Houston Animal Groups Worked Together to Help Pets Stay Warm During the Freeze
While warming centers opened their doors for Houston residents with the start of the freezing weather last Thursday, some also catered to the furry friend populations in the area. The George R. Brown Convention Center, Fonde and Moody Community Center, and Acres Homes Multi-Service Center provided shelter space for owners…
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton Form a Dynamic Duo
Guitarist Samantha Fish has never been afraid to mix things up. Though her albums are filed in the “blues” category, influences from other genres – including soul, R&B, and rap – have showed up in her music, and she occasionally drops a ferocious cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” into…
NFL Week 17: Jaguars-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
In the last half decade or so, we’ve seen the AFC South won by teams quarterbacked by Brian Hoyer, Brock Osweiler, Blake Bortles, and Ryan Tannehill. It’s not been a great division. In a few of those years, a 9-7 record was good enough to get the job done. So…
Openings and Closings: d’Alba Midtown Opens, Sticky’s Chicken Closes
d’Alba, 3304 Milam, announced its opening December 23 in a press release. Originally expected to open in mid-November of this year, the second location of the craft kitchen and cocktails concept encountered the usual delays and challenges while turning the space, which formerly housed a sports bar, into a modern…
New Year’s Resolutions for Houstonians
Listen, no one likes New Year’s resolutions. Maybe someone does, but we haven’t met them and we aren’t sure we want to. The act of even contemplating them each year is a chore and, often times, a not-so-subtle jab at your own self esteem (and waistline). But, here’s a novel…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Ring in the New Year with Decadence
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: New Year Weekend Omakase at Uchiko Friday-Sunday 1801 Post Oak Uchiko’s ten-course New Year Eve Omakase menu will be available all weekend long, from Friday, December 30 to Sunday, January 1. Menu highlights include caviar service with taiyaki, kobu…
The Us-Like: Sony’s Exhaustive New Brand
When I put out the Games of the Year list for 2022, there were two notable omissions: Horizon Forbidden West and God of War: Ragnarök. It’s not because they were terrible games. It’s because Sony Interactive Entertainment has gone all in on a very specific type of game and it’s…
Favorite Shows of 2022, Small, Medium and Large
Not many culinary experts would list Mr. Gatti’s pizza on their “best pizza” lists. As a teen I delivered (and ate) lots of pies from the Texas-based pizzeria. I love it still today. I have to admit it’s not the best pizza I’ve ever eaten, but it is my favorite…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Tells Southwest Airlines to Get its House in Order
As expected, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg had some words of wisdom and exasperation for Southwest Airlines in a letter that went to CEO Robert Jordan today — the same day Southwest announced it was resuming normal operations this Friday. . Speaking on behalf of the American people —…
New Year’s Eve Fireworks: Where to See Them, What Not to Do With Them
New Year’s Eve: a night celebrating future hopes, reflections on the past year and more than a little madness for local law enforcement chasing residents shooting off banned fireworks and locals shooting guns into the air. Not to mention the emergency medical personnel tasked with cleaning up the human damage…
Book Digs Deep into Iconic Pink Floyd Album for 50th Anniversary
It is one of the most famous and enduring albums in the Classic Rock Canon. Listening to it for the first time whether it be on vinyl, CD, or Bluetooth speaker, is almost a teenage rite of passage. And who knows how many joint-and-bong smoking sessions it has soundtracked over…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Sweet Start to the New Year
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The countdown to 2023 is right around the corner, and our Houston New Year’s Eve Dining Guide has you covered when it comes to tasty party plans. Party a little too hard? Our Houston New Year’s…
Five Biggest Houston Sports Stories for 2022
It’s been a crazy year in Houston sports, to be sure, and if we learned one thing about the content cycle this year, it’s that it pays to have your teams at one extreme or another. In the case of the Astros, they are your 2022 World Champions, and as…
Opinion: Without Action, School Anti-Bullying Policies Feel Like Gaslighting
Every day, the Kid With One F comes home from their Cy-Fair ISD school and hangs their ID on a thumbtack near the stairs. On the back is information for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and the Harris Center Crisis Line. By my count, the kid has called those numbers…
Rockets Week: The Four Tiers of Rockets Current Players
When you have a young team like the Houston Rockets, it should be assumed that virtually everything is a question mark including who will eventually be the mainstays on the roster. Things can change relatively quickly even from week to week. A couple of weeks back, Daishen Nix was their…
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Southwest Certainly Wasn’t Bringing People Cheer this Christmas Season [UPDATED]
Southwest Airlines was the grinch nobody was expecting this Christmas after operational issues and cancellations led to delays that still have travelers stuck at airports — including Houston’s Hobby Airport — for the next several days. The airline canceled 70 percent of its flights on Monday and 60 percent of…
ECHO Celebrates 2023 Early With New Year’s Eve Eve
Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra is getting a head start with its New Year’s Eve Eve celebration on Friday, December 30 at Queensbury Theatre. The concert will feature music from cultures across the globe and performances by guests soloists.
Houston Concert Watch 12/28: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Los Skarnales, and More
It seems that Houston dodged a bullet this past weekend, with the effects of a holiday cold snap relatively minimal, certainly when compared to the rest of the country. Now that the plants have been lugged back outside and the old sheets taken off the shrubbery, it’s time to make…
Ramifications of Final Two Games on Texans NFL Draft Scenarios
While watching the Houston Texans do some historically bad things for about a two-month period between Weeks 6 and 13 of the NFL season was painful and infuriating, at least there was clarity in the failure. If the Texans kept giving up 200 yards on the ground, while generating less…
J.J. Watt Announces His NFL Retirement on Twitter
When J.J. Watt was at the peak of his powers, from 2012 through 2015, it was hard to even imagine the day that he would announce his retirement, or what might precipitate it. When he was busy wrapping up a fifth straight season in which he played EVERY game, three…
Could Lovie Smith Save His Job With Two More Wins?
On the heels of a 51-14 Christmas day loss, in which his defense didn’t force a single punt by the Los Angeles Rams, Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett became FORMER Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett, as the new owners of the Broncos decided to remedy one of the…
Come Back to Life with These 2023 Houston New Year’s Day Brunches
Whether you partied a little too hard on New Year’s Eve or are just plain hungry, the New Year’s Day brunches at these Houston restaurants will bring you back to life. Serving everything from towering pancake stacks and hangover curing posole to black-eyed peas for luck, here’s where to kick…
Best TV and Streaming Shows of 2022
The year 2022 has been a ridiculously stacked time in television. The medium continues to pump more and more series out through cable and streamers who are constantly expanding and reshuffling in what is definitely a sustainable business model. The result of the avalanche of shows this year was a…
Blaggards Pay Tribute to Musical Mentors the Pogues at Special Show
It was nearly four decades ago, but Patrick Devlin still vividly remembers the first time he heard the music of the Pogues. “It was 1985 when I was still living in Ireland. I went to my friend Stephen McGuinness’s house in a place called Ballybrack just south of Dublin,” the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Celebrate the New Year with Omakase
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long National Bloody Mary Day at Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe Razzoo’s will celebrate the Bloody Mary all week long, offering $5 Bloody Voodoo Maries Monday, December 26, 2022, through Sunday, January 1, 2023. Wednesday, December 28 Caviar and Bubbles at…
NFL Week 16: Texans 19, Titans 14 — Four Winners, Four Losers
These final few games of the 2022 season for the Houston Texans are going to be a roller coaster emotionally. On the one hand, the final three games are all against hated divisional foes — Tennessee, Jacksonville, and Indianapolis — so naturally, it’s fine to beat them. On the other…
Openings and Closings: The Crack Shack Coming Soon, Becks Prime Reopens
The Crack Shack, 23501 Cinco Ranch, is slated to open in early 2023 in Katy. Originally founded in San Diego in 2015, the concept is inspired by Southern California/Baja fried chicken. It began as a project from the owners of the upscale San Diego restaurant Juniper and Ivy, a team…
NFL Week 16: Texans-Titans — Four Things To Watch For
The Houston Texans overall results this season have been very straightforward, with very little nuance and plenty of clarity. They’re 1-12-1, and they are a bad football team. There’s nothing misleading about their record. However, they have had a strange season from an injury luck standpoint. Until recently, their injury…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Santa at the Beer Hall and Christmas & Hanukkah Dining
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Santa at Saint Arnold Brewery Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. 2000 Lyons Head to the family-friendly Saint Arnold Brewery to snap photos with Santa in the Beer Hall from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free, and there will…
A Golden Anniversary for the Wheat State Band Kansas
During the initial flush of worldwide Beatlemania, Ringo Starr was asked by on camera what he planned on doing when their bubble eventually burst in a couple of years. With utter sincerity, he told the reporter that he planned on opening a chain of ladies’ hairdressing salons. After all, nobody…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Title: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Describe This Movie In One “Black Cat” Lyric: JANET JACKSON: Black cat, nine lives / Short days, long nights Livin’ on the edge / Not afraid to die Brief Plot Synopsis: BAFTA and Oscar winners/nominees once again lend their voices to public domain fairy tale characters…
Davis Mills’ Six Most Catastrophic Turnovers of 2022
Coming into the 2022 NFL season, the Houston Texans made no secret about one thing — Davis Mills would be the opening week starting quarterback for this franchise. In fact, they didn’t just anoint Mills the starter. Lovie Smith practically named him captain of the team in the first week…
Best Bets: Boxing Day, Holidaze, and a Christmas Vacation Movie Party
Holiday productions, great films, a night of comedy and much more highlight this week’s list of best bets.
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Rat Pack New Year’s Eve and Hangover Curing Brunch
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Dodie’s Beer and Wine Shoppe, 1701 West 15th, founder Dodie Wilson and Riel chef Ryan Lachaine have joined together for a holiday caviar and bubbles pairing at the wine shop on Wednesday, December 28. The complimentary…
Make No Mistake, GA-20 Plays the Blues
It’s been quite a year for GA-20. After making a big splash with 2021’s GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It…You Might Like It!, the Boston trio of blues primitivists is back with a new album of original material, Crackdown. GA-20 will introduce Houston fans to the new songs with…
As Houston Area Prepares for the Cold and Wind, Prospects of Another Uri are Slight We’re Assured
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner held a late afternoon press conference Tuesday to say that they are working together to prepare for the upcoming bad spate of weather expected to start Thursday night, with assurances this will not be as severe as the freeze of…
It’s the Most Wonderful, Bitterly Cold Time of the Year…Apparently: Four Things to Know
Welcome to Texas where predicting the weather is like shooting craps. You roll the dice and just hope it doesn’t come up sevens. Maybe you go on a hot streak, but eventually, Mother Nature is gonna get you and she might decide to kneecap you in the parking lot while…
Fort Bend County Residents Face Property Tax Statement Delays
In the past week, Fort Bend County residents only just received their property tax statements in the mail for 2022 – adding a certain elevated degree of anxiety to most everyone who wanted to pay their taxes and then claim the deduction on this year’s tax return. Texas property tax…
Four Thoughts on Michael Brantley’s Return to the Astros
The Houston Astros have been doing something extremely rare, if not unprecedented, this offseason, as they try to retool their roster to defend their World Series title and do it without anyone carrying the title of “General Manager” in the building. James Click was let go by the team just…
Holiday Cheers: Seasonal Cocktails and Mocktails
The holiday season is one of family, friends and over-indulgence. From office parties to multi-generational feasts, we are filling up our glasses with holiday spirits. The holiday season typically ends with New Year’s Eve and we all make our resolutions. But before we head into 2023 with our determination to…
Rockets Week: Topsy Turvy Young Rockets Trying to Figure It Out
It’s December which means basketball that means something is getting closer. Of course, the first two months of the season count. It’s just that most teams are just starting to figure out who they are and where they are going by Christmas. The Rockets are one of them. The problem…
Houston Concert Watch 12/21: Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, The Toadies, and More
Whether you need little boost to get psyched for what promises to be a chilly Christmas or just want to get out of the house and away from the relatives, H-Town has you covered this week. And since the holiday season tends to produce an unfortunate amount of stress in…
What-A-Christmas! is What-A-Chance to See an Amazing Performance by Briana J. Resa
In old time newspaper lingo, a story that was a real attention-getter was called a “Hey Martha.” The reference being to a man sitting at the kitchen table, reading his paper and calling over his wife (Martha) to see what he is reading because it is so amazing. What-A-Christmas! in…
Houstonians Face Tripledemic as Cases of Illness Continue to Soar
As a very weary public heads into the third year of living with COVID-19, the emergence of two new variants leading to a recent spike in cases in the Houston area is not the kind of news anyone wanted. Even more so when medical professionals say these variants may not…
Where Does Dameon Pierce’s Rookie Season Rank in Texans History?
Thankfully, for Houston Texans fans, the 2022 NFL season is winding down. Soon, we will be able to put the misery of what, for now, is a one win season behind us. If we’re being honest, we’ve all been watching the sand slip through the hourglass since around Week 6…
Christmas and Hanukkah 2022 Grocery Store Hours
The holiday season 2022 is in full swing. Some of us are still wrapping up our gift shopping so the sour cream and applesauce for the Hanukkah latkes might be forgotten in the chaos. And Aunt Bertha will not be happy if there’s no port wine cheese ball for Christmas…
Where to Dine (and Pop Bubbly) in Houston This New Year’s Eve 2022 – 2023
From epic multi-course meals with midnight toasts to festive fêtes with live music and bubbly popping, these Houston restaurants are making this New Year’s Eve a night to remember. a’Bouzy, 2300 Westheimer Sabor the New Year with a New Year’s Even celebration at this bubbly-popping hotspot. Guests can reserve a…
Pretty Woman: The Musical Coming to Broadway at the Hobby Center
In her first national tournament, Jesse Davidson stars as Vivian in Pretty Woman: The Musical now on its way to the Hobby Center in the musical adaptation of the 1990 movie with an ending that some found fairly unrealistic while many others embraced as a romantic triumph. Or you could…
NFL Week 15: Chiefs 30, Texans 24 — Four Winners, Four Losers
For the second straight week, the Houston Texans were more than a two touchdown underdog, and for the second straight week, they made a Super Bowl contender very seriously sweat. Last week, they pushed the Dallas Cowboys to the brink, and on Sunday, they had the ball in overtime, poised…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Where To Get Your Tamale Fix and Dine Out This Christmas
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, December 20 Hanukkah Party at The Upside Pub The Upside Pub, 3402 North Shepherd, closing out 2022 in style with a Hanukkah celebration on Tuesday, December 20. Owners Paige and Andy Lujan’s neighborhood pub will have a special Hanukkah Party…
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Avatar: The Way Of Water
Title: Avatar: The Way of Water Describe This Movie In One Yellow Submarine Quote: JOHN: Hello, there, blue people! Won’t you join us? Hook up, and otherwise co-mingle? What do you say? Brief Plot Synopsis: There is trouble in the forest/There is unrest with the Na’vi Rating Using Random Objects…
‘Ho-Ho-Holiday’ Brings Joy To The Holiday Season
Houston Symphony is invigorating the yuletide spirit with Ho-Ho-Holiday at Jones Hall on Saturday. The orchestra will celebrate the season with songs from Disney’s Frozen, music from The Polar Express, “Sleigh Ride,” a holiday sing-along and more.
Openings and Closings: The Lymbar Opens, Trill Burgers Goes Brick & Mortar
The Lymbar, 4201 Main, is now open at The Ion. The Latin-Mediterranean restaurant from David Cordua has finally opened after more than a year and a half since we first reported the announcement, here in the Houston Press. Currently, the all day restaurant is serving a rotating menu through the…
Daily Show’s Michael Kosta Comes to Houston
“I am finding what I think is funny. But I can advise people, I don’t rant about the electoral college for an hour in my stand-up.”
Bobby Rush is the American Music Gift That Keeps on Giving
Legendary blues artist Bobby Rush touches down this weekend at Continental Club, a week before Christmas. In a phone interview with Rush this week, we suggested he might even be a Christmas present for some folks, their stockings happily filled with tickets to his Saturday night set. As we learned…
NFL Week 15: Chiefs-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
AS the Houston Texans’ 2022 season continues to slide into an abyss, the bottom of which is populated by the first overall pick in the NFL Draft, at least the opponents that they are facing bring some juice to the table. Two weeks ago, we got to see Deshaun Watson’s…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Bollywood Burnout and Santa’s Big Feast
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Bollywood Burnout at Musaafer Friday, 11 p.m. 5115 Westheimer The luxe Indian restaurant and lounge is throwing its final Bollywood bash of 2022, featuring energetic DJ beats, drums and a dance floor, plus late-night food and drink. GA tickets…
Best Bets: Animated Shorts, Blaxploitation, and a Holiday Voyage
Animated shorts, a 17th century Christmas market, and Blaxploitation all make this week’s best bets.
Upcoming Houston Food Events: R-C Ranch Celebrates One Year at the Houston Farmers Market
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Max’s Wine Dine, 4720 Washington, will celebrate its 16th year with a special Sweet 16 wine dinner on Friday, December 16 at 7 p.m. The curated four-course dinner with special wine pairings costs $66 per person…
Crane, Altuve To Be Honored at 2023 Houston Sports Awards
Outside of Houstom, national media still harbor ill will for the Houston Astros, and the two faces of the cheating scandal for them are owner Jim Crane and second baseman Jose Altuve, even though neither of them used the actual trash can scheme to hit baseballs. For Crane, the animosity…
Artists Collaborate with Houston’s Central American Community for Premiere Performance
Learn about and honor Houston’s Central American community during Little Central America, 1984, co-presented by DiverseWorks and Circuit Network.
Legendary Record Producer Jim Gaines Digs Shallow in Thirty Years Behind the Glass
Jim Gaines has been producing and engineering records since the mid ‘60s, yet his name is not well known, except by those who obsessively read liner notes. Some producers have gained individual notoriety, e.g. Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix), George Martin (the Beatles), Jimmy Miller (the Rolling Stones), and Glyn Johns…
Astros Week: In Search of a Catcher and a Lefty
As we near the new year, the hot stove league continues to simmer with signings and trades, but none involving the Astros, at least over the last couple weeks. While the Braves are trading for Sean Murphy and the Twins are signing away Christian Vasquez, the Astros continue to look…
Houston Symphony’s Very Merry POPS Returns This Week
Houston Symphony is bringing back its annual holiday tradition, Very Merry POPS, filled with songs of good cheer performed by the orchestra, the Houston Symphony Chorus and guest vocalist N’Kenge. The family friendly festivities run Thursday through Sunday at Jones Hall.
Houston Concert Watch 12/14: Chris Isaak, Kat Edmonson, and More
Whether it is our desire or not, Christmas music is all around us at this point. And for some (many?), the omnipresence of holiday tunes is working their last good nerve. This being the case, the number crunchers at the FinanceBuzz website have compiled the results of a survey listing…
POLL: Four Texans Games Remaining, Which One Do Fans Most Want to Win?
If you’re a Houston Texans fan, chances are somewhere along the way this season you’ve either outwardly or subtly been rooting for the team to lose so that they can get the first pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. It’s okay, you shouldn’t feel any shame over that, and similarly,…
First Look: Revamped Playa Azul
I live north of Houston in the suburbs. Though my culinary travels take me all over Houston, it’s always nice to have a solid go-to restaurant or two nearby that I can rely on. For my family, Playa Azul was one of those places. Sometimes, we took our teenage kids…
NBA Honors Hakeem Olajuwon With Re-Naming of Defensive POY Award
Houstonians know that Hakeem Olajuwon was one of the greatest players in basketball history. And while we all remember the Dream Shake and incredible offensive moves, it was defense that became his calling card. He still holds the record for blocked shots (3,830) and ranks ninth in steals (2,162), an…
Måneskin: The Loud Kids Tour at 713 Music Hall
The Italian rock band Måneskin stopped in Houston upon riding a wave of momentum after playing Rock in Rio in September and starting the U.S. leg of The Loud Kids Tour the following month. Fans have been anticipating the concert since the announcement early in the year that was originally scheduled…
Houston Music and Fashion Gets a Welcomed Burst of SEROTONIN
The mistake we make about visionary artists is believing the way we view them makes them visionary. Houston artist SEROTONIN is a good reminder that how artists see themselves and the community around them is what truly sparks imagination and insightfulness. The 24-year-old musician and apparel designer has mined his…
Our 2022 Games of the Year
There were some incredible video games that came out in 2022, and we did our best to play them all. Here are the five titles we felt deserved Game of the Year. Elden Ring From Software is well known for turning out exceptional games, so expectations were high when they…
Six Reasons Lovie Smith Will Be Fired After 2022 Season
My expectations for the Texans in 2022 were not stratospheric or anything. I thought they would win slightly more than the 4.5 wins that Las Vegas forecasted for them, but not much more. In short, I thought it would be a quintessential rebuilding year for a team that was sporting…
Where to Dine Out in Houston on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2022
From family-friendly holiday buffets to festive prix fixe dining that’ll make any holiday better, these Houston restaurants are offering Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dining this year – and with Christmas overlapping with Hanukkah this year, there are Hanukkah celebrations like menorah lightings to complimentary sufganiyot, too. Christmas Eve The…
Houston Theater Christmas 2022, Part V
Butterflies are Free For the Yuletide season Houston Grand Opera reprises its second “mariachi opera,” El Milagro del Recuerdo (The Miracle of Memory), a prequel to their first, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Cross the Face of the Moon). It’s joyous and tuneful, composed by Javier Martínez, son of…
NFL Week 14: Cowboys 27, Cowboys 23 — Four Winners, Four Losers
I think most people in Houston knewthe deal coming into the 2022 NFL season. The Texans were going to be one of the worst teams in football, and the season was likely to go in a direction where more Texan fans were rooting for Texan losses, and thus more favorable…
Alice Cooper: Booking the Birthday Boy
He’s long been lauded (or, depending on your point of view, condemned) for being “The Father of Shock Rock.” But this upcoming February 4 when he turns 75 years of age, he could up that title to “Grandfather.” Still, as recently as this year, Alice Cooper is out there many…
Wary of Power Outages, More Homeowners Pony Up For Generators, Solar Panels
Mark Rowe was tired of living in the “stone age,” always having to light candles and use flashlights every time a storm hit or rolling power outages occurred. After Hurricane Ike, he decided to contract Grasten Power Technologies to install a generator at his Montgomery home. “It has gotten us…
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2022 You Probably Missed Part 5: 10 – 1
We’re finally here to the Top 10! Thank you all so much on coming with us through this weeklong journey through the underground for the best music videos that probably flew under the radar in 2022. It was a great year for the medium as you will see. Enjoy! If…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Get Your Hanukkah Orders In
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Wednesday, December 14 Women Winemaker Wine Flights at Camerata Camerata, 1830 Westheimer, general manager and wine sommelier Elyse Wilson will be offering an evening of wine flights featuring Women Winemakers of the Southern Hemisphere. The wine adventure will be from 4 p.m…
2022 Houston Christmas Theater, Part IV
No, Mary Poppins, Not Practically Perfect, Bloody-Well Perfect Theatre Under the Stars brings us the brightest present of the season, its production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (2004, West End world premiere; 2006 Broadway). She’s been here before during national tours, but TUTS supplies a new shine to…
More, More, More on Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney has been giving interviews—a lot of interviews—for more than 60 years. He’s been the main or partial subject of thousands of books published over decades on his career with both the Beatles and as a solo artist. Could there be anything more to say about the man known…
HISD Board Told Moving Special Ed Children Off the T.H. Rogers Campus is a Bad Idea
So whose great idea was it to move special ed kids off the T.H. Rogers campus anyway? Certainly no one was owning up to it at Thursday night’s school board meeting as parents and alumni took turns walking up to the speaker’s mic or Zooming in to tell Superintendent Millard…
Openings and Closings: TEN Sushi is Open, La Diabla Next Week
TEN Sushi + Cocktail Bar, 4200 Westheimer, opened November 17. The new sushi hotspot is from Daily Dose Hospitality Group, the folks behind Bosscat Kitchen & Libations. The original location opened more than 13 years ago in Irvine, California under different ownership before being acquired by Daily Dose co-owners Leslie…
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2022 You Probably Missed Part 4: 20 – 11
We’re finally in the top 20of our look at the best indie, underground, and just otherwise might’ve-been-missed music videos of 2022. Today we have some great animation and stop motion, as well as a clever way to use Zoom to make a good horror video. Plug in and let’s go!…
Heavenly Voices Fill Villa De Matel This Holiday Season
Houston Chamber Choir is getting into the holiday spirit with it’s holiday concert, Christmas at the Villa – On This Day Earth Shall Ring. Shows will take place in the Villa de Matel chapel twice on Saturday and Sunday, and they will include guest performers the Treble Choir of Houston and guitarist Marc Garvin.
NFL Week 14: Texans-Cowboys — Four Things To Watch For
Because of the way the NFL schedule works, with AFC teams only playing NFC teams once every four years on a regular rotation, the Houston Texans and the Dallas Cowboys have only faced each other five times in games that count. It may feel like more, because of the regularity…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Hit a Boozy Holiday Pop-Up Market
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Tomball German Fest Christmas Market Friday-Sunday 201 South Elm The family-friendly German Christmas-themed street festival returns, with three stages of live music and roaming musicians, an open-air market with vendors, gifts, souvenirs and antiques, a parade and ceremonial keg…
Houston ISD Hits Pause on Plan to Move Out Special Education Kids From T.H. Rogers
Following a private meeting earlier this week with some of the parents of special ed kids at T.H. Rogers who oppose the Houston ISD plans to remove those children from the award-winning school, HISD has followed through on a commitment by Superintendent Millard House II about “taking a pause.” In…
Best Bets: What-A-Christmas!, Islamic Arts, and Elvis Presley
This week’s best bets include a Latina Scrooge, Christmas with the King, and Mary Poppins.
The Music Addictions of Michael Goldberg
What is the state of Music Journalism today if it can even still be called that? In 2022, seemingly anyone with access to a keyboard and the internet and possessing of at least a) one working ear attached to their head and b) an opinion; can and do pontificate on…
Special Services May Decrease in Intensity For Deaf Kids Moved Out of T.H. Rogers
In many ways Oise Akpiruo is a typical 9-year-old boy. He likes to play with toys, especially trucks. He likes to run and knows to look both ways before he crosses the street because he knows cars can hurt him. And in many ways he’s not typical. Oise is profoundly…
Four Thoughts on the Departure of Justin Verlander
While the Houston Astros always showed up in conjecture pieces about the MLB offseason as a suitor in the mix to bring back Justin Verlander, I think deep down we all knew that this day would come, and on Monday, it did. Justin Verlander decided to continue his amazing career…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Hanukkah Eats and A Very Feges Christmas
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The team at New York Deli & Coffee Shop, 9724 Hillcroft, and Houston Catering Concepts is offering Hanukkah packages and specials, and New York Deli and Bagel Shop Bakery will be giving away dreidels and gelt…
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2022 You Probably Missed Part 3: 30 – 21
We’re halfway through counting down the best music videos you probably missed in 2022. Today we have bears, bloodshed, and bungee jumping. Hope your eyes and ears brought their appetite. Let’s dive in. 30. Liv.E, “Wild Animals” Liv.E self-directed this stylish ode to letting go of people pleasing. Decked out…
Houston Concert Watch 12/7: Marcia Ball, Carolyn Wonderland, and More
After some initial reluctance, Dolly Parton accepted her place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, situated between (alphabetically speaking) Parliament-Funkadelic and Pearl Jam. What hath the Hall wrought? Now Parton is planning a rock and roll album, one that will include songs by the Rolling Stones (“Satisfaction”), Led…
50 Years at 5216 Montrose: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
One of challenges that many postmodern artists have faced over the last 50 years is how to create something new that transcends human imagination and yet remains fresh and innovative in light of all of the radical and transformative art produced post World War II. When the master filmmaker Stanley…
What Would the 12 Team College Football Playoff Look Like in 2022?
I was once told by a good friend of mine in a position of influence with a major sports entertainment company that fans always want two things — “new” and “more.” I feel like that’s exactly what the powers that be in college football had in mind when they finally…
50 Best Music Videos of 2022 You Probably Missed Part 2: 40 – 31
Our look at the greatest lesser-known videos of the year continues! Today we have dance numbers, demons, and daring battles on the top of speeding cars. Plug in your headphones and let’s dive in! 40. Nerv, “Demons” Look, there have been a thousand metal videos filmed in insane asylums, but…
Astros Week: JV Exits as Hot Stove Season Heats Up
Like the rest of Major League Baseball, the Astros are in the throes of the “Hot Stove League,” a term coined to describe the controlled offseason frenzy of winter free agency. Winter meetings, which often include some of the busiest moments of the offseason, began in earnest Monday in San…
Anatomy of 55 More Songs Goes Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Records
Marc Myers has an enviable gig. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, he has, for the past ten years or so, authored columns focusing on classic songs, talking with artists ranging from the Beach Boys to Alice Cooper to Elton John. Hot on the heels of his pop culture history…
2022 Houston Christmas Theater, Part III
Joy to the World Any opera libretto that uses “Be-bop-a-lula, I don’t mean maybe” or “Hit the road, Jack,” is all right with me. That this particular opera is Gaetano Donizetti’s sparkling comic opera The Elixir of Love (1843) is fresher still. That this production is perhaps the finest work…
Immersive Yule Ball Experience at Paraiso Maravilla Is Like “Harry Potter Prom”
“We’re really highlighting the beauty of these unique venues that have been chosen for this Yule Ball for this first year.”
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2022 You Probably Missed Part 1: 50 – 41
Every year, the Houston Press combs through the best indie and lesser-known artists out there to find the best music videos around. You won’t find the big name artists here. Instead, we try to draw attention to the best of the underground and new work from musicians who may be…
Deshaun Watson’s Seven Worst Games as a Pro
We are two days removed from Deshaun Watson’s return to NRG Stadium, and there are still some crumbs left behind that are worth digging into. From an emotional standpoint, it feels like both sides, Watson and the Texans fans, have kind of moved on. Watson was very clear that he…
What-A-Christmas!: The Tale of a Latina Fast Food Server On Christmas Eve
There will be another Scrooge at the Alley Theatre this year. This one works the overnight Christmas Eve shift at a fast food restaurant modeled on — well you’ll get it from the title — and is as grumpy as her customers. What-A-Christmas!, running in the downstairs Neuhaus Theatre at…
The Intensity of Mariachi Music Returns to HGO With El Milagro de Recuerdo
The intensity of mariachi music is perfect for opera. That observation by mezzo-soprano Cecila Duarte has been borne out repeatedly in recent years with the two mariachi operas commissioned by Houston Grand Opera that have been embraced outside Texas and around the world. Durate who originated the role of Renata…
NFL Week 13: Browns 27, Texans 14 — Four Winners, Four Losers
Prior to yesterday, he last time we saw Deshaun Watson suiting up in a regular season NFL game was January 3, 2021, the final game of the 2020 NFL season, a loss to the Tennessee Titans, after which J.J. Watt was captured on video down on the field apologizing to…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Truffle Tastings and Holiday Delights
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, December 6 Holiday Treat Box Preorder at Fluff Bake Bar Fluff Bake Bar pastry chef Rebecca Masson has created treat boxes for the holidays, available for preorder on the website beginning December 6 for shipping on December 13 and pickup/delivery beginning…
Weighing the Options When Even Abortion Pills Are Illegal in Texas
On October 6, 2021, Madi arrived at the Pink House in Jackson, Mississippi for her abortion procedure. After a nearly month-long process that forced her to miss time in class and at her internship, the 21-year-old had been finally able to secure an appointment. As soon as the procedure finished,…
Sonny Rollins Gets a Fittingly Colossal Bio
At the age of 92, Sonny Rollins is‚ as The Village Voice dubbed him years ago, “The Last Jazz Immortal” when it comes to the greats who came of age and prominence during the Bebop era of the ‘40s and ‘50s. The tenor saxophonist was hugely influential, has a significant…
Golden Child A Sleek and Shiny Example of K-Pop
Let’s get the obvious out of the way. If you have a natural aversion to the high-pitched screeches of mostly 20-somethings, then maybe a K-pop concert isn’t for you. But, if you can grit your teeth through the most ear-piercing of the screams, you’ll sometimes find that under all that…
2022 Christmas Comes to Houston Theater, Part II
Dickens 2.0 The Alley Theatre now has A Christmas Carol to be proud of. It is Broadway worthy. Using as much of Charles Dickens’ text that can fit within a running time of two hours, and employing a phalanx of theatrical chicanery – miniature houses, glowing Empire-waist dresses hanging from…
Get Ready For Mary Poppins To Touch Down in Houston in Time For Christmas
What children and parents would be more than happy to have a Mary Poppins sweep into their lives, tidying up any familial dysfunction, instilling fun and a sense of individual worth, bringing surprises and excitement to daily life — all done with a magic touch and set to memorable music…
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Violent Night
Title: Violent Night Describe This Movie In One A Night at the Opera Quote: OTIS B. DRIFTWOOD: It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause. FIORELLO: You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Claus! Brief Plot Synopsis: Up on the housetop, reindeer pause/Santa now has…
Openings and Closings: Sushi by Hidden Opens, CAPS Supper Club Soon
Sushi by Hidden, 5216 Morningside, opens December 5 for dinner service. The restaurant will feature a 30-minute timed omakase experience from the creators of the speakeasy sushi restaurant, Hidden Omakase. The new Rice Village spot will be similar to Hidden Omakase with a limited seating of 10 guests at a…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Get Your Tamale on at Tamale Festival Houston
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Tamale Festival Houston at Navigation Esplanade Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 2600 Navigation The East End’s 11th annual Tamale Festival Houston takes over Navigation Esplanade, and its bringing good food, live music, refreshing drinks, and all kinds of…
Houston Symphony’s Home Alone Promises Holiday Spirit
Houston Symphony will presents the 1990 blockbuster Home Alone along with live orchestra at Jones Hall on Saturday.
NFL Week 13: Browns-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
Through the months March through June, we remember all the key dates that lead up to this Sunday afternoon. We remember the middle of March, when a grand jury coming back with a “no bill” on Deshaun Watson criminal charges opened up a free-for-all among QB-thirsty NFL teams. We remember…
UH at Number 1: Four Things to Know
The University of Houston men’s basketball team was ranked tops in the country in the most recent Associated Press poll. At 7-0, the Kelvin Sampson-coached Cougars have become one of the best college basketball programs in America. Unfortunately, outside of football, few sports fans in Houston pay attention to college…
The Blind Boys Of Alabama Showcase Holiday Gospel This Weekend
Five-time Grammy Award-Winning group the Blind Boys of Alabama will put on a one-night-only concert filled with gospel soul and holiday spirit at Jones Hall on Sunday, December 4, presented by Performing Arts Houston.
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Tacodeli Gets Festive with Chile En Nogada and Spiked Horchata
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Seasonal treats are now available from Dessert Gallery, 3600 Kirby, through December, with highlights including Eggnog Tres Leches in a Christmas Tree Pan ($42.50), Hannukah/Christmas/New Year’s Cookie Extravaganza (tray of 24 or 34 for $77.50 or $107.50),…
Best Bets: Dickens, Home Alone, and a Holiday Spectacular
The holiday season is in full swing and you can find it all over this week’s best bets.
NFL Chaos Wreaks Havoc With Prime Time Schedule
If there were one word I could use to summarize the NFL in 2022, it would be chaos. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, because said chaos is occurring about ten rungs up the ladder from where the Houston Texans currently stand, but this has been the whackiest season I can remember…
Judas Priest Blesses the Metallic Faithful
Those who were around during the late ‘70s may remember a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that depicted a Mexican game show called “Quién es Más Macho?” Contestants Gilda Radner and Ricky Nelson had to decide, when quizzed (en español!) by host Bill Murray, who was more macho, Fernando Lamas, Ricardo…
T.H. Rogers Students Rally Support For Special Ed Program Through Self-Produced Video
An eighth grade student at T.H. Rogers has produced an impressive video arguing for the continued inclusion of special education students at the elementary through middle school award-winning campus — a potent and affecting argument against the Houston ISD plans to dismantle the program. In a video entitled “THRogers PSI…
ROCO Gets Brassy And Boozy With Yuletide
ROCO’s Yuletide Brunch and Brass this Friday will be an early afternoon filled with jazz and classic arrangements of seasonal music and oh-so-delicious mimosas and morsels. Held at Houston Botanic Garden, the doors open at 9:45 a.m.
TEATRX Serves Sexo Y Tortillas: The Musical at 4th Annual Shorts Festival
La Vida Es Cortos/Life is Shorts Festival returns to The MATCH for its fourth annual edition.
Houston Concert Watch 11/30: Ruthie Foster, Blue Öyster Cult, and More
Owing to my aversion to crowds, cheap sentimentality, and conspicuous consumption (along with my generally curmudgeonly nature), I have tried, over the past several years, to accomplish my Christmas shopping online. Here are some highlights of my cyber browsing so far: It seems that the traditional gingerbread house has been…
The Biggest Concern Texans Fans Should Have About Lovie Smith
For me, the Houston Texans’ 2022 season was never going to be judged by the number of wins the team generated. Unless they found themselves in the midst of a miracle run where they were contending for a playoff spot (which most assuredly is NOT happening), the Texans were always…
Astros Week: Landing Abreu and What This Means for Yuli, JV
On Monday, it was widely reported that the Astros had come to an agreement to sign veteran Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu to a deal worth three years and $60 million. Abreu was one of the key targets by the Astros this offseason and a huge improvement to…
Christmas Comes to Houston Theater, Part I
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley You may have noticed that for the last few years Main Street Theater has had a little cottage industry humming away for the holiday season. It alternates Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s two Christmas plays that feature the happily married Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy…
Dissecting the Delusion: Zapruder Breakdown of Lovie Smith’s Postgame Press Conference Sunday
When Lovie Smith was named the fifth full time head coach of the Houston Texans back in early February of this year, it kind of came out of nowhere. The Texans had reportedly narrowed their search to former Texans QB Josh McCown (with no prior coaching experience) and former Dolphins…
City of Houston Lifts Boil Water Notice Tuesday Morning
The City of Houston was responsible for Sunday’s power outage at one of its water treatment plants that ultimately led to a boil water notice for Houston residents, according to a spokeswoman for CenterPoint Energy Monday. An email sent by Alejandra Diaz said that workers from CenterPoint accessed the facilities…
NFL Week 12: Dolphins 30, Texans 15 — Four Winners, Four Losers
When the Houston Texans’ coaching staff (and presumably, the front office, as well) made the decision to swap out Davis Mills and insert Kyle Allen as the team’s starting quarterback, the hope was that change at the most important position would equate to change in the Texans’ quality of play…
Transformer Takes a Walk on the Wild Side with Lou Reed (and David Bowie)
When Lou Reed’s song “Walk on the Wild Side” was released late in 1972, it caused a bit of a stir. Those in the know were surprised to learn that the FCC was not familiar with the term “giving head” and therefore allowed the record to spin blithely along on…
What to Do When You’re Laid off on the Holidays
Christmas is a horrible time to lose your job. However, there are some things that can be done to mitigate the damage. We spoke to Houston-born Kim Crowder, Founder & CEO of Kim Crowder Consulting, who had some tips on staying ahead when you get the axe instead of a…
This Week in Houston Food Events: The Houston Ballet and Vinny’s Team Up on a Charitable Pizza Collab
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, November 29 World Central Kitchen Pancake Launch at Snooze On November 29, all Snooze Eatery locations will launch the Cranberry Orange Pancake, available through December 31 and made with buttermilk pancake topped with orange crème anglaise, sweet-tart cranberry coulis, creamy…
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Houston Issues Boil Water Notice After Power Outage and HISD Closes Monday [UPDATED]
Thanks to a power outage at the East Water Purification Plant about 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the city of Houston Public Works Department has issued a boil water notice. Water pressure dropped below the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality’s required minimum so 20 PSI during the outage. Residents are advised: *Do…
Houston Ballet’s Nutcracker a Can’t-Miss Holiday Production
A Houston tradition, The Nutcracker, returns to Houston Ballet.
Openings and Closings: Slowpokes West U Opens, Urban Bird Expands
Slowpokes Coffee, 6725 Stella Link, will open November 28 in West University Place. It’s the fourth location for the coffee shop which opened its first location at ? in 2016. The three other stores are located in Kirby Grove, Garden Oaks/Oak Forest and Spring Branch, the flagship location where all…
NFL Week 12: Texans-Dolphins — Four Things To Watch For
For two teams that only meet each other roughly once every three years, in recent seasons, the Houston Texans and the Miami Dolphins have been somewhat inextricably linked, largely through roster transactions, both consummated and aborted. Back in August 2019, with the “Bill O’Brien as general manager” era of and…
Carrie Carter’s Travelogue of Whimsy & Whiskers
The Japanese have a word to express one’s purpose in life or reason for living—ikigai. Houstonian Carrie Carter loves the concept, but lacked a distinctive for summation for herself. Even when she would create her own list of “likes” and force all her friends to go over them with her…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Shop (and Eat) Local on Small Biz Saturday
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Black Friday Big Beer Blowout at Saint Arnold Brewing Company Friday, 11 a.m. 2000 Lyons Saint Arnold has dug through its cellars to bring back its Big Beer Blowout sale, with rare heavy-hitters available to-go or to-stay by the…
Best Bets: Thanksgiving, “We So Houston,” and (DeQuina) Moore
A rainy Thanksgiving weekend is no reason to miss classic films, an art show all about H-Town, and shows that will put you in the holiday spirit.
Top Ten Marvel Cinematic Universe Fight Scenes
Thanksgiving is here, and with it probably comes a few fights around the dinner table once Cousin Jason has a few beers in him and starts talking about how we need to secure the border. If you’re looking for a distraction, I suggest taking a look at some much more…
Giving Thanks to the Worst Team in the NFL
It’s been long season for Houston Texans fans in 2022. In a season where the oddsmakers had the Texans at a forecasted league low of 4.5 wins, the team has managed to significantly underwhelm even against that low threshold. They have one win on the season, nine wins over the…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Holiday Sweets and Hanukkah Catering
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The eight days and nights of Hanukkah begin at sundown, Sunday, December 18, and Kenny & Ziggy’s, 1743 Post Oak, is ready to help you celebrate, offering Hanukkah and Festival of Lights menus (plus a la…
How to Handle a Kid’s Birthday Around the Holidays
I married a woman whose birthday often falls on Thanksgiving, and she’ll be the first to tell you it royally sucked when she was growing up. Having a birthday during the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas often means children don’t get the kind of attention other kids do because so…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Title: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Describe This Movie In One All The President’s Men Quote: DEEP THROAT: The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. Brief Plot Synopsis: Famous detective crashes rich people murder party. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3…
Add Texans CB Derek Stingley to Infamous Houston Hamstring List
We’ve seen hundreds of athletes come and go in our time here in Houston. Some have been native Houstonians, some have been from the state of Texas, and many others are from various corners of the country and the globe. Indoctrination into being a TRUE Houston athlete can come in…
Houston Concert Watch 11/23: Deadmau5, Judas Priest, and More
After dutifully attending familial celebrations and behaving appropriately on Thanksgiving, many of us will be more than ready to kick out the jams, and this week’s batch of concerts will provide just such an opportunity. From Deadmau5 to King’s X to Judas Priest (fresh off an appearance at the Rock…
Houston Thanksgiving: Drink Selections to Go With All That Delicious Turkey
Thanksgiving is almost here and most of us have already made our plans for dining out, taking in or madly preparing a feast in our own kitchens. We’re defrosting the turkey, whipping the potatoes and baking the pies. We know which aunt is gluten-free, which girlfriend du jour is vegan…
Opinion: Can We Just Admit Now That Jordan Peterson is Right Wing?
Elon Musk let Canadian clinical psychologist and self help author Dr. Prof. Jordan B. Peterson back on Twitter this weekend. Peterson had previously been suspended because he refused to stop misgendering and deadnaming actor Elliot Page. Now that he has access to the social media site again, he’s used it…
Opera in the Heights Can Take a Breath and Start its Season, Secure in Lambert Hall
This December, Opera in the Heights will open its 2022-23 season — a season that might not have happened if a number of people and organizations hadn’t swooped in to work out a way to retain its home at Lambert Hall. In fact, it isn’t only Lambert Hall property that’s…
Houston Thanksgiving 2022: Grocery Store Hours
Every year, we start to sound like our parents when the holidays come around, marveling at how quickly the year went by. We cannot believe Thanksgiving 2022 is already here. And each Thanksgiving, we seem to be a little unprepared, whether it be the forgotten cranberry sauce or the unexpected…
J.J. Watt Takes Care of Football Bettor With $1,000 Payout
It is inarguable that former Houston Texan and current Arizona Cardinal (and future Hall of Famer) J.J. Watt is one of the most benevolent and philanthropic human beings in the sports world. Either it’s raising millions to help fund school athletics departments in underprivileged areas through his foundation or raising…
Paper Gliders Meets the Objective with “Squad Goals”
There are perfectly named songs and then there is “Squad Goals,” the new single from Houston indie rockers Paper Gliders. The track’s title, and its buoyant vibe, capture this specific moment for the band and the city, making it slightly better than perfect. Freshly-pressed vinyl copies of the single will…
NFL Week 11: Commanders 23, Texans 10 — Four Winners, Four Losers
For most of this 2022 NFL season, the Houston Texans, in the midst of a sea of losses, have managed to inexplicably hang around in virtually every game. They don’t do it in a way that is particularly dynamic or even fun, but in the fourth quarter of every game…
It’s Time For Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker Once Again
Beckanne Sisk has danced many different Sugar Plum Fairy roles before. But, as the newest Principal dancer joining Houston Ballet said, “This is a very different version. Stanton’s Skeleton of The Nutcracker is the same as many but he has added so much of his own and incorporated more of the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the World Cup
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, November 21 Opening of Miracle Pop-Up bars Cult favorite holiday-themed cocktail pop-up Miracle is back in Houston, running Monday, November 21 through Saturday, December 31. This year, participating bars will be featuring an array of new cheery cocktails like the…
Beautifully Chaotic They Do Not Move Opens at Catastrophic Theatre
The Catastrophic Theatre premieres a new work from Brian Jucha as part of their 30th anniversary season.
Lightscape Brings Dazzling Illuminations To Houston Botanic Garden
Lightscape has returned for its second year at Houston Botanic Garden, and the outdoor illuminated trail includes immersive installations set to seasonal tunes along a winding path through the property. The lights are on display through January 1, 2023.
Opinion: T.H. Rogers Parents Demand Answers and Don’t Want What’s Happening Covered Up
Friday morning’s meeting between administrators and T.H. Rogers parents and others concerned about the Houston ISD plan to off-load its special education kids there back to their home schools, didn’t exactly live up to how HISD likes to bill itself as “transparent.” Let’s count the ways. First of all, although…
Openings and Closings: Bludorn’s Navy Blue Opens, Underbelly Hospitality’s Big Plans
Navy Blue, 2445 Times Boulevard, opens November 18 and dining reservations have already begun. The new restaurant from chef/restaurateur Aaron Bludorn will have Jerrod Zifchak as executive chef. Ziffchak most recently held the role at Cafe Boulud in New York City which closed during the pandemic and made the decision…
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She Said
Title: She Said Describe This Movie In One Henry Steele Commager Quote: HSC: This is what really happened, reported by a free press to a free people. It is the raw material of history; it is the story of our own times. Brief Plot Synopsis: Times reporters decide time’s up for…
NFL Week 11: Commanders-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
The hope is that teams come out of their bye week reinvigorated, and perhaps more educated on what exactly they do well and do poorly. Well, the Texans may be better educated about themselves, but it has not translated into more success on the field. Since their Week 6 bye,…
Houston Chamber Choir’s Audience Takes Control This Weekend
Houston Chamber Choir is letting the audience take the wheel for its concert on Saturday. In the performance, the musicians will perform some of its all-time favorites, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Billy Joel, along with song requests from patrons, for an evening of music with special meaning for all.
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: 8th Wonder Celebrates Nine Years of Beers
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Holiday Wine Tasting at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Downtown Friday, 5:30 to 7 p.m. 1200 McKinney Pappas Bros. Steakhouse is hosting its annual Champagne Campaign Holiday Wine Tasting at the Downtown location, as trained sommeliers guide guests through a range…
A Voodoo Child’s Not-So-Slight Return
There are a lot of estate organizers, trusts and conglomerations that look after the posthumous interests and product of rock stars. But Experience Hendrix, LLC, is the gold standard in terms of how it should be done, for the artist who died in 1970 at the age of 27. In…
Why T.H. Rogers Matters According to the People Who Know It
During the 25 years Dave Muzyka was an administrator at T. H. Rogers — the first 15 as an assistant principal, the last 10 as principal — he gave hundreds of tours of his school and says visitors always left amazed by what was being accomplished in this unique school…
Best Bets: They Do Not Move, Suspiria, and A ’90s Musical
Our best bets include a little holiday spirit, a bit of ‘90s nostalgia, and lots of laughs this week.
Astros Week: Click Out, Montero Back, Hot Stove on Fire
One of the few disadvantages about winning the World Series (or participating in it for that matter, Phillies fans) is that it shortens the offseason quite substantially. In 2022, with the expanded season thanks to a lockout, it pushed the fall classic all the way to the week before free…
Thanksgiving 2022: Delicious Desserts to-Go in Houston
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and menus are being decided while guest lists are enlarged or slimmed down. Whether you need a last minute pie to round out the dessert table or a show-stopping cake that will shut up your loud-mouthed third cousin removed, we have a round up of some…
City Lights Downtown Holiday Magic Lights Up The City
Thanks to Houston First Corporation and Central Houston, Inc. are transforming Downtown Houston into the ultimate holiday destination dubbed City Lights Downtown Holiday Magic. The festivities will include events running Friday through January 2, 2023 at eight different spots in the downtown district.
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Holiday Miracle and Global World Cup Grub
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will be played from Sunday, November 20 through Sunday, December 18, and Bosscat Kitchen & Libations, 4310 Westheimer, is getting into the World Cup spirit. The restaurant will offer special…
Seventy Years of Sam, Sun and the Sound of Creation
In 2006, the piano-pumping wildman Jerry Lee Lewis released an album called Last Man Standing. The title wasn’t meant to reflect his status among rock and roll’s founding fathers—not while Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Fats Domino still drew breath. But among the “Million Dollar Quartet” who began their career…
James Click’s Houston Astro GM Tenure — Three Best Moves, Three Worst Moves
Much has been made about the Houston Astros’ culture behind the scenes over the last few days, since the departure of former Astros general manager James Click. There has been everything from snide, little drive by comments by some writers in free agency prediction columns to attempted nuclear bombs on…
Come and Take It Headliner Rory Scovel Enjoys The Comradery of a Comedy Festival
“That’s what’s interesting: I will see more friends from Los Angeles when I’m out on the road than I will ever see them in LA. It’s that sort of vibe.”
Houston Concert Watch 11/16: The 1975, Arc Angels, and More
Have you got your Thanksgiving turkey yet? While the holiday is still a week away, you might want to get with it, as turkey supplies are down, and prices are up. How much? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, turkey prices are 23 percent higher than a year ago…
Houston Texans Rookies Are Playing a Crazy Number of Snaps
Nine games into the 2022 NFLseason, the Houston Texans sit at 1-7-1. When a team’s record is that poor, there’s never any one, single reason. It’s typically a combination of things. The Texans, for example, suffer from a severe lack of experienced, high end talent. Their play calling on both…
Family of Deceased Cyclist Files Lawsuit Against Waste Company
On October 8 at 6:37 a.m. Bre’Ana Powell, 27, was bicycling home from her work at Hobby Airport. She worked night shifts, while she attended veterinary school. When Powell turned right into the intersection between Broadway and Morley streets, she was struck by a Republic Waste Services of Texas garbage…
T.H. Rogers Special Ed Students to be Shipped Out to Their Home Schools
Parents of special ed students at T.H. Rogers have received a letter dated November 15 saying that their students are going to be moved out of their specialized program at the school with its specially- trained teachers and aides and instead moved to their home schools. In that letter, with…
Gov. Abbott Calls For an Investigation Into Harris County’s Ballot Counting Practices
Harris County, still dealing with a request for documentation on how it ran its 2018 midterms, now faces a new investigation for the just-completed 2022 elections thanks to Gov. Greg Abbott who singled out this county once again calling for a criminal investigation into the process. Amid Republican Party accusations…
The Raw Music—and Rough-Edged Life—of Bluesman Hound Dog Taylor
There aren’t many artists who can say that someone created an entire record label and business for the sole purpose of putting out an album by them (and in fact, this might be the only instance). But that’s what superfan Bruce Iglauer did for his favorite local Chicago blues band,…
Why Did Jim Crane Hire James Click in the First Place?
We are still only one week removed from the parade to celebrate the Astros’ second World Series title, and just a few days removed from James Click being let go as general manager of the team. The search for a new GM is ostensibly on (although Jim Crane strikes me…
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley Returns at Main Street Theater
As a companion piece to Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley now returning to the Main Street Theater stage has its share of humor but also sounds more somber notes as it focuses on Lydia, the sister in the depressingly awful marriage. The first installment —…
Season 5 Of Yellowstone Finds Big Trouble Brewing In Big Sky Country
When last we left the Duttons (stewards of Yellowstone, the largest ranch in Montana), patriarch John (Kevin Costner) was running for Governor after Lynelle Kelly’s decision to leave that office and run for U.S. Senate. This came as something of a body blow to Dutton’s second son Jamie (Wes Bentley),…
NFL Week 10: Giants 24, Texans 16 — Four Winners, Four Losers
With their 24-16 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday afternoon, the Houston Texans now sit at 1-7-1 on the season, still on track for the first overall pick in the NFL Draft, which is rapidly becoming the goal for many Texans fans as this abomination of a season…
This Week in Houston Food Events: ‘Tis the Season of Tamales
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Wednesday, November 16 Spirit Round Table Turkey Trot Tasting at Brennan’s of Houston Brennan’s, 3300 Smith, invites guests to gather for an evening of Wild Turkey, light bites and learning during the 14th Annual Turkey Trot tasting event. Tickets ($35++) include…
New Book Analyzes the Anthems and Hit Songs Embedded in Our Minds
It was 1970 or 1971 and Carly Simon was waiting in her apartment for a dinner date to arrive. He was running a bit late so the singer/songwriter—to calm her nerves—picked up a guitar and began to casually put together a song. Less than 20 minutes later when the doorbell…
Classical Theatre’s The Marriage of Figaro Is Bursting With Comic Vitality
Thrice-delayed due to pandemic-related shutdowns and a building demolition (R.I.P Chelsea Market Theatre), Classical Theatre Company has finally unleashed its production of The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais and translated by Executive Artistic Director John Johnston. Bursting with comic vitality and animated performances, this classical farce contains the physical humor,…
Secretary of State Announces Ballot Rejection Decrease this Election
The Texas Secretary of State’s Office released preliminary data Friday that indicated 10,000 ballots were rejected this election. This is a significant improvement from the 24,000 ballots that were rejected during the March primaries. Sam Taylor, a spokesman from the Secretary of State’s office said rejection rates trended in the…
Houston Astros Part Ways With General Manager James Click
Even as the Astros were entering the home stretch of their most successful season in franchise history, there was a soft drumbeat from behind the scenes. That drumbeat was the sound of possible discord amongst the power triumvirate running things for the sport’s most successful franchise over the last half…
Harris County Republicans May Sue Over Paper Ballot Shortage
The Harris County Republican Party on Thursday announced that they plan to sue the Harris County Elections Office over the paper shortages certain polling locations faced on Election Day. Andy Taylor, the Harris County GOP’s legal counsel, said new elections administrator Clifford Tatum ran the election poorly which resulted in…
Paul Wall and Gary Clark Jr. Face Off In The Red Bull Soundclash
The crowd screamed as the lights dimmed at 713 Music Hall. The audience, sandwiched between two stages, turned their attention from one stage set to look like a backstreet in Austin. On the opposite side of the room, the other stage had a DJ booth resting beneath the towering logo…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Title: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Describe This Movie In One Elizabeth Martinez Quote: The concept of Manifest Destiny, with its assertion of racial superiority sustained by military power, has defined U.S. identity for 150 years. Brief Plot Synopsis: The king is dead. Long live the …? Rating Using Random Objects Relevant…
Openings and Closings: B.B. Italia Sugar Land, Goode Co. K&C Heights
B.B. Italia Bistro & Bar, 16250 City Walk, opened November 8 in Sugar Land. Benjamin Berg, owner and founder of Berg Hospitality is on a roll, having just recently opened his speakeasy bar, Emilia’s Havana, next to another Berg concept, The Annie Cafe and Bar on Post Oak Boulevard. For…
Harris County Received Vote Counting Extension Approval
On Wednesday night, the Harris County Elections Office filed an extension request for ballot counting and received same-night approval of this request. The request follows residents casting over 1.1 million ballots on Election Day. Out of this total, the county received 1,099 mail-in ballots and 857 emergency slot ballots. According…
ROCO Makes The F-word Popular: Fortune
ROCO knows how to keep its F-word inspired season on everyone’s lips with “Fortune” on November 12 at The Church of St. John the Divine. The concert will take place on Saturday, November 12 at 5 p.m.
Atlanta Begins its Fourth and Final Season
Atlanta is coming to its conclusion. The critically acclaimed and influential series created by Donald Glover arrived in 2016 and opened a door for what a half-hour comedy could be, which was and still is anything its creators and writers want it to be. Atlanta is the show’s playground, where…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Eat Good at the Inaugural Houston Craft BBQ + Beer Festival
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Tokyo Night Festival at at Texas Festival Grounds Friday through Saturday, 3 to 10 p.m. 6848 Almeda Genoa The Tokyo Night Festival is back and bigger than ever, celebrating Houston’s Japanese community and culture through food, music, art, anime,…
NFL Week 10: Texans-Giants — Four Things To Watch For
After a quasi-bye week after the Thursday night Battle Red game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the Houston Texans come into Sunday afternoon’s game against the New York Giants well rested. Unfortunately, the Giants themselves are coming off of their ACTUAL full bye week, so even that small advantage, for a…
Bob Dylan Gets Tangled Up in Tunes, In the Best Possible Way
What to say about Bob Dylan’s literary output? He won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, but that was for his lyrics. In fact, the Nobel committee recognized Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” No, I’m talking about books here, words written…
Thanksgiving 2022: Gobble Gobble To-Go
This Thanksgiving some Houstonians will venture out to one of Houston’s many restaurants for their holiday celebration. Others will sweat it out in their kitchens trying to make the perfect meal for a huge extended family. While many of us still enjoy getting our friends and family together in our…
County Judge Lina Hidalgo Celebrates Her Win With Supporters
Packed into the Democratic Party headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, crowds of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s supporters erupted into applause as she gave her re-election speech. She won her seat against Republican challenger, Alexandra del Moral Mealer, in a close race that resulted in a 2 percentage point gap: 51…
Best Bets: Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Joy Harjo, and Banned Music
The Houston Cinema Arts Festival, a three-term Poet Laureate, and more grace this week’s best bets.
