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May 9, 2012
Specialty Rolls and Customer Service Make The Blue Fish a Solid Washington Ave. Destination
See more photos of The Blue Fish in our slideshow. Despite the popularity of sushi, many of us still cringe at the idea of eating raw fish. I remember the first time I tried it, during my early twenties. No amount of coaxing, reassurance, or gentle prodding could get me to taste it until my colleag ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Mardi Gras! Galveston Returns This Weekend
Bead throwing, laser light shows, live music and massive parades. The second weekend of Mardi Gras! Galveston will kick off this Friday, February 17, with more entertainment than ever before. Not only is it the largest celebration of its kind in Texas, but it is also the third-largest in the nati ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Comment of the Day: Stay Outside The Loop, Noise-Ordinance Lovers
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Chef Chat, Part 1: Domenica Catelli of Catelli's
Photo by Matthew DresdenDomenica Catelli, outside her family's eponymous restaurant in Geyserville, CAThis week on a very special Chef Chat: the California wine country edition! Domenica Catelli might be the most prolific chef you've never heard of, with a hand in nearly every aspect of the ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
NBA Draft Rewind -- 1986, The Worst Draft Ever
Plus the shorts suckedAs much as those who construct teams in sports would like to think that they have a formula and a blueprint that they can go execute with any team in any market and be successful, the fact of the matter is that even for the best personnel men in the best-run organization ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Pop Rocks: Twilight vs. Harry Potter And 9 Other Geek Throwdowns
Still the only crossover I'd pay to see.Anyone watch the MTV Movie Awards? Anyone? I didn't think so, mostly because I suspect the majority of Hair Balls/Art Attack readers are over the age of 12. And while I have no intention of revisiting the whole "'Music?"Television line of jokes, I did ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
NBA Finals -- LeBron James Hits Rock Bottom
Snipes would play LeBron, but he's done his own disappearing act"He struggled. Point blank, period. He struggled out there. ... I want to see him aggressive again. He can turn it up, his aggression, a notch." -- Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh, talking about his teammate LeBron James after Tue ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
The Mayor of Montrose
Charles Armstrong, owner of four gay clubs and benefactor to feral cats, is the most powerful man in his neighborhood.
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May 18, 2011
Cover Story: In the Gay Nightlife Scene, Charles Armstrong Is the Real Mayor of Montrose
Deep in the heart of Montrose, gossip flows as freely as the liquor. Throw club owner Charles Armstrong's name into the mix and you'll get more than an earful, no matter which gay bar you're in. Everybody knows about the feral cats, for instance. Cats run freely around Montrose like they do ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
The NBA's Top-Selling Jerseys List (And Seven Things It Tells Us)
NBA jerseys: We CAN just all get along!!I'll admit, I don't own any sports jerseys. I'm not a jersey-wearing guy, partially because the fit and feel of an authentic professional sports shirt are not optimal, but mostly because I'm over the age of 14. Full disclosure, I don't buy many jersey ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
The Girls Gone Wild Bus: Where It Should Go In Houston
Photo by Marc BrubakerWe have better suggestions for Houston spots for this bus to visitWhen the Girls Gone Wild tour bus is spotted around town, as our own Katharine Shilcutt nodded to on Twitter, people are wont to talk. Speculation begins to pop up, and the town starts abuzz - where is it, ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
The Strange Saga of The Muffin Man
Above: Jason "Muffin Man" Perry speaks, um, passionately at a Houston City Council meeting on September 28, 2010. Sitting at home one August day in the Montrose, I watched as a young man walked up and down my street, rolling up flyers and sticking them into gates and doors up and down Hyde Park. H ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
5 Teams I'm Surprised Didn't Snatch Up Randy Moss Before Tennessee
