Try These 5 Outrageous Egg-Topped Dishes in Houston
Hashtags like #putaneggonit and #yolkporn have garnered thousands of devotees on instagram, and Houston delivers some solid options for local runny-yolk worshippers. Here’s where to get five of the most outrageous egg-topped dishes in Houston: Crisp Tots and Local Egg Where to get them: Velvet Taco, 4819 Washington Tator tots…
Houston 20 Years Ago? You Can Keep It
I’m tired of hearing a bunch of moaning and bitching about how great Houston music used to be. The time has come to stop the communal griping about the past. You sound like my Pops when he breaks into “Back in my day…” Eyeroll. No more moaning about Houston’s musical…
Broncos-Texans: Four Things To Watch For
Given the fact that it’s been less than 21 months since Gary Kubiak was fired just hours after returning home from a terrible Thursday night road loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars (You remember that night? When D.J. Swearinger decided to try to break the record for boneheaded penalties in one…
Galveston Boys To Whom It May Take Over SiriusXM’s Octane Airwaves
If you’ve tuned into Sirius/XM’s Octane channel lately, your ears may have been fortunate enough to hear Galveston-based rock band To Whom It May. Their single “Bypass” is getting rotation on satellite radio’s heaviest rock station, no easy feat for a relatively new band. Especially one that has yet to release…
High School Baseball Coach’s Sudden Resignation Raises Questions [UPDATED]
Cory Bowyer, the head baseball coach at KTHS, has abruptly resigned his coaching and teaching positions. The Katy ISD is declining to answer most questions but did issue a statement saying he had resigned and adding that it is reviewing the school’s fee collection process for athletics. After talking to…
The 5 Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Integration & More
Our choices for best events this weekend include a dance performance, two new art exhibits and two classic films. (Well, we’re being generous with the term “classic” there. Camp might be a better term for one of them, but hey, we try not to judge. Labels can be so hurtful.)…
5 Arguments Religious People Should Quit Using.
America is largely a nation of the faithful. The majority of people living here self-identify as being observant of religious beliefs of one kind or another, with the majority still identifying as some type of Christian. Religion has always had a major effect on America. As society continues to change…
Houston Texans “Hard Knocks,” Episode 2 Review
Two episodes of Hard Knocks are now in the books, and I suppose we could see this coming — after a season premiere that gave us enough content to carry a five hour radio show last Wednesday, the second episode of the season was a bit of a tumble from the…
The 10 Most Embarrassing Houstonians
In general I love my city and defend it often. We have some really awesome people who live here advancing arts and science and just life in general, and believe me they are the norm. That said, there are more than a few individuals straight out of H-Town that we…
5 Annoying Things About Being a Red State Liberal
As the comment section constantly rushes to remind me, I am a liberal. According to most of those same commenters this a terrible thing for which I should burn in shame, but I think I’ll just keep on trucking just the same. However, I will say that being a liberal…
It’s Never Too Late to Learn Proper Concert Manners
1. LEAVING EARLY. JUST DON’T. You don’t leave a show early. It’s horribly rude. I’ve seen this practice increase lately, and it’s got to end. During Smashing Pumpkins’ summer tour co-headlining (whatever the hell that means) with Marilyn Manson, which stopped at NRG Arena last month, more than a quarter…
The El Cantina Superior Has Closed To Become A Brewpub [UPDATED]
In a press release yesterday, Ken Sheppard of Delicious Concepts Restaurant Group announced that The El Cantina Superior is now closed. Plans are to remodel and repurpose the space to become a yet-to-be-named “brewpub and American kitchen.” Delicious Concepts is also the company behind Pink’s Pizza, Lola, Shepherd Park Draught…
Gambling! Which NFL Head Coach Will Be Fired First In 2015?
