Subject: Houston (Texas)

• Skating By

  February 27, 2007

• La Dolce Vita

  December 29, 2006

• Guitar Shorty

  November 13, 2006

• We Assume Cocktails Will Follow

  May 4, 2007

• Hunt and Gather

  June 19, 2007

• The East End Trek

  September 13, 2007

• Boss Fans Take Note: Springsteen Announces First Local Date Since 2002

  November 20, 2007

• Marty Stuart's American Odyssey Does Houston

  April 11, 2008

• That Strange Katrina-Refugee Kidnapping Story Takes Another Step

  August 7, 2008

• Minnesotans Somehow Go Nuts Over Sonic

  August 20, 2008

• Weekend Music: (Just Like) Starting Over

  September 19, 2008

• They're Talking About Us In Scotland

  September 24, 2008

• dead horse Lives... After a Fashion

  October 2, 2008

• One For All

  Sax giant Illinois Jacquet helped desegregate Houston audiences

  November 18, 1999

• Wanna Go to Reverend Horton Heat Tonight?

  October 17, 2008

• Pride of Place

  Scenes from the 15th annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  July 29, 2004

• Houston Gamer Still Causing Worldwide Angst

  November 10, 2008

• Houston Is The Villain In Nasty Newspaper Fight In Albany

  Houston Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen came to town from Albany, where he was the editor of the Times-Union, another Hearst paper.He brought some people with him, and still runs movie reviews by Amy Biancolli, who still works in upstate New York.The Times-Union is, like many Hearst papers (and papers everywhere) undergoing financial stress. It's a union paper, though, and the Newspaper Guild is fighting back with a website calling for subscribers to protest cuts. (By canceling their subscriptions,

  June 1, 2009

• You Local School Districts Are Paying Your Teachers Too Much!

  There's beeen plenty of drug talk when it comes to Houston schools lately, but what about some good news?Well, how about the fact that school districts are bitching that teachers down here are just getting paid too damn well?It's true. (We'll pause to give the teachers reading this a chance to stop rolling their eyes.)One school official complained to his school board: "The problem we are running into with this is when you go to a teacher fair...nobody would even stop and look or talk to them b

  November 26, 2008

• Free Tickets for Aaron Neville at House of Blues

  About 30 tickets for the Aaron Neville Quintet's Christmas show, featuring brother Charles on saxophone, seem to have just fallen off a truck and made their way into the Press' reception area at 1621 Milam, Suite 100 downtown. First come, first serve. The Press lobby closes at 6 p.m.; doors for the show are at 7. - Chris Gray 

  December 16, 2008

• Local Guitarist's Wife Dies in Hawaii Swimming Accident

  Tragedy has struck a long-standing member of Houston's musical community. Elizabeth Danheim, 43-year old wife of Eric Danheim, died Jan.30 while swimming in Hawaii. The HollistersEric Danheim, who also worked under the alias Eddie Lee Dale, has been a fixture on the Houston roots-music scene for over 20 years, playing with Herschel Berry in the '80s and later with the Rounders. He is probably best-known for his work with Houston favorites the Hollisters, who ruled the scene for a num

  February 5, 2009

• Static

  December 25, 1997

• The French Connection

  April 2, 1998

• Partners for Pay

  October 22, 1998

• Houston Ranks Second in All-Important Commando Cilantro Index

  Photo by babyparentingguideDamn, guys, what's up with Houston only being the 39th manliest city in the land? We're only one spot above Seattle, and we all know what kind of dudes hang out there. Not very manly dudes, that's who. In all seriousness, this is easily one of the lamest surveys ever. Sure, we get it: Some company, which we won't bother naming and which actually isn't even that manly by its own standards, comes up with a random set of metrics and sends out a press release to all th

