Subject: Sam Houston

• Welcome to Football U

  October 6, 2006

• Welcome to Football U

  October 6, 2006

• Report Card for All HISD Schools

  August 1, 2007

• Over the Hills and Not That Far Away

  November 8, 2007

• This Just In: Texas Education Commissioner Orders Sam Houston High School Closed

  June 5, 2008

• Construction of Bank Branches Finally Slowing Down

  August 26, 2008

• Houston On The TV: The Top Five

  September 11, 2008

• Haunted Houses Laugh, Maniacally, At Ike

  September 25, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Gramercy Gets Fingered

  Some Museum District residents rally against plans for razing quaint apartments

  June 1, 2000

• Happy New Year Grilled Oysters

  What goes better with cold Champagne than hot grilled oysters? Also known as barbecued oysters, they are made by putting a fresh shucked oyster on a gas grill and spooning in some melted butter and garlic--you can add parmesan if you like. It was Drago's in Metairie that made char-grilled oysters famous. Jimmy G's on Sam Houston Tollway in Houston does a great job with them too. Gilhooley's does them over a pecan wood fire-that gives the oysters a great smokey flavor. 12 fresh-shucked oysters 4

  December 31, 2008

• From the Allens to today, Buffalo Bayou has helped define the city of Houston. Now, after decades of abuse, it may finally be making a comeback as an urban resource. If, that is, we don't blow our chance.

  May 25, 1995

• What This Area Needs Is A Good Nanotechnology Center

  David Goswick is thinking small -- very, very small. No, even smaller than that. Goswick, the head of Historic Real Estate, wants to build the Nano World Headquarters right here in River City, ah, ... we mean Houston. The idea behind the Headquarters is that Houston (well, at least the Sam Houston Tollway and Highway 288 area) will become a Mecca for nanoscientists from all over the world, Goswick tells Hair Balls. They'll come here to use some of the shared equipment that none of them could aff

  February 2, 2009

• It Was 45 Years Ago Today...

  If you're more than about 50 years old, today is most likely the anniversary of one of your most powerful memories. In the early evening hours of February 9, 1964, more than 73 million people sat glued to their televisions as the course of American pop culture was altered forever. It all started with these two words... "All My Loving," "'Til There Was You," "She Loves You" More Beatlemania after the jump. But first, tell Rocks Off what you remember about watching

  February 9, 2009

• Where the Buffalo Roams

  May 7, 1998

• Old Friends

  August 6, 1998

• Pony Up

  November 12, 1998

• Quanell X

  January 15, 2009

• Sam Houston, Ad Man

  Comcast's odd TV campaign

  October 23, 2008

• Notable tour sponsorships in U.S. history

  May 22, 2008

• What Happened to Honky Tonk in Houston

  Turn out the lights, the party's over

  January 24, 2008

• The TSU Toronadoes

  The twisted history of "Tighten Up"

  December 13, 2007

• 2007 Halloween Guide

  Haunted houses, parties, festivals and other trails to terror

  October 25, 2007

• Trails to Terror

  2007 Halloween Guide

  October 11, 2007

• Mud Boy

  Chris Robinson decides to Crowe it alone with an earthy new band

  November 21, 2002

• NOTSUOH'S

  TEXAS PRAIRIE FIRE

  June 14, 2007

• Still Fighting

  The battle against Nooky's Erotic Bakery rages on

  May 4, 2006

• En la Calle

  Houston joins the revolución

  April 20, 2006

• HouTube.com

  Ten of the Bayou City's best short music films

  April 27, 2006

• To NOLA, with Love

  Musicians from far and wide are "Bringing Back the Big Easy"

  October 6, 2005

• We Know What You Should Do This Summer

  Your guide to beaches, water parks, day trips, festivals and more

  May 26, 2005

• Muchos Luchadores

  Mexican wrestlers take the ring in Angel Rodriguez-Diaz's new exhibit

  May 19, 2005

• Nitrolicious

  High-performance engines -- and drivers -- whip through Baytown

  February 5, 2004

• Sleep

  Dopesmoker (Tee Pee Records)

  October 2, 2003

• Best Hotel

  Hotel Derek

  September 25, 2003

• Best Post Office

  Sam Houston Branch

  September 25, 2003

• Film Buff

  The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

  May 29, 2003

• Way Out There

  A new TV news operation is coming to Houston. More or less.

  August 9, 2001

• Sam Houston's Retreat?

  SHSU stirred the higher-ed circles. Now the excitement has turned to exodus.

  June 29, 2000

• Houstowne, Texas

  Shrouded by mists and unrecovered documents, the history of Houston is still worth a probe

  December 30, 1999

• What If They Gave A Horse Show And Nobody Came?

