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Lights, Camera, Headaches

The quickest way to ruin a music festival? Get actors to show up.

UPDATED: Is ACL Festival Ignoring Houston? Does It Even Matter?

UPDATED (Thursday, 2:50 p.m.) to reflect the Houston-area roots of a few ACL performers this year, as pointed out by reader comments. We stand by our original point, though. As most of our readers no doubt know by now, the Austin City Limits Music Festival announced its 2013 lineup at the stroke of ... More >>

Tito C. Milam, 33, Bayou Body Count No. 66

A Navasota man was shot to death in his car near an apartment complex west of the Heights early Tuesday, police say. Tito C. Milam, 33, was found wounded from multiple gunshot wounds near the complex at 800 North Durham shortly before 3 a.m. He was in the street , lying near his car. He was taken ... More >>

7 Cool & Cheap Things To Do This Weekend -- In Houston, Not At SXSW

T-Bone Walker heir Don Kesee, one of the area's Houston's most underheralded bluesmen - which unfortunately is saying something, but watch a little bit of the above clip at Navasota's Blues Alley festival - comes into the city for a gig at the Shakespeare Pub. Super Happy Fun Land's SXSW Overflow ... More >>

Houston Acts Stage Own SXSW Invasion

Sixteen Houston acts will play an all-day free show during SXSW from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, March 16, at the Gypsy Lounge, 1504 E. 6th St. The party is sponsored by The Convoy Group, the company run by Houston promoter and sometime Rocks Off photograher Mark C. Austin, who announced the party ear ... More >>

Guy Clark To Play Galveston's Old Quarter In May

Houston boys gone to Viet Nashville​ Guy Clark, the quintessential Texas singer-songwriter, has just announced a one-off gig at Galveston's historic Old Quarter Acoustic Café for May 15. According to club owner Wrecks Bell, he had been negotiating to get Clark to Galveston for some time, but ... More >>

Eric Paul Morgan: Veteran Houston Robber / Thief Comes to Grief in Navasota

After a short multi-county crime spree, including an armed home invasion in Lufkin and a bank robbery in Navasota, Eric Paul Morgan sits in the Grimes County Jail. He's already been charged with bank robbery, and Lufkin police are in the process of getting a warrant for the home invasion. That was ... More >>

National Illegal Immigrant Sting Nets Over 2,900 Convicted Criminals, 125 in Houston

On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of its "Cross Check" enforcement operation targeting convicted criminals who are also illegal immigrants. The sting conducted in all 50 states netted 2,901 criminals, including 125 in the Houston area. The seven- ... More >>

For Friday the 13th: Five of the Unluckiest Texans Ever

Investors held on too long.​Beginning with LaSalle, the French explorer who survived shipwrecks and cannibal Karankawa Indian attacks only to perish at the hands of his own men near Navasota, some people in Texas have had some pretty damned hard luck. You might lay some or all of the blame at ... More >>

Get Your Passport Stamped Along the Texas Wine Trails

​While the trail riders rode into town last Friday, you could be riding out one weekend soon to hit one of Texas's 11 wine trails just as the bluebonnets are beginning to bloom this spring. The fifth most productive wine-producing state in the nation, Texas features more than 200 vineyards wi ... More >>

A Taste of Honey: Harvesting A Beehive

Photos by Brittanie SheyTom Helm, urban outdoorsman and hobbyist beekeeper​This weekend we were invited to a honey-harvesting party at the home of Tom Helm, an urban outdoorsman who in 2006 was the subject of our cover story "Dark Water", in which he and then-Press reporter Josh Harkinson kaya ... More >>

Local Spotlight: Bee Wilde Honey

​What: Heavenly honey from a guy that's gone from a figurative worker bee to a literal beekeeper. Kenny Reed started his corporate life as a FedEx courier. He earned a respectable living at a respectable company that most any guy would be thrilled to work for. And he liked it. But one year ... More >>

Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett Praise Houston On NPR

npr.org​Monday around lunchtime, local singer-songwriter and multiple 2010 HPMA nominee Lee Alexander emailed us that Steve Earle and Lyle Lovett were being interviewed together on NPR's World Cafe. Not only that, he added, both men were saying lots of nice things about Houston, where - in cas ... More >>

King Bubba

The bacon cheeseburger at this Cypress roadhouse Rockwell Tavern blows all of Texas Monthly's favorite Houston burgers out of the water.

