Beginning Next Week, Getting Into an Astros Game Will Take Just a Little Bit More Time
The one thing we’re hoping when we pass through Minute Maid Park’s new metal detectors next week is that we don’t have to take off our belts. The ballpark announced this week that they would be implementing Major League Baseball’s enhanced security measure (an approach that’ll be mandatory next year…
Corner Table Announces Ja’Nel Witt as New Executive Chef
On the heels of chef/partner Bruce Molzan’s “amicable” departure from Corner Table comes news that the restaurant has hired former Hell’s Kitchen winner Ja’Nel Witt to take over as executive chef. According to a press release sent out Thursday morning, Witt joined Corner Table on Monday, June 16. “We are…
Open Carry Advocates Plan to March Through the Fifth Ward (Updated)
UPDATE: The Fifth Ward Open Carry March has been postponed because C.J. Grisham can’t attend the walk due to a scheduling conflict, specifically another demonstration in Big Spring. However, the event itself has only been postponed, not cancelled. Grisham says they planned the Fifth Ward event as a way of…
How to Make Your Own Lobster Roll
In January of this year my grandmother, Margaret Berkeley O’Leary, passed away at the venerable age of 100. As per my wont, I’ve been processing my grief for my grandmother through food and cooking, remembering and recreating the dishes she enjoyed. Gramma particularly loved lobster rolls (the main course at…
Five Fast Ways to Be Wedding-Ready (Even With a Hangover)
There are two types of women in this world. Girl A is the type who will arise early on the day of a wedding to get ready, so as to arrive looking perfectly coiffed and gorgeous. And then there’s Type B; the Type B girl stays up until 3 a.m…
Juneteenth Gaining Wider Recognition
Some term it “the other Independence Day”. Today is Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of the end of slavery in the country. While widely celebrated in the South, it’s taken on a more national profile. Right now, and into the weekend, there are celebrations going on marking the day. Last week…
Peak Season: Five Standout Tomato Dishes in Houston
If there’s ever a time to savor garden-fresh tomatoes, it’s summertime. So we’re taking a look at some in-season tomato plates that can not be missed. From gazpacho salad to tomato tacos, here are Five Must Try Tomato Dishes:…
Game Show Follies: Jeopardy Contestants Have No Clue on the Big Ten
Of all the sports “things” that are set to debut this fall (a list that includes Jadeveon Clowney, the SEC Network, and A.J. McCarron trying to shoo his Bengal teammates away from his wife), perhaps the one I’m most excited about is Dan Patrick’s new Sports Jeopardy show, which is…
Finding a Scotch Egg in Houston for (Almost) Every Day of the Week
It’s not the most appetizing-looking dish. The hard boiled egg in the center is usually possessed of a runny yolk that oozes a bit when you cut through the crisp brown outer layer and the crumbly pink or brown middle. Before you cut it, it looks like an oversized meatball,…
Lawsuit: Houston Man Blind in One Eye After CVS Gives Him Eardrops Instead of Eyedrops
A Houston man is suing CVS Caremark for allegedly screwing up his prescription, giving him eardrops instead of eyedrops, causing him to go blind in one eye. Claudis Alston picked up the prescription from a CVS pharmacy at 12601 Tomball Parkway in 2012. But instead of the eyedrops meant for…
Film Podcast: We Have to Hold Filmmakers Responsible, and if They Make a Piece of Crap, Too Bad
We leave the movie theater on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast in favor of a longform interview with Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, who’s been at the New York paper for about a year. Before that she wrote for Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and the Boston Phoenix,…
The Rocks Off 200: Quenton Rockwell, Melody Man in the Shiny Darks
Welcome to The Rocks Off 200, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community — a lot more than just musicians, but of course they’re in there too. See previous entries in the Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Now, if…
Psyche! Houston Texans Trade T.J. Yates to the Atlanta Falcons
So this is why the word “unofficial” exists. Check the paperwork, people, lest you wind up like all of us in the media the last 48 hours who’ve been treating T.J. Yates’s departure from the Texans as an outright release. It all seemed so simple. Two quarterbacks, Case Keenum and…
James Franco Teaching Online Film Class — How to Get His Attention
In case you thought James Franco didn’t have enough going on in his life, what with his acting, performance art, painting, getting multiple degrees from Ivy league schools, building houses for homeless children in the Tundra, – nah, I made that last one up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if…
The 5 Best Brunch Spots in Midtown
In Houston, we’re pretty serious about our brunch. Whether it be migas and breakfast tacos or chicken and waffles and loaded Bloody Marys, we have no shortage of awesome spots to get our brunch on. Keeping later hours and killer cocktails in mind, we’ll be taking a look at some…
100 Favorite Dishes 2014-15: No. 87, Calamari at Lillo & Ella
Once again, Kaitlin Steinberg is eating her way through Houston and counting down her 100 favorite dishes as we work our way toward our annual Menu of Menus® issue and culinary extravaganza. She’ll compile a collection of the dishes she thinks are the most delicious, most creative and, of course,…
Best 20 Rejected Texas Vanity Plates of All Time
Everybody hates rejection. That’s why it must be a major letdown for some people who come up with what they think is a very clever vanity plate slogan, only to have it not happen. Blame some pencil pusher at the department of motor vehicles office. As a public service, we…
TUTS Will Hand Out a Pair of Golden Tickets to Some Lucky Somebody; Why Shouldn’t It Be You?
Theatre Under the Stars, Houston’s biggest and the oldest not for profit musical theater company in Houston, wants people around here to realize that it’s more than just its shows at the Hobby Center and at Miller Outdoor Theatre — it’s musical theater education outreach and the Tommy Tune awards…
Springboard South Hopes to Silence Critics, Not Performers
When it comes to Houston’s music scene and the lack of respect it gets, you can do two things — complain or do something about it. Organizers and participants of the Springboard South Music Festival and Conference choose the latter. They want local musicians, music-oriented enterprises and music fans to…
Andre Johnson Just Wants to Win; Since When Is That a Bad Thing?
The position has been filled with David Carr, Matt Schaub, and Ryan Fitzpatrick. These are the primary Houston Texans quarterbacks of the Andre Johnson era. This is a sad, pathetic list of QBs. And yet many people still wonder why Andre Johnson is having second thoughts about continuing to play…
Rest of the Best: 10 Best Places to Go-Kart
Hey, Mario Kart 8 is out and that means there’s no real reason for any person to go outside except to acquire food for a good long while. But kids, did you know that go-karts are a real thing that you can totally go and do for real? I mean,…
The Best Houston Beers for Summer
The sun is brutal and the air is thick and humid, and there’s only one way to combat the Houston summer slump: Cold beer. Fortunately, there are a number of breweries in our fair city, each of which has devised a special summer beer for the season. Some of them…
Today’s Houston Punk-Rock Women Still Rewriting the Rules
As the mid-late 1990s bloomed in the much-hyped “alternative” era, a whole new crop of dual-gender-fueled bands arose in Houston, including the brazen New Wave leanings of Japanic and Modulator, arthouse traditionalists Vulgarians, guitar heroes Gun Crazy, Lucky Motors’ limber indie-rock, the Oi! street mayhem of UTA, the taut pop…
My Wife Wants a Threesome. Help!
Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off’s advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! MY WIFE WANTS TO WATCH ME HAVE SEX WITH ANOTHER WOMAN Dear Willie D: For the…
The 10 Best Country Songs of the ’90s
Remember when there was no such thing as “bro-country” or “hick-hop?” We do, and it was a little time called the ’90s. That was basically the best decade ever for country music. Garth Brooks was at his best, and artists like George Strait and Clint Black were killing it with…
