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Morning Machaca

This tiny East End restaurant — attached to a dried-beef factory — serves tasty, old-school Tex-Mex classics.

Fresh Fresas: Strawberries from Mexico

A Mexican strawberry in Zamora.​Octaviano Magaño Ortiz is sitting across from me in blue jeans and a simple chambray shirt, his hands gnarled and his face weathered. Magaño Ortiz, president of the Consejo Nacional de la Fresa -- or the Mexican National Strawberry Council -- has been picking ... More >>

More Than Margaritas at TQLA

No, not champagne flutes, tequila tasting glasses at TQLA. ​As the name would suggest, TQLA is serious about, well, tequila. Bottles of every shape and size glow seductively along red backlit shelving covering much of the rear wall. One-hundred-and-sixty-seven varieties, to be exact, with eigh ... More >>

Cloaked Brutality

The feds bury border patrol abuses of immigrants, but what’s been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.

Workplace speech and Aztec ancestors

The feds bury border patrol abuses of immigrants, but what’s been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.

Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?

It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship.

Health Dept. Roundup: Floor Routine

​Health inspectors found serial offenders hard to nab this week, but we did the for you digging anyway on Health Department Roundup. At an unlucky Lucky Noodle House, (6609 W. Sam Houston Pkwy.), a June 23 change of ownership inspection yielded citations for storing containers of food within ... More >>

Javier Tufino Belmont, 43, Bayou Body Count No. 107

Gunshots in a night club on the southeast side​A barroom dispute out by the refineries ended with one man dead late Friday, police say.Javier Tufino Belmont was found dead in the Michoacan Night Club in southeast Houston after being shot. Police said no motive for the shooting was known.The suspec ... More >>

SPECIAL YEAR-END EDICION

Gunshots in a night club on the southeast side​A barroom dispute out by the refineries ended with one man dead late Friday, police say.Javier Tufino Belmont was found dead in the Michoacan Night Club in southeast Houston after being shot. Police said no motive for the shooting was known.The suspec ... More >>

Mexican Breakfast: Alma Latina Taqueria

​Two cheese enchiladas topped with a fried egg (or two) is one of my favorite Tex-Mex breakfasts. It used to be known as huevos montados (eggs mounted) back in the day. Dos Amigos on Washington has this dish on the menu. So do lots of other Houston Tex-Mex joints. But if I don't see it, I ofte ... More >>

SPECIAL WEDDING EDITION

​Two cheese enchiladas topped with a fried egg (or two) is one of my favorite Tex-Mex breakfasts. It used to be known as huevos montados (eggs mounted) back in the day. Dos Amigos on Washington has this dish on the menu. So do lots of other Houston Tex-Mex joints. But if I don't see it, I ofte ... More >>

The Reconquista and Mexican States

​Two cheese enchiladas topped with a fried egg (or two) is one of my favorite Tex-Mex breakfasts. It used to be known as huevos montados (eggs mounted) back in the day. Dos Amigos on Washington has this dish on the menu. So do lots of other Houston Tex-Mex joints. But if I don't see it, I ofte ... More >>

El Grito Festival de la Independencia

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¿Quieres Chingar?

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Sole of Houston: Bissonnet, from Synott Road to Montrose

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Gerardo's Drive-in Grocery

Some of the best Mexican food in the city is sold by the pound at this little corner store

Las Fabulosas Taco Trucks

To sample the best tacos in the city, you have to order in Spanglish and eat standing up in the parking lot

Las Fabulosas Taco Trucks...Delicioso!

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The Houston Slide

The Medicine Show rocks the ephemeral city with eternal music

Wild or Mild

Houston's most elusive taco truck serves up hot goat grease

Black Beats, Brown Sounds

Banda horns and hip-hop tracks blend in the music of L.A. duo Akwid

Passport to Nowhere

Benjamin Flores wants to box in the Olympics. But he isn't a U.S. citizen, and he can't risk returning to Mexico.

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Lines & Shadows

A former farmworker wanted only a utility system for her Fort Bend colonia. Seven years later, there's still tainted water and untreated sewage -- but raw words and the stench of politics flow freely.

The Authenticity Myth

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Booze in a Blender

El Meson's Orange Margarita

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Great Brown Hope

August 13 - 19, 1998

Mex, Not Tex

La Valerosa runs from the border to find what's haute in Mexican cuisine

Afternoon Delight

Every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m., KLAT's Carlos Martinez loves to talk about sex. Many in his Spanish-speaking audience adore him. But not everyone's happy with what he has to say.