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November 17, 2011
Southwest Freeway Should Be Entirely Aggravating This Weekend
It won't look like this -- because there's no trees.The Southwest Freeway near Kirby can often be a mess, but that condition will be all but guaranteed this weekend. Major repairs are scheduled, resulting in multiple closures. Let's let TxDOT give you the ugly details: Starting Friday, Nove ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Comment of the Day: Deer Hunting Blues
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Bill Moyers at Progressive Forum: An East Texas Sage's Optimism Twists In Today's Ill Winds
Courtesy Progressive ForumBill Moyers: Having a hard time seeing the star-spangled glass as half-full.Bill Moyers believes that the sun-baked scattered bones of Wall Street's carcass are being picked clean by "animal spirits" -- namely, hyenas, and that these scavengers believe that they are ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
12 Odd, Racy Thanksgiving Pin-Ups Of Scantily Clad Women (Semi-NSFW)
Sexy turkey timeIs Thanksgiving the un-sexiest holiday ever? Maybe. Unless the possibility of drunken sex with your tipsy divorced aunt or uncle trips your trigger, of course. But America -- back when it really was America -- was not going to be dictated to by prudes trying to keep the hawtn ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Fast Times: Pinewood Café at Hermann Park
Photo by Christina UticoneWhen I grabbed a book and headed out to Hermann Park last week, I had no intention of eating, much less of writing a Fast Times review of the new Pinewood Café. My favorite reading spot is near the paddleboat rental, which is right next door to the café and its lov ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Turkeys Of The Year: The Invasion Begins
They've been trying their best for the past 12 months, and now it's time to reveal which Houstonians and Texans have earned the coveted honor of being named a Houston Press Turkey of the Year. In some ways, dynasties continued their reign in this, the ninth year of competition; in other case ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
8th Annual Houston Championship Chili Cookoff
They've been trying their best for the past 12 months, and now it's time to reveal which Houstonians and Texans have earned the coveted honor of being named a Houston Press Turkey of the Year. In some ways, dynasties continued their reign in this, the ninth year of competition; in other case ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Chiles and Chili: The Most Obvious Episode of Top Chef: Texas Yet
Above is is how I imagine the initial planning meetings for Top Chef: Texas went. I'm also imagining future episodes where the contestants will be forced to shoot their own horses and grill them over a fire of cactus paddles. Let's go, Top Chef: Texas! DO THIS SHIT RIGHT. Until then, we'll h ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Comment of the Day: Sex-Offender Sentences
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Fast Times: Texas Smashburger
Photos by Christina UticoneWhen I stopped into Smashburger on Buffalo Speedway I was only looking for a little snack -- some fried pickles, or some veggie frites to tide me over until dinner. Unfortunately, the line was quite long, giving me ample time to peruse the short-but-tempting menu, a ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Ingredient of the Week: Leftover Turkey
Photo by John Suh"Gobble, gobble."The week after Thanksgiving is often riddled with cooks across America scratching their heads at what to do with all the leftover turkey. Not to worry. Here at Eating Our Words, we offer not one, not two, but three things to do with that leftover turkey, no ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Why Texas Should Reopen Its Horse Slaughterhouses
We hear horse definitely doesn't taste like chicken.It's been five years since the nation's last horse slaughterhouse was shut down. The Cavel horse slaughterhouse in DeKalb, Illinois, closed after Congress banned USDA inspections of horse meat -- effectively ceasing operations at the few aba ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Messina Hof Has the Best Wine in Texas, According to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Photo by Mai PhamThis year, more than 2,500 wines were entered into the annual Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo's International Wine Competition. Of those entries, 736 were from Texas wineries. And of those Texas wineries, Messina Hof swept up 20 medals and the coveted title of Top Texas Wine f ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Winter Might Not Be as Dry and Warm as Previously Thought
Courtesy of Accuweather.comThe folks at AccuWeather have done some additional forecasting and, as it turns out, we might not have quite the dry and/or mild conditions this winter that were previously forecast. Looking at the map at the top of this post, you can see we are still in the "mild ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Absurdity of Texas Wine Shipping Law Reaches New Heights
Photo by Jeremy Parzen.Castell'in Villa Chianti Classico is one of the greatest values in Italian wine today, but out-of-state retailers can't ship it to me in Texas... at least not legally.On Friday, one of the most bizarre press releases I've ever read found its way to my inbox. "The Texas ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Taking Apart Yesterday's Facebook Music Screed
Yesterday, about a half-dozen of my Facebook friends forwarded a gloom-and-doom listicle from a site called Buzzfeed entitled "12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music." Now up to over one million hits, the doom-and-gloom piece is subtitled "This is the saddest thing you'll read a ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Sterling High: We're Sorry We Tipped Off Our Players to the Upcoming Steroids Test
Taking the "surprise" out of "surprise tests."Texas's efforts to test high school athletes for steroids have been pretty ineffective in finding high school athletes taking steroids, but maybe that's because Texas kids would never, ever do something like that. Whether that's true or not, one ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2011
Lyle Lovett
Taking the "surprise" out of "surprise tests."Texas's efforts to test high school athletes for steroids have been pretty ineffective in finding high school athletes taking steroids, but maybe that's because Texas kids would never, ever do something like that. Whether that's true or not, one ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
11 Odd & Occasionally Ugly Snow Globes Of Texas
A snow globe that makes senseWhen you think "Texas," you don't necessarily think "snow," unless your mind is drawn to fatal and tragic accidents during Super Bowls in cities that should never have them. But snow globes are an important aspect of the souvenir trade, so whether the places in q ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
The Film Issue: 10+
A snow globe that makes senseWhen you think "Texas," you don't necessarily think "snow," unless your mind is drawn to fatal and tragic accidents during Super Bowls in cities that should never have them. But snow globes are an important aspect of the souvenir trade, so whether the places in q ... More >>
Culture
December 22, 2011
The Film Issue
Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.
