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Santana, 3 Doors Down, Carlos Mencia Postponed or Cancelled
September 18, 2008Houston Has a New Theme Song
September 18, 2008Let The Polluting Begin Anew!
September 18, 2008An Assessment Of Galveston's Historical Sites
September 18, 2008This Just In: You(genious) Not Dead, Is Awesome
September 19, 2008Renters -- Don't Get Screwed By Lazy Landlords
September 20, 2008More Ike-Related Music News
September 22, 2008Ike Spawns UFO Cover-Up, Exclusive Report Claims
September 25, 2008Rice Shuts Down Valhalla, Panic To Ensue Among Cheap-Beer Drinkers
September 26, 2008There's No Roof, But The Cock-Ring Sale Goes On!!
September 29, 2008Always Look On The Bright Side Of Ike
September 30, 2008AG Says Two Motels Gouged Ike Victims
October 2, 2008The Safest House In The World
October 2, 2008Public Storage Inc. -- Protecting You From Your Belongings
October 8, 2008Galveston Releases A Damage-Assessment Map
October 16, 2008Chefs Pitch In for Brennan’s Fire Victims
October 16, 2008MasterMinds -- Deadline Approacheth
October 28, 2008Book Review: A Collection Of Female Noir
October 30, 2008June 1: And So It Begins......
NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!! (MUST CREDIT HAIR BALLS!!!!!) Today is the beginning of the hurricane season.While the rest of the so-called mainstream media will ignore this important milestone simply because writing or airing stuff about hurricanes in Houston results in cheap increases in ratings and clicks, you can depend on us to stoop that low.This week will bring The Only Hurricane Guide You Will Ever Need. There's a lot of stuff about hurricanes that normally gets overlooked by such guides (Examp
June 1, 2009Slideshow -- Ike's Still Here
Hair Balls made a tour of downtown and some inner-city neighborhoods and found that evidence of Hurricane Ike's destruction is still very much evident. It's nothing like what Galveston and other beach-front communities are facing, of course, but plenty of Houston businesses and homes are still being repaired.So, in case you were having trouble thinking of something to be thankful about for Thanksgiving, remember this: It isn't September 13th, and we aren't waiting for a giant-ass storm to
November 26, 2008Don't Let The Doorknob Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out, 2008 Hurricane Season
As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're really out of harm's way. Unless God wants to really mess with us.Experts say 2008 was a ball-breaker in many ways.
December 1, 2008Rice Wins The Mayor's "What Do We Do With All This Ike Crap" Contest
The results are in for the contest to see just what the hell Houston should do with the millions of cubic yards of Ike debris, and the big winner is Rice University.A team from Rice will get $10,000 for its plan to convert all the fallen limbs, brush and other wood crap into something called "biochar."Doing it will "get rid of the debris, reduce greenhouse gases and turn a potential profit," says Rice spokesman David Ruth. (We're not sure how you "turn a potential profit," but then we're n
December 10, 2008Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008
10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros and Texans, they did win a world championship within the past decade. 9. The Houston Astros were one of the worst teams in professional baseball for most of the first half of the season. But they
December 20, 2008Galveston's Grand Opera House Is Back, Baby
The 1894 Grand Opera House, socked with eight feet of water by that bastard Ike, is back.The facility officially reopens tomorrow with a free party featuring tours, sing-alongs and people reading from the best Ike survival stories. Then Jerry Jeff Walker will bring the place back for paying customers with a concert that night.Cake and punch will also be served. Maureen Patton, executive director of The Grand, tells The Galveston County Daily News that she hopes people "come down to the theater a
January 2, 2009Trying to Put Humpty Dumpty Together Again in Galveston
Got a historic photo that shows what Galveston looked like before Hurricane Ike came through town? How about any documents pertaining to commercial or residential properties on the island? The Galveston Historical Foundation is putting out the word that anyone in possession of either of these things should make his way to the foundation's Preservation Resource Center open on every Saturday in January from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Architectural Salvage Warehouse, 908 23rd Street. Your precious m
January 6, 2009Finally, Some Good News For The Bolivar Peninsula
Good news has been in short supply on the Bolivar Peninsula since Ike hit, but something that could pass -- these days, anyway -- as good news was announced this week.Crenshaw, a pre-K-8 elementary and middle school on the peninsula, will reopen February 4, GISD announced to the applause of residents.The school actually received very little damage from Ike, but the school district has been saying that not enough students were left on the peninsula to make it worth re-opening the school. The resi
