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Openings & Closings: Taco USA Takes The Woodlands

There were lots of good scoops this week from around the city, so let's get straight to the action. Eater Houston editor Eric Sandler reports that pastry chef Roy Shvartzapel -- who's worked in kitchens from El Bulli to Bouchon -- plans to open an "avant garde and modern approach to the cafe experi ... More >>

Forrest Kenneth Randall Smashes Car Windows at an Auto Dealership, Leaves Wallet Behind

When you are involved in any kind of crime, it's generally a good idea to leave your ID at home or at least make sure it is stashed away where it can't be found. Any good covert operative will tell you that, or you could just watch Burn Notice. But, in east Texas, they do things a little different e ... More >>

The Battle Against the Keystone Pipeline

Environmentalists and landowners battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and its load of crude from flowing across Texas rivers and aquifers.

Ford Cummings: Enters Jail Armed, Tries To Convince Jailers He's A DEA Agent And Needs An Inmate Released

Ford Truitt Cummings, 32, is: a) Ballsy b) Dumb c) Perhaps too dismissive of the brainpower of Nacogdoches cops d) All of the above, mixing together in a marvelous piece of East Texas humanity We've got to go with d) here, folks. Maybe your assessment will differ. We do know this, via KTRE: Cummin ... More >>

Joe Lansdale: Edge of Dark Water

Beaumont Diocese Sued Over Priest Who Allegedly Abused Teen in 1976

A Dallas County man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, and Bishop Curtis Guillory, over sexual abuse the man allegedly suffered by a now-deceased priest in 1976-1977. Filed last week in Jefferson County District Court, the man -- identified as John Doe 104 -- claims that Father Ronald ... More >>

Logan Warren: East Texas Dude Gets Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever

They say everything's bigger in Tex -- NO, we cannot bring ourselves to write that. But a Nacogdoches dude went big when he got a gift card for a free Starbucks drink. Logan Warren says he spent "about a half-hour with a laughing barista" working up the recipe, and they came up with a $23.60 concoc ... More >>

Amber Osage: Police Say Cranky Caretaker Repeatedly Slugs Paralyzed Patient

Phot by Nacogdoches County JailAmber Hope Osage: Once, twice, three times an abuser (allegedly).​ According to police in Nacogdoches, Amber Osage didn't like it when her fellow in-home caretaker and the quadriplegic man they were looking after woke her up. When they asked her to help move him ... More >>

"Mary McCleary: A Survey 1996-2011"

The Motor Courts & Motels Of Texas: 10 Uninviting Or Odd Postcards

Home away from home​Motor courts were all the rage in Texas back before the days of where chain motels became as common as Starbucks in a city. You were never quite sure what you were going to get -- tiny rooms with paper-thin walls and barely functioning a/c and plumbing, or nice-enough-for- ... More >>

Jeremy Myhres: Genius Turns Simple Beer Wahoo Mission into Felony

Jeremy Myhres​According to Nacogdoches cops, 25-year-old Jeremy Myhres walked into an area Chevron Monday night, picked up an unspecified quantity of bottled beer and attempted to leave without paying. When the clerk gave chase to the gold-grilled brew-heister, Myhres turned and hurled one o ... More >>

J. Patrick Capps: Allegedly Forged Documents in Brazen Attempt to Free Convicted Murderer Marcia Kelly

J. Patrick Capps's self-posted wiki picture​The 2005 murder-for-hire of trucking company owner James Kelly was one of the most high-profile cases in recent East Texas memory. In the aftermath, Kelly's wife Marcia and stepdaughter Shaina Sepulvado received capital murder convictions and are eac ... More >>

Four Comic-Book Characters Inspired By Musicians

​Rocks off just can't seem to get comic books out of our blood. Between being fully immersed in Comicpalooza last weekend and trying to point out to Broadway how many other comic characters would make better and safer musicals than Spider-Man, we've regressed to being 15 with ink-stained figur ... More >>

