Subject: Little Rock

• Aftermath: Corb Lund & The Hurtin' Albertans at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

  August 27, 2008

• The Celluloid of the President

  February 17, 1994

• Death of a Comic

  March 10, 1994

• Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that little Rocks Off has likewise gone hillbilly nuts. He hasn't stopped listening to other kinds of music completely, but lately, to paraphrase someone who was most definitely not a

  December 29, 2008

• Return to Bali Ha'i

  April 14, 1994

• Shuck U: The Right Tool

  The big brute of the oyster-shucking world is called a "Galveston knife" (on the left). It's an eight-inch knife with a stout four-inch blade designed for opening large oysters like the five-inch Espiritu Santo Bay oyster shown beside it. (Espritu Santo Bay is down around Port O'Connor.) The knife shown is an inexpensive plastic model available at restaurant supply stores for under $10.

  December 31, 2008

• Food Fight

  June 30, 1994

• 1995 Houston Press Music Awards

  August 10, 1995

• Cut & Run

  June 20, 1996

• Press Picks

  December 5, 1996

• Lost in the Cause

  May 29, 1997

• Letters

  June 19, 1997

• Conference Kudos and Crud

  March 26, 1998

• Nasty Girl

  July 30, 1998

• Houston Ranks Second in All-Important Commando Cilantro Index

  Photo by babyparentingguideDamn, guys, what's up with Houston only being the 39th manliest city in the land? We're only one spot above Seattle, and we all know what kind of dudes hang out there. Not very manly dudes, that's who. In all seriousness, this is easily one of the lamest surveys ever. Sure, we get it: Some company, which we won't bother naming and which actually isn't even that manly by its own standards, comes up with a random set of metrics and sends out a press release to all th

  March 6, 2009

• Life On The Rodeo Road: The Road Was My Home

  Photo by Paul KnightScotty Drennan Rodeo cowboys basically live on the road, traveling with a herd of men and women crazy enough to ride, rope and wrestle live animals for a paycheck. Each day, Hair Balls is asking a different cowboy to tell us a little bit about himself and his wildest story from a life of rodeo. In the end, we hope, we'll have a collection of stories that re-enforce our Texan ideals that rodeo cowboys still like to raise hell. Name: Scotty Drennan Age: 36 Hometown: Buffalo, T

  March 6, 2009

• The Master Interpreter

  December 10, 1998

• To Bloom Again

  December 24, 1998

• News of the Weird

  April 29, 1999

• 2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

  January 1, 2009

• A Bad Place to Die

  May 5, 1994

• Local Motion

  November 29, 2007

• The Plane Truth

  June 8, 2006

• Shawn Camp

  Fireball

  March 16, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 10, 2005

• One More for the Road

  Local musicians regale us with more tales of woe, joy and debauchery

  July 21, 2005

• Booking It

  These travel narratives are as much about the teller as the terrain

  May 26, 2005

• The Bolivar Kid Strikes Again

  Hayes Carll continues H-town's hot streak with Little Rock

  April 7, 2005

• O Little Town of West Texas

  Lee Friedlander goes to homes for the holidays

  December 23, 2004

• Playbill

  November 11, 2004

• Strings Attached

  Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?

  June 17, 2004

• You Better Watch Out

  These Saint Nicks can be real pricks

  December 18, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 8, 2003

• Barnyard Boogie

  Former Houstonian Kev Russell talks about Snoop Dogg and Cow Fish Fowl or Pig

  August 29, 2002

• Image Versus Reality

  MFA exhibits shatter two things that America loves: Its myths and its marketing

  September 27, 2001

• Bulldozers at the Gate

  Houston fiddles while its architectural and cultural heritage disappears

  May 3, 2001

• See George Educate

  A Texas journalist gives George W. Bush his due

  March 2, 2000

• Where Angels Fear to Tread

  When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas

  January 20, 2000

• Double Image

  Does selling George W. Bush mean Mark McKinnon has sold out?

  October 7, 1999

• Boogie Nights

  Music, a Houston DJ andthe lure of Austin

  April 8, 1999

• Would You Buy a Revolution From This Man?

  Is Quanell X the new Malcolm? Or does he just want you to think so?

  April 3, 1997

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• The 100 Best Bars in America: None For You!

  Hey, Esquire, stick to covering topics like this and we'll all be happy.​The venerated Esquire has released its list of the Best Bars in America, compiled after what we imagine was some serious and excessive binge-drinking that had either mind-erasing or mind-altering effects on the editors, because guess what: Not a single Houston bar made the list. The list dutifully covers all 50 states -- and even made it to Puerto Rico (one pities the poor person who had to travel there and to Hawa

  September 14, 2009

• Chef Chat: Kay Soodjai of Khun Kay Thai Café

  ​Kay Soodjai and her sister-in-law Supatra Yooto opened the Golden Room in Montrose 27 years ago. Last year they replaced the venerable Golden Room with Khun (Madame) Kay Thai Café (1209 Montrose), with a fast-casual concept and less expensive meals. Supatra, who describes herself as more of an "old-fashioned" Thai cook, offered some translation assistance as Kay was interviewed. How did you get started in the restaurant business? I worked for Chinese and Thai restaurants in Houston, Chi

  November 10, 2009