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Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: How To Fight Early Summer Boredom Edition

Despite a last gasp of cold air last week, it's warm outside and getting hotter by the minute. For me, the best day of the year is October 1. It's the probable end to hurricane season in Texas (if not the ACTUAL end for the Atlantic), the NFL is in full swing and the NBA is about to launch training ... More >>

Severe Weather Is Here (w/Pictures!): Save Those Files, Use The Tunnels & Tip Your Pizza Guy Better (Updated: Person Hit By Lightning)

If you don't have a window, you might not realize it's 10 p.m. in parts of Houston. It's a dark and stormy night out there, as Edward George Bulwer-Lytton would say. Last night saw some major thunderstorm activity, with impressive lightning shows in some parts of town. (This being Houston, other ... More >>

Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Drinking for Sport Edition

It's that magical time of the year when the weather starts to warm up (except for this weekend -- what the hell, Houston?) and white people celebrate Mexican heritage by drinking themselves into oblivion. But if loving a margarita is wrong, I don't wanna be right, so bring on Cinco De Mayo! But, t ... More >>

I-69 Signs Along I-59: No, It's Not a Clever Joke. Stop Giggling.

Whenever I think of U.S. 59, I think of constant gridlock from Shepherd through the 288/I-45 interchange, the flat, treeless drive to Ft. Bend County and the piney woods of east Texas, in all its glory. It is a unique stretch of road that runs from Mexico well into Missouri. Oh, sure, it changes num ... More >>

The Eating...Our Words 100: Yilmaz "Jim" and Deanna Dukuyucu, Husband-and-Wife Owners of Turquoise Grill

Who they are: Turquoise Grill has received many awards for its Turkish cuisine over the years. It was chosen as the Best Mediterranean in Houston by the Houston A List and was recently named as one of the top 10 restaurants in the Upper Kirby area here at Eating...Our Words. Owner Yilmaz "Jim" Dok ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Why Constellation Field Will Be Better for Music Than the Mitchell Pavilion

Constellation Field, the home field of Roger Clemens's newest team, the Sugar Land Skeeters, is now open and booking big named nostalgia/legacy acts on non-game days. Rocks Off is looking forward to seeing both REO Speedwagon and ZZ Top there next month. While we still trek out to the northern fore ... More >>

Texans-Saints: 4 Winners, 4 Losers (The Trindon Holliday Conundrum Edition)

If you are a sports couch potato (and if you are reading this, chances are that is the case), Saturday night was one of those nights that we probably take for granted all of the technological advances that allow us to consume all of the fare on the sports buffet simultaneously. Picture if you will, ... More >>

Roger Clemens Impressive In Start With Sugar Land Skeeters, What's Next?

If you build it, they will come. And if you start a 50-year-old, multiple Cy Young award-winning World Series champion, who has been in the headlines fighting doping and perjury allegations, they will pay more money to come, buy more merchandise, and cheer more loudly. Oh, and ESPN will be there, to ... More >>

Do It Yourself

Top five condiments to make at home.

Pearland Police Statue a Copy of Sugar Land's, Lawsuit Claims

Sugar Land sculptor Bob Pack created the statue in front of Sugar Land police headquarters, and he's claiming a competitor copied the design for a statue for the Pearland police department. Pack has filed a federal suit against Matt Glenn of Big Statues, a Utah company, saying that he ripped off Th ... More >>

Rest of the Best: Houston's Top Mom and Pop Restaurants

For the next 20 weeks, we'll be rounding up the runners-up to our 2011 Best of Houston® winners. In many categories, picking each year's winner is no easy task. We'll be spotlighting 20 of those categories, in which the winner had hefty competition from other Houston bars and restaurants. Family-r ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating... Our Words, where we're currently writing page 355 of a lengthy treatise on the many misapplications of the word "zesty" throughout history. We started the week off right with a look at dining outside the loop, and we'd say not to let one isolated ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of Blu Loves Race Car Driving

Executive Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of the new Blu Restaurant and Lounge (2248 Texas Dr; www.blusugarland.com) in Sugar Land's Town Square, couldn't stop smiling when I was taking pictures of him in the kitchen. "In New York, the photographers didn't want me to smile," he says, but for me he smil ... More >>

Get Fresh: Our Interactive Map of Houston's Farmers Markets

Houston just welcomed two new farmers markets to town: one at HCC Southwest's campus and one at Sugar Land's Town Square. And although our individual markets might not [yet] be as large as the ones in Seattle or San Francisco, we can still boast that there's a farmers market for nearly every nook an ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Monsters (and Mikkels) of Beer

Those of you already looking forward to the annual Monsters of Beer festival on November 12 now have something equally cool to look forward to: Night After Monsters at Whole Foods Montrose on Sunday, November 13. While the Monsters festival is only $35, Night After Monsters is a little more expensi ... More >>

