Subject: Pearland

• The Grim Sweepers

  August 2, 2006

• YouTube Monday

  June 11, 2007

• You Should’ve Been There: B. and We Versus the Shark at Notusoh

  July 23, 2007

• The East End Trek

  September 13, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Kid Rock Waffle House Fight

  October 22, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Pearland Represent!

  December 7, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: The Judy's Moo Back

  February 25, 2008

• SXSW: The Judy's at Austin Music Hall

  March 13, 2008

• Time's Up for Pit Bulls Rescued from Hurricane Ike

  October 3, 2008

• David vs. Goliath

  Scenes from the Starbucks trial

  June 16, 2005

• Last Minute Thanksgiving Shopping

  Photos by Robb Walsh Forgot the whipped cream for the pumpkin pie? You might take the opportunity to check out the latest in grocery stores -- the new mega-HEB at Bunker Hill and I-10. It's only 130,000 square feet -- the humongo-HEB in Pearland is slightly bigger -- but it's still the biggest grocery store I've ever seen. The day I stopped in the place had some amazing specials for the grand opening sale--like lobsters for $8 a pound and leg of lamb for $4 a pound.

  November 26, 2008

• Thrift Store Cowboy: Garth Brooks, Sonic Youth and Yaz

  Location: Salvation Army, 3620 Broadway, Pearland Thrift stores are a museum of random genius. Where else can one find a faded D.A.R.E. t-shirt and a pair of soiled leather pants? Each trip is a chance for magic. Rocks Off spent some time at the Salvation Army out in the badlands of Pearland last week, on a mission for music. One afternoon he found a vinyl copy of the Nuggets compilation, and his fifth copy of Sgt. Pepper. Increasingly, this location has become a goldmine for compact disc ca

  December 16, 2008

• Tales From the Brookside

  May 2, 1996

• Hardball

  July 4, 1996

• Grassroots Activism

  August 8, 1996

• Pearland Gets The State's Newest Superfund Site! Take That, Pasadena!

  There's an ugly mess of chemicals in the groundwater on the south side of Pearland. The contamination is severe enough that the abandoned tank farm has become the latest addition to the state's Superfund Registry.This is no surprise to nearby residents, some of whom are being given bottled water because their wells are contaminated.That state has been investigating complaints at the site since 1987 and have identified high levels of lead, trichloroethene and other chemicals in the groundwate

  February 11, 2009

• Changing the Channel

  December 25, 1997

• Soul Mama Smackdown

  Two soul food superstars named Mama face off with competing versions of Creole cooking

  July 17, 2008

• The Judy's Come Back

  March 13, 2008

• Pearland ISD, the Inspector of Hides and Animals, and Joel Osteen's New Book

  The Pearland school board — entertainment for years to come!

  November 1, 2007

• Killen's Steakhouse

  Watch for Slurpers

  August 16, 2007

• Hope Springs Eternal

  A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

  August 10, 2006

• These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston

  March 2, 2006

• Fit or Fat, Houston?

  January 19, 2006

• From Houston with Love

  The city sends a special something to Africa

  November 10, 2005

• Freshen Up, Freshen Up

  Pearland new-wave legends the Judy's reunite for a benefit show and possibly more

  May 12, 2005

• Biking Dirty

  BMXers eat dirt and catch air

  June 10, 2004

• Letters

  June 12, 2003

• Letters

  April 24, 2003

• Almost Famous

  Local girl makes good in the new reality series The It Factor

  January 16, 2003

• On the Outs with Indigos

  Plus: Paving Lunatics, Statue of Limitations, Batty over News

  January 9, 2003

• Not Worth A Dam

  Clear Creek is on the rise, and local flood-protection methods have been helpless against it. Soggy residents, tired of being perpetual victims, are ready for a fight.

  September 13, 2001

• Crispy Critters

  Opponents dog plans for a Pearland-area pet crematory

  March 22, 2001

• Truck-Stop Italian

  Big Humphrey's serves up all the comforts of home - assuming home is a double-wide

  July 27, 2000

• Lard Have Mercy?

  Spring Branch worries that a secret grease treatment won't pass the smell test

  January 27, 2000

• Pyramid Scheme

  Two, four, six, eight.Come and watch us levitate!

