High Court: Warrantless DWI Blood Draws Are Unconstitutional
Just in time for the holiday weekend, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling that warrantless blood-drawing in DWI cases is unconstitutional. In a split 5-4 decision Wednesday, the majority justices disagreed with prosecutors’ argument that driving on Texas roads is a privilege — not…
Lawyer of Accused Tutu Flasher Says His Client Was Wearing Underwear While Exposing Himself
There’s nothing like getting caught with your pants…er…tutu down. While it may be embarrassing, the attorney of a man accused of flashing a local salon says baring your balls from underneath a tutu is hardly indecent exposure. After all, his client, who has been accused of doing just that, had…
Reminder: Houston Grand Juries (Almost) Never Indict Cops for Shooting Civilians
Hundreds of Houstonians joined protestors across the country Tuesday night, voicing anger after a Missouri grand jury chose not to indict Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown this summer. Signs and placards carried familiar names that have sparked national headlines, like…
Blood in the Streets: Harris County Suing Texas Farm Fresh Halal Over Alleged Violations
After more than two years of alleged violations, Harris County is suing Texas Farm Fresh Halal Meat.The Harris County Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit against Texas Farm Fresh Halal Meats last Friday requesting an injunction and civil penalties against Irfan Sheikh, the owner of the slaughterhouse. The suit alleges that…
Walters Heir Zack Palmer Counts His Blessings
Zack Palmer says it wasn’t long after he became the proprietor of Walters Downtown that he understood the place was his. It was just a matter of hours, he recalls. “I had just got the keys to the bar and turned the lights on,” Palmer told us one afternoon last…
UPDATED: High Profile Houston Bartender Leaves Sanctuari Within a Month of Opening
Updated 11/26/14, 6:16 p.m.: Two industry insiders have independently contacted me, saying that Ross has left Sanctuari/Triniti to join Treadsack, the group behind Down House, D&T Drive Inn and the forthcoming restaurants Hunky Dory, Foreign Correspondents and the just-announced Bernadine’s. Additionally, information has been relayed to the Houston Press that…
Reviews for the Easily Distracted: Foxcatcher
Title: Foxcatcher Is This A Sequel To That Song By Sweet? Yes. I mean, no. It refers to the racing stable on the Du Pont family’s Pennsylvania estate where foxes were caught and then released unharmed into the wild. Or so I’d assume. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The…
Charity that Builds Custom Homes for Wounded Veterans Once Again Facing Fraud Allegations
When Army Sgt. 1st Class Scott Lathan returned home from his second tour in Iraq, finances were tight. Lathan had been severely injured in Balad, Iraq in 2006 when 155mm rounds blew apart the Humvee he was riding in, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury, cognitive disorders, PTSD, and…
The Ultimate Chef’s Table: An Evening at Kipper Club Test Kitchen
Kipper Club Test Kitchen is housed in what one might call an alternative space. There is no parking, so you have to park offsite and shuttle to your dinner, and once you arrive, you’re at a Shell gas station. Literally. Next to the gas station convenience store, there’s a sign…
College Football Playoff Rankings v 5.0: Cut, Paste, Repeat
We are on the cusp of a massive weekend of college football, a weekend where traditional rivalries shape the months of December and January, and they do so with the added bonus of massive amounts of food consumed over a 72 hour period. It truly is glorious. One price that…
More Houston Thanksgiving Sales and Events for Your Shopping Pleasure
Back by popular demand, I have a whole new list of Thanksgiving Weekend sales, promotions, and special events from some of Houston’s best a brightest retailers. And if you want more, then check out my first list of sales – 9 Thanksgiving Weekend Sales at Houston Stores, Avoid the Stampedes…
Chef Chat, Part 1: Melissa Hudnall, Bug Chef at HMNS
“I think it’s a good idea to cook with bugs because they’re so plentiful so you might as well bite back,” says Melissa Hudnall of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Now sure, as the Bug Chef for the HMNS she’s probably a bit biased toward the idea of eating…
Rep. Steve Stockman Gets His Own Climate Change Denial “Theory”
Retiring Texas Congressman Steve Stockman is on his way out, but it looks like he’s making one last swat at cementing a little Congressional recognition for himself with a climate denial bill. Stockman, a Republican, has been a fairly ardent denier of all things climate change for a while now…
100 Creatives 2014: Luke Hamilton, Dancer, Choreographer and Actor
Bayou City Theatrics resident choreographer Luke Hamilton showed signs of being a performer early in his life. “When I was five years old, I was on a soccer team. I scored a goal, turned to my Grandma and took a bow. She said she knew right then and there that…
This Week in Food Blogs: Are You Ready for Thanksgiving?
Have you still not made your Thanksgiving dining plans? Hank on Food has prepared his own list of recommendations on where you can dine on Thanksgiving Day, including Kiran’s (4100 Westheimer) unique melding of traditional dishes with Indian flavors. The Tandoori Turkey sounds really intriguing…
Can a Bad Valet Ruin a Restaurant Experience?
Whether it be good or bad, does the experience with a restaurant valet belong as part of a review? That was a question Houston Press Editor-in-chief Margaret Downing and I struggled with after my visits to KUU. In January 2010, former restaurant critic Robb Walsh decided that it did upon…
Evangelist Sued by Disabled Woman Who Claims He Tricked Her Out of Settlement Money
Nothing screams “proper evangelist” quite like a brand new Harley Davidson motorcycle, right? Right. According to a report by the Courthouse News Service, Marilyn Rupard’s lawsuit against John David Crow, filed in Brazoria County earlier this month, claims that Crow, a Texas evangelist-slash-investment-advisor, tricked her out of hundreds of thousands…
Houston’s 12 Best Bars Open on Thanksgiving
Note: List is in alphabetical order. BIG WOODROW’S BAR & GRILL This Galleria-area icehouse is opening up at 4 p.m., and they will be showing the LSU at Texas A & M football game at 6:30, as well as the Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers at 7:30; they plan…
10 Best Houston Video Game Developers
You may not be entirely aware of this, but Houston has a pretty huge scene involving local video game developers. The technology and availability of mobile and PC gaming has allowed small start ups to dive into the world of game design in a big way, and the local industry…
James McMurtry’s 10 Best Songs
Decades from now, when social anthropologists look back on which musicians most accurately and articulately captured the plight of the dwindling American middle class in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, they’ll surely home in on the brilliant Austin songwriter James McMurtry. Rivaled only by Jason Isbell in his…
American Fangs Take It Personally on Dirty Leg EP
I know that American Fangs finally put out an LP last year, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all. For me, though, the band was made for their famous string of hard, fast EPs that feel like a combination short story and psychotic’s manifesto. They’ve got another album coming…
The Smart Music Fan’s Guide to Black Friday
If you had to navigate a dense Christmas tree forest just to buy Halloween candy or recognized “Holly Jolly Christmas” slowly seeping into the store like a poisonous gas weeks ago, then you know the horror of the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Like any good slasher flick,…
