Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Good Dogs and Christmas in July
Here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: Summer Wine Sale Featuring the Loire Valley at 13 Celsius Saturday, noon to 2 p.m. 3000 Caroline Sommelier Adele Corrigan and her team are putting on a fantastic all-Loire Valley summer wine sale as part of LoireFest 2017. From bright crisp whites…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: An Epic Loire Fest Wine Sale and Whole Hog Feast
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Art of Cellaring, 2301 Portsmouth, hosts the LoireFest 2017 Grand Finale celebration on Saturday, July 29, from 3 to 6 p.m. with Master Sommelier David Keck — who founded the month long event honoring the summer-friendly…
Five Early Bargain NFL Season Win Total Bets
There is no more gambling friendly sport than American football. In fact, I have no statistics to back this up, but I believe that baseball has been replaced by gambling on football as our nation’s pastime. So as NFL training camp kicks off, the sports books have been kind enough…
The Bodyguard Blends Romance, Suspense and Whitney Houston Songs
Now with even more Whitney songs.
The 10 Best Snacks in Chinatown
When you’re running errands around Bellaire and don’t have time for a full meal, but just need a little nibble on the go, here are ten irresistible snacks to pick up. Alternatively, if you want to spend the day going on a food crawl through Chinatown with a few of…
The Houston Texans Training Camp To-Do List
There’s an old saying — organization and planning are the keys to finally improving on a 9-7 record. Actually, it’s not old at all, I just made it up myself. However, it is true. Bill O’Brien and Rick Smith have some very clear things that are imperative to accomplish during…
Houston Texans: Who Will Be This Season’s A.J. Bouye?
Visit any of the websites that either forecast NFL season win totals or put out odds for people to wager on them, and they all have the Houston Texans forecasted to win around eight games this season. In the AFC South, history tells us that may very well be good…
21 Best Things to Do in Houston This Week: Meteor Showers and a Splash Bash
Between the Shakespeare Festival, Splash Bash, and tons more, this week is totally turnt up.
This Week in Houston Food Events: Happy Hours, Wings and Tequila
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: New happy hour Happy Hour special at Balls Out Burger Balls Out Burger, 1603 North Durham, is celebrating its first few months of service by launching a new Happy Hour offering. On Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., burger…
Houston Texans: Way-Too-Early 53-Man Roster Prediction, Version 1.0
The Houston Texans begin training camp in two days, and if the lead-up feels a little strange this season, it’s probably for two good reasons. First, the Texans will be conducting about 95 percent of their training camp in the much cooler confines of the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia…
Love Brunch? Tickets for “The Morning After, a Houston Press Brunch Event” Go on Presale Tuesday
Take one look at the long lines at Snooze and the Breakfast Klub every weekend and it’s obvious that Houston has a pretty obsessive brunch habit. But really, what’s not to love about French toast, bacon and Bloody Marys on a lazy day off from work? We’re with you. If…
85°C Bakery’s Pastries, Ranked
When we set out for 85°C Bakery Cafe on Sunday morning, the fun and gluttonous goal was to taste each of the pastries at the hot new Chinatown addition so we could rank them all. However, even at the semi-ambitious hour of 9 a.m. with minimal lines, several of the…
Houston’s Best Summer Dining, Revisited
It’s that special time again. Time for the Houston Press to round up its most popular dining coverage, this time concerning all things summer dining. We figured you could use a little break from the heavier, meatier way of life for these hot summer days. Here now, our top posts…
Insecure Offers TV’s Sharpest Insights on Race but Refuses to Limit Itself to That Subject
Insecure returns July 23 on HBO No moment captures the elations of HBO’s Insecure better than the opening scene of the sophomore season’s second episode. The morning after sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, Issa (Issa Rae) recounts her confusion about the abrupt quickie to her snappish best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji)…
O.J. Simpson Granted Parole by State of Nevada
Back in the summer of 1995, anytime there was an awkward pause or a need to strike up casual conversation with a stranger, we all had O.J. to talk about. It was the summer of the O.J. double murder trial, in which dozens and dozens of witnesses spent months being…
The NHL’s Arizona Coyotes Need an Arena. Houston Might Have One.
