert Collins

Manned Vehicular Slaughter

Why Do Mexicans Like Chevys?

The Mexican Replies

DeLorean Lives On

Coke jokes aside, a Houston company continues the DMC dream

Cornfed Keyboards

America is bullish on the Faint. But can the band pick stocks as well as it spots trends?

Undercover Cop

New HPD Chief Hurtt is still plainclothes

The Real Deal

Who is the more "authentic" bluesman -- Bobby Bland or T-Model Ford?

Taking Stock

The family thought old receipts would mean big bucks. But money has proved elusive.

Bonding with the Community

A Sixth Ward lesson in adapting to a changing environment

Tribal Warfare

Carroll Cocchia says she's one-third Indian, and is trying to bring local Native Americans together. Detractors say she's white, and is helping to tear them apart.

Olympic Dings

A Web site uses the Games for a bicycle revolt

Very Appealing

Nichols's Houston attorney turns upbeat about the FBI's newest foibles

Revolution in Chrome

In the '70s, Jim Harithas's radical chic collided with the CAM. Twenty-five years later, he's back, gunning his engines at the Art Car Museum.

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Business Bewareing?

Will past financial flops come back to haunt a front-runner?

Back to the Futurist

The guy who designed Cadillac Ranch wants to build a dolphin space station. Is it any wonder UH is divided over the return of Doug Michels?

News Hostage

Another Time, Another Country

Art Car Macho

Mike Scranton's creations are the evilest looking things in the parade. And he'll wrassle anyone who says otherwise.

"One-Man Mob"

The cops say what John Shike did to his wife amounted to "legalized stalking." And after being hit with one of the largest fines ever at the county family courts, he vowed he'd get the judge, too.

My Final Post Column

One last time, from the land of the walking dead