Subject: Richmond Strip

• Sole of Houston: Richmond Avenue Facts

  May 1, 2008

• Sole of Houston: Richmond Avenue, Houston’s Street of Dreamz

  May 1, 2008

• Greenspoint Ho!

  March 25, 1999

• Sex Among the Armoires, Part II

  June 17, 1999

• Romper Room

  Lucky enough to be one of Playboy's best

  August 17, 2000

• The Anti-Clapton

  Rocky Hill hopes to find a smooth patch on his rocky road

  July 11, 2002

• Cover Boys

  June 2, 1994

• Static

  May 2, 1996

• Say Hello to EaDo

  We once described the area immediately to the east of the George R. Brown Convention Center as a "silent, godforsaken stretch of no-man's-land" that is neither the Warehouse District, nor the Third Ward, nor the East End. We employed that bulky definition because by 2000, its 1980s and '90s name - Chinatown - was no longer apt. Area boosters agree, and now the area has a new name and flashy Web site. Those of you who have been witness to the genius on display in the re-branding of Houston ne

  February 3, 2009

• Press Picks

  October 31, 1996

• Satellite Collision: Red-Light Cameras To Blame?

  NASA has announced that one of its satellites has collided with a Russian satellite, creating a cloud of space debris that threatens other space objects.They did not say whether red-light cameras played any part in the collision.Scientists say, however, that satellites have never collided in the 50-odd years of them orbiting Earth. Then, not long after red-light cameras become popular, a collision happens? We don't think it's coincidence.The two satellites were about 500 miles above the eart

  February 12, 2009

• King of Richmond Strip

  March 27, 1997

• Clubland

  April 2, 1998

• Clubland

  April 30, 1998

• Judge Not The Two-Step, Lest Ye Be Judged

  Yeah, so we judged a Texas Two-Step dancing contest last night.That's pretty much the equivalent of Sarah Palin judging a Dance Salad festival, but we tried.You know it's bad when the only song you recognize in the half-dozen or so tunes in the warm-up is George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen," and that's only because you can pretty clearly make out the words "love without end, amen" in the chorus. But Reliant Energy, which sponsored the event, seems to have faith in your ability to determ

  February 26, 2009

• Clubland

  July 23, 1998

• Clubland

  August 6, 1998

• Clubland

  September 24, 1998

• Clubland

  October 1, 1998

• Clubland

  October 8, 1998

• Some Straight Bar In Houston Is About To Be Invaded By Teh Gheys

  Illustration courtesy wikipediaThe "Guerrilla Gay Bar" concept is coming to Houston.Announced on a Facebook page, the event will begin Friday night.And what is a Guerrilla Gay Bar?As the announcement says: "Once a month, we will venture away from our normal hangouts and take over one of the local 'straight' bars. They will receive no warning. Think flash mob! We simply show up in large numbers and drink in even larger quantities."Sounds like fun! And potential violence!!It's a concept that's bee

  March 11, 2009

• Twinkies, Racial Profiling and EaDo

  It was a long time ago

  February 12, 2009

• Cold Shot At The Hideaway

  A guitar prodigy electrifies Richmond Strip tavern

  December 25, 2008

• On the edge in Edge City

  December 30, 1993

• Capital Improvement

  The Travis Cafe feels like Austin -- if Austin had good food

  May 6, 1999

• Texas Sushi? Hai!

  Lessons from Mami

  October 5, 2000

• Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

  May 15, 2008

• Chillin' with tha Eskimoz

  We have a Whatachat with the guys behind the fast-food rap video

  June 29, 2006

• Rockin' Renewal

  The imminent launch of new venue Warehouse Live makes it official: Downtown is now Houston's live music hot spot

  October 13, 2005

• Binge Benefits

  A look inside the bars of the Near Northside

  June 30, 2005

• Let's Go Down-town!

  Now, live music is waiting for you

  January 27, 2005

• Elephant Dance

  Cuttin' a rug with the Dubya bunch at Wild West

  November 18, 2004

• Listen Up

  DJs famous and otherwise turn the tables at Numbers

  May 6, 2004

• Advantage: MILFs

  Women 35 and up serve it up

  March 4, 2004

• Bling Thing

  A hip-hop summit preaches what it doesn't practice

  January 22, 2004

• David Brake and That Damn Band

  Lean, Mean Texas Machine (Westerland Records)

  September 11, 2003

• Burying the Past

  A farewell slap to a Chronicle columnist

  August 14, 2003

• Richmond's Burning

  Ten people have been shot on the Richmond Strip since May. And this is where we want to send thousands of Super Bowl fans?

  July 17, 2003

• Berry Talented

  Charlie Berry performs at Porky's

  June 12, 2003

• The Turn of the Screw

  In which a narcotic, native-born music finds a nightclub home

  August 16, 2001

• The Hustle

  Two '70s-themed nightspots soon may compete for the same downtown boogiers

  January 18, 2001

• Mansion on the Hill

  A trendy nightspot just off the Richmond Strip stands apart from its monochromatic competitors

  December 21, 2000

• Rap It Up

  Rave organizers turn to hip-hoppers to entrance the kids

  December 14, 2000

• The Russians Are Melting

  You want oligarchs? We got oligarchs!

  August 17, 2000

• Personality Counts

  Local ladies strut their stuff

  July 27, 2000

• Local Music News

  Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion

  September 2, 1999

• Static

  January 4, 1996

• Vince Young Can't Beat Out A Has-Been QB, But He Can Make It Rain

  Okay, imagine you're a third overall draft pick, and two years into your football career, you've lost your job as starting quarterback to an aging, recovering alcoholic, racist retread. You're teetering on the brink of being labeled one of the biggest busts in recent football history. What's more, your team fairly recently lost one of its star players in part because he "made it rain" at a performance by the rapper Nelly.What do you do?If you're Vince Young, apparently you go to a Nelly show at

  May 26, 2009

• They All Look Alike To The Chronicle

  Perusing the "Hot Ticket" spread in this week's Chronicle's Preview section, we came across this little doozy of a mislabeled photo:The caption reads, in part, "Trombone Shorty (pictured here in Guitar Shorty mode) and Orleans Avenue will headline A Gulf Coast Juneteenth...7 p.m. Friday at Miller Outdoor Theatre"No mode about it, that is in fact a picture of Guitar Shorty, a pint-sized blues guitar shredder who had a long residency on the Richmond Strip back in that now-woebegone party zone's `9

  June 18, 2009

• Houston 101: Cruising Westheimer: The Favorite Teenage Pastime of Reagan-Era Houston

  ​For such a big city, '80s Houston was in some ways still a small town. Case in point: the teenage ritual of cruising Westheimer, in which the fourth largest city in America did its best to impersonate a one-Dairy Queen town, one where all you can do is drive down the strip and then turn back around. While cruising Westheimer has multiple connotations, especially as you approach Bagby, back in the Reagan Era, to most it meant getting in your car and driving aimlessly east from west Houston, g

  August 12, 2009