Venomous Maximus Remind Us All That There’s No Warning
Venomous Maximus can’t predict the future. They can only stay ready for it.
Kirko Bangz Is Still Finding His Way
The headline-level Houston rapper’s latest tape daydreams about women and sends a few messages to his friends.
Martin Wouldn’t Be Classic TV Without These Side Characters
All hail the mighty Sheneneh.
Upcoming: !!!, Alt-J, Evanescence, Flying Lotus, FreshDark Fest, The Shins, Tricky, Tyler the Creator, The Used, Z-Ro, etc.
A constantly updated guide to upcoming concerts in the Greater Houston area.
21 Best Things to Do in Houston This Week: David Spade and Houston Fringe Festival
Check out the Houston Press calendar for even more things to do.
College Football Week 1 — This Weekend’s Best Bets
Football season is back this weekend with a slate of college football games that includes a gigantic headliner (Alabama vs. Florida State), some nice mid-card fodder (Florida vs. Michigan, LSU vs. BYU), and a slew of games that are your standard Week 1 fare. That is a NICE slate of…
Houston Texans Way-Too-Early 53-Man Roster Prediction, Final Version
Early in the preseason’s final week, the hay is pretty much in the barn for Bill O’Brien and Rick Smith when it comes to constructing the Texans Week 1 53-man roster. There are just a handful of spots still up for grabs, and the coaches won’t have another game to…
Openings & Closings: The Hurricane Harvey Edition
Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen on Eldridge remains closed at this time due to flooding. The restaurant got about 18 inches of water inside, but expects to start cleaning up by the weekend with a contractor lined up. The Woodway location is already back open for business. Owner Phillip Sitter of King’s…
Governor Abbott’s Charged Language After Federal Judge Blocks SB4
Just before the state’s controversial “anti-sancutary city” law Senate Bill 4 was set to go into effect, a federal judge has blocked the state from enforcing almost all provisions of the law. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia has found SB4—which would prohibit local law enforcement from adopting policies limiting immigration…
Follow-up to Goon Lands a Lot of Jokes — and This Time, They Sting
Here’s a shocker: What might’ve seemed an ill-advised sequel to a surprisingly not-bad little hockey comedy is … surprisingly not bad! In fact, in some ways Goon: Last of the Enforcers actually manages to improve upon its forebear, connecting on jabs at a rate roughly equal to that of the…
Houston Texans Return Home After NFL Cancels Preseason Finale
In a move that was mildly surprising, if for no other reason than because there had been roughly 40,000 tickets sold to it in the past few days, the final game of the 2017 preseason between the Houston Texans and the Dallas Cowboys was cancelled by the NFL on Wednesday…
With First Game Postponed, Houston Cougars Take a Break to Help in Harvey Recovery
The Houston Cougars will not play a football game this weekend. There are things that are just more important. The game that was scheduled, a season-opening tilt for both the Cougars and UTSA that was supposed to be played in San Antonio ,has been postponed. The teams will try to…
The Woodlands Fire Chief: “Now the Hard Work of Recovery Begins.”
With a beefed-up emergency personnel response, The Woodlands Fire Department handled roughly 2,500 calls between last Sunday and Tuesday, a period in which 224 people were either rescued or evacuated, Department Chief Alan Benson announced at a Woodlands Township Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, Fourteen fire companies, instead of the…
Metro Will Gear Up for Limited Service Thursday. Here Are the Running Routes.
Having been out of commission since Sunday due to Harvey’s epic flooding, Metro will finally be back up and running on Thursday—but with limited service. As for the rails, only the Red Line, from Fannin South Station to the Downtown Transit Center will be running every 15 minutes; bus shuttles…
Whataburger Donates Nearly $2 Million for Harvey Recovery Efforts
Your favorite fast food eatery just got even better, Houston. Whataburger announced yesterday evening that it’s pledging $1 million to its Whataburger Family Foundation to help take care of its employees that have been impacted by Harvey, along with $150,000 to the Red Cross and $500,000 to local food banks…
Shows We Know Are Still Happening This Weekend
Please call in advance first, though.
A Semi Truck Floated Into Lucky’s Pub During Harvey Flooding
It’s sad news for Lucky’s Pub, which was set to reopen as White Oak Biergarten on August 26. The building, located at 2520 Houston Avenue, flooded up to the second story during Harvey on Saturday night with 12 feet of water. And by early Sunday morning a semi truck had…
Harvey Response Shows, for Once, All Lives Matter
To all who have been affected by the storm, know that you are not alone.
Gospel Singer Performs for Harvey Evacuees in Conroe
The voice cut through everything — the chatter of volunteers, the rain still falling outside, the exhausted clatter of people settling into cots and trying to find food and dry clothes at the Lone Star Exposition Center in Conroe in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and the catastrophic floods that…
Bun B, Scooter Braun Plan Trillest Telethon Ever
Should be quite a guest list.
10 Simple Ways to Help Those in Need After Harvey
These organizations stand ready to help on the long, difficult road to recovery all Houstonians face.
Flooding Spreads in Houston Thanks to the Addicks Reservoir and Buffalo Bayou
The water began to recede in parts of Houston on Wednesday as Harvey finally cleared out, but the flooding is far from over for much of the city as engineers continue to clear water out of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs as quickly as possible, which is allowing Buffalo Bayou…
What Do I Say to a Dying Friend? Help!
What’s on your mind? What isn’t? Ask Willie D!
Girls’ Adolescence Makes for Terror in Brazil’s Sumptuous Kill Me Please
In Anita Rocha da Silveira’s lush, beguiling Kill Me Please, the rape and murder of young women in the film’s reality get regarded by the protagonists something like the fictional onscreen rape and murder of young women get regarded in our world. For the teen girlfriends that da Silveira follows,…
Chilean Street-Life Tragedy Jesus is Raw and Vital
Fernando Guzzoni’s Jesus, the latest cautionary you-are-there-as-the-kids-go-wild drama, shares many hallmarks of its genre: loose, improvisatory scenes of drug use and bullying cruelty; frank sex and violence that, while simulated, certainly seem to have hurt and aroused the actors; a cast you might fear is too young to be exposing…
Spielberg’s Close Encounters Returns in All its Confounding Glory
In one sense, Steven Spielberg’s 1977 UFO bliss-out, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is reprehensible. It is, after all, the story of a daydreamer dad (Richard Dreyfuss) who leaves his family for worlds unknown as he continually trades in one slender, luminous life companion for another: Teri Garr for…
Here’s All the TV Not to Miss This September, as You Hide Inside From a World Gone Mad
It’s September and TV is back so praise the lord and pass the Postmates app, because I’m not trying to leave my apartment unless it’s to protest Donald Trump. It’s just TV, protest Trump and repeat. Happy fall! Sept. 5, FX, American Horror Story: Cult This season of Ryan Murphy’s…
Houston Officials Lay Out Plans to Transition from Rescue to Recovery Phase
As the flood waters have continued to recede and the sunglasses have finally become necessary again, Houston is now transitioning away from the rescue stage of Tropical Storm Harvey and toward recovery. So what does this mean? For first responders, it means they will begin a block by block, door…
Merchant-Ivory’s Heat and Dust Finds its Women Out of Time and at the Empire’s Mercy
With the world falling apart all around us, watching a Merchant-Ivory film from 1983 might, at first, sound like the dumbest fucking thing anybody could do right now. Or maybe it’d just be an understandable, comforting response to the untenable chaos of the moment — “sheetcaking,” I believe, is the…
Twin Peaks’ Greatest Twist is a Bad Boy’s Grown-up Decency
Twin Peaks: The Return airs Sundays on Showtime Live long enough, and people may surprise you. The biggest pricks you grew up with — the bullies or blowhards or preening kings of the high school — grow up, too. Sometimes they even turn out all right. Sometimes they’re even stung,…
Six Missing Family Members Found in Van Along Banks of Greens Bayou
In a tragic discovery, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has retrieved a missing van with six dead family members inside — apparent floodwater victims. Deputies pulled the van from the receded flood waters along the Greens Bayou Wednesday. Reports of the missing family sprang up Sunday afternoon after a man…
Houston Airports Will Open at 4 p.m. Wednesday
After thousands of delays and hundreds of stranded travelers, both Houston airports will open at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a press conference Wednesday afternoon at the George R. Brown Convention Center. In a statement online, George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby airports explained that a “phased return…
With Strong Words, Turner Calls on FEMA to Pay up Disaster Relief Funds Swiftly
Following Houston City Council’s meeting Wednesday at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Mayor Sylvester Turner issued a strong plea to the feds to assist Houston’s flood victims as quickly as possible, concerned that bureaucratic delays in reimbursement funds will lead to even more chaos and outcry among all those…
