Subject: Pittsburgh

• Boy Oh Roy!

  August 10, 2006

• John Royal's NFL Picks: Week Two

  September 14, 2007

• Jason’s Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week 13: Packing It Up Early

  November 29, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week 14: All These Bowls Are Making Us Groggy

  November 30, 2007

• Going to the Chapel, Going to Jail

  April 28, 2008

• The College Football Review, With a Little More Ashley Judd

  September 2, 2008

• College Football Review: Tulsa Beats Rice in Douchebag Bowl

  October 6, 2008

• Obama Accuser NOT An Aggie, Aggies Thankfully Discover

  October 24, 2008

• Playing the Blues

  January 20, 1994

• Football Watching Food (No, Really)

  Okay, nice joke J.C., you totally had me. Although I should have known something was up since nobody makes their own corny dogs (except maybe Jay Francis). Don't look for any Super Bowl recipes from me. The spirit has gone out of our great national guacamole-eating holiday since the NFL started suing everybody for infringing on their trademark. Bars and restaurants can't have Super Bowl promotions without paying a fee to use the name. That's like Hallmark demanding a cut of your Mother's Day B

  January 30, 2009

• Pittsburgh/Arizona Fusion Cuisine: Fried Bologna Migas

  Not that I'm thinking about theme food for a football game or anything, but what about this for an inspired Rust Belt/Sun Belt fusion dish? My family is from Pittsburgh, so I associate the foods I ate in my youth with the Iron City. And I ate a lot of fried bologna and scrambled eggs. My father, who grew up in the South Hills part of town, considered fried bologna a delicacy. When he made us fried bologna sandwiches, he always made an incision on a radius from the center of the slice to the

  January 30, 2009

• 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 as AshleyMadison.com. I'm sure that some of you have also heard that the Canadians refused to let this ad air on the Canadian feed of the game. And that AshleyMadison.com was not allowed to place a

  February 3, 2009

• Saturday: Don Caballero at Meridian

  Perhaps Damon Che should have simply joined Creta Bourzia, rather than assimilating the Pittsburgh band into Don Caballero v 2.0. The allure of riding his own famous coattails certainly had something to do with the decision. It didn't hurt that the Bourzia boys were Caballero disciples, no doubt thrilled to be courted by their math-rock messiah. Problem is, the new Don Cab is preaching a different gospel. While there are still nods to classic Don Cab via smatterings of syncopation, and occ

  February 6, 2009

• News of the Weird

  May 27, 1999

• 10 Ways Miguel Tejada Can Do His Public Service

  To: Drayton McLane From: Pam Gardner Cc: Ed Wade, Tal Smith, Cecil Cooper Re: Miguel Tejada's Community Service _____________________________________________ Mr. McLane: As you are no doubt aware, the team yesterday agreed to help Miguel Tejada, shortstop, fulfill the 100 hours of community service that is part of his sentence for lying to Congress. I've done some brainstorming with my marketing people, and I think we have come up with some ways to handle this while giving the team ju

  March 27, 2009

• Rice Students Get Their Art Displayed On Billboards! In, Ummm, College Station

  Photo by west.mIt's not every day that college art students get to see their work displayed on billboards, but that's what's happening with a group of Rice seniors - they'll just have to drive to College Station to it.Rice University was kind enough to send Hair Balls a press release explaining how artist and professor Christopher Sperandio asked Lamar Outdoor Advertising if the company would be interested in showcasing local artists. To which Lamar said - and we're paraphrasing here - heck, yea

  April 3, 2009

• Prediction / Closing the Circle.

  April 13, 2000

• 10 Ways Miguel Tejada Can Do His Public Service

  To: Drayton McLane From: Pam Gardner Cc: Ed Wade, Tal Smith, Cecil Cooper Re: Miguel Tejada's Community Service _____________________________________________ Mr. McLane: As you are no doubt aware, the team yesterday agreed to help Miguel Tejada, shortstop, fulfill the 100 hours of community service that is part of his sentence for lying to Congress. I've done some brainstorming with my marketing people, and I think we have come up with some ways to handle this while giving the team ju

  March 27, 2009

• 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 as AshleyMadison.com. I'm sure that some of you have also heard that the Canadians refused to let this ad air on the Canadian feed of the game. And that AshleyMadison.com was not allowed to place a

  February 3, 2009

• Don't Miss Wayne DeHart in Radio Golf

  Hole in One

  October 9, 2008

• Jitney

  August Wilson offers up his own ‘70s show

  July 3, 2008

• Grand Buffet

  December 27, 2007

• Combat Rock

  S.S. Kiss My Ass docks at Super Happy Fun Land

  July 20, 2006

• “Rhapsody in Black and White”

  The photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris documents the life of African Americans over 40 years

  May 15, 2008

• One Shot

  The Society for the Performing Arts presents Ronald K. Brown and Evidence, A Dance Company

  May 8, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gem of the Ocean, Illyria, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Scarlet Pimpernel,

  February 21, 2008

• Gem of the Ocean is a Crown Jewel

  Ensemble Theatre presents a glorious play

  February 14, 2008

• No Mexicans in Detroit? What about Fairies?

  December 13, 2007

• Blades, Don Cabellero, Animal

  Local instrumentalists get things started for out-of-towners

  November 1, 2007

• Girl Talk

  November 1, 2007

• “Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Books and Photographs by Lee Friedlander”

  America in black-and-white

  August 23, 2007

• Cutout Bin: Novo Combo's Animation Generation

  Novo Combo Animation Generation (Polydor, 1982) The 1980s: everything was changing. A new generation was taking over the musical and cultural landscape. Heavy Metal showed that even animated boobs could be a turn-on. Tron told us that even crappy, monochromatic animation made by crappy, low-powered computers could entertain for an hour or two. It was the Animation Generation. This was a generation that no longer needed to tie its shoes - thanks to a fellow by the name of Mr. Velcro.* The

  April 17, 2009

• An XL Party

  February 2, 2006

• SPECIAL FOUR-PART EDITION

  November 2, 2006

• Time to Grow Up

  No more excuses for the Houston Texans

  September 8, 2005

• Risqué, Medium Rare

  Steak and tits -- how can you go wrong at the Strip House?

  December 16, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 22, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  March 11, 2004

• Make Mine Moo

  Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar

  October 23, 2003

• Circuits of Steel Tour

  Thursday, July 24

  July 24, 2003

• A Beautiful Mind

  A spate of tribute shows salutes a healthier Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators

  May 8, 2003

• Special Delivery

  Punk rock queen Patti Smith finally gets some respect from the art world

  March 27, 2003

• Best Place to Turn Back the Hands of Time

  James Coney Island

  September 26, 2002

• An August Occasion

  Wilson takes a Jitney to the Alley

  January 24, 2002

• Down in the Valley

  Houston author Kathleen Cambor places her readers at ground zero of the Johnstown flood

  January 18, 2001

• Talking the Blues

  February 26, 1998

• Now It's Even A Bigger Deal To Win A Tommy Tune Award

  The ceremony for Houston's Tommy Tune awards has become a high point on the local high-school drama calendar, as productions from all over the area enjoy their own version of the Tonys.Now the nominees have even more reason to get incredibly tense as the winners are announced: at stake may be a trip to New York and a four-year scholarship at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.Two big-time arts organizations --  Nederlander Presentations and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Orchestra (which, with

  June 16, 2009

• Houston, You're A Cheap Date

  ​Houston may just be the most romantic city in the world -- the spectacular sunsets caused by refinery pollution, the thrilling moments dodging hurricanes, the long hours spent chatting on the cell while stuck on 59 -- Paris ain't got nothing on us.Now it turns out that we're a cheap date, too.Match.com -- in the pure interests of furthering science, and not for the tawdry attempt to get publicity -- did a highly technical study to determine which were the cheapest cities in the country to hav

  August 18, 2009

• Experts Ask The Pressing Question Tonight: Are You Ready For Some Football?

  ​The NFL season opens tonight. We've already given you our astute and accurate take on the Houston Texans. (9-7, if you must know.) But what about the rest of the league? Do you actually want to sit through all the games, or learn what will happen in the next few grafs?We thought so.So here is how the season will shake out.AFC South -- Peyton Manning learns what life is like on the downside of your career. It involves many sacks, or throwing the ball to the stands in order to avoid a sack. It

  September 10, 2009

• Kolache Crawl: All Hail the King of Kolaches

  ​We begin our Texas kolache tour at Weikels's in LaGrange, home of the best commercial kolaches in Texas. The standard by which I measure sweet kolaches is the poppy seed variety, mainly because I grew up eating poppy seed kolaches in my grandma's Ruthenian kitchen in Pittsburgh.

  November 11, 2009