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Houston's 10 best Tex-Mex restaurants.

Houston Native Wine Celeb Ray Isle Returns Home, Finds Food Scene "Deeply Local While Still Cosmopolitan"

My 80-year old mother may not know his name but she knows his face. "You mean that handsome young man who talks about wine on the Today show with Kathie Lee [Gifford] and Hoda [Kotb]?" she asks when I mention that I'm having lunch in Houston with Food & Wine executive wine editor Ray Isle. But hey ... More >>

The Ten Weirdest Members of Congress

Texas claims three of the top spots.

Zombies and Fiscal Cliffs

The 10 most overhyped stories of 2012.

Superstorms, Mayans, Zombies and BDSM: The 10 Most Over-Hyped Stories of 2012

Journalists are really fond of writing about stories that went underreported every year. Too often, however, they forget to remind us all that those critical stories that went without needed coverage did so because stories with little merit wound up filling the airwaves and pages of newspapers. Unf ... More >>

Clueless In Seattle: Twitter, Sportsbooks, And Obese Detroit Lions Fans Go Insane After Monday Night Football (w/ VIDEO)

The NFL's replacement referees have made plenty of egregious errors during the first three weeks of the regular season. They nearly handed the Seahawks a win in Week One by giving them an extra time out in their game with Arizona. They extended last Monday's game between the Broncos and the Falcons ... More >>

Bachman & Turner Keep Their Business Open On New DVD

Bachman & Turner: Live at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC $14.98 90 mins. Eagle Rock While some politicians have faced a musician's wrath for using unauthorized music in their campaign events, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner were more than happy to perform their enduring tune "Takin' Care of Business" at ... More >>

ESPNU To Launch New Talk Show, So Let's Zapruder Some 1993 Sportsnight Footage From ESPN2

Every now and then, because it's the "worldwide leader in sports" and can get away with random programming heat checks whenever it wants, ESPN will try and force-feed the viewing public some ill-fated attempt to blend sports and pop culture. Examples include: - Who's Now?, an ongoing feature a fe ... More >>

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 >>

@TheEnd

After tweeting about the alleged sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father — and an investigation that came up empty — Ashley Billasano killed herself.

Wine Time: Houston Native Wine Celeb Ray Isle Talks Texas Wine

"I grew up in West University, and later in the Braeswood/Meyerland area," said Food & Wine executive wine editor Ray Isle when he and I chatted over email yesterday. "I left Houston after college -- I went to Rice, which is also where my dad taught -- and moved to Austin to be in a crappy band." I ... More >>

Whipping Judge William Adams: Daughter & Wife Go on Today Show

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyThe daughter who was whipped by Aransas County judge William Adams and caused an internet sensation by posting the video to YouTube took to the Today show to tell her story. Her mother, now, Adams's ex-wife -- who also whipped ... More >>

Eight Businesses We Expect Will Be Getting Custom Texas License Plates Soon

​We recently wrote about a new crop of Texas license plates with a variety of themes, most of them sports related. One of the designs, however, was for the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain that isn't even based in the Lone Star State. We certainly understand the passion of a sports fan, but ... More >>

Billy Joel Safe At Home In Final Play At Shea

​Billy Joel Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert Sony Legacy, $13.98 While not a Queens-bred boy, what better choice for a musical performer to close out Shea before its demolition than Billy Joel? Filmed over two nights in July 2008, this 2-CD/1-DVD package offers a great overview of Joel's car ... More >>

Murray's Cheese and Kroger: How's That For a Cheese Pairing?

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​The famous Murray's Cheese Shop didn't start out as the epicenter of the cheese universe. Its roots were much more humble than that: a sort of general store founded in 1940 by Murray Greenberg to sell butter and eggs to area residents in Greenwich Village. It trade ... More >>

Rick Perry Vs. Jon Stewart On A Daily Show Deathcage Match

Stweart, Perry: Adios, mofo​In the wake of his big victory, Governor Rick Perry immediately focused like a laser beam on the state's massive budget gap. Or maybe he went on a book tour.In a series of interviews in which the cloying coyness about 2012 will be palpable, Perry is headed to the East C ... More >>

Over the Line

As Mexican drug cartels increasingly recruit American teens as runners, a Sugar Land teen goes across the border and ends up dead.

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Apatow

Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle: Get Him to the Greek.

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

For Flu Season: The Top 5 Comfort Foods and Drinks

It's official: flu season is here and it's hit with a vengeance. Television news reports deliver frightening messages from the Director of Health and Human Services while we're forced to watch Matt Lauer get a flu shot on the Today Show, and our moms keep calling us to remind us to get plenty of res ... More >>

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

Touring with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Get on the bus, it's a family affair.

Donor Babies Search for Their Anonymous Fathers

All grown up, some children of sperm donors are trying to break through the secrecy that keeps them from knowing their family history

Memo to Chuck Todd: Mommy Like

Five Spot: New Kids Are Back, Bitches

I Am Going to Buy New Kids on the Block Tickets

You Look Like a Freak When You Play With Your Wii

Rachel Loy

concert preview

The Choking Game

Levi Draher came back from the dead. Other players were not so lucky.

Not Like Monk

Chris Botti on selling -- and not selling -- jazz

He Walks Among Us

K.T. Tunstall

Saturday, September 16, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

Care and Feeding

Whole Foods wants lobsters to live large before dying

Hello, Darkness

Author Lisa Fittipaldi shares her blind devotion to painting in a new book

Thinking Inside the Box

A visual and musical collaboration offers a cool, dark refuge in tiny spaces

Breaking In to the Movies

This sneak preview by a UT film student stole more than the show at Sony Studios

Best Lemons to Lemonade

Jus' Stuff

Heir Time

Debra Duncan pays her dues, hits her cues and hopes to be the next Oprah

Imminent Domain

While a doddering Dome watches, wranglers and the ultrarich welcome a sports palace

News Hostage

Dear Railcar Killer...

Letters

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Street Smarts

Nicolas Kanellos uses his radical training to get books to the people

Love Bane of Cobain

Kurt and Courtney overcomes serious flaws for an intriguing, offbeat documentary

Perfect Pitch

John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot