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Todo con Queso

Houston's 10 best Tex-Mex restaurants.

Hot to Trot

Houston's 10 best spots for a first date.

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Tex-Mex Restaurants

It's been more than a century since the first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in Houston. George Caldwell brought The Original Mexican Restaurant to our city in 1907, influenced -- most agree -- by a restaurant of the same name in his hometown of San Antonio. It would be another 20 years before Felix Mex ... More >>

Eastbound and Downtown

The top 10 restaurants in EaDo.

Top 10 Restaurants in EaDo (a.k.a. Old Chinatown, a.k.a. East Downtown)

So you're not comfortable with the EaDo sobriquet. I don't care. The damn thing has stuck. It's short, easy and to-the-point. (Besides, the more important question is what to call that weird DMZ area on South Shepherd that's not quite Montrose, not quite Upper Kirby, not quite River Oaks and not qui ... More >>

Pass the Vegenaise

Houston's top 10 vegan restaurants.

Top 10 Restaurants in the East End

The East End is undergoing some necessary growing pains right now as a new generation of Houstonians rediscover the neighborhoods right next door to downtown. Construction of a METRO light rail to connect the East End with the main line has had Harrisburg torn up for some time, but is nearly complet ... More >>

Burger Bars

Houston's Top 10

29-95 Releases Another Dive Bar-Free List of Dive Bars

Three years ago, the Houston Chronicle released a pretty much dive bar-free list of 20 dive bars, and now their scrappy little sibling 29-95 has inflicted a similarly hapless collection of ten of the same. On the 29-95 list: Rudyard's, Boondocks, Warren's, Poison Girl, Catbirds, the Continental Clu ... More >>

Satin Doll

Third Ward singer Jewel Brown once worked for both Louis Armstrong and Jack Ruby.

Third Ward Treasure Jewel Brown: "I've Seen 'Em All"

Along with Lightnin' Hopkins's cousin Milton Hopkins, Houston jazz diva Jewel Brown heads north to Chicago this weekend, where she and Hopkins will entertain folks with their new album, Milton Hopkins and Jewel Brown. The festival is paying tribute to Lightnin' Hopkins since this would have been hi ... More >>

Vintage Baseball: The Wanderers

In 1904, Houston's base ball team couldn't find a home base.

Jaime Mata: Chilling Video of Him Allegedly Barricading Bar, Setting It on Fire

Police are looking for Jaime Mata, who's been charged with arson for burning a bar in the 8000 block of Harrisburg after barricading the door so patrons couldn't leave. Crime Stoppers says Mata and a friend were tossed from the bar. They returned, "closed the burglar bars and barricaded the door wi ... More >>

Ruben Trejo: Drunk Cop Who Hit School Bus Was On His Way Into Work, HPD Says

Better or worse that he didn't make it to work?​The off-duty cop who hit a school bus in the afternoon last year has been charged with drunk driving, and HPD confirms he was on his way into work when the accident happened. As opposed to just being drunk and behind the wheel on a weekday after ... More >>

Houston's Six Best Archeological Sites

Where's Indy when you need him?​We were intrigued by Brittanie Shey's visit to the Camp Logan ruins in Memorial Park last month, so we wondered: Where are the best spots in the Houston area to do some archeological exploring? We asked Louis Aulbach, one of the best Houston historians, for som ... More >>

Metro Wuvs Us, This We Know / For This Cookie Tells Us So

We are wuvved​When we looked askance last week at Metro's plans to declare its undying Valentine's Day love for its passengers, little did we know how darkly, bitterly cynical they were. THE NEW METRO !!!!!! (pat. pending), instead of sending tedious e-mails purporting to rebut line-by-line o ... More >>

Metro Tries Yet Another Way Of Providing Airport Service

Metro's Airport Direct is getting the biggest change out the agency's bus service overhaul. ​Metro officials discussed today the details of a sizable overhaul of the agency's bus service for next year, and, surprisingly, the move has little to do with saving money. In fact the changes, as currentl ... More >>

HPD: There Might Be A Serial Killer Downtown. Or Maybe Not.

