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Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to British Cuisine

With acclaimed British restaurant Feast closing in August, now's the time to acquaint yourself with its excellent English menu before it's too late. Luckily, chef Richard Knight will be opening another restaurant in the Heights within a year, and there are plenty of other British restaurants in Hous ... More >>

Zaprduer Analysis Of A.J. Clemente's (F-Bomb Dropping News Anchor) 15 Minutes Of Fame

As I wrote about yesterday, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz kind of re-calibrated the acceptability scale for the f-word on Saturday when he dropped it in the middle of his brief speech welcoming Bostonians back to baseball in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Hell, even the FCC wasn't go ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Ted Cruz & The GOP Convention Playbook

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning or afternoon from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula i ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Candace Chang of Dolce Delights On Learning Pastry in Hong Kong

Dolce Delights 3201 Louisiana St Tel: 713-807-7575 http://mydolcedelights.com/ This is the first of a two-part chef chat series. Part 2 will run in this same space on Thursday. When you drive by Dolce Delights in The Mix Midtown complex, the storefront belies what awaits you inside. With soaring ... More >>

What's The New News? Challenges Media's Third Ward Assumptions

Nathaniel Donnett has created his own newspaper. That's right: Donnett has taken on the media. He has created a free, faux periodical, joined with seven separately decorated newspaper racks placed strategically throughout the Third Ward area, that combine for a street art/art installation/print me ... More >>

Lions of Tsavo Hate Your Puny Humanity

​For a while, Rocks Off worked at our day job with our drummer, and we would play a game involving the band we were writing about that day. We'd come running over to his desk in our socks and scream out the name of the band, and he would guess the genre. If you would be so kind, could you guy ... More >>

Leo Berman Not Buying Obama's "Birth Certificate" Stunt; Has Greatest Question Ever

Leo Berman: Not convinced​THANK GOD state rep Leo Berman is still bringing the crazy when it comes to President Obama's place of birth. Obama, tiring of all the attention still being devoted to this issue (CNN has been pounding it lately), Obama asked for, received and released this morning t ... More >>

Lions Are People, Too

Kings of the jungle get the March of the Penguins treatment in African Cats.

All About Eve

Pandora Theatre presents The Good Body

Richard Leakey: Why Our Origins Matter

Bohemeo's Baja Vibe

Fish and shrimp tacos rock.

Coffee by the Cup at Bohemeo's: As Fresh As It Gets

Photos by Troy FieldsEnjoy your coffee on Bohemeo's tranquil patio (when it's not raining, that is...)​While I'm currently hooked on Bohemeo's mochachino -- a frozen concoction of espresso, chocolate, cream and ice that far surpasses a Frappucino in quality and taste -- during the summer month ... More >>

Young Conservatives Protest A Texas Tech Sculpture Featuring Lesbians, Commies

Photo courtesy Texas TechDon't look!!! It'll make you hate America!!!​ You would think, what with a Kenyan-born Muslim frog-marching the country into socialism while killing your grandmother, that conservatives would have plenty of things on their plate to protest.But the Young Conservatives of Te ... More >>

"Robert Glen and Sue Stolberger: The Wildlife of Africa"

The Houston Zoo exhibits art inspired by the world's most ferocious beasts

Merche Restaurant

Hand Making Coffee at Home

​With the holidays coming up and family and friends coming home and visiting, it's time to pull out your old coffee maker. Or is it? There are some great ways to coffee by hand-brewing it with different devices. The apparatus you choose can alter the way even a single-origin coffee can taste. ... More >>

The Best Café in Texas

​Yes, we mean the best. Brown Coffee Company off West King's Highway, San Antonio, Texas is the complete coffee experience. Part roasting facility, part training center, and part slow bar, this is a learning environment like no other in the Lone Star State. Head roaster (and head barista) Aaro ... More >>

Two Saints

Exciting Houston's West Side diners

Exoneration Of A Sort In One HFD Incident

​The beleaguered Houston Fire Department got some support today from a vice-president of the local chapter of the NAACP, who said in a press conference that he accepted that a noose-like rope found in a station locker was not intended to be a racial symbol.Reverend D.Z. Cofield said he had conduct ... More >>

Extra Golden

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Donald Baechler — Recent Paintings and Collages," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," "Museum of Unnatural History," "PRISMATTAK"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Disturbance of Distance," "Hedwige Jacobs — New Drawings," Hot and Grounded, "Michael Guidry: How soon is now?," "Perspectives 164: Stephanie Syjuco: Total Fabrications"

“4 Scenarios”

Themes of self-identity and belonging are examined in the new Rudolph Projects/ArtScan Gallery exhibit

Miss Pop Rocks: Special Hurricane Ike Edition

The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us

“Darfur: How Photojournalists Respond”

Eight photographers focus on genocide in the Sudan

Radio Houstoned: African Children’s Choir on a Journey of Hope

African Children’s Choir

Houston’s the latest stop for the Journey of Hope tour

Chevron Houston Marathon

Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

Capsule Art Reviews: "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," "Ryan Geiger: Secret Garden"

“Little Known Facts”

Five artists expose themselves at Lawndale

Manhattan Short Film Festival

Finalists screen around the world

One Mother of a Show

United in Song

Irie iFest

Finding the coolest runnings at this year's Jamaica-themed Houston International Festival

Dreams Deferred

Inner-city black boys spend a year in Kenya. Does it change their lives?

Funky Fresh

A white leading man in a black movie? That is something new

Low Yield

The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller

Sweeping Riddim

Check the African-spun grooves at Fagilia Houston

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Don't check out -- check in with the Station's "Red Fall" and "Truth to Power"

Inspect Yourself

No one disagrees on the latest pro-development plan

Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans

Whatcha Gonna Do?

Houston's Neutral Sisters look white, sing black and move to a reggae rhythm

Lost & Found

One year ago, the Lost Boys of Sudan came to Houston in search of America, a future, safety and an education simple things that got somewhat complicated in the translation

Odd Couple

Despite naysayers, the Breakfast Klub makes the marriage of chicken and waffles work

(Stay) Out of Africa

The cast can't transcend the overwrought script to this melodrama set in Kenya

News Hostage

News of the Weird

The Boom Is Back

At Vallone's: Big hunks of meat and other people's money

Into Africa