He's still an Ultra DecalOne. The greatest NFL deep threat of our generation gets tossed back onto the open market and that's the exact number of teams that wanted to stake their claim (or at least stake their claim at the pro-rated portion of Moss' 2010 salary). And that's the thing about ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Healthy Eating Is a Snap (Forgive the Pun) at Snap Kitchen
Snap Kitchen (3600 Richmond, 713-526-5700) was my first experience with the fast-healthy concept that's mushroomed in Houston lately, which is predicated on the [not uncorrect] idea that most people do want to eat healthier these days, but don't have the time or skill level necessary to make ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
LeBron James -- Society Hates You, I Love Society
LeBron: The power is waningMankind, I have to say that I was just about to give up on you. I'm a very patient person, but with every kid running around in a Ben Roethlisberger jersey or every nimrod that decides to turn right on Hamilton at the Texas Street intersection next to Minute Maid Park ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
NBA Rumors: Carmelo Anthony Is Interested In Bringing His Talents To Houston
'Melo is eyeing up the RocketsCarmelo Anthony is interested in coming here? To Houston? To play for the Rockets? Don't be messing with us, Sports Illustrated.Supposedly it's so.SI reported that the Rockets are on a short list of teams Anthony would be interested in joining if he and his current e ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Diving Into Houston's Best Dive Bars
Although the number of "true" dive bars is shrinking by the day, that didn't stop our own John Nova Lomax from tracking down the best ones left in the city and covering them in last October's feature story, "Dive Bars: A Handcrafted Tour of the Best, Most Obscure Places to Lean on a Stool in ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Game Time: Jenn Sterger -- Best Cast Addition To A Sitcom EVER (Favre In Charge, Season 3)
Seeing more of Brett than she wantedThe fact that I've been comparing the third season of the Brett Favre saga (heretofore referenced as Favre In Charge) to a sitcom is entirely appropriate. I don't profess to know many athletes. By and large, the ones I do know seem to be fairly normal people. ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
The Ultimate Houston Rap Battle Royal: Who Should You Fight?
Photo illustration by John Seaborn GrayOf all of the Rap Round Table columns that have gone up, none generated more emails than this past Monday's "Which Rappers Would You Fight?" segment. Some people were pissed, some people were entertained, but most everyone had the same basic question: Wh ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
"Fashionable Felon"? You Call This Fashionable, FBI?
Photo courtesy FBITerrible lighting, awful pose -- this is a fashion shoot?The FBI has put out an alert for someone it's calling "The Fashionable Felon," a woman who robbed a Wachovia Bank branch on the northwest side yesterday afternoon.We realize the FBI was not created to be an arbiter of fash ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Game Time: LeBron-athon -- Five Backstabbings That Will Get You Ready For Tonight
Anakin Skywalker: Thanks for nothing, kidIn anticipation of LeBron James' decision as to where he will ply his trade for the next few years, shares of MSG stock rose 6 percent yesterday for a period of time before settling back to where they were earlier in the day. The reason for the brief bump ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Game Time: NBA Free Agency -- So Is Dwyane Wade Gonna Hold It For You While You Pee Too, LeBron?
A Vogue cover, but no ringNothing worth chasing in life comes easy, so to say that by pooling their collective talents together to try and chase an NBA title in Miami that LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade are taking the "easy way out" isn't entirely fair.Actually, to be fair, with a ring ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Stefani Vara's Operation Musical Rewrite
Wednesday, just a few minutes shy of 4 p.m., Stefani Vara was driving from Corpus Christi back to her home in Houston after a quick day trip. It had been a while since she heard Tejano music. It's what she grew up with and she realized she missed it. She realized it was part of her roots...part ... More >>
News
April 29, 2010
It's Five O'clock Somewhere
We scout out happy hour in Houston.
News
October 29, 2009
Get All Dressed Up
There's plenty of places to go this Halloween.
