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The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Burger Bracket, Pearland Crawfish Festival, National Beer Day and RA Sushi Roll Eating Contest

While it may have been rainy and dreary for the last few days, the weather report for this weekend is warm and sunny. Get out of the house and grub down with five of the best things to eat or drink this weekend. 2013 Burger Bracket Grand Championship at The Refinery Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 702 ... More >>

Energy Drinks Are a Crock of Crap, But You Knew That...Right?

On the front page of yesterday's New York Times was the headline: Energy Drinks Promise Edge, But Experts Say Proof Is Scant. And not that people feeding their babies Mountain Dew out of a bottle nor concocting go-go juice for their kids, Honey Boo Boo-style, will notice or care what the New York T ... More >>

Friday Night: Red Bull Thre3style Massive at Stereo Live

Check out photos from the RedBull Thre3style event in our slideshow. Red Bull Thre3style Massive feat. A-Trak, Toy Selectah & RL Grime Stereo Live December 21, 2012 Right around the time that EDM became the catchall phrase for any and all dance tracks, "DJ" became the label for anyone who perform ... More >>

Houston Musicians Gather To Support Noise Ordinance Revision

Disclaimer: Marco Torres was hired by Red Bull to take photos at Monday's #LOUD event, so we asked him to report back. -- ed. Last October, Houston's City Council passed a new sound ordinance that dropped the Houston Police Department's requirement of using decibal meters when responding to noise ... More >>

Visit Your Own Hometown: Houston's Top 10 Hotel Bars

There are distinct advantages to drinking in hotel bars, even at hotels in the city where you live. There is always wi-fi available. The bartender doesn't care if you nurse or linger over your drink; most people are just biding time between meetings or flights anyway. You'll meet interesting people ... More >>

Readers' Poll: Does Music In The Workplace Make You More Productive?

A recent blog on the Bloomberg Businessweek site detailed a UK study that was done dealing with music in the workplace and its effect on worker productivity. 77 percent of surveyed businesses said that it boosted morale and made output soar. The rest of the 33 percent probably own sweatshops. Now I ... More >>

No More Requests For Night Owl Classical Lovers: KUHF (And KUHA) Will Offer Canned Music Only In Overnights

No more nightflys on KUHF​Locally-hosted overnight shows on KUHF will soon be a thing of the past, and don't go looking for them KUHA, the phoenix rising from KTRU's ashes, either, confirms Richard Bonnin, executive director of media relations at UH's Office of University Communication. Bonn ... More >>

Nocturnal Classical Fans: No More Requests Or Local Hosts For You

Roll over Beethoven, tell the playlist bot the news.​Looking for a refreshing jolt of Rimsky-Korsakov to get you through that wee-hours cram session? If you've been getting your fix through KUHF's overnight classical DJs, you are going to have to look elsewhere after the dust settles on the ... More >>

TV Party: Dress Codes at Bars?

On last night's "Between The Lines" on CW 39's Newsfix, you get a bit of the background related to the past cover story we ran, "Getting Past the Bouncer," that was spun off the Hudson Lounge debacle that started over Christmas 2010 and reached a head in early January. You probably remember the t ... More >>

SXSW Last Night: LL Cool J Knocks Out Red Bull Thre3style

Marco Torres​The largest party of this year's SXSW included eight world-renowned DJ's, one legendary hip-hop group, a rap pioneer, and more than 10,000 screaming fans who took over a entire city block of Austin's Warehouse District Saturday night. Fueled by Red Bull and love of the turntable ... More >>

Delo's Hood Politics Vol. 2 Best Local Mixtape Of 2011

​On his first tape, Hood Politics Vol. 1, Missouri City product Delo did one great thing ("Ghetto Boy"), one excessively beautiful thing ("Ain't My Style"), six good things ("Dream On," "Tell Me Mamma," "16 David," "Can I Live," "Hold On," "Money & Blood"), two bad things ("I Got Wings," "Hwy ... More >>

Underberg

​Despite the fact that my metabolism has been steadily slowing over the past few years, I still overeat. I've been known to close down one all-you-can-eat seafood buffet, drive around all night looking for another, and finally wind up fishing. It's a sickness. Thank God for Underberg. I was f ... More >>

All Your Protein Bars Are Belong to Us

Nothing like guarana and essential vitamins to help you kick ass at Halo.​Nerds don't tend to eat well. Whether you are watching an epic Dr. Who marathon or trying to vanquish your mortal enemy (i.e. Kenny in accounting) in World of Warcraft, it's tough to take your hand off the controls or ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Julienne Desjardins of Wild Geese Tavern