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Did the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office Libel an Animal Rescue Group’s Owners? [UPDATED]
In a highly unusual Facebook post from a law enforcement agency, the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office has accused the owners of an animal rescue of abandoning 31 dogs as flood waters rose, and of being more interested in collecting donations “than he did about the dogs or his imperiled neighbors…
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Crosby Ammonia Plant in Danger of Exploding As Harvey Fallout Continues [UPDATED]
Houston is finally beginning to dry out from Harvey, the hurricane that dumped more than 9 trillion gallons of water on Houston and devastated much of the Central Texas Gulf Coast, but the fallout from the storm is far from over as chemical plants and other industrial facilities in the…
Houston Food Bank Opens: Registered Volunteers and Donations Needed
Crazy as it seems, until today, the Houston Food Bank has not been able to open due to high water surrounding the building, but thankfully it did not endure flooding inside and is finally able to get down to business. The food bank is calling on registered volunteers, needed for…
HISD Students Will Receive Free Meals All Year
As Houston shifts from rescue to relief efforts after devastating flooding throughout the city, the Houston Independent School District has announced that all HISD students will receive free meals for the 2017-2018 school year. Starting Tuesday, when HISD students begin school after a week-long delay, all 215,000 students in the…
Some Homeless Braved Harvey Outside All Week
From beneath the awning of a Sears building in Midtown, Charly Conley and about 15 other homeless people watched the flood waters creep up closer to them, like waves on a beach. It was Saturday night, when Harvey hurled its most treacherous rainfall down on Houston. Conley said they had…
Many Houston Restaurants Are Reopening: Here’s What to Know Before You Go
A drive around Montrose yesterday evening revealed that more restaurants than expected are open, but they’re quickly running out of food, have limited staff, and lines are pretty much out the door. In fact, traffic appeared as heavy as a Saturday night around Westheimer on Tuesday evening. Patience is key…
Astros Forced to Florida as Harvey and the Rangers Play Hardball
The morning after Hurricane Ike hit Houston in September 2008, the Astros players were collected and put on a plane to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee was the neutral site chosen by Major League Baseball for a series between the Astros and the Chicago Cubs. The games were supposed to be played…
For Thousands Across Houston, Lights Slowly Come Back On
For thousands of Houstonians caught in the path of Tropical Storm Harvey’s destruction, life just got a little brighter — literally. CenterPoint Energy has restored power to more than 96 percent of its 2.4 million customers in the Houston area, according to the company’s outage tracker. In a statement, CenterPoint…
NRG Center Opens to 10,000 Flood Victims
At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Harris County opened NRG Stadium as the next large shelter for those fleeing Harvey’s devastating floods. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said it will be open to 10,000 people. The local non-profit Baker-Ripley (formerly Neighborhood Centers, Inc.) will run the shelter with help from FEMA and…
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Where First Responders Can Eat for Free in Houston [Updated 9/1]
The culinary community in Houston has really stepped up during the previous days in the wake of Harvey and that generosity and spirit continues today. Here’s an ongoing list of confirmed restaurants where first responders can eat for free this week— please check back, as restaurants may close due to…
The New Homeless Converge at Shelters Across Houston
Eron Hypolite first escaped flooding in her apartment in East Houston on Saturday morning. From there, she drove to her boyfriend’s house in Pine Trails, a nearby subdivision, until the water followed her again and she and others were taken by boat to a Harris County courthouse in Timberwood on…
Harvey Showed This Hurricane First-Timer What Houston Is About
This is about everyday people gathering and supporting one another in the name of something bigger.
Exxon, Other Refineries, Emitted Chemicals Into the Air During Harvey
Residents in Manchester and across East Houston complained of a strange, unexplained smell starting on Saturday night, long before the worst of Hurricane Harvey had even hit. There’s still no official explanation of the odor, which lingered for more than two days, but a slew of reports filed by various…
The Menil’s “Thirty Works for Thirty Years” Is a True Treasure Hunt
Visitors will travel the entire Menil campus to uncover this special collection of works.
Can Tom Herman Save the Big XII by Reviving the Longhorns?
