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The Battle Against the Keystone Pipeline

Environmentalists and landowners battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and its load of crude from flowing across Texas rivers and aquifers.

Openings & Closings: Downtown Derring-Do

Restaurants and bars are betting on downtown in increasing numbers, as more business owners perform daring feats like -- gasp! -- moving into vacant spaces on Main Street or taking over failed locations with zest and zeal. Now that I've gotten all of the Errol Flynn language out of my system for th ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Boycott Columbus Day?

And why do white people like to brag about where they travel?

Frontier Airlines Abandons a Houston Airport

On Wednesday, if you're driving to Hobby, rushing to make your Frontier Airlines flight, you are in a world of hurt. That's because you'll be headed to the wrong airport. Effective July 11 and moving forward (at least until it changes its mind again) Frontier and its planes will be going in and ou ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Midsommar's Night Eating and Free Frescas

It's already scorching hot in Houston, and it's only going to get hotter. So cool off by celebrating the first day of summer on Thursday, June 21, at Pollo Campero. The fresh-Mex joint will be offering patrons a free agua fresca with purchase of any entree all day Thursday, including: Mango: A pu ... More >>

The Global Burger: Argentina

I love a good burger. While I always enjoy the regular patty on a bun with cheese, lettuce, tomato and ketchup (as long as it's cooked at least medium rare), sometimes I like to put a twist or two on tradition. In this series of posts, I'm globalizing the burger by revamping it according to other co ... More >>

7th Annual Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America

Chef Chat, Part 1: Aquilas Chavez of La Fisheria

The first time you meet Mexican Chef and Latin American TV personality Aquilas Chavez of the new restaurant, La Fisheria, you immediately get a sense of his larger-than-life personality. He's gregarious, funny, confident, outgoing, and wholly unselfconscious. But most importantly, he grew up in the ... More >>

La Fisheria Opens Tomorrow as Houston Welcomes a Mexican Celebrity Chef to the City

Most Americans wouldn't know chef Aquiles Chávez if they saw him on the street, even with his trademark handlebar mustache and Jack Sparrow-style dreadlocks tucked under a straw hat. But ask anyone in Latin America about Chávez and they'll immediately grin and say, "El hombre con el bigote!" as t ... More >>

Robert L. Hedrick: Pan Am's Big Comeback Likely Stalled With Its President's Child-Porn Indictment

A child-porn indictment qualifies as a wrench in the plans​Robert L. Hedrick made a big splash last October, inviting former Pan Am employees back to Brownsville's original pan Am building to announce the creation of an airline with a similar name that had plans to fly routes from that city to ... More >>

Houston Led Nation in Population Growth in Last Decade, Rice Finds

Rice U video No city in America grew more in population in the last decade than Houston, a Rice study said today. And if you don't believe it, they put out the slick video above to erase any doubt. Houston added 1,231,393 residents between 2000 and 2012, the study of census figures said; the next ... More >>

Skype Testimony From Iraq Helps Convict Conroe Murderer

Skype: Putting murderers behind bars​A man was convicted or murder in Conroe based partly on testimony delivered via Skype from an Army base in Iraq. A Conroe police officer who had been involved in the investigation into the December 2008 murder is serving now in the Texas National Guard in ... More >>

Professor Punk: Hates Singer To Be Guest Lecturer At U Of H

Brittanie SheyThe Hates at Cactus Music, December 2009​Quick. What do Ice-T and Houston's own punk-rock elder statesman Christian Arnheiter of The Hates have in common? Well, both are respected lectures at institutes of higher learning. Arnheiter will be guest lecturing from 11:30 a.m. to 12: ... More >>

Exactly How Safe Is Juarez?

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Os Mutantes: The Best Band You've Probably Never Heard Of

Pink Floit via Flickr​Os Mutantes were one of the most influential rock groups to emerge during the late '60s in Brazil. The band - initially a trio with Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and his brother Sergio Dias) fell under the graces of the founders of the Tropicalismo movement, Brazil's respons ... More >>

Bobby Heugel's Weekly Cocktail: The Pisco Sour

​Peruvians and Chileans drink pisco sours like Texans drink margaritas. For decades, Peru and Chile have viciously fought over the origins of pisco, a grape-based spirit similar to grappa, and the equally famous cocktail the pisco sour. Arguing so fiercely over spirits and cocktails may sound ... More >>

Snow: The Product That Will Wake Up Your Hip-Hop and Political Games

Let us be forthcoming about 22-year-old, San Jose, Calif., native Claudia A. Feliciano. We'd put her up against any female MC in the game, and we're confident she'd give anyone of them a run for their money... or take their money. She's a versatile, bilingual lyricist who can fluently chop you up i ... More >>

Tough Little Pumpkin Jam

​I had chilacayote jam on toast for my first breakfast this morning. (Yes, I had two breakfasts.) Chilacayote is a tough little pumpkin that is cooked in syrup in Latin America. It has an odd crunchy texture that makes an audible sound when you bite it -- the fibrous flesh absorbs lots of the ... More >>

Readers Respond, and the Mexican Middle Class

Answer an Urgent Appeal to Heal Haiti by Getting Some "Swagger"

[Ed. Note: Please email any news of further music-related relief efforts to chris.gray@houstonpress.com.] Bobby Moon & Lil Flip - Swagger from AK Kurji on Vimeo. If you're looking for a way to contribute to the Haitian relief efforts, Houston-based international pop artist Bobby Moon is going to ... More >>

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Summer Drinks: Greek Frappe

Oscar Romero’s Legacy

Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapel’s human rights award had on their lives

Chef Dominique Macquet

The author of Dominique’s Fresh Flavors: Cooking with Latitude in New Orleans visits Houston

Sugar Skulls and "Sana, Sana"

Special Día de los Muertos Edition

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

The Halle "Universe"

The MFAH's Latin American Art Department has yet another hit show

Mail Call

Trash Talk

Don't Hate the Guayabera!

Jesus, That Guy Is Everywhere...

Getting the V from E.O.D.

Talking truth with rappers Indecent and Arch

The Taco Truck Gourmet's Art Gallery

Hitting the Highway

Fine Lines

Discover the work and words of a remarkable avant-garde artist

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

On Dog Food and Saddam

The Austin Lounge Lizards crawl into town

Friends FLY Free

FLY and Sandra Organ Dance Company wing it at Miller

Paying the Price

Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

Best Community Newspaper

El Día

On the Spot

Deporting Disparities

Immigration law divides Central Americans

Night & Day

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Press Picks

Losing Focus?

Once groundbreaking, this year's FotoFest just tilled old soil

It's All Great

A finished documentary about an incomplete Orson Welles masterwork