League City

Nullifying Federal Gun Statutes: After League City's Precedent, Towns Across Texas -- and Beyond -- Race to Do The Same

It's been over two months since League City became the first city in the nation to instruct local officials to forgo federal arms enforcement. League City, owner of the largest rate of concealed handgun licensees in the state, decided that any potential Bushmaster restriction was beyond the pale, an ... More >>

The Wave Builds: Now The City Of Gonzales Nullifies Federal Gun Statutes, They Think

Two weeks ago, League City became the first Texas town to nullify federal gun statutes. It was clear from the beginning, however, that it would not be the last. Numerous municipals legislators had contacted the town's City Council for advice. A dozen other cities had reached out for a copy of the re ... More >>

Hotel ZaZa's Hidden Dungeon

You have to ask for this cell.

League City Grants Itself Right to Ignore Any Firearm Limits Elected Officials Pass

Heidi Thiess wants you to know that this isn't about her. This resolution -- this resolution that League City's just passed, banning any federal limits pertaining to guns, to ammunition, to the Second Amendment -- isn't anything personal. This is something larger, she says. This isn't a woman and a ... More >>

10 Fun Food Festivals Coming Up This Spring

News of Houston's first big barbecue festival was announced yesterday, and fans have already begun buying up tickets to the appropriately-named Houston Barbecue Festival. Scheduled to take place on March 24, the festival has already booked such popular local smokers as Pizzitola's Bar-B-Cue, CorkScr ... More >>

Boogie, Blues & Brews

Breaking News: Funnel Cloud Warning for Fort Bend County

Click 2 Houston is passing on a weather report warning of possible funnel clouds this morning in Fort Bend County. The report says that rapidly developing thunderstorms coupled with "a very buoyant atmosphere" will lead to funnel clouds. Their report follows:

DUI Suspect Jason Murray: District Clerk Ticketed for Accident, Crashes Into Car Driving Away

How not to leave an accident scene: Troubled Galveston County District Clerk Jason Murray was ticketed by League City police after he rear-ended a truck March 28. He then got in his car and, as newly suspicious officers noticed he was driving erratically, he rammed into a second vehicle. He has be ... 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 involving wit ... More >>

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

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's BCS title game between LSU & Alabama last month ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

NOAH'S ARK BAR AND GRILL'S OYSTER SHOOTER

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Life, Post-Ike: The Comeback Kid

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Slip-Up on Taxes

Boat owners get to evade

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 >>

Ganging Up

More Images from Before and After Hurricane Ike

Valentino's Seafood

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

The Line for Taco Bell Jokes Starts Here

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

I Love My Calendar Girl

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

The Mirrors

13 Patient Flowers (Fleece Records)

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Great American Sway

Plus: Sterile at UH, Rolling On, Motor Madness

Letters

Filling the Gulf, Anime Alert, Harsh on Harsh

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

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.

Almighty Municipality

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

Diner's Notebook

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