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The Rocks Off 100: Alphonso "Fonz" Lovelace, Righteous Drummer

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? All of the greats start out in church ... More >>

Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, One Final Crack At Christmas Spending Money

The NFL schedule is a weird one this weekend. Virtually every game on the schedule has some sort of meaning, but many of them have true meaning (read: playoff hopes/seeding riding on the outcome) for only one side. Currently, 19 teams have either clinched a playoff spot or remain alive for the play ... More >>

The Rocks Off Interview: Country Legend and Animal Lover Ray Price

Ray Price is a Texas music legend and a former roommate of Hank Williams. Rocks Off reached him by phone on his tour bus somewhere between Wisconsin and Nashville to talk about satellite radio, his love of stray dogs, and his show this Tuesday at Conroe's Crighton Theater. Rocks Off: How's the tour ... More >>

A Fire at the Broken Spoke

Roy de la Garza on what's next.

Early NFL Season Win Total Lines Have Brought Out a New Trash-Talky Side of Bob McNair

"I think we are a contender, so that's no surprise to me. I guess they got tired of losing money out there, putting our over-and-under too low, so they're getting more realistic." -- Houston Texans owner Bob McNair trash-talking the oddsmakers when asked about the Texans' status as favorites in the ... More >>

Bobby Petrino's Busted Motorcycle Is for Sale!

Whether it's for a radio station or print/Web publication (both of which are entities from whom I draw a paycheck), it's always good to be the resident expert at something. Ever since Bobby Petrino crashed his motorcycle into that wood pile on that fateful Sunday afternoon in early April, I've morph ... More >>

Football! AFC and NFC Title Game Best Bets!

You can't spell "elite" without E-L-I. Really, you can't​We interrupt this Texans-grieving for an update on the Alabama tea bagger and my AFC and NFC title game picks! (I'm pretty sure when my parents sent me off to college, they didn't think I'd be typing that sentence in my job.) The main c ... More >>

Last Friday Night: Glen Campbell At Arena Theatre

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 months before the Stafford show, a ... More >>

Texans, Tebow and BCS Titles! This Weekend's 4 Winners and 4 Losers

All right, this is starting to get ridiculous, football gods. First, you knock out Arian Foster for the first three games of the season with a hamstring injury. Then you rob us of Andre Johnson not once but twice with injuries to each hamstring, forcing him to miss most of the season. Then you rip ... 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 >>

It's the Final Countdown

2011 is almost here — how will you ring it in?

It's The Final Countdown

2011 is almost here — how will you ring it in?

Planet Houston

The world's great cuisines converge here.

Chicago All the Way

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

BB's Italian Beef: Chicago Comes to Houston

Photos by Troy FieldsCharles Rivers assembles each sandwich and hot dog at BB's to order.​On a recent trip to Chicago, I had a scandalous affair with an Italian beef -- dipped, with cheese and peppers -- one late night in Little Italy. It was messy, but I didn't care. I knew the affair might l ... 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 >>

Behind the Lyrics: Bunz is Twin City's Lifeline to Houston Hip-Hop

[Ed. Note: We temporarily interrupt our real-time SXSW coverage to give you something else to read about for one of the last times this week.] Richmond and Rosenberg are tough places to describe, partly because there are many faces to the two towns, which are referred to on the streets as just one ... More >>

If You Don't Know Them by Now

Through word of mouth alone, Smitty's has become a Third Ward staple.

Bernard Says "Hi" and "Pass the Dumplings"

​We met Bernard Brunon for dim sum at Empress Pavillion restaurant in Los Angeles Chinatown last week. After 18 years in Houston, the French artist accepted a job offer in Tinseltown a couple of years ago. Bernard was a familiar fixture on the Houston arts scene, and he told me to say "hi" to ... More >>

Bayou Body Count: Burning Down The House

​There's the guy who allegedly drove over a woman and then there's the fellow who allegedly shot three dudes and burned the house down.Yes, these are just a few of the many murders that the hard-working Houston homicide detectives have ostensibly solved over the past week. It started out as jus ... More >>

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 >>

Cancer Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski Sees Himself as a Crusading Researcher, Not a Quack

He's treated thousands of people from all over the world, so why can't he get FDA approval?

Some Randalls Stores Open Too

John Edwards, The IRA and Jesus Christ

The Fugitive

A Native American Family Fights Against Hair Length Rules

When five-year-old Adriel Arocha ran afoul of the Needville school district, getting cut off wasn't an option for his parents

All about Eve

Our guide to the city's best New Year's parties

All about Eve

Our guide to Houston's best New Year's parties

Tornado Burger

Coach Kevin Constantine Talks Sugar Land, Sharks, Penguins and Aeros

Feel My Pain

A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

Feel My Pain

A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

Hello, Yum Yum

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

The Xiu Mai Super Bowl

A new champion in the dim sum game

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Freezer Burned

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

Turkeys Fly

Houston actually pulls off one crazy week

Harvard and the Boogeyman

Will it be the Aeros' brawler or brainiac who gets to the NHL?

Wednesday Brunch

Golden Palace is Houston's top weekday dim sum destination

Dim Sum 101

Dorothy Huang holds court at Ocean Palace

Falun Follow-up

Plus: Porn Priorities?, House Woes, Sit on It

Column Calamity

The Chron editor starts to make a mark

Letters

Consuming Hate, Best and the Rest, Percentile Envy

Ave Maria

Four years formed strong bonds here for a lesbian activist

Gentleman's Agreement

Fine words and policies are wonderful. Unless there's a secret subtext, with a different set of dos and don'ts.

Letters

From the week of February 10, 2000

DeLay's Way

Letters

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Press Picks

The Exterminator

Tom DeLay, the bug man from Sugar Land, has always despised environmental regulation. Now, as House majority whip, he's in a position to do something about it.