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Shannon Marc McClure: Cops Say He Slammed Tot Head-First on Tiles

Harris County sheriff's deputies say a Spring-area man intentionally dropped his common-law wife's three-year-old son on a tile floor. Shannon Marc McClure, 43, is charged with reckless injury to a child, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Investigators say that McClur ... More >>

Documentary Will Tell You How Obama Will Destroy the World if Re-elected -- Bring Popcorn!

Houston audiences will have a chance Thursday to see what will become of the world if Obama is re-elected, with the premiere of the documentary 2016: Obama's America. Hint: it's not good. That's according to the filmmaker, Dinesh D'Souza, whose bestselling book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, serves ... More >>

ReShonda Tate Billingsley: Local Author's Punishment Of Daughter Sparks Social-Media Debate

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a romance author of such books as Can I get a Witness? and Holy Rollers. It's not her writing that has people talking about her online, though, it's what's happened with her daughter. Tate Billingsley's daughter posted a picture of herself on Instagram holding a vodka ... More >>

The Columbine Effect

Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?

The Peddler

Both in and out of prison, Brian Culwell has spent his life selling people baubles, trinkets and jewels. Now he's buying your gold and silver.

KTRH All But Says Goodbye to News, Welcomes More Right-Wing Blather

The Houston Chronicle's David Barron just reported that longtime KTRH news anchors J.P. Pritchard and Lana Hughes are leaving the station in favor of new hosts Mike Patrick and Lois Melkonian. In case you need an introduction to Mike Patrick, check out the above video where he personifies the term ... More >>

Houston's Bachelors a Prize?

Rankings tell different tales

Comment of the Day: Our Houstonian-ness Is Questioned

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Mission: Rick Perry & Greg Abbott Weigh in Without Mentioning Obama

Neither went so far as the New York Daily News.​The world has presumably been waiting breathlessly for the chance to know exactly what Governor Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott think about the death of Osama Bin Laden. The wait is over. Both politicos issued statements this morning ... More >>

Getting Past the Bouncer

Local nightclub door policies aren't always black and white

Happy Birthday, Rush Limbaugh: Ten Great Moments to Remember Him By

Rush Limbaugh: A reasoned voice in a sea of shrill partisan rhetoric​Happy 60th birthday to the man who helped birth modern right-wing talk radio in the late '80s, and made the world safe for the dozens of like-minded and ratings-hungry guys who would follow in his footsteps, stomping on the f ... More >>

Hudson Lounge: Still No Agreement On What Happened

Photo by Roy OdomThe HPD car that showed up as the Hudson Lounge party broke up​Hudson Lounge. Again. Yesterday on Hair Balls and on the music blog, Rocks Off, we summarized the Hudson Lounge ordeal that has gripped Houston nightlife patrons, with accusations of racism and exclusionary pract ... More >>

Hudson Lounge Situation Still Clear As Mud

​The fallout from the December 28 "Hydeout at the Hudson" party continues to fester. As you probably know by now, the party organizers say Hudson Lounge's owner threw them out and shut down the chichi Rice Village club because they were black, while the staff contends it was because too many p ... More >>

The Year In Aeros Hockey: 25 Random Thoughts Centered Around Ice Girls

Dear Aeros, can we get some Ice Girls already?​The Houston Aeros had a disappointing 2009-10 season, and closing in on the midway point of the 2010-11 season, playoff chances are up in the air. Then again, this being Houston, just having a chance at the playoffs should be seen as successful, espe ... More >>

Battle in the Heights

Walmart brings out the passion.

Aggies Recruit Teh Gheys

College Station, the San Francisco of Texas

Right-Wing Radio Ignites A Flap At A Klein High School

These colors don't run, they just get thrown in the trash​Gee, does this sound a little defensive?Response to Inaccurate Allegations# Neither the Klein Independent School District nor any of its campuses has flown another country or state's flag on a pole outside of its facilities.# Neither th ... More >>

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 imm ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Spec's Wine & Cheese Festival Goes Cheese-Only, For Some Reason

Photos by Margaret DowningIt's time for Spec's Wine & Cheese Festival!!!!.......... .....or maybe not. Spec's downtown on Smith is always busy on a Friday afternoon with patrons arming themselves with enough adult drinks to make it through the weekend.Today was extra special. Booths were line ... More >>

Spec's Wine & Cheese Festival Goes Cheese-Only, For Some Reason

Photos by Margaret DowningIt's time for Spec's Wine & Cheese Festival!!!!.......... .....or maybe not. Spec's downtown on Smith is always busy on a Friday afternoon with patrons arming themselves with enough adult drinks to make it through the weekend.Today was extra special. Booths were lin ... More >>

The DWI Bride and Houston's Love for Rush

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

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 ... More >>

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 b ... More >>

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 announ ... More >>

Quanell X

The Houston activist says he's dumped the hate

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

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

Jock Radio: Numbers Game

Change is coming for Houston radio

KTRK, License Plate Frames, City Council, Bun B and Google

KTRK has a "Meet the Rapist!" contest

Party On, Coogs

Party On, Coogs

Do Not Enter

Outside the gates of the Forbidden City

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Houston's sweet-and-sour inaugural

Send in the Election Clowns

Don't worry, they're here

Election Ennui

Why the mayor's race hasn't caught fire

Cockeyed Campaign Gambits

A Republican runs on Lee Brown's coattails

Best Gadfly

Robert "Bob" Martin

Best Republican

Political consultant Allen Blakemore

Trainspotting

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

If He Could Turn Back Time...

Sylvester Turner's second coming

Letters

Too Quiet

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

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.

Adept Ada

Edwards draws raves in her inaugural year on council

Overdose

Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

The Chef Who Almost Wasn't

Zumm Escudier has put the Angelika Cafe back on track, but her path has been long and winding

Mayoral Minority Report

Who can avert the 2003 runoff from hell?

When Will They Learn?

GOP label doesn't sell in mayoral races

Crimefighter in Spite of Himself

Blue Streak is not quite up to its identity crisis