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October 8, 2009Vin Bar
October 8, 2009Get All Dressed Up
October 8, 2009Another Notch In Houston's Intellectual Belt
Who the hell says we're stoopid here in Houston? Besides The Daily Beast, we mean.Houston is only the second city in the entire nation to host a convention called "The Guy Expo," an orgy of cliches about sports, beer, babes and cars."It caters to the guy's guy and there's nothing wimpy or soft spoken about it," the show's organizers say. "It aims to be fun, loud, entertaining and slightly irresponsible. Want proof? The Almost-Darwin Award goes to the guy with the best story about the way he a
October 8, 2009Houston's Best Breakfast Croissant
Photo by Katharine Shilcutt There's no cross-section photo because I ate it too quickly.While there isn't technically a category for Best Breakfast Croissant in our annual Best of Houston® issue, the spot would be easily and handily filled by B&B Donuts on Westheimer. There really isn't even a contest. We discovered (and that's using the term loosely, really, as it's in a very noticeable strip mall in the middle of Montrose -- not exactly hiding out somewhere) B&B Donut
October 8, 2009The Week In Photos
Fall has officially hit Houston (even if you can't tell from the weather). That means the light is subtly changing and the talented photographers in our Flickr pool are out there capturing scenes from the city both day and night. Enjoy some of our favorite reader-submitted photos from the last week below. For more information about any of the pictures, including subject and photographer, simply click on them.
October 9, 2009Calorie Posting and Houston
Photo by Nemo's great uncle Bacon wins even in the calorie wars. Take that, egg!A quick Google search of "America's fattest cities" will turn up a dozen lists with Houston in the top 10. It's a title our city has had to bear on our pudgy shoulders for years now. According to Men's Fitness , donuts are 132 percent more popular here than the average city. Houston also has the 6th highest number of donut outlets per capita in our survey. While that is a hilarious factoid, the donuts are
October 9, 2009We're So Houston: Young Twinn Sets It Down For His City
Rocks Off loves songs about Houston. Here's a pretty good new one by a rapper called Young Twinn. While the video doesn't offer much we haven't seen before - please, one shot of the skyline as seen from the Interstate is enough - we do really like some of the words, especially the lines toward the end about Hurricane Ike. The beat is well above-average too.
October 9, 2009This Week In Deliciousness
Hopia baboy is a lard-based Filipino pastry, not the name of the new Sigur Ros album.Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, where we separate the wheat from the chaff and then have Robb Walsh make us a bitchin' spiced blackberry chaffshake. We started off the week with some gourmet-style pig face. That picture looks kind of incredible. It makes us imagine eating a bacon-flavored sea urchin. So in other words, it's awesome, like Hostess cupcakes, which are still going strong
October 9, 2009The Tavern Declares War on Limp Dick (Pizza)
You may have seen the TV commercials. Two comely young lasses sit at a bar and bemoan their frustration with limp dicks. Limp-dick pizza, that is. As in, pizza that is soggy and floppy and generally unappealing. They even sing a little ditty about their dissatisfaction with dicks or pizza or whatever the hell it is they're babbling about, only to be rescued by a strapping fellow with a pizza from the Tavern that's "firm and tasty." This is the Tavern on West Gray, of course, that bastion of g
October 12, 2009Downtown Saigon Soup Stop
When a reader asked me to recommend an excellent pho shop close to downtown where he could get a quick lunch, I sent him to the Pho Saigon location at 2808 Milam. And I told him to remember to put a napkin over his tie. The original Midtown location was opened by Houston's P.B. Tran in 1998. Pho Saigon now has nine locations around the city, and it is one of my favorite noodle chains.