The buildup to last year’s Advocare Texas Kickoff at NRG Stadium was as much about collegiate politics and fiscal largesse as it was sport. It was the blue blood Oklahoma Sooners perceptually punching down at the upstart University of Houston. The game wasn’t just about 60 minutes of football. It…
Houston 2: Music and Manners in a Post-Harvey Town
Hot Trash: Avant Moi la deluge, Houston 2
Houston’s Real Heroes of Harvey…and One Goat
Everyone who helped somebody else during the past few days is a hero to us.
When Houston Went Under: Harvey Brings Historic Floods
The dining-room chairs were the safest place in the house — the highest ground. It was 2:30 a.m., but Samwa David and her husband, Richard, couldn’t sleep, not with the water pouring into their house. They sat at the dining-room table, with their feet propped up on chairs to avoid…
Red Bull Culture Clash Offers Bittersweet Harvey Escape
Had this been a boxing match, you would have expected each of the crews to have ring girls between rounds.
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Damaged But Determined, Cactus Music Presses On [Updated]
Its flagship notwithstanding, overall Houston’s record stores are in relatively good shape.
Mayor Turner Puts Houston Under a Curfew Starting Tonight
Mayor Sylvester Turner has just imposed a curfew within Houston city limits from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., effective immediately tonight. It will remain in effect until further notice. Turner and Police Chief Art Acevedo said looters have been targeting flooded-out homes as thousands of Houston residents have been evacuated…
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Turner Says He Can’t Confirm Reports of Drowned Houston Policeman [UPDATED]
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner declined at a Tuesday press conference to confirm the alleged accidental drowning of a Houston police officer that has been reported by the Houston Chronicle. A Houston Police Department spokesperson also could not confirm the report of a 30-year-veteran who allegedly drowned in his patrol car…
Levee South of Houston Breached, Residents Told to “Get Out Now”
The catastrophic flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey isn’t over yet. On Tuesday morning there was a breach in one of the levees in Brazoria County, located just south of Houston. Brazoria County officials responded to the failure in the Columbia Lakes levee by bluntly urging anyone still in the area…
Want to Help Harvey Victims? Here’s How.
You’re safe at home, but you don’t have a boat. What can you do to help people hurt by Tropical Storm Harvey? As Harvey pummels Texas for the fifth straight day, many people across Houston — and across the United States — are asking themselves that question. The simplest answer:…
Brazos River Expected to Reach Record Highs in Fort Bend County
Parts of Fort Bend County remain under mandatory evacuation as the Brazos River is projected to crest at 57.5 feet by 9 p.m. Tuesday, nearly four feet above its current level, according to the National Weather Service. That would break a 2016 record high. Already, more than 50,000 residents are…
White Oak Music Hall Announces $50K Harvey Relief Plan
The venue got off lightly, but is pitching in to help those less fortunate.
Texas Evacuates Houston-Area Prisons Because of Harvey Flooding
Even prisoners are fleeing Harvey. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced late Monday night it would start evacuating prisoners from its Vance and Jester III units. The two prisons — well technically, Jester III is a “prison farm” — share a plot of land west of Sugar Land, in…
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Houston Restaurants Accepting Donations for Harvey Relief: How You Can Help [Updated]
Restaurants across Houston are getting major donation efforts off the ground, whether that means cooking up hot meals for first responders and residents currently staying in shelters or the George R. Brown Convention Center, or collecting donations of first aid supplies and everyday basic needs items at locations across the…
Addicks and Barker Are at Record Levels and Spilling Over Their Barriers
The Addicks Reservoir, located about 19 miles west of downtown, spilled over for the first time in history Tuesday morning and both it and the Barker Reservoir are at record levels as the Houston area continues to be spattered with more rain from Tropical Storm Harvey. Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist…
Harvey Is Already the Worst Flood-Producing Storm in U.S. History
Not to lean too heavily on a cliche, but that whole doing things big in Texas clearly applies to Tropical Storm Harvey. Anyone with a pair of working eyes knows this is horrible, tragic situation that won’t be over for some time as recovery will likely continue for months. But,…
J.J. Watt’s Charity Website Raises $500,000 for Harvey Victims in 24 Hours
On Monday, with the city of Houston under a historic (and still deepening) amount of water from Tropical Storm Harvey, management at SportsRadio 610 decided to forego sports talk for the day and joined us with our other CBS Houston stations in a simulcast of wall to wall Harvey coverage…
U.S. Supreme Court Stalls Texas Redistricting Case
As Tropical Storm Harvey continued to roar through Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court quietly issued an order Monday with potentially big implications for voting rights in the state. Acting alone, Justice Samuel Alito issued a stay in Abbott v. Perez, a federal case that ordered two Texas congressional districts redrawn…
Social Media Aids Houston Rapper U-Flo’s Rescue
Since his rescue, he’s been using his account to spread the word about others who need help.
