Med Center

Chef Chat, Part 1: Jonathan Jones of Monarch at the Hotel Zaza, On Running a Hotel Restaurant and Creating a New Menu to Give the Restaurant a Houston Identity

This is the first part of a three part Chef Chat series. Come back on Thursday and Friday, to read parts two and three of this series. Walk into the lobby of the Hotel Zaza, and as you're checking in you'll see a life-size billboard of the hotel restaurant Monarch's new executive chef, Jonathan Jon ... More >>

Who Is Houston's Mysterious FLCON FCKER?

Big and far-flung and ever-changing as Houston is, sometimes the names who show up in the Houston Press Music Awards nominations every year surprise even us. This is not a bad thing at all: Within the music scene (which continues to amaze us in its ingenuity and diversity), it keeps the circle of li ... More >>

Sex and the Radio: A Weekend With 97.9 The Box

For those who may not know, being a blogger and writer also means you sort of have to support yourself with a 9-5. Some chose teaching, others chose busting their ass at a prospective company. Somehow I chose to be a town-car driver. An entrepreneur, a goddamn transporter of people. There are perks ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Eddie of Julia's Bistro

After passing by many times on the way to or from Big Top or Continental Club, I finally hopped the Metro to visit Julia's, the Latin-fusion bistro at the corner of Main and West Alabama. It was 5 p.m. on Tuesday when I walked through the vibrant dining room, grabbed a seat, ordered a glass of wine ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 5 Hidden Treasures

Photo by Troy FieldsScallops and grits at our No. 1 pick.​For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had heft ... More >>

Bike Nazis at the Texas Medical Center

ARGH! DON'T YOU DARE PARK YOUR BIKE AT THE TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER OR ELSE! ​Before going to the office this morning, I cycled over to the Texas Medical Center to visit Chris Gray, the Press's whiz-bang music editor who is recovering from an apparent heart attack. I greatly enjoyed sharing laughs ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: Beaucoup Bar & Grill

Fried shrimp po-boy​The Place: Beaucoup Bar & Grill 3102 Old Spanish Trail 713-747-5100 http://www.beaucoupbarandgrill.com The Hours: 4 to 8 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 6 to 10 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays; 11 a.m. to midnight Saturdays The Deals: Lots of them. Disco ... More >>

Top Five Medical Center Restaurants

Trevisio.​Food and medical procedures may not exactly go hand in hand, but there are plenty of reasons why it's good to know where to grab a bite going to and from the doctor. Because, hey, there's nothing like getting a blood cholesterol test and then scarfing down a burger during that glorio ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Coming to Houston

Gabrielle Giffords with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly​CNN is reporting that family members say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be coming to Houston Friday to begin her long rehab process. The victim of the Tucson shootings will move to an unnamed facility here, but one with "military surgeon ... More >>

The Five Most Sex Offender-Riddled Zip Codes In Houston

​We'll get to our list of the five zip codes with the most sex offenders in Houston, but first let's discuss other areas of note. Outside of one of the zips in the list that follows, the area with the most sex offenders inside the loop is zip code 77009, which takes in both the Woodland Heig ... More >>

Rudy Erik Candia: Facebook, Lunar Eclipse Used To Woo 12-Year-old West U Boy. (Allegedly)

Photo courtesy DPSRudy Erik Candia: On the run​Late on the night of December 20, 12-year-old Alex (not his real name) asked his dad if he could go meet a friend and watch the lunar eclipse from the parking lot of a Med Center oil-change joint. His dad told him no. The West U family was leaving ... More >>

Lunch at Go Fish

​Last Thursday, I finally made it over to Go Fish (1709 Dryden Rd.), which opened in the spot that had been Azumi Sushi. A coworker and I split a couple of dishes so we could try more things. According to the menu, they had both Vietnamese and Japanese food, which seemed fresh and inventive in ... More >>

Dr. Tomifumi Onishi: Three Cases Of Woman-Beating Filed Against MD Anderson Doc In Eight Months

Tomifumi Onishi: Not in the office today​Apparently Tomifumi Onishi is having a little trouble getting the message that domestic violence is not okay. The Tokyo-bred MD Anderson oncologist and researcher is now being held in the Harris County Jail without bond after his third domestic violence ... More >>

Sole Of Houston: UH Architecture Professor Graphs Bellaire Boulevard

Ray Davies never sang about seeing stars on Bellaire Boulevard​Three years ago this month, David Beebe and I trekked Bellaire Boulevard from west of Highway 6 to the Little Woodrow's on the train tracks at the West U / Bellaire border. We didn't continue any further because the prosperous stretch ... More >>

$13 at Salata

​Where: Salata Medical Center, 6620 Fannin St., 713-797-0700. What $13 gets you: A deceptively large salad, a soup and a couple of pieces of pesto French bread. When we finally stopped into the new Salata in the Medical Center with a few coworkers, the place was totally empty. In the Med Cen ... More >>

$13 at Azumi Sushi

Where: Azumi Sushi Japanese Restaurant, 1709 Dryden Road, Houston, 77030, (713) 790-9997 What $13 gets you: A chicken teriyaki bento, a spicy salmon roll, a small side of seaweed salad and edamame, and a couple of pieces of salmon sushi. Normally, we don't spend quite so much money for lunch durin ... More >>

Surveying the Scene on La Grande Wheel at the Rodeo Carnival

Photos by Jeff Balke​La Grande Wheel -- a fancy name for the Ferris wheel -- is a nice break from the more psychotic rodeo rides. It's a chance to regroup, relax and meditate on the vast sea of cars nearby, the expanse of colorful rides below, and the Astrodome and the Med Center in the distance. ... More >>

Comics, MasterMinds, Revolutionaries, Apartments and Transsexuals

Comic Love

Sole Of Houston: Airline Drive, Part 1

The longest walk in the history of the Sole of Houston requires the longest piece. This being a blog and all, we have decided to break it up into three installments. Coming today, tomorrow and Thursday in this tale of 22-plus miles of concrete, mud, and fairly cold weather: The fending off a pote ... More >>

Texas Beer

Missing Vowel at Luigi's Pizzeria

Sole of Houston: Strip Mall Taverns on the Southwest Side

Reporter’s Notebook: Random Scrawlings from the Van Halen Show

I am a Pedestrian Report: Bellaire

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

Make the Cut: We Have a Winner!

Rants About Stuff

A Bevy of Bad News

Best Place for an After-Work Jog

Best Place for Cocktails

Letters

Bad Judge; Worse Security Guard

The Med Center gives Mansfield the boot

If You See Them, Say Hello!

Defeated candidates face different lifestyles

The Connection

Bright and intense but undocumented, Bob could have been just another immigrant laborer. Then he met Susan Lieberman.

Family Unfriendly

How Hermann Hospital and the Texas Medical Center left employees' kids high and dry

Press Picks

The Insider

Thai and Thai Again

Nit Noi Thai restaurant has cloned itself -- which means more of their exquisite sauces to go around