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    April 16, 2012

    Tax Day: The 5 Best Things About It

    Tomorrow is deadline day for filing your federal income taxes. Normally, that's a terrible thing. No one except Warren Buffett is eager to pay taxes. And it's worse for us members of the hoi polloi, for while we're handing over a big chunk of our wages, we do it knowing some one-percenter member of ... More >>

  • Music

    April 5, 2012

    Ray Wylie Hubbard

    Tomorrow is deadline day for filing your federal income taxes. Normally, that's a terrible thing. No one except Warren Buffett is eager to pay taxes. And it's worse for us members of the hoi polloi, for while we're handing over a big chunk of our wages, we do it knowing some one-percenter member of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Five Spot: New Music From Jack Freeman, The Monster, Scooyunda, Brook Gang and More

    Soccer season is over!!!​Boy A and Boy B play their last soccer game of the season this Saturday. It's a little sad, really. They're just now to where they're excited to play. They were uncomfortable at first because, for real, 4-5-year-old soccer is, like, light years ahead of 3-year-old so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    KTRK Ad From 1971: Typewriters! Reel-to-Reel Tape! Bullfights! Who Wouldn't Tune In?

    This is an advertisement for Channel 13's Eyewitness News circa 1971, and it is magnificent. In our view, it represents a serious lack of judgment that news stations no longer use one-minute ads set to the Mission: Impossible theme, with constant cuts to the space-age state-of-the-art equipment tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Top 10 On-Air Gaffes: A List Inspired by Pattie Shieh

    This current Houstonian locks down the top spot.​As an ode to the "spit" blast uttered last night by Pattie Shieh of Fox 26, Hair Balls looks back at the top 10 on-air fuc_, uh, mess-ups of all-time.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Five Best Glenn Beck Freakouts: We'll Miss You, Dude

    ​As he hinted at his Houston appearance, Glenn Beck, the face of Fox News to so many Americans who recoil in horror at Fox News, will be ending his TV show. He'll still do occasional specials, and tour, but your daily dose of Beckensian madness will no longer be on TV. We'll miss the freakou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Nick Kosir: The Rapping Weatherman's San Francisco Gig Is Over

    All of Houston has been following semi-breathlessly the sage of rapping weatherman Nick Kosir who has either appalled or entertained viewers (in Beaumont and on YouTube) with his white-man-raps schtick.He seemingly rode his talent to the big time -- San Francisco, which is a hell of a lot better TV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Houston Cop Becomes National TV Star Tonight

    ABC is premiering another newsmagazine, this one called Primetime:Crime, and the star in the first show is a Houston cop famous for his interrogation skills.(In case you're wondering, rejected names for the series included Primetime: Crime: Dime: Lime: Mime SUV.) HPD Homicide Sgt. Brian Harris, ABC ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Debbie Riddle: For Your Own Sake, Avoid CNN

    State Rep Debbie Riddle doesn't need career advice from us. But if she were to ask, we'd tell her stay the hell off CNN. Stick to Fox News.Riddle went on Anderson Cooper's show last night and -- well, she showed the nation the Debbie Riddle we have come to know and be horrified by here in Houston.

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Attention, Houston Crime Victims: Be Like This Guy

    TV news loves to talk to witnesses or victims of crime. We'd love it, too, if they were all like this guy, from Huntsville, Alabama.Please adopt his style when you are interviewed for television, Houston.Thank you.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Sonia Sotomayor Critiques The Chronicle

    Reads the Chron's sports section, at least when it's cited in legal briefs​The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Enron honcho Jeffrey Skilling's trial should not have been moved out of Houston, no matter what he thinks. (Skilling did better on other arguments, but overall nothing much changed.)Son ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    The Five Best Houston Sex Scandals, Such As They Are

    It takes two hookers to get James Worthy ready for Showtime​Houston is not a big town for sex scandals. Whether it's because we have a sophisticated European, laissez-faire attitude to such things, or because bigfoot Houstonians are better at hiding things, we don't know. Although we guess it's th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    10th Annual Dragon Boat Festival

    You won't be able to train these dragons

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    The World's Hottest Weapon

    ​The world's hottest pepper is now a weapon? Yep! According to today's Houston Chronicle, the Indian military in now using what we know as the ghost pepper to make a type of tear-gas hand grenade. We've seen enough Man vs. Food episodes to know that this will be an effective weapon. Just the t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Barry Lynn: Cornered

    Ever notice nobody even talks about money in terms of millions any more? Everything's a trillion this and a billion that.

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2010

    Artists for Haiti Benefit

    The Houston arts community responds to the Haitian people's need for help

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Bold and Fresh Tour: O'Reilly and Beck LIVE

    These right-wing heroes take to the big screen

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    It's (Maybe) Gonna Snow In Houston!! Be Prepared!!