  March 6, 2009

• Houston May Be Getting Its Irish Up

  Photo by closelyobserved.comAuthentic Irish weather greeted this weekend's St. Patrick's Day Parade, but the chilly rain didn't deter over 150 entrants from promenading down Caroline and San Jacinto streets in honor of Ireland's patron. According to information we received, it may be that some of them had partaken of what the Irish call "the creature," which appeared to be a restoring beverage of some sort. At any rate, it turns out Houston's Irish might have more to celebrate this year than usu

  March 16, 2009

• Yet Another Strange Houston Connection To Tech-Savvy Terrorists

  Photo by (nutmeg)For of those of you who are tired of getting your War on Terror information from biased western media sources who are doing the bidding of the American capitalist infidels, you might want to check out this allegedly Taliban-sponsored site -- hosted by a server right here in Houston! The terrorist-watchdog blog (for lack of a better descriptor) Jawa Report reports today that this "Voice of Jehad" website is an official Taliban website, with servers in Houston, L.A., and a Detroit

  March 27, 2009

• We'll Pay the Filing Fee...

  August 17, 2000

• What Makes Cornbreadd Run

  February 5, 2009

• Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing

  September 25, 2008

• Welcome to Never Ever Land

  September 25, 2008

• Flying Pigs and Presidential Politics

  Deep Waters

  May 15, 2008

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Reef

  Chef Bryan Caswell is putting a new spin on Gulf red snapper and serving up some fish you've never heard of

  September 6, 2007

• Houston Mixtape Volume III

  More local anthems

  May 3, 2007

• Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

  February 1, 2007

• H-Town Mixtape Part II

  More Songs About Houston

  November 23, 2006

• Base Raps

  Paul Wall and Chamillionaire each release Astros tributes, while rock radio churns out the cheesy montages

  October 27, 2005

• Well-Dressed Rebels

  Revolt of the operagoing socialites

  May 13, 2004

• Hit the Road, Jack. Permanently.

  According to former Houstonians the Business Machines, that's the only way to get a career

  October 9, 2003

• Best Anime Purveyors

  ADV Films

  September 26, 2002

• Best Lost Monument

  Portland Cement Association Safety Trophy

  September 20, 2001

• Put Down That Fish!

  According to the Williamsons, the Scottish salmon you're holding may be bogus

  August 9, 2001

• Lean & Mean

  Those who drink codeine syrup call it lean because of its most obvious effect: a loss of coordination. Those who study the drug call it liquid crack. Those who abuse it can wind up dead.

  April 26, 2001

• Getting to the Show

  Minor leaguers toil away, hoping for a shot at the majors. One of them, Round Rock's Jason Green, got a call from the Astros, giving him a chance to live the dream. Others labor on.

  August 31, 2000

• A Star in Reborn, Again

  Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.

  April 15, 1999

• Ireland Fights For The Chance To Visit A Houstonian

  This post brought to you by a joint effort of the Department of Odd Raffles, The TV Shows We Dimly Recall Administration and the Bureau of People We Didn't Know Lived in Houston:An Irish charity is offering up a strange prize. A donation of ten Euros to the Western Alzheimer's Foundation buys you a crack at ten days in Houston as the guest of James Drury, the actor who played the title role in TV's The Virginian from 1962 to 1971. According to The Mayo News, reruns of the show have made Drury wi

  May 4, 2009

• Ken Rogerson

  August 6, 2009

• Local Mayoral Campaigns Use Social Media, and Apparently That's News

  ​If you don't have eyes, ears, or a television set with that nonsensical converter box, you may not be aware that today kicks off early voting for stuff that's pretty crucial to the Houston political agenda. Not only can you stick your ballot in the box for City Council, City Controller, community college and public school boards and the like, but you can also plant your seed for change in the fertile soils of the Bayou City's mayoral race. So to speak. If you believe the Chron, Housto

  October 19, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 13: DJ Screw's 3 N' Tha Mornin' Pt. 2 (Blue)

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com. DJ Screw 3 N' Da Mornin, Part 2 (Big Tyme Records, 1995)​While researching the Countdown, we came across two very distinct opinions regarding this album; naturally, they were almost diametrically opposed to one another. People either argued that it should be placed some

  October 29, 2009