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Blogs
May 23, 2012
This Week In Food Blogs: Houston's Best Sausages and Frozen Custard for the Summer
Eater Houston: You look like you could use a stiff drink. (Yes, I know it's only 7 a.m.) Luckily, Eater's new editor Eric Sandler has put together quite the useful list for just that purpose. The latest cocktail "heatmap" features some of our favorites, like Line & Lariat (for its new Manhattan seri ... More >>
Music
May 17, 2012
Blanco's: The Time Machine
A honky-tonk with a city built around it.
Blogs
May 2, 2012
The Four Oddest Things Found at This Year's Texas-Beach Clean-Up
The annual volunteer clean-up of Texas beaches resulted in some good news -- less trash had to be picked up. About 137 tons of trash of all sorts was collected, the Texas General Land Office says, which sounds like a lot. But over the 26 years of the event, the average annual take is 319 tons. "W ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Texas Wines Are Talk of the Town
In the wake of Sunday's Texas wine seminar at the Austin Food & Wine Festival, organized and moderated by Houston wine writer Russ Kane, Texas wines seem to be on everyone's minds this week. Eatocracy (CNN): Food & Wine magazine executive wine editor Ray Isle, a Houston native, was a member of the ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
Comment of the Day: What, No Letter Grades For The NFL Draft? Hack
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
2nd Annual Texas Beer Fest a Success
Check out our photos from the Texas Beer Festival at Discovery Green. This past Saturday, a sun-drenched Discovery Green was converted into a playground for beer-lovers as it played host to the second annual Texas Beer Fest. As I walked into the festival grounds, I opened up the event booklet and r ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Texas Wine Makes the Big Time at Austin Food & Wine Mag Fest
"The Wines Of Texas Are Upon You" may have seemed like a bland seminar title when compared with spicier ones like "Everything You Need To Know About Wine But Were Afraid to Ask" and "Super Star Wines." But the fact that the Austin Food & Wine Festival (which made its debut over the weekend) includ ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
Oyster Po' Boy with Remoulade: Only One Wine Will Do
At our house, we're already cranking up the A/C and bracing for the Texas summer. But with the arrival of the heat also comes my favorite time of our yearly gastronomic cycle, when fried and grilled foods are guiltlessly consumed in mass quantities. Summertime holidays -- from Memorial Day to the ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
5 Reasons Why Texas Will Never Win "Most Peaceful State" (and Good Riddance)
Maine has won the latest version of the United States Peace Index's "Most Peaceful State" competition. Texas? Forty-sixth most peaceful. This result simply means that Maine is a big pile of bo-ring while Texas is still holding it down with do-whatever-we-please citizens and outrageous criminals ( ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Beer, Bombers, and Boarding Passes
So I've become a bit of a smuggler. Every time I travel on business, I'm scoping out opportunities to score. I pack my stash away in my luggage, wrapped in socks for security and subterfuge, and hope it makes it through undamaged. I haven't been caught yet. Of course, my brand of smuggling -- bombe ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Comment of the Day: Team Cleavage's, Ummm, Honor Defended
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Saturday: iFest In Downtown Houston -- Los Lonely Boys, Los Amigos Invisibles, Etc.
Houston International Festival Downtown Houston April 21, 2012 There's something beautifully eclectic about Houston's iFest. Only there can you drink a beer as you stuff your face with curry, shoulder to shoulder with a Buddhist, while listening to Hare Krishnas sing their hearts out. Ok, maybe it' ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
State of Texas Announces Live Music Grant Program for Free Concerts
The Texas Music Office, a division of the Office of the Governor, announced Friday the creation of the Live Music Grant Program, funding free concerts across the state. But don't get all excited yet. This is the Texas guv'ment we are dealing with, after all, so there are a few catches. This is all ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
Eat My Words: This week Texas Monthly wine writer Jessica Dupuy gives a glowing review to new releases by the Duchman Family Winery, the Texas Hill Country winery owned by Houston's own celebrity cardiologist Stan Duchman. "I'll be honest," she writes, "I fell in love with all of these wines, which ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Hankering for an Ujukitsu Fruit: Do You Know If It's in Season?
Don't you hate it when you go to the market and you really want an Ujukitsu, but all they have are strawberries? How do you know which fruit and vegetables are in season, and if they're local? A stroll through the markets this past weekend revealed a treasure trove of seasonal and local fruits and ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Where Are We Drinking?
This wine bar is still the new kid on the block, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some mature selections and a classic feel to it. In addition to stocking Texas wines like the Duchman bottles seen above, it also has some unusual and hard-to-find wines and plenty of advice on which to choose. L ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2012
The Best Oysters I've Had All Season...
