Rich Connelly

Time to Sign Up for Houston Marathons...and Relive the Grossest Marathon Photos EVER!

"I had a friend who went to jail for something he didn't do...he didn't run fast enough." -- Damon Wayans There's nothing quite like the feeling of crossing the finish line after miles and miles of running. The satisfaction, the joy, the sheer exhaustion is an incredible moment for a runner. All th ... More >>

Your Ultimate Mardi Gras Guide: Get Fat on Fat Tuesday

First, get geared up with photos from the Mardi Gras celebration in Kemah... ...and the one in Galveston.

Texas Crimes of the Year, 2012

As it turns out, Texans indulged in all seven of the deadly sins.

An Ongoing Issue: Bartender in The Woodlands Arrested After Allegations of Over-Serving

The Houston Chronicle reported this morning that a bartender at the popular Baker Street Pub location at The Woodlands Waterway has been arrested for allegedly over-serving a patron. Chelsea Marie Willburn, 24, was arrested early Sunday morning after a patron whom she'd served at Baker Street was fo ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: Roman Delight, Droubi's and a Troubled Taqueria on the North Side

We had an Italian professor who told our class that in Italy, if you eat at a restaurant and get sick, you don't sue or make a fuss. It's just part of the deal. Also, Italian barristas don't clean coffee machines between each use, because that's pointless. For some reason we remembered that lesson a ... More >>

Nacogdoches Man Creates the Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever

As if the coffee chain wasn't overpriced enough as it is, one East Texas man decided to beat Starbucks at its own game. The result: the most expensive Starbucks drink ever at $23.60 for the cup. It ended up being completely undrinkable, as one might imagine. Not only for the flavor -- which Logan W ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

For your holiday pleasure: An artist's rendition of Houston Press blog editor Rich Connelly, in ornament form​In the spirit of the season, we're going to throw in more clean inspections than usual. In hard news, if it bleeds, it leads; and for the Health Department Roundup, if there's slime, i ... More >>

The Real World

With expectations sky-high, El Real Tex-Mex Cafe struggles for glory.

An Economics Lesson at Boheme

Inside Boheme​"What you're thinking is that we have an inelastic product here. But what we have here is an elastic product." - Economist Russell Bell In general, products that create dependence - cigarettes, hard drugs, exotic Asian quasi-opiates ordered legally on the internet, somehow - are ... More >>

Game of Thrones - Eight Ways the TV Series Differs from the Book

​HBO's epic series based on George R.R. Martin's first novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series concludes next month. I've been doing my best to sum up the adventures of the Starks, Lannisters and Targaryens each week in such a way that newcomers to the story wouldn't be overwhelmed by the she ... More >>

Ray Lewis Predicts Crime-ageddon If There's No NFL

This is what society looks like without the NFL.​"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game." -- Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio Well, that's a new one. I've ... More >>

Five Step Plan To Being A Terrible Little League Parent (w/ VIDEO)

Let me preface this post by saying that I love my kids, all three of them. They are named James, Judy Anne, and Sammy and they are ages 12, 12, and 11. They have all played sports since virtually the time they could walk and attending their sporting events -- whether it's soccer, football, baseb ... More >>

Game Time: Mike Leach, Texans and Grounded Clubs -- Weekend Thoughts

The Whalers can take it out of you​I'm two hours removed from a 5:00 a.m. flight this morning from Boston to Houston, so if this post is even remotely coherent we all have Rich Connelly and his ninja proofreading skills to thank. Because when you go up to Hartford for Whaler Fest 2010, there's no ... More >>

Game Time: Jose Lima, One More Inning Of "Lima Time"

Photo via DeadspinJose Lima, an eye for talent​When I hit "Save" yesterday morning on my post paying tribute to the late Jose Lima, I figured that would be the end. It was, coincidentally, about the same time we were finishing up what evolved into a tribute, a Jose Lima Memorial show on 1560 The ... More >>

The Pope Problem

Readers respond to "The Man Who Sued the Pope."

The Rev. Billy Gibbons Scats About Old Buff Stadium And The Astros... We Think

Kevin Scanlon​It's a gray day in Houston today (no pun intended), and just this past weekend, only a promotional hoodie a friend fortuitously found at our Village Voice Media party - we have no idea who or what a "Mojofilter" is; we're just glad they didn't make keychains this year - kept us from ... More >>

Credit, Perry and Shundrekia's Story

Houston Press readers weigh in

Our Next Mayor, The Cougars Victory and Sex for Tickets

Our readers weigh in.

Death of a Dancer

And more reader responses from the past week

Adieu To (Part Of) The Savoy

Hearts started racing with the announcement that downtown's vacant Savoy Hotel had to be demolished immediately because it was a danger. Hearts especially raced across the street at the Houston House apartments, where residents pondered being a neighbor to the implosion of an asbestos-filled buildin ... More >>

We Call Bull

Readers fight back after our Texans season opener feature.

Chron Guts Sports Department

Photo by Lori Greig On Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle laid off a whole bunch of writers and reporters, including Michael Murphy, MK Bower, and Terrance Harris, the beat writers for the University of Houston, Rice, and TSU. On Wednesday, while they were laying off people over on the advertising and ... More >>

Chron Guts Sports Department

Photo by Lori Greig On Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle laid off a whole bunch of writers and reporters, including Michael Murphy, MK Bower, and Terrance Harris, the beat writers for the University of Houston, Rice, and TSU. On Wednesday, while they were laying off people over on the advertising and ... More >>

Blog on Blog: Off the Kuff's Charles Kuffner

Hair Balls introduces a new regular feature: Blog on Blog. Each week we'll interview other area e-writers and explore what they're writing about, why they write about it and why you should read what they write about. Starting things off is Off the Kuff's Charles Kuffner, who we gave Best Blog in ou ... More >>

Mack, Turkeys and Beaver's

What a Turkey

Hope for the Houston Texans?

Teaming Up

God, SUVs and Victoria Osteen

Cross Eyed

Mad Vegans and Pedantic Scientologists

Turkeys Talk Back

Pop Quiz

Our Sister City

Newspaper on the Radio

Mail Call

Supernaw's Story

Mail Call

On the Cover

More Fodder for the Conspiracy Theories

Risky Business

Spaced Out

A non-PC e-mail riles a group of judges

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters

Warmed Over

Plus: Shoe Scuff, Stand Up, Broiler Steam

A Lucky Joe

Plus: Smouldering Inside, Flunking English, Museum Stakes

Blind Drunk

The palates of our staffers don't discriminate by price