Guadalajara

Latino Music's Many Styles Charge Austin's Pachanga Fest

Pachanga Fest Latino Music Festival Feat. Los Lobos, Celso Piña, Intocable, 3BallMTY, y más Fiesta Gardens, Austin May 10 & 11, 2013 Since 2008, the annual, family-friendly Pachanga Fest Latino Music Festival has showcased the vibrant blend of Latino-created music and art and its impact on Americ ... More >>

Top 10 Bars, Clubs & Ice Houses On the Northside

The Greater Northside Management District classifies "The Northside" as the "24 square miles north of Downtown Houston" between Interstate-10/Katy Freeway on the south, Studewood/Yale on the West, Little York to the north, and Interstate-59 Eastex Freeway to the East (although for this article, we s ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: Macondo, Guadalajara, Taco Trucks and More

Slim pickings this week, with a fairly anonymous group of restaurants listed in the inspections. We're sure the Sonic at 330 North Park in Kingwood isn't anonymous to whoever owns it, but most of us don't own the Sonic at 330 North Park in Kingwood. To the party who does, congratulations on picking ... More >>

Astros Opening Day 2013: Fans Weigh In With Hopes & Opinions On AL Baseball

For as long as I remember, I've been a baseball fan. Which is kinda strange considering I never played Little League, didn't learn how to hold a bat or catch a ball until my best friend taught me in high school, and my father's favorite sports team are fútbol-playing goats (Las Chivas Rayadas de Gu ... More >>

Saturday Night: 22nd Annual Mariachi Invitational at Arena Theatre

HLS&R Go Tejano Committee 22nd Annual Mariachi Invitational Arena Theater March 9, 2013 In both numbers and influence, the Go Tejano Committee is one of the largest and strongest within the entire Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. It raises and awards millions of dollars worth of scholarships for hig ... More >>

Rest(aurants) In Peace: Notable Closings of 2012

Some restaurants just couldn't wait for the Mayan apocalypse on December 21, 2012 and decided to implode all on their own, while other restaurants simply expired of old age and waning interest in a city that's constantly chasing after the next big thing. Instead of a toast to the restaurants we'll ... More >>

SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

Why Do Chicanos Love the Aztecs?

And what are some Mexican regional stereotypes of Mexicans?

Know Your Narco Saints: The Religious Iconography of the Drug Trade

Santa Muerte, the newly-popular Grim Reaper-like Mexican folk saint, and subject of this week's cover story, is not the only object of supernatural devotion in the drug trade. Far from it. In fact, she's something of a Johnny-come-lately in Mexican folk religion. For as long as there have been smug ... More >>

Paneer on Bombay Pizza

If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out.

Bombay Pizza: A Downtown Beacon on Main Street

It's often tempting to refer to restaurants as beacons, especially if they're bright points in otherwise dark areas (whether metaphorically or literally). I once referred to Moon Tower Inn this way, noting the power that the hot-dogs-and-beer joint had to draw people in like moths to a flame. It wa ... More >>

Sarah Combs, 2 Others: Ran $27 Million "Black Market Peso" Money-Laundering Scheme, Feds Say

A Dickinson woman and two other people have been charge with running a $27 million "Black Market Peso Exchange" money-laundering scheme, federal prosecutors announced today. Sarah Combs, 48, appeared in court here today; Willie Whitehurst, 44, of Houston will be arraigned next week and Enrique Mor ... More >>

Six-String Pawn Stars: Top 10 Famous Stolen Guitars

Tom Petty got a real kick in the balls late last week when he discovered that his vintage blond 1967 12-string Rickenbacker and his Gibson SGTV Junior had been stolen from a California soundstage where the Heartbreakers had been rehearsing for an upcoming tour. Three other vintage guitars owned by b ... More >>

Last Night: Maná At Toyota Center

Maná Toyota Center April 4, 2012 The last time Maná visited Houston, they sold out Toyota Center two nights in a row. The world's premier rock en español band is on the second leg of the Drama Y Luz tour, in support of their latest album of the same name. The group from the land of tequila y ma ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 5 Enchiladas

For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants.

Openings and Closings: The Non-Montrose Edition

We had a few comments last week bemoaning the fact that the week's restaurant news was all out of Montrose. "Montrose - within a 10 minute drive for only 14% of the Greater Houston Metropolitan area, and yet it gets a least a third of the restaurant coverage in the Houston Press," wrote one commente ... More >>

Openings & Closings: January 2012

After 45 years in business along Washington Avenue, Guadalajara Bakery is closing its doors on February 29. Unlike previous closing scares for the longtime breakfast taco purveyor, this one is concrete: New owners purchased the building and gave the family 30 days notice to vacate. A bar is planned ... More >>

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

How Did the Chivas Soccer Team Get Its Name?

And why won't my hot Mexican gardener take an HIV test?