  April 8, 1999

• Judy's Lore

  Fans still pine for Houston's dork-pop heroes

  August 27, 1998

• Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

  December 26, 1996

• Think Houston Radio Sucks? Try KACC's Lost Fidelity

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty Last week, we railed on the big boys over at the Eagle and the Arrow for perpetrating hours and hours of Billy Joel and the Eagles on the ears of Houston. It seemed to us that between those two fighting for the same audience, it was in fact the listener who was losing. But we didn't take into account the excellent work that is going on down Highway 35 every Friday afternoon on KACC (89.7 FM), Alvin Community College's radio station also known as "The Gulf Coast Rocker." D

  June 24, 2009

• Openings and Closings

  This week features not only restaurant closings and openings, but reopenings as well. The first of those, as expected, was Cafe Le Jadeite (1952 West Gray), which reopened this past Monday. Despite the fact that the name and decor have remained the same, the owners and the menu have changed. B4-U-Eat reports that in addition to a revamped Chinese-American menu, it also offers a sushi bar in the lounge area. Also reopened is longtime Italian favorite Luigi's (2328 Strand St.) on Galvest

  June 25, 2009

• Who Wants To Be A Contestant On Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

  The producers of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire are coming to town Friday today to audition contestants for the show. Our Craig Hlavaty has already gone down this road before; here's his tale and some tips on how to get picked.Back in the summer of 2005, when I was slinging dough for Domino's and studying for a law degree, I was coerced by my dear old mother to go to try out for the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. At this point the Millionaire phenomenon had run its course. I

  July 1, 2009

• A Cafe Bites Nibble

  Brett Floyd and Floyd Landry are partners in Floyd's Cajun Seafood and Steakhouse (1300 East Broadway, 281-993-8385), which recently opened in Pearland. "We opened the Floyd's in Webster in 2004, then another one in Beaumont in 2006, which had been a Don's Seafood for 38 years," says Brett Floyd, "and finally we found this building, which used to house Zydeco's and already had a Cajun image, so it didn't need much. There is a large customer base in Pearland and Friendswood. The area has grown so

  July 15, 2009

• Aftermath: Archgoat, Blaspherian and Thorn Spawn at Walter's on Washington

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This week has been one of many firsts for Aftermath. Sunday night, we attended our first drunken Tejano show at an icehouse in Pearland while visiting the parents. It was an eye-opening experience, full of balls-out accordion breakdowns and Freddy Fender covers that reminded us of our Hispanic-American roots, even if we are only a quarter. Thursday night, we hit up Walter's On Washington for our first-ever black metal show. To outsiders, the genre is corny and ensconced i

  July 17, 2009

• A Chat with David Luna of Shade

  Chef David Luna​David Luna helms the kitchen as executive chef at Shade (250 W. 19th St., in the Heights), which was named top New American restaurant in Texas by the Zagat survey. Who were your cooking inspirations?Funny you should start with that question. My grandmother's funeral was today and she was definitely a great influence. She lived on a farm in the Valley. She usually had cabbage on the stove. Poached chicken was common. She always made a caldo with whatever ingredients were

  July 30, 2009

• Inside Pearland's Mystery Mansion

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​In an up-and-coming neighborhood in Pearland off Highway 288 and Southfork, two nearly identical mansions sit abandoned in adjoining 15 acre lots. The weeds have grown high around the entry gates to one; the other never even had gates built and sits behind a padlocked chain link fence. There's no landscaping around either one. In fact, they look as if someone dropped two gaudy River Oaks mansions into a cow pasture. And perhaps strangest of all is their sheer size:

  August 19, 2009

• High School Football Classic 2009

  August 27, 2009

• Food Fight: It's All Greek to Us

  ​This week's food fight was determined by our Twitter followers to be Battle Gyro. And because we don't want them to have all the fun, we're letting our readers decide which two restaurants in Houston will do battle this week. The easy money is on Niko Niko's, or even Al's Quick Stop as the dark horse. But instead of choosing the obvious choices, we want to make sure there isn't a gyro place out there that you feel has been horribly and undeservedly ignored. Is there a Greek place in Pear

  October 8, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers, Part 2

  He Said Grandpa Songs He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage. The man was arguably one of the biggest musical influences in He Said's life. The intrepid and stealthy Grandpa Gonzalez is kicking the around the country somewhere on a sweet motorcycle or driving through the Midwest in his gigantic RV and his chihuahua with Grandma Ana watching a movie in the back. Seeing that He Said is one-hal

  November 5, 2009

• Artist of the Week: Time Travelers and Staunch Futurama Defenders Holy Fiction

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. ​ Occasionally, you'll hear a band name and think, "Well this band has to be good." Guerilla Maab, for instance, is a fabulous name. Guerillas are cool. Maab is a slang term for mob; slang terms are cool. Mobs are even coole

  November 18, 2009

• Five Spot: Inside E.S.G.'s Everyday Street Gangsta

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. ​After you interview somebody in preparation for writing something about them, there are always things that you want to mention that get left out of the article because of flow or space restrictions or whatever. It's the nature of the situation, we suspect. When we interview

  November 20, 2009