Subject: Xanax

• We Read The Small-Town Police Blotters, So You Don’t Have To

  August 20, 2008

• Learning How to Survive (at) CEP

  HISD and a paid trustee get entangled in the spreading empire of a private firm touting safe alternative schools for troubled kids. So why are some students and parents so scared?

  May 31, 2001

• The Bachelorette Kicks Houstonian's Ass

  Photo courtesy ABCThe evil she-devil who broke Sasha's heartRecent additions to the list of Things We Did Not Know:1) The Bachelorette is still on TV.2) There was a Houston guy competing to be whatever it is you compete to be on The Bachelorette.3) He lost.Not only that, but the guy he lost to is "a snake," meaning, we guess, someone who does not have the requisite class needed to appear on a cheesy "reality" show and bare your feelings in a shameless attempt to get some D-List Celeb-level publi

  June 5, 2009

• Is Mooyah Burger a Mooby's Knockoff?

  Mooyah Burger on Bay Area Boulevard is another contestant in Houston's gourmet burger beauty pageant. The chain touts "100% fresh lean American beef (never frozen, no additive, fillers or preservatives)." But if you ask me, the meat at Mooyah burger is too lean. Though cooked to medium, my burger wasn't juicy enough. My tablemate also found a chunk of gristle in his burger patty. The regular order here is a double patty burger made with two 3.25 ounce patties. I went for a cheeseburger made with

  January 21, 2009

• The Drug Sweeps Are Ending At HISD (For One Reason Or Another)

  The Houston school district is coming under heavy fire for its "no-tolerance" drug-dog searches of school parking lots, mostly because they nabbed a popular West U teacher who is very likely to be proven innocent.West U residents, when they get up in arms, tend to get results. HISD superintendent Abe Saavedra told KHOU -- and spokesman Norm Uhl confirms to Hair Balls -- that the searches are ending.Not, though, because of any uproar from well-connected parents pissed off over a very weak case. D

  February 20, 2009

• Playbill: The Helio Sequence, Dri Tonight at Rudyard's

  With songs bathed in lush synths and sleepy vocals, the Helio Sequence could be the thinking man's Killers, albeit with less pop theatrics and corporate glitter. Keep Your Eyes Ahead, last year's release on indie magnet Sub Pop was the duos first since 2004's mournful Love And Distance. Helio dishes out soundscapes and melodies so soft that they could double as mattress store commercial jingles.

  June 3, 2009

• In The Audience At One Of Those Fake-Judge "Reality" Shows

  There isn't much better in life than the daytime courtroom drama, so when Hair Balls had the opportunity to sit in the audience for a taping of the Judge Alex show, we jumped. To our disappointment, however, Judge Alex does not hold court in an actual court room, but in the Fox studios on the Southwest Freeway. First, this is how it works, according to several people from the set: the people are real and so are their stories, but, amazingly, it's not a real court of law. We were at the afternoon

  March 16, 2009

• Arthur Yoria: 281

  February 26, 2009

• Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?

  Laura Howard got tossed into a jail treatment program, but it was the wrong one for someone whose mental health was in tatters

  December 11, 2008

• 7th Annual Houston Area Arcade Expo

  Reach for your joystick at this yearly gathering of gamers

  November 6, 2008

• What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know: Digging Holes

  Work hard, party harder

  July 17, 2008

• Silver Jews

  Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea www.silverjews.net

  June 12, 2008

• Feel My Pain

  A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

  June 15, 2006

• Feel My Pain

  A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted

  June 8, 2006

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

  Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

  June 14, 2007

• Addicted to Fluff

  Racket and company's American Idol symposium

  May 19, 2005

• "Red" Hot

  DJ-producer Tony Moran stops by South Beach for a scandalous Valentine's Day party

  February 10, 2005

• How Long, Oh, Lord, How Long

  Another outpost of crap plops onto the Houston dial, as this open letter reveals

  September 30, 2004

• KISD Off

  Klein students are on a fast track to expulsion, thanks to a district that's figured a way to get someone else to pick up the tab for alternative education

  September 30, 2004

• Sudden Impact

  What could be safer than dropping your kid off at the movies? A lot of things, as it turns out.

  May 20, 2004

• Endless Summer

  The deep house of Miguel Migs transcends California vapidity

  February 19, 2004

• Doobieous Bust

  Undercover cops infiltrate a pro-pot event, but don't weed out much from the crowd

  May 16, 2002

• Sick Kids

  For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

  November 8, 2001

• Carlos Chaves, Mall Surgeon

  Sure, an unlicensed doctor was performing liposuction at a hair salon. Stranger still: Clients kept showing up.

  November 11, 1999

• That Roberts Elementary Teacher Is Cleared, No Matter What HISD's Drug-Sniffing Dog Says

  The District Attorney's office has announced they're formally dropping the charges against Mindy Herrick, the art teacher whose arrest after a drug-sniffing-dog search sparked protests.The dog found a Xanax in her car; the pill wasn't hers. HISD reinstated her almost two months ago, so the question is What the hell took so long?"It took a lot longer than I thought it would," Herrick's attorney, Kent Schaffer, told Hair Balls. "I believed the DA would dismiss the charges, but instead they decided

  April 29, 2009

• Labor Pains

  September 3, 2009

• This Week in Deliciousness

  Golden-brown is the proper tone for any loaf of sourdough / Hollywood starlet.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where today we're bitterly sniffling at the fact that everyone else from the office is at the Austin City Limits festival. It's cool! There's lots of fun stuff to do in Houston, too, you know! Bastards. We hope you've been following along all week, and got to experience first-hand the epic sourdough odyssey begun on Monday by Robb Walsh. It started wi

  October 2, 2009

• Aftermath: AC/DC, Deja Vu All Over Again - Except Maybe Better - at Toyota Center

  Photos by Daniel KramerYes, you've seen these photos before - hey, it's not our fault. Trust us, the band pretty much looks the same.​ Aftermath suspected AC/DC's return to Toyota Center might be a little similar to the ageless Aussies' December 2008 Black Ice tour stop here because, well, we cheated and looked up set lists from the band's Oklahoma City, Dallas and Austin stops last week on setlist.fm. Lo and behold, we were right. Sunday night, we saw the same songs (save two), the same borde

  November 9, 2009