Les Alexander selling the Houston Rockets was not likely to be something Houston sports fans wanted. He has been a relatively good team owner who has stayed out of the way of the spotlight while giving his basketball personnel the money and power to do whatever necessary to win games…
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie Captured in a Musical Coming to Stages
Written shortly before Guthrie’s 1967 death, “Old Man Trump” just scratches the surface.
Find Sizzle on the Big Screen During This Year’s QFest Film Festival
Featuring screenings at six locations, including the anything-but-traditional Ripcord.
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Join the Brunch Society
Here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: Mixers & Elixirs at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Friday, 7 to 10 p.m. 5555 Hermann Park The HMNS opens its doors for the after-hours party with the dinosaurs. Mingle, click cocktails and dance to live music from Electric Circus…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: $2 Taco Tuesdays
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Brennan’s of Houston, 3300 Smith, is releasing special bottles from the wine cellar. Available through Monday, July 31, guests making dinner reservations (from 5:45 to 10 p.m.) with the code “GrapeNuts” will be presented with a…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s new film embodies the adage that says “war is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.”
Houston’s Best Bets This Weekend July 21-23: Chevelle and Christmas in July
Summer is winding down, but don’t worry, there’s still time for you to have a summer adventure if you haven’t had one just yet. Check out this weekend’s best bets.
Openings and Closings: Get to One-Fifth Steak While You Still Can
Chris Shepherd’s Montrose restaurant, One-Fifth, will close the first of its five planned incarnations, One-Fifth Steak, on July 31. The eatery will remain closed for renovations through August as it morphs into One-Fifth Romance Languages, which opens on September 1. The new restaurant will have a menu with French, Italian…
Deep Fried Nookies at Torchy’s: Are They Worth It?
For years, I’ve been going to Torchy’s and ordering a couple of tacos (except the one time I ordered three, which was a mistake) and leaving fully satiated. Sometimes a chips and guacamole or salsa or queso situation is involved. Never once have I ordered dessert. This isn’t for lack…
Trae Tha Truth’s Decade of Giving Back
The annual celebration, its namesake says, is about “being part of the community and the city.”
The Odds on Future Houston Texan Ring of Honor Inductees
With this being the calm before the training camp storm, the Houston Texans chose to announce that the greatest player in the history of the franchise (OK, he’s in a virtual tie with J.J. Watt), Andre Johnson, would be locally immortalized with induction into the Houston Texans Ring of Honor…
Picky, Picky: When Your Kid Is Not a Foodie
I was a picky eater well into my twenties. I had a reputation among my family members as a skinny, vegetable-eschewing bookworm. I am still a bookworm, but the skinny moniker is no longer appropriate and I now not only eat my vegetables but grow them. I blame part of…
Richard III: The Great Persuader at the Houston Shakespeare Festival
“He’s of course, a reprehensible person, murdering children and his best friends.”
The Theme of the Special Session Is Governor Abbott vs. Urban Mayors
As Texas’s big blue islands jutting out in the rural and suburban seas of red have only grown more pronounced, their relationship with state GOP leaders has only grown more strained — but perhaps that has not been more obviously on display than in the past few months, weeks and…
“What if We Changed FEMALE Character to Male?” Is Not Fooling Anyone
Let’s remake Labyrinth with Lady Gaga as the Goblin Queen.
Harris County Prosecutors Are Trying to Shut Down an After-Hours Strip Club
The Harris County Attorney’s Office is seeking a permanent injunction against a southwest Houston after-hours strip club prosecutors say is selling liquor without a license. According to a petition filed in Harris County District Court Monday against Paradise City Southwest (9870 Westpark Drive) undercover Houston Police Department vice officers bought…
Houston’s Best Late-Night Dining: Chapultepec Is for Flautas and Weirdos
“I wonder what it looks like here in the daytime,” the cohort says. That’s probably a common question among Chapultepec Lupita customers. It’s the type of place you can’t imagine even existing in daylight hours, the restaurant’s exterior probably just blending into the ghostly expanse of nothingness the sky becomes…
Houston’s 10 Best Bars In Downtown
The sidewalks no longer roll up at dusk.
