West End

Top 10 Bars, Clubs & Ice Houses In the Galleria Area

As does our sister blog Eating...Our Words, from time to time Rocks Off will be giving your our picks for the top taverns in various Houston-area neighborhoods. Of course, the lines can be porous, but here anything with a TABC license that cannot reasonably be considered either a restaurant, coffeeh ... More >>

In the Home Stretch for Menu of Menus: A Few Tickets Left

With just a few days left before this year's Houston Press Menu of Menus, coming this Tuesday night, fewer than 50 General Admission tickets and fewer than 100 VIP tickets remain. General admission tickets are $50 ($60 at the door) and VIP are $90. Menu of Menus kicks off at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, A ... More >>

Big Tex: We Offer Our Six Replacements, Starting With Willie Nelson

As you've no doubt heard by now -- or, if you're a Texan, felt like a great disturbance in the force -- State Fair's Big Tex burned to its frame today. The icon for generations of fairgoers was taken down by an electrical short, so at least we don't have terrorists to blame. But it's simply too m ... More >>

July 2012 in Openings & Closings: t'afia Is Dead, Long Live t'afia

It's true: t'afia is closed. But only until August 14. That's when -- as chef/owner Monica Pope told us on Wednesday -- the restaurant will be reopened with a revamped concept. It's also true that our beloved Nabi is on the chopping block, as owner Ji Kang confirmed to Eater Houston. However, just ... More >>

Openings & Closings: A Good, Old-Fashioned Burger and a Good Old Fashioned

It's been a quiet week around the city, as the summer wears on and few restaurants are opening their doors. At least two braved the heat to do so this past week, though. After a lengthy construction and renovation process, The Refinery Burgers & Whiskey finally opened this past Monday at 702 West D ... More >>

Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Rock of Ages posits Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as something un-awful.

The Mountaintop

Openings & Closings: The Blind Items Gain Vision Edition

Everyone likes to see a good blind item come to fruition. We have two that gained sight this week. With one of our most recent items, our readers -- as usual -- were spot on in their guesses. Ocean's, the big white house in Montrose that currently serves subpar seafood, will soon become Concepción ... More >>

RIP Buddy: Who the Hell Stabs a Dog Five Times?

The Galveston County Daily News is reporting that a West End woman's mixed-breed Lab was found stabbed to death earlier this week. Buddy was in a ditch, stabbed five times. [Lt. Joel] Caldwell, commander of the Galveston Police Department's Animal Services Unit, has taught courses on animal cruelt ... More >>

In Search of Spring Break

Looking for booze, babes and beach parties on Galveston Island

Cover Story: In Search of Spring Break on Galveston Island

Earlier this year, Coed magazine cobbled together a listicle of America's ten trashiest Spring Break locales. Among the criteria: the number of liquor stores, tattoo parlors and Hooter's in a given town, and the number of visits from the Girls Gone Wild bus. (And it should be noted that "trashy" ... More >>

Openings & Closings: Barcadia Burns Bridges

Photo courtesy of FacebookThe Bushes and the Molinas: Texas legends.​As we slowly move out of the winter doldrums, restaurant news is getting much more exciting -- and coming at us much more quickly. On Tuesday, two big announcements got the food community all atwitter: The Burger Guys announ ... More >>

Christmas Carol

10 Semi-Obscure Facts About Led Zeppelin

​On this date in 1968, former Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, and session musicians John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time, rehearsing in a West End studio space in London, England. The first song they played together was a version of "Train Kep ... More >>

55 Pounds of Coke? Six Other Things Found on Galveston Beaches, Ranked from Worst to Best

Whales, gold rings, messages in bottle, coke​A jogger found 55 pounds of cocaine on the beach in Galveston this morning, a bigger haul than the 37 pounds someone else found there a year ago. In both cases, they turned it over to the cops instead of going all low-rent Breaking Bad. Of course, ... More >>