...were at Pappadeaux. At the bar. During happy hour. Surprised? I was. Although, in retrospect, I'm not sure why I should have been. I'm not anti-chain. In fact, some of my favorite oyster bars are the Captain Benny's boats that litter the city. But I hadn't been to a Pappadeaux in years, and my r ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
Cool: Old Houston Photos Mashed With Their Present-Day Houston Equivalent
Houston Press staffer Abrahan Garza likes to meld Houston's past and present together. He goes around town matching up old postcards to present-day sites, something he saw on the web a year or so ago. "I'll find a remnant in the old photo I will try to match it up perfectly," he says. "It's defini ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Brew Blog: Adelbert's Brewery Scratchin' Hippo
Lately, it seems like the craft beer world might well be centered in Texas. I have no doubt that there are other states whose breadth and depth of craft brews rivals, and even surpasses, the Lone Star State, but it seems as if every time I turn around, there's a newTexas brewery doing cool things. M ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Lone Star Chefs: It's Not Always about Being Bigger, They're Just Better
Our Texas chefs not only come from Texas but from all over the world and bring their culinary homes with them -- fortunately for us. Lone Star Chefs by John DeMers and Julie Soefer highlights 13 outstanding and diverse Texas masters. This book is part biography, part cookbook and part restaurant gu ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
EPA Can't Block Texas's Clean-Air Rules for Being Too Lax, Appeals Court Says
The federal Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its bounds when it rejected a Texas clean-air plan it thought was too lax, an appellate court has ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the EPA was limited to reviewing whether Texas's controversial plan met the absolute minimums o ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2012
You Won't Believe UT's Daily Texan Trayvon Martin Cartoon (UPDATED)
It's no surprise that the Web sites for the University of Texas's Daily Texan and their cartoonist Stephanie Eisner are overloaded at the moment. That's because an astonishing Eisner cartoon on the Trayvon Martin case is whipping `round the Web. Gawker, among others, has highlighted it. Thanks to ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Wine Time: What To Do When Fine Wine Service Is Really Bad?
Historically, a sommelier was a cellar master who managed a wine collection. He -- and I say he because in the pre-sexual-revolution era, the sommelier was always male -- tracked and tallied the sums of wine (originally stored in cask and later in bottle). Today, the word is used loosely to denot ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Report: Texans Use Mobile Broadband More Than Any Other State
The next time you are driving down the freeway and some guy starts weaving over into your lane because he is busy on his phone, it's a safe bet it is happening in the Lone Star state. According to a report from the non-profit organization Connected Texas, Texans utilize broadband mobile services on ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
A Fan's Opinion on What the New Dynamo Stadium Should Offer
BBVA Compass Stadium, the new Dynamo stomping grounds, is set to open in 51 days. According to the website, it "will be a state-of-the-art, open-air stadium designed to host Dynamo matches as well as additional sporting and concert events. When it opens in 2012, the 22,000-seat stadium will be the ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
After reading our blogging colleague Katharine Shilcutt's post about Robb Walsh's tasting and pairing of Texas Gulf oysters and wines last week at Oceanaire on Westheimer, we were geeked to see a post from a wine blogger's perspective by one of our favorite Houston wine educators, Sandra Crittenden. ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
The Chronicle Takes Middle Road on Controversial Doonesbury Strips
This week's Doonesbury strips deal with the Texas law mandating sonograms for women seeking abortions. Many newspapers around the country are refusing to run the strips, which compare what the law requires to "rape" at one point. Some are moving the strip to the op-ed page, or just putting it onli ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Feds Block Texas's Voter ID Law: Unfair to Hispanics, They Say
Texas's strict new voter ID law, put in place by this past session's Tea Party legislature to stem the tidal wave of voter fraud that is actually not happening at all, has been blocked by the U.S. Department of Justice. The new law unfairly targets Hispanic voters, the feds said. "[T]he state has ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Upcoming Events: Bigmista Is Back
Local boy done good, Neil "Bigmista" Strawder, is returning home to Galveston once again on Saturday, March 17. Strawder, best known as the Long Beach, California pitmaster who impressed Jonathan Gold enough to be included on Gold's list of "99 Essential LA Restaurants" and as a contestant on TLC ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
Sampler Plate: This Week in Food Blogs
Robb Walsh: To promote his new book, Texas Eats, Robb Walsh will be appearing all over Texas throughout March. Whether you catch him at Vargo's for the big Foodways Texas crawfish boil or at the Oysters, Blues & Brews event at the Armadillo Palace or even just at Blue Willow Bookshop tonight, be sur ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Rick Perry's War with Planned Parenthood Goes Too Far, Texans Say In Poll
Rick Perry's plan to bar Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the state's Women's Health Program may be red meat to the religious right stirred up over the current contraception wars, but it's not too popular with Texans, a new poll shows. Public Policy Polling's new survey shows 55 ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
6 Musicians Who Messed With Texas
Today, March 2, is Texas Independence Day, the day a bunch of old white politicians and landowners declared this part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas to be its own sovereign republic in a cabin near Washington-on-the-Brazos. For some inexplicable reason, Rocks Off does not have the day off ... More >>
Calendar
March 1, 2012
The 5 Browns
