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The Tango Blast Houstone Gang Takes A Hit

Local and federal agents in an anti-gang task force charged with waging the much-debated "War on Drugs" have nabbed another round of bad guys, this time more than a dozen members of Texas' largest prison gang, Tango Blast Houstone. Acting Houston U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson announced today that 14 mem ... More >>

People Rich Enough To Own Boats Find It Easy To Evade Taxes

Galveston County is getting screwed out of about $33,000 in property taxes from a League City marina. The county knows about it, but doesn't seem to care. On the Wharf Marina web site, it says plain as day (if you don't take into account spelling and grammatical errors) that wet slip owners "must pa ... More >>

Don't Get A Toothache If You've Got Jury Duty In Galveston County

A League City woman has been found in contempt of court and fined $100 because she got a toothache during a trial on which she was a juror, the Galveston County Daily News  reports.It wasn't so much she got the toothache and needed surgery; it was more that she told some people (including a rep ... More >>

PBK Architects Brings Its "Build Big" Sales Job To League City

Photo by antkrizPBK Architects, the Houston firm that's in a messy battle because it wanted to build Taj Mahal facilities at a suburban Austin district and that is making Fort Bend parents uneasy with plans to build a Taj Mahal science facility there (official estimate from the superintendent: It's ... More >>

Slip-Up on Taxes

Boat owners get to evade

Letters

Rotten to the Corps, Wife Strife, Sweet and Neat

Ganging Up

Rotten to the Corps, Wife Strife, Sweet and Neat

Letters

Full-time Friendly, In the Hood, Humanitiy's Teacher

Valentino's Seafood

A Texas shrimper is finding out how hard it is to run a seafood restaurant in Houston

Almighty Municipality

With League City controlled by the Christian right, citizens can rezone - and repent

Saturday Morning Live

MetalFest rocks out -- in the a.m.

Fly Ballas

T-Mac and fellow all-star hoopsters trade the court for the diamond

Boobs, Balls and Beer

Check out what's brewing for Super Sunday

San Francisco Treat

Catching up with League City's Greg Ashley in that other city by the bay

Letters

Catching up with League City's Greg Ashley in that other city by the bay

I Love My Calendar Girl

Houston's got its own for every day of the year

The Mirrors

13 Patient Flowers (Fleece Records)

Letters

13 Patient Flowers (Fleece Records)

A Hanging Offense

Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

Letters

Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

Great American Sway

Plus: Sterile at UH, Rolling On, Motor Madness

Letters

Filling the Gulf, Anime Alert, Harsh on Harsh

RV Xmas

In which our intrepid reporter goes searching for the heart of America on a trailer pad. And finds disappointment, isolation, kindness and a great way to cook himself a turkey.

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 Gera ... More >>

Life, Post-Ike: The Comeback Kid

Without as much to lose as Galveston, Bolivar surges ahead in its recovery.

Coyotes And Bobcats Invade Area Yuppie Enclaves

​Back in 2004, we covered the battle of man vs. coyote in League City. Now it appears the wily canines have moved the battlefront closer to town.WestUInstantNews picks up the, um, tail: Coyotes and bobcats have recently been spotted prowling the border of Bellaire and West University Place, prom ... More >>

League City Ladies Room Peeper Nabbed

Photo courtesy League City PD​Imagine this scenario, ladies. You're out shopping, and your bladder is bursting. You rush to a stall and sit down to pee. Ahhh, bliss. Suddenly, from the stall next door, this head appears under the partition:That head belongs to Dickinson's Juan Gomez, who is allege ... More >>

Ralph Anthony Grohman, 70: League City Man Waxes Philosophical After Cops Rough Up His Blind Wife

Deep thoughts, from a recent arrestee​About all that can be said with any certainty is this: Mrs. Ralph Anthony Grohman, 71, was not about to let the League City cops just walk right up and arrest her 70-year-old husband Ralph for assault. What happened after that is open to debate.The offic ... More >>

Bradley Prior: Don't Impersonate A Cop On The Jailhouse Phone

Photo courtesy GCSOBradley Prior, genius​Last Sunday, 21-year-old Bradley Pryor apparently forgot his Target card when he went shopping for memory cards and clothes in his native League City. Also his checkbook and cash, because he is alleged to have walked out without paying for anything.Pryor wa ... More >>