Last Night: John Mellencamp At Jones Hall

Photos by Marc Brubaker​John Mellencamp Jones Hall April 3, 2011 See pics of a dapper-looking John Mellencamp on stage in our slideshow. Don't call him Cougar. John Mellencamp has been trying to live down that record label-foisted moniker for over 30 years, ditching it entirely in 1990 and ... More >>

Baby Sperm Whale Rescued, Could Be Killed (Updated)

Kill Willy, maybe​Vacationers on the West End of Galveston Island found a baby sperm whale this morning, and a rescue crew was called in. But unless a deep fog lifts, the baby might have to be killed. The Houston Chronicle reports that Allison Wilkins, 11, of Dallas, and her dad spotted the ... More >>

Texas Supreme Court Sides With Beachfront Homeowners

Oceanfront property​The Texas Supreme Court gave a big victory today to beachfront homeowners who suddenly find their homes on public land because of storms, saying the state can't take away their property. The battle over open beaches in Texas has been going on for a long time, of course, bu ... More >>

Wet and Half Naked

One way to smuggle cash

Flagship Hotel: Five Suggested Attractions For The New Amusement Park

Don't miss the Galveston Police Whack-a-Mole game​As was announced yesterday, the not-so-beloved Flagship Hotel in Galveston is being torn down so Tilman Fertitta's Landry's Restaurants can build an amusement park on its pier.What sort of attractions should be offered at the new destination? We ha ... More >>

Anchor Bay: Judge Gives West Galveston Development Green Light

The Army Corps can issue its permit​A federal judge has lifted an injunction against construction of a controversial West End development on Galveston Island, the U.S. Attorney's office has announced.Judge Sim Lake lifted an injunction that had prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from issui ... More >>

They're Modifying The "Bible Of Psychiatry": Five Houston-Specific Disorders They Should Consider

​The DSM, the so-called "Bible of Psychiatry," is getting a re-do. More mental disorders will be included, as the Washington Post says: Children who throw too many tantrums could be diagnosed with "temper dysregulation with dysphoria." Teenagers who are particularly eccentric might be candidates f ... More >>

Spicy Women, Kids and Legitimate Language

West Galveston Tells Cops: You'll Pry Our Golf Carts From Our Cold, Dead, Lazy Hands

Photo by da nes​Things have been rough on the West End of Galveston, what with the destruction by Hurricane Ike and all that comes from building McMansions one inch about sea level.But now the gods have gone too far. Now they want to take away residents' golf carts.The Galveston city council meets ... More >>

Houston's Theater Scene, Being Debated By The Chatters

All That Chat is the primary message board for Broadway fanatics; it gets cited from time to time in papers like The New York Times and is somewhat famous for its instant reviews of productions that have only just begun previews.What are they chatting about today? Houston.To a degree, anyway. But a ... More >>

JFK's Assassination, 45 Years Later

On Saturday, mourners and conspiracy theorists alike converged on Dealey Plaza in Dallas to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Every year this patch of land in the West End becomes a sort of one-stop shop for shadowy speculation and bitter discour ... More >>

A Seawall For The West End Of Galveston?

A Dispatch from Galveston

First Victim Claimed -- A Kid

Baby, Please Don't Go

Sleuth

Better home and garden, but not much else in Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth remake

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Twisting Witness

Mean Streets

NASCAR has nothing on Houston freeways

Jailhouse Crock

UTMB's controversial proposed deal with the city dies

Detail Oriented

Home buyers have other options, but they don't come cheap

The Dead Zone

Houston buries its Inner Loop past under bright new shiny Perry Homes town houses

Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

The Idea Man

Lee Mingwei's high-concept art arrives at the Rice University Art Gallery

Best Sighting of a Retired Public Figure

Johnny Holmes, Former Harris County district attorney

Bringing Down the House

Nestor Topchy deconstructs his TemplO

Slow Dancing

Lughnasa stumbles in the leap from play to motion picture

User-Friendly Abstraction

Three Houston artists bring a genre new life. Real life.

Beer Haul

Street Walking

A stroll down Colquitt takes you to the heart of Houston art

Press Picks

Time to Sow

A man named Verious plants a seed, and a vision takes root in the Third Ward

Woe is Me