From a gambling standpoint, we live in a truly glorious age, with the ability to place bets online (sorry, government, it’s true) and with television networks now acknowledging the fact that wagering does exist en masse. These are tremendous developments! The end result has been smarter, more insightful coverage of…
“Hard Knocks” Episode 2 Preview In Which Brian Cushing Upends Alfred Blue
Throughout the off-season, during OTA’s, and early in training camp, we’ve heard the same thing about linebacker Brian Cushing from everybody associated with the Houston Texans — “The knee is finally right again, the old Cush is back.” In Saturday’s preseason opener, Cushing only played five snaps (Hell, the Niners…
Meet Houstonian and Food Network Star Winner Eddie Jackson
The final show of season 11 of Food Network Star that aired this past Sunday revealed that the winner is Houstonian Eddie Jackson. As in prior years, the final test on the food-based reality competition was to create a show pilot. Jackson was one of three finalists who had the…
Blackgrass Gospel Wants You to Join the Congregation
Houston’s Blackgrass Gospel specializes in a strain of bluegrass you may be unfamiliar with. It’s called “outlaw bluegrass,” and we could easily do an egg-headed historical analysis of the styles that form this interesting hybrid of American musical genres. We could philosophize on the cultural shifts that set these music…
The “Flash Drought” is Bringing the Texas Drought Creeping Back
Remember how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality declared the state drought officially over last month? Well, that didn’t last long. Thanks to a nasty combo of hotter-than-hell temperatures and very little rain of late, part of the state is once again slipping into dryness and moderate to severe drought-like…
Black’s Market Table Adds Gourmet-level Southern Fare to the Far Northwest Side of Houston
When Black’s Market Table serves up ribs, they’re serious about it. The sheer quantity is an eye-opener. Three big chunks cut with three ribs each are carefully stacked up on a plate. Each is tender, smoky and tattooed with criss-cross grill marks and glistens under a thin, bright sheen of…
Feds Have Filed Criminal Charges Against Houston-Based Black Elk Energy
Almost three years after a platform fire and explosion that killed three workers working off the shore of Louisiana, federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the Houston-based company, Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations. The criminal complaint, filed in a New Orleans federal court, alleges that multiple safety violations led…
This Week in Houston Food Blogs: Cupcakes and HRW Menus
This week, we’ve got reviews of two Houston Restaurant Weeks menus, a vegan pancake recipe and one not-so-great dining experience. Cupcakes seem to be on everyone’s mind lately, and Kim at Adventures in a New(ish) City is no different, despite her purported lack of a sweet tooth. She tried three…
Doctor Who: Is Missy a Body Snatcher?
Michelle Gomez is set to return as the new Master, Missy, in Series 9. Gomez and Capaldi had a wonderful, deadly chemistry last season that rivaled, though I would say failed to top, that of Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado. She’s as worthy as any to bear the name Master,…
Upcoming: Alejandro Fernandez, Doyle (ex-Misfits), Jerry Lee Lewis, Kristin Hersh, Lights, Mystikal, Red Fang, Rob Base, etc.
13 Passes: Fri., September 4, 9 p.m., $5 to $10. Concert Pub (Galleria), 5636 Richmond, Houston, 713-278-7272. Aaron Einhouse: Thu., September 17, 7 p.m., Free to $10. Redneck Country Club, 11110 W. Airport Blvd. Stafford, 281-809-4867. Abbey Rode & Already Gone: Fri., November 6, 8 p.m., $15 to $18. Main…
Plant-Based Dining Reigns Supreme at Aces of Taste Pop-Up Dinner
“Two days ago, you didn’t even know where you would be eating, and now you’re here. I think that’s pretty awesome,” said Ahrif Sarumi, owner of pop-up meal series Aces of Taste, in his opening comments before the meal. Aces of Taste is a nine month-year old pop-up dining concept…
On the Line: Will the Houston/Dallas Bullet Train Revolutionize Texas or Divide it Forever?
On a hot day in 1991, Nancy Beddingfield stood on her front porch watching a stranger in a suit maneuver his car up the dirt drive of the Busy B Ranch, plumes of red dirt flying up behind him. He parked and strode up the rest of the driveway to…
Dreamy, Billowy Clouds of Joyful Color
Happiness and light – with a generous dose of hospitality – are what’s being served up at d. m. allison gallery, courtesy of local abstractionist Tuyet Ong-Barr, who spent time in Paris and originally hails from Vietnam. While acknowledging that there is darkness in our world, Ong-Barr prefers to focus…
More 2015 Houston Music Hall of Fame Inductees: Trudy Lynn, Herb Remington & Harry Sheppard
TRUDY LYNN Sometimes called Houston’s “First Lady of the Blues” or “First Lady of Soul,” the dynamic Trudy Lynn was still in her teens when she sang onstage with “Iceman” Albert Collins’ band and opened for Ike & Tina Turner. Even so, her recent success has arguably put the sixtysomething…
Jadeveon Clowney Returns To The Practice FIeld
For the better part of a year now, for most Texans fans, Jadeveon Clowney has been more of a concept than an actual person, his action so sparse last season that any discussion of him as a part of the team’s defense feels like we may as well be discussing…
Houston Music That Should Be On ‘Hard Knocks’ Tonight
Last Tuesday night, the rest of America got to learn what we already know about the Houston Texans: their head coach, Bill O’Brien is a foul-mouthed throwback of a head coach. That their All-American poster boy and anti-thesis to every negative headline in the history of football, J.J. Watt is…
The 2015 Houston Music Hall of Fame Inductees: Rusty & Teresa Andrews, Benjamin J. Butler II, Rodney Crowell & Milton Hopkins
The Houston Music Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015 is largely composed of performers whose chosen style is not altogether fashionable with today’s mainstream audiences, although one of them had a No. 1 Billboard album as recently as last year. In a way, that’s exactly why we created the Hall:…
Ag Commissioner Sid Miller Goes Nuclear on Facebook
Well, once again Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has done something to grab our attention. No, he’s not issuing rulings on whether school lunches should be deep-fried or the importance of cupcakes. This time, Miller has gone on social media and sort of advocated for a nuclear solution to tensions…
Matt Schaub Still Getting Clowned By Ravens Teammates
You remember back to elementary school or junior high, when a new kid would move in from out of town, and through the course of trying to make friends and acclimate himself, the poor bastard just couldn’t do anything right, and even when he did do something right, it still…
Neurosis Hypnotizes Their First Houston Crowd in Forever
Neurosis, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Pinkish Black, krvshr Warehouse Live August 16, 2015 Opportunities to catch Oakland post-metal icons Neurosis have been few and far between in Houston. Never much given to massive North American tours, it had been at least a decade and probably more since the band…
A Mother and Her Autistic Son Brace for Medicaid Cuts
The waiting room door swings open, and 9-year-old Vail Sellers starts on a sprint to Dr. Michael G. Pearson. The doctor flips Vail upside down and carries him by the ankles down the hall to their 2 o’clock speech therapy appointment, and Vail is laughing hysterically. “Do you want your ankles…
Lone Star’s Texas Heritage Festival Makes a Refreshing Secret
Lone Star Beer Texas Heritage Festival Silver Street Studios August 15, 2015 On a sunny afternoon in the dead of summer, a festival was developing just outside downtown Houston. Dubbed the Texas Heritage Festival and free to all with a mere RSVP, the event ambitiously set out to bring a heterogeneous…
Sam Smith Is a Real Heartbreaker at Toyota Center
Sam Smith, Gavin James Toyota Center August 14, 2015 Sam Smith made me love him and then broke my damn heart at Toyota Center Friday night. It was hurtful, but I’ll forgive him, because that broken heart happened in the nicest of ways, I guess. I’m going to be honest…
Rice Aims for a Fourth Straight Bowl Game
The Rice Owls were the laughingstock of college football for many, many years. One win seasons, three win seasons, losing season after losing season. A small school in a major conference playing the big boy football programs season after season. But that’s the Rice Owls of years past, the Rice…
NASA Just Tested the SLS Engine: What Else Has to Happen to Get to Mars?