Special Soccer Edicion

Tequila Talk with Stewart Skloss of Pura Vida Tequila - Part I

Founder Stewart Skloss with a bottle of the Pura Vida Anejo​I didn't expect to actually meet with Stewart Skloss when I contacted the offices of Pura Vida Tequila. I especially did not expect to meet with him the week of Cinco de Mayo and the launch of their radio station, the first ever "fu ... More >>

Tasting Spring Branch

St. Arnold's and a slider from Avalon Diner.​Nothing makes a late Sunday afternoon like tasty food, cold beer and a sense of community. This is what I found at the Memorial Assistance Ministries' Taste of Spring Branch food tasting event this weekend. After a minor snafu involving a tree and ... More >>

Downtown Dining for a Texas-Sized Group

Photo courtesy of QuattroRoom with a view: La Cucina room at Quattro in the Four Seasons​Reader Brian T. writes in with a dilemma: I work for redacted and have been tasked with researching a recommendation list of Downtown's best dinner spots. My groups typically range from 20-45 people and n ... More >>

Celebrating National Taco Day at Laredo Taqueria

Photo by Erika Ray​Monday, I celebrated National Taco Day (yeah, I didn't really know that was a "thing" until late in the day) by tucking in at Laredo Taqueria (915 Snover, off Washington Avenue) with three fat tacos and a glass of sweet jamaica. Laredo Taqueria is one of those last holdouts ... More >>

10 Places I Liked as a Photographer, Want to Try as an Eater

Photo by Jeff BalkeSteak and cheesy grits at Plonk Beer and Wine Bistro​Last week, I wrote about my experiences photographing 100 restaurants for the Houston Press online restaurant guide. During the month I was shooting, I shot eateries both familiar and not so much. Given my time constraints ... More >>

Meeting Spanish Village For the First Time

A bowl of queso is all you need some days.​I made the acquaintance of Spanish Village (4720 Almeda Rd.) for the first time last night. For a lifelong Houstonian, this might seem odd and perhaps a bit heretical, but the truth is that I'd never before set foot inside the old Tex-Mex joint just s ... More >>

The Top 10 Restaurants in the Heights

Sous vide pork at Textile.​Creating a top ten list for the Heights is an intimidating process. At a basic level, it's difficult to even define the Heights. And with so many great restaurants to choose from, we've had to leave out popular spots Teotihuacan, Vietnam Restaurant, and Onion Creek f ... More >>

Salad City

Green papaya salad at Asia Market​It can be a struggle to find a good salad in a town so fanatical for Tex-Mex. And barbecue. And burgers. But we know they're out there somewhere. It's still early enough in January that you might not have broken all of your New Year's resolutions... So where d ... More >>

Openings and Closings: 2009 Edition

​The year gone by marked some very exciting restaurant openings (such as Haven, Branchwater Tavern, Yelapa Playa Mexicana and Stella Sola) and some equally important closings (such as Cafe Annie, Bedford, Las Alamedas and Felix Mexican Restaurant). To close out the yea ... More >>

Architecture Gone Awry: Houston's 8 Ugliest Buildings

Photo courtesy of SwamplotThe HISD Central Services building, a.k.a. the Taj Mahal​The old HISD Central Services building on Richmond -- called the Taj Mahal by HISD employees, both for its massive size and the massive budget that went into building it -- was torn down in 2007. One of the few ... More >>

The Major League Soccer All-Star Game Gets The Biggest Houston Stage, But Who's Going To Be On It?

​When Major League Soccer announced late July that the 2010 All-Star game would be played in Houston, there was much speculation as to where the event would be held. The Houston Dynamo currently call Robertson Stadium home, but Reliant Stadium is just so much prettier.The Dynamo front office hel ... More >>

Two Cousins Nabbed In Mexico For Separate Houston Murders

​Two men wanted for separate Houston murders were caught together in Guadalajara, Mexico yesterday afternoon. The crimes, which occurred about two years apart, were unrelated. The suspected killers are cousins. "Murder runs in this family," said homicide detective Michael Miller of the Houston Po ... More >>

Last Call For Art: This Weekend's Closings

Four exhibits at Lawndale Art Center close this Saturday including "Washington Avenue: Forgotten to Gentrified," a photo exhibit by Robert Sennhauser that looks at the near-downtown neighborhood and the changes it's currently undergoing. Among the highlights of the exhibit are Sennhauser's taped int ... More >>

“Washington Avenue: Forgotten to Gentrified”

Photographer Robert Sennhauser documents the transformation a near-downtown neighborhood

Guadalajara Del Centro

Drowned Sandwich at Paparruchos on Sage

Why do Mexicans Love Elvis, and Why Do White People Love Tans?

Doña Rosita’s Jalapeno Kitchen and “Perspectivas: A Window into Their World”

A one-woman show and an art exhibit share the spotlight as part of the 2008 Texas Sor Juana Festival

Places Like Los Dos Amigos Are Disappearing On Washington

Maná

Mexican rockers say, “To Love Is to Fight”

SOAKED SANDWICH

Paparrucho's

Top Tacos

Mexican "tacos de trompo" are getting hard to find because the Health Department says they're illegal

Best Popsicles

Wild or Mild

Houston's most elusive taco truck serves up hot goat grease

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

Crazy World

Javier Téllez's work at Sicardi Gallery explores the insanity of "sanity"

North Guadalajara

Fonda Dona Maria transforms into a colossal palacio

Best Drive-thru Food

Chicken tortas, Taqueria Fiesta Guadalajara,

Manafest Destiny

Nuevo Voss

Escalante's: south of the border, west of the Loop, high on profile and middling on menu... so far