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Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're going to try to organize an anti-SOPA fundraiser. Here's how it would go: the menu consists of SOPA-pillas, delicious Mexican batter envelopes served with honey and sugar. But seconds after your waiter brings you your SOPA-pill ... More >>

Flying Karamazov Brothers

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're going to try to organize an anti-SOPA fundraiser. Here's how it would go: the menu consists of SOPA-pillas, delicious Mexican batter envelopes served with honey and sugar. But seconds after your waiter brings you your SOPA-pill ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: Coaches Pub

​The Place: Coaches Pub 2204 Louisiana 713-751-1970 www.coachespubmidtown.com The Deals: $2.50 domestic pints, $3.25 premium pints, $7 domestic pitchers, $2.50 wells, $4 cosmos and $3 Bud Select (the Bud Select special is all of the time) The Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day The Scene: ... More >>

Pops Knockouts

​The Place: Coaches Pub 2204 Louisiana 713-751-1970 www.coachespubmidtown.com The Deals: $2.50 domestic pints, $3.25 premium pints, $7 domestic pitchers, $2.50 wells, $4 cosmos and $3 Bud Select (the Bud Select special is all of the time) The Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day The Scene: ... More >>

Houston Symphony: Ravel’s Spain

​The Place: Coaches Pub 2204 Louisiana 713-751-1970 www.coachespubmidtown.com The Deals: $2.50 domestic pints, $3.25 premium pints, $7 domestic pitchers, $2.50 wells, $4 cosmos and $3 Bud Select (the Bud Select special is all of the time) The Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day The Scene: ... More >>

A Very Merry Pops

​The Place: Coaches Pub 2204 Louisiana 713-751-1970 www.coachespubmidtown.com The Deals: $2.50 domestic pints, $3.25 premium pints, $7 domestic pitchers, $2.50 wells, $4 cosmos and $3 Bud Select (the Bud Select special is all of the time) The Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day The Scene: ... More >>

MOMIX: Botanica

The dancers/illusionists keep everything coming up...roses?

Katrina, Five Years Later: A News Consumer's Guide To The Anniversary Stories

Brian Williams emits manly concern over the situation​If you aren't aware that this weekend marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, you will be by the time Monday rolls around.Newspapers, TV shows and websites will be heavy on commemorating the event. Here's what to look for:1. The use o ... More >>

Espresso On The Go

​If you're lucky, you work at one of those offices with a fancy coffee machine that brews individual little coffee pods for you -- or tea pods! -- and the toughest decision you make every morning is whether or not you'll chose the chai tea latte or the mocha macchiato from the attractively dis ... More >>

Boucherie Reverie

The Louisiana Boucherie at Brennan's

Pop Rocks: Maybe The Gulf Oil Spill Isn't All Bad

​What a difference a three-day weekend makes. Okay, not really. The Gulf oil spill is still out of control, with BP attempting another half-assed Hail Mary this week and the relief wells that promise the best chance at diminishing the catastrophe still two months off. Depending on who you ask, ... More >>

Cirque de la Symphony

Why are there acrobats in the violin section?

Pink Martini at Houston Symphony

Take this groovy group shaken, not stirred

Picnic Drinks

Photo by Foxarts​Blatantly drinking in the park can be considered taboo and tacky. Additionally, most parks have a no glass bottles rule, so taking anything in besides beer is generally a no-no. Most of us have attempted to skirt this pesky restriction by bringing our own pre-mixed booze with ... More >>

Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

Handel's Messiah

What Christmas is all about (with violins)

Late Night Scene: Gotham Pizza

​There's a scene in an early Sex and the City episode (yeah, I went there) where a guy frequents a particular restaurant with a girl he's embarrassed to date because he knows no one will see them there. If anyone could use a similar place in Houston for a late weekend bite, look no further tha ... More >>

Memoirs of the Sistahood, Chapter Two

The breakfast of champions includes a little womanly advice

19th Annual Turkish Festival

Go round and round with the whirling dervish

Virsky Ukrainian National Dance

See what the dancers from the former Kyivska Rus are up to

Hit Hermann

In time for summer, the park's had a facelift.

Houston Symphony: Leila Josefowicz Plus Brahms’s First

Web exclusive!

iFest Unveils Complete Lineup

Photos courtesy of iFest BeogaSince we're already playing hangman today, here's another riddle: What do America's finest genre-hopping Latino band, Houston's best Guinness-chugging rockers, a daughter of the nation's premiere gospel family, a perennially unsung honky-tonker who sounds like th ... More >>

Two Men Jump Out of the Way as Shards of Glass Rain Down From Houston Office Building

Photo By Melanie Pang We don't like the look of that dangling granite, eitherJust after 1 p.m. as the lunch crowd was making its way out of downtown restaurants and back to their office cubicles, the general peace was disturbed by one of those true OMG moments.The wind was gusting pretty high ... More >>

DRUMline – Live

Who cares about football? It’s the half-time show that’s the real star

Comets, Stoners, Cougars, Robbers, Filmmakers and Anarchists

A Long Way to Go

Chicken & Sausage Gumbo at Al-T's

For Houston drivers headed east on I-10 towards Beaumont and Louisiana, the small town of Winnie, Texas is not much more than the usual collection of truck stops, McDonald's and Super 8 motels that mark such highway oases. But just as I-10 bends north towards Beaumont, if you look to the south yo ... More >>

Divine Performing Arts World Tour

Get your glow on

Very Merry Pops

Fa-la-la-la-la-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Swing!

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive

Bummer: Downtown YMCA to Be Demolished

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive

Mama Assumption's and Capone's Bar and Oven

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive

To Do: Little Chenier at the Angelika

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive

Texas Zydeco Hits the Big Screen

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Houston Symphony for some jump and jive

The 5 Browns

The SPA hosts a homecoming for the Juilliard quintet

“Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway”

The Houston Symphony performs classics from the Great White Way

The Irish Tenors’ Christmas Special

The classical/pop trio makes its debut in Houston

Give Me a "V"

Angry women in tight jeans

Sex, Death and Oysters

Beneath the muddy waters of Galveston Bay lies one of the greatest seafood treasure troves on earth

The Family Formula

It's just another Tuesday night at Lopez Mexican Restaurant

Clear Channel Cajun Invasion

April 5 through 7

Walker, Texas Ranger

Carl Walker, Brennan's of Houston

Creole Country

Cajun, New Orleans Creole and African-French Creole are three distinct cuisines.

Best Place to Eat When You Can't Decide What You Want

Super Steak & More

Let's Make A Deal

Convicted felons Mike and Pat Graham are at it again, trading allegations for favors

Hot Plate

Lagniappe

Cajun Pride

Lagniappe