Maryland

Grocery Stores & Supermarkets Increase Sales with Ready-To-Eat Foods

Grocery stores and supermarkets have turned into places where we can not only buy food to cook at home, but also meals that are already cooked for us. In the summer of 2012, Packaged Facts, a research company in Rockville, Maryland, predicted that this category of foods would reach $32.45 billion i ... More >>

Rockport Meth Trailer Yields Strong Ice; Pit Bull Killed in Raid

A pit bull is dead and three people have been arrested after a police raid on a Rockport meth house. According to KIII-TV, police found more than $1,000 and eight grams of high-grade ice hidden in an Altoids can and a pill bottle inside the trailer home. Elizabeth Martinez, 44, Sean Lee Harrison, ... More >>

Hey Kids, Stop Drinking Monster -- You Could Ruin It For Adults

Headlines this past week have been screaming -- OK, raising their voice slightly -- once again about those dastardly energy drinks. Which you could be drinking right now as you read this, depending on the time of day and your occupation. This time it's Monster Energy drinks, those 24-ounce jobs es ... More >>

For Flag Day: America's 10 Best State Flags

As all you vexillologists out there know so well, it's Flag Day again: the most wonderful day of the year. Last year's drought and intense hear put us in a sour mood, so we raked ten of the worst state flags over the coals. This year, thanks to all the rain we've been enjoying, we're feeling much b ... More >>

The April Steak and Crab Cake Offer at Sullivan's Steakhouse - Get It While You Still Can

When I think of surf 'n turf, I automatically think of steak and lobster, but to many food lovers, crab is the sweeter "turf": its meat is more delicate, its fragrance more subtle, and its flavor more pleasing. Which is why, when Sullivan's Steakhouse announced its April Steak and Cake special, I m ... More >>

Weekend Reminder: Don't Leave Your Kids Behind at Chuck E. Cheese

Just two days after a Maryland family left their three-year-old daughter behind at Chuck E. Cheese by accident -- and were only alerted after seeing her picture on the 11 p.m. news that night -- Texas has one-upped the Old Line State. KTRK reported this afternoon that a five-year-old girl was left ... More >>

Death Penalty Is Going Out of Style, New Report Says

Texas is still doing its part​America, you just ain't the criminal-killin' place you used to be. A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center says that for the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, less than 100 executions took place in the U.S. There have bee ... More >>

Top 10 Vintage Things We Miss About Football

​Tear-away jerseys, the XFL and concussion-causing headhunters aren't things we miss about football. We pine for these ten items. 10. Uniforms That Don't Suck This mostly applies to college football, where repeat offenders Oregon were joined by Georgia, Ohio State, Maryland and Syracuse (pi ... More >>

Vice-President Spiro Agnew, Who Made Nixon Look Good: 5 Facts, from Sex to Bribes

On this day in 1973, the Vice-President of the United States resigned from office after pleading no contest to accepting bribes. Pretty big deal, right? But Spiro Agnew has been largely lost to history, remembered mostly for his odd name. Richard Nixon picked the obscure Maryland governor as his r ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Don Juan in Hell

Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, The Mikado, Spring Awakening

Four Gung-Ho Patriotic Tunes That Are Actually British

​Monday, July 4th, you'll celebrate Independence Day. We say you'll celebrate it because we will have already done our celebrating on the proper day... July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to tell King George III to kiss their grits. It's true that the Declaration of Independe ... More >>

Brew Blog: A Fordham Brewing Co. Sampler in Annapolis

​Traveling for business sucks. Sure, you may get to see other parts of the country on someone else's dime, but you also have to eat hotel food and live out of a suitcase. Whenever I find myself out of town for work, I try to make the best of it. A little bit of pre-planning can help quite a bi ... More >>

Grier Hires An Aggie As His New Communications Chief

​Verifying rumors that have been floating around the district for days, the Houston Independent School District just announced that Superintendent Terry Grier is bringing in a Maryland administrator as his new chief communications officer. Aggie Alvez replaces William "Lee" Vela who was hired ... More >>

All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Deal

​Baja Seafood and Oyster Bar on Westheimer where Tommy's Steakhouse used to be is offering a grand opening special: all the oysters, shrimp and fish you can eat for $17. I think I could make a serious dent in the oyster supply at this place. The restaurant is owned by Bob Walsh and his family ... More >>

Houston's Administaff Accused Of Some Pretty Wild Anti-Semitism

​The allegations are so outrageous and outlandish that they almost sound like a fraternity prank, or something a cruel older brother might do to their little brother. Except that they are not. What they are, in fact, are serious accusations made in Maryland federal court against a Houston-ba ... More >>

Superthief

Joshua Paul Calhoun likes to take things...BIG things

The Sleaziness Of The Door-To-Door Magazine-Subscriptions Industry Continues

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

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College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

Get Your Shrine On

For the second consecutive year the Shriners are bringing their postseason college football all-star game to the University of Houston's Robertson Stadium. The 84th edition of the East-West Shrine Game will be played on Saturday, January 17, 2009, with the kick-off set for 3:00 and the game to be t ... More >>

College Football Preview, Tea Leoni Edition

Raheem DeVaughn

Love Behind the Melody

OMGNKOTB: The Return of the New Kids on the Block

Orphan Ante: The Strange Story of Mike Huckabee and K.A. Paul

Valentino's Seafood

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

Catch the Wave

Lance Fegen's "New American Surfer Bistro" is like, epic, dude!

Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys

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A Night of Hot Cex

Letters to the Editor

South By Southwest

Letters

Letters

Someone's Grandmother

Artist Fred Wilson targets museums' use of human remains in a thought-provoking exhibit

Ghost Dance

Activists still wonder if Standing Deer died in a plot by the feds or Indian foes — or for no reason at all

Publishing Gulf?

How Internet pipe dreams and literary ambitions dismantled one of Texas's largest publishers

Playbill

Soul Brains (né Bad Brains)

Pumped Dry

Gas station dealers find big oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction

Fish Stories

Speaking off the toque: John Zotos

Singin' in the Rave

BT tries to do the unutterable: Be a DJ who vocalizes

Drowning in Marinara

The last thing downtown needs is another mediocre Italian eatery like Brothers Petronella

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Extra Poppy

Jimmie's Chicken Shack reveals the Colonel's recipe for mainstream ska-rock

Wasted Wedding

Star power can't rescue this unreally bad story

Potent Project

Sheer suspense sends Blair Witch into legendary horror status

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Letters