Kool-Aid

Drinking My Own Tex-Mex Apologist Kool-Aid

SXSW Ephemera, Part Deux: More Random Notes from the Field

Last Night: Dengue Fever at the Orange Show

Artist of the Week: Jim Jones Jamboree

Best Sangria

Cafe Piquet Cuban Restaurant

Hot Plate

Cafe Piquet Cuban Restaurant

Superflies

R&B royalty roll out for Budweiser Superfest

See How Long You Can Make It Through This Before Losing It

It won't take long, trust me. Rocks Off was close after the Twins' "Walmart-K Mart" call-and-response, but he was a goner when the "God damn racist Kool-Aid" caption flashed on the screen. Nawida slizzerator!

A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos

Disgruntled prosecutors scribble their complaints about the new boss on a blog

Dan Deacon: Bromst

Disgruntled prosecutors scribble their complaints about the new boss on a blog

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Dirt Don't Hurt

Disgruntled prosecutors scribble their complaints about the new boss on a blog

Apocalypse Wow

Thunderloo is funny, but not IBP's best

Gabriel Iglesias

“I’m not fat. I’m fluffy.”

"Core Artists-in-Residence Exhibition," "Working It Out: Studio Program Residents," "Artadia at DiverseWorks...Reprised: The Artadia Awardees"

Three exhibitions showcase works by prize-winning artists

Chupa Thrills

Blood! Booze! Goats! It's Theatre Illuminata's Cabaret show

Women of the Street

Shake it with the horned-up East Coast ladies of Avenue D

Get Out of My Head!

Earworms bore in and won't let go

Beautiful Music

The young and the younger flock to John Mayer and Maroon 5

Polyphonic Spree, with David Bowie

Thursday, April 29

Dark Riders

The good, the bad and the ugly rock-star performance contracts

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell.

Hitting Below the Belt

Karyn Kusama's Girlfight looks to assume power by emasculating men

Two Girls Talking Bad

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

The Chronicle's Columnist Does BARC Again, And Again The Result Is WTF?

​If you heard what sounded like a sonic boom this morning, it was the thunderclap of Hair Balls's head exploding. And why would that be? Because one of the nation's biggest newspapers -- the daily for the fourth-largest city in the country -- allowed a columnist to print the bizarre evangelic ... More >>

Top 5 Cheesiest Soft Drink Commercials

Coca-Cola Hilltop Commercial Thirty years ago, Coca-Cola imagined itself as the arbiter of world peace. Let's just buy the world a Coke and everything will be hunky-dory. Today, America is often despised as a "Coca-Cola" culture, and Coke itself is blamed for the skyrocketing rates of obesity and ... More >>

"Weird" and Proud, Preemo Understands the Meaning of "Hustle Town"

​ We think "Weird Al" Yankovic screwed it up for everybody. There aren't lots of times you can use the word "weird" in a good way. That's one of those words we need to take back, on the real, because when you put "weird" into the right context it can be a positive thing - a differentiator from th ... More >>

The Five Worst Spring Break Alcohols

dianagurley​Spring Break is a time for roaming the beach looking for good, clean, wholesome fun killer parties and new friends. Here are the top 5 drinks to stay away from so you can keep enjoying your break, and not the bathroom floor of your hotel. We've made the mistakes so you don't have t ... More >>

The Ten Funniest Misunderstood Lyrics Ever

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn GrayJust another day of kicking the dancing queen...​Everybody knows that the part in "Purple Haze" where Jimi Hendrix (who died 40 years ago this month) sings "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" sounds a lot like "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy." There's even ... More >>

Saturday Night: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes at Warehouse Live

Photos by Groovehouse​Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes Warehouse Live October 9, 2010 Oh crap, Aftermath thought shortly after Edward Sharpe struck up the Magnetic Zeroes Saturday night, it's the Polyphonic Spree all over again. Unless we are having an especially bad day, Aftermath is no ... More >>

Hurricane Judy at Katz's Deli & Bar

​I think I found the most overpriced, underwhelming drink in town. Enticed by the "2 for $10" deals offered in celebration of Katz's tenth anniversary, I went there for a discounted sandwich and some onion rings. I had never taken advantage of the "bar" aspect of Katz's, but as it was its ... More >>

Joe's Deli: As Simple As It Sounds

Almost as good as Wonder Bread and Kool Aid.​Joe's Deli 3729 W Alabama St Ste C I'm a sandwich guy, but I'm not fussy about it. I'm as thrilled with prosciutto and brie on Italian as I am with turkey and American cheese on Wonder Bread, especially if cherry Kool Aid is involved. While drivin ... More >>

Pomegranate Martini at The Davenport

Chris Blakely​I'm usually all about a glass of red wine, but the holiday season and end-of-semester madness has gotten me in mood for good mixed drinks (plural intentional). Sidecars and cosmopolitans are usually my cocktails of choice, but lately I have been venturing into the world of marti ... More >>

The Best Bar-Fight Song Of All Time: "Colorado Kool-Aid"

​"I's sittin' in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas/ Drinkin' Colorado Kool-Aid and talkin' to some Mexicans..." So begins one of the greatest bar fight songs of all time. Along with "Pardon Me (I've Got Someone To Kill)," "Colorado Kool-Aid" is one of the high-water marks of Johnny P ... More >>

