Motorsports

Tunnel Mole on Speed

One Shy of the Record

We'd Been Looking for an Excuse to Quote Wesley Snipes...

Big State, Big Ideas

On Their Backs

Sugar Land spreads its legs

Your Chance To Drive A Top-Of-The-Line Dragster

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 t ... More >>

Hot Plate

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 t ... More >>

Go, Speed Racer, Go-o!

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 t ... More >>

The Orange Death

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 t ... More >>

Indianapolis 500 Legends

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life

Alonzo Bodden

A comedian makes cracks about his own discomfort

Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime

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Kevin Fowler, Bring It On

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Billy Joe Shaver, Everybody's Brother

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The Gougers, A Long Day for the Weathervane

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A Force in Drag

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Are You Ready for Some Fútbol?

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Grand Prix of Houston

NASCAR can’t monopolize 200-mile-per-hour excitement

Where's The Fire?

Vietopia

Mean Streets

NASCAR has nothing on Houston freeways

Ballsy Bikers

Supercross riders crash 'n' burn for your pleasure at Reliant Stadium

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend

Drag Queen

Cheer on homegirl Erica Enders at the O'Reilly Spring Nationals

Getting Sideways

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.

Balls to the Walls

The Houston Dodgeball Association is all the Buzz

Biking Dirty

BMXers eat dirt and catch air

Pei Wei Asian Diner

Trailblazing

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Trailblazing

Air Raid

Trailblazing

Mitch Hedberg

December 26-28

FotoFatigue

With 140 venues, FotoFest makes you suffer for your art

Austin Lounge Lizards

Never an Adult Moment (Sugar Hill)

Off Track

The Race Car Club goes public

Best Racetrack

Houston Raceway Park

Crash Course

Houston Raceway Park

For April 15: Five Movies About Taxes

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 ... More >>

Houston's Drag Queen Needs Another Bump

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 ... More >>

Smashburger Expands

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." ... More >>

Season Tickets for Monster Jam? Really?

Photo by Block Party Press​Somehow 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 ther ... More >>

The Forgotten Festival

The 1969 Texas International Pop Festival

Rick Perry Goes After All Those NASCAR Voters Who Are Torn Between Him And Bill White

Illustration courtesy Rick Perry campaign​ Governor Rick Perry, in a bold about-face, has decided to no longer court the Tea Party, flag-wavin', non-Constitution-understandin' white-man hordes, and has instead to go after the NASCAR vote.His campaign is sponsoring Bobby Labonte's car in this weeke ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

The winning design, chosen by you. Well, 206 of you.​Last week, H-E-B asked for Montrose residents' votes on the design for the new store that will soon be constructed at West Alabama and Dunlavy. Of the 206 residents that turned out at a neighborhood meeting to cast their vote, 88 went to the ... More >>

Grand Prix Houston Making a Comeback?

Get this poster back up on Ed Emmett's bedroom wall!​A local organizing committee (LOC) for the Grand Prix of Houston announced Thursday its intentions of reviving the event at a press conference from the Houston Auto Show at Reliant Park. The committee, spearheaded by local businessman George ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Died Ten Years Ago Today: Five Highlights from "The Dale Trail" in His Hometown

Celebrating The Intimidator​Ten years ago today the NASCAR world was rocked to its core by the death of Dale Earnhardt. He drove cars, we're told, and did it very fast. If you see a vanity license plate from a Southern state with a "3" on it, the driver is an Earnhardt fan and probably does n ... More >>

Primus

Celebrating The Intimidator​Ten years ago today the NASCAR world was rocked to its core by the death of Dale Earnhardt. He drove cars, we're told, and did it very fast. If you see a vanity license plate from a Southern state with a "3" on it, the driver is an Earnhardt fan and probably does n ... More >>

Pit Crew

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. prefer the Beach Boys to NASCAR.

Top 5 Celebrities Who Tried to Go All NASCAR...and Failed

Kyle Busch: Qualified to break traffic speeding laws.​If you're going to travel at more than 80 miles an hour over the limit, you should probably be a professional speedster and not a celebrity with run-of-the-mill driving know-how. On Tuesday, Kyle Busch, a championship-winning NASCAR driver ... More >>

Top 5 Sporting Events in Memorial Day History

Ernie Banks' immortal words used to mean something each Memorial Day.​A month from now (hell, even a second after it concludes), nobody is going to remember and/or care about the Houston Astros' Memorial Day clash with the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field. Overall, it's a pretty lame sports day ... More >>

Kathy Reichs: Flash and Bones

Ernie Banks' immortal words used to mean something each Memorial Day.​A month from now (hell, even a second after it concludes), nobody is going to remember and/or care about the Houston Astros' Memorial Day clash with the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field. Overall, it's a pretty lame sports day ... More >>