Pittsburgh

Southwest Introducing Nonstop to Washington, D.C., Reagan National Airport

Beginning the first week of August, if you need a flight to DC, it just got a little easier. Southwest Airlines is launching nonstop flight service between Hobby Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport according to a release. Recently, the airline began nonstop service to Pittsburgh (y ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers: She's Your Girlfriend or Your Roadie, Not Both

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop doing it wro ... More >>

Ten Television Tech Advances That Have Made Watching Sports More Interesting

Seeing a sporting event in person is one of the more enjoyable parts of being a sports fan. From the smell of the grass to the roar of the crowd, it can be an exhilarating experience, particularly if you are fairly close to the action. On the other hand, tickets are expensive, sitting in the noseble ... More >>

Cello Fury

Cello Fury

Long Live King Hedley

Each character gets a center-stage aria in this most operatic of August Wilson's cycle plays.

King Hedley II

Caption This: Football-Fan Headgear

Although they appear to reside on opposite sides of the Steeler-Texans divide, the two men in this screencap from Sunday's game agree on one thing: Watching football demands odd headgear. Be it a Pittsburgh version of Warrant or the least fear-inducing horned helmet imaginable, they will do what it ... 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 >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Jitney, This, Breaking the Code

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

Jitney

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Obama Accuser NOT An Aggie, Aggies Thankfully Discover

Jitney

August Wilson offers up his own ‘70s show

“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

Going to the Chapel, Going to Jail

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

Gem of the Ocean is a Crown Jewel

Ensemble Theatre presents a glorious play

Grand Buffet

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

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

SPECIAL FOUR-PART EDITION

Boy Oh Roy!

Combat Rock

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

An XL Party

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?

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

Prediction / Closing the Circle.

News of the Weird

Talking the Blues

Playing the Blues

Playwright August Wilson talks about the birth of Ma Rainey