Harvey Displaces Houston College, Professional Sports Teams.
The Houston Cougars played a mock game on Thursday night. That night AD Hunter Yuracheck, head coach Major Applewhite and various other members of the UH sports staff had a meeting to figure out what to do about then-Hurricane Harvey. The next day football team boarded buses to Austin. The…
Texas Cattle Ranchers Struggle With Harvey Flooding: How You Can Help
The website of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) states that news about ranchers and livestock in the area affected by Hurricane Harvey “has been slim since Friday,” which is downright worrisome, but not unexpected as devastating flooding continues in the wake of the storm. Richard Thorpe, president of…
Houston’s Theater District Takes Serious Hit From Harvey
After touring the city’s five major arts venues, officials released an unsettling report.
Shows of the Week: The Man Who Has Still Never Been Rocked Enough
The livest music in the Bayou City for the last week of August and first weekend of September 2017.
Flooding From Harvey Leads to Houston-Area Hospital Closures
Tropical Storm Harvey has disrupted operations at hospitals throughout Harris and Fort Bend counties, taking a toll on patients and their families. Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson hospitals were scheduled to be on “restricted access to write out in recovery team members providing direct patient care” — meaning no…
For Black Hill Rancher Felix Florez, a Nightmare Scenario With 300 Hogs Stranded Outside Katy
On Friday, Felix Florez—who has spent the past eight years building up his stock of heritage breed hogs into one of the most renowned sustainable farming networks in Texas, Black Hill Meats— moved his 300 hogs to the highest ground he could find, which even still he was uncertain would…
Houston Musicians Hit the Ground For Harvey Relief
Let it forever be said that there are no punks down here in Houston, Texas.
Harvey Forces Texans and Cowboys to Move Thursday Night’s Game to Arlington
In a move that was about as predictable as Brock Osweiler overthrowing a deep ball, the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys have moved their final preseason game at AT&T Stadium on Thursday night to Arlington. The game was originally scheduled for NRG Stadium, but the devastation and logistical nightmares caused…
Mayor Turner Confirms Three Harvey-Related Deaths, Says to Stay Off Roads
Mayor Sylvester Turner again urged people to stay off the roads, especially as night, in a news conference Tuesday evening. Turner also confirmed that there have been three casualties related to Tropical Storm Harvey, which has pounded Houston since early Saturday, but said there was nothing to confirm reports of…
Addicks and Barker Water Levels Continue to Rise, Despite Corps Water Release
Officials gambled that releasing water from Addicks and Barker reservoirs in the middle of Harvey’s catastrophic flooding would ease the pressure on the aging dams northwest of the city. At this point it’s unclear if the bet is paying off. On Sunday night the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started…
As Flooding from Harvey Continues, Meyerland Residents Fend for Themselves
From the front lawn of his house in Westbury, the neighborhood just south of Brays Bayou near the 610 Loop, Brandon Webb could see rescue helicopters flying in and out of the heavily flooded area Sunday morning. The neighborhood is one of the many in Houston that has been devastated…
As Harvey Swells Houston-Area Lakes and Rivers, Many Face Evacuation Orders
Flood control districts have issued mandatory and voluntary evacuations across the Houston area, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to pummel the city and officials, fearing dam breaks, have begun controlled releases of the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs. The water releases were announced Sunday night, with some west Houston residents told…
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Harvey-Related Arts Cancellations and Postponements [UPDATED]
Boy, it’s going to be a long weekend.
