Chocolate Wasted Ice Cream & Treats Truck Hits the Houston Streets Friday
Remember when you were a kid and would hear the jingle of the ice cream truck coming down the street? Nowadays, we tend to get our ice cream and popsicles from either the grocery store or one of the various ice cream shops around town. Yes, these are great, but…
Food Trucks and Restaurants Bump Against Grease, Drugs and Empty Chairs
Let’s make Houston a more walkable city, even if people are walking on their way to tacos. Or so went the thinking for dozens who showed up to Wednesday’s council committee meeting in support of relaxing regulations for food trucks. The issues on the line: whether food trucks are allowed…
Chef Chat, Part 2: Anthony Calleo of Pi Pizza Truck
NEWS UPDATE: at 9:15 am this morning, Anthony Calleo has announced that Sandy Witch, his second food endeavor located inside of Grand Prize Bar, has closed. This closely followed an announcement on their Facebook page of a collaborative brunch with Bernie’s Burger Bus. The brunch was to be on August…
Polonia Houston’s Best and Only Polish Restaurant? Sounds Right.
Polonia says it’s the only restaurant in Houston serving authentic Polish food. Don’t waste your time, however, on determining the relative veracity of this claim if you’re in the mood for pierogi, stuffed cabbage, barszcz, bigos, etc. Theirs are amazing and your time is better spent eating than searching further…
Real Life The Purge Hoaxes Hit The Woodlands Social Media
The day before Halloween in 1938, a rather young Orson Welles took to the radio airwaves and scared the living hell out of people. The broadcast was part of a re-enactment of the H.G. Wells book War of the Worlds, but innocent, unsuspecting listeners were duped into believing aliens had…
7 Best Steampunk Halloween Costumes for Pets
It’s a terrible feeling, waking up and realizing that there’s little over two months left until Halloween and you don’t have the perfect steampunk costume for your pet. You panic, utterly unmanned by the thought of ridicule when you show up with an un-brass goggled cockapoo at the annual steampunk…
The Rocks Off 200: DJ Squincy Jones, “If It Jams, I Play It!”
Who? Shane Rector is Houston born and raised, and has been DJing under the name of Squincy Jones in the city for about 14 years. “I came up playing Aerosol Warfare parties, RockBox, Speakerboxx, Raise It Up, and Gritsy,” he says. “If it jams, I play it!” Home Base? The…
Zapruder Analysis of the Latest Swimming Pool Dunk (VIDEO)
I have to say, Internet, rarely do I chastise you. Rarely do you let me down. But I’ll be honest — the lack of acrobatic suburban white kid swimming pool dunks from you has been disappointing. Frankly, those dunks were a big part of what sustained me last summer from…
Bottom Feeder Television. Why We Make Celebrities Out of Reality TV Stars
On some level most of us seem to understand that reality television is both not real and mostly awful. While the popularity of shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo sort of baffles me, in other ways it makes perfect sense. Many folks seem to have an insatiable appetite for…
The 5 Best Happy Hours in Montrose
If you love happy hour as much as we do, you’ll love this new series. We’re taking a look at the best happy hours in town, ‘hood by ‘hood. To narrow it down, we’re focusing on the spots with the best deals on not only drinks, but eats, too. From…
Hurricane Season 2014: New Disturbance in the Atlantic Heading for Caribbean
As I’ve noted previously, we are now in the peak of hurricane season as we move through August and September, and the Atlantic Basin is certainly beginning to demonstrate that fact. A disturbance that the National Hurricane Center has classified as “96L” is moving westward towards the Lesser Antilles and…
Secrets of the Heart: Dario Robleto at The Menil Collection
The Setup: The human heart is a strange thing. It beats, pushing blood through the arteries, delivering oxygen and nutrients to the trillions of cells that make up our physical being. Without the beating heart, life simply does not exist. Yet, can the prime mover of our physical existence give…
Get the Empanadas at Siphon Coffee
There’s no denying that the beverages at Siphon Coffee, be it the cappuccino, Americano, cortado or siphon for one, are excellently executed. But, you can also say the same for the West Alabama coffee shop’s pastries, breads and scones. After seeing a friend on Facebook comment about the empanadas she…
Renu Khator: Media “Misled” on UH Housing Plan
Toward the end of a thorough ass-chewing via text with Senator John Whitmire over a student housing proposal, UH President Renu Khator did what public officials who screw up have done from time immemorial: she blamed the messenger. You see, according to Khator’s text, the media “misled” people by reporting…
Prepare Yourself: One Direction Comes to Houston Tomorrow
The world is an often dark and ugly place. Ferguson. James Foley. Ebola: things that we’d all like to avoid, but things we can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore, at least not in this hypermedia age that we live in. That’s not to say that the times we live in are worse…
The 10 Best Houston Inventions
Ever since mankind figured out that prehistoric beasts die easier when you poke them with a pointy stick rather than beating them in the head with a far less pointy stick, humanity has lauded and celebrated invention. We like things, and one way or another we’ve crawled from the caves…
Videos of the Week: Watch Houston Area Chefs and Restaurants Take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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Graham Nash Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Now that his production work on the four-years-in-the-making massive CSNY 1974 box set is over and fans have in their hands what they’ve dreamed about for years, 72-year-old Graham Nash can just lie back and take it easy, right? Not a chance. “I’m busier now than I’ve ever been in…
I’m Hypnotized by My Ex’s Booty. Help!
Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off’s advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! EDUCATION Dear Willie D: I very much enjoyed your segment on TV One’s Unsung. You are…
Five Insult Songs That Predate Getting “Dissed”
Some people find insults coarse, base and a sorry excuse for invective from the intellectually feeble. I call those people “bloggers who read the comments section.” But seriously, a good insult is a work of art. If you don’t believe me, well, “I do desire we be better strangers,” (Shakespeare)…
