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Johnny Football! 2013 Heisman Odds Are Out; Why I Won't Bet On Johnny

2012 was good to Johnny Manziel, and 2013 is off to a phenomenal start. Of course, there was the 41-13 trouncing of Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on January 4, where Manziel piled up roughly a billion total yards. But there's been so much more. Lucrative casino trips, lovely ladies, and Mardi Gras! ... More >>

Energy Drinks Are a Crock of Crap, But You Knew That...Right?

On the front page of yesterday's New York Times was the headline: Energy Drinks Promise Edge, But Experts Say Proof Is Scant. And not that people feeding their babies Mountain Dew out of a bottle nor concocting go-go juice for their kids, Honey Boo Boo-style, will notice or care what the New York T ... More >>

Auteur Goes Amateur

Barry Levinson's The Bay aspires to YouTube.

Horror Business: The Top 5 Most Evil Rock Stars

Halloween and rock and roll go together like peanut butter and jelly. Something about darkened rooms filled with outlandish costumes and screaming girls, we guess. Some of the rock's most ghoulish stars are also its most fun, as Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson will no doubt prove once again at Reliant ... More >>

Game Changer

Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major league sports.

The Roots Of Lionize: From Miles Davis To Led Zeppelin

It's hard to find a band that reps Miles Davis in the same breath as much as they do Led Zeppelin, but Lionize are that band. Recording in Jamaica with Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, supporting beardos like Kylesa, Clutch, and cKy? Yes, that's Lionize for you. Opening for Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 3: Kevin Bryant of The Capitol at St. Germain - The Tasting

Photos by Mai Pham"Ménage à foie," pictured here, the seared foie gras​Yesterday, we chatted with The Capitol at St. Germain's Executive Chef, Kevin Bryant, about how he made his way up the ranks the "hard knocks" way by working in the high-end Tony's kitchen, getting corporate training at t ... More >>

Karbach Brewing's Grand Opening Brings a Big Crowd

Karbach's banana-flavored wheat beer is already a hit.​At last night's grand opening for Karbach Brewing, Rich Arnold walked over to me with a glass of Karbach's Weisse Versa wheat in hand. "Have you ever had a beer that tastes so much like..." "Banana!" we both finished at the same time. The ... More >>

Football! This Weekend's Best Bets

It's an SEC kinda week​Time for another round of college and NFL friendly wagers. Are my selection techniques the most textbook, orthodox methods in the world? No. I mean, if I hosted a handicapping show and gave out six games and chose those games because they gave me convenient fodder to ta ... More >>

Half a Paycheck

Dave Alvin is an inveterate troubadour and staunch advocate for Houston's blues history.

Texas AG Greg Abbott Grabs The Spotlight In Fight Against EPA's Tailpipe-Emissions Rule

Greg Abbott leads a mostly southern uprising​Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wants everyone to know that he is doing everything he can to stop the federal Environmental Protection Agency from trying to implement greenhouse-gas limits on cars and trucks. In the latest of a series of lawsuit ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Guns and Roses," "Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph," "Henry Horenstein: Show," "Minimalux," "Round 34: A Matter of Food," "The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Elaine Bradford: The Sidereal" "Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph" "Measured: Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition" "Perspectives 174: Re: Generation" "Regine Schumann: Chameleon" "The Whole World Was Watching: Civil R

Beth Schapiro responds to "Weird Science"

With a Grain of Salt

BRC Gastropub could be great.

Game Time: College Football Week 1 -- Ain't No Party Like a Boise Party

Boise State is ready to rumble​Last night, as Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore gathered the Bronco offense in the huddle to concoct one final haymaker in their prize fight with Virginia Tech, guaranteeing we were going to see some sort of fantastic finish -- either a game-winning touchdown or ... More >>

First Look at BRC Gastropub

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttBiscuits and bacon never looked so good.​Let's get one thing out of the way first: BRC stands for Big Red Cock. There's even a giant crimson rooster in the parking lot, in case there was any misunderstanding. So get all the "Wow, that Big Red Cock is really deliciou ... More >>

Victims' Wrongs: Injured parties in Harris County say plea bargains go on behind their backs

Some injured parties in Harris County say plea bargains go on behind their backs and without their approval.

First Look: Eddie V's Prime Seafood

Photos courtesy of Eddie V'sChilean sea bass​The first thing you notice at Eddie V's Prime Seafood, the newest mini-chain addition to Town & Country's enormous CityCentre development, are the white waistcoats on the servers. Yup, it's that kind of place. It's traditional, even retro, in layou ... More >>

What The Hell? Kemah Is One Of The Top Ten Boardwalks In The U.S.?

Photo by mhowry​We didn't notice this until KPRC pointed it out recently, but the website Forbes Traveler recently published an article entitled "We Don't Know Anything About Boardwalks."That wasn't the actual headline on the article, but it should have been. Unless you believe that the pre-fab sc ... More >>

Aftermath: Clutch at House of Blues

Photos by Craig Hlavaty If you ever wondered what might have happened if James Brown and Audioslave had a baby, you should have been at House of Blues Wednesday night. You might only be wondering this if you are a member of the male gender, because - with a few exceptions at the almost-full venue - ... More >>

Longtime Cult Band O.A.R. Hopes Top 40 Success Doesn't Leave It "Shattered"

All Sides Now

A Short History of Shrimp Grits

Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>

The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Three

I Am Going to Buy New Kids on the Block Tickets

Divine Vin

Alpha Music by an Omega Male

John B. Levine plays to your brainwaves

Crab Man

Meet Doug Sartin, onetime heir apparent to a Texas barbecued crab dynasty

Letters to the Editor

Black-Hearted

Playbill

The Last Word

They've fought for justice for nine years, but time is running out

Thirty Seconds Too Late

Dharma and John

Dharma Cafe has atmosphere to spare and a lot of good home cooking, but you might want to pass on the pizza

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Beat the Parents

Travolta's performance can't overcome the horror of this evil-stepfather cliché

Racket

German culture has been a part of Houston for well over a century

Squeeze City

Mark Halata hopes his Texavian strains can be heard in a town full of accordions

Witch Way Did It Go?

BW2 spoils the mystery of the original - while creating a few of its own

Letters 08-10-2000

The Insider

Strange Association. The ties that bind former mayor Whitmire with a sex offender

The Compassionate Consumer

News of the Weird

Soft and Crabby

Summer's the right time for many things -- but none better than soft-shell supping

Static

Young Gun

Modest Intent

Letters

Post-Christmas Clearance

John Frusciante and Hildegard von Bingen never went to Festus, Missouri

Letters