White Oak Bayou

2012 Summer Guide: Summer in the City

Is Houston America's Future Bicycling Capitol? Tom McCasland Thinks It Is, and Is Making It So

Tom McCasland has long believed that Houston is a sleeping giant of a bicycling city, and these days Houston appears to be waking up and stretching its legs. Today Yale Law grad McCasland serves as the interim head of the Harris County Housing Authority, but even before he began his previous positi ... More >>

Radio Blues

Tom McCasland has long believed that Houston is a sleeping giant of a bicycling city, and these days Houston appears to be waking up and stretching its legs. Today Yale Law grad McCasland serves as the interim head of the Harris County Housing Authority, but even before he began his previous positi ... More >>

Walmart Development Compromising Yale Street Bridge Stability, Critics Say

Jeff Jackson, director of Responsible Urban Development for Houston, thinks that something apocalyptic could happen to the Yale Street Bridge, especially when construction of the controversial new Heights-area Walmart is completed. In November, the Texas Department of Transportation performed a st ... More >>

How Not to Text a Teen

Lewd sexts to 14-year-old

Drought: Five Animals And Pests You're Seeing More Of, As They Search For Water

Possums: Cute....from afar​Some of us were praying for rain even before it was mandated to do so. Houston's been teased more than a frat boy lately, especially early this morning, when chances of actual rain were forecast in the lofty 30 percentages! At 6 a.m. storm clouds gathered and it even ... More >>

Tropical Storm Allison, 10 Years Later: Where Were You?

​Ten years ago today it began. A Friday that didn't seem to hold any particular weather interest, maybe some rain, and then -- if you were in the wrong spot -- a rain to end all rains, it seems. Portions of Houston flooded like never before; other parts of the area didn't get hit much harder ... More >>

Inwood Forest Golf Course to Become Flood-Detention Pond, Greenspace

Help for floods, from a defunct private golf course​A defunct golf course on the northwest side of town will be converted to greenspace that will double as a detention pond during floods, Mayor Annise Parker announced today. The Inwood Forest golf course, near Antoine and West Little York, ha ... More >>

Sole of Houston: Bicycles Enable Lomax And Beebe To Cover 30-Plus Miles Of Hood

Murder, tacos and Perpetual Help​Man, there has been a lot of water under the bridge since David Beebe and I last undertook a Sole of Houston stroll in December of 2008.For my part, there was a divorce, massive weight loss, and the ditching of pretty much all my vices. As for Beebe, the supe ... More >>

Put On Your High Water Pants, Houston

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​As heavy rain continues to fall across the Houston area, the usual suspects have begun to flood. Portions of Allen Parkway and I-45 north have been closed and the bayous continue their predictable rise. And even though it floods in Houston on a disconcertingly rou ... More >>

Pat Green Or Monkeys Riding Dogs? A July 4 Dilemma Solved

​Sunday, the City of Houston will celebrate our fine country's independence from the Redcoats in the same way it does every single other year, with the self-proclaimed "Largest Land-Based Fireworks Show in the Nation," Freedom Over Texas. This year, the festival's blander-than-white-bread head ... More >>

Uprising

2009 wasn't a great year for albums, but songs were a different story.

Thanks, Mr. Stalin, For All The Traffic This Weekend

Photo by agent2n​Blame Obama if you're stuck in hopeless traffic on I-10 East at I-45 this weekend. I-10 East will be completely closed, due to that socialistic stimulus act.Best attempt to put a good spin on it, from TxDOT: "With progress there is often sacrifice and the work on I-10 East will be ... More >>

Ghost Riders

In Houston, bicycling is known as a killer sport.

Screen Plays

In Houston, bicycling is known as a killer sport.

Hit Hermann

In time for summer, the park's had a facelift.

Recession Lunching at Rainbow Lodge

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Berkshire maple-brined pork chop with potato salad and espresso BBQIt's becoming more affordable than ever to dine in our city's finest restaurants, and Rainbow Lodge is no exception to that rule. Three years ago, the long-time Houston institution moved from its ... More >>

That Heights Bike Trail Developing Nicely, Except For The Arson

Photos by Amina Rivera The new bikeway near 7th Street and CourtlandThe Missouri, Kansas, Texas Southern Pacific railroad (try to say that three times fast) Rails-to-Trails project in the Heights is finally underway. After the official groundbreaking ceremony last December, men in hard hats a ... More >>

The Heights' "Rails to Trails" Path To Happen, At Last

Photos by Amina Rivera The new bikeway near 7th Street and CourtlandThe Missouri, Kansas, Texas Southern Pacific railroad (try to say that three times fast) Rails-to-Trails project in the Heights is finally underway. After the official groundbreaking ceremony last December, men in hard hats a ... More >>

Secret Saturday Shows at The Shady Tavern

Rocking the afternoon away

Knock on Wood

How an old toolshed became a hippie haven

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

One Dead Guinea Pig

A bad reaction to a drug trial sparks an investigation into Houston's Fabre Clinic and its founder

We Know What You Should Do This Summer

Your guide to beaches, water parks, day trips, festivals and more

The Silver Tower Meets The Shining

Liberté, égalité and fraternité in a log cabin on White Oak Bayou

For Whom the Hell Tolls

Heights residents fear the toll road authority's new land acquisition plans

Blackbird Fly

Jolie Holland returns to her old hometown with the Tom Waits seal of approval

Going Batty

Efforts mount to make downtown home to a new kind of nightlife

Dead Wrong

Relatives say Hollywood Cemetery sells the same plot over and over, stacks graves and buries people where they don t belong. And then forgets about them.

The Long Goodbye

It sounds so simple: FEMA purchasing homes flooded by Tropical Storm Allison. Then come the bureaucratic blizzards and personal angst over giving up and getting out.

Small Wonder

The Hyde Park Miniature Museum has been dredged out of mothballs, but will it find a permanent home before time runs out?

La Tour d'Argent

Bayou Lounge's Chocolate Delight

Wading It Out

Plus: Weekend Warier, Sidewalk Shame

Out of Control

The City of Houston requires developers in the floodplain to elevate and mitigate -- build houses on higher ground and dig detention ponds for runoff. Except, not always.

Best Bike Path

West White Oak Bayou Trail

Not Worth A Dam

Clear Creek is on the rise, and local flood-protection methods have been helpless against it. Soggy residents, tired of being perpetual victims, are ready for a fight.

Wet Nighthawks Cry Foul

They're deluge-ional, say accused Fitz's and South Beach proprietors

Wading for Godot

Allison arrived in a flood of thoughts -- mattress rafts, murky thigh-deep water and the sudden flotsam of family life rushing out the back door

Renovated Out of Existance

The First Ward never had much in the way of worldly goods. But it had a rich history. Now, even that is disappearing.

Letters

The First Ward never had much in the way of worldly goods. But it had a rich history. Now, even that is disappearing.

Dubious Deal

Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

Landrush

The city of Houston is being carved into special taxing districts, promising windfalls for some, financial burdens for others

Letters

The city of Houston is being carved into special taxing districts, promising windfalls for some, financial burdens for others

City Pork Project

Residents look for answers but find only a developer's arrogance

Looking for Answers Down Below

The city doesn't seem to care that a Houston developer's plans for high-density apartments and a supermarket rest atop abandoned oil fields and possible contamination

It's Jackie's Neighborhood

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.

Press Picks

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.

Press Picks

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.

Press Picks

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.