Raquel Munday: Aggressive towing policy left her helpless​Over the summer and fall, three black women have been found strangled in and around the streets of downtown Houston.While some are starting to speculate that a serial killer is on the loose, at a news conference this week at HPD headquarter ... More >>

Metro: E-Mails Show How Not To Negotiate To Buy Rail Cars

Other companies wanted to give Metro a better deal before it signed a deal with CAF, but Metro decided to say, more or less, nothing. ​Frank Wilson, Metro's former president, might be considered old news, but the decisions he made, and more importantly the contracts he signed, continue to linger. ... More >>

Health Dept. Roundup

​This week's Health Department Roundup brought us to some interesting-sounding places. At Supple Skin (2368 Rice Blvd.), a May 5 pre-opening inspection found the ceilings not easily cleanable in the walk-in fridge, food prep area and several other sections of the shop. At Boom Boom Game Room ... More >>

It's (Semi-)Official: Houston Is Not That Fun A City

If we can;t have the fun, can we at least have the funk?​As you walk two mushy downtown blocks on a blazing August afternoon in Houston, surely the question that comes to your mind is "Isn't this fun?"Or maybe not.Anyway, the extremely important publication Portfolio has done an extremely scientif ... More >>

"Tuff Enuff"

Jenny Schlief chops and screws Michael Jackson's Thriller

Light Rail Construction On The East End Line Not Going Smoothly For Businessowners

​Metro board members yesterday heard from a business owner who said that light rail construction near his used car dealership is causing him to lose money because Metro isn't keeping all its promises.Mark Rodriguez, the business owner, has a used car lot on Harrisburg Boulevard near the intersecti ... More >>

Red Blooded Fans

Win or lose, the mood is always congenial in U of H watering hole The Den.

City of Coffee

Is Houston about to become America's coffee capital?

Happy 30th

As Lawndale reaches maturity, the Houston art community waxes nostalgic.

Lou Perryman, A Star In Houston's Biggest Cult Film, Murdered In Austin

Bad news from the state capital... Actor Lou Perryman -- who played Claude in Eagle Pennell's 1983 Houston-shot film Last Night at the Alamo -- was stabbed to death April 1 in his South Austin home.  Perryman was 68. A suspect is in custody.Perryman's most prominent role nationally was as L.G. ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Donald Baechler — Recent Paintings and Collages," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," "Museum of Unnatural History," "PRISMATTAK"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

Even Transsexuals Need To Pee Somewhere

If you're a transsexual and you gotta pee, there are at least 21 locations in Houston where you won't run into any problems - at least according to safe2pee.org, a website that lists 1,848 transsexual-friendly bathrooms in 476 cities. Hair Balls tried to get in touch with the person who started the ... More >>

The East End Doesn't Like Metro's Light-Rail Overpass (Updated)

The Houston East End Chamber of Commerce, the Eastwood Civic Association, and some East End residents are up in arms over Metro's plans for a light rail overpass on Harrisburg Boulevard. So what's their problem, you say? Why would anyone have anything critical to say of Metro? Yeah, Hair Balls found ... More >>

The Downtown Open/Closed List

Ex-Gangster Cantina Turned Heights Wine Bar Boom Boom Room

Out Go the Lights

Sole of Houston: Richmond Avenue, Houston’s Street of Dreamz

No Más for the Vatos Rudos

Los Skarnales go the way of all flesh

Perfect Fit

Metro's new president already has a Houston attitude

Not Just Soup

At the Love-Joy Ministries kitchen, there's dessert and good deeds, too

Cross Ways

Hispanics search for the origins of their unique faith that fuses Jewish tradition with the celebration of Christ

Smackdown at City Hall

Candidates clash in a castaway district, exes attack, and Bell wringers rumble for a final round with Brown. Voters, pick your fight.

Hammond of the Gods

Eugene Hawthorne ditches his bass and goes barefootin' with soul-jazz

Letters

Wretched Research, Godwin's On Target, Culture Jocks

The Art of Smoke

Technology has changed the nature of barbecue. But deep in the heart of Texas, a few true artists still cling to the old ways. We go in search of greater Houston's greatest pits.

Murals and the Mind Police

William Steen started a youth project for East End artists. And an HPD cover-up ended it.

Dead or Alive

Dead Horse Walking

Where the Buffalo Roams

The Unchanging Face of Milby

For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

From the Allens to today, Buffalo Bayou has helped define the city of Houston. Now, after decades of abuse, it may finally be making a comeback as an urban resource. If, that is, we don't blow our chance.

Dear Landlord

Quakers face the wrath of Lee Harvey Oswald's "godfather"

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