If you've ever wanted to race a full-blown, 8,000-horsepower NHRA dragster down the strip, this crummy economy is giving you the chance. If you can afford it.Urs Erbacher, who as you well know is a four-time drag-racing champ, is offering to train drag fans at his Baytown facility and then let them race his back-up car at an actual event.He's doing it, according to drag-racing site go2geiger.com, because he needs the cash to keep his team sponsored for the full 2009 season."Prospective racer
It came from Japan and may turn out to be bigger than Godzilla. It,s drifting - a high-speed, fishtailing race toward a wall without a crash. They hope.
April 15 each year brings with it the journalistic challenge of covering yet another "last-rush filers" story, or some clever way to say that it's the deadline for getting your return in. (We still wonder if anyone's ever been prosecuted because their return had an April 16 postmark.)The subject of taxes, of course, is mind-numbingly boring, even if it's Star Wars rambling on in its intro about levies on interstellar trade routes. But it's a subject everyone can relate to, so Hollywood sees fit
The Bayou City Bitch has made the Top 25 in RuPaul's Drag Race, the single most important election since Obama took the presidency.But now the second round of voting has begun, and there are only days left to cast your ballot for Anita Bump.We only wish Anita could muster up more enthusiasm for the task. There's hardly any exclamation points or all-caps in her latest e-mail plea, at least according to the standards of people who use lots and lots and lots of those things: Anita Bump has made the
Smashburger, the self-proclaimed "fast casual" burger import from Denver, has done well enough since its debut in Houston last December that three more restaurants are opening here.
Smashburgers are "one hundred percent Angus." They're "smashed on the grill to sear the meat and seal in the flavor." From personal experience they are also a bit of a delicious mess to eat, thanks to the glob of cheese and substantial amount of condiments on top.
Each Smashburger will open on a Wednesday later th
Photo by Block Party PressSomehow or another, I ended up on a Reliant Park event email list. And whenever there's some kind of event for which tickets are available, I get an email. I generally ignore these emails, but I got one the other day that grabbed my attention.
It told me that there are season tickets available for Monster Jam in January of 2010. My first thought was: well, they must not think the Texans are going to make the playoffs. My second thought was: season tickets
