Tireless Daughter Works to Keep “Skydog” Duane Allman’s Legacy Alive
“It’s always interesting to meet someone who says they are an ‘expert’ on my dad, because a lot of them want to try and challenge me.”
College Football Playoff Picture: Who Controls Their Own Destiny?
Eight weeks into the season, when it comes to the subject of the 2016 College Football Playoff, we can safely say three things: 1. The field has separated itself into four Power Five undefeated teams that are head and shoulders above everyone else, all of whom, if they win out,…
The Jayhawks Soar Back Into Houston, Paging Mr. Proust
They initially come to prominence under the alt-country/No Depression banner in the mid ‘90s. But no listener to the whole discography of the Minnesota-bred Jayhawks could ever accuse them of sticking to any single genre. Their latest effort, Paging Mr. Proust, actually manages to straddle a very fine line: parts…
NFL Week 7: Broncos 27, Texans 9 — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Stop me if you’ve heard this before — the Houston Texans went on the road last night in prime time and played one of the better teams in the NFL. They proceeded to put the entire city of Houston through a three-hour root canal, which by the fourth quarter, had…
Waffling on Where to Get a Waffle? Try These Five Houston Spots
When it comes to nooks and crannies, English muffins have nothing on waffles, which is why they serve as a terrific base for a spectrum of savory and sweet toppings and fillings. Such versatility also enables the noble waffle to obviate being restrictively classified as “only a breakfast food” and…
All the Young Dudes Go “Wham, Bam, Thank You, Glam!”
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, From the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century By Simon Reynolds Dey St. Books, 704 pp., $18.99 Ah, Glam Rock. That elegantly wasted, decadently fashionable, gender-bending, sleazily poppish, and colorful eye-popping genre awash in glitter, spectacle and teenage hormones. While not as big or successful…
Lookin’ for Adventure? Head Down I-45 for Galveston’s Lone Star Rally
Get your motor runnin’, Galveston, because the Lone Star Rally is rolling into town with cool bikes, hot times and beaucoup greenbacks. The event (which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year) is on cruise control right about now, having found that sweet spot between too small and becoming an unwelcome guest. “About…
NFL Week 7: Texans-Broncos — Four Things To Watch For
The 24-hour period from kickoff of the Texans’s 26-23 win over the Colts last Sunday through the following evening (a couple hours after I got off the air for my Monday afternoon show on SportsRadio 610) was one of the strangest periods of Texans football consumption that I can remember…
The System is Rigged: Politics as a Video Game
Rigged is a word that has definitely gotten out of hand this election cycle. I still run across sore Bernie Sanders supporters feverishly asserting that the Democratic primary was rigged against the Vermont senator. Donald Trump is currently going around the country telling whoever will listen that if he loses…
Eat the Best Chocolate Cake in Houston
I never thought I’d meet a chocolate cake I didn’t like—until we tasted 14 cakes side by side. From gargantuan high-brow restaurant slices to humble local bakery offerings, most cakes revealed some unexpected strengths and weaknesses in relations to the other cakes. Let it be noted that while each cake…
Recounting Houston’s Worst Cases of Animal Cruelty
Why people mistreat animals, we will never know. But sadly, animal abuse happens far too often in the Houston area. Here are some of our most-read stories about mistreated animals in recent years. Houston Punk Musician Accused of Hanging Tortured, Decapitated Cat Inside MetroRail Car A 23-year-old Houston man active…
A Bunch of Houston Brunch Posts
It’s the weekend and we’re here to help you with your today and tomorrow plans. Here’s some of our all-time great, most read stories about brunches in this town. Start mapping out your plans now. The 12 Best Brunches in Houston for 2016 (With Video) Brunch might be Houston’s most…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Tacolandia Has Arrived
From a fall wine fest to a taco extravaganza, here’s a look at this weekend’s best culinary happenings: Brenner’s Fall Wine Fest at Brenner’s on the Bayou Saturday, 3 to 6 p.m. 1 Birdsall Brenner’s on the Bayou’s inaugural Fall Wine Fest features eclectic wines, chef-crafted bites and live music along…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Title: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: Bart: There’s just no room in this modern world for an old man and…his ducks. Brief Plot Synopsis: Taciturn ex-soldier runs from the authorities and his own past. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Two copies of Frank Zappa’s Joe’s…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: Get Tickets to the Houston BBQ Throwdown
Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings. from a bakery pop-up to taco and BBQ throwdowns: Last weekend, Oporto Fooding House & Wine, 125 West Gray, launched its Portuguese-inspired pop-up bakery and coffee shop, NATAS. The pop-up is meant to embody the authentic…
LGBT Arts Take the Stage With the Rainbow Unicorn Cabaret
The unicorns have come out to play. FrenetiCore is launching its newest show this weekend: the Rainbow Unicorn Cabaret. Staged at The Pilot on Navigation, the show serves as a celebration of love, life and community through LGBT-based performance art. On three Saturdays – October 22, November 26 and December…
Openings & Closings: Hello, Hello Peli Peli Kitchen
After a week of soft openings, Peli Peli Kitchen (PPK) officially opened its doors on October 18. The restaurant enlisted local artist, Jon Garner to add painted murals of pop icons and to the space at 1010 Campbell. Everything from the LED lighting system and ‘80s new wave and pop…
25 Years Later, Austin’s Yogurt Shop Murders in the News Again
WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS? Cold Case: The Yogurt shop Murders By Beverly Lowry 373 pp. $27.95 Alfred A. Knopf Even those who didn’t live in Austin in 1991 still hear the words “yogurt shop” and automatically finish the phrase with “murders.” The early ’90s was a more innocent time –…
Best Bets for This Weekend’s College and NFL Games
As if we haven’t covered this topic ad nauseam, there was one last add on Big XII expansion that came out after we did our Tuesday post on where the University of Houston goes from here. Apparently, the “unanimous” vote by the conference’s ten member schools to remain at ten…
First Look at Deacon Baldy’s
Deacon Baldy’s was birthed from a simple vision: a place to drink great beer, eat great food and hang out with family and friends. The spacious new food truck park in The Woodlands (well, technically 5447 FM 1488, Magnolia) —which just held its grand opening on Friday, October 14—certainly delivers…
Experience Dinner on the Farm at Finca Tres Robles with a Chef-driven Menu
This November, Chef Ben McPherson will venture outside the kitchen – literally – during a casual one-night farm dinner at Finca Tres Robles, his first-ever event at the urban farm located in 2nd Ward. The affair will take place from 5:30-10p.m. on Saturday, November 5 in an intimate setting highlighted…
Snap Kitchen Launches 6 New Vegan Entrees
Snap Kitchen, the health-focused takeaway chain that was founded in Austin recently released six additions to its current line of vegan offerings. These creative additions span the gamut from Creole “crab cakes” to spicy dan dan noodles to veggie pot pie and are all gluten-, dairy- and meat-free. CEO Dave…
The Politics of Punk Tracks Populist Protest Music Far and Wide
In The Politics of Punk: Protests and Revolts From the Streets (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), Houston Press writer David Ensminger probes the conscience of punk by documenting its ongoing activism and outreach. Creating a people’s history of the movement’s social, cultural, aesthetic and political life, the book features interviews with members of…
Ten Things to Do in Houston for $10 or Less (Seven Free), October 20-26
Now, we’re not saying it’s time for turtlenecks and hot toddies, but we are saying that this is the perfect time of year to get out of the house and really explore all that the Bayou City has to offer. As we ramp up for Halloween, we’ve got some happy…
Houston Acts Who Should Open for Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan may not appeal to diehard country types, but give the guy credit — he knows how to draw a crowd. As much will be evident this evening, when the “Crash My Party” singer plays before what is sure to be a packed Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion as part of…
The Second Ouija Movie Is Good, Scary Fun — but, You Know, for Kids
Have there ever been entertainment-media product tie-ins like the Ouija movies? The shriekingly enjoyable Ouija: Origin of Evil, like its less successful 2014 predecessor Ouija, lays out as its best case that the toy it’s advertising will destroy your life, maybe kill your family and damn your very soul. Thirty…
Veterinary Board Gives Cat-Killin’ Brenham Vet Probation
The Brenham veterinarian who killed a cat with a bow and arrow and posted gloating photos to Facebook in 2015 will not be allowed to practice for a year, followed by four years of monitored practice, the State Board of Veterinary Examiners ruled Tuesday. Kristen Lindsey, 32, claimed at the…
The Alt-Right Is Not Joking
I think it’s safe to say there will be college courses dedicated entirely to this election. Even the normally sedate folks over at FiveThirtyEight seem to be throwing their hands up in horror lately trying to understand what in the name of God is going on right now. We are…
HISD Principal Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Freak Accident Kills Woman
It wasn’t until the next morning, well after the crash, that Bertha Lazcano’s family found out what happened to their mother and wife. The 58-year-old mother of four and grandmother of two was driving home on U.S. 290 the evening of September 11 when the truck in the lane next…
Need Pan de Muerto for Your Dia de los Muertos Celebration? Try These Five Bakeries.
Dia de los Muertos, celebrated November 1-2, is a time to honor the dead. It is believed that during this time spirits of loved ones return to Earth to visit their families. In order to welcome them from their long journey, ofrendas (altars) are set up to nourish the souls and…
Former Texans LB DeMeco Ryans Suing Texans, NFL for 2014 Leg Injury
Up until Week 3 of the 2015 NFL season, the playing surface at NRG Stadium was made up of dozens of natural grass pallets, all pieced together every game day like a gigantic puzzle. The system was, at best, clunky, and, at worst, completely unsafe, and while it’s finally gone,…
Sounds of the City: Bobby Earth Runs With The Love Movement
The biggest difference between vocalists and rappers? Vocalists are outright perfectionists to a tee. Whenever something actually happens, we do a rap column here at the Houston Press. It’s called New Houston Rap because it’s about the latest rap coming from the city, the sounds that arrive the loudest, the…
Thanks to Slim Poll Margins, Is Big, Red Texas Now a “Battleground State”?
Donald Trump might as well be a dream come true for Battleground Texas, the organization that has been fighting for the past few years to turn Texas blue, or at least purple. Because according to new polls released yesterday from the University of Houston and the Washington Post/SurveyMonkey, Trump only…
First Look at Cafe Azur in Montrose
If you look back on the new restaurants that have opened this year in Houston, most have fallen within two categories: Established restaurants and groups that have opened new concepts or additional locations, and concepts from other cities that have opened branch locations in Houston. The examples are numerous. On…
Spooky Texas – Visiting The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Film Locations
In 1974, Texas was put on the scare film culture map with the release of what is acknowledged to be one of the most important modern American horror films. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was directed by Tobe Hooper, a director who’d spent a few years making documentaries and experimental films,…
How the Monkees’ Flop Flick Became a Cult Classic
The Monkees, Head, and the ’60s By Peter Mills Jawbone Press, 336 pp., $19.95 By the spring of 1968, the two-season stint of the Monkees’ TV show had come to an end, a vehicle that rocketed the “Pre-Fab Four” to massive success, millions of records sales, and a string of hits…
Can Controversial Sports Talk Host Josh Innes Find His Second Wind in Houston?
“I believe in talking about emotion, human emotion. Most people couldn’t tell you about the I formation or the ACE formation or a pro-style offense or a hook or a slant or a dig or a curl. They don’t care about that. They don’t care about cover-two, the cover-two press…
Mac Sabbath Brings Fast-Food Metal With a Side of Fries
As the former manager for an oddities museum in Los Angeles, Mike Odd is no stranger to unique characters. Kinda comes with the territory. “When you enter that sort of realm, you put yourself in a position where you start hunting down all the weirdest thing in the world,” he…
End Hip End It Dreams Up a Music Fest for the Rest of Us
Let’s just come out and say it: some Houston music festivals may be guilty of booking the same acts over and over again. And, they’re definitely posting up in the most familiar inner-loop green spaces. But why? Houston is a mammoth city with hundreds of music acts playing their guts…
Lesbian Pickpocket Fan-Fic: Park Chan-wook on His Lush Adaptation The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s Gothic lesbian tale of romance, revenge and (light) bondage, is the kind of electrifying indulgence only he can make. The film is a loose adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters’ 2002 thriller Fingersmith, about a female pickpocket who poses as a maid for a…
The Sensuous Moonlight Dares to Let Black Men Love
A question is posed to the main character of Barry Jenkins’s wondrous, superbly acted new film, Moonlight: “Who is you, man?” The beauty of Jenkins’s second feature, which follows his San Francisco–set black-boho romance Medicine for Melancholy (2008), radiates from the way that query is explored and answered: with specifics…
The Handmaiden Transcends Its Male-Gaze Sensuality
When Sarah Waters published her gothic lesbian suspense novel Fingersmith in early 2002, the U.S. was beginning a relatively speedy transformation on the LGBT front, building to today’s legalized same-sex marriage and a presidential candidate’s full-throated support for expanded LGBT rights. Buoyed by that shift, Waters’s story of clandestine female lovers…
Rob Zombie Digs Through the Ditches in 31 — and Finds More of the Same
Rob Zombie can do better than 31. For proof, just watch any other Rob Zombie movie. The musician-turned-filmmaker’s body of onscreen work is as nasty and brutal as you’d expect of a metal singer whose first band took its name from a pre-Code horror film, but it’s also been marked…
Ti West’s Crusade to Slow Movies Down Sputters in Cowboy Country
If I have to hear Ti West’s movies called “slow burns” one more time, I might set my laptop on fire right quick. West’s breakthrough hit, The House of the Devil, was a leisurely paced throwback to early ’80s Satanic panic — before the slasher, with plenty of obvious jump…
On the Screen, American Pastoral Loses Its Rich Sweep
“How could a big man like you fuck up like this?” That’s the question that Nathan Zuckerman fears being asked — in Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral (1997) — if he were to show the book he’s written about the tragic life of his old Newark classmate Seymour “Swede” Levov…
Keeping Up with the Joneses Has Every Reason to Be Jealous
Even those of us with a soft spot for dumb, high-concept Hollywood comedies might be outraged by the limp, unfunny nothingburger that is Keeping Up with the Joneses. A wan attempt to mix the comedy of domestic anxiety with the comedy of inept espionage — think Neighbors meets Central Intelligence…
After Big XII Rejects Expansion, What Now for University of Houston?
If you’ve been following Big XII expansion discussions in this space — and honestly, in Houston, nobody has been on this story longer than we have, going all the way back to our September 1 cover story LAST YEAR — stay with me for the next few paragraphs, ok? Back…
Houston Ranked Worst in LGBTQ Equality Among State’s Biggest Cities
While Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin boast perfect scores of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s new LGBTQ equality scorecard, Houston basically got a C-. The national civil rights organization graded dozens of major cities across the United States according to how fairly LGBTQ citizens are treated in city policies…
Watch the Final Presidential Debate at These Viewing Parties Across Houston
We’ve white-knuckled our way through two presidential debates, but the end is nigh: This Wednesday, at 8 p.m., the third and final debate of the 2016 presidential election will start. (And then we still have about three more weeks to get through before we’ll actually find out who the nation’s…
Comedy’s King of Sarcasm David Spade Coming to Houston Improv
Celebrity culture better run scared, David Spade’s coming to town! Comedy’s favorite smartass is back on the road with three shows at the Houston Improv, his first live gigs in while according to the Saturday Night Live star. “I’m doing a few sets at the Comedy Store [in LA] to practice for Houston,”…
Go for the Fried Chicken at Bonchon and Go Fast
At Bonchon, the combination plate of wings and drums, fried crispy and basted in soy garlic and spicy sauce, gives any other fried chicken joint in the city a run for its money. A small combo order comes with three giant drumsticks and four wings (two drums and two flats),…
Five Underrated Plays in the Texans’ Comeback Against the Colts
When I write on similar topics two days in a row, which happens a lot with the Texans during the NFL season, I at least try to mix up the way that I lead into a post on here. Variety is, after all, the spice of life. Also, recycling, while…
Upcoming: Billy Joe Shaver, BJ Thomas, Brian Wilson, Green Day, Joe Ely, K-Rino, Nobunny, Lordi, Sha Na Na, UFO, etc.
Note: Events in bold reflect highly recommended shows. 10000 Chiefs Under the Sea: With Treehouse Project, Glass the Sky., Fri., November 18, 8:30 p.m., $7. Satellite, 6922 Harrisburg, Houston. The After Party: Sun., October 30, 3 p.m., Free. Brenner’s On The Bayou, 1 Birdsall, Houston, 713-868-4444. Fri., December 2, 9…
Opening Up: Houston Restaurateurs Share Their Stumbles, Strategies and Insights
It was April 2009 and the third day since the grand opening of our first Peli Peli location, at Vintage Park. I was excited and proud of myself because I had finally persuaded a group of women to come try our unique, South African cuisine. A minute later, my server…
Case of Teen Shot by Off-Duty Cop Goes to Grand Jury for Fourth Time
The off-duty Navasota police officer working security at a northwest Harris County apartment complex thought he saw a teenager with marijuana. The teenager and his friend, sitting in a Chevy Malibu, thought they saw a robber approaching them with a gun. What began with officer Rey Garza’s mere suspicion, however,…
The Rockets Are Counting on James Harden to be the Leader This Year
On the surface, sports are a series of results, with winners and losers of in-game battles that all lead to a final score. The slew of final scores yield final standings, and eventually it all leads to one team as champion. However, sports are at their most engrossing when the…
Even Bro Country Has Its Bright Spots
The subject matter that comprises “bro country” includes but is not limited to such country-music staples as tailgates, Friday nights, cold beer nd overall good times. These subjects, when taken individually or collectively, are not particularly bad things. In fact, many would consider a Friday night on the tailgate, drinking…
Borders Blur In New Histories of New York/New Jersey Music
New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB By Steven Blush St. Martin’s Press, 496 pp., $24.99 Steven Blush has done something truly impressive and exacting here — distill the essence and core of the rock scene in the country’s largest city over four decades…
Archie Bell on “Tighten Up”: “I Hear It in My Sleep!”
On a recent sunny afternoon in Houston, I sat down with septuagenarian soul legend Archie Bell to discuss — among other things — his popular, perhaps improbable, smash hit from 1968: “Tighten Up,” by Archie Bell and the Drells. It’s the breakout early funk single that, according to Bell, “put…
Pfeffermansplaining: The Family’s Six Most Monstrous Moments in Transparent‘s Third Season
Season three of Amazon’s Transparent has few of the cratering events that have marked our time with the Pfeffermans up to this point, but it continues to reward thinking viewers as it considers issues of gender and identity, the intersection of theory and reality, the lingering impact of sexual abuse…
The Low-Heeled High Stakes of RuPaul’s All Stars 2
“Shit’s getting ugly in the RuPaul Drag Race.” —Janae, Orange Is the New Black RuPaul’s All Stars 2 has been perhaps the greatest season of the only reality-TV competition that matters. Logo TV’s Emmy-winning series is not only a mainstream ingress into a historically devalued, antinormative art form for an…
The Men Who Were The Thing Look Back on a Modern Horror Classic
The Thing died a noisy death when it debuted in 1982. In fact, this masterful paranoiac thriller about a vicious shape-shifting alien infiltrating a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica bombed so hard that director John Carpenter was fired from his follow-up gig working on Firestarter. (Roller Boogie director Mark…
A Biopic of a Distraught Journalist Does Too Little with Too Much
In one of the more bizarre coincidences of film scheduling, the brief life of a TV journalist whose biggest scoop was announcing her own death on air is recapitulated for the second time this year. Released in August, Robert Greene’s porous documentary Kate Plays Christine highlights the impossibility, even the…
Big XII Won’t Expand, Leaving UH in Small-Conference Purgatory
After months of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation, the Big XII conference on Monday decided it will not add additional schools, the Associated Press has reported — dealing a blow to the University of Houston’s aspirations to become a perennial powerhouse and the Cougars’s prospects of keeping head coach Tom Herman. UH was among a…
Ozomatli Preside Over a Raucous, Reggae-Tinged Party
Ozomatli, Gio Chamba White Oak Music Hall October 14, 2016 As with most of the songs in their repertoire, Ozomatli opened Friday night’s set by giving a Latino twist to a fun and familiar tune. As the lights dimmed upon White Oak’s sizable crowd, the theme from Star Wars sounded…
A Humble Chance The Rapper Leads a Spiritual Awakening at Revention
Chance The Rapper, Francis & the Lights Revention Music Center October 15, 2016 I’ve been wondering what exactly the number 3 represents for Chance The Rapper. It was embossed on a number of snapbacks, hats, T-shirts and more inside Revention Music Center Saturday night. It’s bugged me for months. Was…
NFL Week 6: Texans 26, Colts 23 — 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Sometimes, in football, it’s just about survival — if you’re an NFL team in 2016, those words have never rang truer. In a league where the only thing really assuring you of success right now is the presence of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick on your sideline, if you’re one…
Texas Medical Board Whiffs in Latest Crusade Against Controversial Doc
In its failed bid to strip controversial cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski of his medical license, the Texas Medical Board has done the unthinkable: It allowed the judges hearing the case to issue a preliminary ruling that would make great ad copy on the Burzynski Clinic’s website, right alongside dubious claims…
Fall Is Definitely, Without a Doubt, Coming to Houston (For Sure This Time)
If you happened to look at a thermometer and a calendar on Sunday, you might have wondered what the hell was going on. Granted, summer stretching out longer than expected in Houston is not terribly surprising, but 91 degrees? Even for Houston that’s warm for mid October (one degree off…
Dish of the Week: Baba Ghanoush
From classic comfort foods to regional standouts and desserts, we’ll be sharing a new recipe with you each week. Find other dishes of the week here. This week, we’re sharing a recipe that hummus fans can get down with: baba ghanoush. Baba ghanoush—also seen as baba ghanouj or baba ghanoug—is…
Why Is DA Anderson’s Top Campaign Donor Local Car Dealer Don McGill?
If Republican Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson loses her November election bid to Democratic challenger Kim Ogg, perhaps no one will be more disappointed than Houston car dealer mogul Don McGill. (Sing it: Toyota of Katy!) That’s because McGill has personally or through his car dealership donated a whopping $420,000…
Echo & the Bunnymen Bring Quality Brooding to House of Blues
Echo & the Bunnymen House of Blues October 14, 2016 My computer keeps wanting to autocorrect Bunnymen to “Funnymen,” a mistake no sentient human would ever make, least of all an actual fan of Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant’s long-running musical partnership. The Bunnymen may be many things, but a…
Shows of the Week: Lydia Loveless Leads Into Three Very Different Music Fests
LYDIA LOVELESS Continental Club, October 19 Nowadays Lydia Loveless has what you might call a loose relationship with honky-tonk aesthetics, but not with the music’s maverick spirit; that’s been there from the beginning. The Columbus, Ohio, native turned 26 last month, and over the course of four albums and assorted…
Cougars Struggle Mightily, But Hold on for Win Over Tulsa
About an inch was all that separated the Houston Cougars from disaster last night. That’s just about how short Tulsa’s Jesse Brubaker was from getting the ball over the goal line with no time on the clock. But it’s not how a team gets the win that matters — it’s…
Dull Angst and No Stakes Makes De Kus a Prickly Peck on the Cheek
The set up: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Two strangers meet on a park bench. They start to talk and before you know it they’re sharing deep dark secrets about themselves that no one else knows. Usually the secret involves some challenge to be faced and either…
Ask a Stoner: Should I Be Gardening With Bat Guano?
Dear Stoner: I was at my neighborhood “gardening” store recently and noticed an ingredient I was not familiar with: bat guano. What is that? L.L. Pot Seed Dear L.L.: The answer is poop. Bat poop, specifically. While bats may be disease-carrying flying rats with poor eyesight, their excrement is like…
Judge Orders Houston College of Law to Revert Back to Its Old Name [UPDATED]
The Houston College of Law is no more, a federal judge ruled Friday. The school must immediately revert back to its old name, the South Texas College of Law, after an ill-fated re-branding attempt that spurred a lawsuit by the University of Houston. Judge Keith Ellison issued a preliminary injunction…
Butchers Show Off Their Chops in Sugar Land Competition
Eighteen local butchers gathered in a Sugar Land ice rink last week to compete in the National Meat Cutting Challenge. In the contest, each butcher received 25 to 30 pounds of beef — one sirloin, one tenderloin and one ribeye. They were judged on cut quality, yield and speed. Why…
After Botched Deliveries, Three Houston Moms Sue Houston Hospital, Doctor
Three families are suing a Houston doctor and the East Houston Regional Medical Center over allegations that medical practitioners mishandled each of their babies’ deliveries to the point that one infant died, and another two were left with severe, lifelong injuries. On Thursday, Tatyana Phillips, Jessica Bonura and Stephanie Garcia…
A Decade of Day of the Dead Rock Stars, Give or Take a Few Skeletons
It all started with Joey Ramone. When the skinny, bespectacled punk-rock icon passed away in April 2001, it left Carlos Hernandez searching for a way to appropriately mourn one of his musical heroes. “That had a real impact on me,” says the Houston-based artist, today an owner of Heights-area screen-printing…
HPD Officer Shoots Westside Neighbor After Dispute Over Dog
A Houston police officer shot his neighbor during a dispute over a dog Thursday evening, Houston police said Friday. According to police, off-duty Officer Jason Loosmore knocked on his 21-year-old neighbor’s door around 6:20 p.m., on Riderwood Drive in Westside, hoping to ask the man for medical and shot records for…
Former Clients of Quanell X Bring Their Protest to Houston
The little crowd gathered at the steps of the Harris County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon didn’t pull much attention. As Veronica Cooper told a bank of reporters about her dealings with Quanell X, the Houston civil rights activist she’d hired to help her fight to keep her teaching job and…
The Cardinals Hacked the Astros. They’ll Likely Get Away With It, Too
When a federal judge sentenced former St. Louis Cardinals executive Chris Correa in July to 46 months in prison for hacking into Houston Astros internal databases, Major League Baseball was supposedly already on the case. The league said it launched a probe way back in June 2015, when news of…
Trustees Vote to Rename HSPVA and Jones Says HISD “Is Like a Pimp”
Well Thursday night’s Houston ISD school board meeting was one for the record books. Trustee Mike Lunceford said he was resigning — even though his side won. Trustee Jolanda Jones accused the district of pimping its children, talked about “lies” and said she was “ashamed” of the board. One speaker warned…
The Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Dead Rock Stars & 3 Festivals
We’ve got three festivals going down in Houston this weekend: the Houston Italian Festival started serving 15,000 meatballs on Thursday, the Korean Festival has kimchi and bulgogi fries and the HUE Mural Festival is painting the down red, green and everything in between. We’ve also got plenty of art, ranging from tributes…
Houston 911 Operator Hung up on Thousands She Ain’t Got Time For
Ain’t nobody got time to handle emergency phone calls in which some people could possibly die — or at least that’s the opinion of one 911 operator who is now facing criminal charges for hanging up on thousands of panicking callers. Crenshanda Williams has been charged with interference with an…
Watsky’s “Going Down” Goes Where No Straight Male Rapper Has Gone Before
There’s a lot to like about George Watsky’s recent release, x Infinity, and most of it is what fans liked about Watsky’s previous releases. In case you’re not up on the burgeoning San Francisco rapper/poet/New York Times-bestselling author, his musical blueprint is like a day at the races. The racetrack…
Screwed Up Click, Paul Wall & More Screw Up the Vote the Houston Way
It seems like politics are all people can talk about lately. Spend any time near social media or a television and you’ll quickly become bombarded by debates, memes and talking heads. This election cycle continues to be the most extreme train wreck of ideologies we’ve seen in recent memory, but…
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Is a Timely Win for Rock, Too
Talk about things have changed. If anyone predicted Bob Dylan would win the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, which still hardly seems real, they’re keeping pretty quiet about it. An American hasn’t won that particular award since it went to Toni Morrison in 1993. A musician hasn’t won since, well,…
Texas Jailers Make Crude Remarks About Transgender Inmate Online
You would think that if corrections officers wanted to talk in graphic and violent terms about the people they get paid to watch and, theoretically, take care of every day, they would do so in private. But apparently not. After the Texas Observer published a story about a transgender inmate…
Second Annual Houston Press Tacolandia Is Almost Here [UPDATED]
OK by all accounts we don’t know where tacos came from. Maybe a handy meal for silver mine workers in Mexico in the 18th Century? If so, from there they’ve jumped around the world and settled very comfortably in place in Houston. So in celebration of all things taco, and…
