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High School Musical, Houston Style

Places That Are Open -- Constantly Updated

Some Randalls Stores Open Too

Suburbs Get The Power, Houston Gets The Shaft

Wednesday Brunch

Golden Palace is Houston's top weekday dim sum destination

Look Who's Talking

Your baby wants to give you a sign

$7 at New Hunan Restaurant in Missouri City

Where: New Hunan, 2345 FM 1092 (Murphy Road), Missouri City, 281-499-3061 What $7 gets you: An assortment of mainstream Chinese dishes with more than half offered in the spicy hot Szechuan style. We had one dish that stepped over into the under-$13 range, but it wasn't any better than the lunch sp ... More >>

Press Picks

Where: New Hunan, 2345 FM 1092 (Murphy Road), Missouri City, 281-499-3061 What $7 gets you: An assortment of mainstream Chinese dishes with more than half offered in the spicy hot Szechuan style. We had one dish that stepped over into the under-$13 range, but it wasn't any better than the lunch sp ... More >>

Press Picks

Where: New Hunan, 2345 FM 1092 (Murphy Road), Missouri City, 281-499-3061 What $7 gets you: An assortment of mainstream Chinese dishes with more than half offered in the spicy hot Szechuan style. We had one dish that stepped over into the under-$13 range, but it wasn't any better than the lunch sp ... More >>

Night & Day

December 24 - 30, 1998

Letters

From the week of February 10, 2000

Historic Huaraches in Stafford

A taco stand yields an awesome breakfast and the solution to a Mexican food mystery

Bayousphere

A taco stand yields an awesome breakfast and the solution to a Mexican food mystery

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky’s countrymen perform his masterpiece

Tornado Burger

Tchaikovsky’s countrymen perform his masterpiece

Your Lucky Night

Where to celebrate New Year's Eve 2006

Your Lucky Night

Where to celebrate New Year's Eve 2006

Bahn Xeo Buffet

Kim Son goes all-you-can-eat in a lavish new location on Bellaire

Ugly and Slow

A booster has been messing up downtown for years

Hello, Yum Yum

A new Asian diner brings dinnertime dim sum to the Inner Loop

Daddy Day Care

Bars and kids -- perfect together in Houston

Best Dim Sum

Bars and kids -- perfect together in Houston

Biking Dirty

BMXers eat dirt and catch air

Freezer Burned

The burgers at Moore’s Double Horn Grill make our food critic do a double take

Letters

The burgers at Moore’s Double Horn Grill make our food critic do a double take

Best Dim Sum Restaurant

Kim Son

Letters

Kim Son

All Duct Up

From leftist camps and corporate security to semi-panic and port patrols, Houstonians tackle terrorism threats. Sort of.

Letters

Consuming Hate, Best and the Rest, Percentile Envy

The Feng Shui of Dim Sum

Stay close to the kitchen if you want the best food at Kim Son.

Cure For Swine Flu Is Here!!!

Photo by Margaret DowningWell, maybe the cure for swine flu is here.Note to self: The BBQ fund-raisers at Stafford's Calvary Church are probably not worth the drive. On the other hand, someone definitely should tell the Centers for Disease Control about this.

The 10 Most Underrated Restaurants in Houston (According to You)

​Last week, we asked you to share your comments with us about Houston's most underrated restaurant. In the second of a two-part question about overrated and underrated restaurants thorughout the city, you weren't any shyer with your comments than you were when we asked about overrated restaur ... More >>

Yes, It's Hot. So Women Are Wearing Tiny Bathing Suits, And We Are There To Photograph Them

Photo by Daniel Kramer​They were washing bikes and cars out at the Harley-Davidson dealership in Stafford, so naturally we sent a photographer. Imagine our surprise when we discovered it was a bikini car wash. We decided to shoot pictures anyway, and here's the slideshow.Then, to compound our bad ... More >>

Donut Patrol: Sesame Balls with Red Bean Paste

​The dim sum sesame balls at Chinese Cuisine, a new dim sum joint at 9888 Bellaire, were excellent -- they came to the table piping hot and filled with red bean jelly. The dim sum sesame balls with yellow bean paste featured in last week's Donut Patrol drew disparaging comments from connoisse ... More >>

Coffee Review: Has Bean's Farmer Direct Bolivia Machacamarca

​The UK coffee crowd has been gaining momentum for quite some time now, and we were lucky enough to get to sample this gem from Has Bean, a coffee-roasting and home-brewing supply company out of Stafford, UK.

