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Houston's Bcycle Program Begins, With More Kiosks To Come

Houston's maiden foray into a public bicycle program began just weeks ago, with kiosks full of sturdy red Trek bicycles at B-cycle stations open and ready to serve Houstonians adventuresome enough to leave a car -- or more than likely, truck -- behind and embrace Bayou City life on a bicycle. The ... More >>

All-Star Weekend: Five Things Houston Got Right

Whenever there is a large event in the city of Houston, there is a moment where Houstonians who really want things to go well hold our collective breath and hope nothing crazy happens. We imagine the worst: 90-degree weather with 100 percent humidity, giant mosquitoes the size of humming birds, roac ... More >>

Last Night: Sprint All-Star Jam Session Concert With Ludacris And Ke$ha

Sprint Pre-Game Concert feat. B.O.b, Ludacris, and Ke$ha All-Star Jam Session at George R. Brown Convention Center February 17th, 2013 Sunday afternoon, as I was counting down the minutes until I had to leave an amazing All-Star day party, where I was making friends with a beautiful girl, drinking ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

Three to See

Robert Pruitt, Gabriel Dawe and Tierney Malone are killing it in their respective local shows.

Newest Venture from the Eatsie Boys' Crew: Beer

​Food truck. Check. Ice cream truck. Check. Brewery. Coming soon. While many of us would be happy just to nosh on Eatsie Boys' sweet and savory treats forever, the boys are not stopping with their food trucks. Eatsie Boys' partners Ryan Soroka, Alex Vassilakidis and Chef Matt Marcus have join ... More >>

Old School

Musicians in their 70s and 80s are keeping Houston's traditional blues scene real.

Upcoming Events

Get yer free mini burgers!​Fans of Little Bitty Burger Barn's burgers will be happy to hear about the email we received from owner Ricardo Luna about today's special at the restaurant: We are excited to announce that on Friday, 5/20, from 6PM-8PM, we will be giving away free 1/4 Basic Burger ... More >>

Dealing with Child Porn

Prosecutors talk about the evidence,

HGO, Symphony Officials Fear City Will Shaft Them in Favor of Convention Center

The GRB will get all the maintenance funds, HGO and Symphony fear.​Representatives from the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Symphony went before City Council this afternoon to say a) they're worried privatizing the operations of key downtown facilities will end up favoring the George R. Br ... More >>

City Proposes To Lease Prime Arts Venues; Local Man Likens It To Desperate Crack Deal

Who gets the George R. Brown?​For those of you who might have been doing other things over the weekend, a trial balloon was launched in Saturday's Metro section of the Houston Chronicle. Specifically, the idea is being bandied about for the City of Houston to sell off its Convention and Enter ... More >>

Metro Prepares for Final Four Onslaught

Metro clearly wants to avoid this during the Final Four weekend.​Beginning next Thursday, college basketball fans will begin descending on Houston for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, held at Reliant Stadium. In addition to the games, there is a fan festival at George R. Brown Convention ... More >>

It's The Final Countdown

2011 is almost here — how will you ring it in?

Dynamo In Another Typical Loss; World Cup Checks Out Houston

World Cup 2018: Houston will be tested this week​If one game was a microcosm of the Houston Dynamo's 2010 MLS regular season, it was the 2-1 loss this weekend to the San Jose Earthquakes.The loss all but dashes any playoff hopes the Dynamo had; though they are not mathematically eliminated yet, t ... More >>

Upcoming Events

Photo by GroovehouseGet 'em while you can!​Don't forget: This Sunday is your chance to meet Robb Walsh in person, and even get his John Hancock on his newest book -- The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa -- at the West Alabama Ice House (1919 W. Alabama) starting at 2 p.m. The event is free ... More >>

Skyrocket! Ushers In An Evening Of Mom Rock

Darin Murano/ muranophotography.com​ One thing was quickly apparent as Skyrocket! tore through spot-on covers of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock & Roll" and the Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner" at Discovery Green Thursday night: This was Mom Rock. ... More >>

