Pittsburgh

Boy Oh Roy!

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

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

Going to the Chapel, Going to Jail

Obama Accuser NOT An Aggie, Aggies Thankfully Discover

Playing the Blues

Playwright August Wilson talks about the birth of Ma Rainey

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, ... 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 >>

News of the Weird

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 >>

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 communit ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Prediction / Closing the Circle.

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 ... More >>

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 communit ... 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 >>

Jitney

August Wilson offers up his own ‘70s show

Grand Buffet

August Wilson offers up his own ‘70s show

Combat Rock

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

“Rhapsody in Black and White”

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

One Shot

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

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

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

Gem of the Ocean is a Crown Jewel

Ensemble Theatre presents a glorious play

Blades, Don Cabellero, Animal

Local instrumentalists get things started for out-of-towners

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

America in black-and-white

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-p ... More >>

An XL Party

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-p ... More >>

SPECIAL FOUR-PART EDITION

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-p ... More >>

Time to Grow Up

No more excuses for the Houston Texans

Risqué, Medium Rare

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

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Make Mine Moo

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar

Circuits of Steel Tour

Thursday, July 24

A Beautiful Mind

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

Best Place to Turn Back the Hands of Time

James Coney Island

An August Occasion

Wilson takes a Jitney to the Alley

Down in the Valley

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

Talking the Blues

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

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 ... More >>

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.Mat ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Little Shop of Horrors, Seven Guitars, Red Light Winter, Our Town,

​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.Mat ... More >>

Game Time: Your Texans Playoff Rooting Manifesto, 2009 Edition...Yeah, You Heard Me!!

​The internet has been a wonderful invention. It's allowed us to do all of our Christmas shopping in our underwear, go to college in our underwear, hell even go to work in our underwear. Basically, it's allowed us to do a lot of things in our underwear that we never thought possible, including giv ... More >>

Five Pieces Of New Year's Weirdness

As you recover from your New Year's Eve party, rest assured that no matter how weird it got, it could have gotten weirder. The changing of the year seems to bring out some odd stuff.Here are just five examples of New Year's Weirdness.This clip features Father Time getting blasted by rayguns, a whole ... More >>

Dave Chappelle and Other Memorable Celebrity Airplane Freak-Outs

Victoria Osteen: No Dave Chappelle​Because celebrities are better than regular people and therefore fly a lot, it's only natural that the friendly skies are occasionally subjected to the inexplicable fame-fueled freakout.The latest famous person to go bananas at 30,000 feet was comedian Dave ... More >>

Credit Cards: Houstonians Have Three, And Owe $5,300 On Them

What about a Costco card? Is that okay?​If you're a Houstonian, you have three credit cards in use, and you have a total debt of $5,328.Many Houstonians right now are going "I wish," we're sure.But the financial firm Experian insists it's so, after a study that looked at credit card use in big cit ... More >>

Astros Are Bobblehead Addicts Who Ignore Current Roster, Study Finds

Not current Astro players​First off, yes, someone does study bobblehead giveaways at major league parks. And does impressively charted presentations of them.That somebody is Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Flyball, who has produced a groundbreaking piece of research that demonstrates conclusively that ... More >>

Harris County's Jail-Population Growth Third In Nation, Study Finds

Harris County Jail's having a population boom​In an era when locking fewer people up and spending less on jails seems to make sense and is rapidly becoming en vogue, Harris County was increasing its spending and putting more folks behind bars than nearly any other populous county in the country, a ... More >>

Jitney

Harris County Jail's having a population boom​In an era when locking fewer people up and spending less on jails seems to make sense and is rapidly becoming en vogue, Harris County was increasing its spending and putting more folks behind bars than nearly any other populous county in the country, a ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Curtains, Jitney, Masters of Semblance, Urinetown

Harris County Jail's having a population boom​In an era when locking fewer people up and spending less on jails seems to make sense and is rapidly becoming en vogue, Harris County was increasing its spending and putting more folks behind bars than nearly any other populous county in the country, a ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Jitney, This, Breaking the Code

Harris County Jail's having a population boom​In an era when locking fewer people up and spending less on jails seems to make sense and is rapidly becoming en vogue, Harris County was increasing its spending and putting more folks behind bars than nearly any other populous county in the country, a ... More >>

Houston, You Are the Tenth Most Promiscuous City, You Slut

Feeling at home in Houston.​Man, you host one slutwalk and.... Houston has been named the tenth most promiscuous city in the nation, in a study that we don't doubt for a second is rigorous, peer-reviewed and unassailable. It comes from a dating site called OKCupid, but the people at OKCupid ... More >>