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December 22, 2011
Twitter and Tales from Everyone's Childhood on Top Chef: Texas
HERE'S PATTI LABELLE BECAUSE WHY NOT THAT'S WHY.I left a dinner tonight at Roost earlier than I would have liked -- I really need to stop making dinner plans on Wednesday night, but my job more or less necessitates that I eat out every night -- and will circle back around to this fact shortly. Ne ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Arcade Fire, Civil Wars, Taylor Swift to Pen Hunger Games Songs
You may or may not remember a week ago when we told you about how the head of the largest musicians' union in North America ripped into Lionsgate for farming out the score for the upcoming film Hunger Games to Europe despite the film's Appalachian setting and decidedly American style of music ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Tasting Notes: Holiday Wine Blog Round Up
Image via Vintage Texas.Vintage Texas: Top Texas wine writer and Houstonian Russ Kane weighs in this week with his Top Texas Wines of 2011. In the first installment, he reveals five of the ten, including a few from wineries we don't always see in year-end lists of favorite labels from Texas ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Comment of the Day: Enjoy These Texans, Dammit
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Playoff Fallout: Houston Boat Show Closed Saturday
See ya on Sunday.It hasn't happened in 56 years, but the Houston Boat Show will be closing one day during its run this year, in order not to create a traffic nightmare at Reliant Park Saturday. As you may have heard, the Texans now have an NFL playoff game scheduled for that afternoon. You c ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
5 Replacements for The Jim Rome Show
Jim Rome = Not Burning in Houston.Jim Rome is done in the Houston sports-talk radio market after KILT-AM 610 dropped the popular The Jim Rome Show last week. Rome's show had become more than a little tedious in recent years, so replacing it should be easy; here are five replacements that wo ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Texans: Reliant Stadium Is (Almost) Ready for Its Playoff Close-Up
Photos by Francisco MontesPlayoff football, after all these years.Texans officials gave a tour to show their preparations for tomorrow's big playoff game. Things are going relatively smoothly, including a new field, but there have been some snags. It looks like things will be camera-ready c ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Texans Getting Dumber: More Are Playing the Lottery
Step right up.In these tough economic times, there's no greater financial plan than putting your money into a game where the odds of winning are relatively microscopic. Right? Apparently that's what a lot of Texans think: This year, for the first time in ten years, there has been an increas ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Our Rockets Season Preview: Ready For Some More Mediocrity?
It hasn't been making a lot of waves here, given the excitement over the Texans' playoff games, but the NBA season has begun. Of course, if you're a Rocket fan, you know what that means: A team not good enough for the playoffs but not bad enough to get a franchise pick in the draft. Our Sea ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
A Drunken Wade Boggs Channels Garth Brooks (w/ VIDEO)
Garth BoggsWe interrupt your Texans-versus-Ravens coverage for some drunken quasi-karaoke video! Let's face it, there's only so many different angles you can take with analysis of a football game over the course of seven days. I'm a little Texan-ed out at this point, and besides, I won't hav ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Houston Texans Grieving Process 1.0: At Least We're Not in Louisiana!
Ha-ha!Forty-eight hours have come and gone since Sunday, and the Texans' loss to the Baltimore Ravens is still maddening and painful. How does one process the anguish coming out of a sporting event in which your team had every chance to win the game and put themselves one step away from th ... More >>
Dining
January 19, 2012
Meat Market
You'll probably be paying more for your rib eyes and Whoppers thanks to the great Texas drought of 2011.