Today, March 2, is Texas Independence Day, the day a bunch of old white politicians and landowners declared this part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas to be its own sovereign republic in a cabin near Washington-on-the-Brazos. For some inexplicable reason, Rocks Off does not have the day off ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
TX Wine Lover: As the still youthful Texas wine industry continues to grow and find its footing (shifting away from the California Chardonnay-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Merlot paradigm), a handful of European grape varieties (beyond the classics of Bordeaux and Burgundy) have emerged as winners. Their succe ... More >>
Music
February 23, 2012
T-Bird & the Breaks
TX Wine Lover: As the still youthful Texas wine industry continues to grow and find its footing (shifting away from the California Chardonnay-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Merlot paradigm), a handful of European grape varieties (beyond the classics of Bordeaux and Burgundy) have emerged as winners. Their succe ... More >>
Music
February 23, 2012
Big Squeeze Auditions
TX Wine Lover: As the still youthful Texas wine industry continues to grow and find its footing (shifting away from the California Chardonnay-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Merlot paradigm), a handful of European grape varieties (beyond the classics of Bordeaux and Burgundy) have emerged as winners. Their succe ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
Wine Thoughts: There's so much groovy stuff happening this week in the Texas enoblogosphere. But we just have to open today's post with a nod to one of our favorite and most balanced wine bloggers here in our state, Sandra Crittenden, author of Wine Thoughts, who writes about one of our pet peeves: ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Crawfish Joints
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. Along wi ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Top Chef: Texas Is Now Set in Canada, Because Why Not
This week's episode of Top Chef: Texas has left Texas entirely, never to return (at least for this season). It has, instead, gone to almost literally the polar opposite of Texas: British Columbia, Canada. On Top Chef: Texas. Which was funded with $400,000 of our tax dollars (much more if you coun ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Brew Blog: Shiner Wild Hare Pale Ale
Shiner Bock used to be one of my go-to beers. This was early in my drinking life, and I think the perceived cachet of a Texas Beer was part of the allure. Though my tastes have changed significantly, largely leaving Shiner behind, the brewery still holds a special place in my mind. Near the end of a ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in (Women's) Wine Blogs
Photo by Margaret Shugart, curator of a new blog, The Wine Roads of Texas.The Wine Roads of Texas: "If you've never seen the communities that run across that vast stretch of road," writes Margaret Shugart, author of a new blog called The Wine Roads of Texas, "you are missing one of the most u ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Galveston's Red Tide Appears to Have Dissipated, Oysters Recovering
Photo by mintprofusionOysters affected by red tide are toxic to humans.On January 27, two small portions of Texas Gulf waters were conditionally opened to shellfish harvesting after a red tide epidemic forced the indefinite closure of oyster season in October. San Antonio and Espiritu Santo ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Some Questions About the Texas Music Awards 2012 Ballot
If you think we were flabbergasted by songwriter Bob Cheevers touting his election as 2011 Songwriter of the Year in the Texas Music Awards sponsored by mytexasmusic.com and "sanctioned" (a hedge word that appears frequently in relation to the Texas Music Awards) by the Texas Academy of Music (high ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
Bear on Wine: We've been having a blast following Texas wine legend Bear Dalton's new blog, Bear on Wine. This week he weighs in with some of his insights into cork damage with a post entitled (caps his) MURDER, HE TASTED or 'Death in the Desert'. We don't want to spoil the grand finale of this fi ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Must Like Texas Wine: The Wine Slinger Chronicles, a New Guide to Texas Wines
Photo by Jeremy ParzenLeading Texas wine authority Russ Kane (left) and his wife Delia love meatballs. That's Russ with Coppa executive chef Brandi Key. Russ has called Brandi's meatballs "the best in town."It seems inevitable that the authors of the two guides to the wines of Texas have name ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Best Thing I Ever Ate: Dips
I've been exploring The Best Things I Ever Ate around town. This time, I was on the hunt for Houston's best dips: creamy avocado ranch, Buffalo chicken, spinach and artichoke - you name it, I've tried it. All while looking for the city's best. And I certainly found it in the Smoky Queso "Knocked Up" ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2012
Upcoming Events: Beer Fundraisers, Wine Dinners and Resolutions
Beer lovers, pay attention: February is your month! Up first is the next Open The Taps fundraiser, held on Sunday, February 12, at the Southern Star Brewery in Conroe from 2 to 5 p.m. (Trust us, February is one of the best months for hanging out in the charmingly un-air-conditioned, corrugated-meta ... More >>
Dining
January 19, 2012
Meat Market: Sorry State
Slim pickings at an East Texas cattle auction point to a grim future for the industry.
Blogs
January 18, 2012
More Expensive Meat in 2012: The Rising Cost of Beef
A rancher on the verge of bankruptcy. A state on the verge of another devastating drought. A nation on the verge of a depleted beef supply. These are the stories told in this week's cover feature, Meat Market, which examines the many reasons -- from the hoof up -- that you'll be paying more f ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
The Price of Beef Is On the Rise for 2012
Ronnie Bartley is a rancher on the verge of bankruptcy after 16 years in the business. Texas is on the verge of another devastating drought this summer. And our nation is on the verge of a severely depleted beef supply. These are the stories told in this week's cover feature, Meat Market, which exa ... More >>
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