Blogs
October 26, 2009
Game Time: Inside The Mind Of The Houston Texans Fan
Pretty much every social instinct I employ comes from George Costanza of Seinfeld fame. (... and yes, the fact that it's been 11-plus years since the Seinfeld finale means I officially have to remind people who George Costanza was.)*"Whatever your instincts tell you to do, do the opposite." ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Get All Dressed Up
There's plenty of places to go this Halloween. Check out our updated listings.
Blogs
October 19, 2009
As If Getting Stomped By Kansas State Wasn't Bad Enough
Oh, Aggies. You lost to Kansas State 62-14. What could be more embarrassing?Maybe the Internet blowing up with this video of four yell leaders on their way to the game, doing -- with no observable irony -- what seems to be their best impression of frolicking as the drugs kick in on the dance floo ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Houston Music Fight Club: Chris Wise vs. Cody Swann, Chris Ryan vs. Frank Beard, Washington Avenue vs. Westheimer
So this past week, Houston Music Fight Club began getting solicitations from various local musicians to be matched against other strummers and pickers around town in their cage matches. Rocks Off looks around. We see a lot of new faces. This means a lot of you have (happily for us) been breaking ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Kemah Still Being Pretty Damn Casual About Its Future
Photo by Daniel KramerKemah is at a crossroads where some residents want to keep the city an eclectic, fishing-village-type place, and others want to turn the town into a mini South Beach, with high-rise condos lined up along the shore. That's what Robin Collins, a city councilwoman, told us at t ... More >>
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August 7, 2009
Health Department Roundup: Hyperlink Edition
This week's hall of health-code-violating shame includes restaurants previously reviewed, mentioned, discussed or otherwise examined in the Houston Press. Back in September 2004, Press food critic Robb Walsh said to forget about the then-ubiquitous South Beach bitch of a diet and eat up at The Sac ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke: "Thriller" at Midnight at Numbers, Free Tickets and More
What's the best thing about going to see live music? Frickin' air conditioning, because even the dingiest dive will be pumping out some sort cooled air to calm down all you crybabies who forgot sometime after Ms. Pelz's tenth-grade IPC class that we live in a humid-as-shit subtropical climate ne ... More >>
Calendar
January 10, 2008
Mediterranean Harvest
Martha Rose Shulman shares recipes from the cross-section of Europe, Asia and Africa
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October 18, 2007
Theft
Paul Bright offers gays a break from typical topics
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August 31, 2006
DJ Cubanito loves Beethoven but mixes salsa
Paul Bright offers gays a break from typical topics
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June 8, 2006
The 'Ism of Rhythm
Paul Bright offers gays a break from typical topics
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March 23, 2006
Mix and Madge
Paul Bright offers gays a break from typical topics
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March 24, 2005
Righteous Party
Get some Easter Salvation at the Jungle 13 weekend
Calendar
March 10, 2005
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Get some Easter Salvation at the Jungle 13 weekend
Music
November 25, 2004
Puke Fest '04!
Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly
Best of Houston
September 23, 2004
Best Atkins Chic
Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly
Best of Houston
September 23, 2004
Best Dance Club
Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly
Music
August 12, 2004
Midtown Getdown
Rich's goes straight, and the wait for a first-class, midsize Houston venue could be over
Calendar
December 25, 2003
Want Fries with That?
It's not ice cream that's getting whipped into a froth at "Milkshake"
Calendar
August 14, 2003
Hushing Up
What's all the fuss about Hush?
Music
April 10, 2003
Club Directory
What's all the fuss about Hush?
Music
August 22, 2002
Float Like a Butterfli, Swing Like a Trapeze
Whether boogying on the floor or dangling from the ceiling, Yvette Perez's dancing divas want to be artists, not eye candy
Music
November 1, 2001
Ballads Nuevo
Corridos get updated with drugs and guns
Music
October 18, 2001
I Want My M(ontrose) TV!
Video killed the radio bars, at least in Montrose
Music
July 5, 2001
Wet Nighthawks Cry Foul
They're deluge-ional, say accused Fitz's and South Beach proprietors
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