Hempstead (New York)

The South Will Re-enact Again!

Best Go-carts

Speedy's Go Cart

Hellish Houston

A summer selection of the Bayou City's most miserable music and depressing songs

Farm to Mall Court

Fruits and vegetables try to take root in Westwood Mall

Letters

Fruits and vegetables try to take root in Westwood Mall

Press Picks

Fruits and vegetables try to take root in Westwood Mall

Homeboy

Stephen Fairfield's restless spiritual journey brought him to the Fifth Ward, where he found true deliverance while helping to rebuild the neighborhoods

Trivial Pursuit

Should taxpayer dollars help prosecute a reporter with a big mouth and inoperable cancer?

All Good Dogs Go to Heaven

The connection between pets and their owners doesn't necessarily end with death

Best Used Car Lot

Lawrence Marshall Antique Cars

Dallas Domination

The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

Get Some Action

You won't be bored at this art opening

Polished Patsy

Country queen Cline's great music accents an awesome Stages play

Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

...otherwise known as the H-Town 20

Scenes from a Picnic

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

The Canons of Courting

Or, eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter

Letters

Or, eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter

For Whom the Hell Tolls

Heights residents fear the toll road authority's new land acquisition plans

Pop Quiz

Think you know local music? Take the Bayou City Music Mindbender and find out.

Crazy Tony Is Back

Broken Note Records returns from the graveyard of labels

Club Directory

Broken Note Records returns from the graveyard of labels

SMOM-my Dearest

Sound Exchange's David Wilcox hopes to plant a Montrosian colony in the Second Ward

At What Price?

Plus: So-So What, Right with Wong, Love Lessons

Small Wonder

The Hyde Park Miniature Museum has been dredged out of mothballs, but will it find a permanent home before time runs out?

Swingin' in the New Year

The Gen-X swing craze is dead. Long live swingin', '70s-style.

Best Bike Shop

Shirar's Bicycle Store

Bayou Body Count: Grandmother Stabbed To Death

Houston police on Monday arrested a man in the stabbing death of his girlfriend. Harold Chester Amburgey, 48, is accused of killing Donna Baeza, 48, who was found dead in her apartment in the 1700 block of Wirt Rd. May 17.She suffered a stab wound and was pronounced dead at the scene, according t ... More >>

Commuter Rail From Galveston And Hempstead By 2012!! Well, Maybe

​The Citizens Transportation Coalition is currently giddy with dreams of 90 MPH commuter trains speeding from Galveston and down 290 into the city...possibly by 2012, which sounds like the far future but is only three years away. There hasn't been much public movement on commuter rail since the HG ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: Sometimes There's God Edition

​Believe it or not, trolling the Houston Health Department website for tidbits about dirty floors, missing hand-washing signs and spoiled animal parts is not always an invigorating activity. But sometimes, as Blanche Dubois says, there's God. Take a look at page one under Full Service Restaur ... More >>

Dive Bar-ology 101: What A Dive Bar Is Not

​These days, there are a lot of misconceptions about what constitutes a dive bar. Going by lists on sites like Yelp and Citysearch, and especially this laughable list from the Houston Chronicle, apparently any drinking establishment that does not sport bottle service, valet parking and a velvet r ... More >>

Barry Walter Bujol Jr. of Hempstead: His Al-Qaeda Career Gets Nipped In The Bud

He'd received a book entitled 42 Ways of Supporting Jihad​A Hempstead man who told an undercover FBI officer he wanted "to travel overseas to fight in violent jihad for" Al-Qaeda was indicted today on charges of trying to help a terrorist organization.Barry Walter Bujol, Jr., 29, was arrested as h ... More >>

Trae Day Moved To Northwest Mall, Says Trae

​Well, there you have it, hot off of Twitter. Trae Day, which had been searching for a new venue since the International Ballroom backed out a couple of weeks ago, has found a new home at Northwest Mall (9600 Hempstead Hwy., aka U.S. 290) on the same day as originally scheduled, July 22. Trae' ... More >>

Celebrate National Farmers' Market Week Through August 7

Houstonian​Why, you ask? "Farmers markets are good for you for health, good for your community, and good for the economy," says Stacy Miller, executive director of the Farmers Market Coalition, a nonprofit supporting farmers' markets across the country. "During Farmers Market Week, we invite e ... More >>

Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count No. 215

Some beer, an argument, death​Things went from sitting around drinking beer to a heated argument to a dead body early Saturday morning on the northwest side.The incident, in which an unnamed victim died of blunt-force trauma after being hit in the head with a rifle, is being referred to a Harris C ... More >>

Our Mother of Mercy

How far did cardinal go in tearing down Ike-ravaged church?

The 10 Worst Burglary Neighborhoods In Houston (For The Moment)

​What are the best neighborhoods to live in if you want to get burglarized? We've gathered 10 of the finest. We looked at the most recent crime stats for HPD beats, which means the month of October. HPD generally doesn't like "raw data comparisons between police beats" because the info can be ... More >>

Conroe Man Could Have Bought Willie Nelson's "Crazy" For $10

larrybutlertexas.comWillie Nelson and Larry Butler at Willie's Place, May 2009​One day in 1960, Larry Butler was rehearsing his band at the Esquire Ballroom on Hempstead Highway when the manager approached and said a man at the front door wanted to talk to him. "So I told her to just show th ... 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 >>

Tonight Is No-Refusal Night: Behind The Scenes of a DWI

Tonight is no-refusal night.​Happy Friday! It's the joyous start to the weekend, that grateful lapse between the freshly dead work week and the one that looms next. It's also the kickoff to no-refusal weekend, HPD's drunk driving initiatve. If you're pulled over on suspicion of being drunk and ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

The end of the Age of Aquarius ​In honor of the NCAA Tournament ending, we're going to highlight some health inspection Cinderella stories. These are the little guys that lack citywide recognition but still have to conform to the same tough sanitation standards as the big-name restaurants. For ... More >>

Wildfire Evacuees Pause for a Breath at Lake Conroe KOA

Margaret DowningScott Ross had to flee his house​Scott Ross had held out past the wildfire evacuation order. The father of six didn't want to leave his place off at Southall Drive and FM 1486 to looters and in his case, it wasn't idle speculation. He'd already had a guy run out from under his ... More >>

Karbach Brewing's Grand Opening Brings a Big Crowd

Karbach's banana-flavored wheat beer is already a hit.​At last night's grand opening for Karbach Brewing, Rich Arnold walked over to me with a glass of Karbach's Weisse Versa wheat in hand. "Have you ever had a beer that tastes so much like..." "Banana!" we both finished at the same time. The ... More >>