January 23, 2009Taking Stock of Galveston's Restaurants
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Casey's giant fiberglass shrimp looks out from the restaurant onto the Gulf of Mexico.Driving along Broadway on your way into the heart of Galveston, it would appear that the island has finally sprung back to life five months after Hurricane Ike passed directly over it. Stores and restaurants are open, medians are planted with fat clumps of flowers, traffic -- even on a Thursday -- is robust. But leaving Broadway in either direction -- t
February 22, 2009The Top Hurricane Ike Myths
The Bay Area Houston Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau says there are a lot of myths going around about Hurricane Ike damage, and they're determined to stop them.So they've issued a release listing the Top Five Myths Following Hurricane Ike, and they address each with no-nonsense answers.But in a world of myth, it's sometimes hard to tell the real myths from the fake. So here's a list of 10 Top Ike Myths; you'll have to guess which came from the Bay Area C of C's Bureau's
March 11, 2009Ed Emmett Is Officially Pretty Pleased With The Ike Response
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett's official and final scorecard on local-government response to Hurricane Ike: "Pretty good."At a press conference Monday he addressed what worked and what didn't, and announced that most things worked out well."A state has the primary responsibility, if you will, and if we just look at Hurricane Ike and the way it kept moving up the coast, they did a pretty darn good job," he said. Among the trouble spots, though, were getting deliveries to PODs (and if you've
March 31, 2009The Kids At Valley West Elementary Finally Recover From Ike
Photo by Chris VogelLike a drunk wandering a pub that has run out of beer, so fourth-grader Andrew Jok roams his school's library looking for interesting books to read. He devours nearly a dozen books a month, you see, and he needs his fix. Jok's problem, however, along with the rest of the students at Valley West Elementary, is that Hurricane Ike left the library in ruins, destroying hundreds of books and leaving the shelves half naked. Well, students, worry no more. Today Devon Energy came to
March 31, 2009Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008
10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros and Texans, they did win a world championship within the past decade. 9. The Houston Astros were one of the worst teams in professional baseball for most of the first half of the season. But they
December 20, 2008Hurricane Ike's Wake
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath
January 8, 2009Turkeys of the Year
DA Chuck Rosenthal flies off with top honors
November 27, 2008Ike's Fuzzy Animals
All kinds of cuties are showing up
October 16, 2008RIP, Some of Our Best Of Houston® Winners
Hardly Knew Ye
September 25, 2008Welcome to Never Ever Land
September 25, 2008Ike, You Bastard
Houston gets hit with big one
September 18, 2008Trouble With Trees On Galveston Island
Photo by Jennifer Reynolds This Galveston County Daily News photo shows the shape the trees are inGalveston needed more bad Ike news like it needed more Ike. But more bad news is being reported: The leafy trees that provided a distinctive canopy over many of the island's most charming streets ain't coming back. The Galveston County Daily News reports that the salt water that inundated three-quarters of the island during Ike may just have killed off many of the trademark trees Galveston i
April 16, 2009The Strand's Historic Buildings Get A Boost
Photo courtesy Galveston Historical FoundationThe Strand, downtown Galveston's most historic district, is getting a little help today in its efforts to preserve itself.The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named "The Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston" as one of its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.Even before Ike there were worries about the buildings which had been constructed back when Galveston was Texas's main port. But the storm did some major damage, a Trust V-P report
April 28, 2009That Pavilion No One Uses At Galveston's Seawolf Park To Be Replaced
Pretty much no one ever goes to visit the modernistic white pavilion at Galveston's Seawolf Park.Now they never will.The building, which is mostly a kind of visual landmark seen by people cruising on the ferry, was heavily damaged by Ike. Since it was a bit of a white elephant, the city's Parks Board has voted not to repair it, the Galveston County Daily News reports.Now the question is what, if anything, should replace it on the tip of Pelican Island. Suggestions include a hotel, a museum dedic
May 13, 2009Did Video Games Really Kill Generator-Using Ike Victims?