On Day 3 of Harvey, Houston’s Transportation Remains Paralyzed
Monday brought more pounding rain to the Houston area as Tropical Storm Harvey battered the city for the third straight day. Widespread flooding still affects much of Houston, and driving remains difficult. In addition, METRO suspended rail and bus service indefinitely on Sunday. Most of Houston’s interstates and arterial roads…
Mayor Turner Talks About the Risks and Benefits of Addicks and Barker Reservoir Releases
As Harvey has continued to slop water onto the Houston area, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started releasing water from Addicks and Barker reservoirs on Sunday, as we’ve reported. So on Monday morning Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner dug into why water needs to be released from Addicks and Barker,…
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There Are a Few Area Grocery Stores Open at This Time [Updated for 9/1]
On Sunday, during a break in the weather, the Walgreen’s at Montrose and Hawthorne was mobbed with cars and patrons, most of them with bags of chips, boxes of Nila wafers, sticks of jerky, jugs of Arizona tea, and any other snacks they could find in their arms. Now it’s…
BARC Employees Are Working Around the Clock During Harvey
The folks at BARC have been working around the clock to make sure that the animals in Houston’s largest shelter are safe and have enough food and supplies. Although the shelter remains closed, employees have stayed overnight and some came in Monday morning to make sure the animals get continual…
Is Harvey Going to Become a Hurricane Again Over Water?
During any prolonged disaster situation, rumors run rampant and social media only serves to exacerbate the situation. It can make an terribly stressful situation even worse for all of us with already frayed nerves. The latest making the rounds is the idea that current Tropical Storm Harvey — at time…
Harvey May Exceed 500-Year Flood Levels in Houston
Unrelenting, Tropical Storm Harvey has now inundated Houston with more than two feet of rain, with 3 to 6 inches soaking the already saturated or submerged ground overnight as rescues and evacuations have continued in dangerous conditions. Overall, more than 9 trillion gallons of water have fallen on the region…
Long Return Trip For Rice Owls Made Harder by Harvey
The Rice Owls football team is on an airplane somewhere over the Pacific Ocean between Sydney and Los Angeles. When they will actually return to Houston, where Tropical Storm Harvey continues to cancel flights and cause historic flooding, no one knows. This was supposed to be a story about a…
For King’s BierHaus, a Plan to Help Employees Who Lost Everything in Harvey
On Sunday morning Hans Sitter awoke to find his house filling with flood water in Friendswood. While he was be ing rescued by boat, across Houston, his son Phillipp Sitter had left his home in Somerset Green and began navigating the flooded streets of the Heights, a trek that took…
Murder By the Book Aims to Soothe Hurricane-Tossed Houstonians
Celebrating a little good fortune by paying it forward.
Kevin Hart’s Harvey Relief Challenge Asks Celebrities to Step Up
“I’m gonna lead the charge in stepping up this way,” the star of Ride Along and Central Intelligence says.
How Pinkerton’s Barbecue Was Able to Serve Lines Out the Door During Harvey
For Grant Pinkerton, closing his eponymous barbecue operation Pinkerton’s Barbecue for Hurricane Harvey was never a question. Not even on Saturday night, when water was creeping up to the door and a family found itself stranded in a car in his parking lot. He invited them inside and they stayed…
Is Harvey Also a Threat to the Air We Breathe?
Foul smells are nothing new in Manchester — air pollution has laced the fence line community so steadily for so many years that most longtime residents don’t even notice it anymore, as we’ve reported — and even in the face of Hurricane Harvey and a catastrophic flood in Houston, the…
Harvey’s Impact On Houston’s Music Venues
This network of mostly small businesses is vital to the Bayou City’s cultural life.
More than 6,000 People Have Called 911 for High-Water Rescues in Houston
After a long day of hundreds of high-water rescues, evacuations from homes to shelters and thousands of calls to 911, Mayor Sylvester Turner briefed the press and Houstonians on the city’s ongoing response to the epic, record-breaking floods that have consumed the city since Saturday evening. And Turner didn’t parse…
How Are Addicks and Barker Reservoirs Handling Hurricane Harvey?