Things have been going swimmingly at NASA of late. On top of the triumph that was NASA’s Pluto fly-by last month (New Horizon got a nice haul from that, collecting data that will take months to transmit and sort) last week NASA conducted another successful test of the RS-25, the…
100 Favorite Houston Dishes 2015, No. 69: Banh Mi Thap Cam at Café TH
When it comes to banh mi, mo’ meat is mo’ betta as far as I’m concerned. There’s no way that I’m going to choose only one. It all sounds good and the best answer is ordering a combination. At Café TH, the Banh Mi Thap Cam (thap cam means “mixed”…
Focus on Houston Grand Opera’s Studio Showcase Artist: Federico De Michelis
Federico De Michelis was studying piano in a conservancy in Buenos Aires when a friend asked if he’d like to tag along to his choir rehearsal. The conductor at that rehearsal said De Michelis might as well join in the vocals as long as he was there and a discovery…
Dish of the Week: Cacio e Pepe
From classic comfort foods to regional standouts and desserts, we’ll be sharing a new recipe with you each week. Find other dishes of the week here. This week, we’re covering the stripped down Italian favorite, Cacio e Pepe. Literally meaning “cheese and pepper,” cacio e pepe is a Roman pasta…
10 Games That Were Censored for Sex
Whenever I see GamerGate or some other group complaining about feminist or social justice critiques of video games, often launching into impassioned speeches about the evils of censorship, I can’t help but think that they might be rather juvenile or perhaps suffering from severe memory loss. The video game industry…
NFL Preseason Week 1: Texans 23, 49ers 10 — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Football is back. Does it matter that it’s watered down, close to the vest, sloppy football? Does it matter that on the list of things that were important about Saturday night’s game between the Texans’ backups’ backups and the 49ers’ backups’ backups the final score was like 39th on the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: A Charcuterie Dinner and a Romanian Pop-Up
All Month Long Houston Restaurant Weeks Don’t forget that this fundraiser is in full-swing all month and into September! Not sure where to go to celebrate? Check out our list of new Houston restaurants that are participating in this year’s Houston Restaurant Weeks. French Wine Summer-Cleaning Sale Do you have…
Get to Know the 2015 HPMA Best New Act Nominees
“New.” It’s one of the most exciting words a person can use when talking music. Whether it’s new material being released by an old favorite or a fresh slate of show dates that includes your city, the promise of something current and undiscovered is like lifeblood to the music business. The…
The Five Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Weird Al Yankovic, Incubus, Deftones, Bluebonnets, etc.
Weird Al Yankovic Revention Music Center, August 18 From Michael Jackson and Nirvana on down, Weird Al Yankovic’s signature combo of whimsy and total squareness has sucked the hot air out of plenty of music’s biggest egos, and the list of artists foolish enough to challenge his parodies of their…
Nick Greer Wants You to Help Solve a Murder Mystery
This weekend, Prohibition Supperclub & Bar will premiere an immersive theater production, Magnolia City, that pairs the Moonlight Dolls of burlesque-dancing fame alongside HPMA-nominated local funk-man and pianist extraordinaire Nick Greer. The weekly murder-mystery production will blur the line between guests and cast, as well as fact and fiction, as everyone…
Hearst Lawyers Will Fight Sweeping Gag Order in Mass Murder Case
Prosecutors claim that on August 8, David Conley slipped in through an unlocked window at the northwest Harris County home where his ex-girlfriend, Valerie Jackson, lived with her husband and her six children. From there, authorities claim Conley put all eight family members in handcuffs and then, one by one,…
Colts’ $65 Million Extension for WR T.Y. Hilton Has Houston Texans Ramifications
If all NFL transactions were treated equally and scored as “hits” or “misses,” the track record of Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson is probably a fairly sizable negative number. Fortunately for Grigson, not all NFL transactions are created nor treated equally. For starters, Grigson was fortunate enough to draft…
Reviews for the Easily Distracted: Straight Outta Compton
Title: Straight Outta Compton Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: “George Burns was right: show business is a hideous bitch goddess.” Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Three-and-a-half ’64 Impalas out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: Five enterprising youths pull themselves up by their bootstraps, become establishment darlings. Tagline: “The world’s…
A Fond Farewell to a Tour That Dreams Are Made of
American Idols Live! Tour Revention Music Center August 13, 2015 I have a confession to make: when I was in third or fourth grade, the highlight of my week would be watching American Idol on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. My obsession with the television giant began in Season 4 when I,…
Mother of Transgender Son Joins the Fight for HERO
Their daughter was 5 when Ann Elder and her husband began noticing. During play dates, Elder remembers her daughter wanting to role play as a teenage pirate named Max. She hated dresses. She wasn’t into girly pink toys. When she was 7 and nothing had changed, they took her to…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: When Beer & Yoga Collide
Katy Summer Tailgate Party @ Historic Downtown Katy Friday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. 1st (Historic Katy) Hit this end-of-summer bash for an evening of fun for kids and adults. The Tailgate Party will feature a beer garden with some of your favorite refreshments from No Label Brewery, a “Taste…
The Astros Might Be Struggling, but the Team’s Still in First Place
The Astros are in a bit of a slump. The team’s lost seven of its last 10 games. The starting pitching has been pretty solid, but the hitting has disappeared. Yet the Astros do have a winning record since the All Star break, and then there’s the important thing: despite…
Rockers Ganesha Stay Up On ‘Downer’
What with a solid three nominations in this year’s Houston Press Music Awards — two for singer/guitarist Ricky Dee alone — it seems like a good time to take a good look at Ganesha’s debut LP, Downer. Rock has always been the best way to describe the trio, but Downer…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Roumanian-Style Pop Up
Beginning this Sunday, August 16 and running every Sunday at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. through October 4, Prohibition Supperclub & Bar, 1008 Prairie, and The Moonlight Dolls will be hosting an immersive Murder Mystery Show. The night will take you back to turn of the century Magnolia City, when…
10 Popular Things From The ’80s That We’ve Since Abandoned
Nostalgia is a weird thing. People who live through a particular decade sometimes either embrace its trends or find themselves eager to see their demise, only to find themselves with an odd longing for them a couple of decades later. The news that Columbia House Record Club is going out…
How Not to Be Confused About METRO’s New Bus Network
Houston has added more than one million people since the last time the city’s METRO bus system was designed, in the 1970s. But more population hasn’t necessarily meant more ridership. Since 1999, METRO bus ridership has declined roughly 20 percent. Noticing the falling numbers, METRO CEO and President Tom Lambert and…
James Harden Signs $200 Million Deal to Become Face of Adidas
Since coming to Houston in 2012, James Harden has been one of the best players in the NBA. He’s won a scoring title, finished runner up in the MVP balloting, and led the Rockets to a berth in the 2015 Western Conference Finals. He is undoubtedly one of the most…
Filming ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Got a Little TOO Real
Note: This article originally appeared earlier this week in Houston Press sister paper LA Weekly. Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs (“Crap Rap N.W.A”)…
Openings and Closings in Houston: Morningstar Coffee, or Blacksmith With Donuts
The masterminds behind Blacksmith and Greenway Coffee have announced a new coffeehouse called Morningstar, which will be located at 4721 North Main. It will not only be a hideout for coffee lovers, but doughnut lovers— Morningstar will feature the creations of co-owner Sam Pahn, the doughnut genius of Donald’s Donuts…
Houston’s 10 Best Bars Where You Can Relax
This Saturday, August 15, is National Relaxation Day, so we present to you this list of the best bars in Houston to relax at; if you just can’t get to one of these bars on Saturday, keep them in mind for a future relaxing night out, as must of us…
Important Things to Know Before Seeing ‘Straight Outta Compton’
As a kid, I bonded far more with the male figures in my life because for the most part, that’s what boys do. They see their older counterparts and start mimicking them. Besides my father, nobody had a hold on me like my grandfather, who introduced me to wrestling, and my…
The 10 Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Sam Smith, Lone Star Beer Texas Heritage Fest, Biscuit Pop-Up Show, etc.
Sam Smith Toyota Center, August 14 There’s not even that much debate over whether Sam Smith is the most gifted soul singer to come along in a generation; a voice like his is so pure it almost defies the laws of nature. The 23-year-old London native’s trajectory from obscurity to…
Harris County Sheriff’s Office Releases Timeline of Response to Saturday’s Mass Murder
On Thursday, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office released a detailed timeline of the events that transpired at the home on Falling Oaks Road where David Conley allegedly murdered Dwayne and Valerie Jackson and six children Saturday. The timeline was released amid questions about what more CPS and law enforcement could…
Don’t Worry About The Gunfire and Shouting You’ll Hear Downtown Friday
If you hear gunfire, sirens, and blood-curdling screams in downtown Houston Friday, just ignore it — it’s just an “emergency management” drill hosted by UH-Downtown. The drill (we like to call it “Jade Helm 16”) is scheduled for 8-11 a.m. “north of campus in the Daly Street student parking lot…
NBA Releases 2015-16 Schedule, Rockets-Spurs To Play Christmas Night
Wow, this summer is just flying by, man! It feels like it was just a week ago when the last of the stranded Rocket fans were able to finally fish their cars from the flooded streets around Toyota Center during the Great Memorial Day Deluge, and yet training camp for…
Blue Bell Will be Back on Houston Shelves (In September)
Those jonesing for Blue Bell ice cream will get to satisfy their cravings pretty soon. That’s right, less than five months after the Brenham-based company recalled all of its frozen products and shut down its factories in the face of a listeria outbreak, the little creamery in Brenham is rising…
Warrantless Roadside Body Cavity Searches Are Pretty Much Unconstitutional
Virtually everyone agrees – from defense attorneys to legal scholars to appellate court judges – that a cop violates your constitutional right against an unreasonable search if they escalate a traffic stop into a roadside vaginal or anal probe. It’s unclear, then, why the Harris County Sheriff’s Office last week…
Podcast: You Are Now About to Witness the Strength of Streep Knowledge
Meryl Streep in a comedic role is one of the few good things in Ricki and the Flash, and the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton sands down many of the rough corners of the ground-breaking rap group’s controversial history. On this week’s Voice Film Club, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek…
Why Texas’s CPS Case Overload Can Lead to Tragedy
Dimple Patel remembers her hand shaking the first time she knocked on the door. She was 22 and had just started as a Texas Child Protective Services caseworker. “I didn’t know what would be on the other side,” she said. She would knock on hundreds of more doors with the…
A Teenage Cast Explores Rent for TUTS’ Humphreys School of Musical Theatre<>
For three performances only, a teen cast from Theatre Under the Stars’ Humphreys School of Musical Theatre, will present Rent, the much adored modern adaptation of the opera La Boheme about the young and restless underclass trying to survive in New York City – with HIV and AIDS taking the…
Absolut Produces a Vodka With Some Class and Flavor
I don’t have a lot of respect for vodka except in certain applications where a neutral spirit comes in handy (like cleaning windows or removing tree sap from the hood of my car, for example). I am a total vodka snob and opt for other white spirits that haven’t had…
Hearts of Animals Have a Little Fun In “Money for That”
“It all started out because I’ve always wanted to do my color-guard routine in a music video,” says Mlee Marie. When I heard that Hearts of Animals was putting out another music video I strapped the hell in because their/her last one, “Sea Babies,” is one of the greatest music…
2015 NFL MVP Odds Are Out; How Does J.J. Watt Stack Up?
Much is being made of this “golden age” of Houston sports that we could be on the cusp of right now. Given that the Texans are still a quarterback away from being a real threat and the Astros haven’t even clinched a postseason spot for 2015 yet, perhaps “golden age”…
In HBO’s ‘Show Me a Hero,’ David Simon Takes Sides in a Desegregation War
Less than a generation ago, Yonkers, New York became the face of segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation in my backyard. A federal court order to construct 200 units of low-income residences east of the Saw Mill Parkway, i.e., in the white part of town, led to riots and bombings, death…
5 Clichéd Movie Character Types I’d Like to See Go Away
Like many other people, I’m a hardcore movie fan, and watching them eats up a lot of my spare time. Anyone who has spent significant time in front of a screen watching films has probably realized that a lot of them trot out the same hackneyed plot elements over and…
More Than a Few Words With the Incomparable Sylvain Sylvain
If rock and roll is about separating the wheat from the chaff, about seeing talent shimmer in a city of endless mundane moments, and about surviving the ups and downs of the limelight and our limited time on Earth, then Sylvain Sylvain is practically heroic. Despite his career of sex-fueled…
Yes, Fitzgerald’s Is Closing…Just Not for Very Long
Well, folks, the rumors are true: Fitzgerald’s, the infamous and beloved rock and roll dive on White Oak Boulevard, is closing. Just not for very long. A month or so of downtime is all the rickety old joint will need — at least, that’s the current estimate from incoming general manager…
Secrets Destroyed My Family. Help!