Vote Delayed on Houston’s Recycling Contract as Councilman Calls Deal “Rotten”
Amid charges from some council members that a deal with a new recycling company was “rotten,” Houston City Council delayed a vote on the contract for another week while they sort out what some have called an unfair bidding process shrouded in secrecy. Mayor Sylvester Turner jovially announced last month…
Ten Things to Do in Houston for $10 or Less (Seven Free), July 20-26
Check out the Houston Press calendar for even more things to do.
First Look at Liberty Taco
The slightly sweet, salty, sesame-marinated beef in the Kogi taco is drizzled with “kimche” aioli and topped with a generous amount of napa slaw and toasted sesame seeds. We think they meant kimchi judging by the Korean bulgogi-inspired flavors oozing from this kick-ass taco. Nearly six-month old Liberty Taco opened at…
RoboCop Keeps Getting More Relevant (And Funnier) With Age
By contrast, the Terminator franchise has folded back on its own timeline so many times not even those associated with it know what the hell’s going on.
My Fiancée Is Talking to Her Old Dude. Help!
What’s on your mind? What isn’t? Ask Willie D!
Bateman and Linney Break Bad in Netflix’s Backwoods Crime Drama Ozark
Ozark premieres on Netflix July 21 When Skyler White challenged her husband’s secret fun life of crime on Breaking Bad, the backlash to her drove Anna Gunn to write an op-ed in The New York Times. Gunn revealed that a number of disturbing “hate boards” had often conflated her with…
You Can Find This New Burger Monstrosity at Wet’n’Wild SplashTown
With summer here, it’s time to turn our attention to a strange little topic: water park foods. What usually comes to mind is an onslaught of horrid images: swimsuit-clad plebs with third degree sunburns downing funnel cakes, chicken fingers, hot dogs, nachos and other foods that preserve the body from…
Apollo 11 Bag Sold in NASA Mixup to Be Auctioned Thursday, Asking $2 Million
Tomorrow is the 48th anniversary of the moment millions of people watched, collectively holding their breath, as Astronaut Neil Armostrong’s white boots left the Lunar Module ladder and gently touched down on the surface of the moon. In keeping with the solemnity of the occasion, the bag Armstrong used when…
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Buys 40 Assault Rifles for Deputies
Harris County Precinct 4 deputies have some new tools at their disposal thanks to some extra money Constable Mark Herman had in the budget: assault rifles. Using $40,000 in county funds, Herman recently bought 40 AR-15 rifles for his deputies, who will keep the assault rifles in their patrol cars…
Twelfth Night Offers a Night of Disguises at the Houston Shakespeare Festival
The Houston Shakespeare Festival opens with what some have called his most musical production.
Health Food Makes an Unexpected Appearance at Burger and Whiskey Hub Bosscat
Bosscat Kitchen & Libations, the California transplant that debuted at 4310 Westheimer earlier this year, is primarily known for its great whiskey selection, crazy brunch items including Fruity Pebbles French toast and a pretty righteous burger, but the eatery has done a bit of a 180 with the launch of…
Did Ted Cruz (Accidentally) Help Save Obamacare?
Senator Ted Cruz was all set to revamp his image. Instead of the agitator he was going to become the deal maker, the man who made it possible to actually repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, fulfilling a campaign promise Cruz and so many other Republicans have been chanting…
The Ship Channel Boat Tour Is a Perfectly Houston Experience
One of the world’s busiest ports will handle more than $50 billion in trade this year.