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January 18, 2012
More Expensive Meat in 2012: The Rising Cost of Beef
A rancher on the verge of bankruptcy. A state on the verge of another devastating drought. A nation on the verge of a depleted beef supply. These are the stories told in this week's cover feature, Meat Market, which examines the many reasons -- from the hoof up -- that you'll be paying more f ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
The Price of Beef Is On the Rise for 2012
Ronnie Bartley is a rancher on the verge of bankruptcy after 16 years in the business. Texas is on the verge of another devastating drought this summer. And our nation is on the verge of a severely depleted beef supply. These are the stories told in this week's cover feature, Meat Market, wh ... More >>
Dining
January 19, 2012
Meat Market: Sorry State
Slim pickings at an East Texas cattle auction point to a grim future for the industry.
Blogs
January 20, 2012
Upcoming Events: Beer Fundraisers, Wine Dinners and Resolutions
Beer lovers, pay attention: February is your month! Up first is the next Open The Taps fundraiser, held on Sunday, February 12, at the Southern Star Brewery in Conroe from 2 to 5 p.m. (Trust us, February is one of the best months for hanging out in the charmingly un-air-conditioned, corrugat ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Must Like Texas Wine: The Wine Slinger Chronicles, a New Guide to Texas Wines
Photo by Jeremy ParzenLeading Texas wine authority Russ Kane (left) and his wife Delia love meatballs. That's Russ with Coppa executive chef Brandi Key. Russ has called Brandi's meatballs "the best in town."It seems inevitable that the authors of the two guides to the wines of Texas have name ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Best Thing I Ever Ate: Dips
Photo by Beaver'sIt sounds so wrong but it feels so right.I've been exploring The Best Things I Ever Ate around town. This time, I was on the hunt for Houston's best dips: creamy avocado ranch, Buffalo chicken, spinach and artichoke - you name it, I've tried it. All while looking for the city ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs
Image via Vine Sleuth Uncorked.Things get steamy over at Vine Sleuth Uncorked with a "Date Night" wine pairing recommendation.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 d ... More >>
Culture
January 26, 2012
Groveling and the Gentry
Image via Vine Sleuth Uncorked.Things get steamy over at Vine Sleuth Uncorked with a "Date Night" wine pairing recommendation.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 d ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Texas vs Florida
Image via Vine Sleuth Uncorked.Things get steamy over at Vine Sleuth Uncorked with a "Date Night" wine pairing recommendation.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 d ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
The Rise of Single-Dish Restaurants in America
Photo by Troy FieldsJus' Mac does mostly mac, and mostly does it well.Like it or leave it, restaurants specializing in macaroni and cheese -- that ultimate "white people comfort food," as my baffled brown friends call it -- are becoming increasingly popular across the United States. From Conn ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Georgia's Market Opens Downtown Tomorrow: Get a Sneak Peek Today
Welcome, indeed.Rick and Georgia Bost aren't new to the grocery game. Their flagship store, Georgia's Farm to Market, has been a wild success since taking over the old Sandy's space in West Houston more than two years ago. The Bosts kept much of the Sandy's model in place: organic foods, bul ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Galveston's Red Tide Appears to Have Dissipated, Oysters Recovering
Photo by mintprofusionOysters affected by red tide are toxic to humans.On January 27, two small portions of Texas Gulf waters were conditionally opened to shellfish harvesting after a red tide epidemic forced the indefinite closure of oyster season in October. San Antonio and Espiritu Santo ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Some Questions About the Texas Music Awards 2012 Ballot
Photo by Jim KrafkaLeslie Krafka nominated for her album White Cat SessionsIf you think we were flabbergasted by songwriter Bob Cheevers touting his election as 2011 Songwriter of the Year in the Texas Music Awards sponsored by mytexasmusic.com and "sanctioned" (a hedge word that appears freq ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Tasting Notes: This Week in (Women's) Wine Blogs
Photo by Margaret Shugart, curator of a new blog, The Wine Roads of Texas.The Wine Roads of Texas: "If you've never seen the communities that run across that vast stretch of road," writes Margaret Shugart, author of a new blog called The Wine Roads of Texas, "you are missing one of the most u ... More >>
News
February 2, 2012
The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax
Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.
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February 8, 2012
Brew Blog: Shiner Wild Hare Pale Ale
Photo by Nicholas L. HallFar more subdued than its name would suggest.Shiner Bock used to be one of my go-to beers. This was early in my drinking life, and I think the perceived cachet of a Texas Beer was part of the allure. Though my tastes have changed significantly, largely leaving Shiner ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
"Gulf of America"? Don't Stop There! Five More Equally Sane Name Changes Needed
THANK YOU, Mississippi.A Mississippi lawmaker has completely and utterly disgraced Texas politicians by being the first to introduce legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And not because, as Stephen Colbert once put it when he made the same suggestion, ... More >>
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