Subject: Michael Berry

• Party On, Coogs

  December 6, 2006

• Party On, Coogs

  December 6, 2006

• Now the Question Can Finally Be Answered Once and for All: Jessica Alba or Jennifer Aniston?

  August 1, 2007

• KGOWTF: Poker on the Radio?

  January 24, 2008

• KTRH's Joe Pags -- Gone, But Not Far

  October 8, 2008

• When Will They Learn?

  GOP label doesn't sell in mayoral races

  December 6, 2001

• Mayoral Field of Dreams

  If you pay them, they will come

  February 20, 2003

• Trainspotting

  Here's how Metro wants to sell us on light rail

  September 11, 2003

• Letters

  September 11, 2003

• Michael Berry, Houston's Least-Likely Howard Stern Wanna-Be

  Anyone fortunate to be listening to "The Michael Berry" on KTRH 740 AM this past Friday night got to hear about an hour's worth of girl talk. No, Berry didn't change formats and start expressing his feminine side underneath his good ol' boy former city council member tandoori-chomping image. What we got to hear was a good hour of debate over who Berry and his callers thought were the most "smoking" female reporters in the television news game.Berry seemed to be salivating over the airwaves, usin

  January 19, 2009

• Remix Rev. Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction

  America is now basking in the glow of our new President and his hottie of a First Lady. That is if you aren't Sean Hannity, Michael Berry or John McCain, we guess. The whirlwind inaugural festivities and musical performances are slowly fading from memory as the new administration gets its bearings. As Rocks Off watched the ceremony Tuesday afternoon, ignoring our daily Rocks Off chores for a few minutes, we heard the trill rhymes of Rev. Joseph Lowery's stirring benediction and, just like t

  January 23, 2009

• KTRH Continues To Try To Out-Fox Fox

  Remember the days when KTRH was worth listening to?It remains the only AM news station in town, and the largest. But layoffs have damaged the product, although not as much as the decision by Michael Berry to throw objectivity out the window in order to appeal to the Dittoheads and Hannity fans who listen to the talk shows.The 9-11 am hours have gone from news to more right-wing blather, which at least is idenitifed as opinion. But look at what they're calling "news" today on their website:The le

  February 9, 2009

• Oh Lord, Chris Baker's Coming Back To Our Airwaves

  Chris Baker is coming back to Houston. Ummm, rejoice?Baker, a erstwhile stand-up comic who had an often inane political talk show on Clear Channel's AM stations here, a show where he blustered and bloviated and did the typical right-wingnut radio shtick.Clear Channel AM head Michael Berry has announced he's coming back to KPRC-AM, in afternoon drive time. Bloghouston has the memo.And thus Houston's critical shortage of conservatove blowhards is addressed.Fun facts about Baker: 1) For all his mac

  February 19, 2009

• Chris Baker's Show Is Returning To Houston, Not Chris Baker

  Photo by russbrady22We mentioned yesterday that KPRC-AM was bringing back right-wing looney Chris Baker to the Houston airwaves.One thing they're not doing -- bringing right-wing looney Chris Baker back to Houston. Baker will be doing his show from Minnesota, where he has another radio gig.Baker's being touted as someone who will do an intensely Houston-centric show. How does he do it from the frozen north?Easy, Clear Channel AM head Michael Berry tells Hair Balls."He knows the community; he liv

  February 20, 2009

• Bill White vs. Michael Berry: The Deathmatch!! No Politeness Allowed!! (Updated)

  The folks at bloghouston listen to Michael Berry's talk show on KTRH, so they've become aware of the recent run-in between Berry and Mayor Bill White.They provide mp3s of two recent Berry segments: one, a somewhat contentious interview between Berry and White over the city's "sanctuary policy," which conservatives feel is responsible for crime, cop-killings, general unpleasantness and the ultimate collapse of the American Empire, and two, a recap of the ensuing phone call he got from one of Whit

  March 13, 2009

• Houston Is Loving Its Rush Limbaugh Again

  Photo through wikimedia commonsHouston has always been a big Rush Limbaugh town -- it was one of the first to sign on to his show, when a small Tomball station run by Dan Patrick picked it up. (Patrick rode that rocket to KPRC and eventually a state-senator gig, much to the chagrin of people who don't think women seeking abortions should be forced to see sonograms.)The Bush years were relatively tough for Rush, but now that Obama's in the White House he's reveling in rocketing ratings. Especiall

  March 27, 2009

• From Homelessness to Wine Snobbery

  Weighing In Across the Board

  April 9, 2009

• Michael Berry vs. Bill White

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  March 26, 2009

• Quanell X

  January 15, 2009

• Prayola Time

  Candidates get religion as Election Day nears

  October 25, 2001

• Split Ticket

  District C's ex file: Then it got personal…

  October 25, 2001

• Send in the Election Clowns

  Don't worry, they're here

  November 13, 2003

• Glass Houses

  Mayoral candidate Michael Berry might want to vet his own supporters' bill-paying histories

  May 29, 2003

• 2007 Turkeys of the Year

  Priscilla Slade is the biggest gobbler of them all

  November 22, 2007

• Sports talk radio stations fight for listeners in Houston

  Jock Talk

  June 28, 2007

• A Little Jump to the Right

  Can a ballot triple shift win City Hall for the GOP?