The Pendergast 10: Houston’s Most Soul-Crushing Sports Figures of This Decade
If there is a metric for quantifying sports optimism in 2017, Houston might be at the top of whatever that ranking or statistic would be called. The Rockets, despite a pending change in ownership, have assembled at least two (and ultimately, maybe three) future Hall of Famers. The Astros have…
Finally, Texas Has Its Own Taco Beer
The Austin-based microbrewery Independence Brewing Co. and the authors of Tacos of Texas have created a very good thing: Texas’s very first taco beer. The Revolución Saison Ale is crisp, citrusy, gently-spiced, and meant for pairing solely with tacos. Okay, it was also created to counter the onslaught of mass-marketed…
Mr. Wired Up Knows What Makes Great Strip-Club Music
The house DJ for Club Onyx is considered one of the city’s go-to guys to help spread a new song to the masses.
Caught in the Rain? Maybe Don’t Seek Shelter at Minute Maid Park
A group of Houston Astros fans, including a Houston woman confined to a wheelchair, waited to enter Minute Maid Park for nearly two hours on Saturday as heavy downpours covered the city.
Vocal Powerhouse Idina Menzel Says She’s Ready for Anything
The Oscar, Grammy and Tony winner will perform a wide variety of material, including a handful of selections from her new album.
The Best Pho in Sugar Land? Head to The Pho Shack
The suburbs are usually a wasteland when it comes to finding good food. There are plenty of fast food to-go options ranging from KFC to McDonald’s and Whataburger; plenty of fast casual chains too, like Panera and Pei Wei. But it’s not very often that you stumble upon a really…
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10 Probable Campaign Slogans For Kid Rock [NSFW]
If only we were all lucky enough to try and join the machine.
Life Is Good for Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld
“We just want to play music, put a roof over our kids’ heads.”
For Second Time, Harris County Drops Charges Against a Suspect in Slaying of Houston 11-Year-Old
The second suspect in the brutal murder of 11-year-old Josue Flores just became the second suspect to walk out of jail after the Harris County District Attorney’s Office again conceded that it does not have enough evidence to continue prosecuting him for the murder. Andre Jackson, a 28-year-old ex-Marine, was…
Andre Johnson Officially Announced As First Texans Ring of Honor Member
Ever since Andre Johnson retired from the NFL midway through the 2017 season, the speculation has been rampant as to how the Houston Texans would honor the franchise’s first true superstar player (and possible Hall of Famer). When he signed a one-day contract earlier this year to officially retire as…
Climate Change Denier Lamar Smith Took a Congressional Trip to the Arctic
Since Representative Lamar Smith became chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee four years ago, the San Antonio Republican has put his position to good use, going after government-funded climate scientists and their work, with a vim not seen since the McCarthy Era. But even though Smith has…
Rabid Bat Bites Woman in Parking Garage Near Buffalo Bayou Park
Parking garages don’t need any more reasons to be eerie, but one Houston woman just added getting bit by a bat to the list. While walking in her apartment’s sub-level parking garage along Memorial Drive near Buffalo Bayou Park, a woman says a rabid bat bit her on the hand,…
Rodeo Announces Monster Star-Shaped Stage for 2018 Season
Eight feet larger than the old one, shaped like a star, and still revolves, too.
Tech Giant IBM, 14 Other CEOs Lead Charge Against Bathroom Bill Amid Special Session
From controversial school-choice vouchers to further abortion restrictions, there’s plenty to fight about during the Texas Legislature’s special session this summer, which begins Tuesday. But perhaps no bill is expected to provoke more screaming, yelling and Texas Capitol rotunda-storming than the so-called bathroom bill. The bill, which would regulate bathroom…
Bayou City Concert Musicals Brings Down the Curtain
BCCM never disappointed as it brought dozens of Broadway delights to the stage.
Kitchen 713 Does Global Soul Food in a Particularly Houston Manner
We arrived at Kitchen 713 as the edges of Tropical Storm Cindy teased the city, pleated gusts of rain making us hesitate just at the edge of the causeway from the parking garage. We paused, waiting for a break in the rain before making the short dash to the door…
Five Tips for Surviving a Female Doctor Who
This is what happens when you let what you consume become who you are.