    ​Forecasters are still telling us there's a chance that it will snow in Houston tomorrow. We'll believe it when we see it, but the theory is that sometime Friday afternoon we may get hit with anywhere from a trace to an inch of solid white precipitation.This, of course, would be an earthshaking ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    R.I.P., Marvin Zindler's Angels

    ​It's been a little over two years since Houston legend Marvin Zindler took his shock wig, blue-tinted eyeglasses and excessively nipped-and-tucked face to that great Ice Machine in the Sky.For a while after his demise, KTRK kept alive his Angels in Action program, where doctors and other professi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Beaumont News Anchor Indulges (Allegedly) In Insane Facebook Feud

    What the hell is going on in Beaumont?Now granted, that's a question you could ask pretty much any day of the week, but right now it concerns a Facebook spat between a prominent local news anchor there and a critic.Jim Walker, a main anchor at Fox affiliate KBTV, seems to be going nuts, if the Beaum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Former Anchor Sues KPRC For Defamation

    Photo courtesy of KPRCWendy CoronaFormer KPRC Channel 2 anchorwoman Wendy Corona is suing her former news station, alleging breach of contract and defamation. According to the lawsuit recently filed in Harris County District Court, Corona signed a four-year contract with KPRC starting in April 2006. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2009
  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    $7 at Bell Street Cafe

    Photo by Craig HlavatyChicken Veronique at Bell Street CafeWhere: Bell Street Cafe, 800 Bell Street (under the Exxon Building) What $7 gets you: Surprisingly fresh and cheap food. Dining under the Exxon building, right next to the Houston Press building, means that you will be eating with a millio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Former Houston News Director: Multiple Social Security Numbers, Wives & Bondage Websites

    Remember back around 2001, 2002, when Time Warner and the Belo Corporation decided to create a 24-hour news station focusing exclusively on Houston?You might have to think hard, because the effort didn't last long.But it was spearheaded by a guy named Jeff Alan, who became the station's first news d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Michael Berry, Houston's Least-Likely Howard Stern Wanna-Be

    Anyone fortunate to be listening to "The Michael Berry" on KTRH 740 AM this past Friday night got to hear about an hour's worth of girl talk. No, Berry didn't change formats and start expressing his feminine side underneath his good ol' boy former city council member tandoori-chomping image. What we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Local TV Anchors -- The Legends Are Disappearing

    The New York Times reports today that the veteran anchor, the mainstay glamor position in local TV news, may become a thing of the past.Falling ratings, slashed budgets and the obsession to woo young viewers all has management axing legends who have been around for years in their market.(The Times c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    Longing for Sports Sunday

    The New York Times reports today that the veteran anchor, the mainstay glamor position in local TV news, may become a thing of the past.Falling ratings, slashed budgets and the obsession to woo young viewers all has management axing legends who have been around for years in their market.(The Times c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2007

    5th Annual Latino Book and Family Festival

    Jorge Ramos and Junot Diaz read from their latest titles

  • Calendar

    August 23, 2007

    The Best Man

    Gore Vidal digs for political truisms

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2007

    Re: In the Line of Fire

    Gore Vidal digs for political truisms

  • Music

    October 5, 2006

    The Thermals

    The Thermals appear Tuesday, October 10, at Proletariat, 903 Richmond. Call 713-523-1199 for more info.

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2006

    Pastoral U.

    The Thermals appear Tuesday, October 10, at Proletariat, 903 Richmond. Call 713-523-1199 for more info.

  • Film

    August 3, 2006

    Crash Test Dummy

    The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2006

    Talk About the Weather

    The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2005

    Food for Thought

    Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2004

    Hollywood Holiday

    Judith Owen and Harry Shearer spread some Christmas cheer, L.A.-style

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Local TV News

    Judith Owen and Harry Shearer spread some Christmas cheer, L.A.-style

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Local TV News Reporter

    Judith Owen and Harry Shearer spread some Christmas cheer, L.A.-style

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Fried Chicken

    Pollo Campero

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Local TV News

    KHOU/Channel 11

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Radio Commentary

    Dean Becker, "420 Drug War News"

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Gadfly

    Robert "Bob" Martin

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Christmas Miracle

    A media benefit helps a charity that's been questioned

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Quoth the Chron

    The Chronicle runs out another inept marketing campaign

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Local Girls Gone Bad

    Krystal Maddox, Lisa Warzeka, Katie Dunn and Michelle Morneau

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    Meltdown at Fox

    Several staffers move over to Channel 39's start-up effort

  • Culture

    September 30, 1999

    Taken By Storm

    Author Erik Larson follows the hurricane that destroyed Galveston

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Roping In Ratings

    A rodeo ruckus riles rival Spanish TV stations

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    News Hostage

    A rodeo ruckus riles rival Spanish TV stations

  • News

    August 11, 1994

    Taking a Bite Out of...

    Revealed: Castratin' Mike's youthful indiscretion

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