Subject: Port Arthur

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Amadeus, bobrauschenbergamerica, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Eurydice, John, His Story

  February 26, 2009

• The Houston 100: From Harry Choates to Johnny Preston

  September 26, 2007

• Port Arthur Residents Sue Premcor Refining

  November 20, 2007

• The Apple of Her Eye: Pimp C’s Sixth Grade Social Studies Teacher Remembers Chad Butler

  December 5, 2007

• Undertaker Update for Pimp C and Rory Miggins

  December 10, 2007

• Weekend Music: Does Humpty Hump Still Like His Oatmeal Lumpy?

  February 1, 2008

• SXSW: Black Diamond Heavies at Fado's Patio

  March 15, 2008

• Last Night: Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys at Boondocks

  April 29, 2008

• Slideshow: Listening Party for Bun B's II Trill

  May 20, 2008

• Gatemouth Brown Needs a Gravestone

  July 25, 2008

• Port Arthur Shares The Polluting Load

  August 1, 2008

• Some Of That Gas Being Refined Near Here Is Going Far, Far Away

  September 17, 2008

• Documentary Takes A Look At Houston, Port Arthur

  October 28, 2008

• Hellish Houston

  A summer selection of the Bayou City's most miserable music and depressing songs

  July 14, 2005

• Tonight: Pimp C Tribute on KPFT's "Damage Control"

  Has it really been a year already? Indeed it has: On December 4, 2007, Port Arthur-born MC and producer Pimp C was found dead in his Hollywood hotel room; the Los Angeles County Coroner listed the cause as a combination of sleep apnea and accidental overdose of codeine-containing cough syrup. To say things haven't been the same without him would be a massive understatement. Tonight on KPFT's "Damage Control" (90.1 FM, 12-3 a.m.), Pimp's former UGK partner Bun B and HoustonSoReal/AustinSurreal

  December 3, 2008

• Port Arthur Environmental Group Says, "Bring On The Sarin Gas!!"

  It's tough enough being an environmental group in Port Arthur. It's kind of being anti-gay in Key West: You're not going to eradicate it all.But it's also not every day when you announced that you're fine with the feds bringing in chemical-warfare waste to your town.That's what Hilton Kelley, director of Community In-Power and Development Association, is doing, though.

  December 8, 2008

• Sprucing Up In Port Arthur: Get Those Cars Off The Lawn!

  Starting today, folks in Port Arthur who park on their front lawns need to think of other places to park.As part of a measure to spruce up the place, the city council approved an ordinance allowing the city to fine folks who think the best place to park the ol' pickup is right in front of the porch.But if you're a lawn-parker, don't fear: today, workers are merely educating folks about the new rule, not issuing citations, Community Services Director Lawrence Baker told Hair Balls. People will ha

  December 12, 2008

• Bacliff Gets Ready For An Ike Invasion

  Shortly after Hurricane Ike, San Leon resident Tommy Dixon praised the spirit of his hometown and its will to rebuild by saying "All we need now are FEMA trailers and mosquito repellent."We don't know about the mosquito repellent, but they are getting the FEMA trailers. Two hundred of them are slated to be built on a former fish farm adjacent to the relatively tony Chase Park subdivision in adjoining Bacliff, a poverty-stricken town whose pre-Ike drug and gang woes we chronicled three months ago

  December 18, 2008

• The Facts of LifeBag

  Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. The bars are probably closed. But you're not worried -- you've got the LifePack Emergency Water Filter! The device uses a two-bag osmosis system and a shot of something lemon-lime-flavored to turn dir

  June 3, 2009

• Press Picks

  July 20, 1995

• The Nanny State Hates The Cars On Your Front Lawn

  As goes Port Arthur, so goes Houston.The noble Golden Triangle town recently passed an ordinance banning people from parking their cars on their front lawns.Always eager to take their lifestyle cues from Port Arthur, the Houston City Council has followed suit with an ordinance of its own.Homeowners associations will be able to petition residents, and if 60 percent of the residents agree to ban cars from laws, than goddammit cars will be banned from lawns.There are so many things wrong with this.

  January 29, 2009

• Squeezebox Serenade

  May 30, 1996

• "I Didn't Create This Mess ..."

  November 20, 1997

• Ready for Recess

  February 5, 1998

• Sweeney's a Sweet Success

  July 23, 1998

• 1968 with Tom Brokaw

  February 26, 2009

• UGK: UGK 4 Life

  April 16, 2009

• A Child Shall Lead Them

  Plus: Barrio Ballots, The Art of Accounting, Trolley Volley

  January 2, 2003

• Big Trouble at Brittle Spy

  Another Saturday Asian Night, another dead body on NoDo's streets

  January 23, 2003

• Love, Janis

  January 17, 2008

• The Facts of LifePack

  Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. The bars are probably closed. But you're not worried -- you've got the LifePack Emergency Water Filter! The device uses a two-bag osmosis system and a shot of something lemon-lime-flavored to turn dir

  June 3, 2009

• Gulf Coast Jam

  Blue-eyed soul legends the Boogie Kings, Jerry LaCroix and G.G. Shinn hit Port Arthur

  July 19, 2007

• Crab Man

  Meet Doug Sartin, onetime heir apparent to a Texas barbecued crab dynasty

  July 13, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  July 6, 2006

• C.J. Chenier

  C.J. Chenier appears as part of the Accordion Music Festival on Saturday, June 3, at Miller Outdoor Theatre, 100 Concert Drive, 713-284-8350

  June 1, 2006

• Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

  Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

  April 20, 2006

• He Won't Back Down

  The mayor was threatened -- or maybe he wasn't

  June 3, 2004

• Podunk

  Saturday, December 15

  December 13, 2001

• Blue Crab Standard Time

  Take your time when eating Gulf blue crabs

  September 6, 2001

• Bright Lights, Bridge City

  The PC Cowboys, the world's only politically correct country band, speak in a Press exclusive

  May 3, 2001

• Discman

  DJ DMD goes national with his continental, Houston-based rap style

  June 10, 1999

• Burnin' for You

  June 25, 2009

• Perhaps The Internet-Cafe Trend In Nederland Was Overstated

  ​Just as we were trying to figure out why there were internet cafes in Nederland and Port Arthur, we find out that the places were actually fronts for illegal gambling, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The department announced yesterday that six people were charged with running the gambling rooms and laundering money. Starting in April 2007, the Justice Department investigated Dolphin Internet in Port Arthur and the Nederland Internet Cafe. The businesses, along with another place

  August 7, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 24: Pimp C's Post-Prison Pimpalation

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com. Pimp C Pimpalation Asylum, 2006​As fun as it is for us music writers to pick obscure or obviously lacking albums by artists and lionize them when we make these types of lists, everybody in the world knew this album was getting a spot here. Worry not, naysayers, there ar

  August 13, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009

• Barbecued Crabs: The Secret Recipe

  Photos by Robb Walsh​When barbecued crabs were invented, there were only three ingredients required to make them: blue crabs, hot cooking oil and the now-discontinued Alamo Zestful Seasoning mix. These days, what exactly went in the seasoning mix is unknown. I have been working on my own barbecue crab seasoning recipe lately. Lots of other people are working on cracking this secret recipe too. That's because the dish is enjoying a revival, and several restaurants over in Beaumont are chall

  August 19, 2009

• Houston Music Fight Club, Round 2: Bryan Jackson vs. Jacob Calle, Bun B vs. B L A C K I E, Beau Beasley vs. Justin Nava

  In last week's Houston Music Fight Club, we pitted six of Houston's brightest-shining musical diamonds against one another in a sort of cruel Internet death match. The only blood drawn was the dark crimson blood of laughter that...yeah, we need to work on our metaphors. Anyhow, we came up with three more semi-local celebrity cage matches. We hope that this actually catches on in real life, so that one day it can be sold to pay-per-view for the rest of the world to gawk at. Finally we will have a

  August 19, 2009

• We Lost 500 Cows During Hurricane Rita!! Just Don't Look Too Closely

  ​Earlier today we had hurricane victims ripping off the feds and the sacred cow of Oprah Winfrey; now we have hurricane victims allegedly ripping off the feds with virtual cows.Six people were indicted today on charges that they told the federal government they had more than 500 cows that were swept off High Island during Hurricane Rita, an imaginary disaster for which they received $390,000 from the Livestock Indemnity Program.The Livestock Indemnity Program's pamphlets damn well better state

  August 19, 2009

• Mr. Boomtown, On Directing Slim Thug And Mike Jones

  ​Most people in the world of music videos may not recognize the name Nahala Johnson, but lately, they've recognized his nom de film: Mr. Boomtown. The Port Arthur native (he now splits his time between Houston and Dallas) is a nominee for the BET Hip Hop Awards' Director of the Year. The show will be held October 10th in Atlanta.He's nominated for his work on two videos that really couldn't be any more different from each other -- Slim Thug's "I Run," with its breathtaking night-time

  October 7, 2009

• Chatting With "Mr. Boomtown" About Directing Mike Jones, Slim Thug and More

  ​Most people in the world of music videos may not recognize the name Nahala Johnson, but lately, they've recognized his nom de film: Mr. Boomtown. The Port Arthur native (he now splits his time between Houston and Dallas) is a nominee for the BET Hip Hop Awards' Director of the Year. The show will be held October 10th in Atlanta.He's nominated for his work on two videos that really couldn't be any more different from each other -- Slim Thug's "I Run," with its breathtaking night-time

  October 7, 2009