October 13, 2009Richard Alston Dance Company
October 15, 2009"22nd Annual Día de los Muertos"
October 15, 2009Magnolia Park Centennial Celebration
October 15, 2009Get All Dressed Up
October 15, 2009Dive Bars
October 15, 2009Valentino
October 15, 2009Dive Bar Eats: At Best, A Mixed Bag
Photo by Option ThisAre questionable jars of pickled eggs the most you can hope for at Houston's best dive bars?This week's feature is all about Houston's best dive bars. Dive bar food in Houston is a pretty hit-and-miss affair. If you lump icehouses in with the overall class of dive bars, as you must in Houston, you know what to expect: average to great backyard grill fare like hot dogs, burgers, and occasionally steaks. And then there are the roving bands of Mexican tamale ladies and Mi
October 14, 2009"Invisible" Billboards To Induce Double-Takes in Houston
Karyn Olivier, visiting artist at the University of Houston's Mitchell Center for the Arts, is doing what lots of Houstonians wish they could -- erasing billboards. Actually, for her exhibit "Inbound: Houston," she's replacing the images on more than a dozen billboards around the city with life-size images of what's behind the billboard, sky, trees, buildings, and homes. (Take a second look at the photo above and you'll see what we mean.)Karen Farber, director of the Mitchell Center, s
October 14, 2009Houston Touts Its Clean-Air Credentials (Yes, Dammit, We Do Have Them)
Photo courtesy GHCVBEveryone knows that Houston is the smog-riddled energy capital of the world, so it was with a touch of irony that the annual Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency Conference awards were announced this afternoon in Houston.Attendees from across Texas and other states, munching on a typical banquet meal of chicken cordon bleu and asparagus, were supposed to hear self-proclaimed clean-air advocate Mayor Bill White, but alas, he was too busy to show. Instead, Issa Dadoush, direc
October 15, 2009The Week In Photos
We've got a cold, wet winter ahead of us this year, so the photographers in our Flickr pool have been hitting the streets and enjoying Houston's mild fall weather while it lasts. Enjoy some of our favorite reader-submitted photos from the last week below. For more information about any of the pictures, including subject and photographer, simply click on them.
October 16, 2009This Week In Deliciousness
Smallpox vaccination scars are sexy as hell.Welcome back to the weekly roundup at Eating Our Words, where we never roll less than three sous-chefs deep, y'all. Paul Knight started off the week by attending the Grand Opening of Lucky Strike Lanes and sampling their grub. We'll spare you the inevitable bowling puns. Get it? "Spare"? No, come back. That's it, we promise. All further bowling puns will be stricken from the record. (Get it?) Olivia Flores Alvarez spent $13 at Kojak's Timberbro
October 16, 2009Donut Patrol: Boudin Kolaches
Spicy pork filling on the inside, moist sweet dough bun on the outside -- a boudin kolache and a hot cup of coffee is as good as a Houston breakfast gets. We first learned about boudin kolaches last week from the reader who calls him or herself Sepatown. They are available at the Shipley's at North Main, and only on the weekend. (I brought my own Katz's Bayou Blend coffee in a car thermos.)
October 20, 2009Get All Dressed Up
October 22, 2009Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Guns and Tacos: Hilarious and topical (with pictures and captions that always crack us up), this is one of our favorite food blogs in town. Check out Jay's handy "Taco Stand Translation Guide" from last week. Feed the Heights: One of several excellent Heights-specific blogs
October 21, 2009Mid-Week Match-Up: The Mayor's Race, Such As It Is
Most of Houston seems blissfully unaware that there's a mayor's race going on. This year is supposed to be one of the the years with a hot election -- the incumbent is term-limited, so it's an open seat likely to lead to six years in office -- but, for reasons we lay out in this week's cover story, the thing is instead a run for the top job in Dullsville.Still, it's your civic duty to vote, or America will slide into the abyss and all that. The three candidates with any chance of winning are
October 21, 2009Take This Tie and Shove It Part II: Houston As Fashion Capital For The Hot World
Yesterday, we shared the vision of urbanist and blogger Andrew Burleson, who dreams of a Houston in which we dress for the weather at all times, even at work. It's his view that this would lower energy costs and immensely improve civic life overall.He thinks we could begin with a Dress For The Weather Week, and after ten years or so of these weeks, Houston could become a city that always, in his words, "lived like it's hot 'cause it is" and "lived in the place that we're at and learned to em
October 21, 2009The Week In Photos
The photographers in our Flickr pool had their share of festivals, concerts, parties and scenery to choose from this past week, as Houston blossoms during the fall months. One such festival was Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, celebrated in Sugar Land and seen below. Enjoy some of our favorite reader-submitted photos from the last week below. For more information about any of the pictures, including subject and photographer, simply click on them.