Samuel McCord Sullivan: Takes Computer Filled With Child Porn In To Be Repaired

Photo by Sugar Land policeSamuel Sullivan: Not a DIY guy​Few things can be more aggravating than computer troubles. You just want to get that sucker fixed. Samuel McCord Sullivan wanted it so bad that he didn't seem to realize he was handing over evidence of his child-porn collection when he ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Calamari is delicious but sad. Just think of all the many-armed hugs that squid will never give.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where, thanks to our new Gelatin Piranha™ we bought off of a late-night infomercial, we can now gelatinize an entire cow in under four ... More >>

Worst Shoplifter Luck Ever: Making Your Escape in Full View of a Professional Photographer

Photos by Barry SigmanThe photo that did not involve an escaping shoplifter.​You're an athletic woman who likely can easily outrun any employee of a mall shop. So even if they're scrambling after you yelling "Shoplifter!!" as loud as they can, you know you can make it to the parking lot and fr ... More >>

Take It Outside

Our picks for the best patios in Houston.

Openings & Closings: April 2011

Photo by lc_dbKing Biscuit was one of the many restaurants to close over the past week.​After a quiet few weeks, a rash of openings, delays and unexpected closings tore through the city this past week, starting with the news that Austin's "sexy Tex-Mex" import Vivo is not coming to San Felipe ... More >>

Openings & Closings: March 2011

A new bar coming to Midtown isn't a big deal, but this bar will be.​Haven't read the exclusive Martin Hamish press release about his new gastro-tavern, The Dark Horse? See it here. Blind item of the week (and one that I'm incredibly excited about): A craft beer bar will be coming to Midtown i ... More >>

Openings & Closings

The rendering is now real.​Two long-awaited Houston restaurants are finally ready for their close-ups. El Real Tex-Mex Cafe, which will open for dinner service tonight, and Mai's, which will open next month after a 14-month closure due to a devastating fire. All week long, the parking lot has ... More >>

Openings & Closings

Photo by GroovehouseShort ribs with chimichurri sauce at Tango & Malbec.​Last night saw the grand opening of Houston's newest South American restaurant, the oddly named Tango & Malbec (2800 Sage, 713-629-8646). No, it's not a supper club with cheesy dancers; it's an Argentinean establishment r ... More >>

Aquatico: Feds Make An Example Of Sugar Land Company For NOT Hiring An Immigrant

Hire those immigrants, dammit!​When the Department of Justice puts out a press release about a local employer getting penalized over immigration issues, it's usually because the company has been hiring illegal aliens.Not so with Sugar Land's Aquatico Pool Managment: The DOJ announced today they ha ... More >>

Sienna Sip and Stroll

Check out the nifty wine glass/plate combo. ​The giant outdoor food and wine extravaganza known as the Sienna Sip and Stroll held in the Sienna Plantation development in Sugar Land is just one of many epicurean events encompassed in the annual Grand Wine & Food Affair. Last Saturday, desperate ... More >>

A Palestinian-Texan BBQ Sandwich

Photo by Robb Walsh​I ate a brisket and sausage sandwich the other day at the new Brookstreet BBQ location on Westheimer west of Beltway 8. Ever since I ate the Bohemian Special at Mustang Creek BBQ in Louise, I have been trying to recreate the brisket and sausage sandwich at every barbecue ... More >>

From Black Prison To New Branch of The Houston Museum of Natural Science

​The Houston Museum of Natural Science is opening a new branch in Fort Bend County; the 43,000-square-foot HMNS at Sugar Land will open in October in a "historic prison building," according to the museum's official announcement.The new facility sounds nice -- four permanent exhibits mirroring the ... More >>

Pizza Comparison: Part One--Original Brooklyn Grimaldi's

Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, a New York food writer asked me, "Is the Grimaldi's in Houston as good as the Grimaldi's in Brooklyn, or did they just license the name?" I told her that was the very question we were on our way to answering. It was also a great excuse to go to the original Pat ... More >>

The Scoop on Three Brothers Bakery

Three Brothers Bakery is sorely missed around my house. The holidays aren't the same without the gingerbread men and the gooey poppyseed strudel. And I haven't had a loaf of caraway rye that came close to theirs since they closed. Three Brothers had three locations up until a couple of years ago. Bu ... More >>

Some Randalls Stores Open Too

$7 at Orient Cafe in Missouri City

Imperial Sugar Hit Hard By OSHA

Here Comes the Black

$13 at Potbelly Sandwich Works

$13 at Potbelly Sandwich Works

Ft. Bend's Homeless Youth

Mail Call

Homeless Alone

We Hear Houston Is Lovely. Have You Tried There?

Bad Hair Day

A Date with Dubya'

Name That Town

An image crisis in Fort Bend County

Some Love for AGlove

Fit or Fat, Houston?

Letters

City Under Siege

Musicians provide HPD with plenty of overtime pay

Best Ice Rink

Aerodrome

At What Price?

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