Milby High School

Rest(aurants) In Peace: Notable Closings of 2012

Some restaurants just couldn't wait for the Mayan apocalypse on December 21, 2012 and decided to implode all on their own, while other restaurants simply expired of old age and waning interest in a city that's constantly chasing after the next big thing. Instead of a toast to the restaurants we'll ... More >>

The Eating...Our Words 100: Sam Ray of Republic National

Eating...Our Words has embarked on a project to profile 100 Houston culinarians of all fields, practices, careers and backgrounds. This isn't a Best of Houston list, it's not a 100 Favorites list and it's not in any particular order. Instead, the Eating...Our Words 100 is a way to introduce our read ... More >>

A Fire at the Broken Spoke

Roy de la Garza on what's next.

Roy de la Garza on The Broken Spoke Fire and What's Next

Roy de la Garza was already having a bad month before a fire destroyed his restaurant: His partner at The Broken Spoke Cafe, Catherine Duwez, had left unexpectedly to start a rival Belgian restaurant a few months prior, and business was down. "Cathy kind of threw us for a loop when she went over to ... More >>

Fire at The Broken Spoke Cafe: Photos of the Aftermath

Read about yesterday's fire at The Broken Spoke Cafe and see pictures/video from the scene. Until yesterday afternoon, The Broken Spoke Cafe was the tidy little bistro seen above. This morning, the restaurant sits shuttered after sustaining heavy fire and smoke damage when the abandoned duplex next ... More >>

The Broken Spoke Goes Up in Smoke: Pictures and Video

UPDATE: A press release from the Houston Fire Department appears below. The Broken Spoke Cafe caught fire this afternoon around 3 p.m. and was still blazing around 3:45 p.m., when at least eight Houston Fire Department ladder trucks were hard at work putting the flames out. It is not known at this ... More >>

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

WWJD? Hit and Run

Driver gives religion, not help.

Aida Hillen: Lobbed Christian Pamphlet at Kid She Ran Over, Then Drove Away (Allegedly)

FacebookAida Hillen: Christian of the Year​What would Jesus do if he hit a youth with His car, asked the kid if he was okay, and got "no" for an answer? If you answered, "Toss him a book about Himself, peel out, and haul ass like the Dukes of Hazzard," you are cut from the same religious clot ... More >>

War Zoned

Who knew historic preservation could ignite so much neighborhood drama?

Milton Bradley: Latino Hip-Hop History Not A Game

​Well, he started off as Doom The Strange and he was one of several underground Latino hip-hop artists in the 90s, but as he got older he shed the rap skin and now sports an R&B coat. And he changed his name. Several artists have gotten at Rocks Off about Milton Bradley. "Milton Bradley this ... More >>

The Schools Of Houston Are (Allegedly) Filled With Ghosts

If you're looking for a little Hump Day time waster, we suggest strangeusa.com, which lists haunted locales across the country. Houston has a bunch of them.Many on the site are ones we've heard before - the Spaghetti Warehouse, La Carafe, the old Jeff Davis Hospital, various cemeteries - which a ... More >>

Houston's Most Unique Address

Double Trouble

Juan Diaz just wanted his citizenship. The feds wanted a drug-running felon.

Cram Shop

A-Plus makes the money even if students don't make the grade

South Park Monster

Fans saw Carlos Coy as the invincible rapper, the gangsta who could become an icon for outcast Hispanics everywhere. But they didn't know his weakness -- young girls did.

Otherworldly

A loving mother drowned her children. It's hard to believe no one could stop her.

The Hitch

Matrimonial safe haven hits Harris County. But the INS honeymoon ends with April.

Letters

Wretched Research, Godwin's On Target, Culture Jocks

The Connection

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

Grave Importance

Old cemeteries rarely die. They just get buried under weeds, development and indifference.

Class Cops

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

Joining the Battle

Partners for Pay

Young women taxi-dance for dollars, at the price of innocence lost

Letters

Letters

Letters

The Unchanging Face of Milby

For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

Wild Things

With a stiff dose of vatobilly, the Flamin' Hellcats aim to cure rock and roll of what ails it

Fairness Doctrine

In music, as in law, David Rodriguez tries to fit things together

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