Subject: Waco

• Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up

  June 1, 2007

• Sweat Science

  June 18, 2007

• $13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

  August 14, 2007

• Great Q at Hearne's Gas N Chew

  April 26, 2007

• $13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

  August 14, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Dr. Pepper, Axl Rose and Chinese Democracy

  March 27, 2008

• The "Boom Goes The Dynamite" Guy Gets A Job In Texas

  August 21, 2008

• If His Name Was Chet Smith, He'd Be a VP Candidate Now

  August 25, 2008

• Houston Sports, Hurricane Ike Update

  September 11, 2008

• College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition

  October 3, 2008

• Death Row Show

  The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

  July 13, 2000

• Baylor Says That's Not A Noose, That's A Swing

  The president of Baylor University has sent out an e-mail to students and staff explaining that a rope, found hanging from a tree on Election Day, was not a noose. President David Garland said students had come forward to explain the rope was merely the remnants of a swing that they had tried to build. Because those nutty, sedate Baylor kids are still into such 1950s things as rope swings and malt shops (and lynchings?), we guess. Garland further explained that an investigation into whethe

  November 14, 2008

• Five Worst Hangovers In The Movies

  The holidays are upon us, and whether you're dealing with 8-hour layovers at O'Hare or sleeping on your aunt's rollout bed with the bar that lays right across your sacroiliac joint or "entertaining" your brother and his brood of monstrous offspring, chances are you're going to drink. A lot. To help get you through those inevitable mornings after, here are some of our favorite memorable movie hangovers.5. Bad Santa (2003) This unquiet interlude pretty well sums up all of Billy Bob Thornton's rec

  December 26, 2008

• The Sound and the Fury

  July 27, 1995

• Troubleshooter for the Millennium

  July 18, 1996

• The Roosevelt Special at the Original in Fort Worth

  Commenting on the Palmetto Inn's Number #10 Dinner, a plate of cheese enchiladas with chili and queso Jim Sherman wrote: "Needs a sunnyside-up fried egg on top!" That reminded me of another famous Tex-Mex dish--the "Roosevelt Special" at the Original Mexican Eats Café on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth. That plate combines a fried-to-order chalupa shell topped with beans and cheese, a crispy beef taco, and a cheese enchilada in chili con carne topped with two sunnyside-up fried eggs. The

  February 4, 2009

• Honky-Tonk History

  September 4, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• Mash and Trash

  April 9, 1998

• Hometown Without Pity

  July 9, 1998

• In the Line of Fire

  November 12, 1998

• Octopus Cocktail at Connie's Seafood Market

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Submerged pieces of octopus peer out from the glass at Connie'sAdmit it.  It's just fun to say: octopus cocktail.  You want to say it five times fast.  Go on.  Try.  When you're done, head over to Connie's Seafood Market on Airline for the best octopus cocktail in town. I was first turned on to the delicious and underrated octopus in Waco, Texas of all places.  No, seriously.  There was a restaurant called El Siete Mare

  March 6, 2009

• Letters

  November 26, 1998

• Best Swells of Houstonian Pride

  September 21, 2000

• Roy Hargrove Quintet

  March 19, 2009

• Rotation

  March 11, 1999

• Nappy Roots

  Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)

  May 16, 2002

• Bootlegging Dr Pepper

  June 5, 2008

• Music Deaths

  The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

  December 27, 2007

• Down-Home Delights

  Ten of the best from Nashville and elsewhere

  December 8, 2005

• The Brutal Truth

  Author Patricia Bernstein recalls a grisly, hate-fueled murder in The First Waco Horror

  February 17, 2005

• Love It, Fear It

  A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

  January 27, 2005

• Letters

  December 9, 2004

• Bye-Bye Bongs?

  Tubing without beer bongs? Why?

  April 22, 2004

• Computer Error

  When it comes to local facts, don't rely on Allmusic.com

  November 27, 2003

• Protesting Peace

  Plus: Been There, Din That; No Smut Glut; Cursory Check

  February 13, 2003

• Child Support

  The same extreme measures that saved Sidney Miller at birth also severely disabled her 11 years ago. Texas courts are still trying to determine who should pay for it -- and could set a legal precedent in the process.

