John Lomax

Health Department Roundup: 59 Diner, Taco Milagro, Catty Corner and More

Right now we feel like Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. We could have told everyone this disaster was going to happen. Maybe not as quickly and drastically as it did, but with so many butterflies flapping their wings in Peking, plus what we witnessed when we worked there in college, it was inevitable ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: HBU, Reef, Tina's Mystery Dive and more

We tend to forget that Houston Baptist University exists. We've never met anyone who went there, at least not that we know of. We're wondering - what's it like? Are they allowed to dance there? Is it like Baylor, but with better access to pill mills and Indian food? The Health Department visited b ... More >>

The Sacred Harp

Houston 101: Will Hogg, Houston's Forgotten, Eccentric and Downright Badass Philanthropist

What better time than Memorial Day to remember Will Hogg, the man who founded Memorial Park? If that (and the Arboretum) was all Will Hogg gave Houston, that would rank as one of the grandest local legacies anyone has ever achieved. But Will Hogg did so much more. He founded and developed River Oa ... More >>

Vintage Baseball: Covering All the Bases

A writer and photographer are pressed into service on the field.

Happy Birthday Zuckerberg: Our 5 Least Favorite Facebook Annoyances

Facebook is great for a lot of things. It helps us keep in touch with family and friends without having to actually call them, allows us to play games in our browsers when we should be working, and helps us remember birthdays we'd forget. It allows me to be a hermit while giving the illusion that I ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

After a slow month, the inspections have gotten comparatively dirtier. It was a dangerous week for dirty restaurants, a couple of which got stuck with citations. Late Nite Pie (302 Tuam) burned down six days after an inspection turned up seven violations. The violations were fairly routine, and inc ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're going to try to organize an anti-SOPA fundraiser. Here's how it would go: the menu consists of SOPA-pillas, delicious Mexican batter envelopes served with honey and sugar. But seconds after your waiter brings you your SOPA-pill ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: AvantGarden

​The Place: AvantGarden 411 Westheimer 832-519-1429 The Deals: $2 Lone Star and Shiner Draft, $3 well drinks, $4 bull blasters, $5 sangria The Hours: 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays The Scene: A patio near a bus stop off Westheimer in late June sounds like some kind of sticky diesel hell, but even at ... More >>

Sampler 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. Bon Appetit: The big news this week, of course, was Andrew Knowlton's trip to H ... More >>

One Last Hit of K-2

Fake weed's final freewheeling days

Reporting from the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium: Chingo Bling Talks "Taco Circuit"

​A lot of rappers establish street cred by talking about hittin' licks and sellin' rocks. Chingo Bling raps about slangin' tamales and hot sauce -- which is what brought him to the Southern Foodways Alliance annual symposium last weekend. Known as the Masa Messiah, or the Taquero Vaquero, or ... More >>

The Case of Blue October

Readers take both sides.

Little Boy Blue

Ask Justin Furstenfeld if he's really mentally ill and be prepared to ride the whirlwind.

Sole of Houston: Passing the Torch

​It's been a while since I've posted in the Sole of Houston, and truth be told, ever since David Beebe moved to Marfa and I got a bike, we've kinda hung up our walking shoes. But that's just us. A guy named Brent Zius is picking up the slack. This Monday, Zius plans to walk an even longer st ... More >>

Dives and DIY Shepherd's Pie

Our readers weigh in.

Stalking the Elusive Urban Juggalo (Gulf Coast Subspecies)

Tonight, Rocks Off will valiantly fend off the sleep fairies and attempt to hit up his first-ever Insane Clown Posse show. We don't know what to expect, but from what the Interwebs and close friends have been saying, nay pleading, to us we should be frightened and gird ourselves with smelling salts ... More >>

Artist of the Week: The Tontons

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.​Each week when we write ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Chicken Fried Steak

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt A contentious battle if there ever was one... Chicken fried steak (or CFS, for short) is up there in the great pantheon of Texas foods alongside cheese enchiladas, brisket and chili. But just because a food is inherently Texan doesn't mean you can always find i ... More >>

Treating Themselves

Readers have second oponions about the high cost of health care and Generation DIY

Doug Supernaw's Woes Continue: Arrested In Utah

In May of 2007, we covered the travails (to date) of Doug Supernaw, the troubled Houston-bred one-time country music star. We just received word that the singer is in trouble again, this time in Utah.Two years ago, Supernaw was facing a bevy of charges including nonpayment of child support, driving ... More >>

Flavors of the 5th: Meat and Music

Once called the Harlem of Houston, the Fifth Ward a.k.a. "The Nickel," was the center of black culture in the Bayou City back in the days before desegregation. In this week's Café review we visited two Fifth Ward institutions that carry on that neighborhood's proud culinary tradition. Meanwhil ... More >>

Sole of Houston: Airport Drive, The Finale (Including Unwanted Puke)

And here is the final installment of David Beebe and John Lomax's 20-plus mile hike from Intercontinental Airport to Spanish Flowers restaurant. Part one is here and part two is here.David Beebe's accounts of the same hike are here and here.Airline's furthest reaches are lined by sprawling and run-d ... More >>

Steak Night: Under the Volcano

Crime Stories

Snoop Dogg Goes Country, Y’all

Mad Vegans and Pedantic Scientologists

Day of the Dead at the Graves of Southeast Texas Music Legends

Stage Capsule Reviews: Arsenic and Old Lace, Black Pearl Sings, The Daughter of the Regiment, Fools and Rumors

Radio Houstoned: Black Pearl Sings at Stages Repertory Theatre

Black Pearl Sings

Stages presents world premiere

The Shepherd Stroll, Part II

The Shepherd Stroll

HouStoned Rocks Mixtape

Football U: Go Coogs!

Football U: Go Coogs!

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Naked Posole

The pork-and-hominy soup at Taqueria Mexico looks a little plain, until you dress it up

Letters

Return of Los Vatos Rudos

Los Skarnales are set to release a new full-length with a new lineup

Crashing the Sidecar

Plus: Oliver Returns, Mary's Memories, No Yellow-Dog Democrat

Sidecar Sideshow

Racket confronts his hatas at a show in his dishonor

Cut the Apple

Plus: Buck Rogers, Harvesting Knowledge, Star Pizza Resolve

The Nickel Burger

How is a falling-apart Fifth Ward joint turning out the best burgers in town? Adrian's has history.

Poet in Chaps

Find out what cowboys do when they're by themselves

Fallout From This Year's Houston Press Holiday Party

John Lomax leaves the paper to pursue singing career after surprise debut

Letters

Twin Piques, Fed Up, Gerda's Grief

Letters

Scaling Green Mountain, Where Credit's Due, Horse-Whipped

Pop Populist

Moby's muse knows what the people want