MY MAN THINKS HIS JOB TAKES PRIORITY OVER MINE Dear Willie D: After being a housewife for 11 years, I finally got a job and started contributing to the household financially, although it wasn’t necessary because my husband earns three times more money than me. In the ensuing years he…
Like the Show, ‘American Idol’ Winner Nick Fradiani Is No Passing Fad
Earlier this year, American Idol finished its fourteenth season. Time flies, doesn’t it? This Summer, the Top 5 contestants from this season hit the road on the 37-city “American Idols Live!” tour, which visits Houston tonight at the freshly renamed Revention Music Center. We had the pleasure of recently chatting with…
The Waller County Sheriff Is Getting Really Sick Of Protesters [UPDATED]
In the latest development in the burgeoning conflict between Sandra Bland protesters and the Waller County Sheriff’s Office, barricades went up and a tree popular among protesters came down (when?). On Tuesday morning, barricades popped up in front of the Waller County Sheriff’s Office, where clergywoman Hannah Bonner had been…
Paul Wall, City Settle Differences Over School-Supply Drive
Monday, Houston rapper Paul Wall called out the Mayor’s Office on social media, claiming the city was denying the necessary permits for his back-to-school supply drive scheduled for this Sunday at Wiley Park, near Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston’s historic Fourth Ward. These days more people know the neighborhood…
Death Row Inmate Who Waived Appeals Set to Die Tonight
Convicted murderer Daniel Lee Lopez is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville Wednesday — and it’s exactly what he wanted. OK, OK — he didn’t wake up one morning and decide to be sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s death row; that came after his 2010 conviction for…
Former Texans Quarterbacks Fitzpatrick, Schaub Continue To Live Their Nine Lives
From the time the Texans were born as an NFL franchise, up until this season, the team has had their starting quarterback in place at the outset of literally every training camp. From 2002 to 2006, it was David Carr. From 2007 to 2013, it was Matt Schaub. Last season,…
Houston Texans “Hard Knocks,” Episode 1 Review
“I called my parents and I asked them not to watch it … especially my mother. She’s Irish Catholic, and she goes to Mass, I think, every day. She’s not going to be very happy with me.” — Texans head coach Bill O’Brien discussing “Hard Knocks” Well, I don’t know…
100 Favorite Houston Dishes 2015, No. 70: Caramelized Onion Soup at Mockingbird Bistro
Phaedra Cook is eating her way through Houston and counting down her 100 favorite dishes of 2015. It’s a collection of personal favorites that is also indicative of Houston dining. It’s a scene where a vast range of dishes coexist: highbrow and lowbrow; local and international; cheap and expensive; modern…
Last Call to Vote For the 2015 Houston Press Music Award Nominees
Last call is nobody’s favorite part of a night out. About the only upshot is it means there’s not much more damage you can do to your bank account, except maybe that cab or Uber home. But last call comes to us all, and this morning is last call for…
The End of the Tour Finds Just Enough of David Foster Wallace
“This conversation is the best one I ever had,” David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) tells us as The End of the Tour wraps up, and the movie, a pleasantly talky chamber piece, gives us welcome bursts of it. That long chat, with a David Foster Wallace (Segel) abashed by the success…
Straight Outta Compton‘s Urgent Truth Gets Lost in the Paperwork
In the holy trinity of N.W.A., each icon had a power: Dr. Dre produced, Ice Cube wrote the words and Eazy-E was the comic relief. N.W.A.’s biopic, Straight Outta Compton, blurs those roles. Both Dre and Cube produced the film, and seem to have edited the script with a red…
