‘Winter’ Is Coming: Oceans of Slumber’s Latest Is a Game-Changer
This Friday is a special day for progressive-metal masters Oceans of Slumber. Their brand-new LP, Winter, will be released on Century Media Records, a metal-focused tentacle of the Sony entertainment empire. Among other things, this means the Houston five-piece now has worldwide distribution. Whether you favor this sort of metal or not is inconsequential –…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Two Chili Cookoffs Are Better Than One
Fish Friday @ Killen’s Barbecue Friday, 11 a.m. till they sell out 3613 E Broadway Every Friday during Lent, Chef Ronnie Killen’s is frying up battered catfish AND butterflied shrimp and serving them together with coleslaw, fries, hushpuppies, and house tartar and cocktail sauce. Get it all for $13.99. 7th…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Get Ready to Pig Out
Three exclusive Chateau Margaux Dinners are just around the corner. The first is on Monday, February 22 at RDG + Bar Annie, at 7 p.m. ($475 per person). Enjoy pairings such as Crab Fritters and Fried Oysters with Pavillon Blanc 2011; Texas Whole Quail and Sapicon of Huitlacoche with Pavillon…
The Flamingos Still Proving Doo-Wop’s Timeless Appeal
It is one of the most lush, memorable, and romantic songs of the early rock era, as well as the biggest hit for the group that released it back in 1959. But upon its recording, “I Only Have Eyes for You” certainly did not impress most of that group’s members…
You Say You’re a Vegan But You’re Really a Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian in Sheep’s Clothing
Conscientious and health-related diet choices are nothing new but there is still an abundance of confusion about what the names for types of diets mean. That confusion is even perpetuated by diners themselves. “I’m a vegetarian, so I’ll just get the fish.” “I’m vegan, so skip the bacon, but please…
Why Is It So Embarrassing to Be a Country-Music Fan?
There’s something to be said about a person who likes country music. Outside of its universal appeal — everyone loves songs about heartbreak and Middle America — the past couple of years have been brutal for anyone who likes a little bit of twang in their tunes. Fans of the…
Resist the Temptations of Those Soul-Sucking ‘Now!’ Compilations
If you subscribe to iTunes, like most people who have two eyes and breathe regularly, every so often you may have noticed an album from the Now! series pop up in your “recommended” feed. Released last month, the latest entry is entitled Now That’s What I Call Rock, but there’s…
Name on a Note Card Led to High School “Mass Stabbing” Suspect’s Arrest
When Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District police found Tony Warner’s name written next to a question mark on a note card titled “Murder Incorporated,” that’s when his senior year at Cypress Ridge High School came to an end. Warner’s attorney says that on the note card was a plan written by…
Houston’s Junk Is Thorsten Brinkmann’s Art at Rice Gallery
Thorsten Brinkmann collects random crap. A lot of artists collect random crap. Few, however, transform their gleanings so deftly and so evocatively. Brinkmann’s junk piles become a skewed world of decaying grandeur, opulence and nostalgia. His visual references run the gamut from the Renaissance to Dada. His photos, sculptures, videos…
Ted Cruz Trolls the Hell Out of Scalia’s Death
When news broke of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death at a West Texas ranch on Saturday, nobody processed the news and moved on to the question of who will get to name the esteemed conservative justice’s successor as rapidly as Sen. Ted Cruz. On Saturday afternoon, the GOP…
True Texas Tales of Prostitution, Cocaine, Gambling, Violence and Murder
Bartee Haile can tell you about Texas prostitution, cocaine, gambling, violence and murder. He’s been a newspaper columnist specializing in Texas history for 33 years and that research has yielded a vast treasure trove of great stories. His first two books, Texas Depression-Era Desperadoes and Murder Most Texan covered the…
Reviews for the Lazy Gamer: Firewatch
Game: Firewatch Platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux, PS4 Publisher/Developer: Panic/Camp Santo Genre: Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 Describe This Game In Three Words: Man, That’s Dark Plot: You are Henry, a man who takes a job in the Wyoming wilderness as a lookout for forest fires after fleeing some…