  May 2, 2002

• Racket

  In his first 24 years of life, Brad Turcotte has already become a music-business veteran

  September 6, 2001

• Billy Joe's Blues

  Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses

  July 26, 2001

• International Film Festival 2000

  Film Reviews

  April 6, 2000

• Learning Curves

  Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a hard lesson -- one the state should have known fouryears and $77 million ago

  July 22, 1999

• It's Joe B.'s World

  In the Kingdom of Bob, lawyer Joe B. Allen is the prime minister of vested interests

  February 2, 1995

• Swine Flu Can't Beat (A Carefully Wrapped) God

  The Compak CompaniesWith what is surely the Black Plague of the 21st Century bearing down on all our souls, the last place anyone wants to worry about swine flu is church. So some institutions, like the Austin Diocese, are suspending or altering communion.The story in the Waco Tribune includes a letter issued by the Austin Diocese's Office of the Bishop, stating  "Please do not offer the Blood of Christ at Eucharist until more is known about the virus." Sam Hodges at the Dallas Morning News

  April 30, 2009

• 22nd Annual Houston Art Car Parade and Weekend

  May 7, 2009

• Midtown's, er, Houston's Favorite Shots

  Photo by bichromephotoThe last time I can recall doing a shot, I was in college at a townie bar called Tom Cat's. The shots were being passed around in test tubes - a very novel idea to a 20-year-old who'd never consumed alcohol outside of Waco, Texas. I slugged back two Buttery Nipples - a shot made with butterscotch schnapps and Bailey's Irish cream, which is the shot equivalent of listening to Britney Spears - and promptly got kicked out of Tom Cat's because the bartender realized I was und

  May 29, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Dr Pepper Museum

  Photo by Jeff BalkeWaco isn't the first place that comes to mind when people think "road trip." Instead, visions of an ultraconservative town that was once the site of an epic, fiery battle between a cult and the United States government spring to mind. Fortunately for Waco, the town actually has much more to offer than the distant memories of a standoff gone bad and a now-vacant field. Photo by Groovehouse The entrance to the museum is around the side...One of the things on t

  June 22, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Whataburger stickers, coming soon to a hipster near you.Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, the only place in town still selling Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies out of the back of our station wagon. Speaking of suspicious meat, this week started off with a rather angry rebuking of inner-skirt and low-quality outer-skirt steak. Please write your congressperson. After that, Sarah Rufka took in a late-night meal at Max's Wine Dive that seemed to consist entirely of bread and cheese (in other

  June 26, 2009

• God Enters The Journalism Business

  ​The Waco Tribune Herald is now operating under new ownership, having been sold by the Cox newspaper chain to the Clifton Robinson family.The first edition under the Robinsons came out yesterday, and there was at least one noticeable change: The front page now includes the slogan "In God We Trust."In terms of stirring journalistic calls-to-arms, it's not quite up there with "All the News That's Fit to Print," but it's certainly very Waco-riffic."It's time for a change, and hopefully our values

  August 3, 2009

• My Widdle Dog Wote Himself An Op-Ed Cowwum!!

  We took note this summer when the Waco Tribune was sold to someone with no journalistic experience, whose first move was to add "In God We Trust" to the front page.​Now Clifton Robinson is taking Central Texas journalism to a whole other level. His publisher's column was written this week by his dog. We guess we should say "allegedly," but the thing is so wretched that we're not entirely convinced it indeed was written by "Annie Poo Robinson," as the byline says.In their initial announcement o

  October 8, 2009

• Opinions "Mixed" On Obama's Fort Hood Visit, Waco Paper Says, Demonstrating An Odd Use Of "Mixed"

  ​The once-respected Waco Tribune Herald was purchased this summer by a very conservative family whose first move was to put "In God We Trust" on the front page of each edition.Since then the paper has become very right-wing (even for Waco!!) on its editorial pages. We don't read it enough to know if that's seeped over to the news side, but we did read it today online."Opinions in Fort Hood, Killeen mixed on today's Obama visit," read the headline on a story about the presidential visit for the

  November 10, 2009