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Top 10 Restaurants Near Hobby Airport

One of the questions I get most frequently from friends who travel is this: Why isn't there anywhere to eat around Hobby Airport? To which I say: There are lots of places. You're not looking hard enough. Hobby is one of those parts of town that requires a finer-toothed comb than, say, the Montrose ... More >>

The Incredible, Hilarious Memo On How To Make Texas Tech & Its Coach "Cool": A Quiz

The guys at Deadspin have gotten their hands on a piece of comedy gold -- a memo on how the school can make itself and its football coach, former Red Raider QB Kliff Kingsbury, into ultra-hip, highly cool icons that the kidz of today will flock to just so they can be hip and cool too. A tall order ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in EaDo (a.k.a. Old Chinatown, a.k.a. East Downtown)

So you're not comfortable with the EaDo sobriquet. I don't care. The damn thing has stuck. It's short, easy and to-the-point. (Besides, the more important question is what to call that weird DMZ area on South Shepherd that's not quite Montrose, not quite Upper Kirby, not quite River Oaks and not qui ... More >>

Houston's Best Underground Rap Tapes of 2012, Most Assuredly (Pt. 1)

I'd guess that nearly all of the time, the order of any list is impacted considerably by external, unrelated, completely unimportant factors (to deny that seems entirely senseless). To wit, empirical evidence: Recently, I posted a message on Twitter that said I'd be eating at a restaurant near my ho ... More >>

5 Great Songs by Psy Besides “Gangnam Style”

Sylvia Casares Showcases Versatility at Inaugural Comida Con Vino

You don't have to ask me twice to attend a wine dinner, and when I heard that Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen was hosting its first-ever comida con vino, I was eager to see what Casares had in store. Well, more specifically, I wondered if there would be anything else besides enchiladas. Not that I don' ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 42, Frito Pie at C&D Burger Shoppe

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 >>

Friday Night: Linus Pauling Quartet at Fitzgerald's

Linus Pauling Quartet, Modfag, From Beyond, Hearts of Animals Fitzgerald's June 22, 2012 Local long-running psych-rockers Linus Pauling Quartet have got a new album for us to inhale, and on Friday night, the city took its first rip. The performance was the first of three pre-release shows across th ... 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. S ... 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 >>

Last Night: Houston Rap's Creme De La Creme At House Of Blues

Photos by Marco TorresB L A C K I E (A G A I N)​Crème de la Crème feat. Killa Kyleon, B L A C K I E, Hollywood FLOSS House of Blues (Bronze Peacock Room) June 8th, 2011 If you missed the Crème de la Crème event last night at the Bronze Peacock - and judging from the sparse attendance you ... More >>

The Day After

Our readers' worst hangovers

Capri: Behind the Review

Photo by Troy FieldsCome for the fabulous gnocchi, stay for the generous BYOB policy.​This week's cafe review of Capri praises the little Italian restaurant in Spring for its many virtues: housemade pasta and mozzarella cheese, excellent service, a cheerful and cozy dining room and its generou ... More >>

Final Four Astrology: It's Butler, Bitches

It ain't Kemba's night​So we turn to an astrological expert to predict the Final Four winners, and she comes up 50-50. Which, frankly, we could have done. We suppose she could have gone 0-for-2, so there's that. In any case, the stars speak again about what will happen tonight. We asked Figg ... More >>

Deluge Of Underground Rap Releases Keeps On Coming

Leaving Flo' from Zo Rill on Vimeo. Apparently, the City of Houston has enacted some sort of bill stating that everybody release new rap music every single day of the goddamn year. How else to explain the abundance of emails received these past few weeks with music? It very nearly surpassed the num ... More >>

Before Networking Was Social: Ten Early Social Websites That Are Dead or Dying

Who needs Classmates.com when we have Facebook?​Social networking today is a foregone conclusion. Many of us wake up and check Twitter on our smart phones or pull up Facebook on our laptops. We surf YouTube videos in our spare time, find dates on Match.com and spend hours reading music, politi ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Driving Miss Daisy, Romeo and Julian, Among the Thugs, Auntie Mame

The H-Town Countdown, No. 1: Mike Jones' Who Is Mike Jones?

Roughly 84,000 rap albums have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com. Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? (Asylum, 2005) ​Before you fire off some ... More >>

"Bright" Stars

The MFAH hosts a masterfully curated show of works by 12 Korean artists.

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 >>

Dan Deacon: Bromst

Layoffs at the Houston Chronicle

The Black-and-White Blues

A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos

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

Artist of the Week: Jim Jones Jamboree

Run's Playground

Aftermath: Tom Waits at Jones Hall

Last Night: Dengue Fever at the Orange Show

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

The Nutcracker

This ballet is what it is, and that ain't bad

Gabriel Iglesias

“I’m not fat. I’m fluffy.”

Medicine Show No Mo

Breaking the seventh seal at the Sideshow Tramps' CD release party

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

A Simple Plan

Scott Tycer may have downshifted, but diners will still find themselves in the gastronomic fast lane at Pic.

Cape of Good Hope

Forecast: Reign

This is what it sounds like when local artists pay tribute to Prince

Women of the Street

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

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Just in time for New Year's Eve, The Nightfly and friends put a few hangover drugs to the test

Divide and Convolute

The Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat has indie rockers confused: Are the brother and sister hacks, geniuses or somehow both?

Fruits of Franchising

We all scream for La Paletera’s popsicles

Beautiful Music

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

Law? What Law?

City Council proposed; City Hall didn't dispose

Christmas in Hell

The Slump XXXmas Show takes irreverence to a new (lower) level

Preaching to the Choir

Plus: Feudal Follies, Life in the Slow Lane, Facts and Fantasy

Apocalypse Wow

Thunderloo is funny, but not IBP's best

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

Holy Diver

Atomic Opera

Men in Black

Method Man and Redman have a Blackout, tour with Family Values

Rotation

Gray Matter of Concern

Both a bang and a whimper? The CAM's long-awaited Texas show may burn bright, but it doesn't burn deep