This Week in Houston Food Blogs: Talking Tex-Mex & Commending Crab
This week, we’ve got a few just(ified) desserts, Tex-Mex food for thought and a positively crabby review from a favorite Houston blogger. Ring in the Chinese New Year with Chinese-style almond cookies, courtesy of this recipe from Nancy of Tag Sale Tastes. There’s no need to monkey around with this…
Court Halts “Special Treatment” for Man Accused of Killing Deputy
On Monday, lawyers for Shannon Miles, who’s been charged with capital murder in the August slaying of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, asked the court not to give Miles special treatment and to keep him in jail, as opposed to shipping him off to a state mental hospital sooner…
Houston Rockets: Dwight Howard Trade Rumors Heat Up, Rating the Scenarios
The NBA’s trade deadline is fast approaching this Thursday afternoon, and if history tells us anything, it’s that we know Rockets’ general manager Daryl Morey will make at least one deal. For Rockets fans, it’s a tradition like no other — every season since taking over the reins of the…
There’s Little Outrage for 12,000 Kids Suffering in the Texas Foster Care System
Houston police found the 16-year-old foster child in a park in early November 2013, just a few days after she ran away from a residential treatment center in northwest Houston. Rosario, a baby-faced, black-haired girl who carried a little extra weight, said she’d been selling her body for money. The…
4 Things to Keep in Mind if You Want to Collect Old-School Arcade and Pinball Games
At one point in time, arcades full of blinking lights from video games and pinball machines were a major entertainment destination. While arcades still exist to a certain extent, they are not nearly as common as they once were, and they don’t appeal to the same crowd that they once…
Pappa Charlie’s Barbeque Has Done a Fine Job of Going Brick-and-Mortar
‘I’m not a restaurant guy. I’m just a competition cook,” declared Pappa Charlie’s Barbeque owner Wesley Jurena while describing his restaurant and food during a review visit. Well, he could have fooled us. For a first try out of the gate, his place seems ideal for hungry guests who work…
Upcoming: Flogging Molly, Hall & Oates, Lumineers, Mydolls, Peterson Bros., Ragged Hearts, The Suspects, Torche, etc.
Note: Events in bold reflect highly recommended shows. 14th Dive: With A Tribute to the Sun, Civeta Dei, The Fieldtrip. Fri., February 19, 8 p.m., Free. Midtown Bar & Grill, 415 W. Gray, Houston, 713-528-2887. 36 Crazy Fists: With Driven With Insanity, Apothica, I-Terra., Thu., March 17, 7:30 p.m., $10…
Semi-Random Takeaways From Monday’s Grammy Awards
Three and a half hours of live television is a lot of air time to fill. The producers of the Grammy awards telecast understand this, so they know there are much better ways to spend that time than actually handing out awards. Leave all the boring acceptance speeches for categories…
Dangerous Business: Counting Down Johnny Manziel’s Car Wreck of a Career, and a Life
The choice to do business with Johnny Manziel has always been a high-risk game of guts poker. Whether it was his whirling dervish, Heisman Trophy-winning days at Texas A&M or his franchise-cratering two NFL seasons in Cleveland, the “kid from Kerr-ville” has always been a walking Ben Franklin Test, in…
Ten Years Wiser, Punk Superheroes Go Betty Go Are Back to Save the Day
Four mild-mannered women enter a phone booth and emerge as superheroes. If you’ve ever wanted to see something like that, be at Fitzgerald’s Thursday night for the Go Betty Go show. It’s been nearly ten years since the Los Angeles-based, all-Latina, totally awesome garage-punk band touched down on Texas soil,…
10 Early Odd Jobs Held by Now-Famous Rock Stars
Like the rest of us, rock stars didn’t start out at the top of their profession and had to get day jobs in order to pay rent and put food on the table while they pursued their dreams; here is a list of some of the early gigs of a…
Houston Lounge Tarakaan Gives Up on Food but Chef Quickly Finds a New Home
Chef Micah Rideout is out at Tarakaan. In fact, the entire food program is being discontinued. Don’t worry, though—he’s already landed a new position at an acclaimed restaurant in Gateway Memorial City. Rideout earned early critical acclaim for Tarakaan’s Pan Asian menu, but guests have been more in search of…
Houston Wants to Host the Pro Bowl Game? Really? Why?
