The Salvation Army

Happy National Donut Day, America!

Today is national Donut Day and the inner Homer Simpsons in all of us get to indulge in their love for donuts and celebrate their existence. The holiday, started in 1938 as a fund-raiser in Chicago for The Salvation Army, was established to honor the women who served donuts to soldiers during WWI. ... More >>

Texans-Titans: The Best Rapper Tweets

10-Plus Vinyl Albums You'll Always See at Thrift Stores

I have been cursed with an affliction to mindlessly buy vinyl at thrift stores, garage sales, flea markets, and estate sales, without regard for how much room I have at home. The problem now encompasses compact discs too. It's a genetic trait. My father collects containers. His garage looks like the ... More >>

Found Footage Film Festival

Happy National Donut Day: Sexy Pictures Of Donuts (NSFW?)

​There are bear claws, crullers, holes, cream-filled, jelly-filled, donut-fillled, fritters, maple bars, chocolate twists, and long johns in the universe of donuts, with countless other varieties remaining to be created by bakers bent on sending us all to early graves. Today is National Donu ... More >>

Salvation Army Hit By Houston-Area Kettle-Robbing Spree

Now with E-Z Grab handles!!​It's a (Bizarro World) Christmas miracle!! The Salvation Army's local chapter says it's been slammed by three kettle robberies in the last 24 hours, and four overall this Christmas season. "In each case, thankfully, no violence or aggression has been used against ... More >>

Workplace speech and Aztec ancestors

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes: #27 Warm Glazed Donuts at Shipley's on Ella

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

So Alive: Rocks Off Goes To Pole-Dancing Class

​The things we at Rocks Off won't do for work. Craig Hlavaty has gone undercover as a guido for a look into the Washington Avenue scene. Chris Gray trolls Craiglist for the most... interesting... entries. And we, as the token Rocks Off lady, are the one who gets to go to the pole-dan ... More >>

The Man Without a Past

Maybe life starts right now

Kirk Daley, 30, Bayou Body Count No. 19

​Sadly, it wasn't a long week for Mr. Kirk Daley.He and a few co-workers left work early on Monday, probably with a skip in their step, to go cash their tax refund checks at a convenience store in northeast Houston at 8103 Homestead Road. When Daley, 30, was finished and all cashed-up, he began wa ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Antiquing and Christmas Lights in Galveston

By the time you read this, Texas Traveler will be well on our way to deep West Texas for the first time, on a road trip that will culminate in Big Bend on New Year's Eve. We've been planning this trip for a while now, and because of that we've tended to stick close to home for the last few Texas Tra ... More >>

Spirit of Season Moves East Texas Robber

​Ah Christmas, the time of year when even bank robbers find themselves in the spirit of giving... According to the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel, 21-year-old Bryon Jacovin Garrett strode into the Wal-Mart branch of the Commercial Bank of Texas on Tuesday morning and handed the teller a note dema ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: Talking Christmas Music With Aaron Neville

​Even for a stone-cold atheist (which Rocks Off is not), listening to Aaron Neville sing "O Holy Night" has to be one of the true pleasures of the Western world. The best-known voice of New Orleans' No. 1 soul-funk family dynasty thanks to songs like "Tell It Like It Is" and Linda Ronstadt duet "D ... More >>

Stimulus Money: How To Stop Homelessness In Houston Before It Happens

​When Lorenzo Timmons was hurt and out of work last summer, and finally ran out of money to pay the rent, he had little choice but the unthinkable: to gather his wife, daughter and whatever he could carry and move his family into a homeless shelter. The Houston Press reported in a cover story ... More >>

Get It Straight, New York Times: Is Washington Avenue "Seedy" Or "Stylish"?

​The arts folks at The New York Times, a paper published north of here, have jumped on the story of the alleged Salvador Dali paintings being sold at a Salvation Army store here.They write: HOUSTON -- In a scene that would most likely appeal to the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí, several works ... More >>

Eyeballin': The Black Crowes' Warpaint Live

To celebrate the release of 2008's Warpaint, the Black Crowes played the entire record straight through for a special series of shows. Already released as a 2-CD set, this DVD of one performance shows why the Crowes are such an effective live unit. Two things immediately jump out. Singer Chris Robin ... More >>

Support Your Local Drag Queen, Houston

Photo courtesy Anita BumpHouston may not be getting the Super Bowl again for a while, but we've got a shot at the next best thing: home of America's Next Drag Queen Superstar.Self-titled Bayou City Bitch Anita Bump, who performs weekly at the totally-not-gay-bar Rich's, has tossed her boa into the r ... More >>

Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped into Homelessness and Poverty by the Crashing Economy

An already strained system struggles to accommodate a new breed of homeless.

Hurricane Ike's Wake

Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath

Thrift Store Cowboy: Garth Brooks, Sonic Youth and Yaz

Location: Salvation Army, 3620 Broadway, Pearland Thrift stores are a museum of random genius. Where else can one find a faded D.A.R.E. t-shirt and a pair of soiled leather pants? Each trip is a chance for magic. Rocks Off spent some time at the Salvation Army out in the badlands of Pearland last ... More >>

An Hour in Sunny 99.1's Holiday Hell

Band Aid: Do they know it's Christmastime at all? Most people I know hate Sunny 99.1, but not me. And I should really hate it. Any radio station supported by the American Dental Association has to suck. But every time I listen to it, I either hear something so corny and half-baked that I can't tur ... More >>

Humane Society Helps Galveston Animals After Hurricane Ike

Fred Claus

Vince Vaughn tries to attract a different set of underage babies with Fred Claus

River People

Folks around Lake Livingston are what they are

Grease and Guys and Dolls

The company nails it -- again --with two new productions

Another Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Strange Trip

Heavy rock pioneers Blue Cheer offer the cure for the summertime blues

The Aeroplane Flies High

The devout cult of Neutral Milk Hotel should perhaps prepare for a second coming

Can't Stop Giving

They're breaking in to donate to storm victims

The Gourds, with the Sidehill Gougers

Thursday, August 4, at Heritage Place Amphitheatre, 500 Collins Street in Conroe, 936-525-4782. Free.

Best Vintage Clothing

Increased Clout

Interest in the fight game grows in the Bayou City

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Laff Riot

Watch out -- it's Wacky Time at Houston's only daily

Letters, Week of November 8

Down on the Matt, High-Water Woes, Reaching the Pentacle

The Not-So-Great Outdoors

Inman exhibit explores the darker side of Mother Nature

The Caged Birds Sing

Twins rage against the bars that have imprisoned them in Silver's satirical Captivity

Best Thrift Store

Salvation Army

Notes on Cool

Elusive and ineffable, style itself cannot be sold, except perhaps at Buffalo Exchange

Last Call

Downtown loses a legendary bartender - and friend

News of the Weird

Great moments courtesy of Ted Poe

We're Not the Worst!

The Hogg Sisters

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Entry Level Movie

In a cineplex world ruled by mega-corporations, how much damage can one man do?

The Bender Difference

A former corporate downsizer takes a hard-nosed approach to helping the homeless

Letters