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The Blues Broads

Where Are We Eating? Clue: Every Dish Is a Work of Art

Every single dish at this restaurant is an exquisite work of art, including the potatoes and chard sofrito seen below. And eating at this place is akin to making a trip to museum or art gallery -- except that each work of art is meant for you to consume and destroy with rapacious glee. As my dining ... More >>

Kristin Chenoweth

An Ordinary Family

Upcoming Events: Foraging Food and Cooking Game

Next weekend: Prepare for all the chicken soup you can nosh.​Attention, DIY-ers and wild food fans: Two upcoming events are right up your paths. Follow chef Randy Rucker down one path for a Tapas on the Trails evening Saturday, February 11, at the Houston Arboretum. The food-filled evening wi ... More >>

Marcus Manchild Kills It In Philly On Smoker's Club Tour

Houston rapper Marcus Manchild and his label partners at AMG (Authentik Music Group), George, Chad and Nate, are currently traveling the country as part of the Smoker's Club Tour, headlined by Method Man, Curren$y and Big K.R.I.T. The Smoker's Club tour comes to Warehouse Live November 11, and Marcu ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse

German Moreno: Fugitive Child Rapist Found in Costa Rica, Can't Be Arrested

Found but not arrested.​A man who fled Houston after being charged with sexual assault of a minor in 2005 has been found in Costa Rica, according to reporters there. German Moreno was already a fugitive from Costa Rica, where he'd been convicted of sexually assaulting minors, when he was char ... More >>

Going Tubing in New Braunfels This Weekend? Be Prepared to Wait

Fun in the sun?​Earlier this month we listed five places to have water-based fun in Texas during the drought, and the spring-fed Comal River was one of them. We weren't alone in our thinking -- the river has become packed on weekends, to the point where officials say tubers have had trouble e ... More >>

Historic Preservation Protesters Claim "Bait-And-Switch" Tactics Against Mayor Annise Parker

Steve JansenYesterday's scene in front of Houston City Hall.​There are a bunch of folks in Heights South, Woodland Heights and Glenbrook Valley seriously P.O.'d about what they're calling a classic "bait-and-switch" technique pulled by the City of Houston. Today about 50 of them (which dwindl ... More >>

2011 AIA SandCastle Competition

Vans Warped Tour

The Strand Walking Tour

Learn about the larger-than-life past of Galveston Island's historic downtown district

The Five Most Overrated Houston Attractions

Let's be honest, there's one main reason visitors come to Houston -- to visit relatives. Or, if they're from the hinterlands of Texas, to see a major league baseball game (sorry, you'll have to settle for the Astros) or the rodeo.But Houston, like every other city, has to sell itself as a tourist de ... More >>

Jen Lancaster: My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

Actually, the term lowbrow doesn't refer to your eyebrows

Texas Traveler: Artesian Springs

Photos by Brittanie Shey​The first thing you need to know about Artesian Springs Resort is that there is nothing resort-like about it. Nestled way in the middle of bumblefuck Egypt, ten minutes from the closest concrete road, and just a few miles west of the Louisiana border, the privately-own ... More >>

Momma’s Man

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Mindy McCready's Regrets, In Chart Form

Country singer Mindy McCready has confessed to Inside Edition that her years-long adulterous affair with Roger Clemens “is not something I’m proud of.” He treated me like a princess," she said. “We never had a meeting in secret. We went on vacations together. We went to Palm Springs. We ... More >>

Mindy McCready's Regrets, In Chart Form

Country singer Mindy McCready has confessed to Inside Edition that her years-long adulterous affair with Roger Clemens “is not something I’m proud of.” He treated me like a princess," she said. “We never had a meeting in secret. We went on vacations together. We went to Palm Springs. We ... More >>

Date Night: A Valentine's Day Idea That'll Cost You More Than a Hyundai

“Liquid Light” exhibit by Joseph Marioni

Go to the Menil, then Wade Wilson art

Clean Linen

Best Nightlife Idea that Should Come Back

Beauty Bar Houston

Bulldozers at the Gate

Houston fiddles while its architectural and cultural heritage disappears

Island Dreams

Cook Gets Two Beards