It was a strange moment last week when Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that Houston was bidding to get the Pro Bowl. It was strange because Mr. Mayor wasn’t joking. He was serious. The people on the stage with him were serious. They desperately want the Pro Bowl to be played…
Straight White Men Needs a Ted Cruz Surrogate but Adam Noble Shines in an Outstanding Performance
The set-up: A theater and film artist known for her impressive resume of provocative pieces that slap us awake with gender politics (the all-nude Untitled Feminist Show), racial identity (The Shipment), her own mortality (We’re Gonna Die), Asian stereotypes (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven), Young Jean Lee tackles…
The Suffers Achieve Liftoff at Sold-Out Continental Club
The Suffers Continental Club February 14, 2016 The Suffers are frequently called a throwback act. Nearly every time that label is applied to Houston’s hottest band, it’s a commentary on their sound. But there’s something else about the group that recalls past Houston glories. Their trajectory into music’s stratosphere is…
Jason Isbell Is/Is Not the Ideal Valentine’s Day Concert
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Cullen Performance Hall February 13, 2016 Jason Isbell doesn’t think a Jason Isbell show is a good choice for a romantic date. He was introducing “Cover Me Up,” a song he wrote for wife (and 400 Unit fiddle player) Amanda Shires, and said the…
Love and Information: A Delightful Testament to Today’s Methods of Communication and Relationships
The set-up: What a lovely gift Main Street Theater gives us in honor of St. Valentine’s Day: Caryl Churchill’s delightful Love and Information (2012). Redolent as a bouquet of deep red roses, heady as a glass of Veuve Clicquot, sweet as a bonbon. The execution: It’s all about communication: misunderstood,…
What Has Sheriff Hickman Changed Since Taking Office?
When Sheriff Ron Hickman took office last May, he did a few things right away that pissed some people off. After former Sheriff Adrian Garcia stepped down to run for mayor, Hickman kicked off his new appointment by replacing eight command posts with white guys (two of whom he plucked…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Nothing Pairs Better With Wine Than Barry
All Week Long Great American Pie Month All month long, you’ll find classic American-style pies around town to celebrate this scrumptious holiday. Mark’s American Cuisine at 1658 Westheimer will have a new pie every week, such as shaker lemon, bourbon pecan and blackberry lime, as well as suggested wine pairings…
2016 NFL Fantasy Crime League: Former Texan Shiloh Keo Is the First Player Arrested!
As we outlined last week, offseason crime for NFL players has never been a hotter topic than it is in 2016. It’s of so much intrigue that you can now wager on which teams will have the most arrests and who will be the first player to be arrested. When…
Dish of the Week: Wild Mushroom Lasagna
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 sharing an Italian staple with an earthy twist: Wild Mushroom Lasagna. Lasagne are a variety of flat, wide pasta that are…
Ever After High Gives Mainstream Animation Its First Gay Princess
There’s been a lot of rumors that the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Frozen will reveal Elsa to be the first gay Disney Princess (though she is actually a queen). That will be a great leap forward in terms of representation of gay characters in media, but if it happens they’ll have…
What We Learned From the Crush Video Trial — UPDATED
On February 10, a Harris County District Court judge found Brent Wayne Justice guilty of animal cruelty — specifically, the filmed torture and slaughter of a pit bull puppy that Justice and co-defendant Ashley Richards sold as part of their “crush” video business. But Justice could just have been easily…
X-Rated, Pop Art and Political Themes by William N. Copley on View at The Menil
Great ideas seem to flourish late at night after a few too many drinks at the bar. Rarely do those whiskey-infused epiphanies live to see another day but, for William N. Copley and his brother-in-law, opening a Surrealist art gallery in Beverly Hills in the late ’40s seemed a brilliant…
Chicken Rental Service Lets Houstonians Try Before They Buy
Doesn’t it sound like utterly pastoral to wake up, make some coffee or tea, dress and walk to your backyard to collect fresh eggs for breakfast? A Houston affiliate of a service called Rent The Chicken is making it easy for suburbanites to make that humble dream come true. The…
Shows of the Week: One of Kanye’s More Adventurous Discoveries
KID CUDI Revention Music Center, February 17 Kid Cudi can always be counted on to bring the weird. An early signing to Kanye West’s GOOD Music label, Cudi found success with Top 5 single “Day ’n’ Nite” and album Man In the Moon: The End of Day. Now 32, the…
Can These Awesome “Space Tourism” Posters Boost Public Support for NASA?
