Subject: George Bush Intercontinental Airport

• Cash Cow or White Elephant?

  The return of the convention center hotel plan

  September 2, 1999

• Gulag Gardens

  At Hobby Airport, the rallying cry is "Free the ferns"

  March 23, 2000

• Attention Passengers: Forget Bush Intercontinental, Here Are The Five Best Karaoke Movie Scenes

  If Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ joined hands and strolled down Westheimer turning automobiles into unicorns while singing "Blasphemous Rumors" I don't think it would get as much coverage as that infernal karaoke machine at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (including right here at Hair Balls). And so, to commemorate this latest attempt to put Houston on the cultural map, here are some memorable karaoke scenes from the movies.5. Duets (2000) I just returned from a meeting with Paul Kru

  December 5, 2008

• The Times Finds Yet Another Annoying Thing About Houston

  Houston, The New York Times has found yet another thing you do that's highly annoying.Earlier, it was our pathetic efforts at recycling. Now it's the security announcements at what it terms "the grandly named" George Bush Intercontinental Airport."I immediately start grousing about those annoying security announcements," writes columnist Joe Sharkey, who definitely is not grandly named. "'Can't you just ignore them?' [my wife] says. 'That lady on the loudspeaker is threatening to arrest me if I

  January 6, 2009

• Chamillionaire's Inaugural Diary, Part 1: Getting There

  [Houston rapper Chamillionaire, whose Mixtape Messiah 6 is in stores now and LP Venom will be out soon, was kind enough to keep a diary of his trip to Washington, D.C. for Barack Obama's inauguration last week. Rocks Off is glad he's feeling better, too. Today: Leaving Houston from an auspiciously named airport.] Photo by Massa Mohawk How i ronic. You have to be able to see the humor in the fact that I was flying out of an airport with the same first and last name as the person that th

  January 26, 2009

• Fast Eddie's Getaway

  July 3, 1997

• It's a bird, it's a plane ...

  September 11, 1997

• The Insider

  October 16, 1997

• Undiscovered Country

  October 23, 1997

• Charges Against Wayna Dismissed; T.I. Off To Jail

  It's good news today for two performers, even if one of them is going to jail. Don't look so confused; we'll explain in just a bit. But first we have to congratulate Grammy-nominated R&B singer Wayna, who got picked up last year at Bush Intercontinental Airport right here in Houston for carrying a weapon. It's not as bad as it sounds; she accidentally stowed a collapsible police baton she uses in her stage act with her take-on luggage, and was arrested despite attempts to explain her status as a

  March 27, 2009

• Diving To The Bottom Of The Media Barrel Each Week

  August 19, 1999

• Storm Damage

  September 2, 1999

• 2009 Mutt Strut and Runway Race

  March 5, 2009

• Up in the Air

  Continental Airlines helps out Lee Brown's re-election campaign

  August 16, 2001

• Cajun Gets a Crewcut at Denis' Seafood House

  January 31, 2008

• Karina Nistal and Rebel Crew Rap for the Troops

  December 6, 2007

• Café Orleans Express

  This hard-to-find sandwich stand is a little slice of NOLA on the Katy Freeway

  November 15, 2007

• The Art Guys, "Cloud Cuckoo Land"

  The Art Guys share 25 years of "drawings, proposals, failed schemes and pipe dreams"

  September 27, 2007

• Saint Matthew's Churches, Inc.

  March 22, 2007

• Displaced in the Diaspora

  New Orleans mayoral candidates are looking for votes -- and finding them in Houston

  March 16, 2006

• Grubby Grub

  The Art Guys make works from real food -- and things get rank

  December 29, 2005

• Cabbieville

  Inside George Bush Intercontinental Airport lies a city populated by drivers who sleep all night in their cabs to keep their place in line

  September 22, 2005

• The Little Weed that Could

  Paul Druecke gets more than he bargained for with Bright Sun Partial Shade

  September 1, 2005

• Scenes from a Picnic

  Willie, Dylan, Kinky and the Ghost of Bob Willis descends on Fort Worth. Wack is there too.

  July 21, 2005

• Lowering the Boom

  Not all Houstonians revel in our God-given right to be loudly obnoxious

  April 21, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  January 27, 2005

• Up in the Air

  Was this the punch line to a bad racist, homophobic joke or a dry run for a terrorist bombing?

  October 14, 2004

• Best Place to Ride a Horse

  September 23, 2004

• Bash-Free Zone

  Is the Texas Book Festival protecting George W.?