Zachary Knowles Takes the Country Roads to Pop Stardom
Songwriter Zachary Knowles grew up in Magnolia, small town Texas right outside of Houston. He attended university at Texas A&M in College Station. Now that’s he’s graduated, he’s set to move to Nashville. He recently filmed a video for some of his songs at Billy Bob’s Texas, the iconic honky-tonk…
The Hard Road and Hot Music of Sly Stone
Maybe things started to get out of hand when the cocaine magically appeared on every possible spare bathroom countertop and mirror. Or when the huge amounts of cash arrived in suitcases. Or when the heavy dudes with gangster vibes and big fists started hanging around. Or the guns. Lots of…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Holiday Sips and Veteran’s Day Gratitude
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Veterans Day is coming up on Friday, November 11, and several Houston bars and restaurants are offering freebies and specials to show their appreciation. Check out our Houston Veterans Day Dining Guide to find out where…
2022 World Series Pulls In Second Lowest TV Ratings Ever
In Houston, we’ve become pretty good about projecting defiance over anything remotely resembling shade toward the Houston Astros, even if said shade is really just statistical fact. Three years of fending off “trash can banging” insults will make a fan base defensive. So prepare yourself, definite Astros fan, fox this…
Fort Bend County Judge KP George Wins Re-election
With reportedly high voter turnout, Democrat incumbent KP George, George was leading in his re-election bid for Fort Bend County judge against Republican challenger Trever Nehls with 52 percent of the votes to Nehl’s 48 percent on Wednesday morning. Nehls has served as the constable for Precinct 4 for eight…
Harris County Bonds Pass, Funding Safety and Public Work Projects
The Harris County bond proposals, providing funding for parks, safety measures and infrastructure support appeared to be on their way to passing in Tuesday’s elections. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times…
Tudor History Gets a Pop Makeover in Six at the Hobby Center
Two questions will spring to mind as you leave the ebulliently history-light kicky girl-power fabulousness that is Six, now playing at the Hobby Center. Why can’t all modern musicals be a sweet spot 80 minutes long and, how is it that Six manages to be full of fun, original, pop-charty…
Houston Concert Watch 11/9: Gary Clark Jr., Chaka Khan, and More
On the whole, musicians can be a rather competitive lot. How many guitar players does it take to change a light bulb? Five. One to change the bulb and four to say, “Eh, I could have done it better.” In the jazz and blues communities, the concept of a “cutting…
Astros Week: Baker to Return, Awards Season is Upon Us
Let’s be honest, we could probably just write here “THE ASTROS WON THE FREAKING WORLD SERIES, Y’ALL!” and that would be enough for Astros Week. But, it is important to realize that in addition to basking in the afterglow of another championship, this is also the first week of the…
Thanksgiving 2022: Dining Out at Houston’s Restaurants
Thanksgiving is less than three weeks away and some Houstonians are still scrambling to make plans. For those who want to leave the prep and cooking to the professionals, there are plenty of wonderful restaurants in our World Series Champion city for holiday feasts. So, don’t stress about cleaning the…
Which Houston Astro Free Agents Are Returning in 2023?
For a sport that has been slow to move in modernizing its game and presentation, there is one thing that’s nice about Major League Baseball — the offseason comes QUICKLY. The confetti has been barely swept off Smith Street, and the Houston Astros need to get right back to work…
Chuck’s Berry Good Book
Chuck Berry was a complicated man. He craved love, attention, and acceptance. But he could brutally deride those who gave it to him. He could be kind and generous to strangers. And harsh, cold and explosive to those closest to him. He was a Founding Father of Rock ‘n Roll…
Lina Hidalgo Retains Her Seat in an Exceptionally Close Race
Early voting election results in Harris County did not begin trickling in until after 8 p.m., meaning the Harris County Judge race and that of the two commissioners up for re-election were too close to call before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The delay was caused by a temporary restraining order issued…
Governor Greg Abbott Wins Another Term, Patrick and Paxton Win Their Races
In early returns and as predicted in the pre-election polls, Gov. Greg Abbott was leading in his bid for a third term over Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in Tuesday’s midterms, signaling that rather than turning purple, Texas will still be known as a red state overall with only isolated pockets…
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Court Orders Harris County Polling Sites Open Till 8 Tonight [UPDATED]
In a statement just released by the Harris County Elections Administrator, a court has ordered that voting hours in Harris County be extended until 8 p.m. today at all 781 polling places in the county following what it said here “a handful of late starts at various polling places.” Those…
Music Notes from a Houston Astros World Series Win
Sports and music go hand in hand in Houston, especially when those hands are high-fiving championship efforts. The newest trophy to add to the city’s mantel comes courtesy of the Houston Astros, who completed a remarkable 2022 season with a World Series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies last weekend. Music…
Three Reasons the Houston Astros Are a Modern Day MLB Dynasty
Webster’s defines the word “dynasty” as the following: “a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.” In the real world, it’s a fairly cut and dry definition, shaped largely by bloodline. In sports, the definition of “dynasty” us a…
Guitarist Jared James Nichols Cranks It Old School
When Jared James Nichols joins the Zoom meeting, he is seated on a couch in his home, vintage Les Paul in hand. It is easy to believe that he spends much of his time this way. Even though it’s early in the morning (by rock and roll standards), Nichols is…
Opinion: Opposition to Gender Affirming Care for Children is Part of Denying Trans People Exist
I was in a Facebook discussion the other day when I ran across this comment from a self-described moderate Republican. “I don’t care what adults do, but I have a problem with minors having hormones and surgery, especially at a young age. Top and bottom surgery is permanent.” On the…
Houston Restaurants and Bars Offering Freebies, Discounts and More this Veterans Day
Veterans Day is Friday, November 11, and many Houston restaurants, cafes and bars are honoring military servicemen and servicewomen with free meals, discounts, complimentary treats and more. Atlas Restaurant Group Ouzo Bay, Loch Bar and modern Italian-chophouse, Marmo, will offer 50 percent off to all active duty and military veterans…
Department of Justice Approves Federal Observers For Election Day
Today, Harris County Attorney, Christian Menefee’s Office, announced the approval from the Department of Justice to send federal observers to polling locations on Election Day. Election Officers, Civil Chief Daniel Hu and Deputy Criminal Chief Sharad Khandelwal will have the responsibility in overseeing the handling of election processes. Hu will…
Astros Parade Starts at Noon Today Downtown
The parade honoring the 2022 World Series Champions Houston Astros will begin at noon today starting at Smith and Preston. The Astros won the series Saturday night with a 4-1 win over the Phillies. Today’s parade will be 1.7 miles in length and will travel along Smith to Tuam. Officials…
The 10 Houston Astros I am Happiest For After the World Series Win
For the second time in their history, and the second time in the last five years, the Houston Astros are World Series champions. It feels phenomenal to type that sentence. Despite the fact that they’ve made six straight American League Championship Series, this stuff still feels new and fun every…
Harris County Bond Propositions Call For Investments in Parks, Transportation and Public Safety Facilities
Along with the candidates featured on the ballot, Harris County voters will be voting on three major bond propositions which target funding for public safety and infrastructure plans. The bond in total amounts to $1.2 billion, and if passed, is set to allocate $220 million to each of the county’s…
Fort Bend County Showdown: Trever Nehls Versus Incumbent KP George
Following eight years as Constable of Precinct 4, Republican Trever Nehls is challenging Judge KP George, to take over the position of Fort Bend County Judge. The issues that will take front and center of this race include the handling of the county’s law enforcement resources and the effort to…
This Week in Houston Food Events: It’s Oyster Season, Y’all
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, November 7 I Am From Here Meet and Greet Book Launch at Julep Julep, 1919 Washington, will host a meet and greet cocktail party to welcome James Beard Award-winning chef Vishwesh Bhatt and celebrate the release of his cookbook, I…
Tuesday: The Day for Harris County Voters to Come Out to the Polls for the Midterms 2022
Navigating a packed parking lot and searching for available spots, voters arrived at NRG stadium last Friday for the final day of early voting. Once polls closed, Harris County tallied a total number of 750,349 voters who participated in early voting. According to Leah Shah, director of communications and voter…
Houston Astros Are World Series Champions: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
For the second time in five years, the Astros have won the World Series, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in Game 6. It is the Astros’ fourth World Series appearance and second title since 2017. More importantly, it is validation for a team scarred by the cheating scandal that cost…
NFL Week 9: Eagles 29, Texans 17 — Four Winners, Four Losers
The game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on Thursday night, Battle Red Day for those who had the “first game in red helmets” circled on the calendar, was remarkable more for the environment surrounding the game than the game itself. The Thursday Night Football…
Astros Beat Phillies in Tight Game Five: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
The Astros battled behind Justin Verlander to win Game 5 of the World Series over the Phillies 3-2. The hotly fought contest saw Verlander get the first World Series win of his career and the Astros defense turn some sparkling plays to seal the win. The Astros are now one…
Openings and Closings: Karne Korean Heights, Lupo Caffe Lake Houston
Karne Korean Steakhouse, 2805 White Oak, softly opened November 1 with an official opening planned for November 11. The modernist Korean Steakhouse comes from restaurateur Jason Cho (Dak & Bop) and Chef Yurum “KP” Nam, the former owner/chef at New York City’s Korean restaurant, Zusik. The duo are bringing Korean…
The Musical Six at Broadway at the Hobby Makes Henry VIII’s Story, The Wives’ Story
In the musical Six, the six wives of Henry VIII are transported from Tudor times to the modern rock era and take the stage as empowered women in their own right — in a definite rewriting of history that won a Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2022. “History’s…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Night Market and Oxtail Mashup
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Night Market at Asia Society Texas Friday, 6 to 10 p.m. 1370 Southmore Asia Society Texas hosts its all-ages Night Market festival, drawing inspiration from street markets commonly found in East and Southeast Asia and celebrating Houston’s AAPI communities…
Astros No Hit Phillies to Even World Series: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
For only the second time in World Series history and the first since 1956, a team threw a no hitter in the fall classic and that team was your Houston Astros. After being rocked by the Phillies in Game 3, the Astros spun a gem led by Christian Javier and…
Texas Civil Rights Project Urges Galveston to Increase Polling Locations
This week the Texas Civil Rights Project sent a letter to the Galveston County clerk’s office, requesting an increase in the number of polling locations open in the county. There are only 28 polling locations in operation, which stands below the legal requirement of having 41 polling locations. According to…
First Look: Cherry Block Stomping Grounds
Houston has a multitude of new retail and dining destinations opening every day so it can be hard to settle upon where to go for lunch or a quick bite. There are downtown food halls, suburban plazas and repurposed structures doubling as dining and workspace destinations everywhere it seems. That’s…
5 Small, Bizarre Moments That Helped Create the Alt-Right
The lives of millions of Americans are sometimes altered forever by the goofy decision of one person who has no idea that history itself is waiting on their metaphorical dice roll. The collection of conspiracy theories, nationalism, and extremely online identity that we refer to as the alt-right was birthed…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Steakhouse Dinner and a Sushi and Wine Pop Up Experience
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The Neo Dinners: Sushi + Wine Pop Up Experience will take place at 13 Celsius, 3000 Caroline, as the wine team teams up with Jeremy Truong, Luis Mercado and Paolo Justo of Neo for an eight-day,…
NFL Week 9: Eagles-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
One of the big business stories in the NFL this season has been the viewership of the Thursday Night Football package on the Amazon Prime streaming service. Amazon paid over a billion dollars for the rights to Thursday nights, and for a variety of reasons, they’ve seen viewership steadily decline…
Best Bets: Quilts, Jazz, and Henry VIII’s Wives
From historical musicals to celebrations of the quilt, there’s a lot to experience in Houston this week.
Just a Few Days Left For Early Voting and Still No Federal Monitors
This Monday, voters made their way through canvassers crowding the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center on Gray, to join a line that wrapped around the building. There was no sign of the federal monitors that officials in Houston and Harris County had been asked to be present. According to Roxanne Werner, the…
Astros Blown Out by Phillies in Game 3: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Well, that sucked. Game 3 was a clunker for the Astros as the Phillies hit five home runs on their way to a 7-0 rout of the Astros to take a 2-1 lead in the World Series. The game was never close with Philadelphia going up 4-0 after two innings…
Houston Concert Watch 11/2: Carrie Underwood, Demi Lovato, and More
Gipsy Kings aside, it’s the queens who dominate this week’s Concert Watch. Stevie Nicks will play her rescheduled show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion tonight, and then it’s a crosstown smackdown between Carrie Underwood and Demi Lovato tomorrow. May the best lady win! What hath “American Idol” wrought? A…
Four Stats From Sunday That Should Infuriate Houston Texans Fans
Sometimes, you watch ineptitude with your own eyes, without any sort of quantitative or statistical context, and it feels a bit surreal, but completely shocking, Then, perhaps you’re handed a sheet with some numbers related to the debacle you’ve just watched, and you realize “Oh wow, I was just watching…
Bonnie Raitt Looks Back on a Lifetime of Texas Friends
Receiving a lifetime achievement award might lead to some introspection, a look back at the milestones which made a person worthy of recognition. For Bonnie Raitt, who earned such honors from the Recording Academy earlier this year, it allowed for a recollection of the many friends and acquaintances who helped…
XFL Reboot Announces Eight Team Names and Logos
The first iteration of the XFL, back in the early 2000s, failed because league founder Vince McMahon tried a little too hard to turn the league into a football version of WWE. The reprise, in 2020, founded again by McMahon and skippered by league president Oliver Luck, failed because of…
Charlie’s Good Tonight Establishes That Watts Was Good Every Night
The notion of a biography of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is an unlikely one. The beloved musician was always a steady presence in the band, a performer who never enjoyed the limelight and thought rock and roll was, on the whole, a bunch of foolishness. He once…
Catch a New Version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by Alley Artistic Director Rob Melrose
When Rob Melrose became the Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre in November 2018, during one of the first board meetings, a three-year plan was presented and one of the items on it was “New artistic director creates new version of A Christmas Carol. “It was either my first week…
Benny the Butcher’s A Nightmare in Texas Tour Hits Houston
“Houston, I want to do something special for ya’ll,” yelled Benny the Butcher as he walked to the edge of the stage. Smoke wafted across the room as he peered out at the audience in the venue. “But if I’m going to do it it needs to sound big. It…
NFL Week 8: Titans 17, Texans 10 — Four Winners, Four Losers
If you’re a non-baseball playing sports franchise in this town, it’s hard enough to keep up with the Houston Astros, even if you’re clicking on all cylinders. The Astros are the gold standard for Houston sports dynasties, smack dab in the middle of a fourth run to the World Series…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Burger Bodega Brings Epic Smash Burgers to Washington Ave
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, October 31 Halloween Tricks and Treats Check out our Halloween 2022 Food and Drink Guide for a list of bar and restaurant specials, seasonal sweets and more in Houston this Halloween. Tuesday, November 1 Licorería Limantour Bar Pop Up at…
Houston Fringe Festival: 6 Days Of Not-To-Miss Arts
The Houston Fringe Festival, a celebration of art that lives nearly entirely on the performing arts periphery will run November 1 – 6 at The MATCH, 3400 Main. This year’s artist line-up is full of cutting edge and experimental performances.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Wine Bar
Best Wine Bar: 13 Celsius Midtown is often thought of as a rather raucous place with loud bars and even louder patrons. But tucked away on a quiet corner of Caroline Street is a respite from the noise and the impossible parking in 13 Celsius. Yes, it has an incredible…
Em Beihold Scores a Hit and Parries the Attacks of Sudden Success
Em Beihold is an incredibly self-aware artist, on record and in an interview. During our chat ahead of her first-ever Houston show later this week at House of Blues, the rising pop artist actually referred to herself as “Numb Little Bug Girl,” a reference to her breakout hit which is…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Icehouse
Best Icehouse: D&W Lounge D&W Lounge has long been ready for its close-up. The Second Ward icehouse is iconic at this point in its storied life. Anyone who’s been there for even a minute can’t forget the arctic ice-cold beer, the gloriously diverse mix of patrons and especially its low-lit…
Houston Artist Leslie DeHaven Explores The Space Between in Her First Solo Art Show
Sometimes when you’re on the road the journey seems endless, but so do its possibilities. That idea is a catalyst of sorts for Houston artist Leslie DeHaven. She’s mapped her trip into the art world, she drives the vehicle and there’s nothing but wide-open space ahead to consider and capture…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Barbecue
Best Barbecue: Truth BBQ Houston has attracted some pretty top name talent in the culinary world, such is the case with Leonard Botello IV, pitmaster and owner of the highly-acclaimed Truth Barbeque who brought his spot to a smokehouse off Washington a few years back. It seems to be getting…
Life and Death Rides: Bicycling the Streets of Houston
David Loredo peers out, watching cars pass on W. Dallas; the breeze ruffles the flowers and letters from loved ones that surround Shane McKinney’s Ghost Bike. Over a week ago, Loredo and other Pride Ride volunteers spent their evening cleaning the spot where their fellow rider had been struck by…
Astros Fast Start Evens Series 1-1: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Four pitches. Three doubles. Two runs. That is how the game started for the Astros with three straight extra base hits from Jose Altuve, Jeremy Peña and Yordan Alvarez, plating two and putting the team up on Phillies starter Zack Wheeler. Wheeler is part of the two-headed ace the Phillies…
The Wreckers at Houston Grand Opera: A Rare Jewel
The last time America heard an Ethel Smyth opera was at NYC’s Metropolitan Opera. Die Wald (The World) opened June 1903. It has taken 119 years to hear another one. Houston Grand Opera presents Ethel Smyth The Wreckers (1906), an absolute marvel. Where has she been and what has taken…
Chris Stapleton Lets The Music Do The Talking
Chris Stapleton Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion October 28. 2022 Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show began way back in 2017, taking an understandable 18-month hiatus due the COVID-19 pandemic (during which Stapleton released his latest album, 2020’s Starting Over). 2017 was, of course, the year the Astros won the World Series…
Astros Drop World Series Game One 6-5 to Phillies: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Before Friday night, teams leading by five or more runs in a World Series game were 220-5. The Astros managed to make that 220-6 when they dropped a 6-5 decision to the Phillies after leading 5-0 in the third inning. Neither starter was great as both Justin Verlander and Aaron…
The Secret of My Success is Feel-Good Fare at TUTS
Theatre Under the Stars opens The Secret of My Success.
Wimpy Kid’s Jeff Kinney Debuts Diper Overlode
In 2007, author and illustrator Jeff Kinney published his first book of the wildly-popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. His round-headed main character, Greg Heffley, was a middle school boy trying to navigate the ins and outs of the junior high experience, a time when kids are still trying…
Openings and Closings: EZ’s Liquor Lounge Opens, Pit Room Expands to Memorial City
The Pit Room, 10301-A Katy Freeway, has signed a lease for a second location in Memorial City. The expansion comes from Sambrooks Management Company which operates the original location of The Pit Room at 1201 Richmond. The hand-crafted BBQ concept first opened in Montrose in 2016. SMC also owns and…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: a’BOOzy Brunch and More Halloweekend Fun
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings — and for more Halloweekend fun, check out our Halloween 2022 Houston Food and Drink Guide for a list of bar and restaurant specials, costume parties, bar crawls, seasonal sweets and more. Taste of Darkness and Spirits at Camerata…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Wine Selection
Best Wine Selection: Bludorn Bludorn is widely known for its creative and delicious fare, but perhaps less so for its massive wine selection. Hopefully, not any more. The menu goes 36 pages deep with an incredible depth and diversity. And it isn’t an unreasonable list with plenty of bottles under…
Astros-Phillies: Three Keys to the Astros Winning the World Series
The Fall Classic this year pits a pair of clubs that could not be more different. The Astros were a consistently good team that only seemed to get better as the season moved along with some of the most dominant pitching in team history, winning the AL West by 16…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Burger
Best Burger: Loro You can’t always get your hands on the fantastic Loro Cheeseburger (it’s only available until 6 p.m. daily), but when you do, be prepared to get them messy. The juice-dripping, prime grade beef patty comes stacked with a zippy, fatty red onion-brisket jam, gooey muenster cheese, creamy…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Live Venue (Large)
Best Live Venue (Large): Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion We’re living in the festival era of live music but that’s not readily evident by looking at Houston’s concert calendar. Mismanagement, misfortune and the plain, old Houston heat have recently meant fewer opportunities for our music fest fans to gather, lay out…
American History – Warts And All – Will Be Remembered In Song This Weekend
Houston Chamber Choir will debut a concert that strikes to the heart of the American experience this weekend. The United States of America likes to pride itself on being an incredible country of inclusion and diversity – yet it is also holds a history pocked by slavery, oppression and xenophobia. This Land Is Your Land…
NFL Week 8: Titans-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
If you were trying to slog through the rubble of the Houston Texans’ disastrous fever dream of a season in 2021, and find some nuggets of positivity, the first place you would look would probably be the two games against the Tennessee Titans. (If we are being honest, it’s not…
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes Deliver a Religious Experience to the Cover Song Cult
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes House of Blues October 26, 2022 Two-thirds of the way through Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ blustery, wordy, devoted set last night at House of Blues, the group’s Jim Jones-charismatic vocalist and leader Spike Slawson said, “You may or may not know this…
Lizzo Returns Home For The Special Tour
Is Elsik in the building? I heard Elsik High School was in the building!” yelled Lizzo over the roar of the audience at the Toyota Center. A section of the stadium began loudly cheering as the students, wearing jeans and their band shirts, rose to their feet and basked in…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: More Astros Specials and an Oxtail Mashup
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: With the Astros securing their World Series return against the Phillies and the first games taking place in Houston on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, we’ve updated our Astros Dining Guide featuring Houston bars…
Best Bets: The Wreckers, Fringe Festival, and Cine de Muertos
Whether Halloween is your favorite holiday or not, we’ve got you covered in this week’s best bets.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Fried Chicken
Best Fried Chicken: Gatlin’s Fins & Feathers When two of the city’s finest pitmasters venture into bird, you follow the flock. Chef-owner Greg Gatlin and executive chef Michelle Wallace have taken their talents to fried chicken and seafood at this new Independence Heights joint. The Gulf seafood is great, of…
Best of Houston® 2022: Immersive Art Exhibit
The Immersive Van Gogh Experience is this year’s Best Of Houston® 2022 choice for Immersive Art Exhibit.
Premier Jam Band Gov’t Mule Hauls the Heavy Load Blues into Houston
For many years, James Brown was called “The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.” These days, that title might go to guitarist Warren Haynes. Haynes and his band Gov’t Mule will be in Houston for a show on Friday, October 28, at the 713 Music Hall in support of the band’s…
Zapruder Analysis of the 1980 NLCS Game 5 Between the Astros and Phillies
The 2022 World Series begins tomorrow, with the Philadelphia Phillies in town to take on the Houston Astros. It’s the Astros fourth World Series in the last six seasons, and the fifth in the history of the franchise. Meanwhile, the Phillies are in their first World Series since 2009, and…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Pizza
Best Pizza: Tiny Champions As if Tiny Champion’s totally cravable, perfectly done bar pies (and ice cream sundaes) weren’t reason enough to visit its cute space and patio, the EaDo hangout from the team behind Nancy’s Hustle started putting its spin on Detroit-style pizza, too. You can find the chubby,…
Post Malone Radiates Good Vibes at Toyota Center
Post Malone Twelve Carat Tour Toyota Center Houston October 25th, 2022 In the late summer of 2020, in the absence of live music and minimal in-person interactions, my nightly routine included making dinner, maybe enjoying a glass of wine or three, followed by wearing noise cancelling headphones and using music…
Steve Lacy Takes Over Warehouse Live
The hall in Warehouse Live filled with billowing puffs of vapor that drifted over the audience. Laser beams cut through the artificial fog and bathed the sold-out crowd in light. The silhouette of a man stood center stage, holding his outstretched arm through the smoke toward the crowd. “Let’s try…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Mexican
Best Mexican: Chivos Mexican fare takes a turn through the globally-influenced Houston lens at this Night Moves Hospitality concept. While opening chef Thomas Bille has since departed, his imaginative touches to the menu remain alongside a more than capable kitchen team. Crazy good do-it-yourself bone marrow tacos sit next to…
What to Expect for Voters at Fort Bend County’s Early Voting Polling Locations
Voters flocked to Fort Bend County polling locations between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday to cast their ballots in early voting. The county saw an average of 700 voters showing up per hour until 3 p.m., then had a sudden rush at 5 p.m. before closing…
Opinion: Conspiracy Theories Are Not Just Amusing Novelties
Last week, I was invited to speak to a Houston area high school along with five other local horror authors. During the question and answer session, a student asked us what our favorite conspiracy theories were. Here is an extended answer to what I told them. I don’t have a…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Wings
Best Wings: STUFF’d Wings Fried chicken wings go to nuclear levels of goodness at this stuffed wing joint, a food truck turned brick-and-mortar spot over in Midtown’s new Ion District. Get the ultra crisp, ultra crunchy bone-in flappers “ridin’ dirty” with fillings from pork and beef dirty rice to mac…
Four Reasons the Astros’ World Series Opponent Feels VERY Familiar
This recent run of Astros success is the greatest sustained run that a Houston professional sports team has had in our lifetimes. The only era of one Houston team that could make any sort of argument would be the back to back champion Clutch City Rockets in the mid-’90s, but…
Houston Concert Watch 10/26: Lizzo, Chris Stapleton, and More
Hey, the Astros are in the World Series (again, New York Yankees! Ha!), but with tickets at a premium, in terms of both availability and price, concerts might be the way to go this week. You can always DVR a game and watch it later if there is a scheduling…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Brunch
Best Brunch: Bludorn Scoring a coveted Friday or Saturday night dinner reservation at this hot ticket can be difficult, but you know when it’s a bit easier? Brunch. Consider experiencing the unrivaled hospitality and wizardry of chef Aaron Bludorn and Co. on Sunday morning instead, and you can dine on…
Houston Grand Opera Unveils a Forgotten Work With The Wreckers
The setting is an isolated and poor seaside village in Cornwall whose residents eke out a meager existence through the goods they retrieve from any shipwrecks that come their way. Rather than count on providence to provide them with the shipwrecked bounty they need to survive, they take matters further…
Southern Smoke Festival’s Return a Huge Success
Southern Smoke Festival 2022 ended its three-day chefapalooza this past Sunday and the Southern Smoke Foundation now has an extra $1.62 million to add to its coffers, meaning more funds for mental health care and emergency relief aid for people in the food and beverage industry in Houston and across…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Margarita
Best Margarita: Better Luck Tomorrow’s Avocado Margarita There’s nothing wrong with a Mexican restaurant margarita. Goodness knows, we’ve giddily slurped a few away over chips and guacamole. But few of those restaurants will be inventive enough to save some of the guac’s avocado to mix into your margarita. For that…
Opinion: Santa Fe School Board Was Right Not to Put Memorial to Mass Shooting on School Grounds
This past week, parents at Santa Fe High School were outraged when the school board voted unanimously not to erect a monument to the victims of the 2018 mass shooting. The attack killed eight children and two students. Instead, the memorial will be built on land owned by the district…
Organ Failure Releases First Album in 16 Years, and It’s a Jolly Evil One
Organ Failure is the musical arm of Super Happy Fun Land owner Brian Arthur. In the early part of the millennium, their work was as bizarre as anyone would expect from the venue known for hosting Houston’s weirdest acts. Over and Under is the first album they’ve released in 16…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Thai
Best Thai: Street to Kitchen Thai street foods are real-deal delicious at this East End stunner from Thai native and chef-owner Benchawan Jabthong Painter, which now rocks both staples and menu specials every week. High-quality, locally-sourced ingredients shine in the form of tom yum steamed egg with Gulf seafood, garlic…
One Week Away, How Active Will Texans Be at NFL Trade Deadline?
A week from today, the 2022 NFL Trade Deadline will be upon us, and for the third straight season, the Houston Texans are viewed as potential major sellers at the deadline, given (a) where they are in their rebuild (read: still SUPER early), and (b) Nick Caserio’s affinity for and…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Gay Bar
In this year’s Best Of Houston®, Houston Press selected Ripcord as Best Gay Bar.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Breakfast – Garden Oaks/Oak Forest
Best Breakfast – Garden Oaks/Oak Forest: Slowpokes This homegrown coffee shop has a mini empire in town, and the GOOF area is home to one of its locations. Get a jump on the day with lattes, pour overs, and cold brews paired with all-day breakfast bites, from bacon, egg and…
Best of Houston® 2022: Best Patio
Houston Press selected Wicklow Heights Bungalow and Garden Bars as its best patio.
Plumshuga: The Rise of Lauren Anderson is Sweet and Sour at Stages
Stages celebrates the life of Lauren Anderson in Plumshuga: The Rise of Lauren Anderson.
Houston Ballet Hires its First Co-Artistic Director
A friendship of more than 20 years, coupled with several professional intersections over that time, has had no small part in the selection of Julie Kent as the first Co-Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet. Kent, a former ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, and most recently artistic director of The…
Doctor Who: Full Speed Backwards
Jodie Whittaker’s time on Doctor Who has come to an explosive but confusing close, which is par for her time as the iconic hero. “The Power of the Doctor” is a perfect example of what made this era of the show inarguably daring, but also hard to love outright. When…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Fall Sips and Halloweekend
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, October 24 Vintage Bordeaux Dinner at Brasserie 19 Charles Clark and Guy Stout invite guests to a Vintage Bordeaux Dinner at Brasserie 19, 1962 West Gray, at 6:30 p.m. Clark has hand-selected an array of vintage Bordeaux wines to pair…
NFL Week 7: Raiders 38, Texans 20 — Four Winners, Four Losers
In their 1-3-1 start to the season, the trend for the Houston Texans had been that they were hanging around within a score in each of those games, but eventually they couldn’t seal the deal, except against Jacksonville. The recurring theme in every Lovie Smith press conference was “we need…
Astros Sweep Yankees, Head to World Series: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
In the most offensively competitive game of the entire ALCS, the Astros outlasted the Yankees beating them 6-5 and sweeping New York 4-0 to reach their fourth World Series in the last six years. It was another remarkable pitching effort for the bullpen after Lance McCullers, Jr. gave up four…
These Houston Bars and Restaurants Are Celebrating Halloween 2022 With Boo-ze, Bashes and Bites
These Houston bars and restaurants are ready to make this Halloweekend a spooktacular one, rocking moonlit Halloween bashes, costumed bar crawls, Día De Muertos celebrations, and all kinds of tricks and treats. Brasserie 19, 1962 West Gray The posh brasserie will host its annual Halloween Party with Veuve Clicquot, themed Eiffel…
Everything’s Coming Up Aces for Angela Strehli
It had been nearly two decades since vocalist Angela Strehli stepped into a recording studio to cut a solo record. But she knew if she didn’t, there just might be some disappointment at home. After all, it was longtime husband Bob Brown who suggested and encouraged her to make a…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best All-Day Cafe
Best All-Day Cafe: Cafe Louie If you haven’t experienced this East End cafe yet, we kindly and strongly suggest you do. The neighborhood gem is the brainchild of brother-sister chef duo Angelo Emiliani (who you may know from his Angie’s Pizza pop-up) and Lucianna “Louie” Emiliani (a pastry wunderkind who…
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Harris County Opens Early-Voting for Mid-terms Today With Monitors Galore [UPDATED]
Amid allegations about election security, as Harris County opens its polling places for early voting in the mid-terms today, election workers and local officials will be accompanied by election inspectors dispatched from the Texas Secretary of State’s office and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office. In past elections, election inspectors have…
She-Hulk and Rings of Power: Wins for Marvel and Fantasy
The television season has been packed with huge shows from HBO, Disney, Amazon, and pretty much every other streamer as well. The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power and She-Hulk have completed their seasons and stand out in a very saturated landscape of fandom and intellectual property. She-Hulk delivered the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Bakery
Best Bakery: Koffeteria Pastry chef and owner Vanarin Kuch–a former ‘Top Chef: Just Desserts’ contestant–has upped the bakery game with this outside-the-pastry-box spot over in EaDo. Not only does Koffeteria provide the buttery, crunchy shelled croissants you find at many of the coffee shops around town, the bakery and cafe…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Live Venue (Medium)
Best Live Venue (Medium): 713 Music Hall Any place hoping to be considered a serious music city is going to need an array of mid-sized venues in its downtown area in the present live music climate. This particular demographic was strengthened locally when 713 Music Hall opened its doors late…
A Pandemic Play That Takes Too Big a Bite
On a scale of one to ten, how bad are things out there, asks Caroline, hoping the numerical rating will help steel her for whatever news is forthcoming. News about the horrors going on in the world. In her city. Her neighborhood. Just outside her front gate. It’s a 13,…
Astros Win 5-0 Take 3-0 Lead Over Yankees in ALCS: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
The Astros beat the Yankees decisively 5-0 on Saturday night in the Bronx giving them a commanding 3-0 lead in the American League Championship Series. It took five pitchers to throw a three-hit shutout with two of the hits coming in the ninth inning. Christian Javier picked up the win…
Music and Rock Stars at Southern Smoke Festival
In the old days, there were rock stars. Chuck Berry. Elvis. John, Paul, George and Ringo. You knew they were rock stars because they were cool and they were musicians. There were musicians at last night’s H-town Welcome Wagon, the opening event of this year’s three-day Southern Smoke Festival. A…
Human Dignity and Redemption Explored in Coyote on a Fence at Dirt Dogs Theatre
In its latest production, Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. transports us to an unmentioned small town that is easily conjured in the American imagination through the steady music of Americana that plays before the start of the play. Coyote on a Fence, written by Bruce Graham, examines themes of the dignity…
In HGO’s La Traviata it’s Verdi’s Music That Was the Star on Opening Night
In the world of theater, Shakespeare’s Macbeth swirls with superstition. If one is performing it, you may not say the title out loud, especially backstage. You must call it, “The Scottish Play.” Why ill omens and foreboding follow this play is a mystery to all, but at Houston Grand Opera,…
Rockets Will Be Tested by Youth, Inexperience This Season: 4 Keys to Success
“Man, we’re just so young.” Those were the words uttered by Rockets coach Stephen Silas after a 117-107 loss to the Hawks in the season opener on Wednesday night. His comments were in response to a question about mistakes made that cost the team a chance at a win against…
Astros Go Up 2-0 On Yankees in ALCS: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
The Astros took a two-game lead over the Yankees in the ALCS with a nail biting 3-2 win at Minute Maid Park Thursday night. Framber Valdez threw seven innings and despite another game struggling at the plate, the Astros got what they needed in a three-run homer from Alex Bregman…
Openings and Closings: The Lymbar at The Ion Soon, Niko Niko’s Woodlands
The Lymbar, 4201 Main, is on track to open later this fall at The Ion. The concept was first announced in May 2021 as we reported here in the Houston Press. The upcoming craft cocktail bar and restaurant comes from the Cordua family with father and son duo Michael and…
NFL Week 7: Texans-Raiders — Four Things To Watch For
I know this may feel weird, because the Houston Texans have not played very good football for the better part of the last three years, but their opponent this coming Sunday, the Las Vegas Raiders, are a team against whom the Texans actually have a winning record all-time, at a…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: It’s Southern Smoke Time
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Bravado Spice 10 Year Celebration Event at Karbach Brewing Co. Friday, 6 to 10 p.m. 2032 Karbach Bravado Spice Company, will celebrate its ten-year anniversary, hosting festivities at the Bravado Spice 10 Year Celebration Event at Karbach Brewing Co…
Just In Time For Halloween: Two Star Symphony’s 20 Year Anniversary
There is no better band to celebrate Halloween with than Houston’s Two Star Symphony. The unconventional eight-piece ensemble is celebrating their 20 year anniversary with two very distinct events that will show off the range of one of Houston’s longest running and distinct acts. Two Star Symphony will host a…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Cheese Shop
Best Cheese Shop: Montrose Cheese & Wine The cheese selections at Goodnight Hospitality’s fine cheese and wine shop are darn good. That’s because the expert team of cheesemongers, led by GM Shannon McCracken, hand-selects its lineup of small producers, offering a rotating selection of 12-15 cheeses to go alongside 125…
The Woodlands Beams With LGBTQ Pride This Weekend
The Woodlands will host an LGBTQ pride festival to connect, celebrate, educate and foster relationships in the LGBTQ community while promoting equality, unity, and love. The celebration takes place Saturday from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Town Green Park, 2099 Lake Robbins.
Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties Prepare For Early Voting Monday
With early voting in the mid-term elections due to begin Monday, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties have increased the number of polling places, expanded the space in others and in some cases found new sites after school district representatives, citing the Uvalde school shooting, initially said they no longer wanted…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Raymond & Ray
Title: Raymond & Ray Describe This Movie In One Parenthood Quote: TOD: You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they’ll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father. Brief Plot Synopsis: Bros before…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Seafood
Best Seafood: Golfstrømmen Golfstrømmen is a Houston gem. Norwegian for “Gulf stream,” the elegant Post Market food hall spot puts a Nordic spin on Gulf Coast seafood; and it’s been a hit with foodies in-the-know since opening thanks to high-quality sourcing from environmentally-friendly seafood suppliers and the masterful techniques of…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Place to Buy Plants
Best Place to Buy Plants: Plants n’ Petals Flower Shop Right in the shadow of Central Market is Plants n’ Petals Flower Shop, but you might not even notice. Despite the rather sprawling outdoor space filled with plants and rows and rows of pottery, it can be easy to miss…
Albee’s Adult Aesop Fable: Seascape at the Alley Theatre
Two very good things happened downtown in Houston last evening. The Astros beat the Yankees 4-2 in the first game of the American League Championship series, and Edward Albee’s Seascape (1975) opened at the Alley. Both events were winners. Two married couples meet on a beach. One is very human…
ALCS Game One, Astros 4, Yankees 2: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Game 1 of the American League Championship Series felt a lot like a normal regular season game between two veteran teams who had played each other a lot. The Yankees did what they do, which is hit home runs. The Astros did as well, but, as has been the case…
Best Bets: Korean Festival, La traviata, and The Black Power Mixtape
Opera, dance, and cultural festivals all make this week’s list of best bets.
Mutts Gone Nuts! Showcases the Value of Pet Adoption
Think back on the best stage shows you’ve ever seen. They might have featured a mix of comedy, daring physical feats and heart-tugging moments. The best of them had a message that resonated, some important statement about our place in the world and those with which we share it. Now,…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Cheer on the ‘Stros and Pair Wine with Chocolate
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Charles Clark and Guy Stout invite guests to a Vintage Bordeaux Dinner at Brasserie 19, 1962 West Gray, on Monday, October 24 at 6:30 p.m. Clark has hand-selected an array of vintage Bordeaux wines to pair…
ECHO Travels The Globe (Metaphorically) In 9th Season
The Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra is setting sail on its ninth season with programming to take audiences around the world without leaving west Houston. The season starts Thursday with Music From The New World and offers several chances to see the organization on its musical journey throughout the year.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Vietnamese
Best Vietnamese: Xin Chào Houston has another gem on its hand, and it’s this game-changing Vietnamese kitchen and bar from MasterChef winner Christine Ha (Blind Goat) and chef Tony John “TJ” Nguyen (Saigon House). It’s part neighborhood hangout, part outlandishly good restaurant—the kind of place where you can split pandan…
Prog Rock Legends Yes Go Close to the Edge and Celebrate a 50th Anniversary
The notion of a band anchoring a tour around the performance of an entire classic album has taken hold in recent years. The Eagles (Hotel California) have been most successful with this strategy, but many others have jumped on the bandwagon: Patti Smith (Horses), the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (Pet…
Houston Texans Pro Football Focus Scores: Do These Pass the Smell Test?
I am a very statistically oriented person, with probably a touch of Attention Deficit Disorder. I also happen to be a sports talk radio host (and freelance writer, as you can see), so add up all of those facets, and anything sports-related that can be translated into NUMBERS is a…
Dogs and Cats Remain Stranded in Houston Area Shelters As Adoptions Decrease
Jennifer Slusser knew she wanted a dog and did not want to go to a breeder. After exploring her options, she scoured the Fort Bend County Animal Services Facebook and found Charlie. “In his adoption advertisement photo I noticed his giant head and goofy little ears,” Slusser says. “I just…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Italian
Best Italian: Trattoria Sofia The Berg Hospitality team takes a trip to the Italian countryside at this rustic trattoria, which boasts a secret garden-esque patio perfect for date night. Indulge in seasonal plates and staples from spicy shrimp bruschetta and woodfired octopus to veal milanese, cacio e pepe and a…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Live Venue (Small)
Best Live Venue (Small): The Secret Group Local municipalities run multi-service centers, spaces created to bring the community together for programs and events. While it’s not part of any city agency, The Secret Group is a vital multi-service center, the hippest one in all of Houston. The intimate EaDo performance…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Movie Theater
Best Movie Theater: Star Cinema Grill Even before the pandemic made first run movie watching an at-home thing, movie theaters were trying to make the cinema experience similar to an evening in one’s own living room. They installed recliners, opened full-service kitchens and allowed for adult beverages to mimic the…
Southern Smoke Festival 2022: Three Days of Food and Fun
Southern Smoke Festival is back this year, after a nearly three-year absence. Due to the COVID pandemic, the fall charity festival from Chris Shepherd’s Southern Smoke Foundation was last held in 2019. This year, its organizers have chosen to make the foodie fest’s return bigger and better and longer than…
Opinion: 10 Red Flags The Guy You’re Dating is an MRA or an Incel
Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) and their near-cousins Incels (involuntary celibates) are what largely make up the anti-feminist part of the internet. These dudes generally spend their time in forums reinforcing misogynistic nonsense and insisting the world would be a better place if women were more submissive to men. However, sometimes…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Deep Dish Pizza
Best Deep Dish Pizza: Star Pizza’s Starburst The first century Roman foodie Marcus Apicius allegedly first uttered “you eat with your eyes.” It’s fun to imagine the ancient gourmand devouring Star Pizza’s Starburst deep dish. Before his taste buds ever were piqued by the pie’s many meats and veggies, he’d…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Food Hall
Best Food Hall: POST Market The old Barbara Jordan Post Office was reimagined into the epic POST Houston space, which rocks a concert hall, super cool skylawn with incredible views of the city, and the expansive POST Market food hall. In that hall you’ll find some of the hottest food…
Grammy Award-Winning Angel Blue Makes Her HGO Debut in La Traviata This Week
When acclaimed and Grammy-winning soprano Angel Blue sings the Violetta role for Houston Grand Opera’s season opening production of La Traviata, it will be her eighth time performing the role (in seven different productions). Luckily for her, dying on stage is not hard.. “It’s going to sound morbid, but that’s…
Jack Easterby Fired By the Houston Texans — Four Winners, Four Losers
For an executive whose impact on the organization was seismic, and not in a good way, leaving behind a trail of figurative rubble 50 feet deep, the statement ushering the Texans’ former Executive Vice President of Football Operations, Jack Easterby, out of the building by CEO Cal McNair was concise…
Houston Concert Watch 10/19: Lamb of God, Post Malone, and More
The Stevie Nicks concert slated for a couple of weeks ago at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was postponed due to a throat ailment (not COVID!, the press release said) on the part of Ms. Nicks. Frustrating, but the show has been rescheduled for November 2. Disappointing Houston music fans…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Grocery Store
Best Grocery Store: 99 Ranch Market The TV-watching world was further clued into Houston’s culinary prowess and cultural diversity when Bravo’s Top Chef aired its latest season earlier this year. The program focused on Houston as a food city and the city’s food scene was abuzz for weeks as the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Pandemic Food and Drink Idea
Best Pandemic Food and Drink Idea: Curbside Pickup Honestly, where has this brilliant idea been all our lives? To go food has always been somewhat pedestrian. It could be good, certainly, but no one was confusing it for a fine dining experience — even if you did light some candles…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Bookstore
Best Bookstore: Kaboom Books A bookstore needs books and there are lots of them at Kaboom Books, real books you can touch, feel and page through, so many they fill bookshelves built 12 high in the main room of the Woodland Heights-area retailer. Rolling stepladders in this nook or that…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Bar – River Oaks
In this year’s Best Of Houston®, Houston Press selected Marfreless as Best Bar – River Oaks.
Things Couldn’t Be Better in Glocca Morra With Paul Hope Caberet
Tired of Cardie B and Harry Styles? Had your fill of Eminem and Taylor Swift? Then have I got a cure for you – the Great American Songbook will raise your spirits and imbue your life with that patented Broadway bounce. If you can’t get enough of celebrated musicians and…
Aaron Sanchez: Pit Stop Houston
Chef and television personality Aaron Sanchez, currently a judge on Fox’s hit culinary competition Master Chef, made a quick stop in Houston last week as part of his social media tour in partnership with Quaker State. On the list were four cities: Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and finally, Houston…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Middle Eastern
Best Middle Eastern: Hamsa We highly suggest you come with a crew (or at least one very hungry dining companion) to work your way through the salatim — small plates like baba ganoush, squash tahini and matbucha (like a tomato and red pepper and tomato relish) — at this modern…
Billy Joel’s Fall Classic: Houston vs. New York
It’s October and for the better part of the last decade that’s meant post-season baseball in Houston and New York City. The Houston Astros and New York Yankees have been forging a fun playoffs rivalry filled with dramatic wins, baseball heroics, cheating allegations and, mostly, Astros’ series wins. As of…
Four Burning Post-Bye Week Questions for the Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are back at work, after a weekend off to recharge their batteries. They’ll head to Las Vegas this weekend, before coming home in Week 8 to play their first home game in what will be four weeks by then. It’s been a road heavy schedule, and five…
Steve Martin and Martin Short: The Two Amigos Ride Into Sugar Land
For many years, when an excited fan would approach Steve Martin and ask for an autograph or picture, the actor/screenwriter/novelist/playwright/comedian (whew!) would immediately hand the person a pre-printed, autopen-signed business card. It said, “This certifies that you have had a personal encounter with me and that you found me warm,…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Comfort Food
Best Comfort Food: Feges BBQ Is there anything more comforting than BBQ? We think not. This homegrown spot from husband-and-wife duo Patrick Feges and Erin Smith takes things to the next level when it comes to ‘que, offering comfort in the form of meltingly tender prime brisket, smoked chicken wings,…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Record Store
Best Record Store: Cactus Music Cactus Music has long been the sort of shopping destination record buyers from anywhere would eagerly scratch onto their Houston to-do list. It’s known and loved for stacking its racks with vinyl, cassette tapes, CDs – whichever the popular medium of the time over its…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Beach
Best Beach: Galveston Beach at the Seawall Texas beaches are some of the most unique and interesting in the world. Most aren’t the white-sand-clear-water variety, but they are alive with activity and absolutely fun. When Galveston ingeniously took on the project of widening (and in some case creating nearly from scratch) the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Deli
Best Deli: Pete’s Fine Meats and Deli Texas, unlike our friends on the East Coast, is not inundated with great delis. Instead, we lean on the fact that there is one thing we do know: meat. Pete’s Fine Meats and Deli is perhaps the best butcher in the city with…
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Korean Festival Houston Returns to Discovery Green [UPDATED]
Celebrate Korean culture as Korean Festival Houston returns to Discovery Green.
Houston Texans Fire Executive Vice President Jack Easterby
In the midst of a two-plus season run, since the start of the 2020 season, that has seen the Houston Texans go 9-28-1, the organization has watched their season ticket wait list disappear, a franchise quarterback leave town, and swaths of good folks in the organization wind up either dismissed,…
Rockets Preview: Wildly Athletic Wings
In this series of posts, we will look at the Rockets preseason roster and analyze how they look by position group. If there is one thing this Rockets team will be this year, it’s athletic. Youth aside, they have collected a group of high flyers the likes of which we…
Astros Sweep Mariners in ALDS: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
It took us a full day to process what we saw for more than six hours on Saturday. The Astros and Mariners battled to a 0-0 tie through 17 innings behind solid pitching from the M’s, a lack of timely hitting from the ‘Stros, and Houston’s typical outstanding rotation and…
Rodney Crowell Brings Word For Word To The Heights Theater
For Texas legend Rodney Crowell, it’s always been about writing. His ability to craft songs that beautifully tell tales of life, love, loss and the search for truth and beauty has secured his place in songwriter history. Crowell will be performing at The Heights Theater for a special solo performance…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Golfstrømmen Debuts its New All-Day Menu and Southern Smoke Returns
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Wednesday, October 19 A Special Whiskey Wednesday At Brennan’s of Houston Brennan’s, 3300 Smith, is celebrating Old Fashioned Week with Elijah Craig and supporting the Southern Smoke Foundation at the same time. Featured cocktails include Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon Old…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Tex-Mex
Best Tex-Mex: El Tiempo Cantina Back in the day, a place like El Tiempo Cantina was simply known as “Mexican food” and maybe that’s still how the meals served in its locations are known in non-Texas parts of the country. Houston’s proximity to Mexico and the strong focus on international…
Four Biggest 2022 Surprises For the Houston Texans
Surprises can come in many forms. They can be pleasant surprises, like some office workers charging into your office with a birthday cake to celebrate another year on earth. They can be harrowing surprises, like a deliveryman showing up with divorce papers at your place of business when you thought…
The Musical Version of The Secret of My Success is Making its Regional Premiere at TUTS
The Secret of My Success is a 1987 movie with Michael J. Fox that is perhaps remembered more fondly than reviewers and audiences of the time judged it. But the new musical version of The Secret of My Success about to make its regional premiere at Theatre Under the Stars is…
Judas Priest! It’s the Good Book According to Halford!
When Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford released his autobiography in 2020, it really lived up to its title. In Confess, he charted not only his journey in one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, but also his incredible self-doubt, long periods of substance…
Best of Houston® 2022: Best Bar – Rice Village
Houston Press selected Under The Volcano as Best of Houston® 2022’s Best Bar – Rice Village.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Bike Shop
Best Bike Shop: Urban Bicycle Gallery Houston has become an unlikely home for many a cycling enthusiast. The city has built and continues to build miles and miles of dedicated bike lanes despite its reputation as a car city. As a result, bike shops like Urban Bicycle Gallery have found…
Road Kill is Back and Better Than Ever
One of the most prestigious series of literature anthologies based in Texas is Road Kill. That is a very weird sentence to type, but it’s true. Since 2016, the annual horror series has attracted very big names, including the legendary and gene-defying Joe Lansdale and Stephen Graham Jones, arguably the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Breakfast – Midtown
Best Breakfast – Midtown: the breakfast klub In a world that’s moving in all kinds of weird directions, one thing remains constant. And that’s that the breakfast klub is one of the best breakfast joints in town. Join the “klub” to see why in the form of gorgeously crisp wings…
Trimmed Of The Fun, The Thin Place Feels Overly Gaunt
An actor once told me that the worst thing someone could say at the end of a show was, “sure looked like you were all having fun up there.” A compliment to hide whatever failings the speaker felt about the production. Politeness over truth. But what if the very thing…
The Marías Aligned Venus and Jupiter Over Houston Last Night
The Marías White Oak Music Hall October 13, 2022 Before she and her band The Marías played a sold-out show at White Oak Music Hall, María Zardoya told us she was feeling the uncomfortable growing pains of success. She admitted to breaking down a bit on tour, overwhelmed by the…
Openings and Closings: Lyric Market Has Opened, Gatsby’s Seafood Debuts
Lyric Market, 411 Smith, opened in downtown Houston October 13. The new food hall takes its place among other downtown multi-concept food destinations like The POST, Bravery Chef Hall and Finn Hall. Some of the existing food halls saw a downtick in business during the COVID pandemic restaurant restrictions, losing…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Tacolandia, King’s Oktoberfest and a Fall Wine Fest on the Bayou
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: King’s Oktoberfest at King’s BierHaus Friday-Sunday 2044 E T C Jester King’s BierHaus Heights location will host the 10th annual Oktoberfest weekend, rocking time-honored events such as the Bavarian Stronghuman contest, as well as more modern fun like the…
Tale of the Tape, Walk Off Home Run Category: Yordan 2022 vs. Altuve 2019
There is no more exciting ending to a professional sporting event than the walk off home run, particularly in the postseason. Sure, NBA buzzer beaters are cool, as are game winning field goals or touchdowns at the gun in an NFL game. However, in a timed sport, you can see…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Beer List
Best Beer List: D&Q The Beer Station Craft beer drinkers are like the geeks who collect Mickey Mantle rookie cards or mint condition Batman action figures (in unopened, original packaging, of course). We want quality, but quantity is imperative. Like any good collector, we want options, interesting choices to sift…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Halloween Ends
Title: Halloween Ends Describe This Movie In One Scream Quote: VOICE: Do you like scary movies? SIDNEY: What’s the point? They’re all the same: some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act who’s always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. Brief Plot…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Crawfish
Best Crawfish: Crawfish Cafe When this cult favorite Chinatown spot opened up its first locale in the loop right off North Shepherd in the Heights, fans rejoiced; and there’s now another location in The Woodlands, too. That means you have triple the chance to get your hands dirty with its…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Music Festival
Best Music Festival: RodeoHouston According to the internet, the late Steve Jobs once said “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” We’d never question the mogul’s business acumen, but his baseball take seems a bit short-sighted. Two doubles, especially in the same…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Museum
In this year’s Best Of Houston®, Houston Press selected the Holocaust Museum Houston as Best Museum.
Astros Beat Mariners 4-2 in Game 2 of ALDS: 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Whatever superstition you had in game one — wearing a bucket hat you don’t really like, setting out an Alex Bregman candle in front of a glowing TV no one is watching, or whatever — you must have used it again in game two because the Astros posted a 4-2…
Too Many Zooz Brought Birdland to Houston
Too Many Zooz White Oak Music Hall October 12, 2022 Imagine you’re at Birdland, the venerable jazz club in the heart of New York City. It’s 1959 and you’re there to see Miles Davis’ group, the hippest band in the land. As the show starts, his bandmate John Coltrane steps…
Are the Houston Texans Better Than These Teams?
So, here we are, five weeks into the 2022 NFL season, with all 32 teams having played five games, and lo and behold, in a season where nearly every draft expert has the Houston Texans picking first overall in the 2023 NFL Draft next spring (i.e. they are the WORST…
5 Best Horror Short Films of 2022
The Halloween season is upon us and that means it’s time to binge horror films. The big name features get all the hype, but there have been some incredible horror short films this year that absolutely ruin your sleep for days. Here are a few to check out while things…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Pumpkin Pasta and a Witchy Brunch
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: This National Pasta Day (Thursday, October 13), chef Tim Reading has created a Pumpkin Cavatelli Pasta ($25) and Gulf Shrimp Scampi ($37) available at GJ Tavern, 737 Preston. From October 17-23, Sorriso Italian Kitchen, 2 Waterway…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Ice Cream
Best Ice Cream: Honeychild’s Sweet Creams Something special has been going down in Houston’s ice cream scene these last bunch of years. Many shops have been laser focused on high-quality ingredients and local, seasonal flavors, and Honeychild’s is one of today’s best in the game. Thick and creamy, all-natural handmade…
DACAMERA Bookends This Weekend With Musical Extravaganza
DACAMERA will bookend this weekend with a performance by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi on Friday followed by a piano masterwork performance by Jeremy Denk on Monday. The performances will be, to summarize, dynamite.
The War and Treaty Adds New Recruits to Its Filmworthy Story
There is a lot of exciting news swirling around The War and Treaty and some of it frankly is a little surprising. It’s actually not startling that a film is in the works about the husband-and-wife duo, Michael Trotter, Jr. and Tanya Trotter. Their story is remarkable and told in…
Best of Houston® 2022 – Bar: Downtown
Saint Arnold is this year’s pick for best bar in the downtown area.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Brunch – Montrose
Best Brunch – Montrose: Traveler’s Table You can take a trip around the globe without leaving Houston at this well-traveled lower Westheimer stunner, which offers brunch Friday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Start with shiitake edamame dumplings, crabbed samosas, or stuffed pão de queijo for the table, and a…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Liquor Store
Best Liquor Store: Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods Is there ever really a doubt about who is king in the world of Houston liquor stores? The downtown Spec’s is like a grocery mega store for all your booze needs. It has a gargantuan selection of liquor, wine and beer on…
Best Bets: The Thin Place, Wuxia Cinema, and Architecture in Motion
Mythical heroes, ghosts, and death-defying acrobatics headline this week’s list of best bets.
Pusha T Brings the It’s Almost Dry Tour to The House of Blues
“I know where I’m at,” exclaimed a confident Pusha T as he came to a stop on stage in front of the crowd at the House of Blues. “I know this is the home of the money makers.” The crowd screamed as the lights in the hall began to flicker…
ALDS Game One: Astros Incredible Comeback – 4 Winners, 4 Losers
The Astros, in one of the most incredible and improbable victories in franchise history, came back from a 7-3 deficit to beat the Seattle Mariners in game one of the ALDS 8-7 on a walkoff home run by Yordan Alvarez with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Texas Cuisine
Best Texas Cuisine: Wild Oats Over at the reimagined Houston Farmers Market on Airline Drive lies a laidback, locally-inspired restaurant that would make any Texan proud. Talented chef-partner Nick Fine (a former sous chef at Ford Fry’s State of Grace before opening as chef de cuisine at One Fifth) leads…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Mocktail List
Best Mocktail List: Coltivare One of the pioneers in embracing zero-proof cocktails, this Agricole Hospitality stunner puts out refreshing drinks for everyone, the sober, curious or just plain thirsty. Wash your wood-fired chicken, bucatini amatriciana and puffy squash pies down with seasonal selections like the hibiscus-lemon-kissed La Frambroise and Cafe…
Maria Bamford Makes Comedy From Mental Illness: “This Is The Clay I’ve Been Given”
“My current act I’m really talking about trying to belong and the various cult memberships I’ve had over the years.”
Houston Texans Watson Jersey Exchange Promo Goes Viral
In a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session several weeks ago, Houston Texans CEO Cal McNair was asked about the possibility of fans swapping out jerseys from players no longer with the team (read: Deshaun Watson), and getting some sort of credit toward a new jersey. After all, these NFL jerseys…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Chamber Orchestra
In this year’s Best Of Houston®, Houston Press selected Apollo Chamber Players as Best Chamber Orchestra.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Wine Store
Best Wine Store: Houston Wine Merchant One of the truly wonderful things about a great wine shop is the willingness of their sales people to help you find a wine that works for you. That might be a high dollar bottle of bubbly for a special occasion or a less…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Sporting Goods Store
Best Sporting Goods Store: Soccer 4 All Other retailers may offer a wider array of sporting goods than Soccer 4 All, which admittedly is a specialty store. Their specialty just happens to be one of Houston’s hottest sports. The longtime soccer retailer has outfitted generations of area soccer fans and…
Houston Concert Watch 10/12: Black Keys, Rodney Crowell, and More
“Cannons” that shoot koozies and t-shirts into concert crowds have been a staple of radio station promotions for quite a while, but a technological revolution that took place over this past weekend may just be a game changer. At the Kushstock festival in Adelanto, California, rapper Chucky Chuck used custom-made…
Cheer on the Houston Astros and Score Grand Slam Food and Drink Deals this Postseason
After clinching the AL West division, the Houston Astros will kick off the post-season facing off against AL West rivals the Seattle Mariners in the American League Division Series. The first two games are set for Tuesday, posOctober 11 and Thursday, October 13 (both at home at Minute Maid Park)…
Rockets Preview: A Whole Bunch of Centers
In this series of posts, we will look at the Rockets preseason roster and analyze how they look by position group. On Sunday, the Rockets signed free agent center Willie Cauley-Stein to a deal that will send him to their G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Cauley-Stein, most…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Late-Night
Best Late-Night: Trash Panda Drinking Club Over in Lindale Park lies this impossibly cool neighborhood bar from Night Moves Hospitality, catering to night owls looking for good times paired with next-level food and drink. Run by former Eunice line cook chef John Lindauer, the kitchen is open until 2 a.m…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Beer Garden
Best Beer Garden: Walking Stick Brewing Co. Artificial turf probably isn’t the first image conjured by the word “garden,” but Walking Stick Brewing Co.’s fake grass has become the site of real fun and genuinely warm vibes over five years of existence. Located in Garden Oaks, on a street lined…
Houston Astros Begin Their Most “Issue Free” Postseason
For eight Major League Baseball teams the 2022 postseason has already begun. Hell, for four of those teams, the postseason is already OVER. The sport’s first ever full wild card round of baseball, in its new 12-team playoff format, took place over the weekend, with four best-of-three series across the…
Disney Princess: The Concert Coming to Smart Financial Centre With Songs Galore
It’s a concert performance in which the singers won’t be playing dress-up but they strongly encourage the audience to do just that. Disney Princess: The Concert features Broadway actresses singing the songs you remember from some of the Disney Show’s biggest hits. Although its title says princesses, it’s covers the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Sandwich
Best Sandwich: B&B Butcher Shop Aptly named given their location, B&B Butchers & Restaurant on Washington Avenue is pretty much everything you want from a sandwich born out of a butcher shop. Sure, B&B Butchers and Restaurant is a fine steakhouse in addition to the retail market, but “The Butcher…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Sports Bar
Best Sports Bar: McIntyre’s Downtown Drink specials are fine and a good pub feed is nice but the main reason to visit a sports bar seems fairly obvious. If you want to watch a sporting event, you could do it at home, seated in your trusty recliner, stripped to your…
Astros Face Mariners in ALDS: Four Things to Watch
The wait will be over on Tuesday for the Astros as the Mariners come to town riding high off of a two-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays in the Wild Card series. Seattle is in its first postseason in two decades and bested a team picked by many early…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Get a Sneak Peek at TEN Sushi + Cocktail Bar
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long I’ll Have What She’s Having presents WellWeek Now through October 15, I’ll Have What She’s Having’s WellWeek invites participating restaurants and bars to create zero-proof cocktails or desserts to signify support for individuals whose health requires abstention from…
The Firebrand, the Photographer, and Black Power Converge at the MFAH
In the fall of 1966, Stokely Carmichael was a 25-year-old rising star in the the movement and struggle for civil rights and racial equality in the United States. And he was a smart, focused and powerful speaker and organizer. Recently elected as the Chair for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Mexican Bakery
A coworker brought bags stuffed with pan dulce from El Bolillo Bakery to the breakroom one morning and sent an email inviting everyone to partake with the subject title: “El Bolillo For Breakfast – IYKYK.” Practically everyone in the office did know because the Houston-based panaderia has built a devoted…
NFL Week 5: Texans 13, Jaguars 6 — Four Winners, Four Losers
Nine game winning streaks against specific opponents are rare in any sport, and when the streak involves a division rival, it is not something that should be taken lightly. So while the Houston Texans will all likely say “This was a big win for us in 2022,” and “We’re just…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Pandemic Pivot for Performing Arts
Best Pandemic Pivot for Performing Arts: Arts Go Digital Performing arts organizations that are based on the traditions of their art form forged over centuries don’t bend easily. They often find it difficult to adjust to changes in the world, from the interests of new generations to societal norms. They…
Too Many Things We Guessed Wrong About Too Many Zooz
Too Many Zooz literally climbed from obscurity and stepped into the sunlight of a professional music career from the bowels of the New York City subway system. The trio created a musical style dubbed “brasshouse” by busking in subway stations, then took the connecting routes of viral videos and performing…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Breakfast – Montrose
Best Breakfast – Montrose: Blacksmith This skilled neighborhood coffee shop was known for its ace breakfast options for some time, and then it tapped hotshot pastry chef Christina Au to run the pastry program last year, bringing its morning specialties to nuclear levels. Ask the barista for recommendations on the…
Best of Houston® 2022: Dog Park
Houston Press selected Levy Park for having the best dog park in Best of Houston® 2022.
