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20 Essential Texas Albums From 2012

One of the quiet pleasures of (finally) putting 2012 to bed is mop-up duty. All year, I tried to keep a running list of albums released by Texas-based or Texas-related performers that I enjoyed listening to. Sunday night, I tallied them up. For some reason, besides that we've already handled the ye ... More >>

Judge to Rule on Whether Dude is Sherman Hemsley's Half-Brother

Hair Balls would've never guessed there'd be drama over the estate of the late Jeffersons star Sherman Hemsley, whose soul went to the de-luxe apartment in the sky last July. But that's just what happened: Although Hemsley, who lived in El Paso for the last 20 years, left everything to his friend F ... More >>

Drawn by Drunken Seven-Year-Olds

The five ugliest beer labels in Texas.

Does Dallas-Fort Worth Have the Worst Tippers in the State?

Last week, Eater alerted the great foodie masses to a website called Lousy Tippers that contains a pretty scary database of the nation's worst tippers. "There is a consequence," the site preaches ominously from its header. Call it the ultimate form of societal pressure to make sure you leave a grat ... More >>

Conroe Native Courtney Smith Crashes Rock-Lit Boys Club

​Introducing music journalism's latest female-penned release, Courtney E. Smith's Record Collecting for Girls. Following suit with like-minded veteran writers like Sara Marcus and Jessica Hopper, Smith's first book boldly tackles the music memoir, a literary genre historically saturated with ... More >>

Straight-To-DVD Music Sequels Soon To Come

​If you're a struggling writer, musician or filmmaker trying to work up the nerve to kill yourself, have we ever got good news for you! Your morale may have been damaged or even crippled by seeing bad music, bad movies and bad stories dominating the upper echelons of their respective fields, b ... More >>

Health Dept. Roundup: 77011 to 77020

​We're back to our systematic ways here at Health Dept. round-up, this week tackling zip codes 77011 to 77020. Most remarkable in this bunch was a February 5 inspection triggered by a complaint at Shipley Donuts (3410 Ella Blvd., in 77018). The establishment was cited for not filling or clos ... More >>

Noncombat Deaths: Another Casualty of War

The mass shooting at Fort Hood was just one of a growing number of troubling military deaths, murders and suicides.

The Facts of LifeBag

Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. Th ... More >>

The Facts of LifePack

Photos by Blake WhitakerPreparation is keyImagine a catastrophic hurricane has severed communication with the outside world. You're thirsty, but the water coming out of the tap is contaminated. Society has devolved into lawlessness, and your neighbors have stolen your bottled water by torchlight. Th ... More >>

HISD Actually Gets Some Good Grades On A Statewide Report

Some good news for the Houston school district -- it is kicking the asses of other urban districts in the state when it comes to meeting the high standards of the National Center for Educational Accountability.NCEA, though its Just For Kids organization, has released its annual study of schools who ... More >>

Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

The Nude Bomb

Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Case Closed

Wal-Mart finds the ultimate bargain: beating a family's $20 million verdict

MARTA Meets Metro

Manufacturing gridiron enmity from scratch

Driving Miss D.A.-isy

A ride-along girlfriend and erroneous testimony taint a DWI squad case

Letters

Rockin' On, A Stark Affair, Wrong War?

Saturated Fat

Nutty Professor II may be hazardous to your health

The Dispossessed

When HISD starts deciding whose homes to take, schoolkids are the only messengers. The Moríns learned that lesson too late.

International Film Festival 2000

Film Reviews

Rap Actor

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

PatiencePays

Decades down the line, Sherman Robertson has finally made an album he likes

Plugged In

Heavy, Man

An endless drum solo for... the ten worst concept albums of all time

The Passionate Pilgrim

He owns a baseball team, he's spent millions to wipe out a devastating Third World disease, and now he's out to save pro football for Houston. But what does John Jay Moores really want?