​You would never know it by looking at her, but Julienne Desjardins is tired. "I've been taking care of a sick child all day," she laughs. Despite this, she's still hustling about on a busy Tuesday evening, pouring beers, shaking shots, and getting everyone nice and tipsy at the Wild Geese Tav ... More >>

ACL Day 3 Recap: Eagles, Norah Jones, Wayne Coyne's Diet

Ed. Note: Updated at 1:42 p.m. to include information on Don Henley's medical condition we received from Eagles manager Irving Azoff. Photos by Marco Torres​It's just a few hours after the Eagles left the stage at this year's Austin City Limits Festival, closing out the weekend. Rocks Off mad ... More >>

Urban Food Legends - Part 2: Dew Shrinks Testes, Red Bull Tumors and KFC Mutants

Deez nutz. Mountain Dew shrinks 'em.​According to UrbanDictionary.com, an urban legend is "a frightening untrue story in which the storyteller insists is true, but has no evidence to back up." The tales below are three of the wildest, weirdest and most unfounded urban legends ever to hit the f ... More >>

1820 Bar's Bo-Tang

Stirred and Shaken: 1820 Bar's Bo-Tang

​Outside of the occasional pedicab and the 24-hour glow of bail bondsmen's office lights, the northeast side of downtown was dead and dark on Tuesday evening. This isn't a good sign for the Astros considering I was two blocks from Minute Maid Park during a home game. But at 1820 Bar (1820 Fran ... More >>

Stirred and Shaken: Roeder's Pub's Dragon-Ass

THE VELVET MELVIN'S GRAPEFRUIT DELIGHT

The 10 Most Useless Kitchen Appliances

YOU DON'T NEED THIS.​We talk a lot on this blog about eating. We talk a lot about cooking. We also talk a lot about booze, food porn and the "less polite" bodily functions (in case you're wondering, the "more polite" bodily functions include yawning and sneezing, but only if it's a cute sneeze ... More >>

ERNIE'S ON BANKS'S KRAPPY KICKER

Stirred and Shaken: Ernie's on Banks's Krappy Kicker

Photo by Troy Fields​With apologies to those who had legitimately rough childhoods, the Houston Oilers damn near scarred me for life as a kid. I've actually blocked out some of the more traumatic episodes from my memory. Grim hospital visits, dead pets, divorce — all that stuff is clear, ... More >>

Perky Jerky: A Caffeinated Snack

​I got a couple packages of Perky Jerky in the mail from somebody trying to promote the stuff. It tastes like your average ordinary beef jerky, but it sure makes your coffee more potent -- that's because the stuff contains caffeine. Sounds like road trip food to me. The enormous success of Re ... More >>

SAWYER PARK SPORTS BAR'S COURTNEY COX

SXSW Swag Report: Quality Over Quantity

Photos by Chris GrayAs John Nova Lomax noted a couple of days ago, it appears the foundering economy has taken its toll on SXSW's promotional-item racket, with the budgetary allowance for all manner of items emblazoned with this company or that's logo being one of the first line-items to get slashed ... More >>

Scenes from Sixth Street: Lots of Hormones at Emo's

Here's hoping Emo's has plenty of Cokes and Red Bull, because the drinking public won't be having much luck getting into the club later this afternoon. At 9 a.m. this morning, a line of Hot Topic-clad high school kids was stretched around the block. The free show doesn't start till noon, but we're ... More >>

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ETRO LOUNGE'S ORANGIE

Slideshow: Red Bull Art of Can at the Galleria

“Art of Can”

Red Bull puts together a caffeine-fueled exhibit

Building the Perfect Beat

Houston Press vs. Memorial Hermann Hospital System; Red Bull vs. Roaring Lion

Hiding info? Blame the temp

The Shaft: Red Bull's "Art of Can"

The Bronx Bar

Party in My Mouth

KAY'S LOUNGE

Three Wise Men

THE BOONDOCKS

CHERRY BOMB

Bayou Blow

Coke is the new weed

SHERLOCK'S

SNEAKY FUCK

That's a Lotta Bull, Dude

Here Comes tha Boom!

DiverseWorks keeps it Real

Starburst

The Velvet Melvin

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Radio Daze

One man, one jambox and four walls. For 24 hours.

The Warp Records Tour

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Water Landing

Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz

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