October 23, 2009Upcoming Events
Although it's facing stiff competition from Southern Star lately, Saint Arnold is still our favorite hometown brewery. And this weekend's Foam Raiser at the Orange Show (Saturday, October 24, from 7 to 10 p.m.) is one of many reasons why. The ticket sales for the 2nd annual Foam Raiser go to support the Orange Show, which puts on the yearly Art Car Parade in addition to funding many other Houston folk art projects. Tickets are $25 at the door ($20 in advance), and festivities w
October 23, 2009Lone Star Scorecard: All Robert Earl Keen Edition
There are a lot of songs about Texas out there, and Rocks Off wouldn't be doing our duty if we sent you off into the world without properly informing you about their veracity. That's what the Lone Star Scorecard is for, and if it keeps even one of you from making an embarrassing Texas-based faux pas at a party/wedding reception/embassy dinner, then we've done our job. Occasionally we devote an entire edition to one artist, and this week it's Houston's own (well, sort of) Robert Earl Keen, wh
October 23, 2009Texas Traveler: Houston Haunts
Photos by Brittanie SheyEntrance to the Donnellan vault below the Franklin Street BridgeTexas Traveler has spent the better part of the month checking out some of the creepiest, oldest, most interesting parts of Houston and it's neighboring cities, and to wrap up the month we have a few more tales to tell you about. Below, five Houston haunts you may not have known about. Donnellan vault Fancy a drink at the Brewery Tap? Be sure to walk a few feet west to the Franklin Street bridge and l
October 26, 2009Chef Chat: Monica Pope of t'afia
Photo by Griff SmithArguably the most admired chef in Houston and probably the most lauded in the past decade, the ubiquitous Monica Pope runs t'afia restaurant (3701 Travis Street), hosts the Midtown Farmers Market every Saturday morning, presides at Beaver's, and teaches weekly classes at the Green Plum Cooking School. As this interview shows, locavore messiah Monica Pope is a chef on fire. Where did you first come across the term "t'afia?" I saw it in a Michel Bras cookbook. It's an
October 26, 2009Private-Security Firm Sued Here For (Allegedly) Shooting Up A Cab In Iraq
It was the morning of October 18, 2007, and three Iraqis were taking a cab from the city of Erbil to Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq, near the border with Iran. About halfway through the journey, at about 10:30 a.m., the taxi passed through the village of Kara Hanjir, when the road started to slope upward.Suddenly, the passengers in the cab felt the sting of gunfire. Members of a British security firm, Erinys International, were shooting at them, and without provocation or warning. At least acco
October 26, 2009Come to Rocks Off's "Helter Skelter Halloween" Party Tonight at Coffee Groundz
Come on Houston, start your Halloween week off right with us, the mighty he-men of Rocks Off and Beatles Rock Band. Yes, it's been just over a month and a half since we saw all of your faces at Coffee Groundz (2503 Bagby) playing our newish toy, and we miss you so very much. Seriously, no kidding, you all smell better than most of the folks we usually hang out with, and that's saying something. The fun starts at 7 p.m. and runs till 11 p.m. when the venue closes. It's also a costume-friendly
October 27, 2009There Are No Coincidences In The Rat(t) World
We here in Houston are going to be besieged by rats -- not just the four-legged kind, but the ten-legged, ten-armed, sucking-talentless kind, too.How else to interpret two announcements? One: "New Report Ranks Cities At Risk For Rodents This Year -- Houston Is Number Three." Two, from the official website of the black-hole of metal known as Ratt: " PREPARE FOR AN INFESTATION! LEGENDARY HARD ROCK ICONS ANNOUNCE INFESTATION AS TITLE OF NEW ALBUM DUE MARCH 2010 THROUGH LOUD & PROUD/ROADRUNNE
October 27, 2009CenterPoint Hits The Jackpot At The Federal Stimulus Feeding Trough
Photo courtesy White House Flickr groupLet them bitch all they want in Chicago about getting shut out of federal stimulus funds for "smart-grid" power projects. Here in Houston, we're kicking ass.The federal gummint, that socialistic, fascist Big Brother, announced today how it is spending $3.4 billion of your grandkid's money, and Houston's two largest power companies were big winners.CenterPoint is getting $200 million to help with a nearly $640-million project to install 2.2 million smart
October 27, 2009Roky Moon & Bolt
October 29, 2009Get All Dressed Up
October 29, 2009Artist of the Week: Ball-Busting, Dexter-Loving Metal Maniacs BloodVoid
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. In all honesty, before we started working for the Press, we were by no means fans of heavy metal. We listened to Metallica a bit, but only when they'd come on MTV, and even then we did so mostly because we knew it kinda bug
October 28, 2009Midweek Match-Up: My Black Pastors Are Better Than Yours, Punk
Houston's boring excuse for a mayoral election is now officially ON FIRE!!! It's EN FUEGO!!!!Why? Because there's some dull sparring between Peter Brown and Gene Locke over who has the best-est bunch of black pastors endorsing them. Locke is claiming that Brown, a multi-millionaire who is largely self-financing his campaign (or at least his wife is), spread some cash around black Houston churches and is therefore winning endorsements he doesn't deserve because he is not black like Locke. ("Bl
