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Randall's Fried Chicken

​I have been eating a lot of Randall's country fried chicken lately, and I have to say, it's damn tasty. It might sound a little strange that a grocery store has really great chicken, but why not? If you get there relatively early in the afternoon when the guys are still in the back of the pre ... More >>

NASA Had Proof Of Water On The Moon Sitting In Their Storage Closet

​NASA famously bombed the moon last year in a desperate attempt to prove there's water on it. While water was indeed discovered, we have yet to hear any reliable figures on collateral damage to the affected areas or the native population.It turns out, instead of almost triggering a Earth-Moon war ... More >>

The 2010 Census Launches the Latino Underground Into the Mainstream; Other Bold Predictions for the Coming Decade

Will Lil Young be one of this decade's breakout Latino rap stars?​ Can Latino hip-hop in Houston continue to thrive as a black-market force, of sorts, whose sales are invisible to the IRS, and evolve into a powerful underground economy without the acknowledgement or praise of mainstream music medi ... More >>

For Hip-Hop, Brown Could Be the New Black... or the New Wetback

​ For anyone following the Houston Latino rap theme as of late and are wondering why Rocks Off might be telling more of a cultural story than a hip-hop one with our artist profiles, it's because amongst the traditional hip-hop following in America, Houston's Latino rappers may very well be looked ... More >>

Getting "Passed" Up OK with Houston's Latino Rappers... Well, Not Really

There's no doubt that Corporate America knows how to enter a market, break down consumer attitudes and needs, and sell them a product they're going to buy. Pepsi's been around for a minute so you know they know what's up. But in an effort to sell the urban community more of their product (trust us ... More >>

$13 at Bar-B-Que Blues

Photos by Justine Schmider​Where: Bar-B-Que Blues, 5404 Almeda, 713-533-1230What $13 gets you: No beef but a lot of meat and a pink lemonade.On this beautiful day, before the big snow storm arrives, we thought we'd travel to the Third Ward for some lunch at Bar-B-Que Blues. We'd been to the ... More >>

Game Time: Tiger Woods And John Daly Role Reversal...Oh, This Is Gonna Be Good

​I have to admit, I love a good train wreck. When you're driving down the freeway, and traffic is at a standstill because there's a five-car pile up on the OTHER side of the interstate, I'm the guy who's slowing everything down, taking it all in. My top two priorities on my DVR are Beverly Hills ... More >>

Gettin' Snatch? Slayin' Puss? Yeah, Pepsi Has an App for That

​One day, someone ridiculously wise (or someone that was obviously getting ripped a new asshole by the media) once said, "No press is bad press." Unfortunately, that old adage probably isn't applicable to Pepsi, and won't be in this lifetime.We suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that Pepsi deve ... More >>

That Other Rumble in the Jungle

Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show.

Sheila Jackson Lee Honors Michael Jackson, At Incredible Length

Via The Hill's blog, we've learned of our own Sheila Jackson Lee's epic attempt to immortalize Michael Jackson (who is being celebrated as we speak; check out the twittering/liveblogging at the music blog of our sister paper LA Weekly).Amazingly, Lee's bill declaring the House of Representatives "re ... More >>

Immigrant vs. Immigrant

Mind Games

Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

Drinking Pepsi Means You Support Gay Orgies, Totally Reasonable Texan Asserts

Is Pepsi in bed with the gays? That's what former Texas Republican Party Treasurer and General Counsel Gina Parker Ford believes. Hair Balls knows this because Ford sent us a commentary detailing her outrage over a recent episode of Family Guy that "promote[d] homosexuality, gay orgies and also slan ... More >>

Miss Pop Rocks Watches the Super Bowl

Oh God, my stomach is so distended. WHY do I do this to myself every Super Bowl Sunday? I watch one football game each year and it's this one, and the only reason I watch it is to have an excuse to eat snacks and watch commercials. A few thoughts on this year's game: First of all, choirs are ver ... More >>

Memo from KPRC Management re: Ashley Madison Super Bowl Ad

FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>

Memo from KPRC Management re: Ashley Madison Super Bowl Ad

FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>

Malt Shop Burger at Cheeburger Cheeburger

Things To Look For At The Obama Inaugural

You know where you could be right this moment, which is about 7:30 in the morning Houston time?You could be waiting in FREEZING Washington, DC, getting on line to go through security checks so you could wait for hours and hours to watch Barack Obama's inauguration from a half-mile away.On the one ha ... More >>

Houston Likes Its Caffeine Cold And Bubbly

Houston, you love your caffeine, but only when it comes cold and bubbly.The second annual Caffeinated Cities survey came out today; it's conducted by something called HealthSaver and looks at caffeine use across the country.The Most Caffeinated City in America? Tampa. (Huh?) Followed by Seattle (tha ... More >>

Why Don’t I Love Madonna?

Be of Good (Blue) Cheer

Chantal Akerman turns the everyday into the extraordinary

The Observer

Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

Did you know that '80s cover band the Spazmatics has clones from coast to coast?

Drenched in Blog: Haddaway Go Away

The Carnicería Connoisseur: Getting Artsy at Mexican Meat Markets

Hunter Ward, R.I.P.

Montrose knew him as a Poor Dumb Bastard. His family knew him as a talented, bright brother and son.

Squirreling Away the 'Nuttz

H-Town's most prominent hip-hop DJ crew heads back for the underground

Houston Hip-Hop

Mike Watts and his stable of northside rappers take a southside legend's style to the masses

Grand Jury

This old TV drama still moves us

Lord Have Mercy

Jesus Camp pitches its tent in the other America

Houston's Food Nazis

Some are curmudgeonly but intriguing. Others are just a bad trip to S&M land.

All the President's Men

Goal Oriented

Rice's women's soccer team kicks it up a notch

Sugar Coated

This Baylor medical "expert" cashed in on infomercials. Now he's showing how things go better with Coke.

Canned Heat, with Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy and the Daddylongnecks

Saturday, April 9, at the Hawg Stop, 11335 Sheldon, 281-456-7867

Where's the Beef? Right here in H-town

T.I. and Lil' Flip rumble in Cloverland, bringing one of the great rap feuds of recent years to a head

Cowboy Cookin'

After Grady Spears's departure, The Burning Pear still smolders

Bill Kills

Comedian-actor Bellamy may be the greatest performer he's ever seen

Pop-Up Pop Stars

With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

Fab Fest

Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez stirs up some Pride

Unfair and Unbalanced

Ludacris rankles the white pride of the National Alliance and Bill O'Reilly

Dead to Rights

Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later

The Big Deal

Vending machines are leaving Texas school cafeterias. But the mother lode of "minimal nutritional value" has hardly gone away.

Reel Guilty

The military thriller High Crimes sets a new low for Ashley Judd

Hayes of Wine & Roses

Galveston's Hayes Carll sets aside sin long enough to come up with Flowers & Liquor

Best Retro Goods

Flashback Fun-tiques

Best Chicken Salad Sandwich

Brasil, 2604 Dunlavy, (713)528-1993

In Good Company

Strong Convictions

Hard-line leaders such as loopy Stephen Mansfield have taken their agenda to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where legal precedents--not prosecutions--get overturned