Subject: Lake Jackson

• Ornery, Possibly Horny Brazoria Judge in Trouble

  August 14, 2008

• A Whole Lot of HEB Stores Are Now Open

  September 16, 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

• Blue Highways

  A trip to Surfside will land you a prize catch: The bait-camp delights of the Red Snapper Inn

  March 30, 2000

• Andy, Opie and the Almighty

  A church searches for God in the good Mr. Griffith's TV series

  August 3, 2000

• Letters

  Buster's Batch, Arrogance, Police the Doctors

  May 24, 2001

• Letters

  December 7, 1995

• Murky Water

  April 11, 1996

• Press Picks

  June 6, 1996

• Among Friends

  August 1, 1996

• Get It in Writing

  October 17, 1996

• In The Rough

  December 5, 1996

• Press Picks

  June 19, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• Waste Not, Want Not

  March 12, 1998

• Roll Over, Selena

  May 6, 1999

• MP3 Monday: Music from Dominique, Fiskadoro, Chocolate Crucifix and Dave Wrangler

  Welcome back to MP3 Monday. We've been away for a bit due to SXSW, but we're back now and dedicated to bringing you tantalizing tidbits of local music from all over the spectrum. If you think you've got what it takes, email your MP3s to chris.gray@houstonpress.com or hprocksoff@gmail.com. We'll start with some starry-eyed soul from Houston R&B ingenue Dominique - here are a couple of previews from her album Good Girl Blues, out next week: Here's some skin-crawling electro-Goth fr

  March 30, 2009

• Alex Arizpe Benefit

  May 22, 2008

• The SteelDrivers: The SteelDrivers

  March 6, 2008

• Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

  Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  September 20, 2007

• Biddy Biddy Diddy

  May 4, 2006

• Waiting for Friedman

  Knocking back a few with the Kinky crowd

  October 5, 2006

• Don't Ask, Don't Be

  A Houston-area man leads the fight against the ban on gays in the military

  January 5, 2006

• It's a Bird! It's a Plane!

  Despite major opposition, construction commences on what could become North America's most dangerous airport

  December 22, 2005

• Renaissance Man

  A cop learns the pain of piercing

  April 21, 2005

• Owed to Billy Joe

  Today all the best poets are singers. That's why a singer should be Texas's next poet laureate.

  December 30, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 29, 2004

• MOFRO

  June 24, 2004

• Rock and Roll Never Forgets

  Classic rock finds a new generation of fans and keeps on keepin' on into the new millennium

  May 13, 2004

• Collision Course

  Cyclists are finding out what really lurks along those serene country roads

  October 16, 2003

• Fishing Trip

  Bring your shrimps to the gulf

  August 28, 2003

• Alphabet Soup

  The Colour Clear knows exactly where it should be filed in the record store. But what about in real life?

  August 7, 2003

• Who Are Those Puckers?

  Air hockey gets serious

  March 13, 2003

• Reach for the Sky

  The selfishness of Hands Up Houston nourishes Space City's beleaguered indie scene

  November 1, 2001

• Raw Roots

  Excavations for plantation artifacts - and the real truth - are unraveling the genteel gloss covering Texans' old notions about the slave era here

  June 14, 2001

• Mixing It Up

  She just wanted her comfortable suburban life. But when a concrete company intruded on her paradise, the homemaker turned warrior.

  May 10, 2001

• Kristi's Gift

  She gave up her infant son to two strangers who became her friends. Now, more than two years later, she's still in his life, visiting regularly. In an open adoption, they're all doing their best for Ryan.

  December 21, 2000

• Smoke and Mirrors

  As part of the Bush legacy, a special law can hide polluting industries

  October 26, 2000

• In the (O)Zone

  What's the fuss, TNRCC? We've got air to die for.

  September 28, 2000

• Psychic Phenomena

  Bubba Henderson says he sees all, knows all. Sometimes that's the problem.

  April 1, 1999

• The Exterminator

  Tom DeLay, the bug man from Sugar Land, has always despised environmental regulation. Now, as House majority whip, he's in a position to do something about it.

  November 23, 1995

• PJ Stoops' Fishmonger's Booth

  Photo by Robb Walsh PJ Stoops has a fishmonger's booth at the Bayou City Farmer's Market at 3000 Richmond most Saturday mornings. He told me he lived in Lake Jackson and made the rounds of the docks where fishing boats pull in early in the morning. He buys good-looking fish right off the boat, vacuum packs them for freshness and keeps them cold until you buy them at the farmer's market. His prices are fairly reasonable. The morning I stopped by he had some great-looking golden tilefish and s

  May 15, 2009

• Hit Hermann

  May 21, 2009

• That's One Ugly Baby: The 10 Creepiest Babies Ever

  We've been seeing pregnant bellies all over H-Town. From The Woodlands down to Lake Jackson, it seems every other woman we see is either in the family way or accompanied by a doting father lugging around a car seat right not too far behind. What gives? One conspiracy theory is that these are all "Ike" babies, borne of the power outages and curfews that were the norm in these parts back in September and October. Another is that babies are awesome and cute and smell good. And another more

  June 17, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Sea Center Texas

  Photos by Brittanie SheyAbout an hour south of Houston on 288, in a modern residential neighborhood in Lake Jackson, stands Sea Center Texas, an aquarium and educational center operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. As aquariums go, it's not the state's fanciest, but it does include exhibits dedicated solely to environments along the Texas coast, from offshore depths to jetties to salt marshes. Outside the facility there is a long boardwalk showcasing a coastal wetlands environmen

  July 6, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Blacktop Gypsy and Shurman

  Two fine bands who don't come through much are playing just blocks apart tonight. Dallas's Blacktop Gypsy will be knocking the audience out with their amazing harmonies and the virtuosity of fiddler Heather Stalling (wife of Max Stalling) and former Lake Jackson resident Rodney Pyeatt. Stalling was raised in a family of string players and has been doing fiddle contests since she was four years old. She's played with Ed Burleson, Mark David Manders, and others in the Texas music scene. Pyeatt wa

  July 30, 2009

• The Buc-ee's Backlash Begins (Finally)

  ​The Heavens parted and we heard Angels singing...And on the eighth day, God created Buc-ees. And He saw that it was good.-- Testimonial on the blog at Buc-ee's official Web site. For what is, in the end, merely a chain of roadside truck stops that don't even allow trucks to stop, Buc-ee's and its maniacally grinning little beaver mascot sure garner a lot of fanatical devotion. Let's take a look at more of the testimonials on the Web site of the fast-growing Lake Jackson-based company with th

  October 2, 2009

• Burgers and Hash

  October 22, 2009

• Lola's Burger and Yellow Mustard Orthodoxy

  ​Lola, the modern diner on Yale, is the subject of this week's Café review. Lola's exceptional burger is made with a certified Angus beef patty, tomato, a pickle and cheddar. The sandwich is served on a moist sweet bun that has been toasted. For a dollar, you can add some applewood bacon. It is important to order Lola's burger medium-rare if you like your burger pink and juicy in the middle. As Katharine Shilcutt noted, Lola's uses yellow mustard. Like many Texas burger aficionados, my

  October 21, 2009

• Westheimer Block Party Listology: Fiskadoro Chooses Artists They'd Bring Back to Life

  All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of. It's not too late for your band to be up here; just email chris.gray@houstonpress.com by noon Thursday if you want to play. First up are Lake Jackson post-punk art-rockers Fiskadoro. Rich Kimball, guitar Robert Rental: This guy is criminally obscure. I think he played with Daniel Miller's band The Normal for awh

  November 10, 2009