For a few hours yesterday, the lead story at Chron.com gravely warned Houstonians on the dangers of mixing generators and video games. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston evidently found that this happened often in the blacked-out weeks in the wake of Hurricane Ike, and issued a press release saying so, and the Chron's Cindy George ran with it. "Many children treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the powerless days after Hurricane Ike took ill while playing
May 28, 2009Galveston's Hendley Market Finally Reopens (Kinda) After Ike
Hendley Market, Galveston's destination shopping place on The Strand for knick-knacks, sweets and other things you never knew you needed, is finally reopening after fixing its Ike damage."We are back in business after getting rid of that bad old Ike hangover," their announcement says.They also note what Alanis Morisette would no doubt call ironic -- shortly before Ike hit, we here at the Houston Press cited them for being the place for "Best Hip, Fun or Nostalgic Gifts."Here's what we said: Hend
May 28, 2009Texas Traveler: Bolivar Peninsula
Photos by Brittanie SheyCrystal Beach, TexasSometimes vacations don't always go as planned. Texas Traveler hadn't been to the Texas Coast since last summer, a month or two before Ike hit. We'd seen the footage and heard the stories -- it was just too depressing to imagine our favorite beaches covered with debris. So we waited. We waited nine months, and then we couldn't wait any more. The beach was calling, like a Siren, and the only thing to do was listen. Bolivar Peninsula beaches are a kind
June 8, 2009Openings and Closings
This week features not only restaurant closings and openings, but reopenings as well. The first of those, as expected, was Cafe Le Jadeite (1952 West Gray), which reopened this past Monday. Despite the fact that the name and decor have remained the same, the owners and the menu have changed. B4-U-Eat reports that in addition to a revamped Chinese-American menu, it also offers a sushi bar in the lounge area. Also reopened is longtime Italian favorite Luigi's (2328 Strand St.) on Galvest
June 25, 2009The Baby Boom That Wasn't and Allen Stanford Deserves a Break, Right?
August 6, 2009Houston: It's Worth Hurricane Ike
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt HIWI: Ike, the exhibition at the Galveston Arts CenterNearly five years ago, Houston became home to one of the most unusual and subversive tourism campaigns in recent memory. The Houston: It's Worth It (HIWI) campaign began with a simple website and a list of twenty things that Houstonians -- and the world at large -- despise about our fair city. Among them were annoyances -- or what the group behind the HIWI campaign, ttweak, calls "afflictions" -- li
August 27, 2009If Who's On First, What's On Second: A Post-Ike Diary Documenting One Family's Attempt To Get Past First Base With The Houston Housing Authority
Ike's anniversary is coming up, an event which will be well-covered locally. We're doing out part with the September 10 issue; until then we'll be posting some Ike-related items to whet the appetite.In the 1950s the famous comedy team of Abbott and Costello developed what is probably their most popular routine, "Who's on First." The premise of the comedy routine is that Bud Abbott is identifying the players of a make believe baseball team for Lou Costello, but the team players names, for ex
September 1, 2009Life, Post-Ike: A Full Recovery
September 10, 2009"Galveston's Coming Back -- It Looks Like Home Again"
Marie Creasy is the manager of the Poop Deck on Galveston's Seawall, so she's been at Ground Zero for the past year's efforts to recover from Ike.As far as she can tell, things are back: "Everybody seems to be putting their lives back together, and those that aren't putting their lives back together are leaving, they're going somewhere else."Take a look at Galveston and its surroundings, one year after Ike the Bastard, in this week's feature story by John Nova Lomax.
September 9, 2009"Flotsam and Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike"
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