NOAH'S ARK BAR AND GRILL'S OYSTER SHOOTER

Photo courtesy GCSOBradley Prior, genius​Last Sunday, 21-year-old Bradley Pryor apparently forgot his Target card when he went shopping for memory cards and clothes in his native League City. Also his checkbook and cash, because he is alleged to have walked out without paying for anything.Pryor wa ... More >>

Stirred & Shaken: Noah's Ark Bar and Grill's Oyster Shooter

Troy Fields​Noah's Ark Bar and Grill (4438 Boulevard St., 281-339-2895) in Bacliff is salty as hell, in the best way possible. Downstairs, countless cigarettes have infused the walls with a smell we city drinkers aren't exposed to much anymore, thanks to Houston's indoor smoking ban. Area resi ... More >>

Rob My Purse? Sure. Just Let Me Get My Cigarettes First

Take my money, sure...BUT NOT MY CIGARETTES, dammit​A classic radio skit by Jack Benny (look him up, young'uns) had his miserly character being confronted by a robber. "Your money or your life," says the robber. Loooong pause. (Benny was the master of comic timing.) "Well?" says the robber. ... More >>

Z-Ro Actually Smiles, Laughs - We Have Proof!

Marco TorresZ-Ro at Arena Theatre, Jan. 22, 2011​This morning, one of Rocks Off's readers in Dallas sent us an email. In fact, that sentence was almost the headline of this blog - apparently we actually have readers up there, so maybe those North Texans Southern Oklahomans aren't as hopeless a ... More >>

Openings & Closings

Photo courtesy of AvaInside Ava Kitchen & Whiskey Bar​First things first, for anyone who might be heading out to Skewers (3991 Richmond, 713-599-1444) for its grand reopening: Don't. At least, not yet. The restaurant's PR team emailed us an explanation for the delay this week: Skewers is not ... More >>

Openings & Closings: February 2011

A plate of nigirizushi at Blue Fish.​As we showed you in our sneak peek earlier this week, The Blue Fish is now open at Bayou Place downtown. The Dallas-based sushi bar will also open a second Houston location in a few months next door to benjy's on Washington Avenue., where a new build-out is ... More >>

Tuesday March 29, 2011 Deals of the Day

striatic​I'm a notorious bargain-hunter, and it drives my husband crazy. "We're not grad students anymore," he complains, as I scour the Internet for menu prices and coupon deals. I can't help it; I love a good discount. And I'm more excited to check out online coupon websites in the morning t ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Gets Out of TIRR, Moves to League City

Giffords heads to League City.​U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has completed her stint at TIRR and will begin outpatient therapy, Memorial Hermann announced today. The Arizona rep, shot in the head five months ago, will live in the League City home of her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. ... More >>

Kevin Gonterman: Spent Two Snake-Ridden Days At Bottom Of 30-Foot Manhole

"Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine"​A League City man who has been missing since Saturday was found at the bottom of a 30-foot manhole, apparetnly lucid but suffering from a number of snake bites. Kevin Gonterman, 25, was found b ... More >>

Comment of the Day: A Reader Grosses Us Out

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week in Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. New York Times: No less than the New York Times visited El Real recently, and f ... More >>

HPMA Showcase: Win 2 Nights At South Shore Harbour

cred​Now that the 2011 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is up and running, Rocks Off would like to offer you a little more incentive to attend the HPMA showcase on Saturday, November 12. Head over to the showcase's Facebook page, click "I'm attending" and you will be automatically eligible to ... More >>

State Rep Larry Taylor At Committee Hearing: "Don't Try to Jew Them Down"

At least he didn't make any cracks about "Jew York City"​Larry Taylor is League City's state rep, and a co-chair of the state's Joint Legislative Committee on Windstorm Insurance. According to the Quorum Report, at a hearing today he "was discussing delivery of quick and fair payments for win ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Adrienne Byard of Grand Prize

​I first met Adrienne while visiting a friend in New York in 2009. She was working at an art gallery in the Lower East Side for the summer, and after the internship was over, she moved back to Austin to finish school at St. Edwards, getting her degree in photography. Adrienne moved to Housto ... More >>

League City's City Manager Suspended for Using the N-Word in LSU-Alabama Discussion

Rich Oller, cutting-edge football analyst.​Rich Oller, the acting city manager of League City, has been suspended for a week following a long closed-door council session investigating his use of the N-word at City Hall. Yourbayareanews.com reports that Oller was discussing the previous night' ... More >>

Comment of the Day: The Tired Old N-Word Defense

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>