Subject: U.S. Coast Guard

• Sole of Houston: Deep Harrisburg: Lomax and Beebe Take on the East Side Again

  February 26, 2008

• Sunny San Leon Picks Up the Pieces After Hurricane Ike

  September 18, 2008

• Some Ike Statistics

  September 23, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Raw Deal

  Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

  December 9, 1999

• Dead Man Walking

  Minus his female soul mate, a young politician loses his spiritual way

  March 23, 2000

• Heroes Hip Hip Hurray: Was Tina Turner Right?

  Heroes Hip Hip Hurray, Heroes Hip Hip Hurray www.heroeshiphiphooray.com In rock and roll, the concept of a "hero" has always been lyrical fodder. John Lennon and David Bowie both voiced our yearnings for fearless ones who fight injustice in the open or just suffered quietly in their own futile way. KISS lamented "A World Without Heroes" on its Music From The Elder concept LP. Jim Morrison once told an interviewer, "A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence

  December 3, 2008

• Searching for Hurricane Ike Victims

  April 2, 2009

• The Battle for Lavaca Bay

  May 19, 1994

• Spy Games

  August 11, 1994

• Coming (Maybe) To Kemah: A Fake Christopher Columbus Ship

  You know what Kemah needs?We mean, beyond extensive repairs in the wake of Hurricane Ike.What Kemah (apparently) needs is a replica of the Nina, one of the three boats Christopher Columbus sailed to make his old-white-man invasion of the bucolic New World.There is a mysterious plan afoot to restore the Nina replica that sits now in Corpus Christi, forlorn and in need of maybe a million dollars' worth of repairs.At least it's in better shape than the Pinta and the Santa Maria, which were rammed b

  January 9, 2009

• America, America

  May 11, 1995

• Press Picks

  April 18, 1996

• Man Overboard

  October 24, 1996

• The Insider

  November 28, 1996

• Press Picks

  June 12, 1997

• Press Picks

  October 16, 1997

• News Hostage

  October 21, 1999

• News of the Weird

  February 17, 2000

• Immigration: Cubans Enter U.S. at Texas-Mexico Border

  January 10, 2008

• Random Checks at the Bolivar Ferry, Up Close Communications, Ted Poe, Gene Green and Mac Haik

  Galveston escapes with a close call

  October 11, 2007

• Beaumont TV Station Warns Of Pirate Attacks: We Investigate!!!

  Back in November, Hair Balls indulged itself in some utterly sub-Swiftian satire on the possibility of Ike-wracked Galveston reconstructing itself as a haven for pirates. We suggested that Galveston apply for a Federal License to Plunder, citing advantages such as ease of access to all the booty the Ship Channel had to offer and the boons to the local economy nouveau riche buccaneers would bring to the town. We also noted that as the one-time home-port of Jean Lafitte, Galveston had historic

  April 17, 2009

• Friends sponsor movie fund-raiser for injured Gulf Coast surfer

  Aliens to the Rescue

  June 28, 2007

• That Sinking Feeling

  Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery clichés

  September 28, 2006

• Dark Water

  A reporter, a photographer and canoeist Tom Helm paddle from the Galleria to Galveston Bay by canoe and kayak, finding beauty, danger and urban debris in equal measure

  July 20, 2006

• All Yours

  Yours, Mine & Ours lowers the bar for miserable remakes

  November 24, 2005

• Owed to Billy Joe

  Today all the best poets are singers. That's why a singer should be Texas's next poet laureate.

  December 30, 2004

• Worker Benefits?

  Houston's NAACP faces a protest of its own when it takes sides in a divorce case

  December 9, 2004

• Golden Boy

  Morgan Faulkner may be the best surfer Texas ever kicked out

  July 8, 2004

• Gay Play

  The nightlife scene is alive and well in the Montrose. Meet some of its stars.

  June 24, 2004

• Welcome to Fire Island

  While communities across the country block LNG terminals, Quintana just shrugs

  May 27, 2004

• Oral Argument

  The duel of the tongue vibrators

  April 8, 2004

• All Aboard

  Since 9/11, tanker sailors are having a tough time making it to dry land in Houston

  March 18, 2004

• Ship Wrecked

  A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.

  February 12, 2004

• Masters and Commanders

  A cruise is a great way to take a break — as long as you're not belowdecks

  December 25, 2003

• Gone But Not Forgotten

  Party legend Mike Nixon is missing, but no one thinks he's dead

  October 16, 2003

• All Duct Up

  From leftist camps and corporate security to semi-panic and port patrols, Houstonians tackle terrorism threats. Sort of.

  March 13, 2003

• Dead Weight

  Kathryn Bigelow gets Water-logged with too many plots

  November 14, 2002

• Storm Warning

  Disaster film sinks under its own melodramatic weight

  June 29, 2000

• The Long Haul

  Immigrant shrimpers survived Vietnam and the wrath of Texas rednecks. Can they do the same with new fishing restrictions?

  June 8, 2000

• The Goode Son

  Houston's First Family of Barbecue has anointed an heir apparent to its expanding empire. And his name is Levi.

  January 6, 2000

• Down the Drain

  Downsizing may not be treating city water workers -- or what we drink-- safely

  August 26, 1999

• Love Thy Neighbor

  Meet Joe and Charlie, happy residents of a master-planned community

  March 25, 1999

• After the Crash

  When victims' rights advocate Pam Lychner and her daughters died on TWA Flight 800, her husband knew what he had to do: Find justice for Pam.

  October 23, 1997

• Pay No Attention To Those Military Jets Screeching Overhead Tomorrow

  ​If you happen to look up the skies tomorrow and see high-powered military jets wildly maneuvering to intercept and possibly shoot down a potential terror threat, don't panic.We're not saying you would panic -- you're probably a level-headed person who would assume it was some type of exercise. Then again, a whole lot of people freaked out when the Coast Guard ran such an exercise on 9/11 this year, or when Air Force One started flying around New York landmarks for a photo op in April.In this

  October 5, 2009

• Stirred and Shaken: Miyako's Lychee-Tini

  Photo by Troy Fields​When I eat expensive sushi, it's usually at family dinners honoring special occasions — my little brother coming down from Austin for Mom's birthday, my little brother getting out of city lockup, my little brother beating that misdemeanor drug charge. (Lesson learned: Don't bring weed through the downtown Greyhound station. If the pipsqueak POS security guard there finds it, he'll call the real police faster than you can say nigirizushi.) Cheaper sushi, on the ot

  November 18, 2009

• MIYAKO'S LYCHEE-TINI

  November 19, 2009