Prairie View A&M University

Charetta Kemp, HISD Tutor, Busted For Bringing Gun On Campus Like Every Right-Winger Thinks She Should

We're not going to go so far as to call Charetta Kemp the Rosa Parks of HISD -- mainly because that would be ridiculous on so many levels -- but you have to admit a whole lot of Texas legislators and Tea Party activists would no doubt consider her a woman ahead of her time. According to court docum ... More >>

The Eating...Our Words 100: Tiffany Tyler and Aimee Turney of Central City Co-Op

Who are they? Tiffany Tyler has been part of Central City Co-op since 2003, where she started as a member and volunteer; today she is Chair of the Board of Directors, and is the "public face" of Central City Co-Op. Her day job is with an oil and gas company, but she considers herself an evangelist ... More >>

What the Deal, Lucille's?

Something has gone wrong with a restaurant that should have, could have, been great.

Who Was Lucille Bishop Smith?

The subject of this week's cafe review, Lucille's, frustrated me so much over the course of three visits that I struggled this week to find much nice to say about it in my weekly review advance (the post you're reading right now which -- hopefully -- directs readers to each week's restaurant review) ... More >>

First Look at Lucille's

Chef Chris Williams may come from Southern food royalty -- his great-grandmother was Lucille Bishop Smith, a culinary pioneer who owned U.S. Smith's Famous BBQ in Fort Worth and helped establish one of the first college-level commercial foods departments in the nation at Prairie View A&M University ... More >>

Grand Incubator

Southern-fried dim sum from Yaki Snack Attack and Bernie’s Burger Bus.

August 2012 Openings & Closings: Lucille's Lands in the Museum District and Dunkin Donuts Hits Houston Hard

Lucille's (5512 La Branch) had its soft opening earlier this week, and plans to host its grand opening on Monday, September 10. The restaurant is the latest addition to the food-starved Museum District, which recently saw the well-received Jade Stone Café open inside the Asia Society. Unlike the pa ... More >>

Highway 6 Landfill Is Such Trash, Say Waller County Folks

Members of the Stop Highway 6 Landfill coalition are warning folks that the proposed Waller County landfill is going to spoil the rural landscape, poison the water supply and pollute our schoolchildren. Project officials say this is a bunch of rubbish. Pending state approval, the 723-acre site -- ... More >>

Barry Walter Bujol Jr. Gets 20 Years For Trying To Help Al Qaeda

A Hempstead man got 20 years in prison today for trying to smuggle GPS devices and pre-paid phone cards to Al Qaeda. Former Prairie View A&M Barry student Walter Bujol Jr, 30, had been convicted in November after defending himself in the trial, which featured a boatload of incriminating evidence, ... More >>

Houston 101: The Assassination of O.P. Dewalt, Black Leader and Lincoln Theatre Manager

On this date in 1931, Olen P. Dewalt was gunned down in the Lincoln Theatre, the city's first black-run movie palace. Dewalt, a leader in the Independence Heights community and a charter member of the local chapter of the NAACP, was the theater's manager and had his real estate office upstairs. Som ... More >>

Cover Story: How Black Riders Made Their Way to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Jamie Francies, Jr. grew up in West Houston, for the most part flying under the radar of the local Ku Klux Klan operating in the middle of the 20th century. As a kid, he did see the victim of a lynching where Post Oak crosses Buffalo Bayou and he had to go to colored school in the segregated times. ... More >>

Saturday Night: Battle Of The Bands At Minute Maid Park

MLB Urban Invitational Battle of the Bands Minute Maid Park February 18, 2012 When I read the words "Battle of the Bands," I am immediately transported to the summer of 1997, when I trained to become a drum major at Texas Southern University. My band director at Jesse Jones Senior High, Mr. Ronald ... More >>

MasterMinds 2012

This year's winners have art, passion and history on their side. And now they'll also each have a check for $2,000.