A Sad East Texas Tale

Lynde Chunn: Hard Luck East Texas Woman Dies On Cusp Of Personal Rebirth

Lynde Chunn: Sing a sad song​(Be warned. In ten years here at the Houston Press, we've seldom come across a story sadder than this one.) Lynde Chunn had a tough row to hoe for many of her 28 years. The Houston-born Caney Creek High School graduate was mentally challenged but had long lived al ... More >>

Abandoned Theaters: 75 Beautiful Pictures, Including Seven From Texas

​Buzzfeed has scoured the net and come up with 75 great photographs of abandoned theaters across the country. Some feature amazing interiors that look ready to house a play or movie immediately; others look like forlorn abandoned warehouses. Texas is mightily represented, with seven locations ... More >>

Pedro Mendez: Convicted Cockfighter Now Accused Child Molester

Pedro Mendez, a man of many interests​What's next in the criminal career of Pedro Mendez? The 56-year-old Nacogdoches man seems to be hell-bent on checking off every box in the "most odious crimes" category of human endeavor. Not ten months after pleading guilty to animal cruelty in a cockfi ... More >>

CraftTexas 2010

Game Time: Stephen F. Austin Football -- The "F" Now Stands for "Fakers"

Dr. Nick will testify SFA players WERE really hurt​My birthday is on January 22. (I don't say this because I want you to get me anything -- although I wouldn't say NO -- I am merely pointing it out to illustrate how I feel this time of year.) Growing up, it was great having a January birthday bec ... More >>

Loon Star State: Gunsmoke On The Border, Pigeons Dropping In Nacogdoches, And More

​Loon Star State: Texas Small-Town Crime Round UpThe crime dates only from 1986, but the motive could be from 1886...Authorities in Rio Grande City recently arrested 53-year-old Juan Francisco Martinez for the Easter Sunday 1986 murder of Margarito Alaniz Jr. Police say that Martinez and Alaniz we ... More >>

Spirit of Season Moves East Texas Robber

​Ah Christmas, the time of year when even bank robbers find themselves in the spirit of giving... According to the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel, 21-year-old Bryon Jacovin Garrett strode into the Wal-Mart branch of the Commercial Bank of Texas on Tuesday morning and handed the teller a note dema ... More >>

Lone Star Scorecard: Puzzling Over Jimmie Rodgers' "T for Texas" and Those Poor Aggies

​ It's time for another edition of Lone Star Scorecard, where we perform the valuable service of shining the harsh spotlight of anal retention on classic (and less so) songs about our beloved state. You're welcome. Jimmie Rodgers, "Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)" We're a little confused...you're app ... More >>

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, n ... More >>

NASA Killed A Cancer Cure, Suit Alleges

The world may have known a cure to cancer ... if only that darn Columbia space shuttle didn't disintegrate over Texas six years ago and if only NASA had been a little more careful taking care of the cargo and debris that landed back on earth.At least that's what a Pennsylvania company is arguing.Acc ... More >>

Silver Lining Huh?

Texas Horror Movies: The Top Five

Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.

One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

One of Those Syrupy Thanksgiving Tales

Primary Season

Check out some of the new candidates for this year's Houston Press Music Awards

At the Ready

The Minutemen have come to Texas

Mind Reading

Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

Exit Wounds

The gunman fled. Her point-blank panic hasn't.

A Nashville Star Is Born

Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

Letters

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Peace Signs

Third–generation activist Luchita Rodriguez and her friends find the missing rally bus — and a fresh, family-style fight against war in Iraq

War Dance

Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.

Out of Townes

Emerging from Van Zandt's large shadow, Wrecks Bell finally steps into the spotlight

Graduation Day

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Letters

Rotation

News from Nowhere

Clearing the desk for the New Year, and other excuses for a column

Cybersurfing the Lost Highway

Tone Zone puts its new product on-line; Ezra Charles flogs his the old-fashioned way

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