NASA just released more “space tourism” posters, and all 14 of them are gorgeous creations, aimed at making you itch to “visit the historic sites” of Mars and “discover life under the ice” on Europa. All of the posters, which were commissioned by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, sport…
Acts We’d Like to See at Free Press Summer Fest 2016
Hard to believe it’s already that time again, but the blind presale for Free Press Summer Fest 2016 goes live at 10 a.m. tomorrow. After the initial weirdness and ultimate success of last year’s flooding-induced relocation to NRG Park’s Yellow Lot, the festival has indeed announced that it will be…
State Charges Forward With Licensing Immigration Lockups as Childcare Facilities
Government agencies often break bad or controversial news on Friday afternoons to blunt the impact. Today was no exception. Friday, just as workers across the state were heading home for the weekend, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced it will continue to take steps toward licensing two of…
Man Jumps Into Buffalo Bayou Downtown, Feared Dead
Witnesses say a homeless man is feared dead after jumping off a bridge into Buffalo Bayou near the Harris County Criminal Justice Center downtown. Witnesses at the scene tells us the man, an African American homeless man often seen sleeping on park benches around the courthouse, jumped off the bridge…
Wanna Make Sure You’re Never in a Ted Cruz Ad? Take Off Your Clothes
Before Thursday evening, Ted Cruz almost did something groundbreaking: A Republican presidential candidate had actually hired a woman who’s comfortable expressing her sexuality to appear in a campaign ad. It was almost as if, for a brief moment in time, far-right conservatives had decided to suspend judgment and discrimination and…
Houston NAACP Honors Harris County DA Devon Anderson for Drug Reforms
On Thursday, the Houston chapter of the NAACP gave Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson a big pat on the back for criminal justice reform. The organization honored Anderson with its annual Legal Redress Award—and that’s largely thanks to her efforts to offer more diversion opportunities to non-violent offenders. Starting…
Toruk Takes Flight at the Toyota Center, But Never Soars
The setup: Isn’t it weird that the highest grossing movie of all time doesn’t have more media attached to it? You can’t open the App Store without seeing something related to The Avengers/Marvel (#5 on that list), the success of Jurassic World (#4) means we’ll be seeing cinematic dinosaurs until…
Classical Theatre Aptly Produces A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s Story of a Young Wife Defying Convention
The set-up: It’s the most famous sound effect in theater. “From below is heard the reverberation of a heavy door closing.” It’s heard at the last moment of Henrik Ibsen’s seminal drama A Doll’s House (1879). It’s the last sound we hear if you discount the aching sobs from husband…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Wine & Dine Your Valentine
Valentine’s Day Dining Friday – Sunday From romantic meals for two to fun holiday brunches, our 2016 Valentine’s Day Dining Guide will have you celebrating your love food all weekend long. And if you’re looking for some sweet treats for the holiday, be sure to check out our guide to Local…
Apparently the Chron Thinks NRG Stadium Is Outdated
Hey, guess what? NRG Stadium is outdated. No sane person thinks this, but that’s what the Houston Chronicle essentially said in a front page story on Super Bowl Sunday. Saying the facility, opened in 2002, is facing a midlife crisis, the Chronicle set out to tell the sob story of…
The Big Oil Problem: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Things keep getting worse for the oil industry. On Wednesday, the price of crude oil dipped below $27 for the second time this year. Earlier this week officials in both the United States and Europe charged with tracking information about oil supplies came out with intensely negative reports predicting that the glut of oil…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Beef Up for the Rodeo
Save the date! Our favorite event of the year, the annual Houston Press Menu of Menus® Extravaganza, is back for its 14th year on Tuesday, April 5. But you can get your tickets NOW (General Admission Tickets: $45 – $60; VIP Admission Tickets: $85 – $120). This year features an…
The Dolphins Speak, and the Power of Power Electronics
“Nothing says holidays like a cheese log” — Ellen Degeneres Music For Dolphins, feat. Dave Dove and Jason Jackson Galveston Artist Residency, February 13, 6 p.m. Most of the shows I attend consist of a lot of waiting around for things to happen. Imagine how dolphins feel, out in the…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Deadpool
Title: Deadpool Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: “Very well. I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them.” Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Four-and-a-half Bea Arthurs out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: Newly mutated wiseass seeks revenge on the guy…
City Council Wasting Time Debating the Merits of Art, Marketing and Birds
Back in December, our cover story featured the strange tale of Ed Wilson. The sculptor was commissioned to create a work of art for the atrium of the George R. Brown Convention Center in time for Super Bowl LI in 2017, but the Houston Arts Alliance rescinded the offer…then asked…
Black High Schoolers Met With Confederate Flags, Racial Slurs at Texas A&M
This week, some white college students at Texas A&M decided it was appropriate to greet 60 minority high school students, visiting from a charter school in Dallas, with racial taunts and slurs. On Tuesday, students from Uplift Hampton Preparatory, a Dallas charter school, were on a tour at the College…
San Antonio’s Los Nahuatlatos Keep Their Chicano Fusion in Motion
Los Nahuatlatos, who play Friday night at the D&W Lounge on Houston’s near east side, are one of the key cogs in the roots-music renaissance happening these days in San Antonio. The band, part two of a San Antonio invasion that began Wednesday night with Los Texmaniacs at Under the…
Openings & Closings in Houston: Beer-to-Go Improvements
Growlers, 1005 Waugh, found a buyer, and it’s Jon Denman of the Drink of Ages radio show, which covers mostly beer and music (and sometimes tacos). The to-go beer shop is going to be renamed Drink of Ages and transformed into more of a bar than the beer shop it is…
The Five Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Aerial Acts and Lots of Love
Expect a stunning blend of music, puppetry, aerial acts, brilliant lighting and overall wonder in TORUK: The First Flight, Cirque du Soleil’s signature spin on James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar, one of our picks for this Friday. “It’s a combination of the abstract and the concrete,” says Dustin Walston, one of…
Seven Awesome Old-School Rock Stage Shows
Rock bands have long known that audiences enjoy eye candy to go along with the music they’re listening to, and almost any huge band will have an equally large stage production these days. That wasn’t always the norm, though, and while a few acts like KISS or Alice Cooper shocked…
Former Houston Texan Brennan Williams Makes His Pro Wrestling Debut
Back in November, we ran a cover feature on former Houston Texans offensive lineman Brennan Williams, a three year NFL player whose dreams of a football career had gone up in smoke due, in large part, to medical misfortune. Williams’ knees never cooperated quite enough, nor at the right time,…
Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones: The Real Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese is one of American cinema’s greatest music fans. Within his movies, the music comes at you from all sides, and with the kind of encyclopedic range and in-your-face attitude that applies to every other aspect of a Scorsese film — the camerawork, the dialogue, the editing, the postgraduate-level…
How to Be Single in a Fantasy New York Where Money Doesn’t Matter
On the surface, there isn’t much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and more fulfilled. Everyone is looking for something more, just like you! And really, Christian Ditter’s film (based on the…
Ken Paxton Under Investigation for Misconduct. Again.
Last summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state gay-marriage bans and affirmed marriage equality across the country, Texas responded exactly how you’d expect. While clerks in cities like San Antonio were prepared to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples immediately following the ruling, others dragged their feet. In Harris…
NFL Fantasy Crime League 2016: Vegas Now Does Crime Odds
It’s fun being a trail blazer, knowing that when various, prominent parts of society begin to pick up on an idea you fostered a few years ago that you were there first. That’s how I feel about offseason crime in the NFL, and I’ll tell you why in a minute…
The Goforth Investigation Is Starting to Sound Like a Telenovela
In the immediate aftermath of the murder of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth last August, local law enforcement officials blamed more than just the mentally ill sometimes-homeless man charged with ambushing Goforth and firing 15 rounds into his back as the deputy gassed up his cruiser. In an emotional…
Buying Beer, Part 4: Beers Worth Standing in Line For
Buying Beer: The Series So Far Part 1: Beers For Everyday Drinking Part 2: Readily-Available Beers That Can Be Aged Part 3: Seasonal & Limited Beers Many craft beer drinkers are done with waiting in long lines in the heat or cold for a particular style. It’s just not as…
Revealed! The New Emcee for the Houston Press Menu of Menus® Iron Fork Competition
Who Is Replacing Chef Randy Evans As Emcee Of The 2016 Iron Fork Competition? We promised last week we’d have big news on the new emcee for the 2016 Houston Press Menu of Menus® Extravaganza Iron Fork competition. It is time to reveal who it is. For four years, chef…
“Crush” Video Dude Found Guilty
A Houston man was found guilty of animal cruelty related to torture “crush” videos he produced with a woman who previously pleaded guilty to the same crime. Brent Justice’s sentencing is scheduled for today by Harris County District Judge Jay Bennett. He faces a minimum of 25 years in prison. …
Never Mind the Hype, The Suffers’ First Album Delivers
It’s been a while since a local release has arrived with as much baggage as The Suffers’ debut LP, conveniently titled The Suffers. After selling out Fitzgerald’s at last January’s Make Some Room EP-release party; backing almost every Houston rap star you ever heard of before a massive crowd at…
HISD Says to Be Fair, Carnegie Vanguard Shouldn’t Have After School Sports
In the midst of facing a shortfall of more than $100 million next year, the Houston ISD has instead decided it’s really important to strip Carnegie Vanguard High School of its ability to compete in UIL sports. Tonight at the HISD’s board meeting, Carnegie Vanguard parents are expected to storm…
Repticon Houston: “My Snake Is Prettier than Your Snake”
The cold blooded animals seen at Repticon Houston aren’t usually described as cute and cuddly, but Bonnie Miller, the show’s promotions team manager, assures us that they are. Well, at least some of them are. “A bearded dragon or chameleon is happy to ride around on your shoulder,” Miller tells us…
It’s Not Cool to Fake a Food Allergy
Almost 5 percent of the population has a food allergy and it’s almost always to one of eight specific food categories: eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat or soy. If the allergy manifests in a child, he or she is likely to outgrow it, unless it’s to peanuts,…
People Who Record Concerts on Cell Phones Are Actually Great
If you love live music, it can be hard to put into words the feeling that it gives you. The live-music experience is one of those things that we become deeply protective of because of the emotions that it gives us. Live music, on the right night, in the right…
The 10 Scariest Roads in Houston (Especially at Night)
When dealing with traffic in Houston, most of us try to avoid congestion, road closures and anything that might slow us down. But, there are some areas of town that might best be avoided altogether. They run the gamut from the creepy to the downright dangerous. They are the scariest…
My Kids Think I’m Their Maid. Help!
