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Bayou City Boo

This year's best Halloween parties.

Bayou City Boo!

2012 Houston Press Halloween Guide

Bayou City Boo!

Where to celebrate everyone's favorite holiday.

A Bloody Good -- and Bloody Hard to Find -- Dessert Hits Revival Market

In its savory form, sanguinaccio tastes like oddly greaseless pan sausage. Revival Market even serves the stuff in a tall, sausage-shaped round along with a fried yard egg, the crumbly texture of the sanguinaccio thirstily soaking up the golden yolk once you pierce the egg's delicate white cloak. I ... More >>

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Jukeboxes

Along with pickled pig's feet and a steady supply of Slim Jims, a good jukebox is a prime element for any great bar. But, like dinosaurs, jukeboxes are a vanishing breed. Unlike digital jukes, iPods or DJs, jukeboxes require love, care and maintenance, as well as -- among the truly great ones -- som ... More >>

Texas MC Snow Tha Product Signs With Atlantic Records

"You mean to tell me that you think I don't know that I ain't black? Or that I don't know that usually Latin girls ain't really been all up in rap? I didn't know that my color or gender could be the preventer of getting on tracks See the last time that I checked they play hip-hop in the hood And ... More >>

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to What's Happening This Hallowen

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to Halloween

Brilliant "Color"

Carlos Cruz-Diez gets large-scale retrospective at MFAH.

Let's Get Spooky

Here's our guide to what's happening this Halloween.

Head Out

Our guide to Halloween's best haunts

Managua: Making Friends with Nicaraguan Food

​I'll admit to having absolutely no familiarity with Nicaraguan food whatsoever prior to my meal at Managua on Sunday afternoon. But after passing Managua an untold number of times on my way down Bellaire Boulevard towards the culinary paradise that is Chinatown, I finally decided to make a de ... More >>

Annise Parker Says Fear Not Tthe Continental/United Merger

Continental -- just a memory now​Houston's Continental Airlines is seemingly about to be taken over by the Yankee corporation of United Airlines in a $3 billion merger than will create the world's largest airline.That airline will not be named Continental.Bad news for Houston? Not necessarily so, ... More >>

A Playlist For Our Wetbacks in Arizona And For All Who Pray For Them

"It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people."- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.​There's something so powerful about music. It gets us through life's bu ... More >>

Cashville Latino Anthem Makes a Cultural Statement; Dat Boi T Has A "Cracc Flow"

Whether they know it or not, the recently released "Cashville Latino Anthem" music video by the Seis Uno Cinco, ten Latino hip-hop artists out of Nashville (yeah, we said Nashville), could make a bigger statement outside the 615 area code, than the self-proclaimed impact of a "movement that is boun ... More >>

Low-G: From E.S.L. Mockery to Historic Spanish Hip-Hop

"When I'm on my last line I'm gonna let ya'll know." "Yo, yo I want to welcome... welcome everybody to Hustle Town. Are we recording? Alright, let's do this, fellas." True Houston Latino rap fans don't need us to cite the opening lines of this track or what album it appeared on, but maybe you need ... More >>

Astros: Second Prize Is A Set Of Steak Knives

​I swear, the sense of desperation with the Astros and their desire for a Mariano Rivera-type reliever has me believing that Drayton thinks that Alec Baldwin speech in Glengarry Glen Ross is "always buy closers," not "always be closing."It's like he and his staff are afraid that Mitch and Murray a ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: Mexican Global Groovers and World Travelers Plastilina Mosh

​Plastilina Mosh has a new CD out, All U Need Is Mosh, on Nacional Records, and brings its international sound to Houston Thursday for a free concert with Venezuela's Los Amigos Invisibles. That's right, it's free - all it costs is a very worthwhile trip outside the Loop. Rocks Off hasn't picked u ... More >>

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween. Check out our updated listings.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Latin American Left Film Festival

The revolution may not be televised, but it will be on the big screen

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

Get All Dressed Up

There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.

The Return of the Kashmere Stage band

"Mexican Madonna" at South Beach Tonight

Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

GWAR Heroes Electro Grrl

Flying filth will never go out of style with these guys around

Why do Mexicans Worship Che Guevara More Than Argentines Do?

The Mexican replies

The Killers vs. the Killers

How do these pretty boys stack up against some real dealers of death?

Fantastic Form

Sicardi Gallery shows the optically kinetic art of Luis Tomasello

Hot Shows

Summertime concerts that will leave you sweating

Living Color

Two exhibitions explore the power of pigment

Low-Tech Industry

Jesús-Rafael Soto's works come alive -- on your retinas

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Artsy Ambling

Stomp Around to five gallery openings in one night

Shel Shocked

Silverstein knew how to get nasty

Letters

Attention, Please

Two Latin American artists get an enthusiastic, if belated, reception

Meat and Tomatoes

Avenida Paulista Churrascaria should please carnivores and vegetarians alike

Kung Fu'd

Or, what does Miramax have against Asian films?

Sino-Tex

Two little restaurants serve up “Houstonized” Chinese food

Murder, They Wrote

A Houston couple links up for a novel look at gory leftovers in the fridge

August Meals

Siestas fit in perfectly with Houston's climate

Treasure Hunter

Chris Strachwitz's 40-year journey through ethnic music deserves an arhoolie of its own

Escapism from Houston

Dance has local angles but an unimaginative story

Letters

Lovely Latin Ladies

Looking for a gorgeous, subservient wife? One who can't nag you, because she doesn't speak English? The Latina Connection will hook you up.

The Insider

Transformation of Robert Campbell

From Panhandle flatlands to Guatemalan mountains, Houston doctor and artist Robert Campbell searched for a life with meaning.When he died, many said that life was his.

The Voices of Los Rockets

At home and (sort of) away, Radio 1320's Gonzalez and Rojas bring the basketball action to Houston's international audience