  The Kantemirov family calls its famous Russian circus, which has toured all over the world for the last 62 years, a "celebration of life and of man's love for horses, demonstrating the harmony between mankind and nature."So when the troupe needed a city to host its first show in the United States, Houston seemed the obvious choice. "We think that Texas is horse country. One of the world's capitals," Mairbek Kantemirov, the show's producer, tells Hair Balls. "Because of rodeo and other things, th

  April 27, 2009

• Last Call For Art: Shows Closing this Weekend

  Photo courtesy San Jacinto MuseumThe Gothic comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest closes on Sunday. Pulitzer-Prize winner Beth Henley's play is about Carnelle, a young woman with a less-than-perfect past who has entered the local beauty pageant in order to restore not only her reputation but her self-esteem as well. She's getting a little help from a cast of only-in-the-south eccentrics. There's a faded beauty queen, a fresh-from-the-mental-ward cousin, and a seamstress who got her start sewing ou

  May 22, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Huntsville

  Most Houstonians probably know Huntsville for the colossal Sam Houston statue, designed by Texas artist David Adickes, himself a graduate of Sam Houston State University and a Huntsville native. At 67 feet tall, "Big Sam" is dubbed The World's Tallest Statue of an American Hero. Or maybe they know about Huntsville thanks to the news. The town is, after all, home to the Texas State Penitentiary, the oldest state prison in Texas, which provides our state with the dubious honor of performing the m

  June 22, 2009

• Houston 101: A Convention Center Built In 64 Days

  ​In 1928, Jesse Jones -- grand poobah of Houston, Lord of Suite 8-F -- was determined to bring national glory to his town by hosting the 1928 Democratic convention. Cleveland, San Francisco and Detroit also wanted the prize, but Jones took a $200,000 check to the bidding committee and got the nod.The only trouble was, Houston didn't have a facility big enough to house a national convention.Jones vowed to build "a $100,000 tabernacle seating 25,000." He didn't quite do that, but he didn't do to

  July 28, 2009

• HISD To Announce It's Done Better Than Ever In State Rankings

  ​HISD has broken its record for schools ranked as "exemplary" or "recognized," spokesman Norm Uhl says.Last year 57 percent of its 296 schools achieved that ranking; this year 70 percent of its schools have."This is one for the HISD history books and a highlight for me as I end my career at HISD," outgoing superintendent Abe Saavedra said in a release. "Once again there has been tremendous academic growth across the district, but the story of Sam Houston really puts a face on the story. Sam Ho

  July 30, 2009

• Houston 101: The Short Happy Life of Dick Dowling

  ​Aside from the city's namesake, no 19th-Century Houstonian was more famous than Dick Dowling, the Irish-born saloonkeeper/businessman and Confederate war hero. In fact, when city leaders commissioned Houston's very first public monument in 1905, it was Dowling and not Sam Houston who got the honors, not least because Dowling was loyal to the Confederacy and Houston was famously not.Dick Dowling was born in County Galway in 1838. Eight years later, his parents fled the Potato Famine and took l

  August 26, 2009

• Meet the Beatles... Again: Live From the Sam Houston Coliseum, August 1965

  ​ More Beatles for you (and more to come). While researching the group's Texas history, Rocks Off stumbled across this gem: a live recording of the Beatles' one and only Houston appearance - though they played a matinee and evening show - at the Sam Houston Coliseum on August 19, 1965. Listen to those screams... Find links to parts 1, 3 and 4 of this recording here.

  September 9, 2009

• Coming To La Carafe: More Room To Smoke and Drink

  Photo by photine​In our Best of Houston issue last year, we selected the scant few tables in front of La Carafe as the Best Place to Smoke and Drink in town. We loved the place for its "prime view of the skyline" and the fact that outside speakers allowed patrons to "bathe in the sweet sounds of the bar's award-winning jukebox."We also dug how you could "scope out the action in Market Square" and on Congress Street and ponder the history of your surroundings. Oddly for Houston, there's n

  September 11, 2009

• Dive Bar-ology 101: What A Dive Bar Is Not

  ​These days, there are a lot of misconceptions about what constitutes a dive bar. Going by lists on sites like Yelp and Citysearch, and especially this laughable list from the Houston Chronicle, apparently any drinking establishment that does not sport bottle service, valet parking and a velvet rope is a dive.How else can you explain the presence of places like Under the Volcano and Kenneally's on such lists? Kenneally's is just an Irish pub, and at Volcano, they squeeze fresh fruit in the co

  October 14, 2009

• The Ultimate Oyster Cracker?

  ​My brother Dave got me hooked on these hot and spicy saltines. He says they're the perfect oyster crackers. I haven't tried them with oysters yet, but I will soon. The home version of these has been around for a long time. You mix up a package of dry ranch dressing mix, some kind of dried chile peppers and salad oil and pour it over saltines in a container, then turn the container until the mixture is absorbed. Easy, but messy.

  November 5, 2009