MY KIDS THINK I’M THEIR MAID! Dear Willie D: I’m a 45 year-old woman with 15- and 16-year-old boys. They want me to do everything for them. They expect me to wash their clothes, clean up behind them, cook, and prepare their plates. WTF! I’m a single mother with a…
Scorsese’s Vinyl Plasticizes Old NYC Grit
HBO’s Vinyl is the latest in a series of cultural hard-ons for the rough-and-tumble world of pre-Koch NYC: From novels like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers and Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire to online photo galleries of graffiti-splattered subway trains and can-you-believe-this-juice-bar-used-to-be-a-crack-den slideshows, there’s a hunger for what Manhattan looked,…
Zoolander 2 Is a Tombstone for the Age of Dude Comedy
The first Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s dopey, fitfully funny fashion spoof, was released less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks. Its sequel shows the extent to which another kind of nefarious plot — the cynical quest for world domination through cross-brand synergy — has proven impossible to eradicate on…
UH Is Definitely Hosting the GOP Debate
Ever since the great Republican National Committee/CNBC bust-up at the beginning of the year — the break was caused by Sen. Ted Cruz dodging a question and blaming CNBC, as we’ve previously reported — we’ve been left in suspense, waiting to find out if the University of Houston would actually…
Another Sheriff’s Deputy Fired, Accused of Misconduct in Deputy Goforth Murder Investigation
Surprise: Another Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been fired for misconduct in the course of the investigation into Deputy Darren Goforth’s murder last year. Sheriff Ron Hickman told us that Deputy Marc DeLeon was untruthful with internal affairs investigators “apparently about his involvement with a witness.” This comes on the…
Grand Jury Indicts Guard for Punching UH Fans Who Stormed Field
Nothing says celebration like getting tackled and punched in the face by security guards. Last December, that’s what happened to some University of Houston students who apparently thought it was okay to celebrate their football team’s first conference championship in a decade. After the stadium stormed the field, guards were…
Families of Firefighters Killed in Southwest Inn Blaze Sue Motorola
The families of three firefighters who were killed while battling a fire at a hotel along the Southwest Freeway in 2013 are suing Motorola, alleging the telecommunication company’s radios failed when the firefighters attempted to call for help from inside the burning structure, KPRC first reported earlier today. The…
Fire Dancers and Create Your Own Art Bikes Coming to Downtown Houston in GlowOrama! Backstage
It’s time to bring out the inner artist in you, Houston. ArtX NonProfits presents GlowOrama! Backstage, a two-part event in downtown Houston featuring illuminated art cars and bikes, fire dancers and free workshops to learn how to perform Flow Arts, create your own art cars and bikes and meet different local artists…
Apparently Nobody Knows if UH Is Still Hosting a Republican Presidential Debate [Updated]
Even though Houston is set to host a Republican presidential primary debate on February 25, it’s still uncertain where that debate will actually be held and if the University of Houston will have any part in it. Originally the debate was going to be held at UH, featuring all the…
“The Butterfly Project” Is a Story of Rebirth and Transformation
What started as a lesson plan more than 20 years ago, imagined by three Houston-area educators as a way to teach children about the Holocaust, has mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon. The program calls for students to read poems and look at pictures made by children in the Terezín Concentration…
Inside Andy Kahan’s Duffle Bag of Murderabilia
“Here are the fingernails,” says Andy Kahan, pulling them out of a duffel bag in his office. They belong to a California serial killer named Roy “Tool Box Killer” Norris, and even come with a “certificate of authentication” so that Kahan is sure that they are the real deal. He…
Max Baca and Los Texmaniacs Still Looking to Keep It Real
Although Max Baca, leader of San Antonio Grammy winners Los Texmaniacs, was raised in Albuquerque, N.M., he’s been at the right place at the right time to become one of the keepers of that unique Sir Douglas Quintet San Antonio sound. A beautiful marriage of conjunto, rock and roll, bajo sexto,…
Man Charged With Gunning Down Sheriff’s Deputy Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial
On Monday, Shannon J. Miles, the man charged with the murder of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. One of his two court-appointed attorneys, Charles Brown, told the Houston Press that mental health experts agreed that Miles suffered from schizophrenia, and that he will…
Low Chills Walters Downtown to the Bone
Low Walters Downtown February 8, 2016 Low is a band that was built for winter. The Minnesota three-piece may have arrived during the white-hot, summery explosion of alternative rock in the early ‘90s, but Low’s glacial tempos and chilling vocal harmonies always suggested gray skies and dirty, black snow rather…
