Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.
We like to fancy ourselves fairly well-tuned into the local music scene. Sometimes when we're out with friends, we even make up names of bands and then mock people for having never heard them. ("What?! You've never heard of
The cuisine known as Mongolian BBQ is making the mother of all culinary comebacks.
Legend has it that Mongolian BBQ was invented in the 13th century by
the army of Kublai Khan when the cooks fried up shredded meats and
vegetables on a warrior's shield placed over a fire. Reality may be a bit more prosaic
(it's actually Taiwanese), but that hasn't stopped the PR departments
of several new Mongolian BBQ chains from resurrecting the myth.
For the uninitiated, Mongolian BBQ is a mix-and-match,
I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted. That's because I'm not sure if all the restaurateurs have been on their best behavior, or if the Health Department has just been sitting around playing GTA4 on the Xbox 360s they got for Christmas, because there were no health code violations whatsoever handed out in January. No one was cited until a couple of days ago, and those have been for the most part minor and inoffensive.
The big news this week in Bayou Body Count is the three dead family members League City police are investigating as a possible murder-murder-suicide. Lewis Cantrell Jr. and his wife Gayle Cantrell were found shot to death in their living room on the 2900 block of Chinaberry Park Lane. Lewis Cantrell III, 26, joined them on the floor, a pistol next to his body. Two of the Cantrells' other adult children were in the home when the shooting occurred Wednesday evening. As soon as they heard gunfire,
Photo by Jeff BalkeTruffle macaroni & cheese from Hollister Grill, at the recent Menu of Menus"Stupidity," that's was the first word out of the mouth of Chuck Pritchett, the owner of Hollister Grill (1741 Hollister, 713-973-1741), when asked why he opened a restaurant. Pritchett has been in the retail business all his life - selling men's clothing, to be precise - and this restaurant is his first venture into the realm of hospitality. But he went on to say, "We're putting out a product that I'm
Gotcha!Houston police have finally caught the gunman in a 2004 murder, hunting him all across the United States and Mexico before arresting him Tuesday in Houston.Police say that Oscar David Zamarripa, 24, shot and killed 22-year-old Alberto Rivera a little more than five years ago at 2215 Hollister. Detectives immediately figured out that Zamarripa was probably the killer and filed murder charges and issued a warrant for his arrest.But Zamarripa proved to be a slippery one.Since the shooting