  September 16, 2004

• Bile on the Isle

  The wild fight between an entrepreneur and the Galveston port for loot from cruise-ship lots

  December 11, 2003

• The Art of Retail

  Pop-art star Peter Max hawks his wares in Houston

  November 13, 2003

• Hail to the Chiefs

  Houston artist David Adickes finds new homes for his massive presidential busts

  April 24, 2003

• A Spot of Blush

  Get your drink on and your hair done -- all at once

  April 10, 2003

• Food Fight Hiccup

  Will four felonies spoil Four Families' Hobby deal?

  November 28, 2002

• Best Local Girl Gone Bad

  Socialite Sanam Soudavar

  September 26, 2002

• Delayed DeLay

  He didn't duck an airport mob

  May 2, 2002

• Chain for Fools

  Houston versus Dallas: We're family-run; they're chained up.

  September 27, 2001

• Brown's Name Game

  The mayor and his staff are using all means possible to get his name out

  June 21, 2001

• Welcome Home, You're Busted!

  A watch and a pair of earrings come between two close socialite friends

  June 14, 2001

• Air Sic

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

  May 17, 2001

• Crispy Critters

  Opponents dog plans for a Pearland-area pet crematory

  March 22, 2001

• Insider

  Not Ready for Prime Time. Continental may have taught the mayor how to fly right

  October 7, 1999

• The Insider

  March 12, 1998

• Willie D Arrested on Wire Fraud Charges

  Willie D, member of Houston rap pioneers the Geto Boys and CEO of Relentless Entertainment, was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday night at George Bush International Airport as he returned from an overseas trip. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office, D, whose real name is William Dennis, has been charged with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to sell electronics over the Internet. The arrest warrant alleges Dennis, acting through a company called Texas One Wireless, arrange

  May 14, 2009

• Cattle Decapitation

  May 21, 2009

• Forty Years Of Intercontinental Airport, For Better Or Worse

  Photo by respresMonday marks the 40th anniversary of what is now Bush Intercontinental Airport, the huge facility north of town that forever banished Hobby Airport to second-class (a much more convenient second-class, though, if you ask us.)IAH, as its known on luggage tags, was a modern marvel of little trains and massive terminals when it opened. Now it's where you tend to do a lot of driving getting to the right place.Bush is somewhat remarkable in that it has not been the scene of a crash of

  June 5, 2009

• Houston Fire Department Battles Another Racism Allegation, Assuming You Think Graffiti Saying "Die Nigger" Is Racist

  The Houston Police Department began a full-scale hate-crime investigation this morning after a pair of women firefighters discovered racist and sexist graffiti scribbled all over the locker doors in the women's dressing quarters at Station 54 at Bush Intercontinental Airport. Houston Fire Department Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan described the comments on the lockers as "so distasteful, so painful, so despicable." Chief Phil Boriskie said that this behavior is "not indicative of t

  July 7, 2009

• Houston Author, Houston Setting: Rachel Brady's Final Approach

  ​Going from being a biomedical engineer NASA to writing Final Approach, a thriller set in a skydiving camp, wasn't as big a leap for debut author Rachel Brady as you might think. The Pearland resident tells Hair Balls, "After three or four years of reading a lot of mystery and a lot of suspense, it occurred to me that I never figured out, while I was reading the book, who the villains were. I started to pay attention to how [the authors] were doing that. Where are they putting the clues t

  October 9, 2009

• Aftermath: More Drums and Drummers Than We Ever Thought We'd See at an Intercontinental Airport Hangar

  Videos by Craig Hlavaty Any drummer jokes, say the one about Ginger Baker and coffee both sucking without Cream, pretty much have to go out the window when you enter an expansive warehouse that includes over 100 boys and girls, and men and women, pounding on their respective kits. Sometimes in tandem, and other times to the same beat. Jesus, we didn't think this blog was going to be so rife with double entendres. On Sunday afternoon, Rocks Off ventured to a hangar near Bush Intercontinental Air

  November 2, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: A Stench At The Airport

  ​George Bush Intercontinental Airport may not be on the same level as mythic Mafioso burial grounds such as JFK in New York or the airport in Newark, N.J., but it still finds a stiff every once in a while.Last week, airport police got a call about a terrible stench coming from the parking lot of the D terminal. And as we have learned here at Bayou Body Count, a foul stench coming from a parking lot can only mean one thing: a body.Sure enough, police tracked the smell down to a Ford Focus parke

  November 19, 2009