Astros Ace Dallas Keuchel Pitches Three Shutout Innings in Rehab Start
Eleven great starts and a 9-0 record made Dallas Keuchel the best pitcher in all of baseball the first two months of the season. A mysterious, nagging neck injury has since made him the most pivotal variable of the MLB postseason just two and a half months away. Because let’s…
Here’s Some Advice for the Next Owner of the Houston Rockets
At a Monday afternoon press conference, Rockets CEO Tad Brown announced owner Leslie Alexander would be putting the franchise up for sale. The surprise announcement comes after 23 seasons as owner of the most successful sports team in Houston history. While Alexander didn’t construct the first Rockets team that won…
Upcoming: BeatKing, The Church, Dan Penn, Death Grips, Genitorturers, Institute, Loretta Lynn, Protomartyr, Ritualz, etc.
A constantly updated guide to upcoming concerts in the Greater Houston area.
Risky Business: What Drives Restaurant Owners to Rebrand and Does It Actually Save Them?
It’s a week before Thanksgiving 2016 when Diane and Willet Feng, owners of Kuma Burgers in Greenway Plaza, receive a strange letter in the mail. Opening it, they find a cease and desist order from a metal band-themed gastropub empire in Chicago called Kuma’s Corner. It alleges trademark infringement. It…
Double Cups Offers a Trip Inside T2 the Ghetto Hippie’s Wonderful World
A lean, progressive tape from a rapper who nasally sings his thoughts out with a laugh and dash of joy.
True-crime Doc Santoalla Captures the Feud Between the Only Two Families at the World’s End
Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer’s quiet, immersive true-crime mystery doc opens with video more terrifying than fictionalized “found footage” horror ever manages: A man is walking through the rubble and ruin of the abandoned village of Santoalla, in the mountains of the Galicia region of northwestern Spain. We see, from…
Sisterhood is Powerful — and Pugnacious — in Girls Trip
Truth in advertising: Girls trip hard during their New Orleans getaway in Girls Trip, which maybe doesn’t need that possessive apostrophe after all. Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver — the same creative team behind last year’s uneven Barbershop: The Next Cut — pops with…
Amat Escalante’s The Untamed Finds the Humanity in Hooking Up With Alien Sex Beasts
At a crater in the lush, mossy-green Mexican countryside in Amat Escalante’s fourth feature, The Untamed, every native species of animal gathers to fuck, like a pornographic Noah’s Ark. This scene of otherworldly magical realism is not what audiences have come to expect from the director, whose most well-known film,…
Jenny Slate Dazzles in Landline, a ’90s-set Comedy About Growing Up Disappointed
Jenny Slate’s laughter comes out in a wild gush, as though she’s been shaken and uncorked, the sound somehow puppyishly sweet and punkishly impolite. Her characters, cheery cynics, often fail to quite match the mood of a room, so their amused eruptions can hurt feelings, stir bafflement, inspire the ol’…
Turner Critical of Houston Firefighters’ Petition Demanding Equal Pay With Police
The feud between Houston firefighters and Mayor Sylvester Turner over pay raises, benefits and retirement security is far from a truce. In the latest chapter of the saga, the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association delivered more than 52,000 signatures to City Hall Monday, demanding that the city place an equal-pay…
Les Alexander Is Selling the Rockets
Just as his team is mounting a defense to the Golden State Warriors with the acquisition of All-Star point guard Chris Paul, Houston Rockets majority owner Leslie Alexander has said he is selling the NBA franchise. Rockets CEO Tad Brown announced the news in a press conference this afternoon. “It’s…
Visually, Valerian Is Beyond Dazzling — Just Don’t Think About Story or Character
It must be nice being Luc Besson, stuck at the age of 14 for the past 44 years. Back when I was that age, in the late 1980s, Besson was among my favorite working filmmakers. I adored the earnest wonder of the deep-sea worlds of The Big Blue (1988) and…
Dunkirk Is the Movie Christopher Nolan Was Born to Make
The nerve-racking war thriller Dunkirk is the movie Christopher Nolan’s entire career has been building up to, in ways that even he may not have realized. He’s taken the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 evacuation from France, early in World War II — a moment of heroism-in-defeat that has become an…
Celebrating Neil Diamond’s Gold Anniversary Means Westeros Can Wait
It takes something special to surpass a Game of Thrones premiere…like the American icon’s Gold Anniversary tour.
