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Top 10 restaurants on Washington Avenue

Top 10 Restaurants on Washington Avenue

After last week's Top 10 Restaurants in Rice Village kerfuffle, we've made extra-double sure that this week's list is wholly and completely intact. Now, that doesn't mean your favorite restaurant necessarily made the cut -- that's a whole other conversation for the comments section. What did make t ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Crawfish Joints

For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants. Along wi ... More >>

2011 Music Awards Showcase

Your guide to the bands and venues.

Making It Rain

Author suffers strip clubs, skeptics for book on Southern rap.

Eight Alternatives to Frozen Margaritas

Photo by Matthew WettergreenThe Volcano also offers frozen screwdrivers, which are just as tempting.​When I think "summer" in Houston, I also think "margarita." It's a natural thought progression in a city that's oppressively hot in the summer but also blessed with a plethora of great Tex-Mex ... More >>

Suck the Head!

The Top Ten Crawfish Joints in Houston

Houston's Top 10 Crawfish Joints

Photo by Tony ChenYou must make the crawfish do a puppet dance for your amusement before eating it. Fact.​Yesterday, we showed you the proper way to eat crawfish. Today, armed with that knowledge, we're going to show you the best places to eat them in Houston. It may not officially be crawfis ... More >>

Showcase Showdown

Great moments in HPMA history

Wild on Washington

The three-mile stretch of avenue is Houston's place to be if you're young, white, single and ready to party. At least for now.

Twinkies, Racial Profiling and EaDo

It was a long time ago

Cold Shot At The Hideaway

A guitar prodigy electrifies Richmond Strip tavern

RIP, Rory Miggins

Fight the Power

Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not?

Lord of the Cover Bands

Lonnie Posey rules the retread roost

Technical Difficulties

Slick, expensive and clueless, Fox Sports Grill is a sports bar that can't deliver a hamburger

Rockin' Renewal

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

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Listen Up

DJs famous and otherwise turn the tables at Numbers

A Nashville Star Is Born

Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

Stung

Seven African-American girls tried out for the Texas City Stingarettes drill team this year. None of them made the squad.

Club Directory

The Anti-Clapton

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

School's Out for Summer

Bongo's angles for the collegiate dollar without resorting to wet T-shirts and thongs

Creative Interpretations

Vindication comes a year after "Agent 307" prevented Mahotella Queens from performing at I-Fest

It's All in the Mix

Will two reincarnated institutions breathe new life into Shepherd Plaza?

Out of the Loop

Danzoo scales back plans to entice gays out of their Montrose comfort zone

The Hustle

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

Rap It Up

Rave organizers turn to hip-hoppers to entrance the kids

Texas Sushi? Hai!

Lessons from Mami

Laptop Liberaces

Trax in Space adds another dimension to the music galaxy

Romper Room

Lucky enough to be one of Playboy's best

The Russians Are Melting

You want oligarchs? We got oligarchs!

Personality Counts

Local ladies strut their stuff

Zydeco's Birthplace

Hint: It's where you're standing

Civil(ity) War

Does Houston have to get tougher on street people with new laws?

Sex Among the Armoires, Part II

Guinness Time

Houston's Texas Guinness Lovers is an original cover band

Remaining Calm

Night & Day

December 17 - 23, 1998

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Letters

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Cybersurfing the Lost Highway

Tone Zone puts its new product on-line; Ezra Charles flogs his the old-fashioned way