Texas Traveler: Bluebonnet Wine Trail

While in Navasota lovin' on some alpacas, Texas Traveler had a hankerin' thirst. So we got on our trusty iPhone and found the closest winery, a funky l'il shack called the Purple Possum Winery. While in the air-conditioned comfort of the Purple Possum's tasting room, we met a lovely couple we'd se ... More >>

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Texas Traveler: Americana Alpaca Ranch

Photos by Brittanie SheyCurious alpacas line up at the fenceAh, Navasota: the Blues Capitol of Texas. What more have you to offer than bluebonnets, Victorian homes and historical plagues? How about big-eyed beauties with long, slender necks and the softest of hair? Yes, we're talking about alpacas, ... More >>

Happy Texas Independence Day from Rocks Off

Rocks Off spent a good chunk of the afternoon today competing in RodeoHouston's annual media Rodeo Roundup (more on those exploits tomorrow), so he's feeling especially nativist today - and with good reason. On this day almost a century and three-quarters ago - 173 years, if you're counti ... More >>

Real Deal Q: Barbacoa de Borrego

This is some awesome barbecued lamb. It's the result of a fairly complicated process--a hybrid of braising and smoking. But I figure this is the season for a challenging barbecue recipe, what with the Rodeo BBQ Championship coming up and all. I figure Houston barbecue enthusiasts are ready to show ... More >>

The Tango Blast Houstone Gang Takes A Hit

Local and federal agents in an anti-gang task force charged with waging the much-debated "War on Drugs" have nabbed another round of bad guys, this time more than a dozen members of Texas' largest prison gang, Tango Blast Houstone. Acting Houston U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson announced today that 14 mem ... More >>

The Collector: Mack McCormick's Huge Archive of Culture and Lore

A great American folklorist has spent a life squirreling away bits and pieces of Texas culture. Now time is running out on him and his inventory.

Chuck Norris Reaches Out And Touches: The Top Five

Barbecue and Bait in Navasota

Best Burger in Texas?

Dewberry Time

Get Lit: The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy, by Robert Leleux

Day of the Dead at the Graves of Southeast Texas Music Legends

The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

The Houston 100: The Master List

The Houston 100: From Sir Douglas Quintet to Guy Clark

Parish Predators

Despite the bishop’s remarks to the contrary, the Galveston-Houston Roman Catholic Archdiocese had child molesters and let them go. But don’t blame just the Church.

2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

Bluegrass Meltdown, Montrose-Style

Medicine Show, J.W. Americana and Two Star Symphony have the cure for the Monday-night blahs

A Dozen Brisket Sandwiches

The best black East Texas barbecue within an hour of downtown

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.

Treasure Hunter

Chris Strachwitz's 40-year journey through ethnic music deserves an arhoolie of its own

Long Haul

As the rest of Americana crumbles around him, Guy Clark just keeps getting better

Lost Legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

Clucking and Trilling

Bryan's Messina Hof winery is a feast for the senses. Just be sure to confirm your reservations.

Taken for a Ride?

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

Boogie Nights

Music, a Houston DJ andthe lure of Austin

Critical Diagnosis

If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates

Skin Deep

If nudism is not about bodies, what's it about?

Static

The Texas Rose Rustlers

They went in search of the vehicle of fragrance, and found adventure and companionship.

Swinish Behavior

Texas A&M's attempt to push an animal research center on a black neighborhood has raised a sour smell in College Station

Sound Check

Static

A decade of struggles for sexual equality means that male prisoners today are having to answer to female jailers.

Now everybody, it's claimed, will be on their best behavior. Really?