Third Eye Blind Proves ’90s Nostalgia Reigns Supreme
In this era of heavy ’90s nostalgia, the Bay Area pop-rockers’ self-titled debut may be more relevant than ever.
The Texans Are the 20th Most Valuable Sports Franchise in the World
The annual Forbes list of the 50 most valuable sports franchises in the world was released last week. There are no real surprises. The Cowboys are No. 1. The New York Yankees are number two. The New England Patriots come in at No. 6 behind a couple of European soccer…
In The Last Wife at Main Street Theater, No One Is Faithful for Very Long
This lively, feminist-slanted production romps through the marital lives of notorious Tudor monarch Henry VIII.
Despite Demand, Few Texas Women on Medicaid Are Able to Access IUDs
Of the many blows that women’s reproductive healthcare has been dealt in Texas over the past several years, at least one victory stood out in 2016. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission made an effort to give women greater access to what doctors say is the most effective protection…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Pulpo Is in the House at Tacodeli
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All month long Special of the Moment at Tacodeli This month’s special of the moment, the Pulpo a la Doña, is now available at Tacodeli, 1902 Washington. A concoction of pulpo (octopus) in a spicy tomatillo salsa negra with lime-cured Gulf shrimp,…
As It Turns 30, Praise Be to MTV’s The Challenge
Guilty TV pleasures don’t come much guiltier, or more pleasurable.
Even Without the Movies, the Music of Hans Zimmer Thrills
The Gladiator and Dark Knight composer has set a high bar for other film-music mavens who want to tour.
Johnny Manziel Makes His Quarterly Claim That He’s Talking to NFL Teams
I guess in the new world where we have a reportedly (or at least, “last we checked a few months ago” status) sober Johnny Manziel, this is how it will go — every few months, we will get smoke from the Johnny Football camp that he has the itch to…
The Best Bets for Houston Restaurant Weeks 2017
250 restaurants. Five weeks. Oodles of dining deals. Yes, it’s time once again for Houston Restaurant Weeks once again, returning to town from August 1 through September 4, in an effort to raise of whole lot of money for the Houston Food Bank. Last year, Houston Restaurant Weeks was able…
Shows of the Week: An Elite Songwriter and His Killer Backing Band
The livest live music in the Bayou City for the third full week of July 2017.
Vendors Say They Were Screwed Out of Thousands by Beer Nation
When we last checked in on the misleadingly monikered Beer Nation, it was shuttered in June by the property owners for not paying rent, and its manager and owner were ignoring our questions. Now, two Houston vendors say the owners stiffed them out of a combined $37,000. John Curtin of…
Houston Police End Controversial Drug Field Tests, But Now What?
For years, narcotics field tests have been notorious for sending innocent people to jail. The cheap, roadside tests have misconstrued everything from Jolly Ranchers for meth to Pop Tart crumbs for crack cocaine. In December, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office trumpeted the arrest of 24-year-old Ross Lebeau for felony meth…
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘DAMN’ Tour Cements Him as a Legend
Kung-Fu Kenny has the glow now.
