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Breaking News: Funnel Cloud Warning for Fort Bend County

Click 2 Houston is passing on a weather report warning of possible funnel clouds this morning in Fort Bend County. The report says that rapidly developing thunderstorms coupled with "a very buoyant atmosphere" will lead to funnel clouds. Their report follows:

Drawn by Drunken Seven-Year-Olds

The five ugliest beer labels in Texas.

Drawn by Drunken Seven-Year-Olds: The 10 Ugliest Beer Labels in Texas

I can admit it: I am a packaging whore to some extent. A nice label is bound to catch my eye, be it laundry detergent, gin, beer, heroin... By the same token, bad marketing can turn me off of what may very well be a great product. Beer is a notorious offender in the bad-packaging arena. Across the ... More >>

Upcoming Events: A Week Full of Beer

Read on for our picks of the best beer dinners next week.​In case you hadn't heard, it's Houston Beer Week, y'all. The week-long celebration of craft beer and local breweries kicks off tonight with a kick-off happy hour at Ziggy's Downtown, from 5 to 7 p.m. The restaurant will be offering $2 ... More >>

Fast Times: Einstein Bros. Bagels Santa Fe Wrap

Photo by Christina Uticone​I love eating fast food for breakfast more than any other meal. I feel like it gives me a leg up on the calorie situation -- since I'm eating it early, I have all day to work off as much of the junk food as I can. During the two years I have lived in Houston I've dri ... More >>

The Frito Pie Is Not from Texas: Commence Pearl-Clutching...Now

Jalapeños are a popular Frito pie topping in Texas...if you're not a weenie.​There I was in Half-Price Books this weekend, poring over the alarmingly titled 500 Things To Eat Before It's Too Late (fearmongering listicles: they're not just for food blogs), when I saw it: a section on our belov ... More >>

Robert Wayne Niffen: Carnie Fugitive Sex Offender Nabbed In Santa Fe

Santa Fe PDRobert Wayne Niffen: Carnie, alleged sex offender​Given two key facts, you could safely probably suppose that 52-year-old Robert Wayne Niffen was a miscreant of some sort. To wit: 1. His middle name is Wayne. 2. He is a carnie. And its Peace Officer 101 that all carnies with the ... More >>

Curtains

The Ten Oddest Crimes Of 2010, Southeast Texas Style

Hard as it may be to believe, the criminal element of Southeast Texas did dumb and weird things in 2010, continuing a tradition that dates back to the creation of Southeast Texas. Here are ten of the oddest and dumbest: 10. Two former EMS employees in Santa Fe were arrested after they allegedly p ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

According to foraging experts, there is food in this picture. Hahahaha. Those silly bastards.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where in ten years we'll make a fortune when we start auctioning off our stockpile of Four Loko. We kicked the week off with a cautionary f ... More >>

Food Fight: Sante Fe Rice and Beans

​As I did with my first Food Fight, I hit up the frozen section at the grocery store for this one. Being healthy was on the brain this time around, so I checked out the section for "lean" meals. It wasn't easy finding two brands that served the same dish. But my persistence paid off, and I pre ... More >>

Peter Neal Ennis: Cops Ask For K-2, He Tries To Sell Real Weed

Photo courtesy of Santa Fe PDThe smartest weed dealer in Santa Fe​The redneck-a-licious northern Galveston County town of Santa Fe is one of a growing number of Texas municipalities to have banned so-called "K-2," the synthetic marijuana convenience stores peddle under brand names such as Kush ... More >>

Last Night: Drive-By Truckers At House Of Blues

Photos by Jason Wolter​Drive-By Truckers House of Blues September 23, 2010 To be considered "great," a rock group needs to occasionally (at least) spread itself beyond the confines of songs about chasing girls/ditching school to touch on more universal themes. Some acts come to this realizati ... More >>

Brian Joseph Bentley: Giant Sex Offender Tries, Fails To Fly Under Radar

Galveston County SOBrian Joseph Bentley: Single and "flirty"​Brian Joseph "Bubbers" Bentley is a big guy, and perhaps it's because he carries close to 400 pounds on his 6-foot frame that police tracked him down Sunday at Galveston County's Mainland Hospital, where he had gone to seek treatment for ... More >>

Chelsea Clinton's Wedding: Five Reasons We Won't Be Attending, Thank You Very Much

Another wedding we passed on, btw​Frankly, when June ends we breathe a sigh of relief. No more weddings, we think. And even more: No more having to turn down invitations to weddings at Vail, Santa Fe, St. Bart's or all those New York suburbs. It can be devastating listening to someone plead for yo ... More >>

Girls, Birth Rights and More Girls!

