Terrorism

The Five Most Idiotic Things Louie Gohmert, Who Sees Radical Muslims Anywhere He Looks, Believes

Louis Gohmert doesn't need evidence. He doesn't need proof, or sourcing, or the ability to back up a claim with anything other than the vitriol in his voice and the consternation in his gut. All he needs is an idea, and a microphone, and away we go. Gohmert's idiocies idiosyncrasies have brought pl ... More >>

Why Do Houston Police Keep Bothering Food Truck Oh My Gogi?

Houston police spokesperson, John Cannon, has trouble not laughing when he hears about the food truck Oh My Gogi. It's not their complaints, or their food, or the owners. It's the name. Oh. My. Gogi. The punchlines pretty much write themselves. Oh My Gogi isn't laughing. Owner Eric Nguyen says the ... More >>

Oh My Gogi's Continuing HPD Problems

Houston police spokesperson John Cannon has trouble not laughing when he hears about the food truck Oh My Gogi. It's not their complaints, or their food, or the owners. It's the name. Oh. My. Gogi. The punchlines pretty much write themselves. Oh My Gogi isn't laughing. Owner Eric Nguyen says the H ... More >>

Linwood Barclay: Trust Your Eyes

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

7th Annual Punxmas Fest

Brigitte Gabriel Bringing Her Islamophobe Spiel to Katy's First Baptist Church

Brigitte Gabriel, coming to town.​If you're wanting to hear a bigoted, pathetically overbroad stereotyping of a religion and a culture, what better place to go to than a church? First Baptist Church in Katy, to be exact. They're hosting a speech by Brigitte Gabriel, the rightwing ranter who's ... More >>

Staged Reading: The Guys

United: Continental's Merger Partner Keeps Tripping Up on 9/11

We all await the next misstep​Remember the good old days, when Houston's Continental Airlines only had to endure PR fiascos like killing off the Concorde? The airline has, of course, merged with United Airlines, and things have not gone smoothly from a public-relations standpoint. The new pl ... More >>

Who Will Write The First "Osama Is Dead" Hit Song?

​Now that more details are starting to emerge about Sunday's Navy SEAL helicopter raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden and several members of the al-Qaeda jefe's entourage - especially how the months-long planning and 40-minute firefight was planned in total secrecy, and executed ... More >>

Sheila Jackson Lee in the Muslim Hearings: YouTube Hit

The U.S. House's bizarre hearings on Muslims (sorry, "radical" Muslims) included a noteworthy speech by Rep. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim member of Congress, who teared up while remembering a Muslim first responder who died on 9/11. And then there was Sheila Jackson Lee. Love her or hate her, she ... More >>

Why I'd Rather Eat Halal Food (Including Campbell's Soup)

​The latest round of anti-Muslim rhetoric to spew forth from the nation's right-wing extremists has formed from the strangest combination of ingredients: Canada and Campbell's soup. News that Americans have started a Facebook group called "Boycott Campbell Soup" [sic] -- which has nearly 3,50 ... More >>

Acid Bombs: Sure, Set Them Off Next Door To A Cop's House. And Throw One In His Yard For Good Measure

I can haz felony on my record?​There's a certain lack of common sense inherent in building homemade acid bombs, but it's the type of lack that can be common in males in their teens and early 20s.There's a very special lack of common sense, however, in building such a bomb and setting it off in you ... More >>

Alex Berenson: The Midnight House

Readers get another exciting thriller from the author of The Silent Man

A Decade of Dissent

Voices Breaking Boundaries boasts ten years of speaking up

For Ramadan: Five Movie Muslims

Ramadan is a time of reflection and prayer for the world's Muslim population. It is meant to teach them patience and self-restraint, and to bring them closer to Allah. We at Hair Balls know little of patience, and have never been good at self-restraint, but we're nothing if not equal-opportunity i ... More >>

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Why was this movie remade?

Pasadena Napalm Division

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Trey Parker and Matt Stone give their animated series the big-screen treatment

John Culberson Loves Ben Franklin. Foreigners, Not So Much.

Emery, with Army of Me, Envy on the Coast, and the Almost

Secret Crimes of the Characters from "Gilligan’s Island"

The Kingdom

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

9-11/9-11

Animated short revisits impact of tragedies

Roy Head, Archie Bell, Barbara Lynn, Barbara Mason

concert preview

Get Lit: The First Commandment, by Brad Thor

That Man Makes a Mean Lemonade

Mayday!

Mayday!

Dear John

Hell on Earth

A real view of the Afghan situation

For the Children

Unholy Matrimony

Dubya would be aghast at Here Come the Brides

Girls Gone Wild

It's a regular bacchanal in one small town

Scenes from a Picnic

Willie, Dylan, Kinky and the Ghost of Bob Willis descends on Fort Worth. Wack is there too.

Gross Encounters

Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing

Legendary Beats

Get a heady dose of drum 'n' bass at Planet of the Drums

The Break-Up, with Clueless, Harris Newman and Swayback

Sunday, March 20, at Super Happy Fun Land, 2610 Ashland, 713-880-2100.

Best Place to Ride a Horse

Beastie Boys

To the 5 Boroughs (Capitol)

Best Long Lunch

Rainbow Lodge

Best Curator

Kim Davenport

Best Poet

Adam Zagajewski

Camera Ready

Chronicle staffers tout their stories on Channel 11

Man's New Best Friend

In the wake of September 11, security dogs have become must-have items. Prices have skyrocketed. There aren't enough German shepherds.

Doing All He Can

Bomb Osama, a KRIV reporter sings

Letters

Cell Medicine, Best Bamboozle?, Onward Christian Soldiers

A Firefighter's Life

Firefighters showcase the skills they use on a daily basis

Fringe Radical Cineasts

Rallying all film rebels, John Waters's Cecil B. Demented cries, "Fassbinder or die!"

Rights Out

Freedoms and order are at odds in the provocative Siege

The Sound and the Fury

Talk radio's Rob Thorn warns of the New World Order and impending apocalypse. The Texas Constitutional Militia is listening.