The Best Texas Road Trip Restaurants
It’s that special time again. Time for the Houston Press to round up its most popular dining coverage, this time concerning all things summer road trips, well, the most important part of a road trip anyway: the stop for food along the way. We know you’re likely hitting the highway…
You’ll Need to Be Hosed off After Flying Lotus’ Hilarious Gross-Out Horror Spree, Kuso
Kuso premieres on Shudder July 21. It’s nearly impossible to categorize the first feature-length film by Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus, the experimental beatmaster, music producer and rapper). Made up of multiple, wildly varied vignettes that intersect and revolve around the theme of a chaotic post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, where every…
Former Houston Teacher Convicted of Sexually Abusing Eight-Year-Old Student
After sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl, a former elementary school teacher is off to prison. A Harris County jury sentenced Migeul Angel Yepez, 41, to 15 years for felony indecency with a child, following a three-day trial in the 185th district court, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday…
UH’s Ed Oliver Is Hoarding Every Preseason Accolade for 2017
If we are ranking defensive linemen in the city of Houston, the first two are pretty easy — it goes J.J. Watt, then Jadeveon Clowney. Many would say that Texans nose tackle D.J. Reader is next, but the fact of the matter is, if the parameters are “in the city…
Nothing at All Saucy About This Production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
The set up: Actors are nothing if not resourceful. Take the group of four performers who wanted to stage a production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at the 1995 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. All seemed fine until they learned that another group was signed on to produce the same show. No, problem,…
After Near-Fatal Car Accident, Houston PR Man Dolcefino Will Likely Pay for It Too
Wayne Dolcefino, owner of Dolcefino Consulting and former reporter at KTRK, thought that AT&T was going to be paying his medical bills for a long time. Back in April, he was hit by a driver who, according to the lawsuit Dolcefino filed, was trying to pass slow traffic and crossed…
Jim Crane of the Astros Is the Best Team Owner in Houston
It’s fair to say that no Houston sports team owner got off to a worse start with fans than Jim Crane. There was the forced move of the Astros to the American League. There was the CSN Houston debacle. There were social media blunders. Crane had actually had a deal…
HCC Board of Trustees Unanimously Censures Now-Convicted-Felon Colleague
The Houston Community College Board of Trustees unanimously voted to publicly censure disgraced Vice Chairman Chris Oliver after he pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in May. Board Chairwoman Eva Moreno, who called Oliver’s actions “reprehensible,” said this was the highest form of discipline within the board’s legal authority; despite…
Houston Ambulance Company Accused of Cutting Competitor’s Brake Lines
A Houston ambulance company is suing a competitor, accusing its employees — or hired goons — of vandalizing its vehicles, including by shooting out windows and cutting brake lines. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Harris County District Court, Republic EMS also accused City Ambulance of installing GPS tracking devices…
Jason Webley: Welcome to Night Vale Sure Beats Busking
The veteran musician talks about his association with the wildly popular, offbeat podcast.
Hunting Feral Hogs From Hot Air Balloons in Texas — What Could Go Wrong? Plenty, Say the Pilots.
An odd piece of Texas legislation due to go into effect September 1 allowing hunters to shoot feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons appears to have neglected input from one key constituency: the pilots themselves. “It seems like one of the most ill-conceived pieces of legislature I’ve ever…
Criminally Underrated Power-Pop Songwriter Tommy Keene Perseveres
The under-the-radar singer and songwriter has long been admired by power-pop aficionados.
20 Years In, You Still Can’t Mess With Lil Keke
Lil Keke blew up in 1997 with “Southside” and Don’t Mess Wit Texas. A legend was certified.
Rape Choreography Makes Films Safer, But Still Takes a Toll on Cast and Crew
From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, narratives of sexual assault have become particularly common in film and TV lately. But rarely do we think about the filmmakers, actors and crew who make on-screen rapes happen. How do they feel? Are they tired of rape scenes? Or could portraying rape could actually be a…
Former Harris County Deputy Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges
A uniformed Harris County Precinct 6 Deputy Constable sexually assaulted a woman he pulled over, attempted to assault another woman in a restaurant bathroom and is believed to have committed other sex crimes, the Houston Police Department said Thursday. Brandin Glispy, 30, faces one count of sexual assault and one…