Harvey took its time making its presence felt over most of Houston, but now that the tropical storm has arrived, bringing sheets of rain and catastrophic flooding in tow, it’s yet another moment to once again consider what’s going on with the Barker and Addicks dams. So far, Addicks and…
Here Are the School Districts Closed Because of Harvey
With flooding reaching unprecedented levels and rainfall not expected to stop anytime soon, the Houston Independent School District has already announced it will not reopen schools until after Labor Day. Here are the districts that are out and for how long: SCHOOL DISTRICTS CLOSED THROUGH MONDAYDickinson Cleveland Lamar Magnolia Waller…
NFL Preseason Week 3: Saints 13, Texans 0 — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
In multiple ways, the Houston Texans 13-0 loss to the New Orleans Saints in Preseason Week 3 was the perfect metaphor for the distracted existence most of America and, sadly, all of Houston were experiencing on Saturday night. The sports world was singularly focused on Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor,…
Harvey Unleashes Unprecedented Flooding Across Houston; Civil Emergency Issued
Houston is on track for what the National Weather Service is calling an unprecedented and epic flooding event as the city and greater region have remained under a flash flood emergency for nearly 12 hours. And it’s not stopping any time soon. As more than a foot and a half…
With Much of Houston Underwater, Mayor and County Judge Urge Residents to Stay Home
Mayor Sylvester Turner, County Judge Ed Emmett and Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo went on live TV Saturday night to tell people to stay home, that many of the streets in Houston and Harris County are flooded and that another band of storms was on its way. The usual flood…
Still Need Gas? Here Are The Stations With It (And Without It)
With Hurricane Harvey moving inland, finding gas could be increasingly more difficult. The Environmental Protection Agency has already issued an emergency waiver of environmental standards on fuel to help combat any shortages. If you’re still looking for gas (or just want to make sure you’re filled up) within the 610…
Houston Area Already Feeling Harvey Effects; High Winds in Missouri City Rip Roofs Off 50 Homes
After rapidly elevating to a Category 4 hurricane Friday evening, Hurricane Harvey slammed into southeastern Texas just north of Corpus Christi near Rockport, making landfall around 10 p.m. Heavy rains and 130-mile-an-hour winds pummeled the mid-Texas coast, prompting President Donald Trump to sign a federal disaster declaration late Friday night…
Abbott Opens State Parks To Harvey Evacuees, While Feds Close National Forests Citing Safety
As people along the Texas Gulf Coast scurry through last-minute preparations in advance of Hurricane Harvey’s impending landfall, even the Texas State Park System is getting in on the action. On Friday afternoon Gov. Greg Abbott announced that all state parks will be available to evacuees free of charge. The…
More Than 1 Million Texans Could Lose Power
At least 1.25 million Texans could lose power as Hurricane Harvey barrels into the Gulf Coast. The estimate comes from Texas A&M’s College of Geoscience Hurricane Outage Prediction model, which uses data from the National Hurricane Center — like eye location and wind speed — to make its predictions. Based…
Eerie Calm Settles Over Galveston as Harvey Approaches
An eerie calm settled over Galveston Friday morning as locals and city officials prepared for Harvey. While the National Weather Service isn’t sure exactly when or where Harvey will hit, the storm is predicted to make landfall around Corpus Christi late Friday or early Saturday. It’ll linger over the East…
Abbott Urges Harvey Evacuations for Houston, But Turner Says Hold on a Minute
Governor Greg Abbott has asked President Donald Trump to issue a federal disaster declaration ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s arrival on the Texas coast later tonight, Abbott announced at a press conference Friday afternoon. Abbott, Trump and FEMA officials have been discussing and preparing for Harvey’s likely devastating and record-breaking flooding,…
Pioneering Activist Dolores Huerta — and a Rousing New Doc — Won’t Let History Write Her Out
Let me set the record straight: Dolores Huerta created the rally cry “Si se puede,” otherwise known as “Yes we can.” If you’ve only ever seen the 2014 film Cesar Chavez — about the legendary farmworkers union president — or watched an Barack Obama campaign speech, you may have thought…
Texas Food Banks Are Mobilizing: Here’s Their Info and How You Can Help or Receive Aid
Texas food banks are mobilizing as Hurricane Harvey aims for the coast near Corpus Christi. Food banks are a n important asset during hurricanes, as they provide relief to families and citizens who have lost access to food and water during the disaster. When a disaster is too big for…
Where To Find Gas During Hurricane Harvey
With Hurricane Harvey quickly approaching Texas and the Gulf Coast, gas prices are already rising and shortages are expected in the immediate future. If you’re trying to escape the city, or just fill up your tank before the worst of the storm hits, here’s a list of where, and where…
The Texas Oil Industry Scrambles to Prepare for Harvey
Harvey is ramping up to be a pretty impressive hurricane and oil and gas companies are scrambling to stay ahead of the storm and get ready to get through it intact. Gas prices are already spiking as Harvey approaches the Texas Gulf Coast where roughly 17 percent of all U.S…
Harvey Gains Strength As It Heads for Texas
While Harvey has kept a steady pace toward the coast of just 10 miles an hour, it continues to pick up strength. Overnight, Harvey increased to a Category 2 hurricane, and as of 10 a.m., it boasted sustained winds of 110 miles an hour, about 115 miles southeast of Corpus…
Updates On This Weekend’s Houston-Area Concert Cancellations
Shows are starting to be called off and postponed like a row of dominoes.
