10 Best Restaurants In Downtown Houston
As is the case in many other areas of Houston, the downtown restaurant scene has expanded and grown in sophistication. Whether you’re looking for a quiet café, a ritzy scene, a good place for a business meeting or cheap eats, there’s a great restaurant to suit your needs. In fact,…
Upcoming: Aaron Lewis, Emily Kinney, Garbage, John Anderson, Neon Indian, Sham 69, Uncle Lucius, Wrenfro, etc.
A Night of Jazz Featuring Will Downing And Friends: Fri., November 6, 8 p.m., $35-$45. Julie Rogers Theatre, 765 Pearl, Beaumont. Aaron Lewis: Fri., October 30, 9:30 p.m., $25 to $600. Stampede Houston, 11925 Eastex Freeway, Houston, 281-219-2006. Alan Haynes: Sat., September 26, 8 p.m., $5. The Big Easy Social…
Maybe American Horror Story Should Just Make Teaser Trailers
We’re coming up on the fifth season of American Horror Story, this one subtitled Hotel. Even though I don’t really watch the show anymore, I am still really, really stoked because it means uber-creepy teaser trailers are coming. Honestly, I love the trailers far more than I ever loved the…
Dish of the Week: Cheese Blintzes
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 gearing up for Rosh Hashanah with cheese blintz. A blintz is a thin, crepe-like pancake that is folded or rolled around…
Texas Ren Fest Is Hiring, Now You Can Wear Your Costume and Be Paid for It
This is no ordinary temp job. You won’t be filing paperwork or filing. Now is your chance to be bawdy, to wear the clothes you normally only see in costume dramas, to add some flair to your life. Yes it’s that time of year again and to make it all…
Why Entitled Male Gamers Can’t Stand Critiques of Samus Aran
Along with Link and Mario, Samus Aran of the Metroid series is one of Nintendo’s most beloved mascots. The fierce, space-age bounty hunter who patrols the galaxy snuffing out threats to humanity and peace has been an iconic figure in gaming since the ‘80s. Unfortunately, she is also the litmus…
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: The Transporter Refueled
Title: The Transporter Refueled Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: “They didn’t start chasing us until you turned on that getaway music!” Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: One life preserver out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: L + R, down, down, right, up. FATALITY. Tagline: “Don’t ask questions.” Better…
UPDATE: Motörhead Cancels Saturday’s Show Due to Illness
Local Motörhead fans, or Motörheadbangers, are anxiously awaiting a decision regarding this weekend’s remaining Texas dates of the beloved UK speed-metal band’s current U.S. tour. Earlier this week, Lemmy Kilmister walked offstage after only three songs at Austin’s Moody Theater, immediately raising concerns about the hard-living 69-year-old singer’s health. According…
Houston’s 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Labor Day Weekend BBQs & Brews
Brewmasters Craft Beer Festival @ Moody Gardens Friday – Sunday 1 Hope Tap into all things craft beer at this weekend long craft beer festival. Now in its 6th year, the three-day celebration showcases two signature events: the BrewHaHa Grand Tasting on Saturday and the BrewLicious Brews and Foods Pairing…
First Trailer for Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre Drops
While Houston is still waiting (impatiently, I might add) for the release of Josh Vargas’s biopic on the serial killer Dean Corll, In a Madman’s World, his second feature is edging closer to the light of day. Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre’s first teaser trailer has been released and though short…
Houston Ballet Opens its Season With Crowd Pleaser Manon
She is a beautiful young woman on her way to a convent in 18th Century Paris when she meets an impoverished student in a park and love ensues while they dance their way into each others hearts. Alas, any hopes of a happy-ever-after are soon dashed when she is prevailed…
Upcoming Houston Food Events: A Saint Arnold and Original Ninfa’s Meeting of the Minds
Cuchara, 214 Fairview, is honoring the main axis of their culture, The Aztecs, with a “15 Days of the Aztecs” event, which started September 1 and runs through Tuesday, September 15. Each night will feature different Aztec-inspired food or drink specials, with the entire celebration culminating in Cuchara’s Third Anniversary…
The 5 Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: How I Learned to Drive, Tommy Gregory and More
Eleven local artists are being inducted into the Houston Artists Hall of Fame at this year’s Houston Fine Art Fair. Now in its fifth year, the fair features more than 60 Texas-based art institutions exhibiting over a four-day period, including Friday. Four of the painters being added to the Hall…
Openings and Closings in Houston: Pour Society And A Newly Announced Speakeasy
Black & White, a dual concept restaurant at 1001 Studewood in the Heights, is now open and waiting to force you into a difficult decision. If you’re looking for a more casual Mexican meal, check out White; if you’re feeling more Greek, then Black, an upscale Mediterranean restaurant, might be…
Four More Absurd Rock Myths That Were Almost True
It’s that time again, time to roll out another edition of Rock Myths and Urban Legends! Rock and pop music is full of strange people and even stranger stories, many of which have been circulating for years. Let’s take a look at four more, and get to the truth behind…
Houston’s 10 Best Bars & Clubs in Montrose
Established in 1911, Montrose became the Bohemian home of Houston counterculture in the ’60s and ’70s; the neighborhood became the home of Houston’s gay and lesbian community in the ’70s as well, and remains the center of the Houston LGBT community today. There has been concern in recent years that…
Screech of Death 7″ Is Pure SoCal Punk Gold
It’s been a while since I’ve heard good California-style punk, and Screech of Death certainly fits the bill admirably. Not to knock the local punk scene or anything, but punk in Houston often strikes me as somewhat orthodox in its adherence to influences from the East Coast or across the…
Federal Judge Vacates Tom Brady’s 4 Game Suspension For Deflate-Gate
For nearly eight months, the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell have steadily built a colossal mountain out of a tiny molehill started over speculation that Tom Brady was aware of the slightest deflation of a few footballs, which may or may not have taken place. Somehow, something that minor, something…
Is it Legal for Border Patrol Agents to Shoot and Kill Unarmed Mexican Kids — So Long as They Fire Across the Border?
The family of 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez says he was simply fooling around with friends near the Paso del Norte Bridge, which stretches into downtown El Paso, when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa pulled up and spotted the boys on June 7, 2010. The boys had been daring each other…
Travi$ Scott’s ‘Rodeo’: A Circus Missing Its Main Star
Fans have a considerable love/hate relationship with Travis Scott. Here’s the love part. Scott currently occupies space in the same galaxy to where he calls T.I. a label boss and could brush shoulders with mentor Kanye West on a daily basis. He’s one of the influences on Kanye’s post-punk synth…
Gun Violence Should Get Its Own Trigger Warning
Chris Lane recently wrote about why he had over the years changed from a full-on gun nut (his words) to supporting many types of gun control. One of the things he went into was how gun culture had changed and grown into something that was just paranoid and awful, and…
Sam Houston State Student Arrested on 4-Year-Old Charge After Stupid Tweet About Murdered Deputy
A Sam Houston State University student was arrested in Montgomery County on a warrant related to a four-year old assault charge one day after she published a deplorable tweet about Harris County sheriff’s deputy Darren Goforth, who was shot and killed on duty last week. Early Tuesday morning, Monica Foy,…
No Easy Ride: What Using METRO’s New Bus Network Is Like in a Low-Income Community [UPDATED]
The moon is still out when Krystal Hersey wakes up her two daughters for school, around 4:30 a.m. They don’t start for a few hours, but ahead of Hersey is a two-hour commute to her job that is less than 20 miles away—20 minutes by car. The girls, ages 7…
100 Favorite Houston Dishes 2015, No. 62: Oxtail at Le’ Pam’s House of Creole
In far North Houston, in a nondescript shopping center, resides Le’ Pam’s House of Creole. Inside, it’s all decked out in purple and gold, making it Mardi Gras all year round. Sundays are special at Le’ Pam’s, because that’s the day chef Pamela Graham pulls out the good china and…
Dear SHSU: Don’t Give in to the Monica Foy Hate Mob
Dear Sam Houston State University: Hey Bearkats! I know it’s been a minute since we’ve chatted, but I’ve got some thoughts on this whole Monica Foy situation and your less than stellar response to it. If you don’t remember me, that’s OK. I know the order of famous Bearkats goes…
My Girl Won’t Do It With the Lights On. Help!
MY GIRL WON’T HAVE SEX WITH ME WITH THE LIGHTS ON Dear Willie D: There’s only one way to have sex with my girl, and that’s with the lights off. We have never took a shower together, and I’ve never seen her completely naked in the light. She also covers…
007 Author’s “Street” Statement on Idris Elba: Arglebargle or Foofaraw?
What did 007 scribe Anthony Horowitz say about potentially casting Idris Elba (The Wire, Pacific Rim, Luther) as the next Bond that has everyone in such a tizzy? ‘Idris Elba is a terrific actor, but I can think of other black actors who would do it better.’ He names Adrian…
100 Favorite Houston Dishes 2015, No. 63: The 420 Slice at Pi Pizza Truck
Phaedra Cook is eating her way through Houston and counting down her 100 favorite dishes of 2015. It’s a collection of personal favorites that is also indicative of Houston dining. It’s a scene where a vast range of dishes coexist: highbrow and lowbrow; local and international; cheap and expensive; modern…
It’s Simply Impossible to Not Like Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 1, 2015 Ooh…Kelly Clarkson! It’s pretty impossible to dislike the OG and forever queen of American Idol. After all, the Texas-bred pop singer is funny, accessible, and isn’t afraid to tell the media to shove it when it comes to the incessant body-shaming…
The Mystery Behind the Menil’s “Juke Box Tree”
This is a story about boxes — the good things you can put into them and the great things that come from the people who think outside of them. In this instance, the literal box is The Juke Box, an interactive art installation in Menil Park that’s not yet a…
Texas A&M Finds Radioactive Thingy It Lost the Other Week
We’re glad to learn that Texas A&M has found a radioactive package that went missing August 21, after being shipped from a company in Minnesota. University personnel have been tight-lipped about what the dang thing is — they would only say Monday that the 27-pound cardboard box contained something radioactive…
TABC Deems Crowlers Illegal for Retail Beer to Go [UPDATED]
Many craft beer fans are well acquainted with growlers, reusable bottles—normally made of amber glass—that bars, grocery stores and beer specialty shops fill with beer on draft for patrons to take home. Crowlers (short for “can growler”) serve exactly the same purpose except they are 32-ounce aluminum cans (the same…
Explaining Grownup Music to Kids: The Birth of Rock and Roll
Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”: one genre at a time. We’ve laid a good deal of groundwork to get this stage, Fig. The artists on this…
#BlackLivesMatter Faces Backlash After Deputy’s Slaying
Last Friday night, Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth walked out of a northwest Harris County Chevron store toward the pump where he was gassing up his cruiser. It was then that, authorities say, Jaruay Miles, 30, ran up behind Goforth, who was in uniform, put the gun to the…
With No Funding, Texas Race Tracks Ordered to Close — at Least for Now
Thirty-six thousand jobs in the $5.5-billion-dollar horse racing industry are now at stake after lawmakers, late last night, failed to grant the Texas Racing Commission administrative funding so it could continue operating. Disagreement arose between the House and the Senate about the length that the TRC’s funding would last, resulting…
Music Events at Sam Houston Race Park Will Go On as Planned
Besides being Houston’s primary thoroughbred-racing venue, Sam Houston Race Park is also one of the area’s few facilities equipped to host a multi-stage outdoor music event. So, although all racing-related activities at the track have been suspended in light of the Texas Legislature’s deadline to renew funding for the Texas…
New Documentary Steve Jobs Plays Like a Secret Sequel to Going Clear
Director Alex Gibney’s choice to follow this spring’s Scientology slam Going Clear with the fascinating portrait Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine might seem like an about-face. The first documentary clinically eviscerated a religion that everyone loves to loathe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, is adulated to an incredible…
Tennis Comedy Break Point Never Scores
The first famous tennis player was King Louis X of France. Nicknamed Louis the Quarreler for his domestic politics, meaning he was likely a real pain to the ref, King Louis is renowned for two facts in athletic lore: He invented the indoor tennis court, and, after a hard, hot…
A Walk in the Woods Hikes Into Theaters, Diminished
A sense of humor will take you far in life, even along a daunting stretch of the Appalachian Trail. In his hugely popular 1998 book A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson chronicled his attempt to hike the full length of the trail, from Georgia to Maine, accompanied by an…
In Grandma, Lily Tomlin Opens the Heart of a Righteous Crank
Young people are the only ones who ever talk about growing old gracefully. For those actually in the thick of it, the romance of that notion burns off pretty quickly, and wrinkles and creaky joints are the least of it: Growing old, gracefully or otherwise, means becoming the person you…
Grandma Star Lily Tomlin Takes Us for a Ride
It’s a perfect summer afternoon in Los Angeles, and Lily Tomlin wants to do everything: drive to Neptune’s Net in Malibu, explore the L.A. River, tour Koreatown, grab cocktails in West Hollywood. She jumps in her 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer — her other car, a Prius, balances out its ecological…
Mountain-Climbing Doc Meru Is Thrilling When It’s About Climbing
There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The terrible beauty of the Shark’s Fin point of northern India’s Mount Meru is enough to make this worth seeking out on…
Gerwig Storms Through Baumbach’s Mistress America
Brooke, Greta Gerwig’s latest Manhattan creation, is a hurricane gobbling up lives. She’s a singer, restaurateur, interior decorator, math coach, spinning instructor and self-described autodidact. When 18-year-old admirer Tracy (Lola Kirke), Brooke’s sister-to-be following their parents’ Thanksgiving wedding, squeaks that she wants to write short stories, Brooke devours that idea,…