The Chicks Are All Out Of F*cks To Give At The Woodlands
The Chicks Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion October 8, 2022 For some musicians, a political stance comes gradually. The Beatles, for example, went on from their pop beginnings to steer the “peace and love” movement of the late ’60s. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Charlie Daniels extolled the virtues…
Mahalia’s Letter To Ur Ex Tour Comes To The House of Blues
“I’m from a small town so the last time I was home around Christmas I was in the pub just gossiping about who’s fucked who and who got pregnant,” laughed Mahalia as she paused he set to speak to the audience at the Bronze peacock room at the House of…
Kinetic Ensemble Tackles The Wilderness This Weekend
The Kinetic Ensemble will open its eighth season with The Wilderness Anthology, featuring premieres by two award winning composers, which calls to attention the climate changes happening – some of them right here in Houston. The performance takes place at 6 p.m. at MATCH on Sunday.
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Hellraiser
Title: Hellraiser Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: LIONEL HUTZ: But I ask you, what is a contract? Webster’s defines it as “an agreement under the law which is unbreakable.” Which is unbreakable. Brief Plot Synopsis: Millennials learn they might be too old to play with toys. Rating Using Random Objects…
Rockets Preview: Jalen Green Headlines a Potentially Devastating Backcourt
In this series of posts, we will look at the Rockets preseason roster and analyze how they look by position group. The Rockets starting backcourt returns in an offseason that saw a lot of young additions to the roster. The talent is clearly there and athleticism will be off the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Breakfast – Heights
Best Breakfast – Heights: Bluestone Lane Coming by way of NYC (and inspired by Australia), this coffee roaster and café opened up shop on 19th between Heights and Yale. Open from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily, the cafe blends an inviting space and super cute patio with excellent…
NFL Week 5: Texans-Jaguars — Four Things To Watch For
It’s been a rough couple seasons for the Houston Texans, dating back to the outset of 2020. I don’t need to tell any of you Texans fans that. You know already. Just eight wins in two seasons (plus four games this season). However, think about this for a second —…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Bar – Midtown
Best Bar – Midtown: Holman Draft Hall Most bars have the typical considerations of interesting, plentiful drink options or comfy, practical seating. From here to there, you’re likely to find a good drink special or a gregarious barkeep. So, deciding which is best just comes down to the vibe of…
Openings and Closings: James Coney Island’s New Plans, Hungry’s Expands
James Coney Island (JCI Grill), is turning 100 next year and as its 99th year of business comes to a close, the Houston institution wants the community to know that it has big plans for the future. Despite the oft-reported closings of some of its locations over the past couple of…
Best of Houston® 2022: Best Choir
Houston Press declares Pride Chorus Houston as the Best Choir for 2022.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Tapas
Best Tapas: Oporto Fooding House and Wine Who doesn’t enjoy a good snack? In places like Portugal, snacks are the meal. Here we often refer to it as “drinks and apps.” There, and at Oporto Fooding House and Wine in Midtown, it’s tapas. Small plates with bread, potatoes, seafood,…
Houston Symphony Brings The Soul This Weekend
The Houston Symphony will present She’s Got Soul, a tribute to hits by artists including Toni Braxton, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Adele and more fan favorites. For this world premiere, powerhouse vocalist Capathia Jenkins will take the Jones Hall stage this weekend alongside the full orchestra for a night audiences won’t forget.
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Go Greek at The Original Greek Festival
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: The Original Greek Festival at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 3511 Yoakum Get your Greek on in the form of classic food and drink, traditional music and dancing, and family-friendly fun at The Original…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Sip Zero-Proof Cocktails During WellWeek
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Now through October 15, I’ll Have What She’s Having’s WellWeek invites participating restaurants and bars to create zero-proof cocktails or desserts to signify support for individuals whose health requires abstention from alcohol or sweets, with the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Family-Friendly Restaurant
Best Family-Friendly: d’Alba Houston needed something like d’Alba. Rocking a mix of real deal quality food and adult beverages with a playground and eats for the kiddos, the Garden Oaks neighborhood hangout has become a stomping ground for young families. Share plates of puffy balloon bread with truffle honey, warm…
Willie Nelson’s New Book Not Short on Tall Tales
It’s been rough and rocky traveling But I’m finally standing upright on the ground After takin’ several readings I’m surprised to find my mind’s still fairly sound I guess Nashville was the roughest But I know I’ve said the same about them all We received our education In the cities…
Best Bets: Anime, Baklava, and Plumshuga
A world premiere about ballet royalty, the return of two popular festivals, and more make this week’s list of best bets.
Immigrants Are Not Responsible for Surge in Fentanyl
A key talking point in recent conservative, anti-immigrant rhetoric is that people crossing the southern border illegally are responsible for the surge in fentanyl deaths. There is no evidence that this is true. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be over 50 times as powerful as morphine. While legally…
Boiler Room Taps Wonky Power for a Latin Music Showcase
Boiler Room is like an engine which powers music and club culture on the steam of the hottest music artists across the globe. When it wanted to generate some energy in Houston, the London-based independent music platform and broadcaster found a spark in Wonky Power, also no slouch at curating…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Access to Libraries During a Pandemic
Best Access to Libraries During a Pandemic: Digital Libraries In the past two plus years of the pandemic, public libraries essentially closed up shop. There were complete shutdowns, followed by allowing patrons to reserve books and pick them up curbside. Book donations generally were declined – who knew what germs…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Brunch – Midtown
Best Brunch – Midtown: Winnie’s This laidback cocktail bar and fancy sandwich spot puts on a helluva brunch experience–one that starts with Bloody Marys and oyster shooters and ends with a literal treasure chest of mimosas (if you’re doing it right). In between, you can chill out inside or on…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Spay-Neuter Clinic
Best Spay-Neuter Clinic: Houston Spay Neuter Houston has a terrible stray animal problem thanks predominantly to our own unwillingness to spay or neuter our pets. Not only does not getting the procedure lead to overpopulation and swollen animal shelters, but it can be less healthy for your pet. So, make…
Bill O’Brien Could Land Major College Head Coach Job This Offseason
We are four weeks into the 2022 NFL regular season, and the Texans are winless. The last time the Texans were winless four games into the season was not all that long ago. It was just two seasons ago, when a murderer’s row of early season games fed the Texans…
Brand New Leads Take A First Stab At Hadestown
“It’s an old song…… a sad tale; it’s a tragedy,” warns Hermes, the flashy and fabulous messenger God turned musical narrator in the opening number of the exuberantly illuminating Hadestown. The calamity of which he speaks is that of Orpheus and Eurydice, one of Greek mythology’s most beloved tales, young…
Houston Concert Watch 10/5: The Chicks, Stevie Nicks, and More
Why so cryptic? Ed Sheeran, everyone’s favorite British ginger, has announced his upcoming concert tour, billed as: +-=÷x. Not exactly a logical marketing strategy. Not to mention the fact that he’s making scribes around the world (this one included) figure out how to type a division sign. The collection of…
Astros Week: AL Wild Card Set and Rust vs. Rest
The Astros are one game away from the end of the postseason and will finish with the second best record in franchise history. After Wednesday’s final game against the Phillies, they will take a five day rest before facing the winner of the Wild Card matchup between the Toronto Blue…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Enchiladas
Best Enchiladas: Candente’s Brisket Enchiladas There are enchiladas on every menu of every Tex-Mex restaurant in town and they generally lean toward the “Mex” side of the hyphen. You’ve eaten them, you’re familiar with them. At Candente, the restaurant skews “Tex,” and the prime example is the Museum District eatery’s…
Chefs For Farmers: Inaugural Houston Visit
Festival season is underway in Houston and no group of people is happier than the wining and dining culinary set. Every Houston weekend in autumn is chock full of wine tastings, foodie feasts and Oktoberfests. This year, a new event has debuted. Chefs For Farmers made its inaugural Houston premiere…
Comic Tom Papa Often Asks Himself On Stage “Where Do You People Come From?”
Chances are you know Tom Papa. But where do you know him from? The old-school stand-up comic has made many appearances in many unlikely places. He’s appeared on the couches of Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, had mini parts in Matt Damon’s The Informant and Behind…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Indian
Best Indian: Da Gama From the husband-and-wife duo behind Oporto Food House & Wine, this M-K-T hangout puts a local riff on the cuisine of India, including former Portuguese-Indian territory of Goa and Gujarat. The space itself is a looker, making it a choice spot for date nights, happy hours,…
The Texans 2023 Pick From Watson Trade Is Shaping Up Nicely
Football season, at its core, should be about watching every game with great enthusiasm, and rooting for your team regardless of their won-loss record. It’s at the heart of sports — I want my team to win! However, in professional sports in America, losing DOES get rewarded in the offseason…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Computer Store
Best Computer Store: Micro Center It feels uncomfortable to a certain degree to put a chain in any local best of list, but, in fairness, have you been to Micro Center? In Houston, nothing really compares. It is absolutely loaded with tech from simple needs like a new monitor to…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Banh Mi
Best Banh Mi: Saigon Hustle Houstonians have a love affair with banh mi for good reason, as this newish concept’s roster of Vietnamese sammies helps to prove. Hit the GOOF-area joint to get some pretty ace sandwiches loaded with things like tender chargrilled ribeye, honey glazed lemongrass salmon, oozing fried…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Place to People Watch
Best Place to People Watch: METRORail Red Line The best way to spy on folks is while they’re in transit, we say. You’re literally watching them on a journey, navigating the moment while surrounded by other humans. How’s that for a metaphor for life? They’re all headed somewhere and the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Gelato
Best Gelato: Rocambolesc Those visiting Uptown Park are in for a treat. Spain’s Jordi Roca and Alejandra Rivas opened their first gelateria in the United States, and they did it right here in Houston. The Willy Wonka-esque Rocambolesc interprets the desserts Roca — named “Best Pastry Chef of the World”…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Brewery
Best Brewery: No Label Brewing Co. The irony of No Label is that it has put its stamp on everything a craft brewery should be. It all starts with the beers, of course, and the Katy brewery has lots of them including the easy-drinking El Hefe – arguably the most…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Sports Fans
Best Sports Fans: Houston Texans The best sports fans aren’t the ones hopelessly devoted to their favorite franchises. Hordes of cheering zombies are sometimes a bad sign that one’s team has moved from the athletic field to the competitive graveyard. Houston Texans fans may have shocked some life into the…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Barbecue Chicken
Best Barbecue Chicken: Gatlin’s BBQ We understand why barbecue lovers treat a good brisket like a sculpture by Rodin. Smoking a brisket is arduous and takes skill. Ruin it and you’re left with a useless block of stone. But, we’d argue it’s at least as an impressive feat of culinary…
Past, Present and Future Of The Blues: Photos of Live Music in Texas at FotoFest
As Albert Einstein famously said, “Time is relative; it’s only worth depends on what we do as it is passing.” For Houston photographer Tracy Anne Hart, time has allowed her to capture many amazing and historic images of Texas God Stevie Ray Vaughan and more. “Time is relative and it’s…
The Thin Place: A Ghost Story at 4th Wall Theatre Company
Is there a place between the living and the dead? 4th Wall Theatre Company Artistic Director Philip Lehl didn’t necessarily think so but after he and his wife (and company co-founder) Kim Tobin-Lehl saw The Thin Place in an off-Broadway productionin New York, he wasn’t quite so sure. Now he’s…
Chargers 34, Texans 24 — How To Lose a Game in 10 Plays
They say that, in the National Football League, more games are lost than won. In other words, it’s typically the mistakes made by the losing team that dictate the outcomes of games more than plays made by the winning team. If there is one thing with which we have experience…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Eat Your Way Through Houston’s Melting Pot During Hispanic Heritage Month
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, October 3 La Nuit du Caviar at The Astorian DR Delicacy, which hosts popular event The Truffle Masters, has created La Nuit du Caviar, a new culinary experience taking place at The Astorian. Part competition, part celebratory showcase, and part…
Miss Maude: A Remarkable Story of Service With Two Outstanding Lead Actors
There’s no proper way to describe the life and work of Maude E. Callen as anything less than saintly. A deeply religious woman, she relied on her faith and “her gracious God” for her lifetime of unflagging medical efforts on behalf of the poorest people in America – Berkeley County,…
NFL Week 4: Chargers 34, Texans 24 — Four Winners, Four Losers
For the first three games of the 2022 season, as they were sliding into the abyss of an 0-2-1 start but doing so in close losses, the question that those of us covering the Houston Texans (and undoubtedly, those of you rooting for the Texans) were pondering was “Man, what…
Suzi Moon and the Liberating Power of “Luv”
Love. It’s like a heatwave, it’s a many-splendored thing, it’s a battlefield, it’s all you need, it can turn a “Homewrecker” into a lunar beauty. Suzi Moon believes in the power of love and it’s the central theme of the remarkable album that’s the latest stop on her journey of…
Martin Scorsese’s Film Journey of the Sacred and the Profane
As a teenager growing up in a tight-knit Italian community in the Bronx, New York, Martin Scorsese had two obsessions: religion and the movies. So, it wasn’t surprising that the two places he seemed to visit most were the nearby St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral and Loew’s Theatre. He even started…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Brunch – Heights
Best Best Brunch – Heights : Squable Bobby Heugel and Justin Yu’s Squable is a damn good tasty time any time you visit, but brunch is when you can absolutely carbo load on chef Mark Clayton’s sinful creations, including but not limited to Dutch baby pancakes with maple butter, bacon…
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Dive Bar
Best Dive Bar: Cozy Corner If your idea of a dive bar requires a specific seediness — an air of back-alley danger populated with downtrodden, booze-soaked, shadowy figures, let’s say — then maybe the Cozy Corner is not for you (also, stop reading so many Raymond Chandler novels). This longtime…
Best of Houston® 2022 – Best Community Orchestra
Houston Press grants the Texas Medical Center Orchestra the title of 2022’s Best Community Orchestra.
Best Of Houston® 2022: Best Breakfast – Downtown
Best Breakfast – Downtown: Common Bond Brasserie & Bakery Located downtown in the Bank of America Tower, cult favorite bakery Common Bond introduced its first full-service restaurant to Houston last fall, offering a funky, bright and spacious sit-down brasserie next to the brand’s signature bakery counter and coffee bar. City…
The Houston Press Best Of Houston® 2022
Welcome to the 2022 edition of Best Of Houston® brought to you by the Houston Press. Starting today and throughout the month of October, we’ll be bringing you our curated picks in food, news, arts and music – what we saw as Houston’s best in the past year. After two-plus…
On the Verge’s Tied is a One Man Tour De Force
The Houston theater scene has just begun, but it’s already been blessed by a surfeit of riches, whose savory works are all still running to be enjoyed and treasured. Main Street’s Trouble in Mind resurrects Alice Childress’s play about race that speaks to us with more force and poignancy than…
Mary J. Blige Brings Her Good Morning Gorgeous Tour to the Toyota Center
The audience swayed back and forth, singing the last verse to “Not Gon’ Cry”, the breakout single from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. Mary J. Blige paced across the stage hyping the crowd up and accentuating the last few notes. She cried as she looked out into the audience who…
The “F” Stands For Fantastic In Gershwin’s Concerto In F
The sounds of past and present are on the menu for Houston Symphony’s Concerto in F, composed by George Gershwin. Other American composers like Shawn Okpebholo, Adolphus Hailstork and Samuel Barber will round out this weekend’s performance set list at Jones Hall.
Openings and Closings: Cafe Express’ New Look, Kirby Ice House Woodlands
Cafe Express, 1422 W. Gray, reopens October 4 with a brand new look and some new menu items. Calling its service “craft-casual”, the upscale cafe has been completely renovated with a vibrant interior that is a blend of European elegance and relaxed American eatery. Taking its inspiration from the art…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Saint Arnold’s Oktoberfest Returns
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Music to My Beers Festival at Pearland Town Center Friday, 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday 2 to 9 p.m. 11200 Broadway On Friday, BAKFISH Brewing Company will host the kickoff event for the Music to My Beers weekend, featuring…
NFL Week 4: Chargers-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
Three weeks in, the National Football League is riddled with parity, sporting two teams with no losses and two teams with no wins. Everyone else in the league is in the middle, either 2-1 or 1-2 (or in the case of the Indianapolis Colts, 1-1-1). Unfortunately, at 0-2-1, the Houston…
Andor is a Compelling Star Wars Story With Real World Shades of Gray
The hype around Andor is real. Disney+’s new Star Wars series comes to us from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tony Gilroy, screenwriter of The Bourne Trilogy, writer and director of Michael Clayton, and co-writer for Rogue One, arguably the best of the modern Star Wars films. Through its three-episode premiere, it’s…
Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner Spills Some of the Tea
Thud. Thump. Crash. Worry not, gentle reader. Those are only the sounds of namedropping emanating from Like a Rolling Stone (Little, Brown and Company, 576 pp. $35), a new memoir written by Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Full disclosure: I first purchased a subscription to Rolling Stone…
Accept This: Classic German Heavy Metal Comes Roaring Back
During the pandemic, bands had to come up with creative ways to record and perform. The heavy metal men of Accept already had half a new record in the can before scattering, but months later they gathered in Nashville where leader/guitarist Wolf Hoffmann lived to finish the tracks. The problem…
Best Bets: Hadestown, Solito, and 13 Tongues
Travel to the underworld, meet a 1960s street artist through dance, and celebrate Nigerian independence on this week’s list of best bets.
Fall Flower Gardening in Houston
This week, the morning lows were under 60 degrees in the Greater Houston area. Houstonians took their dogs out for walks, drank margaritas on the patio and rushed to the coffee shops for their pumpkin-spiced beverages, barely breaking a sweat. Every year, we wait for the first taste of autumn…
Party Time! Excellent! J Fest Returns This Weekend
Johnny Schaefer said the inspiration for one of Houston’s fastest growing music festivals came from an endearingly goofball 1993 comedy. Schaefer is a partner at House of J, the eastside music and art venue for independent local and touring artists. The venue’s festival – aptly dubbed J Fest – comes…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Borscht Belt Pop-Up and Reverse Happy Hour
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: GJ Tavern, 737 Preston, has recently introduced a reverse happy hour menu, available Tuesday through Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 to 10 p.m. Chef Tim Reading joined the team in…
Four Houston Texans TikTok Challenge Recommendations
You may be a fan of social media, or you may be disgusted with it. Perhaps you stand somewhere in between, which is probably the right way to look at social media, as a thing. There is some good, and some bad about it. Without being judgmental, I would say…
Houston Texans Plummet To Bottom of NFL Power Rankings
At 0-2-1, the Houston Texans are one of two teams in the NFL who have yet to win a game this season. The only other winless team is the 0-3 Las Vegas Raiders, the Texans’ opponent upcoming in Week 7. This time last season, the Texans were 1-2, not exactly…
Last Night: My Chemical Romance at Toyota Center
My Chemical Romance Toyota Center September 27, 2022 When we were young, most of us were preoccupied with image. The clothes we wore provided us an outlet to express ourselves, and many of us did so through Converse, studded belts and dark eyeliner — much to the chagrin of our…
Astros Week: Projected Lineups for the Postseason
The Astros wrapped up their final road trip of the season in Baltimore over the weekend with a two-game split against the feisty Orioles after sweeping the Rays in Tampa. With just eight games left, the Astros magic number for clinching home field advantage in the American League is down…
Houston Concert Watch 9/28: Mary J. Blige, Smashing Pumpkins, and More
As we count down to the end of baseball season, one thing is certain: the Astros are the AL West champs. What we don’t know exactly is who they will have to beat to win their next World Series. By clinching their division championship, the Astros have earned a bye…
Handing Out Awards at Rockets Media Day
That annual rite of passage that is Rockets Media Day was held on Monday. The usual throng of local media was on hand to listen to mostly standard issue press interviews with Rockets players and management before the team heads out to Lake Charles to start their training camp. With…
As Hurricane Ian Bears Down on Florida, We Wave Goodbye to the Season in Texas
Hurricane Ian is already a Category 2 hurricane and is expected to reach major storm status before reaching the Gulf coast of Florida Wednesday or Thursday. It is forecast to be a very dangerous storm that, if it does make a direct hit on the Tampa area, could cause serious…
Drag Queen Bingo Event Protested By Prominent Houston Neo-Nazi
A protest against a drag queen bingo event in Katy this weekend included prominent Houston neo-Nazi, Ronald Lee Murray. The event was held at First Christian Church in Katy, known for its welcoming attitude to the LGBTQIA+ community. The bingo game raised money for clothing to help transitioning youths. Hundreds…
NFL Scrapping Pro Bowl Game for Skills Competition, Flag Football
If you’re an NFL fan in Houston, it’s probably been a while since you cared about the Pro Bowl, since the Texans’ roster has deteriorated into a bunch of rookies and no-names. If we’re being honest, if you’re an NFL fan ANYWHERE, the degree you’ve cared about the Pro Bowl…
Five Short Rants About House of the Dragon Episode 6
Spoilers through Episode 6 I am heavily invested in House of the Dragon, as evidenced by the fact the show often sends me pacing around my living room loudly calling the characters awful names to my cats, who do not care. Here are five short rants based on Episode 6,…
Houston Hornitonk Society Presents Burlesque Bonanza
If there’s one thing old honky tonk songs know how to sing about it’s cheating. Whether they’re cheating the law, death or their lovers, there’s nothing quite like the pull of a good ole’ cheating country song that manages to tap into desire and guilt simultaneously. Houston’s Christopher Seymore is…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Wine Dinners, Live-Fire Steak Night and Free Coffee!
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, September 26 Street Food of Oaxaca Tasting at URBE Chef Hugo Ortega and highly-acclaimed Mexican chef Rodolfo Castellanos will celebrate Oaxacan street food at a walk-around event at URBE, 1101 Uptown Park, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Castellanos will serve…
NFL Week 3: Bears 23, Texans 20 — Four Winners, Four Losers
Well, if you’re someone who took the Texans to win more than the 4.5 games that most Las Vegas sports books posted before the season (picture me raising my hand), then you can go ahead and crumple up the ticket. It’s over. After the Texans’ gut punch 23-20 loss in…
Love and Southern D!scomfort At Ensemble Tells a Story of Neglect and Reconciliation
“Born with a silver spoon, but I couldn’t feed myself.” Milla Dejoie barks these words at her mother, Wilhelmina Dejoie in a strained moment filled with the accrued despair of unrealized love, abdicated responsibilities. Wilhelmina neglected Milla just as “grand-mère” neglected her — repeating a cycle of contempt and abandonment…
Nas, Wu-Tang and Busta Rhymes Share The Stage on the NY State of Mind Tour
Wearing a red letterman style jacket and black jeans, Spliff Star stood with arms outstretched in the packed Toyota Center Saturday night as it filled with cheers. Pacing back and forth behind him, in a red leather jacket and matching hat, was Busta Ryhmes. His deep baritone laughter filled the…
Billy Joel Is In A Houston State Of Mind At Minute Maid Park
Billy Joel Minute Maid Park September 23, 2022 Call him the Piano Man, the Stranger, the Entertainer, or even a Big Shot (just don’t blame him for instigating any conflagrations), Billy Joel doesn’t need much of an introduction. His debut album was released just over 50 years ago, and he…
Catastrophic Unleashes An Artistic Dream Team for Beckett’s Happy Days
“Another heavenly day,” says Winnie full of shining positivity at the outset of Happy Days. But we know better. Not just because the woman is stuck in place, buried up to her waist in a mound of barren earth. We know better because this tragicomedy is the work of Samuel…
Elation, Sensation, and Good Vibrations in Houston Ballet’s Mixed Rep Program
After a two-year-long COVID delay, the Houston Ballet presents Good Vibrations, a world premiere from Arthur Pita, during their fall mixed rep program.
Individual Talents Shine at TUTS’ Ain’t Misbehavin’, a Musical Revue
A woman-dressed in a red feathered flapper hat and a red dress straight from a Jazz Age dance club- strolls down the aisle at the Hobby Center with her party of four. She walks up to the stage and takes a seat. She’s not part of the Theatre Under the…
You Bet Your Aston Martin It’s Time To Talk About The Next James Bond
This week officially marks the beginning of that most wonderful season: the Bond Speculation Period. So who might be the next 007? Landing James Bond may be the biggest acting gig in Hollywood, but 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson say they still have to pitch prospective actors…
Openings and Closings: Frank’s Americana Has News, Andiron Announces Chef
Frank’s Americana Revival, 3015 Weslayan, is expected to open in 2023. The longtime Houston restaurant is currently located at 3736 Westheimer and will remain in operation at that spot until construction at the new location is completed. The new space will offer 6,895 square feet of space with plenty of…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Sip, Nosh and Jam at the Inaugural Bourbon Fest
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: 13th Annual Galveston Island Shrimp Festival at the Historic Strand District Friday-Saturday The 13th Annual Galveston Island Shrimp Festival returns to Galveston’s Historic Strand District this weekend, kicking off with a Friday Kick-Off Party in Saengerfest Park at 7:30…
Tejas Got Soul Series At Discovery Green
For seven years now, Houston’s Tejas Got Soul has been working to preserve and shine a light on Houston’s rich Chicano musical history. What began as a DJ collective project focusing on spinning Chicano music from the past on Sundays at D&W Lounge has blossomed into a collective of like…
NFL Week 3: Texans-Bears — Four Things To Watch For
If you want a glimpse at how crazy the 2022 NFL season has already been, look no further than the AFC South, where the Texans reside. While “crazy” might not be the word most of the country would use to describe this group of four teams — much more negative…
Houston Botanic Garden Gets Crafty With LEGO Sculptures
Houston Botanic Garden will play host to Sean Kenney’s Nature Connects Made with LEGO Bricks, an award-winning exhibition that uses nature-inspired works of art made from everyone’s favorite childhood assembly toy, starting Saturday and running through February 19, 2023.
Lend Me a Soprano: An Audience Pleaser That Has Its Special Moments
While I was furiously paddling upstream, the Alley Theatre audience during Ken Ludwig’s world premiere, Lend Me A Soprano, was merrily floating downstream, laughing uproariously. If one looked out at the audience from the stage, you’d have seen me sitting there, smiling once in a while but basically immune to…
Best Bets: Good Vibrations, Happy Days, and Southern D!scomfort
World premieres, new art works, and music that evokes the city of Houston all appear on this week’s list of best bets.
Andre Johnson Among 129 Nominees for 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class
Last year, former Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson made a pretty good run at induction onto the Pro Football Hall of Fame, making it to the final ten names among the modern day candidates. Alas, he was not one of the five inductees, but it was his first year…
Can Gaming Radicalize People to the Left?
It’s become well established in social science literature that gaming has a problem when it comes to far right radicalization. It’s not that hard to understand why. Shooters with jingoist themes remain a very popular genre. Like other geek fandoms, far-right extremists have dedicated a fair amount of time to…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Tacolandia, A Jewish New Year Party, and More
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The 8th annual Houston Tacolandia is back at The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou on Saturday, October 15 from 4 to 7 p.m., with tickets on sale now. The outdoor taco-sampling festival will feature more than…
Blending The Cultures: Piñata Protest Returns To Houston
Seeing Piñata Protest live for the first time is a memorable and dizzying experience. The San Antonio based Tex-Mex Punk rock band hits the crowd like a cold glass of water to the face and a shot of warm rum to the heart with their one of a kind, in…
Astros Week: AL West Clincher and Postseason Pitching Dilemmas
The Astros have managed to shut out one of the best teams in the AL for 18 straight innings beating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0 on Tuesday night in a matchup with Rays Cy Young candidate Shane McClanahan. With the win, they reduce their magic number for the best record…
Houston Chamber Choir Sings Out Loud For Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Houston Chamber Choir is joining in by launching its 28th season. Its first performance is Let All the World in Every Corner Sing: Ralph Vaughan Williams @150 to commemorate the anniversary of the English composer’s birthday this Saturday at South Main Baptist Church.
Texans QB Davis Mills Needs To Improve To Keep Job Long Term
Following the Houston Texans’ 16-9 loss, after one of the most uninspiring offensive performances in team history — this just in, when you don’t score a single touchdown, it automatically puts that game on the “most uninspiring” list of performances — here is what Davis Mills said about his performance…
Houston Concert Watch 9/21: ZZ Top, Billy Joel, and More
Lil Nas X won’t be in Houston until next month (October 12 at the 713 Music Hall), but he was making noise (and headlines) in Boston this weekend with some epic trolling. The rapper sent pizza to a group of homophobic protesters outside the venue, but the food was refused,…
Fall Vegetable Gardening: Ready, Set, Plant!
Houston weather is such a tease. After a blistering hot summer, accompanied by months of drought, we were given a brief respite, at least in the mornings and evenings, from the triple digit heat. Many of us awoke to temperatures below 70 degrees in the past week. We even got…
Is Hurricane Season Over for Texas?
It’s been an eerily quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic this year with Hurricane Fiona, which has absolutely pummeled Puerto Rico with more than two feet of rain, representing only the sixth named storm this season. We, in Texas, have yet to experience even a near miss. So, is that…
Astros Clinch AL West for Fifth Time in Six Years
“Let’s f***ing enjoy this f***ing moment.” – Justin Verlander The Astros beat Tampa Bay 4-0 on Monday night to clinch the American League West Division for the fifth time in six years — the only exception being COVID-shortened 2020. As we have seen from this team repeatedly this year, it…
Bidi Bidi Bom ‘Bite – Philly’s Catbite Helps Usher In a New, More Inclusive Wave of Ska
Catbite isn’t your dad’s ska band (by the way, if your dad has a ska band, congrats – cool dad!). They may not even be your older brother’s ska band. But, they are a band everyone can enjoy and they’re leading yet another wave of ska into the musical zeitgeist…
Catastrophic Theatre Brings Back Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days Once Again
Winnie is not old. She is not young. She is a middle-aged woman stuck in every sense. Buried to her waist in the earth day after day, she is alone, even as her husband Willie lives in a hole behind her, although a grand companion he is not. It’s the…
Dio Doc Explores the Power of Dreams—Metallic and Otherwise
Ronnie James Dio didn’t set out to start a phenomenon that would spread across the world and become something far bigger than he could ever imagine. But that’s exactly what did with just the five fingers on his left hand. When he took over as lead singer for Black Sabbath…
Thirteen’s Chef Tobias Dorzon Opens Huncho House
Thirteen, James Harden’s foray into cuisine, has been open in Midtown since the spring of 2021. Led by Chef Tobias Dorzon and his take on Maryland and Southern cuisine, the restaurant and lounge has been a success since the doors opened, navigating through a pandemic and the departure of its…
Houston Texans Snap Count Curiosities in Loss at Denver
Two days later, it’s still mildly infuriating to look back at Sunday and see the Texans unable to capitalize on a slew of Denver mistakes and pull off what would have been the upset of the weekend in Week 2. I mean, the head coach of the other team routinely…
NFL Week 2: Broncos 16, Texans 9 — Four Winners, Four Losers
I have no idea how this 2022 season is going to eventually unfold for the Houston Texans. We are two weeks in, and they sit at 0-1-1, after Sunday’s 16-9 loss in Denver to the Broncos. It was a hard fought loss, one in which the Texans covered the 10…
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Operator of Dog Transport Business, Charged With Animal Cruelty, Has a Monday Hearing [UPDATED]
Terri, like many other dog owners, thought she was doing the right thing. Her 11-month-old Pomsky puppy was getting overwhelmed in the company of Terri’s other dogs. She decided to return Scooby to the care of his breeders, Lisa and Israel Moyet, in Hollywood, Florida. With the rising temperatures and…
Concert Promoter “Grateful” for His 10,000 Shows
Concert promoters seem to be cut from the same cloth. Guys like Bill Graham (Fillmore East and West, Live Aid), John Scher (Woodstock ’99), Alex Cooley (southern rock specialist, got a shout-out on a live Lynyrd Skynyrd album), and of course Louis Messina (Houston’s own Pace Concerts). All of them…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Go Wild with Plates Infused with CBD
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, September 19 Opening of Wild Montrose Popular Heights bar, coffee shop and dispensary Wild opens its second location in the former UB Preserv space, 1609 Westheimer, in Montrose, adding a food and drink element featuring high-end plates and tapas designed…
Return to the Days of the Cotton Club, As You Sit Back and Listen to Ain’t Misbehavin’ at TUTS
It’s a show that has been part of the Black musical theater canon for years, says actor Will Mann. Now Ain’t Misbehavin’ is coming to Theatre Under the Stars with a cast of stellar singers ready to perform a tribute to the music of Fats Waller and other Black artists…
Trouble in Mind at Main Street Was Ahead of its Time and All Too Timely Still
If there’s another more prescient play than Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind (1955), roaring through Main Street Theater, I don’t know it. This forgotten drama, all but buried since its 91-performances off-Broadway during the Eisenhower era, is so contemporary it’s frightening. Potent, theatrical, intelligent, and thoroughly entertaining, Trouble shakes you…
Scorpions Give Us A Mercifully Hurricane-Free Rocking At Toyota Center
Scorpions Toyota Center September 17, 2022 As long as you think Scorpions have been around, it’s probably longer than that. Founded in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker as a psychedelic-adjacent combo. Current vocalist Klaus Meine joined in 1970, and — after a brief breakup (and the departure of Schenker’s brother…
Daddy Yankee Hits a Grand Slam at Toyota Center
Daddy Yankee La Última Vuelta World Tour Toyota Center Houston September 15th, 2022 In another universe, Ramón Luis Ayala Rodriguez, known globally by his stage name Daddy Yankee, could have played third base in Major League Baseball. The former baseball prodigy from Puerto Rico was a talented prospect before a…
Openings and Closings: Wild Montrose Debuts, Mala Sichuan Now Open
Wild Montrose, 1609 Westheimer, opens September 19. It’s the second Wild CBD coffee shop from the founders of Grinder’s Coffee Bar and The CBD Apothecary. The first Wild opened in the Heights in February 2022. The new locations takes over the space which formerly housed Underbelly Hospitality’s UB Preserv. The…
NFL Week 2: Texans-Broncos — Four Things To Watch For
The Houston Texans, fresh off an uninspiring 20-20 tie in which they coughed up a 20-3 fourth quarter lead to the Indianapolis Colts. step up in weight class, both in terms of opponent and majorly in terms of environment, as they travel to Denver this Sunday for a late afternoon…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Confess, Fletch
Title: Confess, Fletch Describe This Movie In One The Thomas Crown Affair Quote: DET. MCCANN: Monet’s unknown masterpiece, “Dogs At Cards.” Brief Plot Synopsis: Former investigative reporter investigates, doesn’t really report. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3.5 water buffaloes out of 5. Tagline: “A dead body. A stolen Picasso. And…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Negronis, Tacos and a Scavenger Hunt with Sweet Prizes
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Negroni Week All weekend long Running now through Sunday, Negroni Week invites bars and restaurants across the world to champion the Negroni cocktail while raising funds for a great cause. This year’s event raises funds for Slow Food, a…
Last Night: Earth, Wind and Fire at the Smart Financial Centre
From the mid-‘70s through the early ‘80s, a certain type of musical collective really flourished on stage and across many different chart genres. These were, multi-membered ensembles who mashed funk, R&B, soul, disco, and even a hint of jazz and rock into one pot. With horns. And smoke bombs, lasers,…
Best Bets: Jazz, Scrambled, and The Queen of Disco
This week’s best bets include a world premiere play, a tribute to a disco star, and a whole lotta jazz.
Beware Fake Occult Scams on TikTok
Most of us are familiar with the classic online grifts such as the Nigerian Prince and email from “Ammazon” about a gift card you’ve won, but the latest scam is apparently impersonating occult and magick shops on TikTok to bilk people out of money for fake tarot readings. That’s what’s…
Houston Symphony’s Next Choir Conductor Moves Into Position
The Houston Symphony presents Verdi’s ‘Requiem,’ featuring the Houston Symphony Chorus under its newest director, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana.
Tom Brady Drama At Home Reportedly Hitting Fever Pitch
Quarterback drama comes in all shapes and sizes, as if I need to tell fans in the city of Houston this revelation. Some quarterback drama gets really unsavory and creepy, like 24 civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct in massage settings. Some quarterback drama is far more benign, centering around simple…
Rufus Wainwright Unfollows The Rules
After a busy summer touring behind his 2020 Unfollow The Rules album which ended with a big performance dressed as Annie at the Glastonbury Festival, Rufus Wainwright is getting back to what he knows best. “Now I’m back at my day job which is just a good old fashioned troubadour…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Enjoy a Three-Course Lunch on the Bay
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Pier 6 Seafood & Oyster House, 113 6th, now offers a three-course Chef’s Tasting Menu for lunch. Guests can choose from options such as Fig & Pistachio Salad, Seafood Gumbo, Pan-Seared Golden Tile, Chimichurri-Marinated Bavette, Coconut…
Astros Week: Diaz Returns, Brown Dazzles and Yordan is Back
The Astros have finally managed to break out of their offensive slump. That may be the level of competition — the Angles and Tigers aren’t exactly world beaters – but it is notable given the struggles of recent weeks. Pitching remains the strength of a ballclub that has plenty of…
The Love for Lady Gaga is Real at Minute Maid
“Last time I was here, I was jumping from the ceiling. Tonight I’m here for you and only you. It’s such a privilege every night that we are on stage. It’s such a privilege to sing and dance and perform for all of you. I love you so much,” said…
Alicia Keys Captivates the Audience at Smart Financial Centre
The auditorium at the Smart Financial Center gradually lit up as the packed house turned the flashlights from their cell phone toward the stage. Standing center in a green jumpsuit with sequin accents to match a head scarf was the songstress Alicia Keys. Flanked on each side by group of…
Opinion: Black Ariel and the Algebra of Bigotry
On the one hand, it’s pretty easy to dismiss the racist backlash of casting Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming live-action(ish) remake of 1989’s The Little Mermaid as the most ridiculous thing ever. How can we possibly be expected to take people seriously who are mad about the skin…
Tied Tells the Story of a Father of A Girl Killed in the Birmingham Church Bombing
Actor/playwright Crystal Rae was having lunch with another actor, bouncing ideas around, when he declared that what he needed was a one-man show and could she write him one. “I’d like to tell the story of being the father of one of the four little girls,” actor Silvanus LaToison told…
Houston Concert Watch 9/14: Twenty One Pilots, Scorpions, and More
Cinephiles were saddened to learn this week of Jean-Luc Godard’s passing. The groundbreaking filmmaker was a leader in La Nouvelle Vague (aka the French New Wave) movement, along with François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Claude Chabrol. Godard was keenly aware of the effect that music has when combined with visual…
Houston Texans’ Snap Count Curiosities From Colts Tie
We are one week into the Houston Texans’ 2022 regular season, and already the extremely fan friendly and likable head coach Lovie Smith is in hot water with the team’s fan base. There are two reasons for this. The first one was covered extensively in my Monday recap of the…
There Was No Shooter at Heights High School Tuesday
There was a threat but no shooter. There were rumors that 10 kids were taken to the hospital – also not true. Parents of students at Heights High School had a very bad day Tuesday, but far from the worst. Someone called in a false report that there was an…
Harris County Public Health Has Pfizer Omicron Booster Shots
The new COVID-19 vaccination booster shots are now available and Harris County Public Health began giving them out Monday. The bivalent Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccine authorized for individuals 12 years and older, is available to eligible residents and is administered in a single dose. The new vaccine is designed to protect…
College Football Carnage, Texas Schools Devoured In Week 2
Sunday was a strange and rough day for NFL fans in the state of Texas, depending on which Texas-based team you root for. For Texans fans, it skewed more on the strange side, with a side dish fo frustration, as the Texans went into a shell at the worst possible…
A Fun Sized Run: Mid Main Micro Marathon Returns
Houston’s shortest and silliest marathon is back. The Mid Main Micro Marathon will be hosting its fourth race on Sunday, September 18. The family friendly event runs from noon to five and as usual, organizers have found many ways to fill the day with light hearted fun. “At first it…
The Battle Over Remote Work: 5 Ways Corporations Have It Wrong
Story after story on work over the past few months has focused on corporations trying to move back to “normal” as society moves on from the pandemic. Chief among them is remote work for white collar employees who have done nearly all or much of their work over the last…
How the 2023 MLB Rule Changes Will Impact the Astros
On Friday, Major League Baseball approved changes to rules in the game beginning in 2023. Most of these were expected, but all four player representatives voted against the changes stating in a release, “Major League Baseball was unwilling to meaningfully address the areas of concern that Players raised, and as…
NFL Week 1: Colts 20, Texans 20 — Four Winners, Four Losers
Even with an NFL franchise as young as the Houston Texans, it’s not often you can attend a home game and say that you saw something you’ve never seen your NFL team accomplish before. However, that’s exactly what happened on Sunday, as the Texans were involved in their first tie…
Despite His Record’s Title, Al Basile is One Cool Cat
Al Basile knows that his musical instrument of choice is not the first one that comes to mind as a sonic conveyor of blues music. Nor, likely, the tenth, or fifteenth. But the Man with the Cornet says its place and importance in both blues and jazz stretches back a…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Drink Up! It’s Negroni Week
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Negroni Week Negroni Week runs September 12-18, and several Houston bars and restaurants are getting in on the action. Bayou & Bottle will be toasting with a flight of Negroni cocktails, featuring gin, mezcal, and bourbon bases price…
Get Ready For a Wild Ride With Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me Soprano at the Alley
More than 30 years ago playwright Ken Ludwig came up with the now classic modern comedy Lend Me a Tenor. The show went on Broadway where it garnered nine nominations and won two Tony Awards. It has been produced in countries across the globe since then. Now Ludwig and Alley…
Alec Benjamin Proves The Kids Might Be All Right At Bayou Music Center
Alec Benjamin Bayou Music Center September 10, 2022 A lot about the way we approach music has changed in the last couple decades. There’s traditional radio exposure’s declining relevance as a factor in an artist’s success, for one, which dovetails with the increasing weight given to how well those same…
Sophistication and Childlike Wonder in Houston Ballet’s Peter Pan
Houston Ballet opens their season with Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan.
Openings and Closings: Cherry Block Smokehouse Opens, North Italia Woodlands Soon
Cherry Block Smokehouse, 1223 W. 34th, opened September 7 in Garden Oaks at the Stomping Grounds. This new smokehouse comes from Felix Florez who was the force behind the now-shuttered Cherry Block Craft Butcher’s at Bravery Chef Hall. Cherry Block left the food hall in January 2021, opening Cherry Block…
NFL Week 1: Colts-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
If we are being honest with our assessment of the AFC South in 2022, it remains one of the weaker divisions overall in the National Football League. Also, I think if we’re being honest, we would largely agree that the Indianapolis Colts are the most talented team of the four-team…
The Lonesome Haunts Will Wreck You With Rock And Roll Romance
Hank Williams may have moaned about having the lovesick blues but Houston’s The Lonesome Haunts are using heartbreak to fuel their killer new rock and roll EP Wreck You, due out on Saturday, September 10. The band will perform for their EP release party on the same day at Shoeshine…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Truckyard Oktoberfest and Fancy Boozy Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Trucktoberfest at Truck Yard Houston Saturday-Sunday 2118 Lamar The laidback EaDo hangout is throwing its free-to-attend Trucktoberfest party over two days this weekend, featuring German themed food, Oktoberfest beers on tap, and weiner dog racing, pretzel eating and stein…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Barbarian
Title: Barbarian Describe This Movie In One The Departed Quote: COLIN SULLIVAN: Watch what happens! Brief Plot Synopsis: Don’t go in there. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2.5 buckets out of 5. Tagline: “Come for a night. Stay forever.” Better Tagline: ” Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Tess (Georgina Campbell) has come to…
Sword Fights, Flying and Beasts: Peter Pan Offers it All at Houston Ballet
It’s hard to beat a show about flying. Whether they be superheroes, a nanny with an umbrella or in the case of Peter Pan, a boy who won’t grow up, there’s something fascinating about watching someone take to the air, unencumbered by the usual laws of gravity. But, of course,…
Best Bets: Peter Pan, Somi, and Crying in the Bathroom
Musical performances, dance works, and film headline this week’s list of best bets.
Circles Around The Sun Spins Into Houston
There are few to no bands who have had the unexpected career trajectory of Circles Around The Sun. What began as pre-recorded intermission music for The Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well tour in 2015 with original songs written by the late guitarist Neal Casal blossomed into a band with a…
How Does Davis Mills’ Support Stack Up Versus Other 2nd Year NFL QBs?
Say what you will about Houston Texans second year QB Davis Mills. You may believe in him, or maybe you don’t, but his head coach Lovie Smith believes in him unequivocally. When asked about Mills in his Monday press conference last week, here is what Smith said about Mills’ prospects…
From The Imagination Of The Western Express Comes Lunatics, Lovers and Poets
When Shakespeare wrote of the boundless imagination of lunatics, lovers and poets in A Midsummer Night’s Dream he probably had no intention of serving as inspiration for a honky tonk album. But for Stephen Castillo, the lead singer of the Austin based band, The Western Express, the phrase resonated with…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: March Takes on the Mediterranean Islands
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Ouisie’s Table Restaurant & Gardens, 3939 San Felipe, will host the final night of its summer jazz series, the Insatiable Glass & Live Jazz, on Thursday, September 15 from 6-9 p.m. Guests can enjoy jazz quartet…
Scrambled Tackles One Woman’s Struggle To Conceive
When Rotem Nachmany learned that endometriosis was preventing her from getting pregnant naturally and that she’d need to undergo fertility treatments, her spirit and sense of self shattered. For a year, Nachmany slipped into a deep depression, contemplating her damaged self-image as a woman. But then, her creative side took…
The Unstoppable Trouble in Mind Makes its Way to Main Street For a Regional Premiere
Talk about a play with back story. In 1955, Black novelist and playwright Alice Childress wrote Trouble in Mind, but had to change the ending at the direction of one of the white and male producers to get it on stage. Her play was optioned for Broadway but there were…
Cirque de la Symphonie Brings The Big Top To Jones Hall
Cirque de la Symphonie returns with the Houston Symphony this weekend at Jones Hall for a dazzling display that partners the strength of the orchestra with the jaw-dropping feats by the world’s greatest aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, balancers, and jugglers in a one-of-a-kind live concert event.
Is There a Johnny Manziel Netflix Documentary Coming?
We live in a golden age of television, with all of the different streaming outlets now supplementing traditional cable television, and no genre has benefitted more from the proliferation of delivery outlets than sports documentaries. Since the advent of ESPN’s “30 for 30” franchise, retrospectives on historical sports occurrences and…
Houston Concert Watch 9/7: Pitbull, Michael Bublé, and More
Now this AI thing is getting serious. It seems that students are using artificial intelligence to write papers for them. Furthermore, if an example text is provided to the program, the AI software will produce a document that is similar to the model in tone and style. I raise this…
A Longtime Loner Returns to the Pack with Ever The Wolf
Why do wolves howl? You might know the answer from National Geographic or watching Discovery Channel. The short answer is it’s their way of interacting with each other, their social call to unite for a common goal, like a hunt. For Carlos Cisneros, who’s lonesome howl was answered recently, it’s…
Social Media Comedians Fight the Tropes of Raising Kids in My Name Is Not Mom
“I think the three of us really do a great job at speaking our minds and taking the stigma away that you gave birth and had this lobotomy”
The Bacon Brothers Are Still Cooking, with Music on the Front Burner
Anyone who has spent time around professional musicians is aware that many of these folks must also work a “day job,” one that pays the bills while they maintain their artistic endeavors. Hence the large number musos who toil as waiters, cashiers and Uber drivers. Such is the case with…
Four Thoughts on the Expanded College Football Playoff
On Friday, over a year after floating the idea of playoff expansion, the College Football Playoff Board of Managers voted unanimously to expand the CFP from 4 teams to 12 teams, and to do so as soon as possible, with 2026 being the latest it would happen. The hope is…
Based on a Persian Fairy Tale, The Moonlit Princess Works its Magic on a Houston Stage
The Houston Press doesn’t usually cover children’s theater, but when multiple Houston Theater Award-nominee Afsaneh Aayani creates a work for those “two-through-100 years old,” it definitely piques our interest. Based on the antique Persian fairy tale Mah Pishooni, this early version of Cinderella is a personal favorite of Aayani’s. While…
The Manhattan Transfer Celebrate 50 Years of Vocal Harmony—and the End of Their Touring Days
A few years before the 1976 movie Taxi Driver came out—complete with its raw depiction of New York City during the era—another “hack” was out on the road trying to figure out his future, this one of a more musical nature. And in the 1972 world of hard rock, glitter…
Sean’s Wishlist: Alex Bregman Named AL Player of the Month for August
Back in June, as the Rockets were beginning to dig into their offseason and prepare for the draft, and as the world was waiting on Deshaun Watson’s punishment, I sat down and came up with a wishlist that included my desired outcomes for those items and some other stuff. Along…
This Week in Houston Food Events: September Brings Peaches and Cream Kolache and a Bourbon Takeover
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, September 5 Labor Day Dining Deals From special Monday brunches and specially priced cocktails to family-friendly holiday festivities, check out our Labor Day Houston Bar and Restaurant Guide to find the best dining deals in Houston this Labor Day. Last…
The Fixx Show Us How Much Is Enough At House Of Blues
The Fixx House of Blues September 1, 2022 You remember the Fixx. It’s not a question. Though perhaps never as high profile as their contemporaries, the band’s music formed as much of the soundtrack to the 1980s as anyone’s, with songs like “Saved By Zero,” “One Thing Leads To Another,”…
Openings and Closings: Phat Takes Over Yelo, Local Table La Centerra Soon
Phat Eatery, 23119 Katy, will take over the space at Yelo next door. The expansion of Alex Au-Yeung’s Malaysian eatery means the end of Yelo, a banh mi concept Au-Yeung debuted originally as a pop-up with chef Cuc Lam. It eventually opened as a brick and mortar next to Phat…
Houston Girl Scout Highlights Diversity on National Read a Book Day
National Read a Book Day is September 6, and a Houston-born Girl Scout Gold Award winner is encouraging people to broaden their horizons with their choices thanks to her Diverse Book Club. Esha Garg was a lifelong Girl Scout when she began her Gold Award project as a high school…
Opinion: House of the Dragon and the Violence of Peace
Spoiler alert for the first two episodes. Republicans who claim that liberal Hollywood never criticizes Democrats should definitely watch House of the Dragon because I’m pretty sure King Viserys (Paddy Considine) is supposed to be President Joe Biden. Or, if not Biden, a generic neoliberal leader in the same vein…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Last Call for Houston Restaurant Weeks and Labor Day Eats
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Houston Restaurant Weeks Friday-Monday Raising over $17.6 million for the Houston Food Bank since its inception, Houston Restaurant Weeks is closing out its 2022 run on Labor Day, September 5. This year’s fundraiser rocked a 300-and-counting lineup of local…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Burial
Title: Burial Describe This Movie In One Mr. Show Quote: SPANK: Sir, could you please tell the court your theory? EXPERT: Well, if you’ll all take the magic pills I’ve provided, I will *show* you my theory. Brief Plot Synopsis: Weekend at Adolf’s. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 “Die,…
Live Music Returns To Under The Volcano
The name Under the Volcano may conjure up the desperate and dark sentiments from the classic Lowry novel by the same name but one look inside this Houston bar and all thoughts of demise dissipate under the curious stares of the many masks the line the walls and the warm…
Five 2022 College Football Season Win Total Best Bets
The 2022 college football season is not only upon us, but technically it’s already begun, with a slew of Week 0 games last weekend, the most notable being a Northwestern upset of Nebraska in Ireland. The schedule really kicks in this weekend, with a bunch of great Week 1 matchups,…
Battleship Texas Travels the Houston Ship Channel On Its Way to Drydock in Galveston
Battleship Texas, first launched during World War I with continued military service in World War II, made history once again Wednesday when it successfully negotiated the waters of the Houston Ship Channel to head for a year’s rehab in Galveston. The warship, which was decommissioned in 1948, became a permanent…
Astros Week: Injuries, Pitching and September Call Ups
The couple weeks of August are the dog days of summer in baseball. Teams bog down in the heat and everything feels slower and more arduous. That is, except for the news apparently, because, my goodness, there was a ton of it this week. We won’t even dig into Mariners…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Ramen Tatsu-Ya Celebrates 10 Years of Slurping
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Founded in Austin in 2012, Ramen Tatsu-Ya will celebrate its tenth anniversary by offering free prizes on September 1-4 to every diner at all Ramen Tatsu-Ya locations, including the Houston location, 1722 California, opened in 2017…
After All These Years, Jefferson Starship is Still Flying High
In the beginning, there was Jefferson Airplane. Which begat Jefferson Starship, which begat Starship, which begat Starship: The Next Generation, which begat Jefferson Starship (again). Hey, this classic rock business is complicated! As is the case with many long-running bands, the Jefferson Airplane / Starship saga is a complex one,…
Is The Last of Us PS5 Rebuild Worth It?
Developer Naughty Dog and Publisher Sony are releasing a PlayStation 5 rebuild of their seminal gaming classic The Last of Us, which first came out in 2013. The new version takes advantage of everything the latest consoles have to offer, essentially turbocharging one of the greatest games of all time…
Houston Texans Assemble 2022 Practice Squad
Houston Texans head coach Lovie Smith has gone to painstaking efforts to keep us all from limiting our view of the team to just the 53 man roster. Every chance he gets, he reminds media and fans that it’s really a 70-man roster — the regular 53, the 16-man practice…
Backing in to Park is Better: 5 Reasons Why According to Twitter
It felt like an innocuous question. Why are there so many people who choose to back into parking spaces? The topic came up after watching numerous people try desperately with varying degrees of success to back into spots at the grocery store, gym and other locations around town. Some were…
Houston Concert Watch 8/31: Steve Earle, Five Finger Death Punch, and More
In the world of marketing, brand extension refers to the use of an existing brand name on a new product. The latest example is the Weiner Pop aka the Cold Dog, a frozen popsicle-like creation with a mustard swirl that (allegedly) tastes like a frankfurter, all thanks to those giddy…
Houston Texans Cut Roster Down to 53 Players
When Houston Texans’ training camp started back in late July, and I was constructing my first mock 53 man roster, it felt like I was having to coax myself into the last five or six guys on the roster. In other words, I was having trouble finding 47 or 48…
Houston Gardening: Droughts, Floods and Heat, Oh, My!
Most Houston gardeners have become accustomed to the hardships of a Houston summer. However, the summer of 2022 has been particularly brutal. While we are used to 100 degree temperatures in July and August, this summer they were coupled with little to no rainfall. Until last week. Now, we are…
John McCutcheon Takes a Leap of Faith and Folk Music
While a student at Minnesota’s St. John’s University in the early 1970s, John McCutcheon had a pretty good system going. He had a friend who worked in the school library and who could be persuaded to order certain requested records in exchange for beer. Records that McCutcheon could then borrow,…
Reelin’ in the Years (and Peelin’ Back the Layers) of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen
By picking Donald Fagen as the subject of a biography, Peter Jones certainly didn’t make things easy on himself. The Steely Dan co-founder has long been wary of the press and gave relatively few interviews during the band’s prime. And when he did deem to do so, sometimes answered in…
2022 Heisman Odds Offer Plenty of Intrigue for Texan Fans
When you root for a good NFL football team, the list of Heisman Trophy contenders is a mere curiosity. It’s just something to follow casually during the college football regular season. When you root for a bad NFL football team, or one with quarterback issues, the Heisman Trophy contender list…
Houston Bars and Restaurants are Celebrating Labor Day 2022 with Brunches, Take-Home Picnics and More
From special Monday brunches and specially priced cocktails to family-friendly holiday festivities and take-home party packages, here’s where to get the best dining deals in Houston this Labor Day. 8th Wonder Distillery, 2201 Dallas 8th Wonder Distillery will open its doors early on Labor Day, starting at 1 p.m. and…
A Celebration of Texas Dive Bars, Clubs and Watering Holes
Anthony Head author of a new book called Texas Dives: Enduring Neighborhood Bars of the Lone Star State visits Houston.
This Week in Houston Food Events: Southern Smoke Tickets on Sale and a Cuban Bar Takeover
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 29 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 bucks every Monday in August, available at all locations for…
Opinion: The Brilliant Ending of A League of Their Own
Spoilers for the entire first season ahead. Amazon’s re-imagining of the 1992 baseball classic A League of Their Own is a grand slam in so many ways. The series continues to highlight the misogyny experienced by the All-American Girls Baseball League in the 1940s while shining more light on the…
Fantasy Football Projections for 2022 Houston Texans
Now that the NFL calendar has its newly extended annual lull in between the end of the preseason games and the start of the regular season, a full 17 days for the Houston Texans, we’ve hit the patch of the calendar that is probably heavy in fantasy football for many…
Flying the Unfriendly Skies with Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris
Keith Morris was relaxing in a Colorado hotel room the morning we caught up with him to discuss Circle Jerks’ Saturday September 3 tour date at White Oak Music Hall. A brief chat about the tour, which is celebrating the anniversaries of the band’s iconic debut and sophomore albums, became…
Opinion: Why Biden Needs Congress to Truly Fix Student Loan Debt
This week, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan for student loan forgiveness to be enacted entirely under the powers of the executive branch. While the $10,000 loan forgiveness (plus another $10,000 for Pell Grant recipients) got all the headlines, other aspects will have potentially life-changing benefits for borrowers. These include…
Houston Texans 53 Man Roster FINAL Prediction
It felt like it took forever for Texans training camp to get here this summer. If you’re a football junky, it feels that way every year. Once it finally arrived, it felt like it went by in the blink of an eye. Four weeks worth of practices and three preseason…
Openings and Closings: Orleans Seafood Fulshear, Killen’s Barbecue Cypress
Orleans Seafood Kitchen, 6230 FM 1463, opened in Fulshear August 25. It’s the second location for the Cajun restaurant from Houstonians Chance Comstock and Marcus Payavla. The duo opened the first Orleans in Katy in 2008. The business partners met in 1993 while working in a local restaurant, all the…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Bun B Brings The Burgers to a Pop-Up Downtown
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Sausage Fest at King’s BierHaus All August long 2044 East T C Jester The days of digging into all-you-can-eat sausages at King’s BierHaus are numbered, as the tasty promotion runs through August 31. Head to the biergarten to work…
10 Million Viewers Accessed HBO’s House of the Dragon Premiere
House of the Dragon, the long-awaited follow-up series to HBO’s juggernaut Game of Thrones, is finally upon us, thrusting viewers back into the gnarly world of intrigue, violence and dragons. Based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, GoT became a genuine phenomenon,…
Donnell Rawlings Comes Back To Houston With New Material, Because Doing Old Jokes Is Like “Stealing Money”
“There’s not a chance, not one time, that I didn’t go on stage with intention of destroying it.”
Houston Theater Week: Pre-Show Eats
Houston Theater Week is already in full swing and the upcoming season should be a busy one. What used to be a one-day-only event has now, post-pandemic, become a week-long opportunity to get tickets for the season at participating venues at Buy One, Get One Free rates. The deals run…
NFL Preseason Week 3: 49ers-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
Heading into the 2021 season last year, the NFL restructured its overall schedule to lengthen the regular season (the MONEY games!) and shorten the postseason (the non-money, NUISANCE games!), so now the third preseason game is the final one, and thus, we have a weird balance of starters trying to…
The Era Of “Swayzsure” (Patrick Swayze Erasure) Is In Full Swing
Next month marks the 13th year since Houston’s own Patrick Swayze shuffled off his mortal coil. The former Sexiest Man Alive was just 57 years old (last Thursday would’ve been his 60th birthday), and left behind a cinematic legacy no one who remembers the late 1900s (as the kids are…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Cigars, Live Jazz and Cuban Cocktails at Julep
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: International Bacon Day is coming up on September 3, and Snooze, an A.M. Eatery is celebrating with specials from August 25 through September 7. All Snooze locations will serve two over-the-top Bacon Day pancake specials, with…
The Australian Pink Floyd Show Continues Building Bricks in Wall of Fans
Chris Barnes vividly recalls the first time he was exposed to the music of Pink Floyd. The UK native was about six years old when a cousin who had been living with his family left his record collection in the hands of Chris and his older brother. Among the discs…
My Interview Conversation with Fellow Dad Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett released new music earlier this year, a mix of originals and standards titled 12th of June. It’s the first new record in 10 years for the Klein native, one of the Houston area’s most iconic songwriters, and it’s been supported by the long-awaited return to the road with…
Houston Concert Watch 8/24: Lyle Lovett, Jack Johnson, and More
The Swedish term “lagom” has been appearing more frequently in online discussions as of late. A somewhat facile explanation of this philosophy might be, “Hey, ‘enough’ is all you need.” The word also translates as “in balance” or “suitable.” This notion may be traced back to Hindu, Buddhist, and Greek…
Astros Week: No Rest for the Weary in the Stretch Run
The Astros recently played 32 games in 32 days. It was a brutal stretch with 17 of those games on the road, yet they managed to go 19-13 despite a series loss in Oakland and a final 3-4 at Chicago and Atlanta. They will have days off in the month…
ROCO Embarks On ‘Grateful’ 18th Season
ROCO is launching its 18th season with programming worth noticing including a mix of new works and artists guaranteed to excite everyone’s artistic palate. Themed “grateful,” the season kicks off September 23.
Former Texans President Jamey Rootes Dies at 56
Jamey Rootes, former Houston Texans president for nearly two decades and a fixture on the Houston sports and charity landscape, passed away on Sunday at the age of 56 from an apparent suicide. His wife, Melissa, posted the following on Facebook on Monday afternoon: Several months after leaving the Houston…
Miller Outdoor’s Summer Mix Tape Series Returns
Last year the Miller Outdoor Theatre took a chance and hosted some of Houston’s hottest up and coming bands for their first ever Miller Summer Mix Tape Series. This week, the historic Houston landmark will repeat the event with live music on the hill starting Wednesday, August 24 with performances…
Houston Texans 53 Man Roster Prediction, Version 3.0
We’ve had three weeks of practices and two preseason games for players to make an impression on Lovie Smith and Nick Caserio (and, on film, 31 other NFL front offices, in the event said players get released). Now, it starts to get interesting, with one more preseason game coming up…
BB’s Tex-Orleans: Houston Restaurant Weeks
Houston gourmands and restaurant connoisseurs love the month of August when Houston Restaurant Weeks runs from August 1 through Labor Day. Restaurants around the Greater Houston area participate in the annual event to help raise funds for the Cleverley Stone Foundation and Houston Food Bank. For the participants, it helps…
The Sadness of He-Hulk Explained
I expected She-Hulk: Attorney at Law to be hilarious, and it was. What I didn’t expect was how sad it would make me for Bruce Banner. Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead. The show continues the main emotional theme of many Disney + Marvel shows: how people deal with trauma. Most of…
David Libert Tells Road Tales of Cooper, Clinton & Eva Marie Snake
While there are endless rock and roll memoirs written by musicians, songwriters, producers and even engineers, sometimes the most entertaining come from the fringe. Not meaning that word as superfluous or crazy, but denoting tomes penned by those who circle around the music like roadies, managers, or ex-wives/groupies. With little…
“Mellow Guy” Jack Johnson Says Rage Against the Machine Influenced His Music (and We Absolutely Hear It)
Jack Johnson knows he’s often seen as music’s “mellow guy.” After all, that’s the vibe from songs about viewing heavenly constellations or making pancakes on a rainy day. But, the multi-platinum singer-songwriter’s got lots of other songs, including some new ones which he’ll be performing for Houston fans at Cynthia…
Announcing the 2022 Houston Theater Awards
Have you heard the roar of jubilation, the music of revelry? Have you smiled in gratitude when you entered the theater? Have you heard that ultra-excited hum of the audience before the curtain goes up? Then you’ve heard the gleeful sounds as our theaters opened their doors after the dark…
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Big Hits and Turbulent Tides
For a Classic Rock band with so many recognizable hits—songs that have endured and are still popular 50 years after they broke up—the shelf of Creedence Clearwater Revival books is surprisingly sparse. There was the band authorized 1971 quickie paperback Inside Creedence, 1990 oral history Up Around the Bend, Hank…
Houston Theater Week Begins Today With Some Really Good Live Performance Deals
For the next week starting today, a number of live performance venues in Houston are offering Buy One, Get One Free tickets to jumpstart the 2022-23 arts season. In pre-pandemic years past, Houston theaters offered a one-day only, in-person chance to buy tickets for the coming season at a discount…
This Week in Houston Food Events: A Ribbon Cutting, Free Bites and Butcher Demo
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 22 Moms and Mimosas at Local Table Local Table will be toasting to the new school year with its Moms and Mimosas, offering a special brunch menu at 9 a.m. on the first day of school. Guests can head…
NFL Preseason Week 2: Texans 24, Rams 20 — Four Winners, Four Losers
We know there is a vast community of people out there who are paid solely to watch and analyze football for a living. It seems like a majority of these folks are putting this in ink — they think the Houston Texans will be the worst team in football this…
Openings and Closings: Lagniappe Debuts, La La Land Kind Cafe Montrose
Lagniappe Kitchen & Bar, 550 Heights Boulevard, softly opened this week with a grand opening planned for August 19. The new Louisiana-inspired cafe is an homage to owner Layne Cruz’s roots. The new concept takes over the former Revival Market space, which recently closed July 31, as we reported here…
Emmaline’s New Turn on Jazz Takes Its Turn in a New Jazz Series
A good way to meet an emerging artist in 2022 is through social media and that’s one way jazz singer Emmaline has built her growing fanbase. The 24-year old vocalist and violinist from Cincinnati is an Instagram sensation, showcasing the old school sensibilities of jazz with a fresh, new approach…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Saint Arnold Pub Crawl and Flying Saucer Celebrates
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Beer and Donuts Pairing at Eureka Heights Brewery Friday, 6:30 p.m. 941 West 18th Eureka Heights Brewing Company is teaming up with Hugs and Donuts for a Beer and Donuts pairing. Admission ($23.99) earns you a flight of five…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Glorious
Title: Glorious Describe This Movie In One Rick and Morty Quote: RICK: You gotta be careful, Morty. If that guy catches you with a box of his eyeholes, he comes bursting in through a window and just starts kicking the shit out of you. Brief Plot Synopsis: Lovelorn dude experiences the…
A Second Eight Row Flint Will Open in Houston’s East End
With the recent closing of Agricole Hospitality’s Revival Market, the trio of Morgan Weber, Ryan Pera and Vincent Huynh teased that there was other big news coming. Today, Agricole announced that it would be opening a second location of its popular Heights bar, Eight Row Flint, this coming fall. The…
Four Thoughts on Deshaun Watson’s Revised Suspension
At long last, 19 months after requesting a trade, 17 months after the first lawsuit, and five months after finally getting traded to the Browns, the Deshaun Watson discipline saga is finally, FINALLY over. After receiving an initial punishment of a six game suspension a few weeks ago, following an…
NBA Releases 2022-23 Schedule: Four Thoughts on the Rockets Games
Hard to believe, but we are just eight weeks from the start of the NBA season. On Wednesday, the association released the full 82-game schedules for its teams including the Houston Rockets. While last year was a generally forgettable one from a wins and losses standpoint, the end result was…
NFL Top 100 for 2022 Raises Questions About Former Houston Texans
It’s a purely subjective players’ poll, in which I have yet to find a single player who has actually voted in it (despite asking at least two dozen over the course of my radio career), but dammit, I love the NFL’s Top 100 Players list. I set my watch to…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Texas-Creole Family Supper and the Month of Gr8 Giving
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Pluckers Wing Bar’s six Houston-area locations are celebrating the return of the school year, inviting teachers to kick off their weekend with a complimentary appetizer every Friday year-round. Also year-round, kids can eat for free every…
Moses Guest Celebrates 25 Years Of Jamming And Honors The Memory Of “Squid”
There are some friendships in life that sustain their warmth and strength regardless of the length of time between one hangout to another. Houston band Moses Guest has this kind of relationship not just with one another, but with their city as well. Moses Guest will be performing for the…
Astros Week: Brantley Done, McCullers is Back, A’s Curse Broken and Dusty’s Bad Call
The Astros swept the A’s, but have dropped the first two of a four-game set in Chicago. It’s a crazy portion of the league’s condensed schedule with lots of necessary days off for rotation guys. Fortunately, the Astros continue to go with a six-man rotation now that Lance McCullers, Jr…
Toto’s David Paich is a Boy with His Toys
In this new era of Zoom journalism interviews, it’s sometimes jarring to be instantly face-to-face (albeit via computer) with a live musician who for decades you’ve only seen on stage, in videos, or photographs. But there’s Toto’s co-founding singer/keyboardist/songwriter David Paich popping up on screen to tell me what he’s…
5 Ways to Fix the Final Boss Fight in Elden Ring
I finally beat Elden Ring after roughly 90 hours, and I’d estimate that 5 percent of that playtime was me screaming at the final boss, the Elden Beast, for being complete and utter bullshit. I’m by no means the first to say this, but the endgame of Elden Ring has…
Houston Concert Watch 8/17: Mötley Crüe, Robert Earl Keen, and More
Looking over the list of this week’s concerts, the phrase “embarrassment of riches” popped into my head. Which led to a bit of research as to the idiom’s origin. It seems that the source is the English translation – by John Ozell – of the 1726 French play L’Embarras des…
Houston Texans Cut Roster Down TO 85 Players
In the past few preseasons, the NFL had altered the way it has teams handle roster cuts, where instead of a gradual shedding of camp bodies, teams would go from roughly 90 players down to 53 in one fell swoop. It turned the waiver wire into a land rush, and…
Cooking In The Booth And The Kitchen: Bun B’s Trill Burgers Continues To Gain Fans
Sitting on the corner of Edwards Street and Sawyer in a warehouse shopping complex is Sticky’s Chicken. The restaurant specializes in fried chicken, offering wings, fried chicken over rice, chicken sandwiches, sliders, and shareable plates. But on an exceptionally warm day earlier this summer the restaurant was preparing for something…
Can’t Go Wrong With The Broken Spokes
Since 2013, The Broken Spokes have been steadily growing their fan base one show at a time. After nine years of working the road, the band is celebrating the release of their latest album Where I Went Wrong with an album release show on Friday, August 19 at The Armadillo…
Before You Negatively Review Bomb She-Hulk…
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law starts this week on Disney Plus, and it’s easily one of the Marvel properties I’m most excited about. Not only is Jennifer Walters consistently a fascinating character who mixes comedy with heroics, but Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslaney is playing the lead. Maybe headlining a Disney show…
Cucucuy is Here to Scare Up New Latin Music Fans
The cucuy is the Latin world’s version of the boogeyman, a creature that strikes terror in the hearts of all who encounter it. Not to be confused with Cucucuy, which is here to ignite a passion for Latin music in the hearts of all who encounter it. The new band…
Rating Deshaun Watson’s Forced Apology Video
It took over a year, multiple press conferences, a sea of vitriol, and the continued threat of a year long suspension, but Deshaun Watson FINALLY apologized for his conduct last Friday before his first appearance in an NFL football game in over 18 months. We will get to the video…
Last Night: Rick Springfield, Men at Work and John Waite at Smart Financial Centre
As headliner Rick Springfield told us during a recent interview—and has been borne out by industry trends—for artists who blazed the charts in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, package tours are here to stay. It’s a win for the acts, who can play to (and convert) the individual fan bases…
Shemekia Copeland’s Hard Turn Off Straight Blues Boulevard
Like a lot of mothers who will see their first-born head off to kindergarten this month, Shemekia Copeland will cycle through a range of emotions once the drop-off actually happens. As a Black parent, she knows that she’ll eventually have to have what’s commonly known as “The Talk” with her…
NFL Preseason Week 1: Texans 17, Saints 13 — Four Winners, Four Losers
The Houston Texans’ first preseason game of the 2022 season, the first game of any sort with Lovie Smith as the new head coach, was a perfect microcosm of the preseason as a whole, thus far. The quality of play was a melange of sloppiness, youthful mistakes, but with just…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Fajitas, Churros and Beer
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 15 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 bucks every Monday in August, available at all locations for…
Lesbian Romance Goes Mainstream In Shakin’ The Blue Flamingo
Pretty sure the last time we saw a play about lesbians in this town was 2018 when the Alley staged Bekah Brunstetter’s, The Cake, about a North Carolina baker who faces a crisis of conscience when asked to make a cake for a lesbian wedding. A year before that we…
The Surfrajettes and VOLK Hang Ten At The Continental Club
The Surfrajettes/VOLK The Continental Club August 12, 2022 When you think of “surf rock,” your mind probably conjures images of Waimea Bay or Teahupoo, of tanned dudes and dudettes waiting for their set as the sun gilds the waves. In other words you’re probably not thinking of Toronto. But the beauty…
Openings and Closings: Pacha Nikkei Debuts Today, il Bracco Uptown Next Week
Pacha Nikkei, 10001 Westheimer, opens August 12. The new restaurant comes from former Politan Row chef Masuru Fukuda with the help of veteran restaurant professional, Sebastien Laval. It is an expanded version of Fukuda’s Pacha Nikkei concept at Politan Row and is the first Nikkei concept to open in Houston,…
Joshua Redman Shuns the Cheetos to Keep Creating Exciting Music for Jazz Enthusiasts
Joshua Redman swore, “I’m hardly the intellectual,” in a recent phone chat with the Houston Press, after sounding rather professorial discussing his latest project. Like good students, we scribbled notes and marveled at our luck getting to sit for a bit of a masterclass from one of jazz’s tenured geniuses…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Mack & Rita
Title: Mack & Rita Describe This Movie In One Happy Gilmore Quote: HAPPY GILMORE: But she’s an old lady. I mean, look at her: she’s old. You can’t just take her stuff. She’s too old. Brief Plot Synopsis: 30 is the new 70, which sounds about right these days. Rating Using Random…
NFL Preseason Week 1: Saints-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
One of the most underrated days on the NFL’s preseason calendar, over the last few years, for Texans fans, has been the release of the team’s first preseason depth chart. It was underrated because, in the latter days of Bill O’Brien and during the Lost Season of David Culley (proper…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Smashburger Pop-Up and Thai Tailgate in the Parking Lot
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Platinum Wine Vault Luxury Tasting at at Bayway Cadillac of The Woodlands Friday, 6 to 9 p.m. 16785 I-45 South Wine & Food Week now celebrates events throughout the year, with the Platinum Wine Vault Luxury Tasting taking place…
Los Lobos Came to Houston and Tore Up “The Neighborhood”
Los Lobos Heights Theater August 10, 2022 Beginning a concert review with the last song of the band’s set might seem counterintuitive but there’s no law that says a step-by-step chronology of any musical evening is required from this exercise. If you want play-by-play, go to an Astros game. So,…
Paul Scheer Treats Watching Bad Movies Like “Group Therapy” in How Did This Get Made? Live
“It’s always a good time for bad movies! It’s the one thing that never changes culturally is there are always bad movies being made.”
Wear Pink to Mean Girls at Broadway at the Hobby
High school can be the most wonderful time in your life, filled with great teachers, forever friends, and perfect memories. And, as most of us know, it can be awful, or at least have its awful moments. Tina Fey acknowledged that with her movie Mean Girls (based on Rosalind Wiseman’s…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Fiery Burgers Heat Up a “Battle of the Burger” Competition
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Rodeo Goat, 2105 Dallas, has brought back its in-house “Battle of the Burger” competition, with two burgers battling it out through August 30. See how the returning Hatch Me if You Can burger ($12)—made with white…
Rick Springfield & Friends Promise an Evening of “Wall to Wall Hits”
It’s a myth-busting notion that, outside of the 90 minutes or so they’re onstage performing, the reality of a successful touring rock musician is often blur of airports and airplanes, car rides, hotels and room service menus, and sound checks. And sometimes, interviews. As when Rick Springfield calls from his…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Watson Appeal: “It Was the Right Thing To Do”
Ten days ago, former federal judge Sue Robinson recommended a six game suspension for former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, in response to the evidence presented to her that Watson sexually assaulted multiple female massage therapists in various massage settings. At the time, the ruling was widely criticized as too lenient…
Houston Concert Watch 8/10: Los Lobos, Father John Misty, and More
Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion will co-host “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night as part of the program’s Superstar Super Summer series. Here’s hoping that she can temper Fallon’s worst fanboy tendencies and convince him that he really should ditch that fake laugh. But Megan will only…
Houston Texans 53 Man Roster Prediction, Version 2.0
We are two weeks into Houston Texans’ training camp, and while it’s been fun watching some of the younger players thrive and improve, I think everyone is itching for some real football — fans, players, coaches, everyone. That will come soon enough, with the Saints coming to town this Saturday…
Houston Bucket List – The Honorable Mentions
For more than two months, we’ve meticulously counted down the top 100 things to do in Houston, 2022 edition. It’s been a lot, but we hope you enjoyed the big list and get started on knocking some of those items off your to do list. We linked to all 10…
Astros Week: McCullers Set to Return While Brantley’s Future Uncertain
The Astros have been remarkably lucky this season. While they have missed Lance McCullers, Jr., who is close to returning from a long rehab stint, they have (thus far — huge asterisk) not sustained any major injuries to key players save one: Michael Brantley. While we await more word on…
Cheap Trick’s Early Magic Detailed in New Book
Sure, This Band Has No Past might seem like an odd (and incongruous) title for a book that is very much about the distant past of its subject. But it makes sense if you view it through the slightly askew lens of the history and music of Cheap Trick. It…
Bojangles Music School Opens Heights Location
Inspired by a struggling street performer he met in a New Orleans jail cell, Jerry Jeff Walker wrote the cautionary tale that would become a hit song with “Mr. Bojangles.” Houston guitar teacher and owner of Bojangles School of Music Shawn Parks used the catchy name to baptize his…
The Blind Cook Returns to MasterChef
It’s been nearly a decade since the final episode of MasterChef Season 3 aired on FOX television in September 2012. Fans and viewers of the cooking competition watched in awe as a young, visually impaired Vietnamese American woman won the top spot, earning a prize of $250,000 and a cookbook…
Four Texas Schools Land in First College Football Coach’s Top 25 Poll
The calendar flips to August, and like late July in the NFL, early August id the time when college football training camps start up. The players are back on campus, the preview magazines are on the stands, and the smell of football in the air. Oh, and since it’s 2022,…
Linda Gail Lewis Brings Her Rock And Roll Piano To The Continental Club
As a young girl and little sister to Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Gail Lewis had a front row seat to the birth of mainstream rock and roll. “As Carl Perkins said in that song he wrote, ‘I was there when it happened.’ It was a really cool thing to be…
Sandman: The Problem With Despair
Mild Spoilers Follow. Netflix’s adaption of Neil Gaiman’s comic The Sandman is stunning, incredible, and so many other glowing adjectives. That such a strange comic could finally be realized into a television show that does it justice is nothing short of a miracle. The tale of Morpheus, The King of…
New Rolling Stones Biography Offers (Lots of!) Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Lesley-Ann Jones gives good quote. Speaking via Zoom from London, she opines, “Rock stars are hermaphrodites these days, aren’t they? If they’re not, we sort of want them to be.” Jones’ new book The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones (Pegasus Books, 384 pp. $28.95) is full to…
Guitarist Samantha Fish Manages to Elude the Blues Police
Though it may seem to some that she has come out of nowhere, guitarist Samantha Fish has built a steady following the old-fashioned way: continuing to grow musically, creating a strong bond with her fans, and touring damn near constantly. Speaking from the road (naturally), heading from Newark, NJ to…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Blood Bros. BBQ Takes Golfstrømmen and HRW Continues
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 8 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 every Monday in August, available at all locations for dine-in…
What Happens Now With Deshaun Watson’s Suspension?
Last Monday, it was announced that former Texans quarterback (and current Cleveland Brown) Deshaun Watson would be suspended for the first six games of the 2022 season for committing sexual assault in a massage setting with multiple women, as determined by former judge and current NFL arbiter Sue L. Robinson…
Westworld Gets its Mojo Back in Season 4
Westworld is a series on taking the familiar, established dynamics of its world and turning them on their head. First, it was the robot hosts of the Westworld theme park gaining sentience and wanting freedom. Next, we witnessed the hosts turning the tables on the humans who terrorized them for…
August Updated Hurricane Outlook Downgraded Slightly
On Sunday afternoon, the skies opened up and portions of the city near downtown and just north received rains like we hadn’t seen in weeks. Drought conditions, which have plagued the entire state of Texas, at least for an hour or so, felt far off in the distance. Less than…
Garth Brooks Goes Into Overtime at NRG Stadium
Garth Brooks The Stadium Tour NRG Stadium August 6, 2022 The art of reading the room is one of the most important tools that a performer can master when executing a presentation. When we spoke to Garth Brooks at the pre-show press conference, he had the following to say about…
Fat Tony Taps Kam Franklin and Lucas/Heaven to Perform at Axelrad
“I’m going to bring it back home to my roots,” bellowed Fat Tony as he stood behind a set of turntables in the center of the stage. He quickly wiped the sweat away from his forehead before turning his attention back to the music and turning up the volume. The…
Three 6 Mafia Along With Paul Wall & Chamilllionaire Shut Down The House of Blues
“We’re in Houston so we’re gonna do something special” yelled DJ Paul as he walked across the stage to stand next to Juicy J. The beginning of Outkast and UGK’s “International Players Anthem” filled the main hall at the House of Blues. “We produced this,” beamed Juicy J as the…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Prey
Title: Prey Describe This Movie Using One Simpsons Quote: MR. BURNS: Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food The only thing I’m hunting for Is an outfit that looks gooooood Brief Plot Synopsis: For once, white people aren’t the Comanche’s biggest problem. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The…
Openings and Closings: Revival Market Has Closed, Mandola’s Trio Shutter Today
Nino’s, Vincent’s and Grappino di Nino, 2817 W. Dallas, will close August 5 after the final dinner service. The three concepts were part of Tuscan Villa, a two and a half-acre development owned by the Vincent Mandola family. The development has been bought by an affiliate of the Oxberry Group…
Apollo Chamber Players Bridges Cultures Via Music
Apollo Chamber Players enters its 15th season, themed “Connective Harmony,” with the goal to bridge communities and cultures through globally inspired music. The season is inspired by themes of unity, peace, wholeness and strands of musical interest and interconnectedness.
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Oyster Deals and White Linen Night in the Heights
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: National Oyster Day Friday Houston’s hottest oyster-shucking restaurants and bars are getting down on National Oyster Day with special deals and happy hours, from 50-cent chilled oysters fresh from the Gulf to some of the city’s finest wood-grilled oysters…
How The Wolf Survived: The Timelessness of Los Lobos
Los Lobos’ latest Grammy-winning album, Native Sons, features some classics. They’re songs we hope to hear when the band performs at Heights Theater August 10. Steve Berlin is the band’s saxophonist, a multi-instrumentalist and producer who understands the essence of a good song. There should be a timelessness to it…
NFL Announces They Will Appeal Length of Deshaun Watson’s Suspension
On Monday, former federal judge Sue L. Robinson announced that former Houston Texan and current Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson would be receiving a six game suspension for violating the NFL’s conduct policy in multiple massage settings. Of course, Watson has been the subject of 24 civil lawsuits from various…
Leon Bridges Shines His Soul at White Oak Music Hall
Leon Bridges The Boundless Tour White Oak Music Hall lawn August 3, 2022 There’s an often quoted line by American folk hero Davy Crockett that says “You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas!” That line alone seems to encapsulate the life of a certain gentleman…
Houston Shakespeare Festival’s Lear: Tremendous Theater
When our esteemed Houston Shakespeare Festival stays true to the spirit and tenor of Shakespeare, the results can be terribly good, near great. The indomitable tragedy King Lear is in loving hands this 47th season, an affecting production in which all invest their most. The landscape of Lear is bleak,…
Oddsmakers Put Out Betting Lines on Texans’ Games for 2022 Schedule
Even with the most inferior of NFL teams, NFL training camp is typically abut hope. The 2021 Houston Texans were a notable exception, as the Deshaun Watson legal dark cloud and the “leadership” of David Culley sucked the life out of Houston fans before the first training camp practice even…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Eat Good and Support the Holocaust Museum Houston During Deli Month
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: August brings the return of Deli Month to Kenny & Ziggy’s, 1743 Post Oak, in benefit of Holocaust Museum Houston. Joined by delis across the nation, K&Z will offer a multi-choice, three-course menu during lunch and…
Comedy Bang! Bang! Host Scott Aukerman Will Podcast Until It Kills Him, and Perhaps Even After
“Essentially, some of this art form of podcasting is meant to be ephemeral, but we’ve developed a library that means a lot to people that people quote. It’s become part of their language.”
Sugar Hill Studios: A Rollicking Rock and Roll History in Houston
Fifty years ago this summer, a former barber from Louisiana with a thick Cajun accent was driving around East Houston scouting locations to open his dream recording studio. Raised in a shack in Vermilion Parish by his sharecropping parents, he had barely finished high school when made a name for…
Houston Shakespeare Festival Pivots to Cartoon Characters in This Version of Cymbeline
Why is it that given a rarely performed Shakespeare play like Cymbeline, written supposedly near the end of his career (produced c. 1611), directors seem to think it should be played broad and in italics? Cymbeline is classified as a “romance,” a “comedy,” a “fairy tale,” and once was labeled…
Houston Astros MLB Trade Deadline History — Four Winners, Four Losers
On Monday afternoon, Astros general manager James Click made a solid, calculated trade deadline move, as the Astros brought in outfielder/first baseman Trey Mancini from the Baltimore Orioles as part of a three way trade that included the Tampa Bay Rays. In the deal, the Astros gave up fun-loving outfielder…
These Houston Restaurants Are Shucking Out Deals for National Oyster Day (Friday, August 5)
From oyster happy hours to all-day deals on chargrilled bivalves and on-the-half-shell jewels of the sea, here’s where to shuck and slurp this National Oyster Day in Houston. Backstreet Cafe, 1103 South Shepherd Chef Hugo Ortega’s Backstreet has got $1 raw oysters and $2 roasted oysters up for grabs. Back…
Houston Concert Watch 8/3: Sue Foley, Garth Brooks, and More
It’s about as Texan as it gets this week, with a passel of Lone Star musicians gracing stages both big and small around Houston. And there’s also an Okie fella in there, but we won’t hold that against him. It’s not his fault that he was born on the wrong…
Astros Bolster Lineup with Trio of Trades
It took a while for Major League Baseball’s trade deadline activity to heat up, but a flurry of deals came down on Monday including three that involved the Astros. The team acquired first baseman/outfielder Trey Mancini from the Baltimore Orioles and pitcher Jayden Murray from the Tampa Bay Rays in…
Opinion: Immune Compromised People Still Treated Like Collateral Damage as Pandemic Goes On
I think I’m more pissed off now than when COVID-19 first sent us all scurrying into hidey-holes. Despite the coronavirus continuing to spread, mutate, and kill, it seems like the country has moved on and let at-risk populations live in isolation and fear. Here in Harris County, we’re still averaging…
Deshaun Watson Suspended for First Six Games of 2022 Season
Over 16 months after the first of two dozen civil lawsuits was filed against former Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, the NFL has finally settled on Watson’s punishment for alleged sexual misconduct in various massage settings. On Monday, former federal judge Sue L. Robinson, the NFL’s personal conduct mediator, informed…
Houston Restaurant Weeks 2022 Launches Today
August in Houston is hot. The first day of the eighth month in the calendar reminds us that the dog days of summer are about to really hit their stride. For we Houstonians, however, there is more to August than potential hurricanes and record heat waves. For nearly two decades,…
Four Houston Texans Training Camp Observations, Days 1 and 2
For the 21st time in team history, the Houston Texans kicked off training camp, amid sweltering heat and a somewhat tepid crowd on Friday (Saturday’s crowd was much bigger and seemed louder, too), with hope that they’ve bottomed out in the drama department and are headed upward in the “watchable…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Score a $10 Sando at Dish Society
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 1 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 bucks every Monday in August, available at all locations for…
Opinion: The 5 Most Ridiculous Anti-Union Comments
This year has seen a huge spike in workers unionizing. Everyone from counter workers to nurses are taking the labor shortage as a chance to organize. Currently, petitions to unionize are up 57 percent over last year. Naturally, that brings out the bootlickers who treat worker solidarity like Chairman Mao…
Dream: The Music of the Everly Brothers Brings a Welcome Nostalgia Rush at Stages
If you are of a certain age, the music of the Everly Brothers formed your memories. Even as a child in Pennsylvania, in elementary school, I knew their music. It was on the radio, and everybody listened to the radio. Every style of music played on the radio. There were…
Opinion: Transphobia Is How the Alt-Right is Recruiting Feminists
In the past year, I’ve lost several cisgender women friends over transphobia. These were good people, upstanding feminists and progressives outraged at the repeal of reproductive choice and who believe that #BlackLivesMatter. The seed of social justice lives in their hearts, but the siren call of transphobia gets them. They…
Openings and Closings: Upside Pub Opens Soon, Verdine Closes Sunday
The Upside Pub, 3402 N. Shepherd, will have its grand opening August 9. The neighborhood bar is a community driven concept from owners Paige and Andy Lujan, newly transplanted arrivals to the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest area, or GOOF, if you want to get some people’s knickers in a twist. The…
Four Biggest Training Camp Questions for the Houston Texans
More talent and less drama, those are the overriding themes of the Houston Texans’ 2022 training camp, in which we get the first outdoor training camp practice of the Lovie Smith Era this morning. The increased talent level is largely due to the incoming rookie class, which includes two first…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: King’s Bierfest and X-Mas in July
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Frosty Food Rally at B-52 Brewing Company Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. 12470 Milroy The Conroe brewery invites guests to beat the heat at this frosty edition of its food truck rally. The day’s vendors include Tikiz Shaved ice,…
It’s the Butler in the Manor Who’s the Saving Grace in the Alley’s Production of Clue
What to make of Clue, Sandy Rustin’s stage adaptation of Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 screenplay, which was based on the Parker Brothers’ board game (1949) that I played for hours in my childhood. Everyone I know played Clue, and when we tired of the murder mystery (Was it Mrs. Peacock in…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Travel to the Italian Coast, the Hatch Chile Festival and More
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Popular Third Ward food truck Chunky’s Hot Chicken, 4906 Almeda, will be celebrating National Chicken Wing Day (Friday, July 29) with 60-cent BOGO Party Wings and a five for $10 deal on Whole Wings. Lulu’s River Oaks, 2518…
2022 Houston Texans 53 Man Roster Prediction, Version 1.0
The Houston Texans’ train camp has officially begun, with team meetings inside NRG Stadium the last few days. On Friday morning, the 2022 Houston Texans will conduct their first training camp practice, the initial step to constructing the 53-man roster that will take the field against the Indianapolis Colts on…
5 Predictions for the MCU Multiverse Saga
At San Diego Comic Con this past weekend, Marvel laid out the road map for Phases 5 and 6 of their cinematic universe. The big news is that the end of what is being called the Multiverse Saga will end with two new Avengers films, The Kang Dynasty and Secret…
Visiting Heaven, Hell and Canada with Sum 41
There’s Heaven and Hell and somewhere between the two there’s Canada. These wildly different locales are all on the map of our conversation with Jason McCaslin, bassist for Sum 41. The band returns to Houston Sunday, July 31, for a show at House of Blues and McCaslin, simply known as…
Deniz Love Shares The Love On All Waves Pass
Houston’s Deniz Love is pushing listeners not only to embrace love for one another, but also for themselves on his debut album All Waves Pass released earlier this month. Love will be wrapping up his busy summer of traveling with his Over The Edge Tour in a hometown show at…
Houston Bucket List Part 10 – Parks, Plays and Pie
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Houston Texans Viewed As Possible Landing Spot for QB Jimmy Garoppolo
If you’re looking for proof that the Houston Texans’ final five games of the 2021 season, in which they went a modest 2-3 (which is not horrible for a team coached by David Culley, and a team that finished 4-13 for the entire season), is the NFL equivalent of the…
Houston Concert Watch 7/27: Beatles, Two Tons of Steel, and More
Americans are traveling again. Whoo boy are they. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, air travel is now back to pre-pandemic levels, and if you have taken a flight recently, you know that it’s a a mob scene at many airports around the country. Orlando, the home of the…
Mayor and County Judge Say There’s a Shortage of Monkeypox Vaccine, Appeal For More
Monkeypox is not a new disease. It is not airborne. Its most significant dangers are believed to be to children and the immune-compromised. But it is a lousy, uncomfortable, painful illness to suffer and Houston and Harris County officials want to get ahead of its rising spread in the area…
Astros Week: A Pair of Huge Sweeps and Verlander Hits 99 MPH
It what could easily be argued was a stretch of the most difficult baseball on the schedule this year for the Astros, they just kept doing what they do: win. Going back to June 23 when we argued that the next month or so could be tough for the ‘Stros,…
10 Most Interesting NFL Training Camps Based on QB Drama
NFL training camps open across the league this week, and for the first time in a couple years, the Houston Texans will not be stared at like a carnival freak by other fan bases around the league. Instead, the Texans have settled into being your garden variety, not very good,…
BentoBox Chef to Chef: Grumman and Garcia
Last week, BentoBox, a restaurant website design company, hosted its Chef to Chef series featuring two of Houston’s top chefs, literally. Both Sasha Grumman and Evelyn Garcia were competitors on the Bravo television show, Top Chef. Grumman competed on Season 18 Top Chef: Portland along with fellow Houston chef, Dawn…
Jones Hall Renovations: A History of Music and Architectural Technique
A concert hall is the instrument that all musicians “play.” Whether produced by bowing, blowing, plucking, striking, or phonating, a great hall brings sonic personality to the distinctive timbre of an instrument. And the personality of a hall is dependent on its acoustical properties. To improve its acoustics and infrastructure, Jones…
This Week in Houston Food Events: $1 Wings and a Beer-Fueled Xmas in July
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday-Friday 27th Anniversary Specials at Pluckers Pluckers Wing Bar turns 27 this July, and it’s celebrating with a week of specials and events now through Friday, July 29. The lineup of specials includes $5 Pluckers nachos on Monday, July 25: $5…
Jones Hall Construction Sounds Overture To The Future
Jones Hall, the Theatre District’s oldest building, is undergoing a series of renovations through 2024. The Foundation for Jones Hall is spearheading the $50 million initiative to sculpt the landmark into a 21st century venue.
Guitar Virtuoso Kelly Doyle To Perform At Under The Volcano
Kelly Doyle is a guitar virtuoso who has spent over the last decade touring with Robert Ellis, Phosphorescent and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady. No matter who he is playing with, his style of playing always stands out while luring the listener into a trance. Last month he released…
Houston Texans Rookie WR John Metchie III Diagnosed With Leukemia
The Houston Texans have had more than their four star share of adversity to deal with over the last couple of years, much of it self inflicted. Unfortunately, on Sunday morning, bad news was announced that was much more serious than your garden variety football injury or bad front office…
Openings and Closings: Chris Shepherd Departs Underbelly, Goode Co. Kitchen & Cantina Heights
Chris Shepherd is leaving Underbelly Hospitality. The chef and restaurateur founded the hospitality group, along with investors, and it was named for his first restaurant, the now-shuttered Underbelly. The James Beard Award-winning chef has been one of Houston’s most famous and familiar faces, helping to put the city on the…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Tequila, A Burger Pop-Up and Yacht Rock
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Yacht Rock Bash at Urban South Brewery Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 1201 Oliver Urban South Brewery invites guests to “the party of the summer,” featuring all things Yacht Rock with live music, pop up vendors, food trucks and…
Anova Skyway Hits Reset
Anova Skyway has long had a place in Houston’s musical skyline. Thanks to a sturdy foundation, some recent renovations will allow the prog-metal band to continue its skyscraper climb in the city’s music horizon. Band founder Mike Palacios is very aware that a change of direction is sometimes akin to…
POLL: Which Astro Do Fans Most Want To Win a 2022 MLB Award?
Make no mistake, the main reason we love working through the spectator-grind of a 162-game Major League Baseball season is because, here in Houston, we’ve become accustomed to realistic World Series dreams. However, we love the subplots, too, and we are very fortunate here, year in and year out, to…
The Best Shows By Mid Year 2022 Streaming and On TV
The first half of 2022 has flooded our screens with some of the year’s best shows. The quality of shows in the second half of the year will have to be very special to infiltrate many best-of lists. The big blockbuster shows like House of The Dragon, which is a…
Is God Is at Rec Room Arts Delivers Vengeance and Violence With an Asterisk
“I wanna stomp on something for once, see what it feels like.” It’s a thought with ample justification for any Black woman in America. However, when 18-year-old Racine says it in Aleshea Harris’ play, Is God Is, its meaning isn’t weighted with presumed politics, history, or race. It’s stone-cold vengeance,…
Four Biggest Houston Astro Questions Heading Into Second Half of MLB Season
The Houston Astros enter the figurative second half of the baseball season with the second best record in the American League, within shouting distance of the league-leading New York Yankees, and conveniently enough, with an opportunity to pick up two games in one day on the Yankees if they can…
For Years, Young Fan Dined with the Rolling Stones at the Beggars Banquet
How big of a Rolling Stones fan is Bill German? There are many examples which attest to German’s steadfast allegiance to “The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World,” but one stands out in particular. That would be the time when German put off losing his virginity to a…
After a Three-Year Layoff, Houston Shakespeare Festival Returns to Miller Outdoor
Houston Shakespeare Festival returns to the Miller Outdoor Theatre this year for the first time since 2019 in live performances of King Lear and Cymbeline. Scheduled for July 28 to August 6, the plays are shown in repertoire and are free to everyone whether in (somewhat air conditioned) seats in…
Get Ready For the Monkeypox Questionnaire if You’re Trying to Go to The Doctor
Most of us are used to the questions about COVID-19 when making a doctor’s appointment. Have you had it, been exposed, been around someone, had any of these symptoms including cough and fatigue. The replies for most of us are a drumbeat of “nos.” But now, as medical professionals around…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Chivos Goes Tex-Mex and Max’s Wine Dive Features Summer Berries
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Liberty Kitchen & Oysterette, 4224 San Felipe, 963 Bunker Hill, is partnering with Houston’s own Sauvignon John for an exclusive wine dinner, available at both locations now through Sunday, July 24. The three-course meal will feature…
Justin Verlander’s Comeback in 2022 Is One for the Ages
On Tuesday night, Justin Verlander got to tip his cap to the crowd for the ninth time in a Major League Baseball All Star game. It was just the latest night to recognize one of the great modern day MLB careers, and more importantly, one of the most sensational comebacks…
Houston Concert Watch 7/20: Kendrick Lamar, P-Funk, and More
Now we’re cooking with gas! After a slight mid-summer lull, the concert calendar is full this week, with plenty of shows and something for just about everyone. Fans of heavy metal polka may be disappointed, but there is funk, rock, rap, and country on tap, providing diverse options for shaking…
Houston Bucket List Part 9 – Buildings, Beer and Buffalo Bayou Park
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
DJ Sun Pens A Loveletter To His Youth
DJ Sun is a Houston legend. He is a nine time recipient of the Houston Press award for DJ of the Year and a member of the Houston Press Hall of Fame. His three decade career has focused on creating dreamy and eclectic songs that have made him a hometown…
RenFest Founder Hiring “Dating Profile” Manager
In one of the creepier jobs postings on Indeed, Texas Renaissance Festival founder “King George” Coulam, 85, is looking to hire a data entry assistant. The data an applicant would be entering would include looking for dates for him. “Seeking individual to assist retired gentleman manage his online dating profiles,”…
T.J. English Explores the Link Between Keeping Time and Committing Crime
Author T.J. English is arguably the most astute and versatile chronicler of 20th century American crime. His non-fiction books have dug deep into the history and lore of American criminal gangs across ethnic lines including the Irish (The Westies, Where the Bodies Were Buried), Asians (Born to Kill), Cubans (The…
Astros Week – Injuries, All-Stars and Draft Picks
We’ve finally made it to the official halfway point of the season. We may technically be past the actual halfway point (81 games…duh), but the All-Star game is the clear delineation between the first and second half symbolically and here we are. The Astros have five all stars but only…
Four Houston-Related Thoughts on OF Juan Soto Rejecting $440 Million Offer From Nationals
In Houston, we all know that we are smack dab in the middle of rebuilds with our professional football and basketball teams. Both teams — the Texans and the Rockets — have rosters flush with young players, and nowhere to go but up. Also, both teams accelerated their respective rebuilds…
These Houston Bars and Restaurants are Celebrating National Tequila Day with Happy Hours, Margs and More
National Tequila Day falls on Sunday, July 24, and as Houstonians love their tequila, many local bars and restaurants are getting in on the celebrations. Here’s where to honor the the agave-based spirit with drink specials, happy hours, margaritas and more this holiday: Arnaldo Richards’ Picos, 3601 Kirby Picos is…
The Krayolas are Happy “Reimagining” Their Debut
For any young rock band starting out, seeing your first long play studio record become a reality usually brings forth emotions of joy, excitement and celebration. Usually. But for Hector Saldana, the Spring 1982 debut disc of his San Antonio-based The Krayolas brought a lot of…angst. And it has gnawed at…
Stray is the Most Delightful Game of 2022
Ever since developer BlueTwelve Studio announced Stray at the Future of Gaming event two years ago, it’s been one of the most hotly expected games on everyone’s radar. The premise was simple: you’re a cat wandering around a dystopia, solving puzzles like a cross between Homeward Bound and City of…
Party With The Black Keys in a Houston Dive Bar This Fall
Will it be Poison Girl? A stop at Lola’s Depot? Late night at the D&W Lounge? Or, the aptly named Grand Prize Bar? This fall, one Houston dive bar will turn over its keys to The Black Keys for a private afterparty following the band’s show at Cynthia Woods Mitchell…
Observations on the Young Rockets at the Las Vegas Summer League
The Rockets completed summer league play in Las Vegas on Saturday going 2-3 in utterly meaningless and semi-entertaining affairs meant to give rookies their first dip into the NBA waters and fringe players a chance to catch on with teams. For the Rockets, it was a chance to show off…
Slide Into The Week With Horni Tonk Tuesday
There was a time in Houston when it wasn’t a challenge to find a good ole’ honky tonk bar and spend the evening holding someone tight for a two step while enjoying a cold Lonestar Beer after a long day of work. As time has marched on, so have the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Treat Yourself to Bubbles and Caviar
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, July 18 National Caviar Day at Gratify Neighborhood Bistro Gratify, 5212 Morningside, will be offering a free bottle of sparkling with any caviar purchase this National Caviar Day. Gratify features Holland Platinum Osetra and Black Kaluga caviar in one-ounce and…
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The Real Inspector Hound and its Use of Deadly Farce at Main Street Theater [UPDATED]
Although playwright Tom Stoppard once said that The Real Inspector Hound is not about theater critics, it’s difficult to believe him. He’s pulling our leg. He’s a master at that. Of course, this meta-farce is about critics and how they view what they’re paid to review; how they want their…
Comicpalooza Takes Over The George R. Brown Convention Center
The heat didn’t stop fans of comics, games, anime, cars, cosplay and more from descending on the George R. Brown Convention center Friday and Saturday for the 2022 installment of Comicpalooza. The convention has grown since its debut in 2008 in the lobby of an Alamo Drafthouse in Katy. After…
Simprov Gives Us Thesis But Not Much Else
Thanks to technology, how we engage with modern entertainment is killing us. Reality TV, which isn’t real at all, but rather carefully scripted and packaged for consumption/ratings is rendering us and those who participate in it, into husks of meaningless identity. Such is the thesis behind Laurence Klavan’s new surreal…
In A.D. Player’s Production of The Sound of Music the Word That Means Maria is Wonderful
A star is born with Claire Marie Spencer, as Maria in A.D. Player’s superlative production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s immortal The Sound of Music. If you’re one of the few who find The Sound of Music below your taste – I understand. Those preening, scene-stealing child actors – seven of them…
Houston Texans Settle Claims With 30 Deshaun Watson Accusers
Despite settling with 20 of his 24 accusers in civil lawsuits several weeks ago, Deshaun Watson’s legal drama still lives on, with the remaining four plaintiffs still preparing to face off with Watson in court, and with the NFL still weighing exactly how (or if) they will be punishing the…
Openings and Closings: Gatlin’s F&F Opens, South Beach Returns, La Table Will Refresh
Gatlin’s Fins & Feathers, 302 Crosstimbers, will have its grand opening July 15. The new restaurant from chef/owner Greg Gatlin debuts as the sister concept to Gatlin’s BBQ with Texas comfort food and Gulf Coast catches on a menu that is sure to please Houstonians. The menu was created by…
No, These Mass Shooters Are Not Trans
The latest salvo in the conservative culture war against trans people is rushing to blame them for mass shootings. In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Representative Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) claimed the shooter was transgender, a sentiment that was picked up by right-wing media personality…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Gone In The Night
Title: Gone in the Night Describe This Movie Using One Death Becomes Her Quote: LISLE VON RHUMAN: This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay. Brief Plot Synopsis: Couples therapy takes on a new meaning. Rating Using…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Cool Off with a Frosty Cocktail During Christmas in July
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Christmas in July at Present Company All weekend long 1318 Westheimer The fun-loving watering hole is cooling things off a bit with Christmas in July cocktails and decor all month long. Stop by to peep at its fantastic Christmas…
Gary P. Nunn Brings His Happy Texas Music To Houston
Gary P. Nunn and The Lost Gonzo Band forever changed the terrain of Texas music. They, along with frontmen Michael Martin Murphey and Jerry Jeff Walker, sparked the Cosmic Cowboy movement centered around the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. Together they created a place where hippies and rednecks could finally…
Top Eight Free Agent Schools in CFB Realignment
As it seems to do on a nearly annual basis over the last decade, the earth moved beneath us again in collegiate sports a couple weeks ago with another round of realignment. This time it was about as significant and cutthroat as it gets, with USC and UCLA getting pilfered…
Shared Roots: Tremoloco To Perform At Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge
Tremoloco accurately describes themselves as “Cantina music, Gulf Coast Roots, Sonoroan Gothic folk and Tex-Mex Americana.” The brainchild of Los Angeles based musician Tony Zamora,Tremoloco has deep Texas roots with Houston’s accordion wizard Roberto Rodriguez III being a huge part of the band and their next creative phase. Tremoloco will…
REO Speedwagon’s Bruce Hall Talks Licks, Links and Blazing (Hot!) Summer Tour
When we recently spoke with Ricky Phillips of Styx, the bass player told us that he and his fellow four-string thumpers and the current Live and Unzoomed classic rock package tour (Bruce Hall of REO Speedwagon and Ken “Spider’ Sinnaeve of Loverboy) often have a “bass hang” at group dinners…
Where do Verlander and Valdez Rank Among Astros Dynamic Pitching Duos?
Since becoming the gold standard for title contending baseball in the American League in 2017, one staple of the Houston Astros has always been the presence of at least two viable, minimally very good (but typically “ace” level) starting pitchers at the top of the rotation. They’ve come in many…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Houston Restaurant Weeks Releases its 2022 Lineup
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Houston’s most anticipated dining event of the year, Houston Restaurant Weeks, returns August 1 through Labor Day, September 5, with this year’s list of participants being released on Friday, July 15. The Houston Food Bank fundraiser…
The Return of Alley Theatre’s Summer Chills With Clue
Brandon Weinbrenner was an avid reader as a kid and one of the series of books that he galloped through was based on the board game Clue. In each story of the 18-book series, readers were given a list of clues and asked to figure out who had done what…
Houston Texans Unveil Alternate Helmet for Battle Red Day
For a franchise that has experienced massive upheaval at all levels over the last three years — executive level, front office, coaches, and of course, the actual roster — the one thing that has remained consistent over that time is the permutation of available uniforms. Liberty White, Deep Steel Blue,…
Houston Bucket List Part 8 – Soccer, Skating, Brunching and Beaching
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Houston Concert Watch 7/13: Coheed and Cambria, Dave Mason, and More
Ugh, another concert cancellation. Last week it was Mandy Moore, this week it is Carlos Santana, who was scheduled to play Saturday at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Technically, the show is “postponed,” but I’m not holding my breath for a rescheduled date. Last week, Santana collapsed onstage at a…
Houston’s Best Sandwiches: Grab and Go at Central Market
We are in search of Houston’s best sandwiches because we love sandwiches and we love Houston! If you think grocery store sushi is gross, you probably haven’t tried it at Central Market. Ditto the sandwiches. Years ago, I used to love turkey sandwiches made by a wonderful handlebar mustachioed gentleman…
Bruce Springsteen’s Valentine’s Day Gift to Houston
“Hold me close honey say you’re forever mine, and tell me you’ll be my lonely valentine,” Bruce Springsteen once sang. Houston’s lonely hearts and fans of The Boss won’t have to spend their next Valentine’s Day alone because that’s the date the iconic rocker and his iconic rock band will…
Astros Week: All-Star Selections and Grades at the Halfway Point
After the mid-season test in New York, the Astros pushed through the official halfway point of the season against a pair of bad division rivals in the Angels and A’s, and an additional against the Royals. They won all three series with relative ease. The AL West isn’t exactly Murderers…
Rec Room Director on “Vengeance” and “Vindication” For Black Protagonists in Western Is God Is
Rec Room Productions is bringing bold new work to the stage, as they present the Houston premiere of the new Aleshea Harris drama Is God Is, opening July 16. Directed by Candice D’Meza, who describes this visionary 90-minute one-act as “very Western, very reminiscent of Greek tragedy. There are very…
Houston Astros Have Dominated the MLB All Star Game Since 2017
The Houston Astros of the last five years have generated one of the most dominant multi-year windows in MLB history, averaging over 101 wins in the four non-COVID seasons since 2017. This year, they’re on pace for another 107 wins. It’s been THE most dominant run for any sports team…
The Bennett Matteo Band Defy the Blues Police on Debut Record
When guitarist Gino Matteo and vocalist Jade Bennett log into a Zoom meeting for a scheduled interview, it’s not the live visages of the duo that appears onscreen, but just a static shot of Matteo. The reason, it is learned, might have to do something with a spotty internet connection,…
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Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound Explores the Crisis of Being a Second-Stringer, With Laughter [UPDATED]
If nothing else, it’s the names that may clue you in to the approach this Tom Stoppard play is taking. While Muldoon Manor would probably reside happily in any Agatha Christie mystery book or play, the fact that the two lead characters are named Moon and Birdboot indicates a less…
The Continental Club Celebrates 22 Years of Rockin’
Its 20 year anniversary delayed by two years of COVID-19, The Continental Club of Houston is ready to celebrate its 20th/21st/22nd anniversary on Saturday July 16 with a full night of live performances on the large Continental Club stage and the smaller stage next door in Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge…
Five Astros Are in the All Star Game, Awaiting Any Stray Boo Birds at Dodger Stadium Next Week
Of all the fan bases around Major League Baseball, there are two that just can’t seem to turn the page on the Houston Astros’ sign stealing scandal back in 2017. Logically, those two fans bases belong to the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two teams the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Go for $7.13 Old School Enchiladas on 713 Day
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, July 11 Mojito Day specials at Julep Julep, 1919 Washington, will be celebrating National Mojito Day by serving up two riffs alongside the classic Cuban cocktail, which dates back to the 1910s in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. Guests can…
Styx’s Ricky Phillips Bottoms Out (on the Bass) for Summer Tour
The cell phone sitting on the desk rings at the appointed time, and there’s a high-energy voice on the other end of the line. “Hey Bob, it’s Ricky Phillips! From the rock band Styx!” Hmmm…it wouldn’t seem that the band whose Classic Rock catalog includes such warhorses as “Come Sail…
A Saturday Night La-La With CJ Chenier
Texas and Louisiana have always shared more than just a state line. Both states are righteously proud of their culture and history and each share a deep love for and tradition of keeping roots music alive. “There’s a lot of intertwine,” says CJ Chenier. “There’s a lot of Louisiana in…
Openings and Closings: Dinette Coming Soon, Revelry Will Close
Dinette, 1018 N. Shepherd, is expected to open next month. The highly-anticipated Vietnamese-inspired kitchen and bar is the creation of owners Jason Andaya and Ray Chan who also own and operate Hando and Kanpai Club. With Executive Chef Cole Hoang leading the kitchen, the menu at Dinette will offer a…
Record Exec Delivers Essay on Reggae in New Autobiography
In Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I, Louis XVI exclaims, “It good to be the king!” Similarly, we might expect readers of Chris Blackwell’s autobiography The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond (Gallery Books, 352 pp. $28.99) to say, “It’s good to be Chris Blackwell!” After all,…
Traveling And Singing: The Flinns Release “One Of These Days”
Sometimes a song can hit the listener right in the gut, making them feel like it was written just for them. For Brittney and Max Flinn, the Emmy Lou Harris version of the sweet country “One Of These Days” was it. The couple released their version of this song as…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Camerata Celebrates Nine Years of Wine and Good Times
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Fri-Yay Rosé Tasting at Brennan’s of Houston Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. 3300 Smith Brennan’s will host a Fri-Yay Rosé Tasting, a walk-around tasting featuring a tasting list curated by wine expert Rich Carter, plus light bites in its…
Texans QB Davis Mills Odds on Yardage, Touchdowns, and Turnovers Posted
How will Davis Mills perform in his second season as Houston Texans starting quarterback? It’s perhaps the most important non-Astros sports question in the city this year. In his rookie year, in 2021, Mills played in 13 games, started 11, and finished the season as, subjectively and in many statistical…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Thor: Love And Thunder
Title: Thor: Love and Thunder Describe This Movie Using One Thor: Ragnarok Quote: KORG: It sounds like you had a pretty special and intimate relationship with this hammer, and that losing it was almost comparable to losing a loved one. Brief Plot Synopsis: God of thunder (and rock and roll) loves,…
A Trip to the Zoo with Purity Ring’s Megan James
Our chat with Megan James, vocalist and lyricist for the electronic synth-pop duo Purity Ring, felt a little like a trip to the zoo. We asked James to consider a quartet of creatures — elephant, giraffe, camel and rhinoceros. These are some of the planet’s animals with the longest gestation…
Houston Bucket List Part 7 – Bats, Buffalo Soldiers and Buc’ee’s
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Stephen Bishop’s Separate Lives Come Together in Autobiography
In those long-ago pre-online days before TikTok, YouTube, or Bandcamp, if an aspiring songwriter wanted to get their work out there for more established artists to possibly record, he or she would cut a demo tape that would hopefully be passed along. Though it might just as easily get tossed…
The 26 Most Important Houston Athletes Under the Age of 26
I must admit, I am a total sucker for those subjective lists that tout the top performers, in any walk of life, under a certain age threshold. Top 40 executives under the age of 40. Top 30 actors under the age of 30. You get the idea. So along those…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Julep Celebrates the Mojito and Tatemó Invites a Celebrated Guest Chef
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Julep, 1919 Washington, will be celebrating National Mojito Day, Monday, July 11, by serving up two riffs alongside the classic Cuban cocktail, which dates back to the 1910s in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. Guests can…
Stranger Things Season 4 Was Wonderful, But There Was Way Too Much of It
Like a lot of people, I spent the July 4th weekend emotionally recovering from the finale of Stranger Things Season 4. Jam-packed with some of the greatest moment in the series’ history, it was an incredible ride filled with horror, tragedy, and triumph. But by Vecna’s curse was it looong…
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The Satanic Temple Cannot Save Abortion in Texas [UPDATED]
The Satanic Temple, not to be confused with the Church of Satan, has been grabbing headlines for years by saying that it would help protect the right to abortion by claiming it as a religious sacrament protected by the First Amendment. There’s no evidence that their legal theory would do…
Sarah Sings a Love Story Offers Beautiful Voices Muffled By the Dialog
Preeminent jazz artist Sarah Vaughan was christened by her peers as “Divine One,” and given the nickname “Sassie.” She always liked that moniker best of all. Unfortunately, there’s no sass in Ensemble Theatre’s tribute to the incomparable Vaughan, Sarah Sings a Love Story, by Stephanie Berry. It’s not the fault…
Houston Concert Watch 7/6: Ludacris, Guy Forsyth, and More
If you were planning to attend Mandy Moore’s show at the Heights Theater this week, it has, unfortunately been canceled. After beginning a national tour, Moore was forced to bow out due to health concerns surrounding her pregnancy. For those not familiar with Moore’s career trajectory, she began her career…
Tallying Up the College Football Realignment Carnage
At some point, the Earth will stop moving underneath all of our feet in the world of college football. It was over a decade ago that college conference realignment really started in full force, and since around 2010, it seems like we rarely go more than a season or two…
Astros Week: Eight Incredible Numbers
In the last couple weeks, we’ve seen a combined no-hitter in New York, two immaculate innings in the same game and a remarkable 12-2 run all by the Astros while facing two of the best teams in baseball and their primary in-division rival. There are times when it is easy…
Venezuelan-Texan Artist Ender Martos Creates and Celebrates Public Art With Massive Sculpture
Time was up. They’d had to compress a public art project that normally would take eight or nine months to build into a little over four months. Dozens of companies had to come together to ensure this would happen. To make matters even more intense, they were attempting this during…
Opie Hendrix Gets Down In H-town
Opie Hendrix is putting his love for the city on blast and inviting everyone to celebrate their fondness for Houston with his latest single “H-town” due out on July 8. He will be performing that night at Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge for a release show where he teases surprise guests…
MLB All Star Voting Phase II Begins for Altuve and Alvarez
We are getting closer and closer to the Major League Baseball All Star Game, and after a first report of fan voting totals from a week or so ago, which saw the Astros leading at two positions and in the hunt for several others, those numbers held up through the…
The Five Worst Declarations of Sports Independence From Houston
Today is obviously a very important day, as the good ol’ USA celebrates her 246th birthday, and if I may say, she doesn’t look a day over 230! Happy Birthday, America! It is a day where we celebrate our independence from the mother country back in the day, and it…
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Get Introspective At 713 Music Hall
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 713 Music Hall July 3, 2022 Comeback stories aren’t unheard of in music, but few are as dramatic as Jason Isbell’s. Rising to prominence with the Drive-By Truckers, Isbell’s hard partying ways were well-documented, but it wasn’t until he left to pursue a solo…
This Week in Houston Food Events: July 4th Bites and Booze and a Rosé Soaked “Fri-Yay”
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, July 4 Fourth of July Food and Drink From a patriotic brunches to fried chicken by the bucket, check out our Houston Fourth of July Food and Drink Guide to find out which local restaurants and bars are celebrating America’s…
Thunderclap Productions Remains Provocative With Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
Thunderclap Productions has presented scant shows over the years, but their productions aren’t scant. They may be small in scale, but thick in meaning. Rum and Vodka, from 2012, was a haunting monologue from Irish playwright Conor McPherson that wallowed in the downward trajectory of The Man (Andy Ingalls) during…
Ice, Songs and Technical Magic Abound in Frozen at the Hobby
There are more adorable princesses in ice-blue gowns prancing through the Hobby Center than at a Miss Pre-Teen beauty pageant. Some wear tiaras, most cling to Elsa dolls (sold at the boutique, naturally), and all seem to be at their first Broadway show, which is inspiring. We’re in Frozen-land, of…
Openings and Closings: Georgia James Opens at Regent Square, Rise Will Return
Georgia James, 3503 Dallas, opens July 1 at GID Development’s Regent Square. The Underbelly Hospitality steakhouse concept, named for chef/owner Chris Shepherd’s parents, Georgia and James, first opened at 1100 Westheimer in 2018. It temporarily relocated to the former One Fifth space at 1658 Westheimer in June 2022. The Regent…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Local Chefs Team Up to Support Reproductive Rights
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Potluck Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Fundraiser at Brasil Friday, 11 a.m. until sold out 2604 Dunlavy In reaction to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Brasil chef Aj Ede will be joined by a number of comrades in raising…
The Five Most Frustrating Sunken Costs in Houston Sports
When you own a professional sports team, you know what the cost structure is going into the whole endeavor. You’re going to spend hundreds of millions on players salaries, tens of millions on coaches’ salaries, and you know that there will probably be a whole lot more hits than misses…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Minions: The Rise Of Gru
Title: Minions: The Rise Of Gru Describe This Movie In One That Mitchell and Webb Look Quote: FRITZ: Hans, are we the baddies? Brief Plot Synopsis: Budding black hat and his diminutive sidekicks raise hell, drop pants. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 bitter yellow pills out of 5. Tagline: “Brace…
Putting the T And Q in LBGTQ: Love Knows No Bounds
June is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, often regarded as the tipping point in the modern gay rights movement and earning its recognition as Pride Month. Houston Press met with members of the LGBTQ community to learn more about their experiences belonging to this group. These are their stories…
Opinion: Are You SURE You’re the Good Guy With a Gun?
When you write about gun control as often as I do, you get a lot of angry communications from people who have made owning weaponry their entire personality. “So, law-abiding citizens will no longer have guns to protect their family, but the Bad Guys will still have guns, so we…
Who Will Be the First NFL Head Coach Fired in 2022?
The internet is the best (and worst) place for a lot of reasons, but one of the most obvious is the fact that you can gamble on almost anything from anywhere, and one of the underrated things upon which to wager is the employment of other human beings. Yes, it’s…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Get Birds and Bubbles at an East End Gem
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The Capital Grille is bringing back its summer wine event, the Generous Pour, featuring six wines from the Antinori family, who have been producing wine in Tuscany and beyond for 26 generations. Starting July 5, guests…
Which Actors Have Completed the Disney Trifecta?
With Disney controlling so much of modern popular culture, it’s unsurprising that some actors work for The Mouse repeatedly. This has led to a select few completing what I’m calling the Disney Trifecta. To accomplish this, an actor must appear in a Star Wars film or television show, as a…
The Puniest Band In Houston: Swimwear Department At Heights Theater
A good joke is made up of many facets; the timing in its delivery, the affect of the teller and the broader message behind the actual joke. For local band Swimwear Department, what started as a joke five years ago has now become one of Houston’s favorite bands. Swimwear Department…
Putting The B In LGBT: Coming Out Is More Fun The Second Time
Lourdes Zavaleta is using her experience as a queer woman of color to make a difference in the community.
Houston Concert Watch 6/29: Jason Isbell, Fleet Foxes, and More
After two years of virtual celebration, Houston’s Freedom Over Texas festivities will return to an in-person mode on July 4, with live performances by Clay Walker, Sawyer Brown, Blanco Brown, Walker County, and Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws. The music will, naturally, be followed by a ton of fireworks. Eleanor…
Houston Bucket List Part 6 – Go Fishing, Go Walking and Go Texan
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Mandy Moore Cancels Tour Dates, Including Houston, To Focus on Family
The title of the new Mandy Moore album is In Real Life. Released last month, it’s inspired by her young, growing family, but its title could also be a wink to audiences who know her as Rebecca Pearson, matriarch of a very popular and very fictional TV family from the…
Club Soda No Twist: Mocktails for a Cause
The mocktail trend is experiencing a boom across the United States with more and more non-alcoholic bars and bottle shops opening to cater to customers who are sober, teetotalers or just looking to cut back on alcohol consumption. Many bars and restaurants in Houston have added non-alcoholic drinks to their…
Which Houston Athlete “Hot Streak” Was the Best?
It may not feel like it at the moment, given the stark rebuild the Houston Rockets and Houston Texans are undergoing, but we are not all that far removed from the “sports supernatural” being somewhat normal around here. For all his warts in the “effort” department, James Harden did some…
Legal Questions Raised About Dusty Hill Estate Sale
As reported in Culture Map today, legal questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the recent Dusty Hill estate sale with the former ZZ Top bassist’s widow saying she never authorized use of her late husband’s name in the sale and in fact, knew nothing about it before it…
Tony Buzbee Officially Adds Houston Texans to Watson Lawsuit
As the National Football League enters a portion of their calendar that is typically a down time for news and happenings, where players and coaches and other football-related personnel spend whatever extended time they can with their families, the NFL news cycle in Houston is on the brink of explosion,…
Opinion: What I Learned From Getting Starbucks With QAnon
The sound of water flowing swept over the lobby atrium of the Hyatt Regency in Dallas as conventioneers streamed in earlier this month. A classic example of the post-modern architecture that defined hotel design in the American 1970s, the Hyatt was completed the same year as the city’s iconic Reunion…
The Sheepdogs Concoct a Batch of “Craft Rock and Roll”
On the press release announcing their seventh and most recent studio record, Outta Sight (Dine Alone Records), it is promised that the Sheepdogs will deliver “non-bummer rock and roll” on the disc. Zooming in by video from his home in Canada, lead dog in the pack Ewan Currie explains the…
Astros Week: Pitching Dominates in Tough Stretch
If someone said to you that after six games of a nine-game stretch against the two best teams in baseball, the Astros would be 4-2 and have held the Yankees scoreless for more than 16 innings, you would likely be beside yourself with joy. But, the fact that the team…
Houston’s Best Sandwiches: Grilled Ribeye Steak Sandwich at Eats’ Mesquite Grill
We are in search of Houston’s best sandwiches because we love sandwiches and we love Houston! Hempstead Highway between the North Loop and the Beltway can be a rather depressing stretch of local roadway. The one route to Austin from Houston before there was a Highway 290 is still dotted…
Opinion: A Baby Republican Politics Would Ensure Was Never Born
On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States eliminated constitutional protection for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. Like a lot of Texans, I spent the weekend in a state of shock, worrying about the next blow to our essential liberties. Within a few weeks, trigger laws in the state…
Texas Central Can Use Eminent Domain, Texas Supreme Court Rules
Well go figure. Just when it seemed like Texas Central—and its ambitious plan to build the state’s first high-speed rail line–was swirling the drain, the Texas Supreme Court has given the company a significant win. That’s right, after years of contention over the company’s plan to use eminent domain to legally force any…
Putting the L in LGBT: Tina Sabuco’s Imagination Is Limitless
Tina Sabuco doesn’t let labels define her. Instead, she lets her imagination run free, and she helps youth to unlock the creative parts of their minds in order to help them grow into well-rounded adults. Likewise, she has never let labels or fear stop her from loving whom she wanted to love.
Where to Eat, Drink and Celebrate the Fourth of July 2022 in Houston
July 4th is right around the corner, and these these Houston restaurants and bars are celebrating America’s Independence with BBQ, brews, fireworks watch parties and more: Applegate Get Grilling Pop-Up Giveaways in Houston On Saturday, July 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applegate will be surprising unsuspecting park-goers barbecuing on…
Is Deshaun Watson Trying to Cut a Deal With the NFL?
With NFL training camp a little over a month away, we still don’t have a clear exit plan from the Deshaun Watson legal quagmire, for the league in punishing Watson nor for Watson himself in resolving the remaining four lawsuits against him (not to mention the dark cloud of other…
The Impressionists Get Immersed
Ships toss violently upon stormy seas while lights flicker amidst the sound of waves crashing against their hulls. Flowers bloom and burst with color in gardens soundtracked to soothing string instruments. Drinkers and dancers exude the energy and high spirits of Parisian nightlife in the late 19th century to the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: A Golfstrømmen Takeover and Hugo’s Squash Blossoms
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Lysverket Pop-Up at Golfstrømmen Golfstrømmen’s executive chef Christopher Haatfut will be flying in from Norway and bringing his acclaimed seafood outpost, Lysverket, along with him for a one-week gastronomic takeover, running through July 3. The pop-up will include…
Denzel Curry Brings His Melt My Eyez Tour to 713 Music Hall and the Crowd Jumps Along
“Houston, What been going on?!” yelled Denzel Curry as he paced back and forth across the 713 Music Hall stage. Dressed in camo shorts and a black shirt he briefly stopped on the side of the stage to adjust his earpiece before turning back to the crowd. “Raise your hand…
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
As of today, Friday June 24, 2022, there is no more constitutional right to abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court as has been long expected, released its ruling in a case brought in Mississippi, and has said that only the individual states have the right to determine their own abortion laws…
Rockets Take Surprising Haul in First Round of NBA Draft
No one saw it coming…except gamblers. For weeks leading up to Thursday night’s NBA Draft, it was a foregone conclusion that Auburn’s Jabari Smith, Jr. would be taken number one by Orlando. It made sense. Smith is a remarkable combination of size (6’10” with at 7’1″ wingspan), tenacious defense and…
Alt-Right Attack Squad Sends Dash’s Haley Carter Threats
Former Houston Dash goalkeeper and coach Haley Carter would have been the grand marshal of the Friendswood Fourth of July parade, but an alt-right media personality launched a harassment campaign against her that forced her to step down. The mob attack included threats. “This year’s selected Grand Marshal, Haley Carter,…
Openings and Closings: A New Sonoma, Soto’s Reopens, Shoot the Moon Closes
Sonoma Wine Bar, 1223 W. 34th, is shooting to open at The Stomping Grounds in Garden Oaks in December 2022. The announcement for the new location comes on the heels of the wine bar’s impending closure of its Heights location June 26, which we announced recently here in the Houston…
Putting the G in LGBT: Ben Chou Wins Over His VIP Supporters
Ben Chou is a double minority. He’s both Asian American and gay. That doesn’t slow him down. Step by step, he’s broken down stereotypes within his family and is trying to chart an uplifting course for Houston and our elected officials.
Patrick Carney Suggests Checking Your Nuance Before Listening to the New Black Keys Album
Talking with Patrick Carney, drummer for The Black Keys, we’re reminded of A Short History of Progress. In that book, author Ronald Wright argues that unchecked progress has nearly always led to disaster for humanity. As a species, our yearning to advance blinds us to the pitfalls that come with…
Altuve, Alvarez On Track to Start in 2022 MLB All Star Game
Every season, since the beginning of this championship window that began for the Houston Astros in 2017, the All Star selection portion of the season has been highly relevant, with at least a half dozen or so Astros routinely in the conversation for selection to the midsummer classic. This season…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Pride Specials and Latin Restaurant Weeks
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Pride Specials and Parties All weekend long Houston’s Pride Festival and Parade goes down this Saturday, June 25, and many local restaurants and bars are getting in on the fun. From a DJ, unicorn and tequila-fueled party at downtown…
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Has Texas Central Gone the Way of the Dodo Bird? [UPDATED]
Here’s what we know for certain: Texas Central’s CEO Carlos Aguilar, head of the private company with the ambitious (and continually delayed) plan to run a highspeed rail line between Houston and Dallas, recently announced that he’d stepped down from his position—via LinkedIn. “While I could not align our current…
Opinion: Of Course Ted Cruz is a Pay-for-Play Gamer
On a recent episode of his podcast, The Verdict, Senator Ted Cruz he voiced his support for the bane of all video gamers’ existences: loot boxes. Loot boxes are a gambling mechanic that has taken over the industry as a money-making scam. Like a slot machine, they promise big rewards…
Alley Theatre’s All New Festival Features a Reading From Kemp Powers, Author of One Night in Miami …
As the Alley Theatre’s All New Festival continues this week, Saturday’s event offers audiences a chance to hear from Kemp Powers, an Oscar nominee for One Night in Miami … and the writer brought in to make Disney/Pixar’s Soul work, who became its co-director. You wouldn’t think someone of his…
Rockets With Three Picks in Thursday’s Draft: Four Things to Watch
Once again, the Rockets are picking at the top of the draft. Last year, they took Jalen Green with the second overall pick after finishing the 2020-21 season with the worst record in the league. Last season, they once again wound up at the bottom of the lottery, but this…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Sip Zero-Proof Cocktails at a Charitable Sober Happy Hour
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The highly anticipated Squash Blossom Menu is back at Hugo’s, 1600 Westheimer, available daily at lunch and dinner for the season. The delicate blooms are featured dishes such as squash blossom soup, stuffed quesadillas and enchiladas,…
Don McLean Serves Up Historical Slice of “American Pie”
There are a lot of songs in the Canon of Classic Rock, but only a handful qualify as True Epics. Think “Stairway to Heaven,” “Freebird,” “Hey Jude,” “Layla,” “Hotel California” and “Don’t Stop Believin’.” A quieter entry on that hallowed list is Don McLean’s “American Pie.” Clocking in at an…
History of 3rd Overall Pick in the NBA Draft — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
If there is a theme in Houston sports for the year 2022, the Astros’ collective greatness notwithstanding, it is the Year of the Rebuild. The Houston Texans finally kickstarted their rebuild with the trade of Deshaun Watson and what appears to be a stellar draft back in April, and now…
Apollo Chamber Players Goes Celestial With MoonStrike
This Friday, Apollo Chamber Players will make good on their astronomical name during MoonStrike by celebrating the Apollo space program and NASA through multicultural new music and art inspired by American Indian moon legends, Turkish folk music, and poetry. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
Houston Bucket List Part 5 – Floating, Volunteering and Cruising
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Marlon Wayans on Our New “Recession” of Thought
Marlon Wayans, the 49-year-old comic and writer-producer, can’t complain. He’s the rare comic who has made a path for himself in dramatic roles, like opposite Jennifer Hudson in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect or opposite Rashida Jones in the Apple TV+ film On The Rocks, yet like Adam Sandler and…
Houston’s Best Sandwiches: ANY Chicken Sandwich at Lea Jane’s Hot Chicken
We are in search of Houston’s best sandwiches because we love sandwiches and we love Houston! Hot chicken has always freaked me out a little, mainly because I’m a bit of a wimp when it comes to spicy food. And Nashville Hot Chicken always seems to give off a “we…
Deshaun Watson Settles 20 of 24 Civil Cases Against Him
In the first real movement of figurative earth in the Deshaun Watson saga since the trade of Watson to the Cleveland Browns back in March, Tony Buzbee announced in a statement on Tuesday that 20 of the 24 plaintiffs he is representing have reached a settlement in their litigation against…
Houston Concert Watch 6/22: Chicago, Brian Wilson, and More
Damn, it’s hot. But what can we do about it, aside from cranking the air conditioner and adding to the already crushing burden on Texas’ rickety power grid? According to an article in Scientific American, eating spicy food will cool you right down. Yale professor Barry Green explains, “Spicy foods…
A New Houston Theater Company: On the Verge Theatre
What Houston really needs is another new theater company — at least that’s what veteran directors Bruce Lumpkin and Ron Jones are saying as they announce plans for On the Verge Theatre whose first show Runaways will be performed this August at Queensbury Theatre. After that there will be the…
Astros Week: Next Men Up as Rotation Players Go Down
It was bound to happen. Injuries get to everyone eventually and the Astros were due. So far, nothing has been major and there is expectation of a full complement of players by the end of the month. The only problem is the Astros are about to face a gauntlet against…
Four Demands I’d Make For a Player’s First MLB Home Run Ball
The Houston Astros had an off day on Monday, so throughout the day yesterday and into Tuesday morning, the Astros’ ecosystem was still buzzing about one thing from Sunday night. No, it wasn’t the Astros winning the game against the White Sox to take the three game series. No, it…
Buckcherry Presents Rock and Roll Early Bird Special
It has been asked, by music fans of a certain age, “Why don’t concerts start earlier?” Work the next day, parental responsibilities, and the perils of advancing years are frequently mentioned during these conversations. But is that what we really wanted? A rock and roll show starting at 6:30 p.m…
11th Street Bike Plan Approved
Over the next few years, the Houston Heights roadways will be transformed to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians thanks to an ambitious plan put forth by Mayor Sylvester Turner as part of his Vision Zero plan to end all roadway deaths by 2030. The plan includes adding dedicated…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Eat Good and Raise Money for Charity on Pride Spirit Day
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Sazerac Week at Brennan’s of Houston Brennan’s, 3300 Smith, joins bars and restaurants nationwide in celebrating the Sazerac (considered the official cocktail of New Orleans) from Monday, June 20 through Sunday, June 26. Throughout the week, $1 from…
Deshaun Watson’s Camp Reportedly Bracing for One Year Suspension
After what’s felt like an interminable 15 months of legal tussles, social media fireworks, and various strategic steps and missteps from attorneys and Deshaun Watson himself, we are getting indicators that this Watson’s legal saga, from an NFL punishment perspective, may be reaching a conclusion. According to Mark Maske of…
Stranger Things and Obi-Wan Kenobi: We’re Glad You’re Back
After a nearly three-year hiatus, Stranger Things has finally made its way back into fans’ Netflix feed. The series, which became a legit phenomenon for the streamer, embodied everything about the binge-watch culture that has been normalized and has been the go-to strategy for Netflix. The fourth season is split…
Debbie Gibson Is No Mere Nostalgia Act At House Of Blues
Debbie Gibson House of Blues June 18, 2022 You can’t throw a limited edition Cabbage Patch Kid these days without hitting an ’80s nostalgia tour. In Houston alone we just had the “Mixtape Tour” with New Kids on the Block and Salt-N-Pepa (minus Pepa), while Rick Springfield and Men At…
Houston Ballet Closes Out its 2021-22 Season in Fine Form
In a night filled with the ethereal beauty and other worldliness of La Sylphide — said to be the oldest ballet still performed today — it was the world premiere of Artistic Director Stanton Welch’s Sparrow on Thursday that had the audience tapping toes and then rising in a standing ovation. As…
Openings and Closings: Blue Sushi M-K-T Heights, Todos Santos on Washington
Blue Sushi Sake Grill, 600 N. Shepherd, opened June 15 at M-K-T Heights. The concept comes form Flagship Restaurant Group, based in Omaha, Nebraska. The hospitality group operates over 30 restaurants in more than a dozen markets. The Blue Sushi concept first began in 2002 in Omaha. Owners Nick Hogan,…
Juneteenth 2022 Celebrations Throughout the Houston Area
Emancipation Park will once again be the main staging ground in Houston for a several day celebration of Juneteenth, now designated as a national holiday in legislation signed by President Biden in 2021. On June 19, 1865, Texas slaves were finally informed by Union troops arriving in Galveston that they…
Don’t Pretend Chrissie Hynde Doesn’t Deserve Her Number One Hit from a TV Series
One of the most popular songs in the world this week is an oldie performed by the incomparable Kate Bush. It’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” originally released back in the summer of Live Aid. If you’re one of the song’s young fans, properly obsessed with it…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Celebrate Dad with Burgers, Beers and Boozy Brunches by the Bay
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Latin Restaurant Weeks Friday through June 30 Latin Restaurant Weeks returns for its fourth year this Friday, feeding hungry locals and driving awareness to Houston’s Latin chefs, restaurant owners, caterers and bartenders. More than 50 Houston spots will feature…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Spiderhead
Title: Spiderhead Describe This Movie In One “Comfortably Numb” Lyric: PINK FLOYD: Relax, just a little pinprick There’ll be no more aaaahhhhhhh But you may feel a little sick Brief Plot Synopsis: Drugs are bad, except when they’re good. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 Supertramp albums out of…
Four Things We Learned In Deshaun Watson’s Latest Press Conference
On my radio show on SportsRadio 610 Thursday morning, I asked Houston Texans’ general manager Nick Caserio his thoughts on the absurd notion that the NFL could step in and, due to the continued steady flow of lawsuits hitting Deshaun Watson, somehow reverse or void the trade that was consummated…
Mary J. Blige Celebrates Her Big Year on Tour and in Houston
Mary J. Blige is having a moment and she’s making it a family affair this fall. The legendary R&B singer has garnered some eye-popping accolades recently and she plans to celebrate those honors with new and longtime fans on a 23-city arena tour. Dubbed the Good Morning Gorgeous tour, the…
Rockets Trade Christian Wood to Dallas: Four Thoughts
Most NBA fans are locked into the Finals with the back and forth between Golden State and Boston. In Houston, fans are a bit more focused on the NBA Draft, which is just a week away. And, on Monday, the Rockets added to that draft night excitement by sending forward/center…
Houston Symphony Jams All Weekend With Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston
The Houston Symphony is packing a weekend full of wild hits and diva tunes during Friday and Saturday’s The Music of Led Zeppelin and Sunday’s The Music of Whitney Houston at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.
Houston Bucket List Part 4 – Drinking, Dancing and…Ice Skating?
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Joe King Carrasco Drinks From The Fountain Of Youth Called Rock And Roll
Whether he is traveling down a virtual rabbit hole of music or physically moving across the globe to play exotic shows in Cambodia, the Amazon or the Galapagos, Joe King Carrasco seems to have been born to wander in search of new sounds and sandy beaches while bringing his own…
How Crazy Are Our Houston Sports Exes?
It’s been quite the year in Hollywood so far. The dueling defamation trials of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were absolutely riveting (and slightly depressing, considering how riveted I was) television. Will Smith connected with Chris Rock’s face with the slap heard around the world at the Oscars. Hell, we…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Norway Comes to Texas and a Star-Studded Burger Pop-Up
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Brennan’s, 3300 Smith, joins bars and restaurants nationwide in celebrating the Sazerac (considered the official cocktail of New Orleans) from Monday, June 20 through Sunday, June 26. Throughout the week, $1 from each Sazerac Rye Whiskey…
Garden of Despair: Houston in Summer
It’s hot. Bloody hot. To paraphrase Shakespeare’s King Richard III, “Now is the summer of our discontent”. You would think we Houstonians would be used to it by now, but when the dog days of summer begin in early May, that’s even too much for we natives. Record heat started…
Houston Concert Watch 6/15: Debbie Gibson, Buckcherry, and More
Houston music fans who endured sweltering heat to attend Bun B’s Summer Jam HTX this past weekend will be glad to hear that several shows mentioned in this week’s Concert Watch are indoors and air-conditioned. That won’t always be the case as we move through the summer months, but for…
MLB All Star Ballot Is Out, How To Vote For Your Astros
Since their run of five straight ALCS postseasons began in 2017, the postseason has become an assumed home for the Houston Astros come October. If there is playoff baseball being played in the American League, for the last five seasons, the Astros are art of it, up to and sometimes…
Houston’s Best Sandwiches: White Widow at Cheba Hut
We are in search of Houston’s best sandwiches because we love sandwiches and we love Houston! On a recent Saturday morning, I was near Sawyer Yards looking for a place to stop and, what else, get a sandwich. Google pointed me towards Cheba Hut (2150 Edwards), the Arizona import dedicated…
Fade To Black Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary In Houston
Ten years ago, a lightbulb went off in S. Denise O’Neal’s head that would change the theater landscape in Houston. At the time, O’Neal was on the board of Scriptwriters Houston and she was very much enjoying their annual Ten Minute Play Festival. “I thought it was a delightful thing…
Astros Week: Offensive Struggles and Bright Spots
What a strange week in Astro land. After coming off a tremendously successful road trip — their longest of the season — they lost two straight series to the Mariners and Marlins, not exactly the cream of the MLB crop. As per usual, pitching fared pretty well, but the offense…
Why the Frozen Story is More than Just a White Blizzard
When Mason Reeves first took on the role of Kristoff the ice harvester in the musical Frozen, he got a sad serving of outrage directed his way from people upset that a Black man was playing a role initiated by a white character. We’re talking a white animated character remember. …
Destroy Boys Are Here to Destroy Misperceptions (and Viet-Cajun Cuisine)
Destroy Boys is on the move. The band will be at Secret Group this week, but the day we spoke with the punk trio by phone they were in a car headed to rehearsal. We’ve listened to a bunch of songs from the band’s latest album Open Mouth, Open Heart…
Current Big XII Expansion Plan Could Make For Awkward 2023 Season
This would normally be the time of year, in between spring practice at the end of April and the start of summer ball in late July, where college football would be on hiatus, and diehard college football fans would be getting our pigskin fix by devouring the annual preview magazine…
Police Detective Testifies Under Oath She Believes Deshaun Watson Committed Crimes
As we wait for Tony Buzbee, the attorney representing the 24 plaintiffs currently suing former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson for sexual misconduct, to fulfill last Wednesday’s promise of adding the Houston Texans as a defendant to the lawsuits, more news trickled out over the weekend surrounding testimony in the depositions…
Houston Chamber Choir’s 28th Season: The ‘Art’ In ‘Heart’
Houston Chamber Choir announced its 28th seasons theme, “A Heart for the Choral Art.” The eight-concert season runs September through May 2023 and will highlight the choir’s vocal versatility, variety, and cultural relevance.
This Week in Houston Food Events: Summer is in Session and Picos and More
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, June 13 Beard Bash at Julep With a record number of Houstonians being finalists in this year’s James Beard Awards (including Julep a finalist for Outstanding Bar) and the awardings taking place in Chicago on June 13, Julep, 1919 Washington,…
PJ Morton Sports Fashionable Hats and Creates Music That Never Goes Out of Style
If you do an Internet image search of PJ Morton, you’ll quickly notice something common to most of the photos — stylish headwear. You have to scroll a bit to not see Morton — who visits House of Blues Friday, June 17 — in a ballcap, beanie, haute bucket hat…
St. Luke Asserts “Pro-Life” Stance in Conflicting New Patient Form
A woman who was seeking gynecological care at the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Group – Caritas Women’s Care facility in Sugar Land was stunned when a form (see below) told her it was a “pro-life” facility that wouldn’t provide “medically indicated” abortions, hormonal birth control, or in-vitro fertilization. “Seeing this…
Houstonians Brave The Heat for Summer Jam HTX
“Houston I need y’all to make some noise!” yelled Beak King as he walked across the stage dressed in Texas Southern University basketball shorts and one of his signature black tees with “I’m From Will Smith, TX” printed across the front in white letters. He stopped center stage and looked…
EarthGang Bring Their High Energy Show To The House of Blues
“Everybody just take a deep breath,” exclaimed Johnny Venus as WowGr8 walked to the back of stage to grab a bottle of water. Audience members who had just been jumping frantically with the last song began to calm down and breathe along with the instructions. “Everybody take a deep breath…
Noir, a Musical Premiering at Alley Theatre, May Need Some More Fine Tuning Before its Broadway Bound
In theater there are legendary stories of shows that have opened in previews only to be hastily rewritten or spectacularly honed into the classics we now know. Fiddler finding its fiddler on the roof, Harold Hill in The Music Man discovered behind his newspaper, Spider Man safely rejiggered, the Lion…
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Dusty Hill Estate Sale Draws Wine Drinkers and Heck Raisers [UPDATED]
Arriving at the Dusty Hill Estate Sale, a shopper might expect to hear “La Grange” pumping through the sound system, see a tub full of iced longnecks ready for the grabbing, and smell the aroma of BBQ just coming off the grill. Right? When word began to circulate that The…
Pride Houston 365 Marches On With Month Of Events
Pride Houston 365 has a month of events planned for June leading up to the big shebang – the 44th Annual Official Houston Pride LBGT+ Celebration and Pride Houston 365 Parade.
Openings and Closings: Postino Katy Opens, Phat Eatery Woodlands
Postino, 23501 Cinco Ranch Boulevard, opened June 6 at La Centerra at Cinco Ranch. The Katy location makes the fifth for the Houston area. There are locations in the Heights, Montrose, Town and Country and Uptown. Overlooking the plaza’s green space and courtyard, the 3,900 square-foot restaurant has an open…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Jurassic World Dominion
Title: Jurassic World Dominion Describe This Movie Using One Simpsons Quote: SCIENTIST: I’m sorry, we don’t play God here. HOMER: That’s ridiculous. You do nothing *but* play God. And I think your octoparrot would agree. OCTOPARROT: Polly shouldn’t be! Brief Plot Synopsis: Meet the new T-rex, same as the old T-rex…
Step Back In Time At The Honky Tonk Soiree
Houston’s “Honky Tonkin’ Daddy” Johnny Falstaff and his friends want to invite the audience to step back into the past to a time of big hair and wide collars with a fancy countrypolitan event complete with well-dressed dancers and country crooning over elegant string arrangements. The Honky Tonk Soirée will take…
Buzbee Preparing to Attach Houston Texans to Deshaun Watson Lawsuits
The steady flow of news swirling around the Deshaun Watson legal maelstrom continued on Wednesday afternoon, and this new development squarely parks Deshaun Watson’s problems, by extension at least, on the Houston Texans’ front lawn. If you thought that Watson’s legal issues were fully the problem of the Cleveland Browns…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: It’s Wine Time with Wine & Food Week and National Rosé Day
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Nosh: Houston at George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, 6 to 10 p.m. 1001 Avenida De Las Americas The fifth annual Nosh culinary showcase will dive into the African diaspora this Friday, featuring cooking demos, tasting stations and cocktails…
Houston’s Best Sandwiches: Every Day at Montrose Cheese and Wine
We are in search of Houston’s best sandwiches because we love sandwiches and we love Houston! Have you missed me? I know the pandemic was tough on all of us sandwich addicts. But, with life beginning to slowly return to normal, I had to get back to one of my…
Four Thoughts on Yordan Alvarez’s Six Year Contract Extension
In the standings, the season is going just swimmingly for the Houston Astros. They’ve opened up a massive lead in the American League West, and at this point, it appears their bigger worries are more about seeding in the playoffs than the actual qualifying for the playoffs. They WILL once…
Debbie Gibson Says Teen Debbie Gibson May Not Have Survived Social Media
Debbie Gibson is a fantastic social media follow. Her posts are funny, exuberant and frequently musical. Lately, they’re geared towards the month-long U.S. tour she began just days ago to promote her critically-acclaimed new album The Body Remembers. The tour stops at House of Blues Houston Saturday, June 18. Gibson…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Feges BBQ Goes Hog Wild and Latin Restaurant Weeks Returns
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Pappas Bros. Steakhouse will host Dads & Cabs wine tasting events at the Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Galleria, 5839 Westheimer, on Thursday, June 16 and at the Downtown location, 1200 McKinney , on Friday, June 17. Both…
Astros Baker, Neris Suspended After Mariners Scuffle
Houston Astros Manager Dusty Baker was suspended for Tuesday night’s game against the Seattle Mariners and reliever Hector Neris was suspended for four games by Major League Baseball after a fairly minor scuffle in the Astros loss to the Mariners on Monday night at Minute Maid Park. Neris bore the…
Houston Bucket List Part 3: Pride, Gators and Galveston
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Houston Concert Watch 6/8: Bun B, Machine Gun Kelly, and More
One of the greatest things about being a music fan in Houston — aside from the high quality of local artistry — is that choices abound. Whether your tastes run from rap to rock to blues, there is a show for you this week. Cases in point: Hot on the…
These Houston Restaurants and Bars are Celebrating Father’s Day 2022 with Burgers, Bourbon and More
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19, and many Houston restaurants and bars have come up with tasty ways to celebrate the dads in your life. From decadent brunches and prix fixe affairs burger specials and whiskey packs, here’s where to eat, drink and celebrate Dad in Houston this Father’s Day…
Micah Edwards Turns Pain Into Art On Jean Leon
Houston’s Micah Edwards has found the perfect way to combine his love for classic country and natural ‘70s soul sound into his first full length album Jean Leon due out this Friday. The new release will only help cement Edwards’ well selected nickname of “Mr. Texas Soul.” He and his band…
The Three Biggest Problems For Deshaun Watson in the 24th Lawsuit Filed Against Him
The Deshaun Watson legal saga has been ongoing for nearly 15 months now, and not once has it felt like the end of all of this was near. Hypothetical timelines had been floated, but if Watson is going to fight all of these plaintiffs in court, those timelines are in…
Chaos Is King In Clybourne Park
Hot damn! Not the most eloquent way to begin a review, admittedly. But with a show this excitingly superb, you just need to get the reaction out quickly to make room for a deeper and more robust examination. Otherwise known as the actual review. Clybourne Park, directed by Ron Jones…
Astros Week: Air Yordan’s Big Deal, Pressly’s Brush Back
Let’s try to focus on the positive. Yes, there are plenty of complaints about the Astros bats. Some of it certainly warranted. But, it’s a bit like complaining our wallets are too small for all our $50 bills and our diamond shoes are too tight. As of writing this, the…
24th Lawsuit Filed Against Deshaun Watson, Cites Rusty Hardin Comments on SportsRadio 610
On the heels of Rusty Hardin’s interview on my morning show on SportsRadio 610 last Friday, in which Hardin made some comments about “happy endings” in massage settings, comments that went viral, Tony Buzbee, the attorney for the numerous plaintiffs suing Watson, paid off on two promises he made last…
Texas Legislator Wants to Ban Minors From Drag Events
Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Greenville) has fired the latest volley in the transphobic conservative culture war. Following an all-ages drag event in Dallas over the weekend, he plans to introduce legislation banning minors from attending any drag performance. “The events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing…
Steadfast HTX Lives Up to Its Name For Punk Fans and For Kids’ Hearts
The music lineup for the second annual For Kids’ Hearts Punk Rock Show & Skate Jam is stacked with notable bands, 10 in all, including marquee acts like 30footFALL and The Suspects. But by name alone, there may not be a band better suited to the event, which benefits pediatric…
Where to “Rosé All Day” in Houston for National Rosé Day 2022
Saturday, June 11 National Rosé Day. We know the “National [insert random food or beverage here] Day” specials can be a little much, but for some reason, National Rosé Day just hits different (we’re guessing that’s because it’s officially scorching outside and rosé is damn refreshing). From rosé soaked brunches…
Rusty Hardin’s “Happy Ending” Comments on SportsRadio 610 Draw Heat on Watson
The fireworks between the two lead attorneys in the bushel of civil lawsuits brought against former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson reached a crescendo last Friday, when Watson’s lead attorney, Rusty Hardin, in an interview on my morning show on SportsRadio 610 made these comments about the legality of “happy endings”…
Hurricane Season is Back, and It Will Be a Busy One
Perhaps you’ve glanced at your calendar in recent days and noticed it was June already. You’ve probably felt the onset of summer as you walk between your air conditioned home or office and your air conditioned car and wondered how you became coated with a layer of perspiration in 20…
Opinion: 5 “Crazy” Gun Reform Ideas That Just Might Work
In the wake of the Robb Elementary shooting, the question of gun control has come up again. Unsurprisingly, Republicans uniformly resist any possible new regulations on guns. Governor Greg Abbott has even barred any talk of gun control from special committees in school shootings. All efforts at reform are portrayed…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Hit Up “Tuesgays” Steak and Ladies Night at Space Cowboy
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Wine & Food Week The week-long Wine & Food Week makes its return Monday, June 6 through Sunday, June 12,, celebrating 18 years and featuring an entirely new event lineup with hundreds of wines, celebrity guests and fresh…
Kenny Loggins is Still Alright
Tom Cruise and Kenny Loggins are forever intertwined in pop culture by the 1986 high-flying action flick Top Gun. The actor as the star and driving onscreen force, and the musician for his distinctive performance of the film’s theme song, “Danger Zone.” But the pair had never actually met in…
Steely Dan Still Shining, Still Reelin’ in the Years
Steely Dan was, and remains, an anomaly. More on that later. The house was full Friday night at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion, despite the fact that the band (such as it is) has released no music that could be termed “beloved” or even “popular” in more than 40 years. Sure,…
Houston’s Vietnamese Community Lovingly Represented On Stage In Song of Me
In a theater cycle full of joy (yippee — almost an entire season of watching live theater again), nothing may top the elation of hearing Vietnamese words spoken on stage and the reaction of those in the audience able to follow along. But it isn’t just the occasional words that…
A Joy-Filled Evening at Houston Ballet With “Originals”
From the raising of the curtain (don’t miss this part) to a big drum-filled conclusion, Principal dancer Connor Walsh Thursday night presented a Houston audience with a delightful, exuberant, cleverly choreographed ballet A Joyous Trilogy (in flight) that should become part of Houston Ballet’s recurring repertoire. The world premiere of…
IHWSH Rock And Roll Picnic
With the recent leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on overturning the historic Roe v. Wade decision, women’s rights groups have been working overtime to raise awareness and mobilize in the fight for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. I’ll Have What She’s Having has been working hard since 2017 to…
Scalia/Ginsburg Dispenses Musical Justice All Round With Opera in the Heights
Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were polar opposites – in girth and height, in religion, in temperament, in their widely divergent opinions on the Constitution – but on one thing they agreed with a passion not seen on the court in decades, the opera. They both…
Former Texans QB Ryan Fitzpatrick Announces Retirement After 17 Seasons
In his 17 seasons in the National Football League, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick became the Webster’s definition of “high level journeyman quarterback.” A 2005 seventh round pick out of Harvard, Fitzpatrick played for nine teams across those 17 seasons, including a season in 2014 where he started 12 games for the…
Openings and Closings: Greg Gatlin’s New Resto, Brisket Bar-BQ Closing
Gatlin’s Fins & Feathers, 302 W. Crosstimbers, will open in late June in the space which formerly housed Herrera’s Mexicatessen Restaurant. Located in Independence Heights, Greg Gatlin’s new concept will pay homage to Gulf Coast comfort cuisine and the neighborhood where Gatlin grew up, channeling the sense of community he…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Watcher
Title: Watcher Describe This Movie In One Gaslight Quote: NANCY: What’s the matter with the mistress? She don’t look ill to me. Is she? ELIZABETH: I don’t know. Not as I can see. But the master keeps telling her she is. Brief Plot Synopsis: American in Romania has a less than…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Slurp Down Oysters on the Bayou
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Houston Oyster & SeaFest at the Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 105 Sabine Slurp down oysters and other seafood delights at the 2022 Houston Oyster & SeaFest, benefiting Galveston Bay Foundation’s Oyster…
Guns N’ Roses Drummer Recalls Days of Lines and Noses
It’s not easy being a rock star. Just ask Matt Sorum. He lays it all out in the new autobiography (deep breath!) Double Talkin’ Jive: True Rock ‘n’ Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N’ Roses, The Cult, and Velvet Revolver (Rare Bird Books). There are anecdotes aplenty, with…
Opinion: Gun Control, Ted Cruz, and Dildo Bans — A History
In the wake of the Robb Elementary School massacre that killed 21 people in Uvalde, 19 of them children, multiple memes have been making the rounds about how there is no limit to the number of guns someone can own in Texas, but that it’s against the law to have…
Where to Celebrate Pride 2022 with Food and Drink Specials in Houston
June is officially LGBTQ+ Pride Month (with the 44th Annual Official Houston Pride LGBT+ Celebration officially happening on Saturday, June 25), and Houston restaurants and bars are celebrating with Pride-themed brunches, rainbow cocktails, charitable menu specials, Pride events and more. Here’s where to eat, drink, and support Pride in Houston…
Jimmie Vaughan Can’t Stop
The tones, sound and beat of the blues always drew in legend Jimmie Vaughan. Asked why, he says, “I think about it as American music. It’s very similar to country music, it’s very similar to pop music. I don’t know what it is exactly but it’s American music and it’s…
British Soul Sensation Samm Henshaw Has Houston Connections
We’re big fans of Untidy Soul, the excellent new album by British-Nigerian soul singer Samm Henshaw, so we were already aware of a connection the artist has to Houston when we began our phone chat to discuss his June 8 appearance here at House of Blues. One song from the…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Dream Up a New Kolache and Rosé All Day
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Kolache Factory is hosting its 4th Annual Create a New Kolache Contest, challenging fans to come up with creative new kolache flavors in a quest to qualify for the Kolache Olympics and win free breakfast for…
According to Twitter, Jose Altuve Remains Among Most Hated MLB Players
We are now five seasons removed from the Houston Astros using a trash can banging scheme to steal signs in games, and we are over two full seasons removed from the punishments handed down to the Astros by Major League Baseball. Their sentence — seven figure fines and loss of…
Houston Bucket List Part 2: Flowers, Football and Fresh Fish
Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances…
Houston Concert Watch 6/1: Steely Dan, Jimmie Vaughan, and More
The joints will be jumping this weekend, with concerts by Steely Dan, Jimmy Buffett, Neko Case, and Jimmie Vaughan at venues around Houston. While it may look strange to see Steely Dan and Jimmy Buffett mentioned in the same sentence, let’s not forget that they were both featured on the…
Eat, Shop, Rock On First Thursday At Mid Main
The First Thursday block parties on Mid Main just celebrated their tenth season this past spring and after taking some time off during COVID and slowly returning to its original format including an outdoor street market, First Thursdays are back in full force. The last event of the Spring season…
Alley Theatre Presents Noir, a Tale of Thwarted Love and Intrigue Set to Music
Disappointed in love, a man sits alone, listening to music and brooding. [Been there, done that.] A couple moves in next door and his initial interest in their doings moves into obsession. [OK, maybe not so much.] What follows, we’re told, are all sorts of unexpected developments as the creators…
23rd Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Deshaun Watson
As the NFL is in the midst of reportedly winding down its investigation of Cleveland Browns (and former Houston Texans) quarterback Deshaun Watson, another woman has filed a civil lawsuit against Watson in Harris County, the 23rd in all, alleging similar accusations of sexual misconduct in a massage setting as…
The Suffers Plan Another Album Release and Show in Houston
No matter what curveballs life throws at us Houston band The Suffers suggest the best way to overcome anything is by rooting ourselves in love and self expression. The band’s third album It Starts With Love is due out June 2 on Missing Piece Records and the band will celebrate…
Astros Week: JV is Human, Framber’s Complete Game
Heading into what was supposed to be a softer spot in the schedule — despite the 32 games in 33 days — we saw a few strange things. The Astros saved themselves from an embarrassing sweep in Seattle, yet still climbed four games ahead of the Angels for first place…
DJ Chose Breaks Records In Hip Hop While Exploring New Music
“Everybody say they started from the bottom. Show me the bottom then. Show me where you started from, ‘cause this is what the bottom looked like for me.” The quote is the opening line of DJ Chose’s hit song “Minor SetBack” and the intro with just the producer/rapper’s voice went…
Assessing the Deshaun Watson Suspension Possibilities
The Deshaun Watson legal saga has bounced on and off the grid for the last 14 months or so. In between the ebbs and flows of the salvos back and forth between the representation for Watson and the 22 plaintiffs accusing him of various forms of sexual misconduct, the Houston…
MFAH’s Jazz on Film Series Swings Back After Pandemic Absence
You’ll have to forgive Peter Lucas if he—like so many of us—has sort of lost track of time a bit during the past 2 ½ years living under a pandemic. He’s trying to recall the last time the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston held its Jazz on Film series. “That…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Memorial Day Brunch and Rock & Roll Picnic
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, May 30 Memorial Day Food and Drink Specials From long weekend brunches to happy hours and discounts for military members, check out our Memorial Day Dining Guide for the lowdown on tasty holiday happenings. Tuesday, May 31 Tuesday Night Ballpark…
Facing Possible Suspension, Deshaun Watson Falling in Latest 2022 NFL MVP Odds
We are now, finally, in the phase of the NFL offseason where the dust settles a little bit. After a spring where we saw no fewer than a half dozen franchise altering trades, trades of franchise quarterbacks and marquee wide receivers, we can finally sit back and assess things, as…
Houston Press Summer Concert Preview
Two summers ago, the Not a Damn Thing tour was brought to you by Bupkis. Last summer, Vaxxed and Masked summoned concert-starved fans to a handful of Test the Waters shows. But this summer’s live music schedule looks much more crowded and a lot more familiar, with recognizable superstars hitting…
Review: Innominate at Catastrophic Theatre is Heartfelt But Disappointing
Iranian Afsaneh Aayani is a prodigiously talented Houston stage designer known for her poetic, colorfully imaginative graphic sense. She has graced the stages of Classical Theatre, Main Street, Stages, A.D. Players, Houston Equity Festival, the University of Houston, and Catastrophic with searing wit and deep intelligence. Look at her skewed…
Openings and Closings: Nickel City Next Year, Rice Epicurean Will Close
Nickel City, 2910 McKinney, is coming to Houston in early 2023. The popular bar first opened in Austin in 2017 and made the list of Esquire magazine’s “Best Bars in America” in 2018. This will be the third location for the Nickel City brand, which opened a second in Fort…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Top Gun: Maverick
Title: Top Gun: Maverick Describe This Movie In One Lethal Weapon Quote: ROGER MURTAUGH: I’m getting too old for this shit. Brief Plot Synopsis: Aging aviator assembles aces, aims at atomic area. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3.5 Jerry Hathaways out of 5. Tagline: “Feel the need.” Better Tagline: “It’s a small…
Lennons, Lawsuits and Lawyers
Over the course of his 45-year career as a lawyer, Jay Bergen has questioned or cross-examined a considerable number of litigants in open court. But there’s one in his mind that tends to stand above all others. “He was the best witness that I ever had!” the now-retired counselor says…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Brunch and Splash at Space Cowboy
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: National Hamburger Day at Hopdoddy Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Hopdoddy will celebrate National Hamburger Day with a wild, one-day-only burger special. featuring one ingredient from every Hopdoddy burger. The Ultimate Burger (starting at $11.95) comes stacked with…
Texans Rookie RB Dameon Pierce Has Chance To Be Huge Fan Favorite
Hey, let’s send people home for the long weekend on a high note, shall we? For the last two years, one of the most depressing elements of being a Houstonian has been he running back position for the Houston Texans. Notice I said “elements of being a HOUSTONIAN,” not “elements…
The Beatles’ Pivotal “Middle Age” Celebrated in All-Star Show
Todd Rundgren, Christopher Cross, Joey Molland, Denny Laine & Jason Scheff It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: Celebrating The Beatles’ Rubber Soul & Revolver Cullen Performance Hall May 25, 2022 There are likely thousands of Beatles tribute and cover bands roaming the earth across most continents right now, with a…
Amanda Pascali Explores What Could Have Been In “Mihaela, Mihaela”
In a pre-digital world, hand written letters were the only way to reach someone leaving behind physical breadcrumbs and clues for anyone who may come across them in the future. For Houston’s Amanda Pascali, a batch of old love letters to her father from a woman she never knew named…
Has the Luck Turned for the Texans and Rockets?
The old saying is that it is better to be lucky than good. I don’t know that I agree with that necessarily, as being good is more sustainable than sitting around hoping for lightning to strike, but I will concede that success does involve both — good fortune and good…
Another Full Day Ramble: Brooklyn Twang Festival Returns
It can feel strange to say that something is the “first annual” event. The hope for organizers is always to have a great first year that can then transform into a yearly celebration but as everyone has learned in the past few years, nothing is guaranteed. This year, Houston’s biggest,…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Celebrate 28 Years of Beer with Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Roma Ristorante, 2347 University, will host a Tinazzi Winery Dinner on Wednesday, June 1 (virtual option available). Chef Kevin Bryant’s menu features dishes including insalata di mare with shrimp, calamari and crabmeat; gnocchi alla verdure; tenderloin…
Opinion: Another American Tragedy
Two weeks ago, I attended my daughter’s graduation from the University of Houston. This week, I watched with thousands of other parents and family members as my son graduated from high school. And at both graduations, I cried. Not only with the bittersweet emotions of a proud parent, but also…
HISD Superintendent Talks School Safety After the Uvalde Tragedy
One day after the tragedy that unfolded in an Uvalde elementary school where at least 19 youngsters and two teachers were killed and several others injured, Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II called a noon press conference Wednesday to address safety and parents’ fears. “Grief as we all know overwhelms…
Houston Bucket List: The Top 100 Things to Do in Houston Returns
It’s back! Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to…
Shaun Cassidy: The Hardly Idle Idol
Even though it was quite a while ago, Shaun Cassidy certainly remembers the last time he played Houston. It was in early 1980 at a now-defunct little venue called the Astrodome, as part of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. What he didn’t know at the time is that it…
A Sneak Peek at Uchiko Houston
Houstonians love their sushi. They also love their live fire. It doesn’t take much to get barbecue enthusiasts debating different woods and techniques when it comes to working with coals and flames. Though often it’s centered heavily around meat and occasionally vegetables, others are taking the live fire technique to…
See Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Broadway At The Hobby Before It’s Too Late, Baby
She was selling her songs when she was still in her teens and went on to become famous as a singer and songwriter whose work became an indelible part of ’60s and ’70s American music. Carole King didn’t set out to become a performer, but after teaming up with co-writer…
Which Houston Rookie Future Star Would You Buy Stock In?
After laying out the awesome tour de force that has been Jeremy Pena so far in 2022, our Houston rookie love fest continues today. Between Pena’s stellar performance, the NBA Draft lottery last week, and our first upcoming look at Texans’ rookies playing with some veteran teammates, it’s a fun…
Another Bout of Overnight Storms Before Nice Weather
Much of the Houston area was pounded on Tuesday with a line of heavy thunderstorms sweeping through from north to south around lunchtime. Loud claps of thunder and straight line winds reaching 40-50 mph sent humans scattering for cover and dogs hiding under beds (maybe that’s just us). Generally, less…
Concert Watch 5/25: Tears for Fears, Buzzfest, and More
Several venues that ordinarily host concerts will, this week, be giving their stages over to graduation ceremonies instead of musical performances. If you end up at one of these Pomp and Circumstance soirees, feel free to throw up the metal horns, flick a lighter, or shout out “Freebird!” if that…
Talking the Past, the Present, and the Galaxy With Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith
Make no mistake: You’re going to hear the classics when Tears For Fears takes the stage at Smart Financial Center Wednesday night. You’ll get to sing about being head over heels, about everybody wanting to rule the world; you’ll get to shout it all out. But just because those songs…
Shortstop Jeremy Pena Is Making the Houston Astros Look Very Smart
The biggest Astros storyline of the offseason coming off of 2021 and heading into 2022 was the future of shortstop Carlos Correa. You could split the Astro faithful right down the middle, as for every fan that wanted Jim Crane to #PayTheMan (to the tune of a ten year deal…
Michy’s Chino Boricua Adds Chinese Puerto Rican Cuisine to Houston’s Diverse Food Scene
Few Houstonians are as qualified as Michelle Lao to expound upon the goodness of Chinese Puerto Rican cuisine. We sat rapt and ready to eat at Lao’s westside restaurant, Michy’s Chino Boricua, as she related her own story with the fare, one which began in China, was forged in Puerto…
Ladies Night At The Big Top With Sarah Johnson
In the iconic and hopeful words of Dorothy Gale, “there’s no place like home.” For singer songwriter and visual artist Sarah Johnson, it took some time exploring Nashville to realize that she had exactly what she needed to launch her career right at home in Dallas. “Dallas has a lot…
The Houston Press: Has Opportunities Available For Arts Critics Freelancers
The Houston Press has a number of freelancer opportunities available for writers in the fine arts. We are looking for people to review performances in dance, symphonic music and visual arts. Book reviewers and popular culture writers are also on our wanted list. Did your love for ballet extend beyond…
Astros Week: An Odorizzi Miracle and A Urquidy Bounce Back
Last week saw the Astros lose their first series in the month of May dropping two of three in Boston against a now resurgent Red Sox team that had been awful this season. After beating the Astros, they swept the Mariners, so reports of their demise are clearly premature. For…
Welcome Back, Rain
In the early morning hours Sunday, Houstonians were awakened to a strange noise: thunder. It’s been a miserably warm and dry May, increasing drought conditions across Texas. While Sunday may not have completely made up for all that lack of rain, it was a start with more on the way…
Deshaun Watson Accusers To Appear on “HBO Real Sports” Tuesday Night
When Deshaun Watson made it clear that he plans to fight the sexual misconduct accusations against him from 22 different plaintiffs, as opposed to settling the cases out of court, that was the signal that this whole legal saga was not going away any time soon. When the attorneys for…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Eat Burger for Cheap on National Burger Day
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, May 24 Tuesday Night Ballpark Cooking Series at Eight Row Flint Eight Row Flint, 1039 Yale, continues its new Tuesday Night Cooking Series paying homage to America’s favorite pastime, baseball. Each Tuesday, the icehouse will offer two dishes, one from…
Global Grindcore Alliance Leaves Its Livestream for The Real World at The End
What happens when virtual reality comes to head-banging, ear-splitting, in-the-sweaty-flesh life? Area grindcore fans will get a chance to find out when the Global Grindcore Alliance descends upon Houston this Friday. Gutwrench Booking’s Dave Tamayo is promoting the show which is bringing grind bands from around the state and country…
Houston Ballet’s Mixed Rep Shows Its Dancers Are Much More Than Just Pretty Things
In a night of ballet accented by accomplished and sometimes dazzling lighting and set designs, with music from Mozart, cellist Yo-Yo-Ma and modern icon David Bowie, the song swirling through the head of this audience member Friday night when she left the Wortham Center (and not anywhere on the program)…
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Galleria High Rise Offices Target of IRS Criminal Investigators Friday [UPDATED]
A high rise building in the Galleria area was the scene of an IRS raid Friday and while investigators weren’t disclosing information about precisely who they were looking at, the building includes the companies: alliantgroup, Nortex Corporation and Bank of Texas. Fox News reported that agents with the IRS Criminal…
The One Big Concern About Nick Caserio’s 2022 Texans Draft Class
The NFL Draft is an inexact science. That is not breaking news. The only predictable thing about the NFL Draft is that there will be a ton of failure in assessing the potential and futures of the various draft prospects. The overall rates of failure, by round, are fairly stable,…
Houston Chamber Choir’s ‘Once Upon A Time’ Delivers Fairytale Ending
The Houston Chamber Choir presents ‘Once Upon A Time’ on Saturday at South Main Baptist Church. The concert inspiration includes fairy tales and nursery rhymes that will transport people of all ages to a time of delight and enchantment.
Openings and Closings: Uchiko Hits Houston, Aiko is Open
Uchiko, 1801 Post Oak Boulevard, will open May 23 at Zadok’s Post Oak Place. It’s the second location for Uchiko, the sister concept to Hai Hospitality’s upscale Japanese concept, Uchi. The first Uchiko opened in Austin in 2010 as a more casual companion to Tyson Cole’s Uchi which became a…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Taste of Louisiana and 5 Year Anniversary Burger Bash
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: The Taste of Louisiana Festival 2022 at Crown Festival Park Saturday, 2 to 9 p.m. 18533 Southwest Freeway Crawfish. Boudin. Beer. It’s all up for grabs at the 7th annual Louisiana Crawfish Festival over in Sugar Land. Enjoy mudbugs…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Lux Æterna
Title: Lux Æterna Describe This Movie In One Terminator Quote: DERELICT: Hey, buddy, did you just see a real bright light? Brief Plot Synopsis: Filmmakers grapple with sexism and blinky lights. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 1.5 zooted Mr. Burns out of 5 Tagline: “From Gaspar Noé” Better Tagline: “Movie sets are hell.” Not…
Is HISD Not Pooling its Resources?
Booker T. Washington High has a multimillion swimming pool, but no swim team. Nearby Heights High has a swim team, but no pool on campus. Both are Houston ISD schools so it seems some sort of cooperation could be worked out. But as Adam Zuvanich, editor of The Leader and…
Celebrate Memorial Day (and Weekend) with These Houston Restaurant and Bar Specials
From happy hours and discounts to thank our military service members to long weekend brunches and DIY burger packs to-go, here’s how to make your Memorial Day in Houston extra tasty. Axelrad, 1517 Alabama Axelrad offers thanks to veterans all year long, with a 20-percent discount every day. Bludorn, 807…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Dig into The Ultimate Burger at Hopdoddy Burger Bar
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Wednesday, May 25 is National Brown Bag It Day, and Ouisie’s, 3939 San Felipe, will be celebrating by offering its original Traveling Brown Bag Lunch Company meal – featuring a chicken salad sandwich, fresh fruit and…
A Fab Five Pay Tribute to the Beatles on Hits-Laden Tour
Glancing at his jam-packed concert schedule for 2022, it’s easy to assume that Todd Rundgren is looking to make up for stage time lost to the pandemic. He’s currently opening shows for friend Daryl Hall. Two days after that ends, he’ll embark on the second U.S. leg of a jaunt…
Could an NFL Punishment for Deshaun Watson Be Coming Soon?
When the Texans finally traded Deshaun Watson back in the middle of March, I know there was a big part of the Texans’ fan base that was just glad to see him leave, and thankful that they would never have to talk about him ever again. I know that this…
Rockets to Pick Third in Draft, Shake Up Coaching Staff
It’s still the playoffs for the NBA, but for every lottery team, Tuesday night was the first moment of a long offseason: the NBA draft lottery. The Rockets, who could pick no worse than fifth because they ended the season with the league’s best record for the second year in…
Astros Week: A Broken Streak and an Early Trade
All good things must come to an end, but rarely do they end with a sickening thud the way the Astros streak came to an abrupt halt Saturday with a 13-6 drubbing against the Nationals, one of the worst teams in baseball. Christian Javier, who had been brilliant in recent…
Houston Concert Watch 5/18: NKOTB, Ace Frehley, and More
As announced a few days ago, Houston music lovers will have to wait until September to catch Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball tour at Minute Maid Park (tickets go on sale this Friday, with several presale opportunities before that). In the meantime, there are a number of exciting shows this week…
Angelo Moore Takes A Brand New Step To Houston
Everyone deserves a new opportunity in life. Just ask legendary frontman of Fishbone Angelo Moore. “Brand New Step has been a brand new step for me,” says Moore. Angelo Moore and the Brand New Step will perform in Houston for the first time on Friday, May 20 at The Continental…
Netflix Lost Its Identity
The other day, I realized that every film or TV show I had subscribed to Netflix for was no longer there. My membership began back in the DVD days and just after Cactus Music had dropped their video rental service. Suddenly, there was no place for a true weirdo to…
The Backstory for Each Houston Texans Opponent in 2022
One of the best parts of the NFL schedule being announced is getting the reaction from the luminaries that will play and coach in these games, along with the higher-ups responsible for assembling the rosters. To that end, it was kind of funny last week to hear Texans GM Nick…
Syd’s Broken Hearts Club Tour Touches Down At The House Of Blues
“Y’all mind if I grab a drink,” asked Syd as she reached out an grabbed a cup from the outstretched hand of a stage worker. “I was a little fucked up the other day but I’m here in Houston, double cupped up.” The crowd at House of Blues screamed as…
Pretty Things, Originals and a Romantic Story Ballet Close Out Houston Ballet’s 2021-22 Season
Delayed on arrival for more than two years thanks to COVID, Houston Ballet’s mixed rep program Pretty Things will finally be presented to Houston audiences starting this week featuring three works created on Houston Ballet’s dancers. It’s the first of three productions — scheduled one right after the other in…
A Giant Dog Drinks Beer, Drops Acid, Makes New Music and Writes a TV Series
There are certain questions one might ask a member of a band to gain some insight on the group. For instance, since A Giant Dog is one of the featured acts on the second installment of Punks & Pints Fest at SpindleTap Brewery this weekend, we asked the band’s guitarist/vocalist…
Ranking the 2022 Houston Texans Road Trips for Fans
For those who missed the reveal of the Houston Texans’ schedule from last week, let’s get you caught up. Certainly, you can click the link to my article with some analysis on the schedule, OR you can watch one of the delightful videos the Texans’ amazing social media team put…
Get Ready to Go Gaga at Minute Maid Park
Singer, songwriter, actor, activist and overall pop culture icon Lady Gaga announced today she’d be stopping by Minute Maid Park as part of her approaching The Chromatica Ball global stadium tour. The Houston stop is one of 20 dates slated for the run which begins July 17 in Düsseldorf, Germany…
In Houston: Women’s Marchers Protest the Expected Overturning of Roe v. Wade
On Saturday, protesters marched from Discovery Green to Houston’s City Hall in opposition to the expected overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. The crowd was dominated by women, several of whom carried signs demanding the right to control their own bodies. The U.S. Supreme Court, thanks…
Betting Lines Available on Every Houston Texans Game in 2022
I know that, for the most part, you guys come to these posts for some insight and analysis on the Houston sports scene, mostly football, and perhaps a chuckle or two each day. Sometimes, though, I do like to step out of my lane, and drift into some life advice…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Asian Restaurant Month Eats and Some Hot New Brunch Offerings
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday-Friday Shoyu Brisket Ramen at Ramen Tatsu-Ya Ramen and bbq unite at Ramen Tatsu-Ya, 1722 California, for a limited-time as noodle shop brings back its beloved Smoked Shoyu Brisket Ramen, a collaboration with Kemuri Tatsu-Ya — the restaurant group’s Texas izakaya…
10 Tips for First Time Houston Homeowners
Recently, we gave you some tips on buying a new home in Houston. As we thought about it some more, we realized this list wasn’t quite complete. Yes, all good information, but we know from firsthand experience that buying a home is not even half the battle. Once you land…
Arista Records and the Quest for Musical Magic
In the music industry, Clive Davis is a legend—and he’ll be the first to tell you so (or, you can watch the 2017 documentary, The Soundtrack of Our Lives). But while his long resume shows his fingers as an executive and label president in a lot of places, it’s his…
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Long and Transitory Love Story at Main Street Theater
Boy meets girl. They hate each other at first, hurling insults aplenty on either side but gradually come to see each other’s finer points as tension of a different sort grows, the air crackles with electricity and voila, they kiss and fall in love. It’s the bread and butter of…
Still Glorious Theater: Between Riverside and Crazy Opens Again at 4th Wall
As a shrill police siren alerts the audience that the play is starting, Between Riverside and Crazy opens to a kitchen table scene: former NYPD office Walter “Pops” Washington is eating his breakfast accompanied by healthy servings of whiskey. Byron Jacquet in a command performance as Pops, is king of…
Bellaire High Students, Parents and Teachers Accuse HISD of Being Tone-Deaf and Not At All Transparent
A number of students, parents, alumni and teachers from Bellaire High School turned up at Thursday’s Houston ISD school board meeting to plead for the reinstatement of their principal and accused the district of incredibly poor timing by yanking him from his post on the morning students began statewide academic…
Houston Texans 2022 Schedule — The Official One
The “who” and the “when” of the NFL schedule are largely formulaic. Under the current system of scheduling, you can forecast who exactly is on the Texans’ schedule, and where the games will be played, in perpetuity, aside from three variable games each season. However, the “when” is the fun…
Olivia Rodrigo Shows Her Sweet And Sour Side At 713 Music Hall
Olivia Rodrigo 713 Music Hall May 12, 2022 Cast your mind back, if your PTSD allows, to 2021. America was attempting to emerge from pandemic lockdown and it seemed all anyone could talk about was whether the Presidential election was stolen (it wasn’t) and whether or not mask mandates were…
Openings and Closings: Bosscat Kitchen Woodlands, Loro Rice Village
Bosscat Kitchen & Libations, 9595 Six Pines, will open its second Houston location in The Woodlands this fall. Located at Market Street, it joins the first Houston Bosscat which opened in February 2017 at 4310 Westheimer. The concept was founded by John “JT” Reed and Leslie Nguyen in Newport Beach,…
Blown Over By the Production In Hurricane Diane
In Madeleine George’s comedy with a message play, Hurricane Diane, it’s the Greek Demi-God Dionysus (here focusing on his realms of vegetation and ecstasy) who has all the superpowers. Returned to Earth disguised as the charming butch lesbian permaculture gardener Diane, he plans to save the world from environmental ruin…
Doobie Brothers Founders Release Joint Autobiography
One of the most revealing portions of the new Doobie Brothers autobiography Long Train Runnin’ (St. Martin’s Press, 352 pp., $29.99) is contained in one of the appendices following the narrative proper. In the section headed “Former Members,” 23 musicians are listed. That is some serious turnover, putting the Doobies…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Bun B’s Trill Burgers are Back at Sticky’s Chicken
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Activation Festival Block Party at The Ion Friday, 5:30 to 9 p.m. 4201 Main Over in Houston’s Mid-Main district, new urban innovation hub The Ion is closing out its week-long grand opening with a Block Party this Friday. Guests…
Born With Teeth: Elizabethan England With a Punk Sensibility at the Alley
“Odd’s bodkins,” what a play! If you, dear playgoer, desire time travel with a vengeance, then take my hand and merrily traipse with playwright Liz Duffy Adams back to Elizabethan England via quick-witted punk sensibility in her delicious fantasia Born with Teeth. In a season replete with world premieres, the…
Last Night: Khruangbin at 713 Music Hall
Khruangbin 713 Music Hall May 11, 2022 Diversity is and essential part of Houston’s identity. The most populous city in Texas is known for oil, astronauts and medicine; for Tex-Mex, banh mi and crawfish; for Beyonce, DJ Screw and ZZ Top. So when a band like Khruangbin comes along, blending…
Birth Control Can Save Lives and Fertility
Birth control is the reason I even have a child. If the state of Texas follows up its abortion ban with an attack on birth control, it’s going to negatively impact the health and fertility of a lot of people. After a draft of a Supreme Court opinion leaked showing…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Barbecue Brisket Meets Ramen at a Local Favorite
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Ramen and BBQ unite at Ramen Tatsu-Ya, 1722 California, on National Barbecue Day, Monday, May 16, through Friday, May 20, when the noodle shop is bringing back its beloved Smoked Shoyu Brisket Ramen, a collaboration with Kemuri…
Four Thoughts on Jerry Hughes Signing With Houston Texans
One of the nice things about the draft that Nick Caserio and the Houston Texans just conducted a couple weeks ago is that they addressed practically every position group. The only pressing need that they didn’t try to fill with a soon-to-be rookie was in the pass rush, so they’ve…
Celebrating Your Friend And Mine Larry Winters
Not every Texan exudes southern charm but one special resident of the small city of Cut And Shoot had that trait to spare. Longtime KPFT programmer Larry Winters was as endearing as they come, holding within his sense of humor a key to bringing folks together. Winters passed away on…
Netflix’s New Lincoln Lawyer Has A Hard Time Filling McConaughey’s Oxfords
Now that a large portion of the post-pandemic population is still working remotely or in a hybrid situation, is the concept of a defense attorney working out of his automobile less odd? Granted, most of our home office setups are less luxurious than a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car, but it…
Astros Week: 8-0 Run, JV’s Near No-No
The Astros had their best week of the season going 7-0 in their home stand and winning the first of a three-game set in Minnesota. The bats continue to struggle but the pitching has been spectacular, particularly the ageless Justin Verlander who came within five outs of the fourth no…
Country Music’s Greatest Showman Orville Peck Runs Wild at WOMH
It all started with a little wave and simple statement of, “Hello. I’m Orville Peck.” A black Lone Ranger mask with a foot and a half of red fringe tassels dangled down to hide the showman’s true identity. The large ivory American classic Gretsch guitar hung from his neck as…
Concert Watch 5/11: Khruangbin, The Eagles, and More
The calendar may not say “summer” yet, but the thermometer certainly does. So, summer solstice and planetary alignments aside, let’s agree to throw in the sweat-soaked towel and declare the summer concert season officially open. The Houston-based trio Khruangbin has been making some serious national noise as of late, but…
Nick Caserio Tempers Expectations For Houston Texans Rookie Class
The Houston Texans had their annual charity golf tournament on Monday earlier this week. That event is always a “feel good” kind of day, largely because the team is raising literally hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity while giving the media a bonus availability post-draft and pre-minicamp. It’s normally…
Talking Politics, Music and Tours in the Real World With “Mayor” Laura Jane Grace
Laura Jane Grace reflected upon an early moment of The Carousel Tour, which began just last week. The tour features Against Me!’s frontwoman sharing a bill with friends and fellow punk rock veterans Anthony Green and Tim Kasher and is slated for a stop at White Oak Music Hall Sunday,…
Six Houston Athletes You’d Least Like to Encounter During Road Rage
One of the detrimental side effects of the strange world we’ve been living in over the last couple years is that people have much shorter metaphorical fuses. We are a more uptight society, ready to rumble at the drop of a hat. I saw a statistic recently where it indicated…
New Doc Details the Beatles’ Indian Connections
In all the nooks and crannies of Beatles Scholarship, the Fabs’ relationship to and time spent in India is one of the most interesting. In fact, it could be argued that no group did more to open Western ears, eyes, and minds to Indian music, culture, and spirituality than the…
First Look at La Calle Ella, Margaritas at Juanita’s
When the weather heats up in Houston, many of us get a yen for a cold margarita at the end of the work week and it’s even better when you find a willing partner to convince you to play hooky. Last week, my husband and I decided to satisfy our…
Coldplay Makes Dreams Come True at NRG Stadium
Coldplay Music Of The Spheres World Tour NRG Stadium May 8, 2022 Happiness can sometimes sprout from adversity. Five years ago, adversity hit Houston in the form of Hurricane Harvey. Coldplay was forced to postpone and later cancel their show at NRG Stadium that was scheduled on the same night…
The Who Hits Back Against Its “Texas Jinx”
A video segment near the end of The Who’s set last night at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion mimicked how time can pass in the blink of an eye. The collage pieced clips of the band’s time together with news reel threading the turmoil of the 1960s to the turmoil of…
2023 Early Mock Drafts Show Little Faith in Texans or QB Davis Mills
For the first time in a long time, there is hope enveloping the Houston Texans. The general manager, Nick Caserio, just conducted a very competent draft weekend ten days ago, the rookie class appears to be ready to help right away this season, and then there’s the quarterback. At this…
HBO’s We Own This City is Based on a True Life Story of a Police Department Gone Toxic
We Own This City is HBO’s gripping crime drama — based on the book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton — follows the corruption and downfall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The Wire creator David Simon returns to the streets of Baltimore…
This Week in Houston Food Events: A Pop-Up Spritz Garden and Long-Awaited Restaurant Opening
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday through Thursday 49th Anniversary Menu at Ouisie’s Table From Monday, May 9 through Thursday, May 12, Ouisie’s Table, 3939 San Felipe will be offering a special prix fixe menu featuring dishes from its early years beginning in 1973. The 49th…
Born With Teeth: When Genius Met at a Crossroads in the Lives of Shakespeare and Marlowe
Despite being rivals, William Shakespeare and Christopher “Kit” Marlowe actually collaborated on a history playwriting cycle. That’s what gave modern playwright Liz Duffy Adams the idea for Born With Teeth cast in a time when a polarized nation was filled with paranoia while governed by an aging ruler. And when…
The Houston Press is Looking For a Staff Writer to Cover News
The Houston Press has an immediate opening for a full-time news writer. We’re looking for a journalist with a solid news background to cover developing stories through the week and find news of interest to our readership. Staff writers work under the guidance of an experienced editor in a small…
Apollo 8 at A.D. Players Emphasizes Regular People Rather Than the Astronauts
Except for a turntable, Jayme McGhan’s Apollo 8, a world premiere from A.D. Players, employs all the bells and whistles that a state-of-the-art theater production could ask for: a gigantic upstage cyclorama for high def projections of the heavens; a sound system cranked up to 11 to rival that of…
The Turnpike Troubadours Bring Red Dirt Country Back To Houston
The Turnpike Troubadours made their triumphant return to Houston last night.
Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and Houston’s Women Kick off The Bandwagon Tour
The theme to last night’s Houston stop of the Bandwagon Tour — featuring co-headliners Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town — was nearly, almost, just about captured perfectly when Little Big Town added a touch of The Beatles to “I’m With the Band,” one of their hit songs. “I get…
Plane Goes Down Near Dobie High’s 9th Grade Campus
A Cessna 421 C Golden Eagle crash landed after taking off from Hobby Airport earlier Friday afternoon. Shortly after take-off, the pilot contacted the tower to say they were having engine issues. The plane landed right behind Dobie High School’s 9th Grade Campus and stopped in two backyards, clipping the…
Music Box Theatre Sings the Number Ones
One of the great pleasures of Music Box Theater’s celebrated entertainments is that you never really know what you’re going to hear. You know what you’re going to get – superlative interpretive singing from the Fab Five: Rebekah Dahl, Brad Scarborough, Kristina Sullivan, Cay Taylor, Luke Wrobel; delicious orchestrations from…
Openings and Closings: Hamsa and Cafe Louie Open Soon, Fresco Has Closed
Hamsa, 5555 Morningside, is set to open May 11 in Rice Village. The modern Middle Eastern concept will offer unique flavors with vegetable-rich dishes, spices and one-of-a-kind flavor profiles from Chef Sash Kurgan and Chef Yotam Doley who have both worked together to create the innovative menu. With an aim…
Brace Yourself: Bad Nurses Week Gifts Are Coming
Nurses Week starts today. Yes, on Friday. It’s always weird and wonky because the last day, May 12, is always supposed to be Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Also, it’s a handy reminded that nurses work long, often thankless hours on weekends and holidays. To show their appreciation, lots of hospital management…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: The Drinks Flow for Derby Day and Mother’s Day Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Derby Day Party at Eight Row Flint Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. 1039 Yale The modern Texas icehouse will be hosting an all-out Derby Day party complete with a floating bar, DJ, Derby-inspired flower arrangements and a best…
Nathan Quick Blues Band Release Black Cat Bones
During the pandemic, Houston artist Nathan Quick got the blues. Quick decided to start a new project with his band delving deeper down the rabbit hole of the blues into a more old school sound launching the Nathan Quick Blues Band. On Friday, May 6 Nathan Quick Blues Band will celebrate…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Doctor Strange In the Multiverse Of Madness
Title: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Describe This Movie In One Ren & Stimpy Quote: COMMANDER HOEK: They think I’m crazy. But I know better. It is not *I* who am crazy. It is I who am *mad*! Brief Plot Synopsis: Multiverse, meet Madness. Madness, Multiverse. Rating Using Random…
POLL: 95 Percent of Houston Texan Fans Approve of Texans 2022 Draft Class
It’s been over a week now since the Houston Texans made LSU cornerback Derek Stingley, Jr. and Texas A&M guard Kenyon Green the newest Texans first round picks. They followed that up with two solid days of sensible moves and intriguing draft selections. The end result was a nine man…
Bellaire Parents Write HISD Superintendent, Objecting to the Removal of Their Principal
A group of Bellaire parents and former students Thursday morning posted a letter to Houston Superintendent Millard House II to protest the removal of Michael McDonough, as principal of their high school, saying he is the reason their children stay in HISD. McDonough has been temporarily reassigned to an unknown…
Cherished Night For Guy Celebration Returns
Texas songwriting legends Guy Clark and Richard Dobson famously wrote about the unquantifiable value of having a true friend in their song “Old Friends.” Six years after his passing, some of his old friends and admirers are getting back together to celebrate his legacy yet again. The annual and highly…
University of Texas Shutout On NFL Draft Weekend
When Tom Herman arrived at the University of Texas in late 2016, he arrived with a ton of bravado and big promises of national championships. He backed it up in recruiting, with top three classes in 2018 and 2019, on the heels of his first two seasons on the Forty…
Opinion: Rudz to Host Another Transphobic Comedy Trashfire
When you see an advertisement heralding the arrival of “dark comedy,” and the poster involves people who all pass as white and are mostly men, you can put your money on the evening being the sort of thing that makes you wish you’d stayed home and attended to an infected…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Share a Pizza with the Houston Dash
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: From Monday, May 9 through Thursday, May 12, Ouisie’s Table, 3939 San Felipe will be offering a special prix fixe menu featuring dishes from its early years beginning in 1973. The 49th Anniversary Menu features mains…
The Return of La Izquierda to Galveston
Galveston’s only surf and music festival is back. After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, La Izquierda is back for a full day of fun on the beach. La Izquierda will take place on Saturday, May 7 at Menard Park. The event is free to attend and there will…
Ten Tips for First Time Houston Home Buyers
Buying a home can feel like an unachievable goal, particularly for millennials who have consistently seen their wealth and financial stability disappear over the last two decades. However, it’s still possible. We spoke to Houston realtors and a loan officer about how someone could finally find themselves in a house…
Astros Week: Pressly Nears Return, Dusty’s 2,000
While the Astros continue to muddle around .500, trying to get healthy and get off their sluggish start at the plate, there is plenty happening in and around the ballclub. The win over division rival Seattle on Monday was a good start at turning things around. Jeremy Peña continues to…
Opinion: Roe Is Only the Beginning
On Tuesday night, a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion protections sent off a shockwave. Written by Justice Samuel Alito, it appears to show that the Court’s final decision will not only strike down landmark decisions Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, but that…
Celebrate Live Nation Concert Week Houston Style
What can you do with two Hamiltons and a Lincoln? That’s $25. Fill a third of your car’s gas tank, perhaps? Purchase a dime bag of medium-quality marijuana, maybe? Buy a Jumbo Jack, some Monster tacos, a couple of egg rolls, an order of onion rings and a vanilla shake…
Concert Watch 5/4: The Who, Miranda Lambert, and More
Cinco de Mayo, that most manufactured of holidays, is almost upon us, but folks who can pull themselves away from cheesy (sorry, queso-y) celebrations involving margaritas, sombreros, and piñatas have a number of fine choices this week when it comes to live music. Indigo Girls House of Blues – 05.04…
Apollo 8 at A.D. Players: When the Whole World Watched and Hoped
When Jayme McGhan was first approached about writing a story about Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to orbit the moon, he hesitated. It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to write plays — he’s written lots of them. He just wasn’t as well versed in the particulars of a highpoint…
A Peek at Fish Camp from Goode Company
The Goode Company of restaurants has been around for more than 40 years, founded by Jim Goode, his former wife Liz and Jim’s uncle, Joe Dixie, when they opened Goode Co. Barbeque in 1977. It has become a familiar part of the Houston restaurant scene as a home-grown family-owned business…
Four Thoughts on the Texans Trading CB Lonnie Johnson to Kansas City
For the first time in years, there are positive vibes in and around NRG Stadium. Nick Caserio’s nine man draft class is the biggest reason why everyone is so happy right now. Anything that is going to harsh these feelings must be quickly swept away, especially any toxicity that might…
Book Uncovers Story of “Bad Mexicans” with Good Intentions
No, the titular group of this book aren’t the “Bad Hombres” that a certain former U.S. President fretted about. Rather, they were the malos mexicanos dubbed so by their own countrymen who were supporters of (given how one believed) the great leader or despotic dictator, Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, who…
UH Stages a Special Concert to Say Goodbye to Moores Opera Center’s Buck Ross
In 1985, when Buck Ross arrived at the University of Houston, the school’s music department was jointly running the Studio for Houston Grand Opera — but the school itself wasn’t presenting any student-cast operas. “I was brought in as the stage director for the studio. I was part of the…
Opinion: Which is More Important — Free Speech or Stopping Fascism?
With Elon Musk poised to own Twitter, many on the right are heralding it as the dawn of absolute free speech. The fact that Musk is apparently upset that former President Donald Trump remains banned from the site after the Twitter board found Trump had helped instigate the violent insurrection…
Carla Olson Rides the Musical Rails for New Anthology Project
Growing up in the Delwood area of Austin during the 1950s, Carla Olson lived about five blocks from the railroad tracks and would pass them walking home from Maplewood Elementary School every day with her friends. And try not to get killed. “The Southern Pacific came through a lot. If…
Gianmarco Soresi Promises His Stand-Up Has “More Punchlines” Than His Therapy Sessions Allow
Get your Big Apple fix, because a fast-quipping funnyman named Gianmarco Soresi is making a quick return to Houston’s own Rudyard’s for two nights of raw, rollicking comedy dealing with his messy family life. “I love Rudyard’s,” the comic says. “The minute I performed there I wanted to come back…
Girls Rule, Guests Drool at Butcher’s Ball
Houston’s culinary diversity and bounty of talented chefs is no longer a secret. The Bayou City has popped up more and more in national food magazines and television shows and each time, the hosts and journalists find themselves “surprised” that Houston is a cradle of global cuisine with an intimate…
Four Thoughts on the Texans Exercising Tytus Howard’s 5th Year Option
Continuity has been scarce for the Houston Texans over the last two years. If you were a player drafted by Rick Smith or Brian Gaine, or even one tangentially attached to Bill O’Brien’s brief era as general manager, either through the draft or free agency, chances are you’re playing somewhere…
The Jersey Boys Are Back in Town and Theatre Under the Stars Has Them
In 2004 there wasn’t yet the great collection of juke box musicals that has come in the years since. “It was still a relatively new genre,” remembers music arranger Ron Melrose. But, of course, with the success of Mamma Mia using ABBA’s music, that was about to change. Melrose got…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Cinco De Mayo, the Kentucky Derby and Mother’s Day Brunch
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday-Friday Teacher and Nurse Appreciation Week at Grimaldi’s In honor of Teacher and Nurse Appreciation Week, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria will offer a 15 percent discount for all teachers and nurses from May 2 to 6. To receive the discount, eligible parties must…
Todd Snider Takes Us To Church
Almost everyone can relate to being forced to go to church as a kid and singer songwriter and traveling man extraordinaire Todd Snider is no different. “I was an altar boy, can you believe that,” Sinder says laughing. Snider will be returning to Houston on Saturday, May 7 for a…
Which Video Game Character Has the Highest Salary?
Video game characters may be the acme of escapism, but most of them do still have jobs within their own worlds. Which ones are paid the most? Online gaming site Solitaired did some number crunching to see who the biggest earner in the gamesphere is. Their pick for highest earner…
Four Thoughts on the Houston Texans 2022 NFL Draft Class
On paper, this was Nick Caserio’s second NFL Draft while in charge of the football operation for the Houston Texans, but in reality, this was the first one where we could really see how Caserio would operate as the general manager of this football team. In 2021, Caserio was still…
Snoh Aalegra Creates Memories at Bayou Music Center
Red fog wafted across the stage at Bayou Music Center, drifting past Shahrzad Fooladi so that she could barely be seen. Standing center stage behind a microphone, the light flickered and reflected off her crystal studded bodysuit. “This next song,” she abruptly stopped and waited for the cheering of the…
Tori Amos Adds The Gulf Coast To Her Ocean to Ocean Tour
Tori Amos Smart Financial Centre April 30, 2022 Those of you of, ahem, a certain vintage may well remember the 1990s. Aside from the political upheavals that ushered in that particular decade, it was a time music fans will recall for the rise to prominence of female singer-songwriters. It wasn’t…
Ohms My God! Deftones Finally Return to Houston
The Deftones were originally scheduled to perform on the Lawn at White Oak Music Hall in 2020. Sold out for over two years and with as many postponements, fans Saturday night at long last got to see what they have waited for and the band delivered. Lead singer Chino Moreno’s…
A Star-Crossed Romeo and Juliet at Houston Grand Opera Draws Us In and Doesn’t Let Go
Justly celebrated today for his devilishly entertaining Faust (1859), Charles Gounod made little profit from this beloved classic and never saw his opera take off into the stratosphere during his lifetime. His music publisher Choudens reaped the monetary awards. All that international acclaim for Faust came later. It was his…
Texans Draft Derek Stingley With Third Overall Pick In the NFL Draft
The Houston Texans have lived in a world of irrelevance when it comes to the NFL Draft the last two years. Thanks to the Laremy Tunsil trade made by Bill O’Brien, and the two first round picks sent out, the Texans drafted just five players in each of the last…
Black Super Hero Magic Mama Lacks A Super Human Punch
Who’s your favorite superhero with no powers? An important discussion for many 14-year-old boys, but an even more pressing one for Flat Joe and Tramarion, who together are creating Maasai Angel, a superhero comic book of their own inspired by Tramarion’s single mother, Sabrina. The most interesting characters aren’t those…
Apollo Chamber Players Concert Spotlights American Legends In Music
Apollo Chamber Players presents American Legends, a celebration of our country’s greatest past and living composers and artists at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Adding to the celebration, Apollo welcomes the world’s most performed living female composer, Jennifer Higdon, for the live world premiere of “In the Shadow of the…
Openings and Closings: Heights and Co. Opens Soon, Sonoma Heights Will Depart
Heights & Co., 1343 Yale, will debut May 5. This will be the third concept for Brian Doke, owner of Savoir and the recently opened and adjacent speakeasy-style steakhouse, Patton’s. The new neighborhood bar, located at the corner of Yale and 14th, will be located directly across the street from…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Saint Arnold’s Fan-Favorite Pub Crawl Take EaDo
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: HTX Whiskey Weekend at City Place Friday-Sunday 1250 Lake Plaza The inaugural HTX Whiskey Weekend at City Place kicks off with Friday’s East Meets West Dinner, followed by a series of ticketed seminars, special movie screening and A Taste…
Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia’s Blues PDA of “Brotherly” Love
Once a necessity and staple of ‘70s rock and roll culture, the double live record has had less of a significance in the blues genre. That certainly didn’t stop singer/guitarist (and proud current resident of Nederland, Texas) Mike Zito from unleashing Blues for the Southside earlier this year on Gulf…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Memory
Title: Memory Describe This Movie In One Memento Quote: Natalie: What’s the last thing that you do remember? Leonard: My wife… Natalie: That’s sweet. Leonard: …dying. Brief Plot Synopsis: Liam Neeson tries out a new wrinkle in an old formula. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 Roy Battys out…
An English-Language Premiere of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter at Main Street Theater
Mario is a young man looking to establish himself as a writer when he encounters a woman ten years his senior and a recently divorced — which in 1950s Peru is still somewhat scandalous. In typical rom-com fashion they don’t like each other at first, but with time, an attraction…
My Morning Jacket Amazes Midweek in Houston
It was a perfect evening for a midweek concert with My Morning Jacket on the Lawn at White Oak Music Hall. The Chamber of Commerce weather of 76 degrees, clear skies and a slight breeze provided a superb backdrop. The band walked on stage at the at 7:30 sharp to…
Where to Sip Juleps and Watch the Kentucky Derby in Houston on Derby Day 2022
The annual Run for the Roses is going down at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 7, and if you can’t be in Louisville, Kentucky to celebrate “the greatest two minutes in sports,” these Houston restaurants and bars are here to bring you some Derby action. From watch parties where the…
Robert Finley “Sharecropper’s Son” Coming to The Heights Theater
Robert Finley believes in miracles — crediting them both for a partial return of his sight and a sequence of events that pushed him toward music, no matter the circumstances. Finley will be performing in Houston on Friday, April 29 at The Heights Theater. “You won’t believe it until a…
Important Houston Texans Things To Know For Tonight’s NFL Draft
If you live in Houston, and you’re saying to yourself “Wait, the NFL Draft starts TONIGHT? On a Thursday? This just doesn’t feel right!” you are not off base. Do what the rest of us do — blame Bill O’Brien, for it was the Laremy Tunsil trade back in 2019…
Rediscovery of “Lost” Folkie Karen Dalton Continues with Shuckin’ Sugar
The name Karen Dalton isn’t as well-known as her contemporary folk music troubadours like Joan Baez and Judy Collins, or even friends and collaborators like Fred Neil and Tim Hardin. Even though another folkie—a guy named Bob Dylan—said of her in his autobiography Chronicles Vol. 1 during his early days…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Nashville Hot Oysters Are Where It’s At
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: NoPo Café, Market & Bar, 1244 North Post Oak, has officially launched its all-new weekday happy hour menu, available Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and featuring specials on cocktails created by celebrated mixologist…
Carmageddon XXX: The Loop Ramp Closing
You knew it would happen. We’ve all been expecting, nay, dreading this day and it is upon us. The continual work on the disaster that is the re-construction of the I-69-Loop 610 interchange is about to get…brace yourself…worse. According to a report from the Houston Chronicle, TxDot is preparing to…
The Chats Came to Houston! The Chats Came to Houston!
One morning in January 2020, I made a social media post which read, “The Chats are coming to Houston! The Chats are coming to Houston!” The Australian punk rock trio had just announced dates for a run with Mean Jeans and Thick dubbed the “High Risk Behaviour” tour. Houston’s date…
This Revival of Fiddler on the Roof at the Hobby Shines Best in its Dance Numbers
Relevance haunts the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964). In the acclaimed Bartlett Sher Broadway revival from 2015, on its American tour presented by Broadway at the Hobby, a connection shocks us with a slap. Perchik, a young radical in thrall to the new social and political ideas fomenting…
The Free Radicals Coming to the Continental Club With White Power Outage Vol. 2
The Free Radicals have been providing Houston with socially conscious and eclectic music for 25 years now. In 2020, the large, funky band released the well received White Power Outage Vol. 1, named “Local Album of the Year” by the Houston Chronicle. This year they did it again with White…
Opinion: The Terror of Texas’ Teen Abortion Trap
Whenever a post-menstrual person comes into the emergency room with localized abdominal pain, the doctors are going to require an ultrasound and a pregnancy test. Even for a 12-year-old. When that happened to my family, every cruelty the state has instituted into reproductive health came crashing into my head at…
Houston Concert Watch 4/27: Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones and More
Like many fans, I was saddened that the Astros couldn’t work out a deal with Carlos Correa. But even with his departure, the team’s lackluster start to the season is a little surprising. Luckily, it’s a long season, so there’s plenty of time for them to right the ship. In…
The Yankee Letter Won’t Change How the World Feels About the Astros
On Tuesday, the much ballyhooed letter between Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees outlining how the Bronx Bombers cheated in 2015 and 2016, and their punishment. Everyone knew it happened and the letter wasn’t particularly revelatory. It did provide a bit of a clap back against the Yankee…
Johnathan Joseph To Announce Houston Texans Second Round Pick
The year 2010 represents a milestone for the NFL Draft, for it was in 2010 when the NFL really took the draft as a television product to the next level, making what had been a two-day, Saturday-Sunday event into a truly made-for-TV, prime time extravaganza. It became a three-day event,…
Where to Enjoy Mother’s Day Brunch in Houston in 2022
Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 8 this year, and several Houston restaurants are ready to take brunch plans off your plate. Here’s where to treat the moms in your life this year, from fancy prix fixe brunch spots where the mimosas flow to family-friendly affairs with treats for the…
Man Street Theater Announces its 2022-23 Season
A comedy-drama that was supposed to open on Broadway in the 1950s but was canceled after its playwright wouldn’t compromise about its messages about racism, identity and ego in New York theater — that’s the opener for Main Street Theater’s MainStage 2022-23 season. The play, Trouble in Mind, did finally…
Seriously Fun: Keller Williams Returns To Houston
Keller Williams is not only a one man band, he’s a one man party. “For my career I have to take having fun extremely seriously,” he says from his home in Virginia. “It’s very important and it’s demanded in my camp,” Keller Williams will be returning to Houston to perform…
Tenor Michael Spyres on why HGO’s Romeo and Juliet is Truly Grand Opera
In January 2020, tenor Michael Spyres flew in from New York City as a last minute, matinee performance substitute for the ailing superstar Lawrence Brownlee. In what became legend, Spyres sang the role of Fernand in La favorite standing on one side of the stage while the assistant director for the…
A Behind the Scenes Look at How Top Chef is Spreading Good Houston Vibes
Okay, I saw Padma Lakshmi’s scar up close. It’s real and it’s spectacular. Also, what is pani puri and how have I not eaten this before? How do I even eat this? It’s so pretty! Oh my god, it’s delicious. These are actual notes taken from my visit to the…
Ed Hill on Turning Family “Quirks” Into Comedy and Making Stand-Up Mentor Louie Anderson “Proud”
It’s been a long pandemic, and Canadian comic Ed Hill is finally ready to get back out of the house. “I basically haven’t been anywhere for the past two years, so the last time I was in Houston was about four years ago,” the comic explains over the phone. Hill,…
Meat Puppets Are Back on the Road and Heading For Heights Theater
When it comes to bands that possess, as was said of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in Animal House, “a long tradition of existence,” original members can be hard to come by. Not so with the Meat Puppets. After years of shifting lineups, the original band is back together and…
Who Could Be Involved in a Surprise Trade Before NFL Draft?
Yesterday, we talked about shocking things that Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio could do either leading up to the draft this week, or on draft night. One scenario we crossed off the list was Caserio making a trade for Niners wide receiver Deebo Samuel, whose trade request is still…
Four Observations About Astros Rookie Jeremy Peña
On Sunday afternoon, in the tenth inning of a rough weekend series for the Astros against the Toronto Blue Jays, the team was rescued by their msot dynamic hitter this season. Alex Bregman has a slightly better on-base percentage and Michael Brantley, as usual, has the better average, but with…
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards Want You in the Sock Puppet Pit
You can get a good read on a band by how it handles adversity. The pandemic created significant challenges for music groups everywhere, including Austin ska punk outfit Hans Gruber and the Die Hards. When chaos came calling in the form of a lineup change over members who refused to…
Four Things Texans GM Nick Caserio Could Do To Shock the World This Week
On this fine Monday morning, the Houston Texans embark on what could possibly be the most important week in the history of the franchise. Look, it would be nice if the “most important week in the history of the franchise” involved an actual football game being played, but the fact…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Get Patty Melts, Honey Butter Chicken Biscuits and More
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday through Saturday Thanksgiving Enchilada at Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen Paying tribute to the “first” Thanksgiving on the banks of the Rio Grande near present day downtown El Paso, chef-owner Sylvia Casares has created a special Thanksgiving enchilada, available for lunch and…
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Celebrate The Future
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are celebrating the future now. “We are trying to but it looks a little bleak sometimes,” says Rateliff with a dry laugh. The dynamic band will be kicking off their busy touring summer here in Texas and making a stop in Houston for a…
Review: Tokyo Vice and Slow Horses
There are a ton of television shows that have been released over the month of April, with even more set for the coming weeks. Among them: Better Call Saul is returning, HBO’s Barry, a new Star Wars Show, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Two shows have come out the past couple of weeks…
John Mayer Cuts Deep at Toyota Center
John Mayer Sob Rock Tour Toyota Center April 23, 2022 Attending a John Mayer concert is akin to going to therapy. You might begin the session fairly relaxed, but three songs in you’re on the verge of tears, tempted to text your ex, reminiscing about that time on the beach…
Life as a Road Show: Bob, A Life in Five Acts at Firecracker Productions
Firecracker Productions’ intimate, low-rent version of Peter Sinn Nachtreib’s Bob, A Life in Five Acts (2011) may possibly be the sleeper hit of the season. This life story of everyman Bob is packed with incident, screwy characters, surreal situations, and a wicked gay wit that veers from easy sit-com laughs…
HGO’s Turandot Serves Up Gorgeous Music But Mutes Puccini’s Passion
Composer Giacomo Puccini loved fast cars, fast women, and cigarettes. It was the cigarettes that killed him, leaving his final masterpiece, Turandot, unfinished. There were sketches of the final scene and Adami and Simoni’s completed libretto that remained, but the music was left hanging. Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, who would…
ROCO Concert Marries Music And Photography
ROCO wraps up its 17th season’s In Concert series with Tying Up Loose Ends at 5 p.m. Saturday at The Church of St. John the Divine. The program centers around the world premiere of “Plumes” for large chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence Derek Bermel based on J. Henry Fair’s photography collection “Industrial Scars.”
Your Attention Please: HISD Trustees and Their Superintendent Continue To Wrestle With the 2022-23 Budget
Now that the Houston ISD school board trustees and their administration have decided not to squirrel away quite so many dollars in their general fund and instead spend a chunk of that money on the district’s children and teachers, people might understandably believe that a prosperous new day has dawned,…
Houston Chamber Choir Presents Rachmaninoff’s Finest Work
Houston Chamber Choir will present Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” on Saturday and Sunday at Rice University. The choir will offer this masterpiece within the warm acoustics of the Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Openings and Closings: Zalat Heights, Voodoo Cypress
Zalat Pizza, 250 W. 20th, will open April 26 in The Heights. This will be the third location in the Houston area. The new store will have limited seating with a focus on takeout though its website or app plus third party delivery services. Hours vary during the week but…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
Title: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Describe This Movie In One Full Metal Jacket Quote: PVT. JOKER: Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? Brief Plot Synopsis: Movie star finally finds a way to make himself useful. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3.5 Rob Gordons out of 5…
NFL Draft Combo Platters for the Texans at Picks 3, 13, and 37
As of right now, the Houston Texans own the 3rd, 13th, and 37th overall picks in the NFL Draft. That is subject to change, depending on any trades that Texans’ general manager Nick Caserio might execute in advance of the draft. If he moves back from pick number 3 or…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Top Chef Pop-Up and Aperol Spritz Patio Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Sazerac Rye Single Barrel Launch Party at Eight Row Flint Friday, 6 to 10 p.m. 1039 Yale Eight Row Flint is honored to be the first Texan bar to receive a Sazerac Rye Single Barrel from Warehouse I, and…
Heart by Heart Keeps the Magic Men Spinning and Barracudas Swimming
Asked to name any members of the band Heart, most casual listeners would be able to mentally cough up sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. After all, the vocalist and guitarist have been the “faces” and most photographed of the group since their 1975 debut Dreamboat Annie, as well as being…
The Surreal Rings Loud In Dead Man’s Cell Phone
I’d just die without my phone. All of us who walk around with the world in our pocket, who depend on the information, organization, and connection it affords, have thought this at some point. These machines have become not just the conduit through which we live our lives, but to…
Tig Notaro Says Hello Again To Houston
Performing Arts Houston will present one of comedy’s hottest acts, Tig Notaro, in Hello Again. The laughter-filled set will take place at 7 p.m. Friday at Cullen Theater’s Wortham Center. True to her typical style, she’ll share musings about her life and encounters spanning over the past few years.
Rockets Season Recap (4 Winners, 4 Losers)
We are deep into the first round of the playoffs with a week behind us from the end to the Rockets season. Before we get too far down the draft rabbit hole (more on that in the coming weeks), it seems like a good time to take stock of what…
Opinion: Using Stranger Things to Teach a 12-Year-Old Why Ronald Reagan Sucked
I recently decided that the Kid With One F was old enough to watch Netflix’s Stranger Things. This may or may not have been because I wanted to do a rewatch before the season premiere next month and it was a good way to claim the living room television without…
Samantha Crain Steps Back into a Spotlight She’s Widening for Other Native Artists
Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain has built devoted followings across the globe, from her home base in Oklahoma to points across the United States and especially in the United Kingdom. She’s the quintessential songwriter, a master at merging memorable melodies with evocative lyrics, but a series of setbacks nearly derailed her career…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Star Wars Day and Eat Great Food for a Great Cause
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Administrative Professionals Day falls on Wednesday, April 27, and Ouisie’s Table, 3939 San Felipe, invites administrative professionals to get some well-deserved thanks with special prix fixe menus for lunch and dinner. Lunch ($30++ per person) features…
POLL: Houston Fans Overwhelmingly Still Support J.J. Watt’s Efforts To Win Title
Earlier this week, we gave out the guide for Houston Rocket fans on how to root in these Rocket-less NBA playoffs. That exercise did not reflect well on James Harden, but if you can believe it, there are actually former Houston athletes that fans here are rooting against with even…
Houston Concert Watch 4/20: Testament, John Mayer and More
Happy 4/20, Houston. There are quite a few good concerts coming to town over the next week, so keep scrolling to see what’s on tap. Testament White Oak Music Hall – 04.20 Just one year shy of its 40th anniversary, Testament remains a fan favorite of thrash metal heads across…
HGO’s Turandot: With “Pictures You Can Hear”
Soprano Tamara Wilson will perform the title role of Puccini’s Turandot for the Houston Grand Opera arrayed in distinctive white face and wearing a bold red dress — both the vision of director/set and lighting designer Robert Wilson. Singer Wilson (no relation to the director) says that while she loves…
Deshaun Watson’s Contract Has Poisoned the NFL
The decision for NFL teams to extend quarterbacks had already been complicated enough before Deshaun Watson’s whole saga with the Houston Texans began last January, just five months after signing his four year, $156 million extension. Extensions given to Carson Wentz and Jared Goff in 2019, both of which ended…
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo 2022 at These Houston Bars and Restaurants
Cinco de Mayo — the commemoration of Mexico’s victory over the French forces at the 1862 Battle of Puebla held annually on May 5 — is right around the corner; and while it may not be widely celebrated in Mexico, it certainly is in Houston, as these local kitchens and…
Art Alexakis on Three Decades of Everclear, Making Noise and His Own Future Path
When we spoke with Art Alexakis of Everclear in July of last year, the band’s founder/singer/guitarist was literally a day away from launching their Summerland package tour trek across the U.S. One that already filled him with equal amounts of excitement and nervousness, given the whole pandemic situation. “It was…
Dead Man’s Cell Phone: Technology and its Traps
For a dead man, actor Chris Hutchison gets a lot of time on stage. In the Alley Theatre’s production of playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, he plays Gordon, who’s passed on to his great reward. But still very much a part of the story in what Hutchison calls…
NFL Announces 21 NFL Draft Attendees, Several Possible Future Texans
We are now less than two weeks away from the 2022 NFL Draft, and if you’re getting tired of me excitedly mentioning and reminding you that the Houston Texans are one of the most relevant teams in this year’s first round, well, buckle up, because I am going to keep…
Just In Time For 4/20, Houston Scores Its First Cheba Hut
Recreational marijuana isn’t legal in Houston (yet) but the city has a strong cannabis culture and a real affinity for all things weed-related. That’s why it’s a little surprising H-town hasn’t boasted the “toasted” subs of Cheba Hut until this week. Thanks to a local couple, the 24 year-old cannabis-themed…
Classic Rockers Nazareth Keep Surviving on 25th Album
Ah, COVID, you bastard! You have not been a friend to so, so many Classic Rock bands who had ambitious and wonderful plans to celebrate a 50th anniversary of their founding or first album in 2020…or 2021…or 2022. That includes Scottish hard rockers Nazareth, whose self-titled debut dropped in 1971…
Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils Helps Salvage the Show
The tenure of the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and showrunner Chris Chibnall has been a very awkward one. After a solid and innovative start in 2018 that focused on smaller stories, the show has descended into an awkward mix of bombast and confusion. The Flux event that made up the…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Oysters for Earth Day and 4/20 Pizza Burger Mashup
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, April 18 Tax Day special at Grimaldi’s Grimaldi’s is celebrating the end of tax season by offering its 16-inch traditional cheese pizza for $10.40 this Tax Day. Customers can upgrade to a pesto or white pizza with garlic for another…
Obama’s National Parks Series is the Most Calming Thing on TV
When Netflix announced that it had entered an agreement with former President Barack Obama to produce programming, I had no idea that the result would be the single most calming thing on television. Watch Our Great National Parks at your earliest convenience. Throughout the five episodes, Obama appears on screen…
Houston Rockets Fan Guide to Rooting in the NBA Playoffs
The NBA Playoffs have arrived, and honestly, I am still getting used to this whole “being irrelevant in April and May” thing, as a Houston Rockets fan. It’s now two consecutive postseasons where the Rockets have not only been a complete afterthought, but they just finished (again) with the worst…
Chloë Agnew Discusses the “Celtic” and “Woman” Appeal of Celtic Woman
Chloë Agnew is a charter member of Celtic Woman, the international sensation which is the most successful all-female Irish group in history. She’s toured the globe as a successful solo artist and as an original member of the group, just 14 when she first left home in Dublin to share…
Atmospheric Effects Are the Stars in The War of the Worlds at Classical Theatre
H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds might be the most popular science fiction story ever. The battle between aliens and puny earthlings has been produced so many times and in so many versions that it’s hard to count. It hit the screen in 1953 in an Academy Award-winning Paramount…
Broadway at the Hobby Announces its 2022-23 Season
Memorial Hermann Broadway at the Hobby announces its 2022-23 season today, complete with five Houston premieres — To Kill a Mockingbird, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Six, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations and Pretty Woman The Musical — as well as Jesus Christ Superstar and the return of…
Houston Ballet Opts Out of Madame Butterfly For Now, Due to Supply Chain Problems
Thanks to COVID-related supply chain problems, Houston Ballet has announced it won’t be able to present Madame Butterfly this June as scheduled, and are replacing it with one of the oldest ballets on record. “Due to the continued impact of global shipping issues and port delays, [Artistic Director] Stanton Welch’s…
Openings and Closings: State Fare Woodlands Opens, Fegen’s Closes
State Fare, 1900 Hughes Landing, opens April 18 in The Woodlands.The restaurant’s third and newest outpost will occupy a 6,050 square-foot space in Hughes Landing. The first opened in Memorial City in 2016. The brand was acquired by Culinary Khancepts in 2018 and a second State Fare opened in 2020…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Crawfish, Keg and Egg Hunts and Easter Sunday Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Fish Fridays: Meat-Free Specials for Good Friday Friday There is one last meat-free Friday for those celebrating the Lenten tradition. While Lent is known as a time of sacrifice for many, several Houston restaurants are proving you don’t have…
Guitarist John 5 Shreds with the Sinners
Guitarist John 5 (he of the creepy horror-movie makeup) would seem to have all the bases covered. He is in steady demand as a guitarist-for-hire (Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, David Lee Roth) while maintaining a parallel solo career, with ten albums to his credit. And did we mention that he…
Four Reasons Houston Fans Are More Excited About Rockets’ Rebuild Than Texans’ Rebuild
Not all that long ago, it was widely thought that Houston was in a sort of “golden age” of sports. The Houston Astros were coming off of a World Series title in 2017 and another World Series appearance in 2019. The Houston Rockets were conference finalists in 2018, and James…
Too Many Ideas Hamper You Are Cordially Invited to Sit In
The good ideas that birthed ShaWanna Renee Rivon’s, You Are Cordially Invited to Sit In, now playing at Stages, are plentiful. A commissioned show (hooray for original work), filled with joy (a light touch post-pandemic is what most people are craving), about the sit-in protests that led to the desegregation…
Snotty Nose Rez Kids “Deserve To Be Up There With Everybody Else”
When we chatted by phone with Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce and Darren “Young D” Metz — the indigenous hip-hop duo known as Snotty Nose Rez Kids — they were just a couple hundred miles away in Austin for SXSW festivities. Even though they were thrilling South By’s audiences with their…
Felix Cavaliere: A Rascal Tells His Tale
Otis Redding couldn’t believe his eyes when he stuck his head inside an Atlantic Records studio where a fairly-new group called the Rascals were recording. “My God!” the big soul superstar exclaimed. “They are white!” One of the label’s biggest stars couldn’t be faulted for assuming that, though. A lot…
Former Texans DC Wade Phillips Named Head Coach in 2023 XFL
As we strive to return to normalcy in what feels like the aftermath of COVID — no more variants, please! — we are reminded that the coronavirus robbed us of many things, and in Houston, it robbed us of the only undefeated professional football team we will probably be seeing…
Volk Returns To The Secret Group
Anyone who caught Nashville based Volk’s performance last December at The Continental Club can testify to the bands’ onstage energy and ability to burn it down. For being only a duo with Chris Lowe on guitar and Eleot Reich on drums, Volk has enough going on sonically to fill the…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Springtime Thanksgiving and the Return of Southern Smoke
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Hopdoddy is doubling down on the deliciousness this 4/20, crafting a special Pizza Supreme Burger, Garlic Bread Fries and Creamsicle Shake available on Wednesday, April 20 while supplies last. The burger features a certified Piedmontese beef…
Nothing Nikki Glaser Jokes About on Saturday Leaves This Room, Got It?
Comic Nikki Glaser is clearly on a quest, and from the sound of her voice, there’s some nervousness in her unknown terrain ahead. “No, it’s crazy, I’m back on tour after taking quite a break since like December. Promoting my reality show, filming FBoy Island 2, and other projects coming…
Houston Concert Watch 4/13: Hailey Whitters, Lil Durk and More
So folks, how do we feel about the new Astros threads? I’m partial to the throwback jerseys myself, but I’m enjoying all the love NASA is getting. Since there aren’t any games at Minute Maid park until early next week, you have plenty of time for some live music in…
Houston Spots Are Cheering on the Astros with Opening Day Parties and Season-Long Specials
It’s ‘Stros season, y’all. The Houston Astros 2022 home opener goes down live at Minute Maid Park on Monday, April 18; and while it’s of course awesome to cheer on our hometown team in person at the ballpark, Houston bars and restaurants around the city are offering fun ways to…
What Is the Bar for Admittance Into the Houston Texans’ Ring of Honor?
The Houston Texans are the youngest team in the NFL. When I say that, I am not talking about the average age of the players on the roster (although they will probably skew that way in 2022), I am talking about the actual age of the business. The Texans have…
Andy Huggins Is Ready to Chronicle His Comedy Legacy
Andy Huggins has been thinking about his legacy lately, so much so that the veteran Houston stand-up comedian — a member of the legendary Texas Outlaw Comics — asked fellow comics how he might film his first-ever comedy special. Huggins, 72, has had bits and pieces of his act filmed…
American History: Dewey Bunnell Celebrates 50 Years (Give or Take) of Music
Among Beatlemaniacs, there’s a famous 1963 interview clip of the Fab Four in which they’re asked what the future might hold when the bubble inevitably bursts on their showbiz career. Ringo Starr—apparently serious—said that he fancied opening a string of ladies’ hairdressing salons. The idea that a pop or rock…
Jesus Christ Super Fly
It’s Easter, so once again it’s time to ponder painted eggs, popcorn bunny rabbits and the 1970s Blaxploitation classic Super Fly. If you and your Peeps don’t celebrate the season by watching one of the 20th century’s most commercially successful Black American works of cinema – and, more pointedly, by…
Alex Bregman Named American League Player of the Week
You could tell immediately from the get-go of the 2022 MLB season that Alex Bregman was back to his old ways. There was no subtle limp when he ran, like there was last season when he had a balky hamstring, and there was no tentativeness to his swing at the…
Now Introducing: Performing Arts Houston And Its 2022-23 Season
Formerly known as Society for the Performing Arts, the organization has officially rebranded itself as Performing Arts Houston. And for the one-two punch, it revealed its 2022-23 season on the same day.
A Disappointing Season and a Troubling Future For Texas Gulf Coast Oystermen
Although the future looked bright at the start of the Texas oyster season back in November, it is now clear that those who depend on the public reefs for their livelihood have been having a disappointing season. And for once it’s not due to hurricanes, droughts, or other natural disasters,…
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Between Riverside and Crazy Returns to 4th Wall
More than two years ago, 4th Wall Theatre Co. began presenting the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis and the first reviews were filled with praise about the script, the acting, the set, the directing, well, everything. And then COVID-19 hit and after just a handful…
Ex-Raspberry Scott McCarl on the Power of Power Pop
In the multitude of musical genres, aficionados of Power Pop are among the most detail oriented. Whether it’s dissecting output from classic groups (Big Star, the Jam, Shoes, the Knack) or more recent bands (OK Go, Jellyfish, Fountains of Wayne) the often bright and upbeat music is a bridge between…
Astros Start Strong: Four Thoughts
We are just four games into a VERY long season, but there were already signs for hope for Astros fans after they took the opening series from the Angels in Anaheim 3-1. In all three phases of the game, the Astros looked in midseason form, even with skipper Dusty Baker…
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum Examines the Power of Three
Michael C. Hall is a member of the new supergroup Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum, so there he suddenly was in our Zoom chat. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re the second coming of Lester Bangs, it’s unnerving when “Dexter” himself is peering at you through the thin…
Four Thoughts on Brandin Cooks’ Two Year Contract Extension
Over the last couple weeks, there had been plenty of smoke around the future of Houston Texans wide receiver and team leader Brandin Cooks. Rumors abounded around NFL circles that Cooks could be the latest Texan on the move, in another transaction designed to stack more draft capital on the…
The Smooth Sounds of ’70s Philly Soul Return to the Miller Theatre
Any list of the greatest R&B/Soul record labels of the 1970s would include Motown, Stax and Atlantic. Those very storied names instantly recall a certain image, stable of artists and chart hit after chart hit. Sometimes lost in there is the last of the Big Four—Philadelphia International. It was based…
The Inconvenient Pet
The shelters are full, and adoptions have fallen since the lockdown was lifted. Springtime means more puppies and kittens are on the way. Is now really the time to buy baby chicks and bunnies?
This Week in Houston Food Events: Passover Pre-Orders and Where to Get Brunch this Easter Sunday
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Wednesday, April 13 Passover Pre-Order Deadline at Local Foods Rice Village Local Foods Rice Village, 2424 Dunstan, has put together a Passover Takeout Menu, available for preorder by Wednesday at 5 p.m. with pickup times available on Friday, April 15. Call…
Openings and Closings: Marmo Debuts, Patterson Park Next Week
Marmo, 888 Westheimer, opened April 6 at the Montrose Collective. The new Italian chophouse comes from Atlas Restaurant group which brought its Ouzo Bay and Loch bar to Houston in 2019. The Maryland-based company has styled Marmo after its Baltimore steakhouse and Italian concept, Tagliata. Guests will enter the multi-glassed…
Houston Ranks 43rd as a Weed-Friendly City
It’s official. Houston is a shitty place to smoke up. In a comprehensive study, the city ranked 43rd in weed friendliness. Clever, a real estate data company, decided to take a scientific look at the state of weed in America and start ranking cities. It’s become much easier to measure…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Title: Everything Everywhere All at Once Describe This Movie In One It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Quote: CHARLIE BROWN: I got a rock. Brief Plot Synopsis: Lots of stuff in many places occurs more or less simultaneously. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 4.5 Menocus out of 5. Tagline: N/A Better…
Texan Fans, Here’s the History of the 3rd Overall Pick in the NFL Draft
The Houston Texans are one of eight NFL teams to have the good fortune (resulting from some regular season bad fortune) of having multiple first round picks in the upcoming 2021 NFL Draft. They have the 3rd overall pick and the 13th overall pick. Here are the other seven teams…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Crawfish on the Patio and a Chef Fest at the Farm
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Black Restaurant Week Friday-Sunday Black Restaurant Week Houston joins the nationwide showcase celebrating the flavors of African American, African and Caribbean cuisine, as locals can get special menus at restaurants, food trucks, sweet shops and more. This year’s participants include…
Add Tax Evasion to the Charges Filed in Alleged HISD Bribery Scheme
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston had more bad news for former Houston ISD Chief Operating Officer Brian Busby and contractor Anthony Hutchison Thursday, as it announced new charges against the pair accused of engaging in a massive bribery scheme involved the school district. The new charges cite the two…
The 2022 Astros: Five Thoughts to Open the Season
Despite a long lockout on the offseason after yet another World Series appearance for the Astros, baseball is back. The Astros begin the season with 10 days on a West Coast road trip before their opening day at Minute Maid Park. Despite losing Carlos Correa, this will be another very…
Micki Free Plays Blues Rock with a Touch of Turquoise
Micki Free certainly remembers the first time he met Houston Local-Boy-Done-Good Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top at the Hard Rock Café in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The pair convened for lunch; the meal brokered by his guitar tech Sammy Sanchez, who also worked for Gibbons. A well-known obsessive guitar collector, Gibbons…
Four Thoughts on the Retirement of Whitney Mercilus
With the NFL Draft just a few weeks away, it’s natural to look back at recent drafts and reexamine what the Houston Texans did in the first round, back when they used to have first round picks. In other words, every draft except 2018, 2020, and 2021. Amazingly, going all…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Eat Good and Put a Stop to Food Waste
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Food rescue organization Second Servings is hosting its second annual Stop Food Waste Series this April, joined by 15 local restaurants to raise awareness of food waste and support its mission to fight hunger and end food…
HISD Superintendent Says He’s Ready For Some “Compromise” in His Budget Plan
Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II today announced a “compromise,” saying that he has asked his administration to revise the budget plan he proposed in early March that would have centralized nearly all budget operations in the district and called for a librarian, nurse and counselor at every school. His…
A Night Of Rock En Espanol At White Oak Music Hall
Since its inception, rock and roll has spread its influence far and wide reaching people all across the globe regardless of their native language. Typically, people think of this genre existing in an English-speaking bubble but in a city as diverse as Houston, rock and roll can come in many…
Houston Concert Watch 4/6: The Mavericks, Ice Cube and More
Good morning, Houston. I regret to inform you that the mosquitoes are back. Also, the price of bug spray is up. Still, there are plenty of good tunes to enjoy this week. Don’t let what you can’t control keep you from enjoying some live music. See what’s on tap below…
Houston Texans to Hold NFL Draft Party at Miller Outdoor Theatre
For the first time since 2019, the Houston Texans have a first round pick in the NFL Draft. It was in 2019 that they selected tackle Tytus Howard with the 23rd overall pick, and since then, through a series of events culminating in the trade of their 2020 and 2021…
Art Car Parade Revs Up For Its 35 Year Anniversary
Art cars are back. The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art will host the long-awaited 35th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend, presented by Team Gillman, running Wednesday through Sunday following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
New Documentary Gives Horrifying Grounds-Eye View of Astroworld Concert
Charlie Minn’s documentary on the tragic 2021 Astroworld concert is about 85 minutes long At a guess, about 5 percent of the runtime contains the sights and sounds of injured people screaming for help. Concert Crush takes viewers into a minute-by-minute account of the Travis Scott concert that topped off…
Like a Hurricane, Cannons is Heading for Houston
Hurricane season might still be a few months away, but electro-alt-pop trio Cannons is on track to make landfall at The Secret Group this Friday night. Expect gusts of heavy synths, a downpour of hypnotic melodies, and a surging dance floor when the Category Five storm, helmed by lead singer…
Four Burgeoning NFL Draft Storylines That Affect the Houston Texans
Relevance in the NFL Draft each year is not necessarily something NFL teams strive for. If you’re relevant on draft weekend, it probably means that the 18 weekends that comprise the NFL regular season didn’t go all that well for you. In the case of the Houston Texans’ draft relevance…
Richie Ramone Is “Not Afraid” to Carry the Ramones Torch
When you think of the Ramones, you think New York City. Punk music’s most influential band formed there and exploded into music history from the East Village’s famed CBGB. Talking with Richie Ramone, the band’s drummer and the prominent keeper of the Ramones’ flame in 2022, you can even hear…
A.D. Players Announces its 2022-23 Season
With season tickets about to go on sale April 12, A.D. Players has announced its line-up of shows for the 2022-23 season at The George, a season that starts with a pre-Broadway world premiere and crescendos with a production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Miss Maude starting in September is…
An Embarrassment of Acting Riches in The Book Of Grace
There’s been much to celebrate since live theater’s full-throttle return to Houston. Premieres, local work, excellent creative efforts on and behind the stage -the thrill hasn’t merely been that we’re back, but that we’re back and cooking with a full kitchen once again. Even still, the argument can be made…
Is the Company Behind the Texas Bullet Train Behind on Paying Property Taxes?
The hits just keep on coming for Texas Central. Now a number of Texas counties contend that the company behind the planned 236-mile, Houston-to-Dallas highspeed rail line is behind on property taxes. The allegation comes as both sides of the debate over whether or not to run a bullet train…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Chef Fest, Black Restaurant Week and the Epic Truffle Mac Burger
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Black Restaurant Week Houston Black Restaurant Week Houston joins the nationwide showcase celebrating the flavors of African American, African and Caribbean cuisine now through Sunday, April 10. This year’s participates feature restaurants, food trucks, sweet shops and more…
Former Astro Carlos Beltran on Sign Stealing: “We Did Cross The Line”
There is no doubt that COVID-19 either robbed us of a lot of normal sports calendar items, or at the very least, put some of those things on a long delay. In particular, for the rest of Major League Baseball outside of Houston, the pandemic robbed fans of an immediate…
The Elusive E: Leo Kottke Is Still Chasing Sounds
It can be hard to predict how music will affect the listener; which chord, rhythm or lyric will cause a shutter, a shimmy, a teardrop or a smile. In the experience of guitar god Leo Kottke, he knew right away as a young, bedridden child tooling away on a toy…
Youthful Dreams Dashed and Deferred: Eugene Onegin at Opera in the Heights
I knew trouble lay ahead in Opera in the Heights’ physical production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (1879) when I saw the large portrait on the upstage wall. It resembles a propaganda recruiting poster from the early Stalinist era, a sort of Rosie the Communist Riveter. Against a red background, the…
The Old 97’s Choo-Choo-Choose Reckless Kelly To Join Their H-Town Return
Old 97’s, Reckless Kelly 713 Music Hall April 2, 2022 It’s Final Four weekend, in case you didn’t know (if you were planning on attending Eric Church’s concert in San Antonio tonight, you definitely did). That got me thinking at tonight’s show at 713 Music Hall — similar to my…
Sunrise Coven Grabs For Laughs Over Insight
Generally speaking, when it comes to shows concerning socio-political failings, playwrights can either tackle the issues straight on, creating seriously meaty works. Or they can get us juiced up by throwing comedy in one form or another at the problems they wish to explore. In Sunrise Coven, Houston playwright Brendan…
Lucky Daye Shuts Down The House of Blues
Standing center stage, bathed in a flashing blue and red spotlight, Lucky Daye paused to let the band play behind him. Flanked by two guitarists that gradually slowed the music’s tempo, Daye brought his hand to his face and lit what appeared to be a joint as the audience screamed…
Openings and Closings: Goode Co. Barbeque NW Reopens, Benjy’s Upstairs Transforms
Goode Co. Barbeque, 20102 Northwest Freeway, reopens April 1. For the past two years, the location has been on hiatus due to the pandemic. Now, the restaurant is firing up the smokers once again to serve Houstonians its famous barbecue and from-scratch sides and desserts. The Goode family has been…
Six Best Houston Astros Season Prop Bets for 2022
We are a week away from the start of the Major League Baseball season, and after enduring a 4-13 Texans season, and living through the fun but chock-full-of-losses Rockets rebuild, it will be nice to have Astros baseball back in our lives. Optimism among Astro fans is slightly tempered, presumably…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Go Beast Mode on Smoked Meats at the Houston Barbecue Festival
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Black Restaurant Week Friday-Sunday, April 10 Celebrating the flavors of African American, African and Caribbean cuisine, Black Restaurant Week Houston joins the nationwide showcase this Friday through next Sunday, April 10. Locals can get special menus at restaurants, food…
Dana Cooper Continues His “Long Journey” with a New Album and Shows in Houston
There was a time, a couple of years on either side of 1980, when it seemed that just about everybody in Houston had a copy of Songs on the Radio, an album by local troubadours Shake Russell and Dana Cooper. The record garnered significant radio air play, and the duo…
Alley Theatre Announces its 2022-23 Season
Three world premiere plays, two world premiere adaptations and one world premiere musical — that’s the lineup for the 2022-23 Alley Theatre season. And for many people it will be very welcome news that the Summer Chills series is returning after three years away thanks to the coronavirus. There’s a…
Chris Jordan Donates a Kidney to His Dad Scarface and Starts a Foundation With Help From The Suit Boss
“Hey Brad! Let’s try this one,” exclaims Adam Ross, as he walks across the room with a tie in his outstretched hand. As Brad takes the tie and makes a few more adjustments, Ross watches on and directs the photographer to snap another set of pictures. As he looks, Ross speaks…
Opinion: Morbius is an AIDS Revenge Story
When I was a teenager in the ‘90s, I watched a man slowly die of AIDS. He was a friend of my theater teacher; someone she had worked with back when her focus was on acting instead of instruction. I don’t remember why she took me to see him one…
Los Skarnales’ Richard Molina on This Saturday’s Dedication of Joe Campos Torres Plaza
Richard Molina is in several Houston bands. He’s a member of the veteran Latino ska punk act Fuska. He’s got a solo project dubbed Future Ghost. Perhaps most notably, he’s keyboardist for the legendary Los Skarnales. “It’s like therapy, being able to play music and being able to perform live,”…
Bill Maher Has a Lot to Say about Trump, Ted Cruz, Wokeness, Millennials & More
For one hour each week (and a little extra online), Bill Maher addresses, dissects, skewers, pontificates and debates with guests the social and political topics of the day on his long-running HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher. But given just how batshit crazy things are going these days in…
Deshaun Watson Trade is Done, Is Nick Caserio Done Dealing?
With the Deshaun Watson trade now finally done, and with Watson dealing with his new life in Cleveland, the Houston Texans are now free to go about their business as a normal, not-very-good-at-football NFL team. While the three first round picks are nice as first prize, a close second is…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Black Restaurant Week is Back with BBQ, Grilled Cheese and More
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Celebrating the flavors of African American, African and Caribbean cuisine Black Restaurant Week Houston joins the nationwide showcase on Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 10. This year’s participants feature restaurants, food trucks, sweet shops and…
Opera in the Heights Faces a Future With or Without Lambert Hall
Opera in the Heights is losing its home. No, it’s not due to a hurricane’s devastation or floodwaters wiping out its costume inventory. It’s another common precipitating event of modern times: a merger. Chalk it up to declining church attendance. Two congregations will unite and the one sitting on top…
Ministry Flushes the Weak-Minded on the Industrial Strength Tour
Finally the wait for Ministry’s return to Houston paid off for fans that kept to the course. Close to three years of delays and multiple dates rescheduled, Al Jourgensen strolled into town with The Melvins and Corrosion of Conformity for the Industrial Strength Tour. The event at House of Blues…
I Don’t Believe for a Second Hogwarts Legacy Won’t Eventually Have Microtransactions
Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming game based on J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, got a dramatic State of Play reveal showing off some of its features, and like all things Harry Potter it was immediately a subject of controversy. There are lots of reasons to pass on Hogwarts Legacy when it comes…
Houston Concert Watch 3/30: Girl In Red, Bon Iver and More
Two weeks removed from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, I’m still dreaming about corndogs. But time marches on, and there are plenty of other good concerts coming to town in the coming week. Keep scrolling to see what’s on tap. Senses Fail Warehouse Live – 03.30From The Depths Of…
Four Houston Sports Incidents That Mirror “Will Smith vs Chris Rock”
There days later, the world is still buzzing about the “slap heard around the world.” What some called a shocking incident, and what I called “just what the boring Oscars needed,” the slap by Will Smith defending the honor of his wife against a hair joke from Chris Rock still…
Where to Get Easter Sunday Brunch in Houston in 2022
From family-friendly breakfast favorites to restaurants offering elaborate brunch buffets and prix fixe menus, here’s where to brunch in Houston this Easter Sunday: Backstreet Cafe, 1103 South Shepherd Houston’s classic spot for brunch will be serving a special three-course Easter brunch from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., starting with Parker…
Houston Gardening: It’s Bloomin’ Time for Flowers
Gardening in Houston’s humidity and heat is no easy feat. Add in hurricanes, floods and unprecedented weather extremes, it’s a wonder any of us attempt it at all. Last year, February 2021 hit us with winter storm Uri, giving us single digit temperatures and a rare citywide snow. Though it…
Kountry Wayne is Headlining The Big Comedy Rooms – And Ready to Meet Jennifer Aniston
“I don’t care if she married or not. If she married tell her husband if he listening, I’m sorry.”
Let This Be What Ends Oscar Night. Please.
Will Smith laid some fresh prints on the face of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony after the comedian made an ableist joke onstage at the expense of Smith’s wife’s appearance. The high-profile smack Smith delivered has launched a thousand think pieces of what is an isn’t an…
Jean Beauvoir: A Life of Music and Mohawks
Jean Beauvoir has certainly had a wide-ranging career. As a globe-trotting performer, songwriter, producer, and even business executive, his decades of stories and experiences are all over the place. But they all come together in his new memoir written with John Ostrosky, Bet My Soul on Rock ‘n’ Roll: Diary…
Five Tangible Improvements Made by the Houston Texans Since 2021
The Houston Texans are a 4-13 team that is picking third in the draft next month, so inherently there is a lot of work to do and a lot of improvement to fulfill just to get back to respectability, let alone compete for championships. With the trade of Deshaun Watson…
Tyler, The Creator Brings Houston The Call Me If You Get Lost Tour
“Ohhh, You look malnourished!” screamed fans in the Toyota Center as Tyler, The Creator lifted his hands in the air and the opening line of his hit single filled the room. The floor shook as the audience jumped up and down while Tyler surfed on top of a boat while…
Six Most Head Scratching Answers From Deshaun Watson’s Cleveland Intro Presser
There is no more coveted asset in professional sports than the franchise quarterback in the National Football League. The impact they have on games, combined with the daunting scarcity with which they exist make them the holy grail of player acquisitions. When you get one, you celebrate him, and then…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Malaysian Curry Crawfish is Back
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday-Tuesday Norigami and Sandoitchi Pop-Up at Hidden Omakase Sushi hand roll pop-up Norigami (which pops up monthly in the Hidden Omakase space) is teaming up with chef-driven sando concept Sandoitchi for an exclusive two-night dinner event at Hidden Omakase, 5353 West…
The 2022-23 Stages Season: Premieres Galore With a Lot of Music to Your Ears
The Everly Brothers and Houston Ballet Principal Dancer Lauren Anderson. A holiday cabaret performance from a member of the original Broadway cast for Legally Blonde: The Musical. Five world premieres, three regional premieres and a return of the yearly festival devoted to works by Latino artists. And an as yet…
Texas Treasure Delbert McClinton Reunites with Songs of His Youth on New Album
Delbert McClinton has been called many things – rocker, bluesman, honky-tonker – but never a poser. He is, as they say, the real deal. McClinton, a Texas musical treasure who started out playing Fort Worth juke joints as a teenager, has done it all in a career stretching back to…
Waiting for Rover: Dog Act at Main Street Theater
Ah, the dystopian world of the future in Liz Duffy Adams’ Dog Act, currently wagging its shaggy tale at Main Street Theater, looks suspiciously like the theater of the absurd. That particular genre is tasty only for particular connoisseurs. I’m not one of them. Generations after some devastating world calamity,…
A Peek at Oliver Tree’s Love Letter
Oliver Tree 713 Music Hall March 25, 2022 There was a running gag in last night’s Oliver Tree set at 713 Music Hall where the oddball artist earnestly asked his oddball fans, “Who wants to hear one more song?!” The first time Tree asked was right after he’d finished “Forget…
Actors Shine in Disruptive Gloria at 4th Wall
A more cynical critic would say that Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins wrote his 2015 Pulitzer finalist play, Gloria, specifically so that it couldn’t be reviewed. We can say it’s a story of ambition, the demise of traditional media, the soul-suck of career inertness, and our need to commodify heinous experiences. We can…
Brazoria County Grand Jury Declines to Indict Deshaun Watson
Deshaun Watson showed up to work in Berea, Ohio for the first time yesterday. Having passed his physical, he is now officially a Cleveland Brown, in case you couldn’t tell by the hideous orange jacket he was wearing into the Browns’ facility yesterday morning: Just moments after this video surfaced,…
Rockets’ Four Goals to End the Season
Hard to believe, but the NBA season (regular season anyway) is winding down, and if you have a look at the standings, your Houston Rockets are dead last in the entire NBA. That means no playoffs and a long offseason to hopefully improve a talented, but very young roster. But…
Openings and Closings: Bluestone Lane says G’day, Deshaun’s Lefty’s Closures
Bluestone Lane, 115 W. 19th, opens March 30. Inspired by the cafe coffee culture of Australia, the specialty coffee roaster and lifestyle brand has chosen the Heights neighborhood for its first-ever Texas location. It will feature 4,400 square feet of space with a welcoming, contemporary atmosphere and a menu of…
Houston Grand Opera’s New Executive Director on Challenges and Opportunities
Khori Dastoor, who performed professionally as a lyric soprano and who now is the executive director of Houston Grand Opera, knows what the biggest challenge is for HGO right now. Opera Interruptus. Or in other words, people who for the last few years didn’t go because of the devastation wrought…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
The Spine Of Night
Title: The Spine of Night Describe This Movie In One L.A. Confidential Quote: CAPT. DUDLEY SMITH: I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job. Brief Plot Synopsis: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick…
Thrash Titans Testament Strike Back—Finally!
It’s been over two years since thrash metal titans Testament have been able to go out on the road. Their last pre-pandemic run of dates was in Europe with openers Exodus and Death Angel. The three bands share both a San Francisco-area geographical and personal history that stretches back to…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Crawfish Boils and a Cheese Party on the Patio
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Crawfish Boil and Parking Lot Party at Flying Fish Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1815 North Durham Houston Heights neighbors Flying Fish and Eureka Heights Brewing Co, are teaming up for a crawfish boil in the parking lot…
Texan Fans, Here’s the History of 13th Overall Picks in the NFL Draft
There was a time when you could count on the Houston Texans picking in the first round of the draft every offseason. Not just that, you could count on them making the right pick practically every year. From 2008 through 2017, you could argue that the Texans nailed nearly every…
Come From Away Offers Us the Best in All of Us
If there is a more heartfelt and soulful contemporary musical out there than Come From Away, now restarted on its national tour after being halted by the pandemic, I’d truly like to know about it. I don’t think it exists. What a grand show this is. It covers you, embraces…
The Three People to Blame For Deshaun Watson’s Disgusting Contract Extension
With the magnitude of the Deshaun Watson legal saga and trade request, and ultimately the ACTUAL trade itself, I’ve done quite a few interviews in other cities over the course of the last fourteen months, giving the sad Houston perspective of all this. That’s been amped up tenfold over the…
Upcoming: Mico’s Hot Chicken Day and an Epic Two-Night Dinner Collaboration
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Sushi hand roll pop-up Norigami (which pops up monthly in the Hidden Omakase space) is teaming up with chef-driven sando concept Sandoitchi for an exclusive two-night dinner event at Hidden Omakase, 5353 West Alabama, on Monday,…
Even With Christina Ricci, Wednesday Feels Like a Ripoff
Earlier this week, Deadline announce that Christina Ricci would be joining the Netflix series Wednesday, a show about a high school age Wednesday Addams from the Addams Family cartoons being helmed by Tim Burton. Ricci played Wednesday in the 1991 film adaptation directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and its sequel. Though…
6 Awful Conspiracy Theory Raps You’ll Wish You Never Heard
Music is often made by geniuses who see the world in different ways. Sometimes that’s great, and sometimes you end up with worm-brained insanity with a beat. Rap is extremely vulnerable to conspiracy theory songs because the format works well with unhinged rants. Today, we’re going to look at some…
Houston Concert Watch 3/23: Ray Wylie Hubbard and Tyler, The Creator and More
And just like that, RodeoHouston is over. It will be another 11 months before you stomp around NRG Arena in brand-new boots, with a 12-inch corndog in one hand and a funnel cake in the other. But thankfully, this year’s festivities felt a lot like the old normal; regretfully, that’s also…
Last Night: Dashboard Confessional And Jimmy Eat World At 713 Music Hall
Dashboard Confessional Jimmy Eat World 713 Music Hall March 22, 2022 You’ve probably noticed that “emo” has been experiencing a revival in recent years. Machine Gun Kelly has practically abandoned rap to write pop-punk anthems; Avril Lavigne’s latest album (rightfully) debuted in the top 10 on Billboard; and Travis Barker,…
Houston Hit With Another Round of Racist Flyers, This Time With a Bonus: Hitler’s Picture
White supremacists have been at it again in Houston, this time hitting multiple neighborhoods around the city with racist flyers. This weekend, the Heights was hit with a round of leaflets featuring the face of Adolf Hitler and the phrase “white lives matter.” According to the Houston Chronicle, previous neighborhoods…
The Darkness Bring Salvation with Hard Rock, Sex Robots, and a Clean Shave
Though these UK hard rockers are known as The Darkness, right now they’re only seeing White Lightness out the windows of their tour bus. That’s because a blinding snowstorm has been raging for five hours as they motor across Canada. But after some false starts, bassist Frankie Poullain is finally…
Five People Who Should Be Livid With Deshaun Watson’s New Contract
The dirty little secret about Deshaun Watson’s sparkly new, five year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract with the Cleveland Browns has nothing to do with the 22 open civil lawsuits against him for sexual misconduct. The dirty little secret is that, for a guy who just became the highest paid…
The Sixth Annual Houston Latino Film Festival
Films, like literature, have a way of transporting the audience to places not always accessible in real life allowing the viewer to temporarily walk in the shoes of the characters depicted. “Coming to our festival, you get that badge and it’s like a passport,” says Houston Latino Film Festival Director Dave Cebrero…
Bob Dylan Memories Unearthed—More Than 50 Years Later
Today, it seems every rock musician regardless of talent or time in the spotlight has either a biography or autobiography on them. Sometimes several. But when New York Post journalist Anthony Scaduto—who covered both the Mafia and pop music beats—published Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography in 1972, it was a…
Rationalizing the Flood of Houston Sports Divorces Since 2020
Once upon a time, there was a psychiatrist by the name of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and in her 1969 book entitled Death and Dying, she outlined the five stages of grief that human beings go through in processing the loss of somebody. In short, she said that we all go through…
Heights Kids’ Day Of Music In Love Park
When children get bitten by the music bug, the course of their entire livescan change. Exposing kids to the arts and music isn’t always happening, but one Houston organization has been working hard to change that with its yearly festival. The 8th annual Heights Kids’ Day Of Music will take…
Four Thoughts on the Departure of Carlos Correa
Sports heartbreak is nothing new in Houston. We’ve lived through the pain of fandom for decades. Last week, we saw two young sports stars depart in dramatic fashion, one via trade and the other via free agency. In fact, the departures occurred just hours apart. How’s that for high sports…
Gone Mudbuggin’: Houston’s Crawfish Season
The most glorious season in Houston is upon us (sorry Rodeo season, you’re over). Crawfish season runs roughly from January through July, but springtime is when crawfish are in their finest form. All season long, Houston restaurants offer specials, boils, and crawdaddy-loaded dishes to celebrate. From classic Cajun eateries to…
Unfazed by the Hype, Wet Leg Delivers a Day at the Beach
Wet Leg The Secret Group March 20, 2022 At a house party recently, a friend and I were marveling over Wet Leg, arguably the buzziest band on the planet. This was weeks ago, a good month before the band touched down at The Secret Group last night to perform another…
George Strait Assures Us He’s “Still Here” At RodeoHouston
George Strait, Ashley McBryde NRG Stadium March 20, 2022 Who’s on country music’s Mount Rushmore? Rather than invite a High Fidelity-style deep dive, let’s just go ahead and create one for the living and another for the deceased. For the latter, that might mean Bob Wills, George Jones, Patsy Cline, and…
Ukraine: How Tensions on Earth Have Invaded the Space World
Despite NASA administrator Bill Nelson’s reassurances on Friday morning that his Russian counterpart Dmitry Rogozin’s recent statements about the United States—including the particularly catchy line that the United States will have to use broomsticks to get to space once Russia stops supplying U.S.-based companies with rocket engines—were just a bunch…
Tale of the Tape: Weirder Departure Swerve, Deshaun Watson or Carlos Correa?
Friday, March 18, 2022. Black Friday in Houston sports history, and a date that will live in infamy for any sports fan in our fair city, for on this day, Deshaun Watson became a Cleveland Brown, and Carlos Correa became a Minnesota Twin. (Technically, Correa’s deal with the Twins was…
Track the Rise of the Lakers Dynasty With the New HBO Series
Sports are our biggest form of entertainment, and sports figures are our most prominent celebrities. There is no league more dependent on the individual star power of its players than the NBA, which has been built on the backs of stars who brought the league into its current popularity and…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Everything Bagel Ice Cream and a St. Germain Brunch
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, March 21 Everything Bagel ice cream at Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Making its much anticipated return, Jeni’s Everything Bagel ice cream will be available while supplies last. The cult favorite features dense, salty, and barely sweet cream cheese ice cream…
Texas Smoke Break Returns to White Oak Music Hall
“Put one finger in the air if you have any haters!” yelled 2 Chainz as he walked across the White Oak stage. “As a matter of fact, put two in the air. I just tell them look at you…” The College Park rapper trailed off as the piano intro from…
At RodeoHouston, Brad Paisley is the Same Brad Paisley as Always, Thank God
Brad Paisley NRG Stadium March 19, 2K22 If you had handed me a blank sheet of paper ahead of his 2022 RodeoHouston performance and asked me to guess 10 songs that would show up on his setlist, I would have scored an easy 90 percent. The only place where it…
Vaya Con Dios, Carlos Correa: Shortstop Signs With the Twins
What a weird few weeks it has been in Houston sports. The waiting game with Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson and Astros shortstop Carlos Correa has been brutal. And, just like that, within just a few hours of one another, they are both gone, Watson in a trade and Correa on…
The Controlled Chaos of the Calf Scramble
The Calf Scramble is a fan favorite event of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and while it may only last eight chaotic minutes the preparation and execution by the volunteers is much longer and more precise than what is seen on the dirt. For those not in the know,…
Hey, The Kids Like It: Marshmello at RodeoHouston
Marshmello NRG Stadium March 18, 2K22 I don’t remember a lot about my first concert. I know it was Green Day with The Riverdales opening, it was at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, and I went with my Aunt Regan, my hip, rock and roll aunt. I remember young…
Deshaun Watson Finally Traded In Shocker To Cleveland Browns
Back in the summer of 2018, when the Houston Texans were at training camp in West Virginia, there was a buzz about the team. Second-year quarterback Deshaun Watson was the talk of the NFL. Despite having his rookie season ended with an ACL tear at midseason in 2017, the numbers…
Chris Stapleton Keeps His Cool In Front Of Largest RodeoHouston Crowd Of The Year
Chris Stapleton NRG Stadium March 17, 2022 Plenty of performers go all-out for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Especially in recent years, the annual concert series has been jam-packed with artists who have made the most of the gigantic, star-shaped stage – more dancers, brighter lights, extra bells and…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Master
Title: Master Describe This Movie In One “My Old School” Lyric: STEEL DAN: California tumbles into the sea / That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale Brief Plot Synopsis: Ever thought of going to college on the West Coast? Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 FDRs out of 5. Tagline: “This…
AVM Hawkins Moves Out The Courtroom and Into Mid Main Gallery With Impetus
The sun is just setting over Mid Main Lofts downtown and the lights of the bars, restaurants, and businesses begin turning on up and down Main Street. The METROrail periodically whizzes by as people walk up and down stopping in and out of the shops and theaters. Waiting on the…
Openings and Closings: RARE Opens, Sushi and an Irish Pub on Post Oak
RARE Restaurant and Lounge, 4105 Washington, opened March 17. The new concept from chef and owner Don Bowie is a modern steakhouse that will feature live entertainment in an upscale and high-energy atmosphere. Joining Bowie in the new venture are partners Andre Johnson and musical artist Akon. Johnson is a…
The Magnificent with The Mighty Manfred Bring Texas a “Soul Music Tent Revival!”
Often in the music business—just as in “business” business—connections and random encounters can lead to opportunity for bands. That’s what happened to the Magnificent at the Original Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles last November. Onsite is the Market Tavern, managed by Gary Twinn of the cover band the Long Shadows…
Oliver Tree Works Hard, Plays Hard and Cries Hard
Oliver Tree, the enigmatic musician with a flair for creating memorable visuals for the genre-bending songs in his oeuvre, has a novel approach for meeting people these days. “To be the dumbest guy in the room, to be the poorest guy in the room is really the perspective for me,”…
Grading the Houston Texans Moves in 2022 Free Agency
For the second consecutive offseason, amidst the shadows of effort to trade quarterback Deshaun Watson, the Houston Texans have been one fo the most active teams in free agency. The heavy activity, though, is not because the Texans are putting the finishing touches on anything special. It’s out of necessity…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Revival Market Celebrates 11 Years
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend at Bobcat Teddy’s Icehouse Friday-Saturday 2803 White Oak Head to the icehouse all weekend long for some St. Patty’s Day fun, including but not limited to live music, bagpipers, green beer, Guinness, crawfish by Bagzz…
Opinion: Hardy And Nance Studios’ Banned Proves Reading Is Fundamental
On Saturday from 5 – 9 p.m., Hardy & Nance Studios will present Banned: Art Inspired by Banned Books. In it, more than 30 artists will display their works that draw inspiration from across the boards for illicit literature.
Khalid Brings Soul to RodeoHouston
In an Instagram post earlier this month, singer/songwriter Khalid proudly announced that his single “Better” had surpassed more than 1 billion streams on Spotify. This would mark the eighth song in his repertoire to reach that level of popularity. “Even through discouragement, I’m always reminded of how blessed I am…
Understanding Ms. Marvel’s New Powers in the Recently Released Trailer
The trailer for Disney +’s Ms. Marvel dropped this week, giving fans a look at one of the most beloved of modern superheroes and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Muslim hero played by Iman Vellani. The show will explore the life of superhero-obsessed Kamala Khan, who spends most of her…
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Expanding The Family: Folk Family Revival Will Perform At The Continental Club [UPDATED]
For Houston’s Folk Family Revival, COVID-19 allowed them the chance to regroup and focus. “My callouses went away on my fingers, my voice changed, I got inspired in new ways to write and then came back with a lot of energy for music and a lot of direction,” says lead…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Taste These Truffle Masters Dishes While You Still Can
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: After earning second-place at this year’s Truffle Masters competition, Tobiuo Sushi & Bar, 23501 Cinco Ranch, is providing guests the opportunity to try pastry chef Jiolo Dingayan’s sweet-savory Money Cat dessert for a limited time. Composed…
Deshaun Watson Reportedly “Incredibly Torn” In Choosing Trade Destination
The doors in the figurative Deshaun Watson Trade showroom opened up in full force on Saturday, one day after the Houston Texans’ quarterback found out there would be no criminal prosecution for the ten criminal complaints filed against him by various massage therapists in the Houston area. Here we are,…
Get Down and Dirty This Week in the Garden
With all the troubles going on in the world, many of us may be tempted to veg out in front of the television binging on the must-watch shows our friends have been raving about. And sometimes we need a brief escape from the news and doom and gloom. There are…
Gwen Stefani’s Star Shines Bright at RodeoHouston
The last time Gwen Stefani played Houston was summer of 2016 out in The Woodlands — far outside the loop and too long ago. That hiatus would have been two years shorter had a global pandemic not wrangled Stefani’s 2020 RodeoHouston engagement back into the bullpen. But last night, Stefani’s…
Rating the Four Deshaun Watson Trade Suitors
On the one year anniversary of the first lawsuit against Deshaun Watson being made public, it would appear that we are on the cusp, finally, of Watson getting his wish — he is going to be traded to another NFL team. It’s just a matter of which one. Wielding a…
ISHIDA Dance Company Finally About to Debut in Houston
Originally from Houston, now with a home base in Montreal, Zack Tang is back to perform with ISHIDA Dance Company when it debuts Houston and U.S. premiere contemporary dance works at the MATCH this week. In addition to work by founder Brett Ishida, the 90-minute, no intermission program entitled you…
Deshaun Watson Shoots Up NFL MVP Odds Board at 10 to 1
The spin cycle on Deshaun Watson’s trade market has amped up faster than anyone would have imagined a few weeks ago. In the aftermath of the grand jury decision not to prosecute Watson on ten criminal complaints, some NFL teams are acting as if the 22 civil lawsuits don’t even…
Houston Concert Watch 3/16: George Strait, Jimmy Eat World and More
Sadly, this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is almost over. After two years of waiting, this has to feel like the shortest season yet. So if you haven’t yet made it to the fairgrounds, consider this your last suggestion to put on some cowboy boots and go enjoy some…
Theatre Under the Stars Announces its 2022-23 Season
As the Houston area begins to emerge from the isolation of the pandemic, Theatre Under the Stars is offering theater goers in its 2022-23 season a modern classic and Pulitzer Prize-winner in Rent, holiday comfort in Mary Poppins, and in The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation, a return to the days when…
Alex Lifeson (Sort of) Steps Back into the Limelight
“I love this room. I have fun in here.” So says Alex Lifeson, speaking via Zoom from his home studio. Actually, “home studio” doesn’t quite do the place justice. Hanging on the wall behind him is a generous selection of electric guitars, acoustic guitars, and even a banjo. Also visible…
The Hellacopters Have 20/20 Vision into the Eyes of Oblivion
In terms of subject matter, the raw and raucous genre of garage rock doesn’t often stray into contemporary social and political topics. Sweden’s The Hellacopters have usually stuck to that norm in their music over the 25+ years the band has been together. But for their new record Eyes of…
Andrés Fest: A Symphonic Celebration Is A Noteworthy Display Of Might
One of Houston Symphony’s most notable figures, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, is wrapping up his eight-year tenure as Music Director. As a celebration, the organization announced full programming for a two-week festival, “Andrés Fest: A Symphonic Celebration,” starting March 18. The festival’s performances feature repertoire associated with the conductor’s time with the organization, including two world premieres,…
Nick Caserio’s To-Do List for the Biggest Week of His GM Career
In his one year-plus as Houston Texans general manager, Nick Caserio has been dealt one of the roughest hands an incoming GM has had to withstand in recent NFL memory. Some of it, such as the complete obliteration of draft capital and cap space by his predecessor Bill O’Brien, Caserio…
Houston Ballet All Set to Fly With Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake in 2022-23 Season
Houston Ballet today announces a robust upcoming ballet season, complete with three full length story ballets — Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake — and three world premieres in mixed repertory programs. The Nutcracker, choreographed by Artistic Director Stanton Welch, will be back at full strength for the…
Noel Paul Stookey and All That Fazz
Noel Stookey remembers exactly when he first heard the term “Fazz.” It was in the mid-1960s and the folk music trio he was part of (a little act named Peter, Paul and Mary) were on tour with the jazzbos of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. At the end of each show,…
Houston’s Good Luck: Blaggards To Perform On St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal in bars all across America where many people celebrate their Irish heritage or dig deep to find it. Though not everyone knows the history of the day, they share equal enthusiam for the holiday and the search for green beer and good luck…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Local Chefs Support Ukraine, Plus a Holi Celebration
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, March 14 Pi Day Cicis Pizza is inviting fans to enjoy all-you-can-eat pizza for $3.14 on Pi Day. The $3.14 Adult Buffet offer is available for dine-in at Cicis locations nationwide. North Italia, 1700 Post Oak, will celebrate Pi Day…
The ’90s — in All Their Glory and Infamy — Return in a New Book
To his admirers, Chuck Klosterman is one of today’s most trenchant, incisive and often very funny pop culture critics and historians. Readers devour his books and essay collections like Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Others can find him too-hip-for-thou. Regardless, his newest effort—the straightforwardly-titled, The Nineties:…
Alley Theatre’s Sense and Sensibility: A Well-Crafted Unmasking of Convention
Face masks are now optional at the Alley Theatre and several other theaters throughout town. Many patrons may want to wear them for the foreseeable future for safety and health reasons, but I can attest to the liberation one feels to be without them. As long as we’re unmasking, who…
Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia Tour Brings The Love To Toyota Center
Dua Lipa Toyota Center March 12, 2022 “Dua” means “love” in Albanian, you see. To call Dua Lipa’s rise “meteoric” wouldn’t be wholly inaccurate. Future Nostalgia is only her second album, after all, but was the most streamed album of 2020 on Spotify and yielded four platinum-selling singles that are nigh…
With Criminal Charges Avoided, What’s Next For Deshaun Watson?
I said last week, when it was announced that a Harris County grand jury would be hearing evidence from the district attorney on the slew of criminal complaints against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, that Friday could be the most pivotal day in the nearly year long legal saga in…
Bun B Shows The Power of Houston Hip Hop With His Star Studded Rodeo Takeover
The sound of the crowd roaring vibrated off the cinderblock walls as fans in NRG Stadium jumped to their feet. Three candy-colored slabs rode through the dirt around the rotating, star shaped stage, kicking up dust as their drivers hit switches making them jump and pop trunk. E.S.G stood proudly…
Deshaun Watson Will Not Face Criminal Charges for Sexual Abuse
The biggest hurdle to the Houston Texans’ granting Deshaun Watson his wish to be traded to another NFL city was cleared on Friday afternoon, when a Harris County grand jury returned a “no bill” decision on nine criminal complaints presented against the Texans quarterback: This was a massive development for…
Houston Ballet Dancers Shine in Sylvia at the Wortham
From an ominous wind sounding through the theater before the dancers even appear to an emotional send-off into the stars, the 95 minutes of Stanton Welch’s Sylvia is many, many, oh so many things. But buoyed by incredible dancers, clever choreography and a striking score Sylvia is never dull, not…
Signaling a Course Correction Before the HISD State of the Schools Speech
One of the biggest things the Houston ISD is known for, other than its enormous size, is that much of its operations are decentralized. Principals make decisions about staffing needs and student instructional materials at their individual campuses that they wouldn’t get to make in most other school districts. As…
Openings and Closings: Flora Blooms, Patton’s Debuts
Patton’s, 1344 Yale, opens March 11. Located within the space that houses its sister restaurant, Savoir, the new steakhouse concept is a 38-seat hideaway behind the bar with an additional six seats at the bar itself. Its speakeasy vibe comes from the dimly-lit atmosphere with glamorous touches such as plush…
Reading Books and Audiences with Maisie Peters
Our chat with British pop sensation Maisie Peters begins by asking about influences. Not the music heroes who’ve helped send her from quaint pubs to a fully sold-out North American concert tour – including a March 18 stop in Houston at House of Blues – but the literary giants who…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Pre-St. Patrick’s Day Grub and a Hot New Thai Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Meat-Free Fridays and Restaurant Rodeo Specials Those participating in meat-free Fridays during Lent can take a peek at our Fish Friday: Lent Guide to find restaurants offering seafood and vegetarian specials this Lenten season. From wild game chili and…
Houston Texans Continue Roster Purge With Release of CB Terrance Mitchell
The Houston Texans are one season into what has to be considered one of the biggest rebuilding jobs in modern NFL history. As the general manager of this team, Bill O’Brien performed the equivalent of a nuclear bomb detonation on the team’s draft capital and salary cap in 2019 and…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
The Seed
Title: The Seed Describe This Movie In One Starman Quote: MARK: Have people from your world been here before? STARMAN: Before yes. We are interested in your species. Brief Plot Synopsis: Space invader vs spaced-out influencers. Review Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2.5 boxes of Rid-O-Rat out of 5. Tagline: “A Shudder…
Baseball is Back! Four Thoughts on What The Astros Do Now
It took 99 days (insert 99 problems joke here) for Major League Baseball’s owners and players to finally agree on a new collective bargaining agreement, but it is finally done and we can get on to actual games, praise the ghost of Lou Gehrig. It was a contentious and ugly…
The Latest Ivermectin Nonsense
The anti-parasite drug Ivermectin continues to be the favorite alternative to COVID vaccination traded back and forth by the conspiracy-minded and the gullible. Though the drug has fallen out of the news cycle during the Russian invasion, the tinfoil-hat crowd have continued spreading as much disinformation as they can on…
Houston Keeps the Lights On for Journey
The earliest hours of any new year can be rough and unfortunate for over-drinkers, fraught with bad ideas formed in a soaked brain and spilled out unfiltered IRL. That was the case mere weeks ago when cable TV personality Andy Cohen called this evening’s RodeoHouston headliners “fake Journey.” The Rock…
What’s Left After War, a Pandemic and Nationalism? Dog Act at Main Street Theater
When all else is gone, humans will still have stories to tell, and the need to hear them. That premise is central to the plot of Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams, in which a woman and her “Dog” travel the post-apocalyptic new wilderness of the northeastern United States. With…
Deshaun Watson Listed as 5th Most Despised NFL Figure
Emotion is the petroleum for the engine that drives the sports world. Without it, there are no ticket sales, no merchandise, and certainly no sports talk radio, television, or writing. People consume sports because it makes them feel a certain kind of way, and the key is for the emotion…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Ukraine Support and a March Madness Burger
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: In celebration of March Madness, Hopdoddy Burger Bar has introduced the Final Fowl Burger, featuring a buffalo chicken patty topped with celery and carrot coleslaw, buffalo ranch sauce, fried cilantro mayo on a honey mustard brushed…
Houston Concert Watch 3/9: Bun B, Dua Lipa and More
I thought we were finished with the cold! Well, at least it isn’t raining… yet. Frigid weather persists through the weekend, but there are still plenty of reasons to get out of your house and enjoy some live music over the next week or so. Keep scrolling to see what’s…
Houston Ballet’s Sylvia Returns to the Wortham in All its Mythic Glory
“It just felt like something that was a very triumphant return for us, coming back after COVID,” said Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch in explaining why he chose to stage Sylvia at the Wortham Center this month. Last seen in February 2019 when it premiered with Welch’s choreography, Sylvia…
Houston Chamber Choir Rocks The House With De La Noche Al Día
The Houston Chamber Choir will present “De la noche al día” this Saturday under the directions of guest conductor María Guinand from Venezuela. The concert will explore things of a darker, somber nature then move into daylight and the brightness of the spirit via the music of Central and South America.
Trudy Lynn Proves She’s Still The First Lady Of The Blues On Golden Girl
In just one conversation, Houston native and Blues legend Trudy Lynn has already got the bones for two new songs that just came to her while chatting about life. “I tell people all the time, I got more time behind than I do ahead. That’s what you’ve got to think…
The Truffle Masters 2022 Returns to In Person
I could smell the earthy aroma of truffles before even walking into the rooms that held the tables and work stations of the 27 chefs competing for the title of Truffle Master 2022. Located in the C. Baldwin Hotel in downtown Houston, The Truffle Masters returned in person March 7, …
Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Deshaun Watson Criminal Cases on Friday
As the quarterback carousel in the NFL was on a massive spin on Tuesday afternoon, with Aaron Rodgers opting to stay in Green Bay and Russell Wilson getting traded from Seattle to Denver, the situation with the Houston Texans’ franchise quarterback was taking its own unique turns. Unlike Rodgers and…
Houston Restaurants and Bars Offering Irish Eats, Green Beers and Shenanigans for St. Patrick’s Day
Saint Patrick’s Day falls on Thursday, March 17, but many local watering holes and kitchens are getting in on the actual before and after the big day. From a pre-St. Patty’s bar crawl and weekend-long shenanigans to local restaurants and bars offering corned beef and cabbage, Irish stews, live music…
Four Thoughts on the Growth of the Rockets Young Core
Rockets rookie Jalen Green jabbed one way, faked a drive, then with a wicked crossover lost his defender and took a step back midrange shot that hit nothing but net. Rockets TV announcer Craig Ackerman called it “nasty.” It was. More important than the step back itself was the step…
Luke Bryan Remains the King of Weeknight Rodeo Party
Luke Bryan NRG Stadium March 7, 2K22 Luke Bryan doesn’t have many speeds, largely because he doesn’t need to. Sure, he’s got enough songs to put together a solid medley of ballads, and his breakup songs remain a highlight of his set, but he seems happiest singing about a certain…
Lou Christie Strikes Again in “Stars of the Sixties”
If you had a hit record on the Top 40 charts between 1959 and 1966, it was almost a rite of passage to get on a bus, crisscross the country, and play on a Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour. The amiable-but-business-savvy host of the incredibly influential American Bandstand would…
How Aaron Rodgers’ Decision Today Affects the Houston Texans
It’s a fun time on the NFL calendar, with the league year set to begin next Wednesday, with free agency on the horizon, and the NFL combine now in the books. Soon enough, the NFL Draft and the bounty of picks the Houston Texans will hopefully deploy with be the…
Breaking Down Potential MLB Rule Changes as Lockout Continues
There isn’t a lot to be happy about or even discuss when it comes to baseball right now. The league is in an owner-initiated lockout with the sides seemingly far apart on the financial issues at the heart of the negotiations. But the weekend did bring an interesting development as…
James Black Directs Gloria: A Dark, Funny and Searing Satire at 4th Wall Theatre Co.
Houston audiences have been well-acquainted with James Black for his acting and directing work at Alley Theatre as a Resident Company Member. They know him as the trusted, competent and knowledgeable soul who filed in as interim director of the Alley for a year while the theater company was between…
Particular Brilliance With Houston Music Nonconformist Kerry Melonson
Every good music scene needs an artist like Kerry Melonson. A lifelong Houstonian, Melonson is a veteran singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music entrepreneur, idea person and fly in the ointment. He’s a risk taker, music scene surveyor and bullshit caller. And, of course, he does it all for the sake of the…
Los Tucanes De Tijuana Perform for Go Tejano Day at RodeoHouston
Gather around everyone… Let me tell you a story about a famous person. Everyone knows her by her nickname: La Chona. She goes out dancing every night and buys herself a bottle, attracting a dance partner right away. People cheer as she moves, and nobody dances quebradita better than her!…
Quebec Comic Sugar Sammy Might Not Mind Getting “Cancelled” In America
“Even within America, your country is so divided… you can get cancelled in one state and be a super star in another.”
’60s Hitmaker Tony Hazzard Demonstrates His Songwriting Craft
It was the late 1960s and Tony Hazzard was visiting his neighbor John Paul Jones one morning for coffee and conversation in the English village of Loudwater. Hazzard, an accomplished pop songwriter and sometimes performer, knew that his musically-gifted mate was playing bass in a new band. But Hazzard wasn’t…
Deshaun Watson Depositions Set To Begin This Friday
After a slight delay handed down by a Harris County judge a few weeks, it appears as though the depositions of Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson in the 22 civil lawsuits filed against him will begin this Friday, March 11 at 10 a.m., according to the attorney for the 22…
MFAH Celebrates the Mind-Bending Work of M.C. Escher
For most of his adult life, Mick Jagger has probably only rarely heard the word “no” in response to any of his requests. But he heard it at least twice from Maurits Cornelis Escher, the graphic artist better known as M.C. Escher. It seems that the Rolling Stones front man,…
This Week in Houston Food Events: BOGO Meatballs and All Things Truffle
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, March 7 Truffle Masters at C. Baldwin Hotel The annual celebration of all things black truffle, Truffle Masters, will go down from 7 to 10 p.m. at the C. Baldwin Hotel, 400 Dallas. Hosted by premier Houston-based luxury food importer…
Jon Pardi Shines at RodeoHouston Debut
Headlining the big stage at Rodeo Houston is one of the biggest accomplishments a country artist can achieve. Two years ago, Jon Pardi was five days away reaching that dream, before the pandemic led to the unprecedented cancellation of all performances at the rodeo. Saturday evening at NRG, the country…
Maxwell, Anthony Hamilton and Joe Bring The Night Tour to Houston
The stage at the Toyota Center was pitch black. Standing, barely visible under a now dim blue light, stood Gerald Maxwell Rivera slowly snapping his fingers. A white spotlight illuminated him to the packed audience as he continued to snap and the band began playing the beginning chords to “Ascension,”…
Ricky Martin’s RodeoHouston Debut Gets Fans’ Bon-Bons Shaking
Ricky Martin NRG Stadium March 4, 2022 From the very beginning of Friday night’s show at NRG Stadium, Ricky Martin made it abundantly clear that he was going to make the most of his RodeoHouston debut. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo concerts only last an hour, and that can be…
Openings and Closings: A New B.B. Italia is Coming, Chris Shepherd Switches Gears
B.B. Italia Bistro & Bar, 16250 City Walk Drive, is expected to open this spring in Sugar Land Town Square. The Italian restaurant from Berg Hospitality Group first opened in 2019 in the space formerly occupied by Carmelo’s Cucina Italiana. B.B. Italia closed temporarily in February 2021, as we reported…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
The Batman
Title: The Batman Describe This Movie In One Batman Begins Quote: DR. CRANE: He’s here. THUG: Who? DR. CRANE: The Bat…man. Brief Plot Synopsis: Deranged vigilante undercuts major metropolitan police efforts. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3.5 Park Chan-wooks out of 5. Tagline: “Unmask the truth.” Better Tagline: “What’s black and gray…
James Harden’s Thirteen Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary
“Well it was a little bumpy at first,” recalls Rosea Grady as she steps out of the kitchen at Thirteen, through the dinning room, and out to the Bagby Street. As the general manager, a few hours before dinner service usually has Grady running around trying to make sure everything…
Miami Dolphins GM on Trade for Deshaun Watson: “The Door Is Shut on Deshaun”
Throughout the ever changing and evolving news cycle that is the Deshaun Watson “get the hell out of Houston” saga, there has always been one team that has seemingly been at the top of all the trade rumor articles, and that’s the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins have the distinction of…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Hootenanny, Crawfish Fest and Hot New Brunch
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Meat-Free Fridays and Restaurant Rodeo Specials Those participating in meat-free Fridays during Lent can take a peek at our Fish Friday: Lent Restaurant Guide to find restaurants offering seafood and vegetarian specials this Lenten season. From wild game chili…
Mark Riddell Takes A Turn With Corporeal Pilot
Rock and roll has taken on many forms throughout its conception with each passing decade adding new elements to the genre. On Mark Riddell’s debut solo album, Corporeal Pilot he intentionally taps into the many faces and phases of rock and roll. Riddell will celebrate the release of his new…
Opinion: How “Git Gud” Is Ruining the Country
The latest From Software title, Elden Ring, is out now. The developer is famous for its incredibly punishing difficulty in their games, and every new release comes with a very tired argument about whether there should be an easy mode. On one side are gamers who would like to experience…
The Rodeo is Here, and So Are These Cowboy Worthy Bites and Drinks from Houston Restaurants and Bars
From rodeo-themed cupcakes and wild game chili to Mutton Buster cocktails and a brand new restaurant experience right on the HLSR grounds, here’s where to find cowboy-worthy food and drink specials in Houston this Rodeo season. Angel Share, 924 Congress Just blocks from the light rail, this charitable bar is…
Houston Livestock Show: Fun For All Ages
After a cold and rainy start, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo 2022 has finally been kissed by Mother Nature with some tremendously awesome weather this week. We aren’t sure how long this is going to last so those looking for some family-friendly fun should head down to NRG Park…
Feel The Force With Houston Symphony’s Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi
The Houston Symphony presents Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – in concert this weekend. The orchestra will play the entire score while audiences watch the battle between good and evil rage on in the final chapter of the original Star Wars trilogy. The program runs Friday through Sunday at Jones Hall.
Love the Sinners and the Sin: The Gospel According to Libby Lux
While discussing how the Bridge City Sinners’ intoxicating music defies genrefication with the band’s lead singer Libby Lux, we suggest it’s not exactly the style of music charting on Billboard these days. “Except for us because our last album did chart on Billboard! It did! Right above Now That’s What…
Four Most Important Nick Caserio Answers at NFL Combine Press Conference
Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio took over the team at a very strange time to become a first time general manager, and I’m not just referring to the entire Deshaun Watson saga, in which Caserio’s franchise quarterback demanded a trade within about 24 hours of Caserio’s getting the job…
Breaking Up With Final Fantasy VI After Pixel Remaster
Since Final Fantasy VI was released in 1994, I’ve bought it four times. Once on the original SNES when it was still called Final Fantasy III, twice on the PlayStation on both disc and the online store, and once again for the Game Boy Advance version that had a new…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Rodeo Bites and a Guest Chef BBQ Takeover
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: The Tasting Room, 818 Town and Country, has curated a menu that is all things Texas in honor of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, with bites such as ‘Shrimp Rattlers,’ made with bacon wrapped shrimp…
Houston Rodeo Gold Buckle Foodie Awards 2022
Houstonians are thrilled by the return of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. This year marks its 90th anniversary and celebrations have been in full force with the Rodeo Uncorked Best Bites, the Bar-B-Cue Contest and Tuesday, the Gold Buckle Foodie Awards. We had the opportunity to sit with a…
Abbott and O’Rourke Cruise to Primary Victory, Paxton Faces Runoff
As expected, the results from Tuesday’s midterm primaries mean Democrat Beto O’Rourke will face incumbent Republican Greg Abbott for the Texas governor’s spot in the November elections. O’Rourke won handily with more than 90 percent of the votes cast. Abbott had slightly more of a tussle — with 93 percent…
Locked Out: Astros Lose Series with Phillies, Yankees as Work Stoppage Continues
What appeared to be feverish discussions between Major League Baseball and the MLB players’ union fell apart on Tuesday when baseball owners’ self-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. EST passed and baseball announced the first two series of the season would be lost and not rescheduled. For the Astros, that means…
Houston Concert Watch 3/2: Tim McGraw, Ricky Martin and More
In 2020, the city of Houston shuttered the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo barely a week into its 2020 run. What feels like a lifetime later, the annual livestock exhibition and concert series is back, and I couldn’t be more excited. I never thought I’d miss funnel cake this much,…
Deshaun Watson’s Personal QB Coach Compares Watson’s Teammates to Walmart Workers
We are in the NFL Draft portion of the league’s calendar, and you will be seeing all kinds of smoke over the next eight weeks from national media about the rising or falling stock of certain players. Most of these narratives are driven by sources near the players, such as…
A Surprise Concert With Eli Young Band at RodeoHouston’s Hideout
Thursday night’s rodeo and concert goers and guests at the carnival might want to make another stop before heading home that day. The Eli Young Band which has played the main stage at RodeoHouston three times, will perform in a surprise concert at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo’s The Hideout…
Sense and Sensibility Delivered With Style, Fast Pace and Humor
In Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are suddenly plunged into calamity when their father dies and leaves all his money and holdings to the eldest son of his first marriage. Their half-brother is supposed to take care of them, but doesn’t. This being 18th…
TWRP Breaks Free From the Basement New & Improved
The pandemic era’s music industry has proven so difficult to navigate it’s even stumped an elite squad of rock stars who’ve mastered the conundrum of time travel. So maybe don’t feel too badly if your band has been frustrated by the fits and starts that have kept the tour van…
Fish Friday: These Houston Restaurants Are Serving Up Meat-Free Eats During Lent
The 40 days of Lent run from Ash Wednesday, March 2 through Thursday, April 14, with Good Friday falling on Friday, April 15 this year. While it’s known as a time of sacrifice for many, those participating in meat-free Fridays do not have to sacrifice flavor, as these Houston restaurants…
The Waymores Couple Up in Country
Of all the genres, male-female duets seem most prevalent in country music. Think of the classic sides from June and Johnny, Conway and Loretta, George and Tammy, Kenny and Dolly and Tim and Faith. Sometimes the duo is a couple in real life, and sometimes just paired on record. It’s…
HISD Students Won’t Have to Wear Masks Anymore
Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II announced Monday that as of Tuesday, students will no longer be required to wear masks at school. The change was anticipated after the Centers for Disease Control announced that it was now advising healthy people living in areas where the risk of contracting COVID-19…
First Set of 2022 NFL MVP Odds Includes Deshaun Watson
The 2021 NFL season was one of the most exciting in recent memory, up to and including a Super Bowl that came down to the final two minute of the game. We are now into the offseason, though, and the pages continue to turn and move forward to 2022. One…
Review: Abbott Elementary Breathes New Life Into the Network Sitcom Scene
Being a teacher is a hard, often thankless job, but that doesn’t stop the thousands of teachers in the public school system who have selected it as their vocation. Abbott Elementary takes a comedic look at the teaching profession, and the operations of public schools in a mockumentary style made…
Rock Doc Showcases Fanny—The All-Female ’70s Band You Haven’t Heard
In the last issue of Rolling Stone produced in the 20th century, a bevy of musicians were asked what musical issues they’d like to see remedied or addressed in the 21st. In a quote that was pulled out to feature, David Bowie was very much to the point. “One of…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Fat Tuesday Treats and Tipples, Plus Rodeo Season Grub
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, March 1 Fat Tuesday Guests can celebrate the glitz and gluttony of New Orleans-style carnival with Brennan’s of Houston, 3300 Smith. The Creole house will offer a three-course menu ($74 per person) alongside performances by the Vincent Trio Jazz Band…
Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, Boldy James and The Alchemist Combine Forces for the NBA Leather Tour
“I think they’re ready,” exclaimed Earl Sweatshirt as he turned away from the DJ and looked back at the audience at the House of Blues. As the audience screamed in agreement, the West Coast MC looked around the packed house. “How are y’all gonna say you’re ready when you don’t…
MacGyver The Musical Has All The Tools To Engineer Fun
MacGyver, the US covert operative in the eponymous mid-’80s hit TV show, could solve problems/get out of dangerous situations using only a paper clip and some duct tape. But that’s child’s play compared to the wonderous feats MacGyver The Musical is pulling off at Stages in this premiere production. And…
Houston Ballet’s Dancers Present a Stunning Jewels by George Balanchine
Two stage masterpieces in one week makes me light-headed. First was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton via Broadway at the Hobby, then, the next night, George Balanchine’s Jewels (1967) at Houston Ballet. Anything else this week and my head will explode. The preeminent choreographer of the 20th century, Balanchine forever changed classical…
Multiple Teams Would Reportedly Trade For Deshaun Watson If Criminal Complaints Cleared
We outlined in this space earlier this week exactly where things stand right now in the Deshaun Watson civil lawsuit saga. In short, the deposition wheels are moving slowly, with the first nine pushed back toe early March, and several others not slated until after April 1. That’s the bad…
Openings and Closings: Hemp Gone Wild at New Bar, Gabriela’s Houston Soon
Wild, 2121 N. Shepherd, opened February 21 in the Heights. The Bali-inspired lounge is the first in Texas to offer hemp-infused products paired with specialty cocktails and coffee drinks. The new concept is an evolution of Grinders Coffee Bar & The CBD Apothecary from cousins Adyson and Andrew Alvis. The…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Texas BBQ, Barrel-Aged Whiskey and Wine and Cheese on the Patio
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Go Texan Day at The Pit Room Patio Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 1201 Richmond The Pit Room is celebrating Go Texan Day on its patio with BBQeats, seasonal crawfish, DJ music, photo ops with @pinecone_thechicken, and a Kendra…
It’s Columbus Day Every Day for Little Feat
According to The 1970s Rock Rulebook, every performer or band was required to release a double live record album. For some acts, it broke them out in terms of popularity and recognition (KISS, Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick). For others, it burnished the studio material and allowed for stretching out (The…
Sur Fest Shines A Light On Houston’s Latin Rock
There is no denying the strong Latino presence in our city. Every day individuals come to Houston from Central and South America looking for a better future bringing with them their own cultures while adapting to their new environment. One music festival has been celebrating the city’s Latino music community…
Charleston Wilson’s Exotic Pop Brand Moves From the Trunk to the Boardroom
“I had a trunk full of soda weighing down my little car and nowhere to go with it,” laughs Charleston Wilson as he clears product off the boardroom table in his warehouse office. “I picked up my phone and made a post saying I would deliver for free to anywhere…
Hamilton, at the Hobby, Remains One of The Great Shows
This is a review of superlatives. For there’s no other way to describe Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical masterpiece, Hamilton (2015). There’s the first superlative – masterpiece. Sometimes it takes seasons between a slough of ordinary shows until a rare work of theater truly blows you away, bowls you over, and leaves…
Laughing Dog Comedy Film Festival Comes to Houston
I don’t know if it was the saddest funny thing or the funniest sad thing, but I saw it at local director and actor Joe Grisaffi’s house. I’d gone over there to playtest a card game he had developed for his film Dead of Knight, and I asked why his…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Chef Collaborations and the Return of Truffle Masters
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Houston’s Enchilada Queen Sylvia Casares will kick off her 2022 cooking classes at Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen, 1140 Eldridge, on Saturday, February 26, featuring meatless enchiladas perfect for Lenten season. From 1 to 4 p.m. attendees can…
Opinion: Why Are So Many Musicians Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists?
There are definitely patterns when it comes to arguing with people on Facebook who believe various right-wing conspiracy theories. Profile pics where people are holding fish comes up a lot, as do sports logos, but the thing I run into a surprising amount is various musicians. It’s made me wonder…
Texans Re-sign All Time Games Played Leader Weeks To Contract Extension
It’s been hard to get attached to any Houston Texans players over the last year or so, as general manager Nick Caserio’s roster construction strategy has consisted largely of (a) purging all of the many, MANY mistakes of the “Bill O’Brien as GM” Era, and (b) replacing those mistakes with…
Houston Symphony Announces 2022-23 Season
The Houston Symphony announced today their 2022-23 season. Tried and true favorites as well as new-to-Houston works are all in the lineup, which offers something for everyone.
Houston Concert Watch 2/23: Ghost, Gladys Knight and More
I don’t know about you guys, but that first weekend without football was rough for me. Given the extra time that the off-season provides for those of us who spend hours watching games ever week, there’s more reason than ever to get out there and enjoy some live music. Keep…
Which Deshaun Watson Trade Suitors Match His Criteria?
Last week, reports surfaced coming out of Super Bowl week that Deshaun Watson and his camp had added a couple more possible landing spots to their evaluation of Watson’s football future. Everyone acknowledges that his LEGAL future is probably of more importance at this time. That said, it was Jeremy…
ROCO Explores The Human Experience In Canvasing The Earth
ROCO will marry images to music in ways that will leave attendees gobsmacked during Canvasing the Earth, taking place on Saturday. The performance will include a world premiere piece titled “Neither Men Nor Money Justify My Worth,” honoring survivors of human trafficking by Leanna Primiani and commissioned by the League of American Orchestras. This performance…
Dishes Leader Jimmy Raycraft Exits Stage Left
Jimmy Raycraft was unique, in the strictest sense of the term. Sui generis. If you caught his act, you would never forget him. Raycraft, a phenomenally talented guitar player possessed of a surreal sense of humor and an obsession with mayonnaise, passed away on February 8 after a lengthy illness…
The Riptide Phantoms On Borrowed Time
It can be very hard to shift gears and try something new in life but sometimes, circumstances just push people to go ahead and take a chance. Houston’s longtime ska musician Billy Munoz knows this feeling firsthand. After being known for his work in ska bands, like The Skatastrophics and…
NYC’s Ratas En Zelo Challenges Your Punk Rock Presumptions
Imagine this, punk rockers — a punk band with no guitarist. Joey, Tommy and Dee Dee but no Johnny. Also, visualize it as an all-woman group and almost all of its songs are in Spanish. If that sounds awesome – and why wouldn’t it? – you don’t have to daydream…
Freeze Framed in February: Houston Gardening
The residents of the Lone Star State have good reason to be traumatized by the ups and downs of February temperatures. In 2021, not only were we in the second year of the COVID pandemic, but many of us were huddling in below-freezing temps in our own homes, melting snow…
Deshaun Watson Depositions Postponed To Start In Early March
For the last few months, depositions have been ongoing with some, but not all, of Deshaun Watson’s 22 civil lawsuit accusers. With Watson himself scheduled to begin going under the deposition microscope later this week (February 24, to be exact), the depositions of his accusers and the ongoing criminal investigation…
Rodeo Uncorked Best Bites 2022: It’s On Again
Houston, we have a rodeo. Last night, NRG Center was packed with cowboy hats, leather boots, turquoise jewelry and the people sporting them. The Rodeo Uncorked! Best Bites event was cancelled for 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. This year, Rodeo Houston has returned and even though we are warned…
Opinion: Our House Wants a Very, Very, Very Fine (School) House. Can HISD Afford It?
For years during her turn as a Houston ISD school board member, Jolanda Jones regularly railed against “inequities” — the unequal offerings at the district’s schools – paying particular attention to the lack of libraries at many HISD schools, usually in poorer neighborhoods. For a school district constantly falling behind…
Rockets Youngsters Show Out at All-Star Weekend
The Houston Rockets had no member of the NBA Western Conference All-Star team this year. It was deserved given their youth and awful record. But it didn’t stop three of their young players from putting on a show in the events leading up to Sunday’s All-Star game. In the Rising…
It Takes Two to Make Kitino Right
To understand the thoroughly modern aesthetic the Houston indie rock duo Kitino has laid out in its fine new album Even in My Dreams, you might need to travel back 50 years and follow the story of a couple of Bard College students who met, bonded over shared musical interests…
Telling the Hamilton Story Through Aaron Burr’s Eyes
Long before it was a Pulitzer Prize-, Grammy- and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, when Hamilton was still in its formative workshop stages, actor Josh Tower was in one of the original readings, taking on the part of George Washington. Chris Jackson ended up getting the part in the original Broadway…
NFL Coach Suing Houston Texans Lands Job With Pittsburgh Steelers
The NFL head coaching cycle closed a little less than two weeks ago, and in terms of sheer numbers of openings and the storylines swirling around the hiring cycle itself, it’s safe to say that this might have been the most newsworthy head coaching job-fest of the last several years…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Eat Good Food and Support the Houston Food Bank
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long EatDrinkHTX benefiting Houston Food Bank The Cleverley Stone Foundation’s newest Houston Food Bank benefit event, EatDrinkHTX, will run through Monday, February 28. Similar to Houston Restaurant Weeks but with a lower price point, the two-week fundraiser will focus…
Please Bear With Us While We Transfer Our Stories
Recently some of our readers have noted they can’t locate some of our stories from earlier years in our publication history. No, there’s nothing wrong with their computers. And no these stories aren’t “purged” from our data base. In late November, the Houston Press was sold to its new owners,…
A Steady Rain Pounds Away at a Bad and Badder Cops’ Dilemma
It’s a dark and stormy night. Two Chicago beat cops, best friends since “kinnygarten,” sit under the glare of pendant lights in the interrogation room. Denny (Kevin Daugherty) is the hot head, the bully who takes no prisoners, might club you without warning, a definite alpha; Joey (Trevor B. Cone)…
A Selfish Focus Hamstrings Random Acts
Every time Renata Hinrichs, a white girl, interacts with a Black person, something bad happens to her. She innocently tries to reach out and connect and she’s met with harm, physical or emotional. It’s a troubling thing to walk out of a show with this as the main takeaway. Especially…
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time Starting Today
Girl Scout troops including those in the Houston area will be fanning out across a 26-county region starting Friday, February 18, to set up booths to sell those fund-raising, in-demand cookies. During what’s been declared National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend 2022, more than 50,000 San Jacinto Council Girl Scouts will…
Openings and Closings: H-Town Restaurant & Sports Bar Opens, Van Leeuwen Soon
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, 888 Westheimer, opens at the Montrose Collective February 23. Founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2008 by brothers Ben and Pete Van Leeuwen and Laura O’Neill, the ice cream is made with top quality ingredients. Over the years, the company has innovated to add vegan ice…
Overview of Houston Texans Players Signed for 2022 and Beyond
No NFL team was set up for more player turnover after the 2021 season than the Houston Texans. With just 11 remaining players from their 2019, 2020, and 2021 drafts, and with a few dozen veterans on one year deals for 2021, you will definitely need a program once again…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: There’s A New Hot Chicken in Town, Plus A Chili Throwdown
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Crawfish Season Kickoff at Flying Fish Friday-Sunday All weekend long, Flying Fish will offer four pounds of crawfish for $20 (without corn and potatoes). Regular price for the season will be $8.95 with corn and potatoes. Grand Opening at…
Four Thoughts as the MLB Lockout Drags On
Right now, pitchers and catchers should be tossing baseballs across the diamond in preparation for the start of spring training. Right now, we should be in the throes of discussing what teams will be doing in the MLB season and how the NL is going to handle the universal designated…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Uncharted
Title: Uncharted Describe This Movie In One The Mummy (1999) Quote: EVELYN: You lied to me. JONATHAN: I lie to everybody. What makes you so special? Brief Plot Synopsis: Henley hunk heists hoard, henches himbo. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 2 Tawny Kitaens out of 5. Tagline: N/A Better Tagline: “Fitzwahlbergo” Not…
The Rumjacks Raise a Pint to Celtic Punk Rock
When Johnny McKelvey’s photo shows up on the Zoom screen about 10 minutes past the scheduled interview time, it’s something of a surprise since he’s not the band member scheduled to appear. But he’s all apologies. “Sorry, it’s Johnny! Mike wasn’t able to do the interview, so they just told…
Bad Bunny Rolls Into Toyota Center
Bad Bunny El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo Toyota Center February 16, 2022 Two years ago. That was the last time I attended a concert at Toyota Center. It was December 2019, and Bad Bunny was already one of the biggest names in music. Three studio albums later, the hottest ticket…
Amerikin Tackles Understanding And Accountability
Jeff is a husband and an adoring father to a newborn. He’s gainfully employed as a security systems manager with long-time close friends. Loyal friends that have his back. Yes, he swears a lot. But then everyone in town does. No big deal. He’s a good guy, they say. And…
Houston Republican Candidate for District 7 Claims She Hired “Illegals”
President of Blum’s Furniture, Tina Blum Cohen, admitted in bizarre Facebook thread last year that she hired “illegals.” Cohen is currently vying for the Republican nomination to challenge Lizzie Fletcher in District 7. Fletcher unexpectedly flipped the district in 2018, and since the redistricting is now almost certain to retain…
Four Thoughts on the Rockets Heading Into the All-Star Break
For teams like the Rockets, All-Star weekend is mostly time off. Three of the young guys will get their first chance to enjoy the festivities, but everyone else will get a break from the grind. No doubt they would prefer to be in the thick of the All-Star action because…
Celebrate National Margarita Day with Happy Hours, Drink Specials and More
From tequila-fueled happy hours and frosty margarita deals to one place handing out free margs to those 21-and-up, here’s where to honor thy margarita in Houston on National Margarita Day this Tuesday, February 22. Axelrad Beer Garden, 1517 Alabama Tequila fans can sip $5 house margaritas all National Margarita Day…
Border Kids: The Los Sundowns And Nuevo At The Continental Club
Beto Martinez and Dante Schwebel each have many musical projects that have made them familiar names; Martinez with Grupo Fantasma, Brownout and Money Chicha and Schwebel with his bands Spanish Gold and Hacienda. With each artist’s respective new project, their talent and heritage are continuing to shine. Martinez along with…
Immersive Frida Kahlo Animates the Famed Mexican Artist
Mara Kahlo is standing in at the edge of a large room in a converted building near the intersection of Beltway 8 and I-10. Her gaze wanders in awe across the four walls that surround her. “It’s an honor and a responsibility to be here. I get emotional even now,”…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Go Full Texan with a Lone Star Style BBQ Party on the Patio
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: On Tuesday, February 22, Ouisie’s Table Restaurant, 3939 San Felipe, will celebrate 2/22/22 with a special multi-course menu offered for $22 per person. Choose from a salad or the soup of the day, mains including a…
Deshaun Watson Reportedly Adds Two Teams to Preferred Trade Destination List
For the second year in a row, Houston Texan fans will be spending their spare time concocting hypothetical trades involving Deshaun Watson. This time a year ago, the belief was that the team would either hold firm with Watson and force him to play here in 2021, or trade him…
Antonio Eyez To Perform At Wonky Power
Since opening in 2014, Wonky Power has actively supported and provided a space for many local artists to perform. Throughout the pandemic, they have helped music fans stay connected to new artists with their weekly Wonky Power Live Music Sessions. This Friday, February 18 Antonio Eyez will be performing along…
Houston Concert Watch 2/16: Bad Bunny, Underoath and More
Is it just me, or are we finally reaching the point where there’s more live music to enjoy in a week’s time than there is time in a week? I’m ecstatic and hope you are too. Keep scrolling to see what’s on tap through the weekend. Carolyn Wonderland Continental Club…
Simone Biles and Houston Texans Safety Jonathan Owens Get Engaged
The NFL season is officially over, as of this past Sunday, so now we move onto the important things that occur during an NFL offseason — the scouting combine, free agency, the draft, and PLAYER ENGAGEMENTS! That’s right, if you’re an NFL player already under contract, you can focus on…
Elle King and Her “Teeny, Tiny Bandmate” Hit the Road
Elle King has confessed on record that she’s “not America’s sweetheart.” Her latest hit is about staying out too late and drinking too much. She’s a tattooed love girl who’s even done a viral version of that song about necks and backs (you know the one). The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter…
Checking on Race and Community in Amerikin
Jeff Browning (David Matranga) is a young father who decides he could use a little help in his new role. Thanks to a friend, his search for support leads him to a white supremacist group — which at first seems an outlandish premise until you consider that for some people,…
Backstreet Cafe: Picture Perfect Patio Day
The winter months in Houston this year have been up and down temperature wise. And though we are used to the fluctuations, this year seems particularly erratic; 70 degrees one day, 35 degrees the next. Last week, however, a bright sunny day with temps in the low 70s and no…
Super Bowl 57 Odds Hint at Difficult 2022 for Houston Texans
Sunday night, the Los Angeles rams and Cincinnati Bengals capped off what was, unequivocally, the most drama laden postseason in the history of the NFL. Over the last three weeks of the postseason, there were seven games. Six of those games, including Super Bowl 56, were decided by exactly three…
Lil Keke Returns WIth His New Album LGND and The Promise Of A New Book
Tobe Nwigwe closed out his sold-out tour at 713 Music Hall in December inviting out artists like Royce Da 5’9”, Cyhi The Prince, Mumu Fresh, and a string of Houston musicians. Standing in the back of the crowd, leaning against a wall, was a father looking on as his son…
Andre Johnson Falls Short in First Bid for Hall of Fame
In the wake of the promotion of Lovie Smith to head coach, and the positive vibes from the ensuing press conference on Tuesday, the hope was that the Houston Texans could keep the positive momentum going through the end of the week with the announcement of the 2022 Pro Football…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Wine and Dine Your Valentine
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, February 14 Valentine’s Day Dining (Dine-In and To-Go) From bubbly-popping, candlelit dinners to fun and tasty nights on the town, check out our Valentine’s Day Dining Guide; or find the preorder and to-go options with steaks, chocolate, bubbly and romance…
Review: Horizon Forbidden West
To get it out of the way, Horizon Forbidden West is a beautiful, well-crafted game that has an engaging story and a brilliantly conceived post-apocalyptic world. The sequel to 2017’s critically-acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn picks up shortly after the epic final battle with the Hades artificial intelligence. Now, former outcast…
Andy Aledort: The Axeman Cometh
The most common questions that master guitarists tend to get asked is “When did you first pick up the instrument?” and “How did you decide to make a career out of it?” Via Zoom from his home in New York, a wry smile creeps across Andy Aledort’s mouth hearing the…
The Double Feature Show Is Short But Could Be Sweeter
After almost two years bereft of in-person performance thanks to COVID, it seems our joy at being back in the theater comes with a caveat. Don’t make the show too long. Whether it’s a collective fragile attention span forged from those endless months staying home with nothing to do, or…
TUTS Delivers a Sparkling Revival of South Pacific
Can you imagine the rush that the Broadway audience at the Majestic Theatre experienced April 7, 1949, when that splendidly rich overture to South Pacific rolled over them? Exotic and exciting, that exceptional sound of Robert Russell Bennett’s orchestrations of Richard Rodgers most characteristic score, using the haunting “Bali H’ai”…
Four Thoughts on a Frenzied Trade Deadline Day for the NBA, Rockets
The NBA is a wacky place, particularly on the day of the trade deadline. That was Thursday and, as usual, the Rockets made a deal sending Daniel Theis to his former team, the Boston Celtics, in exchange for Dennis Schroder (plus Enes Kanter Freedom and Bruno Fernando). It wasn’t the…
Openings and Closings: Loro Houston Soon, Wild Oats to Sow Now
Loro, 1001 W. 11th, opens February 23 in the Heights. This is the third location for the Asian smokehouse and bar, a culinary partnership between James Beard Award-winning chef and pitmaster Aaron Franklin and James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole. Its other two locations are in Austin and Dallas. Loro…
2022 NFL Head Coach Hiring Report Card: What Grade Do Texans Get for Lovie Smith?
After what Texans GM Nick Caserio says was an exhaustive, inclusive search for a head football coach for the Houston Texans, and after the Saints promoted their DC Dennis Allen to head coach, all nine head coach openings this hiring cycle have now been filled. So, we now go through…
Guitar Slinger Rocky Hill Rides Again on New / Old Album
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. That pithy phrase accurately summarizes the career (and life) of guitarist Rocky Hill. Seemingly destined for fame, he blew multiple opportunities and ended up only a memory in the minds of those who frequented Texas blues clubs decades ago. Hill didn’t record much, but a newly released…
The Snubs, Flubs, and Hubbubs Of The 2022 Oscar Nominations
To paraphrase the motto of the U.S Postal Service, neither pandemic nor Disney nor anemic box office attendance will stay the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from its appointed rounds of trying to make you care about the Oscars. The nominations for the 94th Oscars were announced earlier…
Werewolves Versus The Wizard of Oz: Wolf Among Us is Back!
Even for a company famous for making incredible video games out of licensed properties, Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us in 2013 was a high-water mark. Based on the popular DC comic series about mythical characters living secret lives in New York City, it was both a critical and financial success…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Go Extra, EXTRA Hot This Valentine’s Weekend
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Valentine’s Day Weekend Dining Out and To-Go Friday-Monday Several Houston restaurants and bars are ready to up your romance game, offering an array of indulgent bites this Valentine’s Weekend. Check out our Dining Out and To-Go Valentine’s guides to…
How to Watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe “Right”
The Marvel Cinematic Universe might honestly be the greatest shared film and television creation of all time. Whether you like superhero films or not, it’s hard to argue that producer Kevin Feige has managed to weave a tapestry of interconnected stories like no other. What defines it the most from…
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Names its 2022 School Art Champions
With thousands of entries, the young artists portion of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo continues to grow in size and to impress with the many talented students in the area. Class champions and Reserve Class Champions were named in the categories of Colored Drawing, Mixed Medium, Monochromatic, Painting, 3D,…
Gilbert O’Sullivan Won’t Be Alone at Tour Opener in Tomball
In the spring of 2020, the UK-based Gilbert O’Sullivan was excited about coming to the United States. in April for his first tour of these shores in a while. Then, of course, the world (and the entire concert business) shut down. And while that was devastating for most bands and…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Anti-Valentine’s Day and an Old-Fashioned “Beer & Beefsteak”
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Downtown charity bar Angel Share, 924 Congress, will host “Valentine’s Day is Trash,” an anti-Valentine’s Day celebration this weekend. Pop in Friday, February 11, Saturday, February 12 or Monday, February 14 (closed on Sunday for Super…
What’s Most Important For Texans GM Nick Caserio To Get Right?
There is no doubt that Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio is sitting on the cusp of several franchise-altering decisions, decisions that will be his legacy as a general manager, and could determine just how long he sits in his powerful role as architect of the Texans. With a new…
White Oak Music Hall Offers a Special Chance to Get Tickets Today for the Turnpike Troubadours in May
Fans of the Turnpike Troubadours will have a special chance tonight to buy pre-sale tickets for the country music group from Oklahoma scheduled to appear at White Oak Music Hall on May 7. Thing is, it’s an in-person only event scheduled for the day before the general sale starts Friday…
THEBROSFRESH Keep It Fresh Yet Familiar
It can be hard to convince people to listen to new music. Often people turn to their trusted favorites when they want to hear something comforting and even the most enthusiastic music lover doesn’t always make the effort to explore new artists. THEBROSFRESH seem to have found the perfect formula…
If Fran Lebowitz Doesn’t Remember You, Then “You’re Not Memorable”
“The main thing about COVID is it presented to me such a large number of things I have never previously thought about. So now I’ve thought about them, and I’m finished thinking about them.”
Houston Concert Watch 2/9: Caribou, Killswitch Engage and More
Over the next week, Houston might have its best weather of the year. Lows in the 40s and highs in the low 70s? Yes, please. Which means, none of us can use the cold as an excuse to stay indoors. And given how much good live music there is to…
Four Thoughts on Lovie Smith’s Introductory Press Conference as Texans’ Head Coach
About ten minutes into the introductory press conference for Lovie Smith on Tuesday morning, unveiling him as the fifth head coach in Houston Texans history, a fire alarm interrupted the proceedings. It came right in the middle of some of the most anticipated and intense questions being asked of the…
Finally, Caribou Brings Suddenly to Houston
“When you hear that I’ve done a math PhD you assume something about the kind of person that I am, and those assumptions are largely right I think. I’m a kind of nerdy, cerebral person in a lot of ways.” Dan Snaith, mastermind of electronic music act Caribou, is in…
Fresh Arts Has a New Executive Director and a New Considerations in its 20th Anniversary Year
Championing the work of local artists takes on a whole new meaning during a pandemic and its many legacies yet to be seen. How do visual artists show work if would-be customers are told to stay home? How do they continue to pay rent on studio space if there’s little-…
Houston Restaurants Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday With Takeout and Dine-in
The Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams will face off in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, February 13 (game time’s at 5:30 p.m.), and Houston’s got the goods to celebrate. Whether you’re heading out to the bar or enjoying the Big Game at your own watch party, these Houston bars…
The Two Tastes of Ambrosia
Sometimes, bands can have two entirely separate musical lives. There’s the group that casual listeners “know” from their successful, Top 40 hits. Then there’s a different side understood by more hardcore fans and deep cut listeners. Such is the case with Ambrosia. Ambrosia’s place in music culture is cemented by…
Houston Swerve: Texans Now Leaning Toward Lovie Smith for Next Head Coach
If you haven’t come to the realization yet that the Houston Texans don’t do anything like a normal NFL team, then I would say “Welcome to Houston!” You must have just arrived here within the past few weeks, and if you didn’t know it before you went to bed last…
Charlie And The Regrets On Walking Away
Nothing says Texas like good honky tonk music in a small bar where the band somehow manages to make the audience alternate between a sweet two step and drowning tears in their beers. Charlie and The Regrets have provided this quintessential Texas experience in and around Houston since 2014 and…
Italian-Americans “Play Ball!” in Sports Documentary
It was 1926 and New York Yankees General Manager Ed Barrow was concerned about the number of people in Yankee Stadium. Not his players on the field, but the empty seats in the stands that could be (and should be) filled by members of the ticket-buying public who might also…
This Week in Houston Food Events: An Epic New Omakase and Valentine’s Weekend Dining
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All week long Galveston Restaurant Week The beloved island tradition of Galveston Restaurant Week returns, running now through Sunday, February 13 and featuring discounted prix fixe menus from dozens of the Island’s finest eateries. This year’s lineup includes hotspots like BLVD…
Houston Texans Head Coaching Search Down to Two Finalists
The Houston Texans came into the weekend with three finalists for their head coaching vacancy, all three of whom had recently received second interviews with the team — former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, current Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, and former quarterback for about a dozen teams (including the…
Some Strong Performances Can’t Overcome Script Problems in Mother of the Maid
Jane Anderson, playwright of Main Street Theater’s latest production Mother of the Maid, is an actress and award-winning, prolific TV writer whose career spans The Wonder Years, The Facts of Life, Mad Men, Olive Kitteridge, The Wife, and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. She’s been…
HGO’s The Magic Flute: It Looks Like a Silent Movie, Sounds Like Mozart
Houston Grand Opera’s presentation of Mozart’s final masterpiece, The Magic Flute, a co-production between Komische Oper Berlin and London avant-garde theater company 1927, is one for the ages. You haven’t seen anything quite like it. It is spellbinding, amazingly theatrical, state-of-the-art, and thoroughly mesmerizing. A feat of theater prestidigitation of…
Tool Returns To Toyota Center Following COVID-19 Postponement
Tool Toyota Center February 4, 2022 Given two and half hours of stage time, most bands could play a few dozen songs. But not Tool. Nearly 120 minutes into their sold-out performance at Toyota Center on Friday, after just 10 tracks, drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor…
An Increasing Number of Politicians Get Bitten By the Crypto Bug
Cryptocurrency may be coming to a Texas government in 2023. Turns out there has been an upswing in the number of politicians across the country who think it’s a good idea to bring it into government and this state has its share of adherents. Take for instance the 2022 midterm…
Openings and Closings: Juliet’s Entrance, Kenny & Ziggy’s New Digs
Juliet, 5857 Westheimer, opens to the public September 7 after the dining hotspot’s soft opening this past weekend. The doors will open at 5 p.m. and guests can make their grand entrance through the movie theater-style marquee. The theme is carried through with a mock movie theater lobby with a…
Trish Cramblet Returns To Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge
As 2021 was winding down, Houston singer songwriter Trish Cramblet released her third studio album Supernova. She celebrated with a performance at The Continental Club and then took a much needed break. “I put everything on the backburner a little bit,” says Cramblet, who is ready to get back on…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Eat Good on the Island
Here’s a look at this weekend’s tasty food and drink happenings: Galveston Restaurant Week All weekend long The beloved island tradition of Galveston Restaurant Week returns, running now through Sunday, February 13 and featuring discounted prix fixe menus from dozens of the Island’s finest eateries. This year’s lineup includes hotspots…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Jackass Forever
Title: Jackass Forever Describe This Movie Using One Road House Quote: DALTON: Pain don’t hurt. Brief Plot Synopsis: Right. Rating Using Random Objects Related To The Film: 3.5 Marcel Marceaus out of 5. Tagline: “Some people never learn.” Better Tagline: “Who stunts the stuntpeople?” Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Johnny Knoxville leads his merry band…
Opinion: Greatest Hits of Candace Owens, Ted Cruz’s SCOTUS Hopeful
When Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, President Joe Biden vowed to fulfill a campaign promise to fill the vacancy with the Supreme Court’s first Black woman. Republicans, who prefer all nominations be picked by the Federalist Society, promptly freaked out. Our own Sen. Ted Cruz waded into the fray…
Thursday Night Freeze Should Be Manageable for Houston
It’s been a downright gloomy and cold day in Houston with temperatures hovering mostly in the 30s and wind chills in the 20s. Fortunately, we have not had much in the way of precipitation. That could change during the early evening hours Thursday as a line of rain and sleet…
Could David Culley Join the Brian Flores Lawsuit Against the NFL?
It all went down on Tuesday afternoon, but the Brian Flores racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the NFL is still sending shockwaves throughout the league two days later, and likely will for quite some time. In particular, the New York Giants, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, and the league itself have…
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Houston ISD and Other Area School Districts Continue to Wait and See About the Weather [UPDATED]
Houston ISD just announced that while school is open today, it has canceled all afterschool activities because of the inclement weather. Later today HISD will announce whether there will be school on Friday. Other area school districts such as Conroe ISD seem to be following a similar pattern with school…
Catching a Cuppa With Joss Stone
Joss Stone is handed a warm “cuppa” midway through our discussion of all the things she’s involved in these days. It’s a lengthy, exciting, even life-changing list, so we patiently wait as she savors a quiet moment and a sip of tea. As it has since she was just a…
Houston Democrats Want White House to Investigate if Nurses Are Paid Too Much
So much for healthcare heroes. A bipartisan group of 200 members of the U.S. House of Representatives has sent a letter to the COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients asking for an investigation into whether travel nurses are being paid too much. “The persistent strain of the pandemic has required…
Plenty of Fear, Plenty of Loathing in New Hunter S. Thompson Biography
Certain individuals among us – primarily those of us who were once teenage males, fancied themselves writers, and edited their high school newspapers during the 1970s – could recite this passage from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas verbatim: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: March Returns with a Journey to Southern France
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: One of Houston’s finest tasting restaurants, March, 1624 Westheimer, is reopening for reservations with a focus on Southern France’s Occitania beginning Thursday, February 10. The luxe tasting experiences ($175 for six courses and $225 for nine,…
Ronnie Scott’s Doc Blows Jazzy Tales of the Man and the Club
“Only really an idiot would really go into the jazz club business. Let’s face it.” – Ronnie Scott For more than six decades, jazz fans have flocked to London’s Soho District with one destination in mind: to glide through the small, nondescript door of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Since its…
Texas Winter Freeze 2022: How Will It Affect Houston?
PTSD from weather is real. In Texas, it seems to be a routine affliction with the fear of flooding, hurricanes and even severe drought embedded in the memories of all of us. Last year, we added freezing winter weather to that list of night terrors thanks to days of sub-freezing…
Houston Concert Watch 2/2: Tool, Faye Webster and More
February is already here folks, so I hope you’re making the most of 2022. I’m already behind on my reading, but now’s as good a time as any to get things back on track. Keep scrolling to see some concerts worth considering this week. Hope to see you all out…
It’s Time For Mozart’s The Magic Flute at HGO With, Of Course, The Queen of the Night
In recent years, Rainelle Krause has spent much of her time traveling Europe and performing the Queen of the Night role in which she gets to sing lyrics like “Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart” a anguished, angry lyric rendered all the more ominous by being delivered in German. “I’ve been…
Four Thoughts on Brian Flores’ Historic Lawsuit Against the NFL
The date was June 25, 2009. The iconic Farrah Fawcett passed away that morning. Throughout the day, regardless of format, radio stations paid tribute to the pop culture tour de force that was Farrah Fawcett. Then in mid-afternoon, Michael Jackson, perhaps the greatest pop culture icon in the history of…
Houston Texans Down To Three Finalists For New Head Coach
The Houston Texans’ search for the fifth head coach in franchise history appears to be winding down, as the team announced on their Twitter feed yesterday that they had “completed discussions” with three of the candidates who had received first interviews: All you need to do is follow national NFL…
Opinion: Danny Harrison’s “Pro-Choice” Stance is Anti-Vax
On the surface, Danny Harrison looks like he might be a more palatable Republican choice for Texas governor. Right now, Governor Greg Abbott, former head of the Texas GOP Allen West, and former Texas State Sen. Don Huffines are in a three-way battle for the nomination to see who can…
Amazon’s Extra-Large New Reacher Series Puts Tom Cruise Back On The Shelf
The character of Jack Reacher, the subject of 26 (and counting) Lee Child novels and two movies (more on those later), is patently ridiculous. The ex-Army MP major is an expert in hand-to-hand combat, a master sleuth, and an Olympic class sniper. Oh, and he stands six feet, five inches…
These Houston Restaurants Are Offering Romantic Meals To-Go Valentine’s Day 2022
Staying in this Valentine’s Day? These Houston restaurants are here to help, featuring preorder and to-go options with steaks, chocolate, bubbly and romance. For those who prefer to dine out, check out our Valentine’s Day Dining Guide for an evolving list of Houston restaurants open for reservation and dine-in service. Central…
Four Thoughts on Tom Brady’s Retirement (Including Texans Ripple Effect)
If I can brag for one moment, one superhero power that I possess is that I am quite proficient in remembering EXACTLY where I was when almost any bit of news occurred. I don’t know if that means I possess a memory that is somewhat photographic, and I suppose it…
Mr. Almodóvar, The Marías Are Ready for Their Close-Up
María Zardoya has got “it,” that wow factor that can take a fine project like the indie pop band she fronts to exciting and dizzying heights. Zardoya is the vocalist for The Marías. The Los Angeles-based band is gaining all kinds of momentum on the strength of Cinema, its exquisite…
Kate McLean: A Chef’s Return
“It was like this precious, precious gift was put in my hands. I was thinking please, please don’t drop it. This was everything I wanted, to carry on in my mentor, my good friend’s footsteps,” Kate McLean says, cradling her hands together as she talked about her return to Tony’s…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Crawfish Season Has Begun
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Tuesday, February 1 Ambrosia of Puglia Olive Oil Tasting at the Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston ICCC, 1101 Milford, will host an olive oil tasting event in collaboration with Maria Cristina Giliberti, professor at Rice University and representative for…
Houston and Harris County Public Libraries Report a Surge in Ebook and Audiobook Lending in 2021
The Houston Public Library has reported a record-breaking number of ebook and audiobook checkouts in the past year as fear of spreading the coronavirus kept people out of in-person visits for many months. It’s the proverbial silver lining found amid the disappointment to both patrons and library staff that during…
The Gin Blossoms Get Miserable Again
It was March 2019 and the last chords of “Cheatin’” rang out over the audience at Houston’s House of Blues. It’s the last track on the Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience, and the band was performing their 1992 breakthrough record in its entirety on this tour. Houston was the last…
Houston Texans Narrowing Down To Finalists In Head Coach Search
This slow hiring cycle to fill all the vacancies, a number that rose to nine openings last week when Sean Payton stepped away from the New Orleans Saints, is finally starting to gain some steam. Three spots were filled late last week — Denver hiring Packers OC Nathaniel Hackett, Chicago…
To Prepare You For Jackass Forever, Here’s A Recap Of Their Best (Meaning Worst) Stunts
The fourth and (mercifully) final installment in the Jackass film series comes out next week. Jackass Forever will feature new faces (Jasper Dolphin, Zach Holmes, Rachel Wolfson and others) replacing Bam Margera, who was fired by Paramount while shooting, and Ryan Dunn, who died in a 2011 car wreck. The movie will…
Bali Ha’i and South Pacific Are Calling at Theatre Under the Stars
Director Taibi Magar tends to do a lot of newer, experimental plays. But when Theatre Under the Stars Artistic Director Dan Knechtges approached her about doing South Pacific, she readily said yes. “It’s my mother’s favorite musical. She’s the reason I’m in theater. She introduced me to the world of…
Openings and Closings: Noe’s Cafe Opens,The Ranch Saloon + Steakhouse for Rodeo
Noe’s Cafe, 2120 Spring Stuebner, opened January 26. We mentioned their soft opening last week but we have more details about the new restaurant opening at The Market at City Place. It’s the third concept for Wanalee and Adam Gorelick who also operate Noe’s Crepes in Conroe and Charm Thai…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Bets: Omakase at East Side King, Tet at Xin Chao
Here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: New Omakase at East Side King Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. 401 Franklin The POST Houston has a number of great restaurants and kiosks to get a diverse culinary experience. East Side King, the Austin import from James…
New York Giants Owner, John Mara: “We Are Not Trading For Deshaun Watson.”
We are sitting on the one year anniversary this weekend of the day that Deshaun Watson’s camp made official his desire to be traded away from the Texans. It was January 28, 2021, within about ten minutes of the hiring of David Culley as Texans head coach becoming official, that…
Houston Chamber Choir’s Hear The Future Spotlights K-12 Choirs
The sweet voices of Houston’s K-12 choirs will fill the sanctuary of South Main Baptist Church during the Houston Chamber Choir’s 22nd annual Hear the Future invitational choral festival this Sunday.
Mika Abdalla’s Map to Success Includes Some Familiar Musical Roads
Mika Abdalla is the star of Sex Appeal, one of Hulu’s newest and smartest films. The teen sex comedy is the latest stop on a professional journey that began more than a decade ago for the 21 year-old Texan and all indications are she’s charting a course to more thrilling…
High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest at the Alley Offers Teen Drama on Repeat
May I suggest a moratorium on high school plays. Not plays performed in high schools. Good Lord, no, more of those, please. More arts, more music, more theater. High school theater invokes some of my most fragrant memories (I wasn’t voted Best Thespian in senior year for nothing.) No, I…
The Hag Gives Readers the Good, the Bad, and the Merle
Some years ago, a radio station was about to switch its format. Management decided to, as they say in the business, “stunt” for a week or so prior to the debut of their new programming lineup. Then someone came up with the idea of playing nothing but Merle Haggard all…
Opinion: The Disturbing Face of Left-Wing Anti-Vaccination Adherents
It’s an inarguable fact that the majority of American anti-vaccination sentiments during the age of COVID tend to fall along the right wing of the political spectrum. Red states have fewer vaccinated people than blue states, prominent right wing media figures like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are responsible for…
Upcoming Events: Maize Dinner, Lunar New Year Festivities
Maize, 14795 Memorial, is celebrating its grand opening with an all-day party February 3. It will begin at 11 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting from the Houston West Chamber of Commerce. In the evening, there will be a five-course wine dinner accompanied by live mariachi music and other festive touches. Executive…
Does Roger Clemens Get Another Chance After Falling Short In 2022 MLB Hall of Fame Voting?
For ten years now, at about this time on the calendar, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds have been part of the Baseball Hall of Fame class reveal, and for ten years, the two have fallen short. For the last several years, there have been upward ticks in their collective momentum,…
Sherita Perez Is Back For A Reggae Brunch
Sherita Perez left Houston just shy of two years ago. After a long tour that took her all the way to New Zealand, she decided to try her luck in Humboldt County, California just as the pandemic began in 2020. There she has found a home, complete with an in-house…
Astros Still Locked Out: How Long Will It Go On?
Despite Major League Baseball and the players’ union meeting twice this week (hey, that’s progress!), they remain far apart on key elements of a new collective bargaining agreement according to multiple reports. The players have dropped proposals that include changes to the age of players eligible for free agency and…
Dan Crenshaw Wants a Law to Exempt Healthcare Workers From Vaccine Mandates
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on vaccine mandates, Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX 2) is pushing a bill that would exempt healthcare workers from having to be inoculated against COVID-19 by federal mandate. “Just last week over there at the Supreme Court they voted down the OSHA…
Public Approval Ratings For Each Houston Texans Head Coach Candidate
As you probably know, if you’re a regular visitor to this space, the Houston Texans are in the midst of the search for their fifth head football coach in franchise history. Tomorrow, it will be two weeks since they fired David Culley after just one season as the team’s leader…
Houston Concert Watch 1/26: P.O.D., WOMH Benefit Show and More
Where did January go? On the bright side, if this year seems to be getting away from you already, that means there’s probably some warm weather around the corner come February. In the meantime, bundle up and go enjoy some live music this week. P.O.D. Warehouse Live – 01.28 In…
Things Conservatives Get Wrong About 1984
Conservatives love to miss the point of popular literature. I’ve lost count of the number of conservatives who didn’t get that the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged were crony capitalists, not the mean old government, and let’s not even get into the ones who think Jesus wanted people to be…
Bayou City Funk At Heights Theater
Bayou City Funk has been steadily building a fanbase and following in and around the Houston area with their explosive live shows as they have easily become the city’s go to funk band. Last year the band hit some great local milestones playing Discovery Green and The Art Car Ball…
Where to Dine Out in Houston This Valentine’s Day 2022
Love is in the air, or is that chocolate lava cake we smell? Either way, Valentine’s Day is coming up soon, and Houston restaurants are ready to help you and your beloved celebrate. From bubbly-popping affairs and candlelit dinners that will bring on the romance to fun and tasty nights on the…
Faye Webster Delivers Fan Favorites Pitch by Pitch
We read a few Tweets from fans to Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster for her impressions. “Can’t hear y’all over being a little bit’h listening to Faye Webster,” elicited a laugh from her. A second proclaimed, “Faye Webster heals my wounds,” and a third suggested “Faye Webster could hit me with…
Vast Majority of NFL Head Coaching Hires End In Failure
Monday represented the two week mark since the end of the 2021 NFL regular season, and we still had none of the eight head coaching vacancies filled. The Texans are one of the eight teams searching for their next leader, just one year after hiring David Culley. Friday will be…
A Theoretical Timeline: When Exactly Will the Rockets Be Better?
It can be difficult to pay attention when your team is having a rough year. The Rockets are in the midst of one of their worst ever. It was to be expected given all the turnover and young players on the roster, but it still can cause even the most…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Free Eggs, a Crawdad Party and a Gumbo Cook Off
Tuesday, January 25 Steak Night at Nett Bar Some people like Taco Tuesday but we think a great steak deal is even better. At Nett Bar, 4504 Nett, Tuesday is a special Steak Night beginning at 6 p.m. For $20, guests can savor a 14-ounce ribeye or 8-ounce filet along…
Houston Texans Head Coaching Search: Why Not DeMeco Ryans?
Right now, there are eight NFL teams searching for a new head coach. That is a normal number for a league that cycles through about 25 percent of its head coaches each offseason. It’s now been two weeks, though, since the regular season ended and none of the head coaching…
Shemekia Copeland’s Search for Civility
Sometimes in the practice of music journalism, even if your Friendly Neighborhood Scribe has scheduled and reconfirmed a date and time for an interview with a musician, sometimes they’re taken off-guard when they actually pick up the phone. But it’s OK that the great blues singer Shemekia Copeland seems a…
Dance Nation Mines Familiar Pre Teen Tropes
Turns out there’s only so many times you can have the word “pussy” screamed at you from the stage before you start to lose interest. Not that there’s anything wrong with the word. Especially not when it’s coming out of the mouths of 13-year-old girls grappling with their pre-womanhood and…
The Rocket Man Sir Elton John Touches Down in Space City
And it’s been a long, long time. “You’ve had your tickets for 747 days. I can’t thank you enough for coming tonight and hanging on to those tickets. This is so nice to be back playing to people after 22 months,” said Elton John Friday night, following a goosebump-inducing show…
Opinion: How American Fascism Got So Diverse
It was very weird to watch Tim Scott, the first Black senator from South Carolina, downplay the nationwide, conservative-led movement to disenfranchise voters in the recent, doomed effort to pass voter protections in the U.S. Senate. Republican legislatures across the country, including in Texas, have sought to institute massive restrictions…
Pivoting Because of COVID-19, Fresh Arts Cancels Its Ball and Opens an Auction
Fittingly enough given that it is peopled with creative types, the leaders of Fresh Arts, the non-profit supporting the arts, when faced with yet another rise in COVID-19 numbers have dropped their plans for a money-making ball and instead came up with a pop-up action. The Unbelieve-A-Ball scheduled for Saturday…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Hops n’ Hot Sauce, Vegan State Fair
SIPPLE Pop Up at Axelrad Friday, 7p.m. 1517 Alabama To end out Dry January or to get some motivation to continue it, head out to the SIPPLE Pop Up happening at Axelrad Beer Garden this Friday. SIPPLE founder and self-described beverage nerd, Danny Frounfelkner, will be behind the bar at…
Opinion: Things NOT to do on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that always has an enormous amount of pressure on it. Chalk to up to decades of pop culture and advertising messages if you want to, but that societal background radiation is still a hell of a drug. We often get so caught up…
Houston Texans’ 2022 Salary Cap Still a Gigantic Mess
Coming off a 4-13 record in 2021 and a second consecutive offseason that has begun with a search for a new head coach, it’s hard to see progress with the Houston Texans. You have to figuratively squint really hard. Like REALLY, REALLY hard. I promise you, though, that there is…
Openings and Closings: Back Table’s New Chef, Austin Waiter’s New Gig
Back Table Kitchen and Bar, 2301 Millbend, has brought in a new chef de cuisine, Jonathan Lestingi. His background includes working as chef de partie under Patrick O’Connell at The Inn at Little Washington, and a decade spent in New Orleans, Louisiana working at such venerable spots as Brennan’s and…
Debunking The Many When We Were Young Conspiracies
There’s a lot of money to be made selling you your past. Long before culture critics were wringing their hands over the lack of new ideas on the big screen and the endless parade of reboots on the small screen, the music industry was reselling the masses their teen years…
Mother of the Maid at Main Street — the Joan of Arc Story Through a Mother’s Eyes
Imagine, if you will, having a child so full a blend of religious and patriotic zeal that she not only straps on armor to lead her countrymen to war, but persuades a king that it’s a good idea and takes two of her brothers along to go into battle with…
Mardi Gras Galveston 2022 Gets Ready to Go Live
Accompanied by a new special bead recycling program, Galveston’s 111th Mardi Gras celebration is about to return to the Strand District over two weekends from February 18 through March 1 and will feature a concert lineup that includes 3 Doors Down, Matt Stell and Siggno. Headliner 3 Doors Down will…
New Non-Profit Media Outlet Planned For Houston
An as yet unnamed new non-profit news outlet has announced plans to open a region-wide in Houston in late 2022 or early 2023, saying it “will answer the community’s calls for additional news coverage.” A coalition of five foundations — three of them local — is funding the effort with…
Houston Film Critics Society Announces Their 15th Annual Award Winners
In what comes as no surprise to those following along, the Houston Film Critics Society were big fans of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, awarding it Best Picture, Best Director (Campion), Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), and Best Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee). In addition, Johnny Greenwood shares Best Score…
Omicron Cancellations And Postponements Take A Toll on Houston Theater Actors
First, the holiday shows started canceling performances. Often at the last minute. Some productions ended their runs early while others pushed out opening dates by weeks. Then, as if COVID hadn’t done enough damage to the theater scene in Houston, an entire Broadway touring production was pulled from the schedule…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Woodlands Whiskey Dinner, EatDrinkHTX Soon
Mark your calendars because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: In our younger days, we loved to cruise all the fun hot spots on the Richmond Strip but there was always a cozy English pub for just hanging with friends when a night of partying was…
Bayou City Comeback Chorus Lifts Every Voice
Dr. Martin Luther King famously said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Houston powerhouse Kam Franklin seems to have embodied his timeless message with her latest release: Bayou City Comeback Chorus available for streaming now. The EP may only be four songs long, but it packs…
Carlos Correa Hires Superagent Scott Boras To Get Megadeal
The Major League Baseball lockout has essentially served as a gigantic PAUSE button on everything baseball related — news, free agency signings, Astros sign stealing jokes, EVERYTHING. If you’re an Astros fan, all it’s really served to do is extend the bed of pins and needles on which you rested…
Some People Call Them the Space Cowboys? Skeeters Reportedly Change Name
The Sugar Land Skeeters always seemed to have a distinctly Houston vibe to them even if they were half an hour from dowtown. They started from basically nothing with no major league affiliation, built a really cool ballpark in a suburb of the sprawling city, and gave themselves a nickname…
Mail-in Ballot Applications Are Being Flagged for Rejection at 7 Times the Rate of Previous Elections
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, echoing the rising chorus of complaints about what is happening with the state’s new applications for a ballot-by-mail thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 1 in the last legislative session, said Wednesday that “The attacks we’re seeing on voting are but a thinly veiled…
Omicron Delays Production of Houston Revenge Film
COVID-19 continues to deeply affect the Houston arts community. One of the most hotly anticipated new films, Jeremy Sumrall’s Hellfire, has officially been delayed because of outbreaks among the cast. It was supposed to start filming this week. “Due to circumstances behind any of our control, thanks to the rising…
High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest at the Alley
As the play begins, Dara, a high school senior, is trying to rally his troops who’ve suffered an unexpected, humiliating loss the previous year. It’s not just the kids who feel a need to do better. Adults are here too, coming up with what they hope are new winning strategies. Anyone…
Nick Caserio Discusses NFL Draft, Jack Easterby and Deshaun Watson’s Future on SportsRadio 610
Since arriving in January of 2021 to take over control of the football operation of the Houston Texans, general manager Nick Caserio has been a bit of a public relations conundrum. On the one hand, he has made himself more voluntarily available to the media than any previous Texans general…
Houston Concert Watch 1/19: Elton John, Samantha Fish and More
January is halfway over, Houston. I hope you’re making the most of 2022. Below, you’ll find a few options for some great live music to enjoy this week. Be sure to check the forecast before leaving for the show, because the next week’s forecast is all over the place. Elton…
Copy of Deshaun Watson Settlement Offer Revealed
With the Houston Texans’ 2021 season over, with the NFL playoffs in full swing, we are on the cusp of the second year of what’s become an annual tradition here in Houston — Deshaun Watson trade rumor season! Now, my guess is that this tradition will end after this spring,…
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HISD Campuses Will Be Closed Tuesday As Well Because of COVID-19 [UPDATED]
Houston ISD has decided to remain closed on Tuesday, January 18 after being closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This affects students and all HISD staff (unless called in by a supervisor). The reason given in the HISD announcement is that there has been a significant rise in…
Vegas Odds on Next Houston Texans Head Coach
When you’re in the sports talk radio business, particularly for the flagship of the local NFL team, searches for a new head coach can be a very conflicting thing. On the one hand, they are tremendous for content, for clicks, for ratings, essentially all the things that pay my salary…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Oysters Galore at Brennan’s
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: Monday, January 17 Houston This Is It Opens for MLK Day This soul food restaurant is one of the oldest African-American owned restaurants in the city, having been founded in 1959. Houston This is It Soul Food, 2712 Blodgett, is normally…
How Bluesman Tinsley Ellis Got Pandemic Prolific for New Record
Ever since the first mass-produced automobiles began rolling out of factories in the early 1900s, many drivers have used their time on the open road to ponder their present or plan their future. Tinsley Ellis had a long road—a very long road—to do just that in March 2020. Only six…
The Lifespan of a Fact at 4th Wall Pits Poetic License Versus Fact
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Perhaps, this axiom should apply to The Lifespan of a Fact (2018), a didactic essay masquerading as a play via 4th Wall Theatre Company. Let’s keep this in Vegas. What’s surprising about this one-note comedy is that it took three writers to put…
The Sainted Sinners in Dialogues of the Carmelites at Houston Grand Opera
In one of opera’s most powerful and haunted finales, 16 nuns are guillotined in Francis Poulenc’s remarkable Dialogues of the Carmelites. This is no spoiler since after the stunning La Scala world premiere in 1957 no one talked of anything else. The opera is renowned for this ultra-dramatic final scene…
Neither Comedy Nor Tragedy Can Truly Make R.U.R. Come To Life
To say that Classical Theatre is presenting Karel Čapek’s 1921 sci-fi play, R.U.R, a work that first introduced the word “robot” to the English language, is factual but not entirely instructive. To truly capture the essence of this production, it’s far more wholistic to say that Jon Harvey is directing…
Opinion: Fear of a Unionized Starbucks
The coffee giant Starbucks has been in the news a lot lately as more and more of its stores unionize. Employees are walking out in an organized fashion and are starting to demand safe conditions and fair pay. Naturally, conservatives tend to teabag the comment sections of these stories with…
Openings and Closings: Daily Gather Opens, Stella’s Debuts
Daily Gather, 800 Sorella Court, opened January 11 at CityCentre. The new concept comes from Aaron Lyons, founder and CEO of Five 12 Restaurant Concepts, along with owner Trent Patterson and Culinary Director Brandi Key. Lyons is best known for his farm to table concept, Dish Society, which has six…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Title: Hotel Transylvania: Transformania Describe This Movie In One Love at First Bite Quote: COUNT DRACULA: Children of the night, shut up! Brief Plot Synopsis: “What if we were the monsters all along?” Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 1.5 crystal skulls out of 5. Tagline: “Change Can Be Scary.” Better Tagline: “But Not As…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Betty White Cheeseburger, Early Mardi Gras
Here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: Anniversary Party at Verna Mae’s Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. 16010 West Road Verna Mae’s is celebrating its four-year anniversary just in time for the start of crawfish season and Mardi Gras. There will be plenty of boiled mudbugs from…
Houston Texan Fan’s Guide To Rooting For Former Texans In NFL Playoffs
In case you hadn’t heard, the Houston Texans are not in the NFL playoffs this postseason. This makes two straight seasons with the Texans on the outside looking in come playoff time, with a virtual guarantee that it will be three years in a row come NEXT January. Needless to…
Houston Texans Fire David Culley After One Season
Someday, hopefully a long, long time into the future, my grandkids will be bouncing on my knee and they will look up from their phones long enough to ask me “Grandpa, when did you know that the decision to hire David Culley wasn’t going to work out?” Then, after wondering…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Drink to Betty White, Eat a Billy F Gibbons Po’Boy
Mark your calendars because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Betty White Tributes Betty White, one of America’s most-loved comediennes and actresses, passed away of natural causes December 31, 2021, just a couple of weeks shy of her 100th birthday January 17. Americans were preparing to…
Houston Texans 2022 Opponents Have Been Determined
As the good teams in the National Football League prepare for the beginning of the postseason this weekend, the remaining 18 teams, one of which is the Houston Texans, look ahead to their own version of the postseason — the draft, free agency, POSSIBLE coaching changes, and the 2022 schedule…
Tony Kamel Talks About Back Down Home, Gets COVID and Cancels Houston Appearance
The Gulf of Mexico is the largest gulf in the world and for many Houstonians, it’s their first point of reference for ocean life. Tony Kamel, frontman of Wood and Wire, knows the Gulf well and its influence served as inspiration for his debut solo album, Back Down Home. Back…
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down Bizarre Astronomy
Neil deGrasse Tyson will drop by, thanks to Society for the Performing Arts, on January 17 at Jones Hall for Astronomy Bizarre to help walk us through some of astrophysics complexities – or at least try to help us understand them.
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Rice Students Object to New 24-7 Live Webcam on Campus [UPDATED]
The addition of a live 24-7 webcam system covering the main academic quad at Rice University which the university maintains is designed to show off the iconic beauty of that location, has run into an increasing number of student critics who say it invades their privacy, encourages stalkers and find…
HGO’s Dialogues of the Carmelites Finds Redemption Amid Fear and Chaos
Christine Goerke has been to the graves in Paris — the last resting place for the nuns who were beheaded during the French Revolution because, as it turns out, it wasn’t only the rich who had much to fear from the revolutionists. Goerke, the renowned soprano, is back at Houston…
How Lisette Guerra’s Handmade Piñatas Are Helping Houston’s Music Scene
Even with vaccines, boosters and all the precautions we’ve learned to practice, live music continues to struggle during COVID times. As venues attempt to maintain their music calendars, especially smaller ones which host local acts, a boost is needed, something that reminds us of the celebratory nature of live music…
Houston Concert Watch 1/12: Trampled By Turtles, Washed Out and More
We’re less than two weeks into 2022, and I’m already behind in my resolution to see more live music. But there’s always time to turn it around, and the recent announcement of RodeoHouston’s Star Entertainer Lineup should make for a pretty busy March. In the meantime, scroll down to see…
THE INFINITE Makes Its Landing In Space City
THE INFINITE, the first multi-sensory, interactive virtual reality experience to transport visitors aboard the International Space Station, has touched down in Houston for a limited run. The 12,500-sq.-ft. exhibition is an extension of the recent Primetime Emmy Award-winning immersive series, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, the largest production ever filmed in space, produced in association…
Four Major Indicators the Houston Texans Could Be Firing David Culley
A couple weeks ago, on the heels of back to back wins with a COVID ravaged roster, it appeared as though the Houston Texans were widely expected to be bringing David Culley back for a second season as the team’s head coach. While his rookie season had been mostly a…
RodeoHouston® Tickets Go on Sale Thursday Morning
On your mark, get set and be ready to go for it as the online waiting room for RodeoHouston® opens at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, January 13 with the sale of individual starting at 10 a.m. through AXS Ticketing via rodeohouston.com. Ticket prices start at $20, plus a $4 per ticket…
Grading the Rockets Young Players at the Halfway Point
This season has been almost entirely about growth for the Houston Rockets. Wins were never going to come easy and they haven’t. At the halfway mark, the team is 11-30 having lost nine of their last 10. This was expected given the complete overhaul of the roster with a bunch…
Ten Best Shows of 2021
Horror, comedy, fantasy, whimsy, harsh realities and lyrical dreams all vied for our attention among the best shows of the year in 2021. Streaming and cable were never so important companions to us as the pandemic continued and left us at home more than we ever thought possible. If we…
Healthy Houston: Eating Right in 2022
With the continuing pandemic and new Omicron variant, there has never been a more important time for Americans to eat healthier and more thoughtfully. For some, resolutions have been made to lose weight. Others may be determined to eat less meat or no meat at all for ethical, health or…
Samantha Fish is “Confident and Full of Swagger”
Samantha Fish has gotten to where she is by doing things her own way. And that includes maintaining her surname. More about that later. The fruits of Fish’s individualism will on display when she appears at the Heights Theater on Saturday, January 22. As is the case with many artists…
Four Players the Texans Should Cut To Save Cap Space
WIth the NFL regular season now over, the part of the calendar that really matters more for the long term well being of the Houston Texans is here — the 2022 offseason. What happens over the next four months — free agency, the draft, and the eventual trade of Deshaun…
Hidalgo Invokes Code Red Once Again
As had been expected, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo officially moved the county’s coronavirus watch into the red or highest threat level Monday, citing the surge in cases locally thanks to the Omicron variant. Even though Omicron generally does not cause the severity of illness or death that the earlier…
The Arc Angels Soar Again at Four Texas Shows
Of all the gifts that fans of Texas-bred rock and blues could have gotten during the holiday month of December, no one was expecting Saint Nick to bring a reunion announcement for the much-beloved Arc Angels. The band, which includes original members Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton (vocals/guitars) and…
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Brings Its Show to Houston With Emily Marsh
Maybe it’s pandemic-think, we suggest to Emily Marsh, but we see something deeply philosophical about Mystery Science Theater 3000, the long-running cult television series which blends puppets, comedy and bad movies together. We tell Marsh, the show’s newest host, we think sitting through a terrible film is akin to facing…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Marathon Carb Up at Russo’s & More
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary offerings: Monday, January 10 Pork Shank Monday at King’s BierHaus We have never understood why people make resolutions to lose weight in the coldest month of the year. It goes against our bodies’ normal inclinations to bulk up for the winter. That’s…
Bike Lanes in Houston Are a Joke
Houston is a car city. It always has been and it likely always will be. The massive size alone in all directions makes planning for and building alternate forms of transportation nearly impossible due to the cost and infrastructure needs. But, for all the complaints you’ll hear from pedestrians and…
NFL Week 18: Titans 28, Texans 25 — Four Winners, Four Losers
For the 2021 Houston Texans, the word “progress” is a relative term. When your team is picking third in the draft, almost by definition, the season has contained very little progress, particularly when you consider that, for the second straight season, the Texans finished with just four wins. However, this…
Openings and Closings: Burger-Chan and Underbelly Burger Open, Chi’Lantro Coming
Burger-Chan, 5353 W. Alabama softly opened its location in the Galleria January 3. Terming it burger-chan 2.0, the new restaurant was meant to be a second location for the concept from Diane and Willet Feng. Unfortunately, in August 2020, the couple decided to close the Greenway Plaza food court location…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
The 355
Title: The 355 Describe This Movie Using One Spies Like Us Quote: RUSSIAN: Every minute you don’t tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger. FITZ-HUME: Mine or yours? RUSSIAN: Yours. FITZ-HUME: Damn! Brief Plot Synopsis: Sisters are doin’ it for themselves. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To…
22 for 2022: Houston Women Carrying Hip Hop Into The New Year
Women have always been apart of Hip Hop but have not always been in the forefront. Pioneers like Roxanne Shante opened the doors for artists like Queen Latifah and MC Lyte who in turn opened the doors for Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Lauryn Hill, Eve, Missy and others. Their legacies…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Underbelly Burger Opens, Crawfish Arrives at Monkey’s Tail
Here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: Art Market at Finn Hall Friday, 6 p.m. to midnight 712 Main It’s been a week since New Year’s Eve, so it’s time to get back in the saddle and celebrate the second weekend of 2022 with some hip-hop dancing, art,…
NFL Week 18: Titans-Texans — Four Things To Watch For
Sixty more minutes of football, and one of the stranger seasons for the Houston Texans will come to an end, as they face off against the Tennessee Titans on Fan Appreciation Day this Sunday afternoon at NRG Stadium. While the last two years have been littered with instances of the…
Chances These Rockets Players Will Still Be in Houston After the Trade Deadline
The NBA trade deadline is February 10, just over a month away. The Rockets, a very young team with future success likely two to three seasons away (or more), is probably going to be active in this year’s trade market. We all know their big name rookies will remain a…
RodeoHouston Announces its Complete 2022 Star Entertainer Lineup
Starting off with Cody Johnson on Monday, February 28 and ending with George Strait on Sunday, March 20, the 2022 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo hopes to get back into the full swing of things after going on hiatus because of COVID-19. Wednesday night the rodeo revealed its full lineup…
Stacking Up Andre Johnson Versus 14 Other Pro Football Hall of Fame Finalists
The Andre Johnson campaign for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame picked up a significant and crucial wave of steam over the holiday weeks, as Johnson was named one of 15 finalists for induction into the Canton, Ohio shrine this coming summer. The decisions will be made later…
Some Missouri City Residents Hilariously Upset About the New Cindie’s
It’s 2022, and you would think that the days of being up in arms over a shop that sells vibrators, lube, and lingerie would be behind up. Not to judge by the conversation (since removed) that was happening on Next Door in Missouri City over the erection of a new…
BowiElvis Fest Returns to the Continental Club
According to astrology, Capricorns are the hardest working and most determined of all the signs. Two famous Capricorns live up to this description and will have their yearly combined birthday party courtesy of Splice Records with their thirteenth annual BowiElvis Fest. BowiElivis celebrates Elvis Presley and David Bowie and will…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Prime Rib Specials, Galveston Chili and Beer Fest
Mark your calendars because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Yaga’s Chili Quest & Beer Fest returns to Galveston January 15. The event runs from noon to 5 p.m. and takes place in Galveston’s Historic Strand District at 2302 Strand. Will call begins at 11 a.m…
HISD’s MLK Competition Remembers the Man and Opens All Kinds of Doors
In 2017, Nhedrick Jabier became the first Puerto Rican student to win the MLK oratory competition for Houston after coming in first at his home school. On Friday, his younger brother Xedrick hopes to do well in the semi-finals competition and follow Nhedrick’s example all the way to the finals…
Filmmaker Mel Brooks Focuses on Himself
In his new autobiography, Mel Brooks provides behind the scenes accounts of his classic films and regales the reader with stories from his life in show biz.
Latest Big Board of Deshaun Watson Trade Suitors
No sport weaves soap opera storylines into its tapestry better than professional football. Watching shows like NFL Live on ESPN each afternoon is as much about the drama surrounding the league’s key stars as it is about X’s and O’s, on-the-field stuff, and if there’s an NFL franchise that is…
Replace Your Booze Binge with These Binge-worthy Podcasts in Dry January
Happy New Year! It’s Dry January and you’ve committed to going sober for the month so good luck to you, friend, especially if you’re one of the many binge drinkers out there. According to the CDC (you’ve heard of ‘em, yeah?) binge drinking is “the most common, costly and deadly…
Houston Concert Watch 1/5: Mother Mother, TWRP and More
Well that was quite a cold front, wasn’t it? Personally, I welcome the return of the warmer weather. But I’ll admit that lower temperatures helped it feel a bit more like Christmastime, even if they made me not want to leave the house. A new year is upon us, and…
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Opening Night of Hadestown at the Hobby Canceled by Illness, Including, Yes, COVID [UPDATED]
Audience members eager to see Hadestown brought to the Hobby Center by Broadway Across America were disappointed Tuesday when the opening night performance was canceled. The notices to ticket holders began going out in late afternoon from the Hobby Center: “We regret to share that tonight’s performance (Tuesday, Jan 4)…
The Power Of The Dog Is Compelling Enough To Lead The 2021 Houston Film Critics Society Nominations
Jane Campion’s unsettling Western, The Power of the Dog, leads the 2021 Houston Film Critics Society nominations with nine, including Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Supporting Actress (Kirsten Dunst) and Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Winners will be announced February 19. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, and Sian Heder’s…
Twenty One For 21: Top Albums From Houston Artists From 2021
Houston continues to push toward the forefront of music. The rise of new stars like Meg Thee Stallion, Beatking, Lizzo, Khraungbin, remind the rest of the world about the deep musical roots that exist in the city. This year is no different. In late 2020, we released a list showing…
First Look: Krazy Dog Korean Corn Dogs
I have never been a fan of hot dogs but corn dogs are another matter. The deep-fried cornmeal batter transforms the humble weenie into something sublime and I usually enjoy mine with more yellow mustard than a person should eat in one sitting. So, when I saw that Krazy Dog…
David Culley Expected Back for Second Season With Texans, Per Source
If we are speaking generalities about criteria for retaining a head coach in sports, I would say “meeting or exceeding preseason expectations” should be at the top of the list. “Expectations” as a concept can be a bit nebulous. After all, whose expectations are we talking about? Well, in my…
Blues Band GA-20 Howls About the Hound
So, where’s the bass? That is the question that comes to mind when first encountering the Boston-based blues band GA-20, a trio comprised of two guitars and drums. No piano. No organ. No bass. Speaking via Zoom, GA-20 guitarist Matthew Stubbs explains that the band’s minimalist approach has its roots…
“Dino-Dad” Donnell Rawlings Dishes on Podcasting with His 5-Year-Old and His Role in PIXAR’s Soul
Despite the state of the world around us, last year turned out all right for veteran cut-up Donnell Rawlings. “2021 was a set up from what should have been the worst year of my career, and I made 2021 into one of the best years of my career,” the Chappelle’s…
Opinion: No One Cares About Your Friendship With a Bigot
Over New Year’s Eve, comedian Patton Oswalt got himself sent to Cancelvania because he agreed to come perform a guest spot with Dave Chappelle. The two have been friends for decades, and it was Oswalt’s first chance to do an arena gig. Later, he posted a photo of him and…
Sorting Out What to Do With Christian Wood and Kevin Porter, Jr.
On Saturday night, the Rockets lost yet another game, this time at the hands of the Denver Nuggets. There was nothing inherently wrong with posting an L against last year’s MVP in Nikola Jokic and one of the better teams in the Western Conference. What was disheartening was the news…
NFL Week 17: 49ers 23, Texans 7 — Four Winners, Four Losers
Well, it was fun while it lasted. When the epitaph is written on the depressing 2021 Houston Texans’ season, at the very least we can say that they enjoyed one actual wining streak during the season. Ironically, it will have occurred when their roster was the most depleted it’s been…
Aml Ameen Discusses Boxing Day and Its Musical Gifts
Bumping around the streaming services for holiday films recently, we came across a notable new entry, the British holiday romantic comedy Boxing Day. The film joins The Holiday and Love Actually in the niche genre, but Boxing Day is also a one-of-a-kind celebration of Black British culture. Streaming on Amazon…
This Week in Houston Food Events: Soup’s On, Tamales Depart
Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings: All Month Long National Soup Month This is the month to enjoy a hot bowl of nutritious soup, especially with the cold temps that have finally made their way to Houston. Last week, we told you about Brennan’s famous turtle soup…
Here’s Your Presumptive 2022 Movie Preview
Movie theaters made something of a comeback in 2021, with dual release strategies fading and more and more new movies advertising as “only in theaters.” Even so, studios still hedged their bets, shoving several major features to next year or beyond. Any 2022 preview, therefore, comes with the caveat that…
The Singers Helping To Move Houston Into The New Year
Last week we put out a list of the city’s produce’s to watch, honoring a subsection of the industry that often gets overlooked. There was no way we could capture all the producers that contribute to the city’s music scene we were able to highlight a few and today we…