Barry Walter Bujol Jr.: Hempstead Student Convicted of Helping Al Qaeda

Guilty, judge says​A 30-year-old Prairie View A&M student has been convicted of providing aid to Al Qaeda. Barry Walter Bujol Jr. had a four-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who ruled this afternoon. Bujol offered no witnesses or defense to charges he had materially a ... More >>

Openings & Closings: The Chock Full o'Nuts Edition

Yeah, I don't understand this either.​Remember last week, when we blithely reported that it had been such a wonderful week of good news? Prepare yourself for a mixed bag this week -- and it's a big bag -- starting with the ugly stuff. After Caffe Bello's abrupt closure, there were rumors that ... More >>

What's Closed: Your One-Stop List, Updated Throughout the Day

​The announcements of closings due to the anticipated winter storm are beginning to roll in, the most significant so far being HISD closing all its schools and offices tomorrow. We'll be keeping a list of what's closed and updating it throughout the day, so check back frequently for news. Our ... More >>

Homecoming

Gang Starr's DJ Premier still mourns partner Guru.

SFA vs. Sam Houston: The Battle Of The Piney Woods Comes To Houston

SFA-SHSU -- Big crowd expected​There's Texas-OU in the Red River Shootout (eff that "Rivalry" crap). Florida-Georgia in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. And Oregon-Oregon State in the Civil War.And then there's the Battle of the Piney Woods, where two meth-fueled, teeth-lacking inbred t ... More >>

Long, Loud And Raw Houston School Board Meeting Leaves Few Happy

It wasn't quite like this at last night's HISD board meeting, but it was close​In a lengthy and tumultuous school board meeting Thursday night, trustees voted 8-1 to fire Principal Mable Caleb and five other administrators and teachers from the Key/Kashmere mess, approved another 170 employe ... More >>

Say It Again! at GrumBar

Spoken Word Fridays offer "something intelligent" on Main Street.

An Evening with Dick Gregory

Web exclusive!

Reverse Discrimination -- Against White Republicans -- At Prairie View A&M, Suit Claims

Grimes County District Clerk Gay Wells is playing the race card -- the white race card -- in a lawsuit against Prairie View A&M, saying she was fired for running for public office in 2006.Minorities at the school had run as Democrats and not been fired, she says; she's white, ran successfully as ... More >>

River Oaks Racketeering at Capone's

Wednesday night, minus Robert De Niro

Artist of the Week: Miss Mykie

Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.

The TSU Toronadoes

The twisted history of "Tighten Up"

23rd Annual Labor Day Classic

T.S.U. vs. Prairie View, in a fight to the death (almost)

Walking to Los Angeles

Enjoy Some Chocolate

Catfight

TSU and Prairie View A&M claw it out at the Labor Day Classic

Out of the Park

Second Ward slugger Aaron Treviño scores a scholarship and prepares to leave the barrio behind

Best Regional Cemetery

Jazz Show

David McGee's works riff on one another, like a certain musical genre

I'm Not Dreaming of a White Christmas

No snow and no Bing for Racket

Screwed!

Robert Casey told on Constable Perry Wooten. Wooten fired him. Now Casey and two other people are suing to get their jobs back.

Young Guns

Some are ready to die. Others aren't -- they just want a chance at a better life. But even the most careful of local teens who enlist in 2003 may find their plans for a desk job interrupted by war.

In the Doghouse

An animal typically has three days before he leaves the city pound, dead or alive. What happens during that time continues to cause concern.

Maystead Christopher Allen

A "Learning How to Survive (at) CEP" sidebar

Trivial Pursuit

Should taxpayer dollars help prosecute a reporter with a big mouth and inoperable cancer?

Cooking with Shange

Big Talker

From the Geto Boys to his new nationally syndicated radio show, Willie D has kept his mouth moving. But where his rap was once down and dirty, not it's--gasp!--respectable. Has the gangsta of love sold out, or just grown up?

The Insider

What's Wrong With Wheatley?

It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

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Other Voices

Houston Ebony Opera readies for its first season without its founder

Swinish Behavior

Texas A&M's attempt to push an animal research center on a black neighborhood has raised a sour smell in College Station

Lenwood Johnson's Last Stand

APV is more than his home. It's his life. No wonder he can't let it go without one final struggle.

Visible Man

Carlton Thompson has a sportswriter's dream job. But he keeps getting asked for some I.D.

The Terminator of TSU

Last year, Joann Horton was hired to head Texas Southern University. Now the question is: will she save it, or destroy it?

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