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Mr. Record Man: Willie Nelson

In the Houston of 1959 and 1960, Willie Nelson was just another unknown musician. But not for long.

Five Ways How Not To Cover The Tiresome Westboro Church As It Protests Outside The West Blast Services

The Westboro Baptist Church, that nutty band of protestors that has been besmirching the fine name of Westboro for decades now, is coming to Waco to protest outside the memorial service for victims of the West blast. Why? That's one question you need never ask about the activities of Westboro and i ... More >>

This Week In Food Blogs: 20 Things Everyone Thinks About Houston (But Won't Say)

From the Gutt: Riffing on last week's post from First We Feast which listed 20 things "everyone thinks about the food world (but nobody will say)" is local blogger Tom Gutting, who normally writes about wine but has now made me wish he'd write about other food-related topics with much more regularit ... More >>

Houston's 10 Best Bathrooms to Bang In

"It's a list of bathrooms to fuck in, not Homer's Odyssey. Don't go over-thinking it." My girlfriend hurled this sage wisdom at me earlier this week as I planned my trek to nearly two dozen bars I visited to compile this list. If nothing else, I am sure the Greek poet would respect my legwork. Th ... More >>

Texas Crimes of the Year, 2012

As it turns out, Texans indulged in all seven of the deadly sins.

Where to Eat on Christmas Day

Your stress-free dining guide to the holidays.

10 Dishes We're Excited About on Houston Restaurants' New Fall Menus

Roost Bistro is one of the restaurants with an exciting fall menu. Fall means looking forward to more than just oyster season, chili cook-offs and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. It means that plenty of our favorite restaurants (and, yes, bars too) across the city are issuing new seasonal menus ... More >>

"Laredo Is Safe": Six Tourism Billboards That Suck Just as Bad

It seems that violence from drug cartels on the other side of the border has caused a real image problem for the formerly booming tourist industry in Laredo. So now the city is fighting back with its "Laredo Is Safe" campaign, which includes 17 billboards placed around the state. We respect and und ... More >>

Billy Joe Shaver

Saturday: 93Q's "A Day In the Country" at The Woodlands

93Q's "A Day In the Country" Featuring Dierks Bentley, Chris Cagle, Jana Kramer, Wade Bowen, Ronnie Dunn, Thomas Rhett, Dustin Lynch and Lost Trailers Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Saturday, June 16, 2012 For the most part, 93Q's "A Day In the Country" was one Texas-sized pleasant surprise Saturd ... More >>

Josh Samples of BRC Was Once in a David Byrne Movie and Keeps It "Clasual"

This week, I paid a visit to the Big Red Cock on Shepherd. It was happy hour, snacks were half off and they were knocking $2 off all drafts so a little happy hour-ing somehow morphed into a sort of dinner / me completely stuffing myself. I "tried" the charred brisket chile con queso, the mini beer ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Sports Stadiums, In Honor Of ASU's "Tampon With Wings"

This week, Arizona State University unveiled artist renderings of an overhauled Sun Devil Stadium. The project, which will eliminate some 16,000 seats and install a canopy-type roof at the circa 1958 venue, was spearheaded by new ASU athletic director Steve Patterson. (If you remember, Patterson was ... More >>

Paula Powell: Complains of Sexual Harassment; Ordered to Write Essay on Improving Her Attitude, She Says

Paula Powell says she was working in the corporate offices of Waco's Assisted Living Centers for a little more than three years before she began being sexually harassed by a supervisor. She complained to the company about the behavior, she says in a lawsuit, and the company took action: She was ord ... More >>

All Retro Everything: This Week In Houston Rap Videos

Ah, rappers and music videos. Some are vehicles for self-promotion, others are tools used to promote a message, a gaggle of asses or some good ol' wholesome debauchery. In the case of the Houston rap class, music videos are always eye opening glimpses into the future, either telling what a talent co ... More >>

Clifton Grasham-Reeves and Kaci Pomerenke: A Tale of Two Texas Sex Cases

Is the Texas justice system simply a crapshoot? Is there still an enormous double standard when it comes to sex crimes? Or has Jerry Sandusky cast a huge shadow over future sentences for all those convicted of sex crimes against children? A while back we introduced you to the tale of Clifton Grash ... More >>

Mosquitoes: A Tiny, Highly Annoying Musical History

​The Texans are in first place (for now), the Texas Rangers may become the Lone Star State's first-ever World Series champions tomorrow (ouch), and early voting for the November 8 mayoral/City Council election started Monday. The Houston Press Music Awards showcase is less than three weeks awa ... More >>

Ted Nugent

The 5 Best Dessert Menus

Photo by Gary R. WiseTres leches done the right way at Samba Grille.​Toward the end of Lent, one faithful observer emailed me with a plaintive request: I am a native Houston who has been displaced to Texas A&M in College Station (read: total dearth of anything approaching the kind of food I'v ... More >>

Today Is Baylor Day In Houston. Act Accordingly

Baylor Day comes with certain rules​Things you probably didn't know: Today is Baylor Day in Houston -- with a fancy proclamation and everything. It all has to do with the Texas Bowl, in which Baylor is making its return to post-season football after a long absence. (If you're aware of how dif ... More >>

Bush's Chicken in Georgetown

Tam Vo​As a Baylor Bear, I always do two things when visiting Waco: eat at Bush's Chicken and then regret eating so much at Bush's Chicken. It seems most colleges or universities have their own local food joint that started out by surviving on the continual stream of students spending Mommy an ... More >>

Rand Paul's Aqua Buddha: Another Baylor Mystery

Aqua Buddah, God -- it's all good​Rand Paul, son of our own Ron Paul and -- hard as it may be to believe -- a serious contender to become the U.S. Senator from Kentucky -- (well, maybe the "Kentucky" part is not that hard to believe) is in the news today because of a brief item from GQ.It addresse ... More >>

Soyrizo: Even Better Than The Real Thing?

Vegan migas con chorizo​The reason I first started eating Soyrizo had nothing to do with health concerns or the welfare of the animals that were going into the tasty Mexican sausage with the trademark bright-orange grease. No, it was a much more selfish reason than that. I was living in a sma ... More >>

A Cooler Coke: Leninade

​Each Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks, we'll be taking a look at alternatives to cokes for the sticky Houston summer that lies ahead Yes, that's right. Leninade. According to the bottle, it's "a taste worth standing in line for." And that's not the only pun the kids at Real Soda h ... More >>

Discount iFest Tickets Through KPFT; GaGa On Sale Next Friday; Husk Blows Away; Free Ani D Tickets & Poster Show

Courtesy of iFest.org​The 40th anniversary of iFest is coming up next weekend, and this year music from the Caribbean will be spotlighted, with headliner and President of Funkadelia George Clinton (right; no relation to that other President). KPFT is also turning 40 this year, and for a limited ti ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 m ... More >>

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 let ... More >>

Roy Hargrove Quintet

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 F ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition

Houston Sports, Hurricane Ike Update

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

Bootlegging Dr Pepper

The demand for sugar-sweetened Dublin Dr Pepper has never been higher — just ask the bootleggers

Music Deaths

The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

$13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

$13 at Edwards Marq*e on the Katy Freeway

Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up

Letters

Computer Error

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

Protesting Peace

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

Nappy Roots

Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)

Billy Joe's Blues

Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses

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.

International Film Festival 2000

Film Reviews

Rotation

Mash and Trash

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Troubleshooter for the Millennium

Suddenly, as the year 2000 approaches, Phillip Arnold's study of first-century apocalyptic Christians is more than a scholarly pursuit

It's Joe B.'s World

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