Plundering Facebook's Punk Rock Flyer Archive

​The art of the attention-grabbing flyer has a history almost as old as entertainment itself, but there are few genres that are as boundary crossing as that of punk rock. Sam Atakra, a record-label owner and formerly employed by the Freemasons in Santa Fe, N. M., can attest to that. While cleaning ... More >>

Matthew Ray Creel Finds A Very Ironic, And Unsuccessful, Place To Hide His Weed

Photo from KTRKLike rain on your wedding day, dude​Matthew Ray Creel, 21, was pulled over by a cop in Santa Fe last night for having a defective headlight.He was then arrested because, it turns out, he was driving with a suspended license.So the cops searched his car. And, according to KTRK, they ... More >>

Real Life Scene From The Wire In Rural Santa Fe

Photo courtesy Santa Fe Police Grigg (left) and Bemrose​Remember that scene in season two of The Wire where Bubbles and his junko partner Johnny Weeks get caught pillaging a Baltimore ambo for needles and morphine?Apparently these two Santa Fe women did. They are alleged to have practically ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Pignataro Castle

Photos by Mr. Kimberly​Most people haven't even heard of Santa Fe, TX, so you wouldn't expect them to know that there was a real life castle in the small community. It's one of about 30 castles in Texas, the closest one to Houston, and its origins are a bit of a mystery. The house is on High ... More >>

El Pinto Green Chile Sauce

​Believe it or not, there are some foods you can't get in Houston. I'm told Santa Fe Flats (21542 Hwy. 249) is pretty much the only place in town where you can get true New Mexican-style food (with the exception of a few dishes at Chuy's). The second-best option, recommended to me by a New Mex ... More >>

Lone Star Scorecard: How Accurate are Your Favorite Songs About Texas?

​Many songs about Texas are written by residents wishing to celebrate some part of their beloved Lone Star State. Others come from non-Texans who are unable to resist the je ne sais quoi of the place that produced both Walter Cronkite and Karl Rove. One thing that many of them have in common, ... More >>

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Go from Twyla to Moses during this program of über-relevant dance

Today's Morning Video: A Police Beatdown

Today's video fun comes to us through KHOU, which exclusively got its hands on a dashboard video of two Santa Fe cops beating the shit out of guy. Or, as one of the cops later put it in a hallway conversation caught on a security camera, "We fucked him up."Here's the video of Sergio Robles, who was ... More >>

The Recession Affects Free Booze In Houston, Unfortunately

Yesterday we were informed that it's official - the country is in a recession. And the lean times got us thinking -- can you still score a free drink in this town?     Keith Plocek got drunk for free for ten days straight back in December 2005 for the story "Free Booze," guzzling ... More >>

Let The Bidding For Galveston's HS Football Stars Begin!!

Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra

Healthy For a Day (or Two): Marathon Dining at Ziggy’s and Field of Greens

Toxic Town: Cancer and Birth Defects in Somerville

In Somerville, chances are far better than normal that you will die of cancer or give birth to a deformed baby

Mexican-American Culture

Water Wonderful World

Ski-daddle down to Santa Fe for the U.S. Open

I Want My M(ontrose) TV!

Video killed the radio bars, at least in Montrose

Getting Stomped

Texas boasts the soil, the climate and the grapes for a strong wine industry. So what stands in its way? Bad taste and politicians.

Stirred and Shaken

Canyon Cafe's candy-corn margarita

Letters

Heaven's Gates, Teaching Tolerance, Todd's Odd

Letters

Investigate CEP, Santa Fe's Shame, Politics Makes Strange...

Breaking Bigotry

Some schools won't hear of intolerance; others just don't want to listen

Pigskin Parade

A nonevent gets blanket coverage

Hot Plate

River Cafe's Shrimp Santa Fe

Trying to Make Amens

If only there were school prayer. If only it were that simple.

Virgin Rebirth

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe. But its appearance is just the start of the

Impure, and Proud of It

Fit for a Fiddle

Classical? Country? In the hands of fiddler Mark O'Connor, it's one thing: music.

Pray

In a small town south of Houston, they say school prayer is a matter of religious freedom. But even in Santa Fe, freedom for one student can be tyranny for another.

Back in the River

Pushing the Artistic Borders

Mexico, America and La Frontera find expression in "Poison Amor"

Hot Plate

The Dallas Version

At Mesa: A Taste of Santa Fe, there's a whole lotta trendiness going on

Lotsa Pasta

Just emigrated from New Orleans, Semolina's international noodles are trendy and copious -- but only intermittently scintillating

Neo-Mom Food