Save A Houston Librarian, Buy A Book

​While Hair Balls is fearful of ever-expanding government power and its attendant death panels and Wall Street takeovers, there is one government institution we absolutely love: libraries. We're total whores for literacy and recreational/ educational reading. Which is why we're stoked for the ... More >>

Here's One Vote Against A New Dynamo Stadium

​So the Houston Dynamo are upset that Harris County hasn't yet given them money for their planned pleasure palace. Well cry me a river.I'm not sure if the Dynamo have noticed, but there's a rather severe recession going on in the country right now. And though the Dynamo are only asking for ten ... More >>

Annise Parker To Tighten Up & Treat Her Right At Inaugural

​Mayor-elect Annise Parker's swearing-in ceremony Monday over the weekend will be private, but after that on Monday it's an eclectic mix of events and personalities for the public to share in.It includes a Discovery Green concert featuring two Houston performers who had hits a long while ago: Arch ... More >>

Nerd Alert!! National Geographic Garage Sale Coming To Town

​In this day and age, when it is absolutely impossible to find any decent pictures of bare breasts, National Geographic continues to serve a noble purpose. It no longer involves luring young boys into reading about far-away countries and cultures as they feverishly look for topless native women, b ... More >>

Houston 101: Where Kingmakers Reigned And Plotted

For decades, vital issues affecting the U.S. and Texas were hashed out in Suite 8-F of the Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston.The suite had only two rooms and a kitchenette and it was decorated in whatever the relevant time period's definition of "tacky" was, but it became the Unofficial Capital of Tex ... More >>

End Of The Line For The Edward James Olmos Book Fair

It's official: The Edward James Olmos Book Fair Houston Latino Book and Family Festival is no more. At least not as presented by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, the organization that originally brought the festival to town. To be honest, there have been riffs with corporate sponsor ... More >>

There Are Traffic Lanes To Spare Downtown, Apparently

Did we lose a lane on Dallas Street? Up until recently, Dallas Street from Louisiana to Travis had five lanes, now it has four. In place of the far right lane, there are concrete platforms for METRO passengers to embark on to/disembark from buses at the end of each block, and trees dividing parki ... More >>

Ike, You Bastard

Houston gets hit with big one

Department Of Bad Timing (And Bad News)

Slideshow: Swami Ramdev in Houston

Notes from the 2008 Southwest Foodservice Expo: Walk Around Mascot Costumes

It's John Royal's Anniversary, and He's Celebrating with Stadium Talk

New Stadium for the Dynamo in Downtown

Clemens Press Conference Primer

James Howard Kunstler Finally Drags His Ass to Houston

Clear Evidence U.S. Torture Rules Have Been Loosened

Letters to the Editor

Family Show

Dazzling costumes and taiko drums await you at "Noh: the Art Festival of Japan"

A Room with a View

The Montagu Hotel, where the keyhole is more entertaining than the TV

Tree's Company

The tannenbaum gets a makeover at Buffalo Bayou ArtPark

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Brain

Pop-Up Pop Stars

With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

Dance Fervor

Postmodern theologian Matthew Fox wants to get religion back on its feet again with the Techno Cosmic Mass

Cash Cow or White Elephant?

The return of the convention center hotel plan

Night & Day

November 19 - 25, 1998

Press Picks

Fast Eddie's Getaway

Insider deals. Outrageous perks. Exorbitant salaries. No wonder Eddie Webster's taken a permanent vacation from the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Hard Sell

That credibility gap may be too wide for Proposition One backers to traverse

Static

The Dallas Version

At Mesa: A Taste of Santa Fe, there's a whole lotta trendiness going on

Press Picks

Wanna Buy a RoboDome?

The city's sports tycoons maneuver for inside position, and the questions mount: Who needs it? Why? At what cost?