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Health Department Roundup: Coreanos, Pondicheri, Ruggles Green and More

By today's standards, Pete Wells's November review of Guy Fieri's American Kitchen & Bar is ancient, up there with Hadrian's Wall and some other things you forgot after college. But there's apparently still mileage there, as evidenced by the parody menu a New York programmer created (with some help ... More >>

Energy Drinks Are a Crock of Crap, But You Knew That...Right?

On the front page of yesterday's New York Times was the headline: Energy Drinks Promise Edge, But Experts Say Proof Is Scant. And not that people feeding their babies Mountain Dew out of a bottle nor concocting go-go juice for their kids, Honey Boo Boo-style, will notice or care what the New York T ... More >>

Death of Cinema

A short history of an art form's long passing.

This Week in Food Blogs: Everything's Coming Up Houston

New York Times: Houston is getting all the national love this week. After being called "Texas's best and most diverse food city" by Andrew Knowlton in Bon Appétit, it's getting a spotlight from none other than The Gray Lady herself. The New York Times noted our sprawling Chinatown over the weekend ... More >>

Kaskade's Moment

On-the-go DJ/producer might be electronica's very own superhero.

Get a Rope: New York Times Takes Note of Honky-Tonk Hero Mike Stinson

Houston's own Mike Stinson is no stranger to media coverage. Hell, it was big news when the "King of the L.A. Honky-tonkers" relocated to the Bayou City two-and-a-half years ago. When it comes to press, though, it doesn't get much bigger than the New York Times. The Old Gray Lady gave the local h ... More >>

Sundance Film Fest USA: Bachelorette

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 >>

Doesn't Rick Perry Know Cursive?

​We've seen more Rick Perry autographs lately than we have in a long time, because basically we had never seen one before. So we were unaware that his autograph resembles a third grader's. Didn't they teach cursive in Paint Creek?

This River Oaks Playhouse Is Better Than Your Crappy Apartment

Megan Thompson Lovoi for The New York TimesOf course it has genuine hardwood floors​Swamplot points us to a New York Times article that would make any normal person either cry for America or just throw in the towel on humanity. Kristi Schiller of River Oaks loves to talk about how much chari ... More >>

More Local Music News Than Memorial Day Furniture Sales

What would your Friday be without Magnolia City Mixtape? Pretty bleak, if you're trying to keep up on all the local music here in Houston. Thankfully, we're here to make that last day of the work week just a bit better. Propain launched his music video for the Departure track, "Say I Won't." Dire ... More >>

Texas A&M: Where Men Are Women, When It Comes To Title IX

Aggie women's basketball: Why aren't the dudes pictured?​The New York Times is out today with an interesting look at how colleges cook the books in order to comply with Title IX, the federal law that requires equality in men's and women's collegiate sports. In order not to get afoul of the fe ... More >>

The New York Times Takes Another Shot at the Cleveland Gang-Rape Story

Take two​Last Sunday, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, noted in his column that the paper's original story on the horrific Cleveland gang rape was a "ham-handed article that led some readers to think we were blaming the 11-year-old victim." He said "the only way to make am ... More >>

New York Times Launches Subscription Service

One wonders if they will start charging admission to enter the lobby too.​The New York Times announced the parameters of its much-anticipated digital subscription service to subscribers via e-mail. Beginning March 28 in the United States (Canada gets a ten-day head start to act as guinea pig), ... More >>

Long Live the Houston Press, Be It Dead or Alive

Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. ​ The New York Times is all over our radar these days. Whether it's the Cleveland gang rape story, the former Chronicle employees' wedding announcement or the paper's new subscription service, the Old Gray Lady has been more relevant for the ... More >>

Jasper's Hidden Past: Terrific Vintage Photos of Black Life

Alonzo Jordan/Texas African-American Photo Archive​The New York Times has a great slideshow up now called "The Hidden Half of an East Texas Town" featuring photos of black life in Jasper back in the pre-Civil Rights era. They come from a new exhibit at the International Center for Photography ... More >>

Mary McBride Finds Home In Prisons, Shelters, Nightclubs

​ On her current tour in support of her new CD The Way Home, soul/folk singer-songwriter Mary McBride - best known for the touching "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" from the of the movie Brokeback Mountain soundtrack - has given herself a challenge: in addition to each club date she will be makin ... More >>

Girl Talk: "Me Wanting To Interact With The Music I Really Like"

Bridget Maniaci​ A few days before Girl Talk's Summerfest show this Saturday, Rocks Off took some time to chat with the mash-up maestro - who refuses to call himself a DJ - about his biomedical engineering degree, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2008's Feed the Animals and Super Happy Fun Land. ... More >>

