Former district judge Woody Densen was indicted today for criminal mischief after getting caught on video keying a neighbor's car. It's a state-jail felony charge, since the car damaged was expensive, so he's facing up to two years in jail.And around the courthouse, among veteran lawyers, there is much cackling. Schadenfreude is the Word of the Day.Densen came on the bench in 1983 with high hopes from his criminal-defense colleagues; he quickly squandered all that good will with ineptitude, a ha
Photo by dunkvThe biggest surprise during yesterday's City Council Committee on Human Services and Technology meeting on BARC was not that it was three hours of meaningless bureaucratic babble -- Hair Balls had $50 on that -- but that the ghost of Dante Alighieri showed up. "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" he shouted over and over, before being escorted from chambers by security on grounds of possessing too much common sense.
The meeting -- which was also attended by mo
Because so little went on by way of restaurant openings or closings and so much went on by way of personnel changes at some of Houston's most high-profile restaurants, we're shifting focus this week.
First up is the news that Robert Gadsby, the executive chef and co-owner of upscale Heights restaurant Bedford, is out. Rumors were swirling for at least a month before his departure, while Gadsby took pains to quelch any rumblings. But on Wednesday night, Channel 13 reporter Miya Shay seeme
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttThe bibimbap roll at Kubo'sRice, salmon, tuna, seaweed, wasabi, avocado, octopus, daikon radish, cucumber -- it seemed the food would never stop coming. Last night at Kubo's, we were faced with enough sushi to feed two sumo wrestlers. One brightly colored roll after another crossed our plates and palates as we attempted the near-impossible task of choosing a favorite from the group.
Kubo's, the veteran Japanese restaurant in Rice Village, is known fo