October 28, 2009Houston One Of Safest Cities In The Country, If You Look At It A Certain (Wrong, Houston Proud) Way
Photo courtesy GHCVBHouston may be fat, polluted, sprawling and ugly, but it's got one thing going for it, according to Forbes magazine -- it's one of the safest cities in the country.Say what? Don't they read our Bayou Body Count? What, you go ten days without a murder and all of a sudden you're Eden?Apparently, the designation doesn't have anything to do with odd recent spurt of non-murderousness.Forbes looked at violent crime (see above), workplace deaths (refineries are so safe), traffic
October 28, 2009Fearless Critic: Not The Only Brutally Honest Reviews In Town
One can't possibly argue with the extraordinary usefulness of Fearless Critic, from its many lists, to its valuable compendium of area restaurants, to its handy ratings system. But one can definitely argue with its claim that its reviews, by "food nerds" and food bloggers, are somehow superior to those of tried and true restaurant critics' simply because the book doesn't accept advertising. Anyone who's worked within a newspaper will tell you that -- despite its fondest wishes to the con
October 29, 2009Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. I'm Never Full: Although she uses Twitter as her main communication tool these days, Jenny Wang still maintains her blog on occasion. And the exciting announcement this week about the upcoming Bivalve (oyster) Throwdown is her latest post. Read all about it and score tickets whil
October 29, 2009Food Fight: Battle Po-Boy
Photo by Erika Ray We have a friend -- a born-and-raised Cajun who's as passionate about her food as she is about her Motherland itself -- who claims that it's impossible to get an authentic po-boy here in Houston. It has nothing to do with the seafood or the fixings or even the people creating the po-boys, many of them Louisiana transplants like herself. It has everything to do with the bread, she says. Something about the combination of New Orleans's proximity to the Gulf of Mexico
October 29, 2009Five Spot: Did Nnete Have Trae Banned From 97.9 The Boxx?
Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. What a fortnight it's been for Trae. First, his Restless album was named the 14th best rap album to ever come out of Houston. Then his newest son, Houston, was born. Then he released the anticipated The Incredible Truth mixtape. (We're assuming those are listed in order of
October 30, 2009Chipotle Will Install Solar Panels Everywhere But Houston
Photo by lcrfHair Balls is always worrying about reducing our carbon footprint -- in fact, we're constantly using aerosol-spray cleansers and dusters to reduce it like a mofo -- which is why we were stunned to learn in the Houston Business Journal that beloved burrito builders Chipotle Mexican Grill will be installing solar panels in about 75 stores throughout Texas....but not in Houston! (And they're even teaming up with Houston-based Standard Renewable Energy to d
October 30, 2009Did You Know Houston Has Had the Same Official Song Since 1915? Maybe It's Time for a New One.
We don't know if it's the election or what - actually it's not, but bear with us - but this afternoon Rocks Off got to wondering whether or not Houston had its own official song, lyrics and music officially sanctioned and ratified to embody the Space/Bayou City's hopes and dreams. This being Houston, we figured no way would a city so willfully ignorant of its abundant musical heritage and talent (officially, anyway) ever take such a radical step. Surely any composer who dared even suggest such
November 3, 2009Five Reasons Why Peter Brown Barely Beat Roy Morales
Ah, Peter Brown. You spent more than $3 million of your wife's cash, you put up dazzling ads that showed you jazzercising your way to Houston's future, you led the polls most of the way, as long as "Undecided" wasn't included.Yet you lost. Badly. Instead of making the runoff, you had to struggle to beat no-name Roy Morales, a Republican running in a Democratic city.How did this happen?Five reasons:1. People don't want to appear stupid when polled. Let's say you're a Houstonian watching Wheel
November 4, 2009Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. The Ferm: Sir Ron may or may not blog drunk from time to time (see this entry on "How Not To Get a Job at the Houston Press"), but his latest entry on newly proclaimed city holiday Saint Arnold's Day is a loving ode to Houston's favorite microbrewery complete with a reassessment
November 4, 2009Loni Love And The Chelsea Lately Comics Hit Houston
Plus-size comic Loni Love is coming to Houston this weekend as part of the Comedians of Chelsea Lately tour.Even though Love has had a successful stand-up career for more than six years now, her frequent appearances during the round-table sections of the late-night talk show hosted by Chelsea Handler on the E! network have given her an increased profile. (During a round-table section of the nightly show, Handler and three guest comics discuss the day's news, with a decided theater-of-the-absu
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