9 Places We'd Send The New York Times

Mark C. AustinJandek (right) and trio at Rudyard's... who says we're not hip?​ As we may have mentioned, Rocks Off was none too pleased when we read The New York Times' most recent article on Houston in this past Sunday's travel section and found exactly zero mentions of anything music-related. Th ... More >>

A Valentine's Day Sure Thing

Photo by shalawesome​Let's face it; you want to get lucky this Valentine's Day. Well, we hate to be the bearer of bad news, but chocolate isn't going to get you there. Neither are oysters, caviar or champagne. We know all the men out there have their heads in their hands, groaning, "Great, w ... More >>

Maureen McLane

A poet’s job description: Put pen to paper

Thunder Rock

Keeping the faith at Company OnStage

Mary Karr

Inprint invites a renowned/reluctant memoirist

Catfish and Grits

​While researching this week's review of Cedar Creek Café, I tried the restaurant's extensive breakfast menu. The Southern-style "biscuits Benedict" featuring poached eggs and fresh hot biscuits were an interesting spin on morning food. But my favorite breakfast was the fried catfish and chee ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Beyond Beltway 8: Although he shut down his previous food blog, Cory Crow (our ... More >>

E. L. Doctorow

The author of Billy Bathgate takes on the inner lives of hoarders

You Spend A Billion Dollars And Still Get A Crappy New York Times Review

Courtesy Dallas Cowboys​You spend over a billion dollars on something, you want to at least get a good review out of it in The New York Times.Alas, Jerry Jones, you're out of luck. As a great philosopher once said....The Times's architectural critic (named, as any Times archiectural critic should ... More >>

An Update On Just How Safe Your Tap Water Is (Or Isn't)

Illustration courtesy drinktap.org​A little more than a year ago, the Houston Press brought you a story about a growing movement aimed at ditching those store-bought plastic bottles of water for the stuff that flows from the tap. After all, advocates claimed, tap water is safe, cheap and environm ... More >>

Questions Bellaire High's Whiz Kids Will Have To Answer

Hair Balls got that warm fuzzy feeling (don't worry, it's not swine flu) when a publicist called to tell us that students from Bellaire High will be competing in the 2009 National Economics Challenge, to be held in New York City May 18. The Challenge is done in a "college bowl tournament" style, fea ... More >>

Frugality is The New Black

Okay, so did you realize being thrifty is so very chic right now, dahling?Blech.Everyone from Time to The New York Times is running articles about this new, fabulous feeling of thrift that is sweeping the country like it's a runway fashion or something. The Times article highlighted a man who has (g ... More >>

Congratulations To The Chronicle

There's been a ton of bad news coming out of 801 Texas lately, but those who are left have something to (semi-)celebrate: The paper was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category. The judges praised the "Houston Chronicle staff" for "taking full advantage of online technology a ... More >>

Dafnis Prieto

Web exclusive!

More Bad News For Newspapers: Rice Cancels Its Student Subscriptions

As if the journalism world isn't reeling with news of layoffs, buyouts and doing goddamn more to goddamn less, here's more bad news: Rice is canceling all its student subscriptions to the Houston Chronicle and The New York Times.They'll save $30,000 by doing so.We went to UH, not Rice, so we're not ... More >>

The Light in the Piazza

Main Street Theater presents a Tony Award-winning musical about love, loss and, sigh, more love

The Times Finds Yet Another Annoying Thing About Houston

Houston, The New York Times has found yet another thing you do that's highly annoying.Earlier, it was our pathetic efforts at recycling. Now it's the security announcements at what it terms "the grandly named" George Bush Intercontinental Airport."I immediately start grousing about those annoying se ... More >>

Spring Awakening

There’s sex on the brain — and in the theater — in this raunchy romp through adolescence

The Times Finds A Rich Texas Rube To Laugh At

Houston, we have just what you need to keep up your classy image in these dire economic days: A large story in The New York Times about a home here so lavishly decorated that "it's hard not to gape at a gilt and mirrored hall so boisterously baroque that you half expect Marie Antoinette to appear an ... More >>

Fish Frenzy at Tokyo One

Pile your plate with scads of sashimi at this new all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet

Low B

M.I.A.’s DJ is the life of the after party

ODC’s Velveteen Rabbit

Would you like some tea with your ballet?

Setting the Stage

2007–2008 promises a year of provocative productions

Best Place to People-Watch

Hermann Park

Best Bang for the Buck

Darband Shish Kabob

Grunge Residue

Death Cab for Cutie

News of the Weird

Write or Wrong?

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions