Subject: La Marque

• Bad Advice

  February 2, 2007

• Ticketed For Cursing In Public -- WTF? (Updated)

  August 13, 2008

• We Read The Small-Town Police Blotters, So You Don’t Have To

  August 20, 2008

• The Concept Of "Three Buttons" Confuses La Marque ISD

  August 26, 2008

• Let The Bidding For Galveston's HS Football Stars Begin!!

  September 19, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Kentucky Newspaper Says R.I.P, Galveston

  October 29, 2008

• Tense Times In La Marque

  We have one question for La Marque: What the hell is going on down there?There's a crime spree, the City Manager might or might not be keeping his job, and the Mayor resigned. That's just this week. No telling what's gonna happen next. La Marque is the kind of small town where the city council members post their home phone numbers on the town website and homes, not businesses, take up most of Main Street. At the last official count, the population was just over 13,000. As most people would expec

  January 15, 2009

• No Way Home

  May 18, 1995

• Press Picks

  June 22, 1995

• Pray

  September 14, 1995

• Home with the Blues

  December 28, 1995

• Pretty Babies

  September 5, 1996

• Press Picks

  March 20, 1997

• Shadow Over Texas City

  May 29, 1997

• Press Picks

  June 5, 1997

• Press Picks

  July 24, 1997

• Looking for Laura

  March 12, 1998

• Simba's Pride

  January 21, 1999

• How To Treat A City's Ills: Lame Jokes!

  Photo by meshmar2We've written before about the...ummm....interesting things going on in La Marque.City officials have been resigning, the crime rate is rising, there are Ike recovery issues to be dealt with, people are pissed.So let's lighten up with a joke, right? That's what La Marque Mayor Bill Charbonneau thought.As the Galveston County Daily News reports, some people were offended by the prepared opening to his State of the City Address. As the paper put it: Charbonneau, reading from prepa

  March 16, 2009

• F***in' A: The Wal-Mart Curser Is Free!!!

  Photo by Joe ShlabotnikKathryn Fridge, the woman who got a ticket for cursing in a La Marque Wal-Mart (Store motto: "You kiss your mother with that mouth?") is a free woman.The city of La Marque has dropped the disorderly conduct charges against her, the Galveston County Daily News reports.A city prosecutor issued a statement read by interim city manager Eric Gage: "After completion of his investigation to the facts of the case and existing case law, the state contends there is insufficient evid

  March 26, 2009

• Is Casino Gambling in the Cards for Galveston?: Getting Up a Game

  March 5, 2009

• Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard

  Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on

  February 21, 2008

• Another Galveston County Cursing Arrest Ends In A F***ing Whimper

  Photo by GuerrettoThat bizarre streak of cursing arrests in Galveston County is having trouble standing up in court.One guy -- the guy from Queens who used the f-word -- pleaded guilty to his charge, but we're guessing he did it just to avoid having to come back down to "fuckin' Galveston" to fight it.The first person to be arrested, a La Marque woman who cursed in a Wal-Mart during a hurricane panic, had the charges dropped against her.And now the third in the trio, a Texas City man who cursed

  June 3, 2009

• Greyhound Racing

  Tracks and breeders struggle as attendance declines

  September 6, 2007

• Starry Lullabye

  Ailing Houston-area native David Schnaufer has taken the Appalachian dulcimer to the mountaintop

  August 24, 2006

• Scooby-Dooby-Done

  The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

  March 16, 2006

• We Know What You Should Do This Summer

  Your guide to beaches, water parks, day trips, festivals and more

  May 26, 2005

• Getting Sideways

  It came from Japan and may turn out to be bigger than Godzilla. It,s drifting - a high-speed, fishtailing race toward a wall without a crash. They hope.

  July 1, 2004

• Sumo Cum Laude

  With their 21-foot loincloths, two big guys belly up to an ancient Eastern sport

  October 9, 2003

• Back Door to History

  Thank J.R. Quinn for the gay celebrations

  July 10, 2003

• Kitty Litter

  Toyya Braskey lives with 100 cats. They are her life. Now the city says they have to go.

  July 3, 2003

• Film Buff

  The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

  May 29, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• Who Are Those Puckers?

  Air hockey gets serious

  March 13, 2003

• Best Thing You'll Ever See on a Racetrack

  Weiner Dog Summer Invitational

  September 26, 2002

• Mountain Mohawks

  Ex-punkers of Starlings, TN space out with dulcimers and other American originals

  January 3, 2002

• Gangstas in Paradise

  Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

  December 6, 2001

• The Private Trial of Donald Davis

  A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

  November 30, 2000

• Sam Houston's Retreat?

  SHSU stirred the higher-ed circles. Now the excitement has turned to exodus.

  June 29, 2000

• La Marque Elects First Black Female Mayor In Galveston County

  Galveston County's been around for a while -- you could argue modern Texas began there, with the unfortunate meetings between Spanish explorers and natives -- but it has never, in any of its towns, had a black female mayor.That changed over the weekend, when League City La Marque voters elected Geraldine Sam to lead them.The 57-year-old educator beat the second-place candidate 355 votes to 316 (another received 289), and in League City La Marque there are no runoffs."I cannot even describe how I

  May 11, 2009

• Lone Star Scorecard: "God Blessed Texas," "Dracula From Houston" and "The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"

  ​ You know the drill: every week we sift through several thousand songs (mostly) extolling the virtues of the Great State of Texas to bring you three that still manage to screw it up. And whether written by native sons or godless Yankee heathens, mistakes abound. Little Texas, "God Blessed Texas": The Arlington-based band scored a decent hit with this not-so-modest ode to the Lone Star State's surfeit of divine favor. Hey, we're fond of Texas too, but while we realize that even Dallas has to

  August 27, 2009

• A $2 Million Car, A Pelican And A Lagoon

  A Bugatti Veyron, sans pelican​Here is a sentence with so many strange and wonderful parts in it that it's best just to let it speak for itself:A Lufkin man drove his $2 million Bugatti sportscar into a Galveston-area lagoon after being distracted by a pelican.First, who spends $2 million on a car? And second, of all the places you'd expect such a person to be from, Lufkin would be right behind oh, say, La Porte. Third, you've got the whole aspect of the vengeful, possibly jealous, pelican. It

  November 12, 2009

• The Tug of War

  November 19, 2009