Five Board Games to Try Once the Power Goes Out
The next few days will be stressful, no doubt. Why not enjoy a nice board game?
Homeless Outreach Teams Working Overtime to Offer Help
Keeping your home safe and secure during the storm is a must, but what about those who don’t have a home in the first place? Sara Brown, communications director for the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, said “Outreach teams have been working with homeless individuals on the street…
Cougars Luckily Missed Out on the Lane Kiffin Circus
Lane Kiffin failed as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He fled Tennessee after just one season. He failed at USC. Lane Kiffin has left every football team he was the head coach of in worse shape than it was when he arrived. Lane Kiffin, the son of long-time…
Hurricane Harvey Will Hit the Texas Oil Industry No Matter Where It Lands
As Hurricane Harvey barrels toward the Texas Gulf Coast, the Texas energy industry is getting set to deal with the potential fallout from the storm. There are several ways this hurricane — Harvey is currently a Category 1 but could become as much as a Category 4 with winds of…
Harvey-Watch: Keeping Your Pets Comfy During the Apocalypse
If you’re an animal person, chances are you’re more worried now about your pet’s well-being during Harvey The Terrible’s visit than your own, and for good reason: Our furry friends tend to get wigged out during storms. The media savvy folks at BluePearl Veterinary Partners have taken this occasion to…
Will Meyerland Flood Again? Residents Not Hopeful
Glen Rosenbaum has raised his sofa and dinner table on cinder blocks, moved smaller furniture to his partial second floor and is storing his car in a parking garage downtown, but he has little hope his house will escape this weekend’s hurricane unscathed. In Meyerland, the plush Houston suburb just…
Edging Nearer, Hurricane Harvey Projected to Dump More Than a Foot of Rain in Houston Region
As Hurricane Harvey neared the Texas coast at the sluggish pace of 10 miles an hour and thunderstorms hit some parts of the extended Houston area early Friday morning, Houston and Harris County remained under a tropical storm warning, flash flood watch and storm surge watch, and prepared to be…
Houston Restaurants Closing For Harvey? Not So Fast, Say Owners
Playing it by ear. That’s the most common thread among Houston restaurants, as the city braces for an onslaught of rain and tropical storm-forced winds over the weekend and likely through next week. Flooding could be a major concern for parts of Houston, and as with any storm of this…
Blues Funeral Doesn’t Care About Your Hurricane
Miss heavy metal you can sing along to? Meet Blues Funeral.
You’ll Want to Avoid These High-Water-Prone Locations If You Must Drive During Harvey
As Harvey approaches, it probably wouldn’t be wise to write off the advisories urging you to stay off the roads, because this is no Tropical Storm Cindy, the hyped up storm system that dropped little more than some clouds and drizzle on Houston in June. Hurricane Harvey is expected to…
Galveston Officials Brace for Second Big Storm of 2017
As Harvey approaches, Galveston officials were bracing for their second big storm of the season. On Thursday Galveston was securing its City Hall and preparing emergency crews for high-water rescues should Harvey hit as a possible Category 3 hurricane when it reaches shore. The island will also shut down its…
Still Looking For Water and Ice in the Loop?
With Hurricane Harvey projected to make landfall near Corpus Christi and potentially dump Tropical Storm Allison levels of water on Houston all weekend and potentially through next week— we are under a tropical storm warning— folks are stocking up on hurricane basics, such as water, ice and batteries, and nonperishable…
Harvey Expected to Make Landfall on Texas Coast as Category 3 Hurricane
Houston is now under a tropical storm warning as Harvey approaches the Texas coast, expected to make landfall as a hurricane along the south and south-central coast late Friday night. At 10 a.m. Thursday, the National Weather Service said Harvey is “quickly strengthening” and expected to develop into a Category…
Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas’s Latest Voter ID Law
For the umpteenth time, a federal court has found that Texas’s voter ID law is discriminatory. This time, it’s the law the Texas Legislature just passed during the regular session as an attempt to eliminate the discriminatory intent of its more restrictive 2011 voter ID law. But U.S. District Judge Nelva…