The United States of Soft Drinks

Full-size image below.​In 1998, Nebraska set a precedent for all other U.S. states when it formally declared Kool-Aid to be the state soft drink. Sure, plenty of other states have state foods or state dishes, but a state soft drink? The popular children's beverage was developed in Hastings, N ... More >>

Brew Blog: Wild Blue Blueberry Lager from Blue Dawg Brewing

​Since I focused on Reinheitsgebot, Germany's beer purity law, in choosing my last two Brew Blog entries, I decided to kick it to the curb for this one. There's something to be said for tradition, but there's no reason to be stifled by it. With that in mind, I selected Wild Blue Blueberry Lag ... More >>

5 Memorable Foods Advertised During Saturday Morning Cartoons

If only they'd been edible, Madballs would have been the perfect product. It's difficult for me to believe that I used to set my alarm to get up on Saturday morning, but I did. If there was a show I wanted to see that was on before sunrise, sometimes I would even set it for earlier than I did on a ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Colorado Kool-Aid

Lonesome, Onry and Mean had just begun our phone interview with Monte Warden of the Wagoneers when we heard someone talking to Warden in the background. Warden then asked, "Are you that guy who wrote the blog about 'Colorado Kool-Aid'?" We had to admit that we were. "This is unbelievable," War ... More >>

Remember Doughbeezy's Reggie Bush and Kool-Aid?

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or not, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Doughbeezy Reggie Bush and Kool-Aid (Self-released, 2010) Doughbeezy is, at the moment, one ... More >>

Brew Blog: Duchesse de Bourgogne

One birch-beating shy of a banya​If you're not prepared for The Duchesse, she can be a bit of a shock. It all comes down to familiarity with sour beers. If you've never had a sour, it doesn't really matter which one you try first. The response always seems to be the same. "This isn't beer." I ... More >>

(Non-Planet) Pluto Has a New Moon? What the Hell Does This Mean for Astrology?

Pluto is effin' Goofy, is all we know.​Frankly, we don't keep up much with Pluto and its status as a planet or non-planet. It's kind of like when, as a young altar boy, the Catholic Church demoted a bunch of saints. We just rolled with the flow. So if Pluto's not a planet, it doesn't really b ... More >>

Where Are We Drinking?

We were order No. 1 recently at this throwback burger joint, which offers grape Kool-Aid on tap and extra thick and creamy chocolate shakes. Yes, we ordered both. Does the scene below look familiar to you? Think you know where we're drinking this week? ​Leave your best guess in the comments s ... More >>

10 Tips for Eating MREs, from a Pro

The Beef Ravioli Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE) was the best option on my post Hurricane Katrina menu.​Six years ago, citizens of the Gulf Coast were starting to understand the immediate implications of their world post Hurricane Katrina. Power had been out since the storm made landfall, which mean ... More >>

C&D & Nostalgia

This South Houston burger joint with a small-town vibe serves tasty, old-school burgers.

The Taste of Nostalgia at C&D Burger Shoppe

Photos by Troy FieldsPrepping for a busy lunch at C&D.​Everything about C&D Burger Shoppe has that pleasant glow of a hazy, nostalgic time somewhere in between the late 1970s and early 1980s. Even the slideshow accompanying this week's cafe review of the little burger joint in South Houston lo ... More >>

The 2011 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

​Took us long enough, right? It's been so long since we've had the Houston Press Music Awards, which were last handed out the evening of August 11, 2010, that we almost forgot we were having them. Not really. How could we? If our numbers are correct, in the two weeks this year's nomination b ... More >>

Comment of the Day: The Rick Perry Catch-22

​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, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Cover Story: How James "Bull" Durham Became A Poster Boy for East Texas Meth

​See our slideshow of James Durham's descent into meth hell. James "Bull" Durham, Lufkin's meth poster boy, popped his first shot of that devil's potion at the age of eleven -- he says it helped him get through his day-long shifts as an off-the-books catfish skinner. Even so, he says his lif ... More >>

5 Bands Your Musician Friends Love...But You Don't

austinpost.comYep. Robert Plant "copped everything" from this guy.​In a 2005 interview with Esquire, Johnny Depp discusses the unwavering authenticity of Hunter S. Thompson, and likens his late friend to another great, often-troubled mind, saying: "...like Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elev ... More >>

Skinnygirl White Cranberry Cosmo

Photo by Joanna O'LearyKeep it classy with a chilled wine glass. ​Although I feel distaste for Bethenny Frankel, I did recently purchase the newish White Cranberry Cosmo from the Skinnygirl cocktails. I told myself I was not being a hypocrite because Frankel sold the franchise to Fortune Brand ... More >>

Hail Doughbeezius: The Southeast Beast Preps For His Magicianship With "Grind"

"I am not one of these rappers that be rappin' just for shine, for these skeezers on these pics on inDmix. Bottom line: I gotta grind." --Doughbeezy Twelve months is all it took. At the beginning of last year, Doughbeezy, a 5'7" high bald fade with a rapper underneath, was an unknown. UNKNOWN. ... More >>