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Let's Get Greasy

The 10 best fried chicken joints in Houston.

Top 10 State Fair of Texas Foods

See our slideshow of more State Fair of Texas Foods. Some go for the carnival-style attractions. Others go for the garden exhibition. Thousands go for the live musical entertainment. Many go for the shopping. But the truth of the matter is, all flock to the State Fair of Texas for the food. In it ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 35, Fried Chicken at Haven

This year leading up to our annual Best of Houston® issue, we're counting down our 100 favorite dishes in Houston. This list comprises our favorite dishes from the last year, dishes that are essential to Houston's cultural landscape and/or dishes that any visitor (or resident) should try at least o ... More >>

The Sports Hall of Shame, an Idea Long Overdue

A week or so ago, you may remember, I wrote a post about the auction for Bobby Petrino's crash-damaged motorcycle. The majority of the post was an outline of my idea to turn the crumpled-up love machine into a profit center by selling photo opportunities for fans to pose on the bike. At the end o ... More >>

Springsteen Stumbles On Pedestrian New Album Wrecking Ball

Today sees the release of Bruce Springsteen's newest album, the compact and confounding Wrecking Ball, his first since 2009's Working On a Dream. Recorded and inspired partly by the recent Occupy protests, with most songs coming before the movement was even a physical thing, in any other year it cou ... More >>

"Kirby-side" Chicken Pick-Up Now Available at Haven

I know the parking situation around Haven has been a bit of a nightmare lately. Just as the construction on Kirby finally ceased, new "breastaurant" Twin Peaks opened up and unleashed its often obnoxious clientele upon the small parking area shared by Haven, Cafe Japon, Taco Cabana and a small bank. ... More >>

Houston Rappers Freak Out Indiana KFC Diners

Photo by OrbitDidIt/Smoker's Club Tour​Hopefully you've been keeping up with the exploits of Patron-loving Houston MC Marcus Manchild as he winds his way toward Warehouse Live with Method Man, Big K.R.I.T. and a bunch of others on the Smoker's Club 2011 tour. Marcus will be filing his usual re ... More >>

Black Queen Speaks Uses CD Release For Firefighter Relief

​Black Queen Speaks is, on the surface, a band we should detest. Their sound resembles much of what killed rock and roll deader than all the drugs, plane crashes and vomit-clogged airways combined. At first listen, you can just chalk them up as another Buzzworthy act, in the end just one more ... More >>

Little Joe Washington Could Use A Hand, Perhaps A Home

Brittanie SheyLittle Joe Washington at Walter's On Washington, April 2010​Treasured Houston bluesman Little Joe Washington, who will play a happy-hour set at the Continental Friday, may be on the verge of becoming homeless again. Washington, who was in the hospital for an extended stay last ... More >>

Ramo: What Makes A Rapper "Fresh"?

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ... More >>

Planet Houston

The world's great cuisines converge here.

Nostalgic for Houston's Fried Chicken

Frenchy's.​If there is one thing I've began to miss about Houston over the years ever since I moved away, it's the chicken. Sure, I could've said the usual stuff, like family, friends, the Astrodome or whatever. But family and friends are always a phone call away, and I can look at photos of ... More >>

Game Time: The Longhorn Network -- A Few Programming Ideas

Tonight at 8: Bevo Gone Wild​I often think how cool it must have been to have the first fast-food restaurant in a given town. You plunk down your McDonald's, start flipping about a thousand burgers an hour (quantity over quality when you're that busy), and watch the money roll in.And then Bu ... More >>

Down on the Farm

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights.

The Queen And I: The Wiz With My 4-Year-Old Daughter

​My daughter Harriet is four and is a huge Wizard of Oz fan, so I thought she would enjoy taking in the Ensemble Theater's free production of The Wiz at Miller Outdoor Theatre Saturday night. (We skipped the brutal line for covered tickets.) I had heard that showtime was 7 p.m. and since my apart ... More >>

Healthy Big Macs, Only In Houston

Photo by Chris MacGregor Why the hell is your Big Mac so small? Because you live in Houston. Houston is apparently the only US test market for McDonald's new "Snack Wrap Mac," which looks to be a  smaller Big Mac in a tortilla. We're sure grosser things have been contemplated before, but ... More >>

U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Spore Isn't the Leap You've Been Led to Believe

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Smiling with Joe Hernandez

Sole of Houston: Deep Harrisburg: Lomax and Beebe Take on the East Side Again

Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

The DA doesn't make deals. And that's why Jesus Salazar is living the free life in Venezuela while a teenage girl lies dead, stabbed 26 times.

Robb Walsh Visits the First Taco Bell in Monterrey

Teachers' unions, Harris County politics, scams

Support the union, go to jail

Dark Water

A reporter, a photographer and canoeist Tom Helm paddle from the Galleria to Galveston Bay by canoe and kayak, finding beauty, danger and urban debris in equal measure

In the Pink

Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

Free Lunch

Freegans prove there is such a thing as they Dumpster-dive for food for themselves and the homeless

Letters

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Globalization's McBacklash

Guatemala’s Pollo Campero has American fast-food franchises running scared

Lazy Arrow

Blackalicious takes its sweet time moving from underground to overground

There's Something About Larry's

What makes the enchiladas so great in Texas's Twin Cities?

Great Expectations

Joe's Sandwich Shop is just one of the businesses along Main Street struggling to survive until Metro gets its light rail line up and operating.

RV Xmas

In which our intrepid reporter goes searching for the heart of America on a trailer pad. And finds disappointment, isolation, kindness and a great way to cook himself a turkey.

"Clearing House" Sweepstakes

Urban League deal-maker scores in Aramark stadium contract

Wrap It Up

Queen of the Good Ol' Boys

The macho world of trial law is ruled by tough, hard-driving men -- and by Katherine Scardino, a tough, hard-driving woman

The Trouble with Larry

Could castration cure Larry McQuay of his urge to molest children? He thinks it can, and wants the state to nueter him. Others would just like to neutralize him.