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Eater National's Talia Baiocchi Joins Wine Spectator Team

UPDATE AND CLARIFICATION: We received word from Talia Baiocchi that this post has caused some confusion. She is not leaving her position as wine editor at Eater National. She is picking up a weekly column for the Wine Spectator in addition to her current job with Eater. New York-based, twenty-some ... More >>

Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

​Joe Dressner Tributes: There was a disturbance in the Force over the weekend when news broke, early Sunday morning, that iconoclast importer of "real" wines Joe Dressner (right) had succumbed to brain cancer at age 60. Dressner was "an importer whose advocacy of Old World wines made without c ... More >>

Jesse Brown, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 59: Wild Downtown Shoot-Out

Wild West in Midtown​A man who tried to smuggle guns on a Greyhound bus and then engaged in a wild downtown shootout with police apparently killed himself after being injured, Houston police say. The exchange of shots and SWAT team reaction to the man barricading himself in a parking garage l ... More >>

Craig Biggio, Steroid User?

Wait, Craig Biggio did what?​Craig Biggio used steroids. Yes, you read that right. Craig Biggio used steroids. At least that's the latest allegation to come from Jeff Pearlman, the man who says Jeff Bagwell used steroids but refused to offer up any evidence of Bagwell using steroids. Of co ... More >>

Richard Lee: Former Houstonian Leading California's Legal-Weed Battle

Houstonian showing Californians the way​Californians, those wacky folks, will be voting in November on a referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.Not medical marijuana, recreational marijuana.And they've got a Houstonian -- and his 80-year-old mother, who still lives here -- to thank.Richard ... More >>

"McContent" Coming To Your Houston Chronicle

Fast and not-so-juicy​Demand Media is a company that churns out reams of copy for which freelancers get paid very little; content is geared toward generating search-engine hits. Reporters sometimes call what it does "McContent" because it's high-volume, quickly done work by low-paid employees.And ... More >>

Paul Thorn Loves "Pimps And Preachers" Alike

​Like a lot of folks, we're sure, Rocks Off is chomping at the bit to get our ears around the remastered and expanded version of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, due in stores Tuesday. Rocks Off has done a lot of things while Exile was blasting out of a jukebox, radio, our iPod's earbuds, ... More >>

Richard Justice, Jeff Bagwell, Jose Canseco & Steroids

Richard Justice is up on his high-horse again, this time in defense of himself, his colleagues, and Jeff Bagwell. The subject, surprisingly, is steroids. And Justice is pissed that there are people out there who happen to believe that he might have known what was going on during the late-`80s, `90s ... More >>

Here's A Plan: Fewer People, More Work At The Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is having problems, like most big-city dailies, but it might get a whole lot worse. One of the latest rumors sweeping the San Francisco Chronicle would have the deskies in Houston handling headline writing, copy editing and layout for their ailing sister paper by The Bay. The o ... More >>

Hearst Breaks Out The Ax In San Antonio; Houston On Deck

Photo by WhisperToMeYesterday we noted that Hearst, the private company that owns the Houston Chronicle, was threatening to shut down the San Francisco Chronicle if union concessions weren't forthcoming.Today brings word of major cuts at another Hearst paper, the San Antonio Express, and ominous rum ... More >>

Good Lord, The Chronicle's Owner Is On A Paper-Killing Rampage

Photo by shashiBellamkondaHere's some shocking news, if you're a journalist -- the Hearst Corporation, owners of the Houston Chronicle, are threatening to shut down the San Francisco Chronicle.Sure, it sounds like posing in relation to upcoming union negotiations, but who knows these days? The priva ... More >>

"100 Days Of Change" Coming To The Houston Chronicle

Hearst is the privately owned company that owns a ton of magazines, TV stations and newspapers, including our very own Houston Chronicle.The longtime head of Hearst's newspaper division recently retired; the guy who replaced him has sent out a long memo to employees full of doom and gloom and re-inv ... More >>

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Jose de Jesus Ortiz Hits a New Low

Gamers Become Stars with Rock Band or Guitar Hero

Meet the newest kind of bar band

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

Rich Man, Poor Man

Rags-to-riches flick declares: Money does indeed buy happi(y)ness

Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

A Thin Line...

Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

Cruel Summer

Are we hearing the death rattle of the sheds?

Center of Gravity?

Tal's Hill at Minute Maid takes on an uprising

Gay Men's Chorus of Houston

Saturday, January 25

Honey, I Implicated the Kids!

Location will be a trying problem for Fastow's legal team

Summer Games

Everyone's a front-runner in the race to land the Olympics

Bah, Humbug!

The glut of holiday CDs kills the Christmas spirit

Swimming in Pasta

New Italian eateries spring up

Trial Story

The Hearst Corporation

Favored One

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

School Outings

Forcing all the retarded from institutions may not be in anyone's best interests

Press Picks

Press Picks

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