  October 2, 2003

• Best Gadfly

  Robert "Bob" Martin

  September 25, 2003

• Best Republican

  Political consultant Allen Blakemore

  September 25, 2003

• Trapped on the Tracks

  A mayoral candidate wrestles with a no-win choice

  September 18, 2003

• If He Could Turn Back Time...

  Sylvester Turner's second coming

  July 17, 2003

• Let's Pick On Orlando!

  Early mayoral forums hint at the strategies to come

  July 3, 2003

• Bill's Bargain Tax Bill

  The county says a candidate's home value is no White lie

  June 12, 2003

• Mayoral White Knight

  A candidate plays a subtle race card

  April 17, 2003

• We Know You Like to Watch!

  An Internet fishing expedition titillates City Hall

  March 13, 2003

• Too Quiet

  The City Hall press corps ain't what it used to be

  February 27, 2003

• All I Want for Christmas Is...

  A shopping list for your favorite political types

  December 26, 2002

• Do the City Hall Shuffle!

  Term limits and raw ambition send local politicos on holiday shopping sprees

  December 5, 2002

• Myths and Legends

  The officers didn't know, their supervisors didn't know, the police chief didn't know. Oh, tell me another one. Tell me a Kmart story, please.

  September 5, 2002

• Reality TV Bites

  Shani and Chad Walter lost one of their twin baby boys. Thanks to Houston Medical, thousands of Americans got to witness their pain.

  September 5, 2002

• Adept Ada

  Edwards draws raves in her inaugural year on council

  August 22, 2002

• Midsummer Night's Political Dreams

  Mirth and anger follow Berry's decision to run for mayor

  July 18, 2002

• Mayoral Minority Report

  Who can avert the 2003 runoff from hell?

  July 11, 2002

• Ballot Hits and Bloopers

  Sour grapes, golden gloves and acidic comebacks on the campaign trail.

  November 8, 2001

• Hotze's Blue Angels

  Not-so-divine DWI help arrives for a conservative kingmaker

  March 29, 2001

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Other Uses for Best In Texas Besides, You Know, Reading It

  ​Lonesome Onry and Mean recently stopped wasting good notebook paper writing drafts of articles about Best in Texas Music Magazine. We were perusing the current issue and thinking about how bad it is when it suddenly dawned on us: the environmentally pure thing would be to write a column about it on the issue itself. Another little facet of LOM's continuing attempt at going green, you might say. When I floated a trial balloon of my new idea at our local watering hole, the usual suspects starte

  August 31, 2009

• Exposing Obama's "Brainwash The Kids" Scheme, With KTRH's Michael Berry

  ​You gotta admit this about the right-wing, talk-show-listening, Fox-News-loving one-third of America -- no one can whip up a paranoid kerfluffle like they can.The latest insidious event causing them to storm the barricades is Barack Obama's Stalin-like plan to hypnotize mass numbers of gullible schoolchildren into becoming mindless slaves of the liberal agenda by telling them to stay in school.Even the hard, cold fact that Obama intends to kill your grandparents at the first opportunity is ta

  September 3, 2009

• Houston Music Fight Club: Michael Berry vs. Outlaw Dave, Don Walsh vs. Dirty Jeff Smith, Notsuoh vs. Mango's

  ​Another week and yet another clash of the sorta-titans, wherein we pit some of Houston's best and brightest music luminaries against each other in brutal mortal combat. This week we will briefly take a step away from the burgeoning Bayou City indie scene to spotlight two of the town's radio personalities who dabble in the musical milieu. Believe it or not there are folks who don't sit outside behind Poison Girl chain-smoking cigarettes or pass out at the bar at Boondocks. [Ed. note: Shut up.]

  September 10, 2009

• Radio Robb: Tune In Tonight and Tomorrow

  ​Our very own Robb Walsh will be making a guest appearance on The Michael Berry Show tonight and tomorrow night at 7 p.m., discussing a range of topics so wide that it necessitated two evenings of air time. Michael Berry -- who coincidentally just happened to win Best Local Radio Host in our annual Best of Houston® issue -- is a closet foodie in addition to being a political pundit and talk show host, and has lauded Eating Our Words as the best food blog in town on several

  October 5, 2009

• Punjabi To-Go

  October 8, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Dear Local Musicians, Grammy Consideration Is Not the Same Thing As Grammy Nominations

  Ah, here we go again with local artists trumpeting "Grammy nominations." The latest is Atascocita-grown country singer Susan Hickman, who seems to fancy herself as a Miranda Lambert/Martina McBride type. We stumbled across Hickman accidentally through MySpace's "Status Updates," and our eye was immediately drawn to: "Susan Hickman Up for 6 1st Round Grammy Nominations." Now Lonesome, Onry and Mean doesn't claim to know everything about what's going on around here, but we do try to keep our ear

  November 11, 2009