Young and Recessioned: Stephen Rawlings, From Engineer to Part-Time Musician

​The Big Recession may have hit the rest of America harder than it has Houston, but that doesn't mean we're not feeling the effects. Especially the youngest people in the job market -- whether it's twentysomethings trying to start their dreamed-of career or teens looking to begin making money on t ... More >>

Online Auctions: Go Drunk-Bid On Some Houston Apartment Complexes

Courtesy absauction.comPlease rate this( $6.3 million) transaction​Everyone loves to bid online, right?Especially if you've got a few million to spare. In that case, forget about vintage TV Guides or Hector Heathcote lunchboxes and instead use your bidding skillz on a Houston apartment complex.Fou ... More >>

Dynamo In Another Typical Loss; World Cup Checks Out Houston

World Cup 2018: Houston will be tested this week​If one game was a microcosm of the Houston Dynamo's 2010 MLS regular season, it was the 2-1 loss this weekend to the San Jose Earthquakes.The loss all but dashes any playoff hopes the Dynamo had; though they are not mathematically eliminated yet, t ... More >>

10 Places I Liked as a Photographer, Want to Try as an Eater

Photo by Jeff BalkeSteak and cheesy grits at Plonk Beer and Wine Bistro​Last week, I wrote about my experiences photographing 100 restaurants for the Houston Press online restaurant guide. During the month I was shooting, I shot eateries both familiar and not so much. Given my time constraints ... More >>

iPhones: World's Least Imaginative Crook Is Stealing Them At HCC Stafford

Take the iPhone and run​Sometimes you don't have to spend weeks or months in your criminal lair thinking up highly intricate plots to attain riches and power.Sometimes the keep it simple, stupid path actually works.Houston Community College has sent an e-mail warning out to students at the Staffor ... More >>

Chicago All the Way

At BB's, get your hot dog dragged through the garden.

This Week in Deliciousness

So THAT'S what they did with all the oil-coated octopi they fished out of the Gulf.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where THE SPICE MUST FLOW. We started the week off by getting some terrible tapas in the Arcade Fire's least-favorite Houston suburb, the Woodlands. ... More >>

8-Liner Crackdown Brings Grief to the Mathematically Impaired

Nancy Donalson: One of the alleged ringleaders​Houston cops have arrested five people after a lengthy undercover operation found they were running a lucrative 8-liner operation in several area locations. Police say they seized "$1.5 million dollars in currency, nearly $200,000 in bank account ... More >>

Tuesday March 29, 2011 Deals of the Day

striatic​I'm a notorious bargain-hunter, and it drives my husband crazy. "We're not grad students anymore," he complains, as I scour the Internet for menu prices and coupon deals. I can't help it; I love a good discount. And I'm more excited to check out online coupon websites in the morning t ... More >>

Michelle Pickens Beat the Crap Out of Her Ex-Boyfriend, Jury Finds

I want you TO STOP HITTING ME.​A Fort Bend County jury has convicted Michelle Pickens, 26, of whomping her former boyfriend, the district attorney's office announced today. Prosecutor Amber Givens said last September, Stafford police received a 911 call from a woman who said her son had been ... More >>

Tequila Experts at the Izkali Tequila Launch

Ana BlomeierArnaldo Richards (left) F. Paul Pacult (center) Alex Richards (right)​Have you ever been in a meeting so mind-numbing, you wish you had a shot of tequila to wake up your brain? Then imagine the pleasure of a fascinating talk at Hilton Post Oak, which actually featured tequila. Th ... More >>

Shantel Moore and Friends: Scammed Cancer Patients and Spent It on Maserati & Gucci

Ill-gotten gains.​If you have a mind sick enough to rip off desperately ill people, you probably think to yourself, "Cancer patients -- hey, they may die soon, so what'll they care?'' Houston police say Shantel Moore, 29, apparently had that kind of coldhearted and inhumane logic. The Staffor ... More >>

Michael Lund: Cop Arrested For DWI After Driving Through Accident Scene

Michael Lund, 27-year vet​A veteran Sugar land police captain was arrested for DWI early this morning after cops say he drove through a blocked-off accident scene. Michael Lund was arrested shortly after midnight near the scene of a large accident at Dairy Ashford and Highway 90A. The Staffo ... More >>

Top 5 Seasonal Booze Gifts

Photo by John Kiely​It can be risky to give a bottle of booze as a gift, as it may not always be to the recipient's tastes. On the other hand, some liquors are easy to re-gift, or better yet, used for holiday parties. Here's five of the more seasonal: 5. Jameson Irish Whiskey This blend is ... More >>

Last Friday Night: Glen Campbell At Arena Theatre

Photos By Barry Sigman​After reading Chris Gray's review of the last Glen Campbell show here in Houston back in September at the Stafford Centre, I was expecting the worst at Campbell's Friday night show at the Arena Theatre. The country legend had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few month ... More >>