Whitney: Can I Be Me Surveys the Pressures Faced by a Pop Great

Whitney: Can I Be Me premieres on Aug. 25 on Showtime In the February 2016 issue of ESPN The Magazine, Danyel Smith penned a powerful essay on Whitney Houston’s chill-inducing rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV, perhaps the pinnacle of national anthem performances. Smith frames Houston as…

Upcoming Houston Food Events: Save the Date for Tacolandia

Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Tickets for the 2017 Houston Press Tacolandia are on sale now. The third annual taco sampling event will be held at The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park, 105 Sabine, on Saturday, October 21, from 4 to…

Openings and Closings: Aqui Opens in Montrose

Aqui, 520 Westheimer, the new Montrose restaurant from Paul Qui, the Austin-based Top Chef champion and James Beard award winner, who last year was arrested for domestic violence, started its dinner service without fanfare on August 14 at 5 p.m. According to CultureMap, Qui himself was not in attendance on…

Antone’s Will Have 55 Cent Po’ Boys, September 11-17

For those of you always on the hunt for a great dining deal, Houston’s longtime po’ boy favorite Antone’s Famous Po’ Boys has one coming up that’s hard to beat. From September 11 through September 17, 1 to 3 p.m. only, customers can score 55-cent Original po’ boys, along with…

Houston’s 10 Most Unique Doughnuts

Who doesn’t love fried dough? Basically…no one, so it’s hard to get a doughnut wrong. That is, unless you’re tasting 22 doughnuts side-by-side, in which case some doughnuts tend to rise to the top. In any case, these 10 doughnuts are taking the art of fried dough to the next…

4th Wall Theatre Company Announces It’s Shutting Down

Sad news today indeed. Kim Tobin-Lehl and Philip Lehl, the co-founders of 4th Wall Theatre Company and its predecessor Stark Naked Theatre Company will be closing up shop in December. They will continue with their September production of Disgraced by Ayad Ahktar and the December production of Reckless by Craig…

It’s Official: Tick Tock For Ten HISD Schools

Backed by a cohort of Houston ISD principals who were able to get their schools off the state’s Improvement Required list, superintendent Richard Carranza headed up a press conference Tuesday, assuring the media and staff members that this kind of turnaround can and will be done by others. And now…

Ranking The Eight Houston Texans Road Trips of 2017

Back in the day, before I started doing the postgame show for the Houston Texans on Texans Radio (hey, shameless plug — be sure to tune in Saturday night on SportsRadio 610 after the Texans-Patriots game!), my girlfriend Amy and I would travel to a couple of Texans road games…

First Look at R&R Crafthouse Grill in Cypress

There is a multitude of restaurants along Highways 249 and 290, but the Cypriots (okay, Cypress residents) living in between the major thoroughfares contend with a bit of a dining desert. Sure there are the various Mexican restaurants and little Chinese joints, but there aren’t a lot of other options…

Feel-good rapper comedy Patti Cake$ doesn’t earn its mic

The story beats of Patti Cake$, a socioeconomic-sermonizing comedy about a thick young white woman with huge hip-hop dreams and little prospects, are as predictable as the ticking of an egg timer, as generic and tinny as the pulses of a drum machine. I rooted not for Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle…

Texas A&M Cancels “White Lives Matter” Protest

Citing campus security concerns, Texas A&M has canceled a September 11 “white lives matter” event that was to feature white supremacist activist Richard Spencer. Scheduled by Preston Wiginton, a white nationalist supporter and former A&M student, the day-long protest was meant to take place in front of the Rudder Plaza…

Houston Rockets Unveil Full 2017-2018 Schedule

There has been no shortage of sports fare to satisfy our appetites lately here in Houston. The Deshaun Watson Era could be dawning here very soon, with the second preseason game a few days away, the Astros are making the race for the American League’s best record a lot closer…

Released Video Shows Deputies Searching Houston Woman’s Vagina

After the Harris County District Attorney’s Office dismissed charges against two former sheriff’s deputies accused of ordering the search of a woman’s vagina for marijuana, the woman’s attorney has released the dashboard camera footage of the incident. William Strong and Ronaldine Pierre were charged with official oppression last June following…

Cheap Eats: Sunny Flea Market For Fresh Elotes And $1 Tacos

Way up in North Houston, if you continue on Interstate 45 past Canino Produce, another 15 minutes or so, and crawl up Airline drive, you’ll find a large, dusty parking lot backed up to a nearly brand-new red and gold Asian theme park—at least that’s what we first saw. Then…

Houston’s Tex-Mex Soul

Robb Walsh is rummaging through the dry storage area in search of the anchos. We’re in the kitchen of his Montrose ode-to-old-school Tex-Mex restaurant El Real, which the Beard Award winning writer and former Houston Press food critic opened in 2010 with chef Bryan Caswell. He pulls out a large…

Soderbergh Returns at Last With a Breezy, Comic Real-America Heist

In Steven Soderbergh’s hillbilly heist comedy Logan Lucky, the West Virginia prison where vault specialist Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) resides is pristine and peaceful. This is a high-security facility in a seemingly alternate world, a jail without racial tensions where the prisoners feast on edible food. While only a small…

Ted Cruz One-Ups Trump By Immediately Calling Out White Supremacists

After a white nationalist rally against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent on Saturday, President Donald Trump jumped in with a statement that even many Republicans thought was alarmingly vague. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display…

In Texas, Even The Socialists Are Carrying Guns

As David Smith stood guard before a rally in downtown Houston, cradling a rifle across his chest, heckles rained down on him from a group of men and women across the street. It’s not an unusual scene when politically left and right groups mingle, except it was Smith from the…

UH Undergoes a Major (Applewhite) Change from Tom Herman

Major Applewhite is not busy running around kissing his players on the cheek. He’s not wearing a grill or buddying up to rappers. There are no feuds with the media, no angry denunciations of rumors that he’s about to take another job. There’s no talk about family. Such is life…

Dive Into Houston Sushi

It’s that special time again, time for us to round up some of our previous top coverage. This weekend we’re focusing on a very hot to pic— sushi.  Here’s some of our best sushi articles from the recent past, including a couple big openings that just hit Houston this summer…

Little Devoted to Houston Bike Plan in $495 Million Bond Package

Houston cyclists had something to celebrate back in March, when City Council voted to adopt the Houston Bike Plan. It marked the first time in more than two decades that the city planned to comprehensively upgrade its crumbling biking infrastructure, which was last fully revamped in the early 1990s. The…


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