Where Are We Eating?
In addition to our weekly Snackshot and the popular This Week In Deliciousness wrapups, we’re adding another feature here at Eating Our Words. Inspired by our amazing Flickr pool and by the eternal question, “Where are we eating?” we’ll challenge readers each week to identify a Houston-area restaurant by a picture…
A Better Breakfast at Manena’s
Photo by Katharine Shilcutt Vigilantes rellenos from Manena’s Grabbing breakfast on the go can get stale very easily. Egg McMuffins, breakfast tacos, Starbucks muffins, kolaches, donuts… All the quickly-obtained breakfasts of the busy, the mindless consumption of fast food, wearing upon you after so many Mondays spent idling in neutral…
Listening Room: What’s Been Tickling Our Earholes Lately
As Rocks Off has noted in our periodic Mail Call entries, even though the tide of promo CDs has been greatly reduced by the digital revolution – Rocks Off can count on one finger (the middle one) the times he’s actually used the streaming/download email link publicists are ever more…
Bill White: Mayor, Senate Candidate, NBA Tweeter
The Rockets won a thriller last night, and as always our Ben DuBose was there to cover it and Twitter it.But he wasn’t the only Twittering fool — also giving us deep insight 140 characters at a time was Mayor Bill White.His actual game tweets (and our occasional comments):1. Get…
No Vets At BARC, And A Struggle To Get The Story Straight
Getting a veterinarian to work weekends at the animal control facility for the nation’s fourth-largest city is a real pain.Take Saturday. No vet showed up, even though, according to Health & Human spokesperson Kathy Barton, the city had arranged for a relief vet through a temp agency called RSVP. (Although…
Eyeballin’: NOFX’s Backstage Passport
Few bands in punk rock have lasted as long as the San Francisco-based NOFX. And even far fewer have stayed as relatively tight-knit a crew as Fat Mike and the boys. After 25 years of co-existence, most pop-punk bands of NOFX’s ilk and age have already shuffled off the scene…
We’re Steampunking Back To The Future: A Flipbook
Love reading your Houston Press online, but just can’t live without the thrill of turning pages?Then flipbook is for you. Click here and pick an issue, then click in the lower outside corner of each page — not only will it magically, through the ingenious application of 1s and 0s,…
Flannel File: Pearl Jam’s Ten Redux
In my last Flannel File entry, I asked if there was any file more flannel-y than that of Screaming Trees. Well, embarassingly enough, that rhetorical question has an answer: yes, and that file belongs to Pearl Jam. Let’s step in the time machine and go way, way back to one…
After 22 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment, Two More Days To Freedom
A man convicted of rape in 1987, based largely on questionable HPD crime lab data, and sentenced to life in prison is expected to be released on bond Thursday, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. Recent DNA test results show “discrepancies between the new tests and evidence presented”…
High-Class Houston Auction House Makes Its Final Deal — With The DA
Go to the website of the classy Hart Galleries and there’s a sad message: “The End of an Era,” a bankruptcy liquidation sale. It is with the deepest regret and sadness that we inform you of the filing for bankruptcy and closing of Hart Galleries and most trusted name in…
Lonesome Onry and Mean: War, Still “Hard to Believe”
As we’ve mentioned a few times in these pages, Lonesome, Onry, and Mean’s daughter has been in the Middle East on an Air Force assignment the past six months. She finally got back Saturday, and the homecoming in San Antonio was mighty fine as she reunited with her three-year-old daughter…
The Joys Of Forwarded E-Mail
Ah, the joys of replying to forwarded e-mail.You get an e-mail forwarded to you from someone, you think you’re replying to the guy who forwarded it but instead you’re replying to the original sender. So your e-mail that says something like “This is the single most idiotic pitch from a…
Turning the Screw: Dead End Alliance, Bun B, DMX, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Eminem, The Kanye, Beyonce and More
How bad-ass is Bun B that he can endorse a book called The Year of Magical Thinking and not get killed by snarky music blogs? Jesus must really, really love us: DMX to appear on VH-1’s Celebrity Rehab. Then again, maybe not: Diddy’s I Want To Work For Diddy readies second…
Worried About Swine Flu: Here Are Five Virus Movies To Feed Your Fears
Got flu? Hopefully not, and hopefully all this talk of pandemics and Madagascar closing its borders are just media hysteria. Still, there’s nothing wrong with a little self-imposed isolation for you and the family, so here are some timely cinematic selections for you to watch in between hand-washing sessions.5. The…
Rockets-Portland Game 4: Hayes Takes One For The Team
In a gritty comeback effort that epitomized a team win, it seemed only fitting that the game-winner came from a Rocket whose only contribution to the box score was a personal foul.With the Rockets clinging to a two-point lead with under 15 seconds left, Chuck Hayes read Brandon Roy’s drive…
Snackshot: Sunday Feast
Today’s luscious Snackshot comes to us courtesy of Pixeltopia and Feast: From the photographer’s description: “Sunday Brunch at Feast, on Westheimer” that included roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roasted parsnips, potatoes, rutabagas and carrots, grilled Brussels sprouts and bread pudding with raisins and marmalade…
Two Of The Five Chronicle Award Winners From The Weekend No Longer There
In the category of good news/bad news, we have a journalism item for you. Five employees of The Houston Chronicle won first place recognition over the weekend in the annual Texas Associated Press Managing Editors journalism competition, the most ballyhooed in-state contest in the insular, self-congratulatory world of newspapering.Unfortunately, two…
When You’re Old Like The Astros, Even Home Runs Can Hurt
How does somebody get hurt hitting a home run? I’m serious. Carlos Lee hit a home run in the fourth inning on Friday night and strained his right Achilles tendon. And I don’t understand how the injury could happen.Sure, I can see him pulling a muscle on a strikeout. And…
What If They Gave A Horse Show And Nobody Came?
The Kantemirov family calls its famous Russian circus, which has toured all over the world for the last 62 years, a “celebration of life and of man’s love for horses, demonstrating the harmony between mankind and nature.”So when the troupe needed a city to host its first show in the…
Texas Traveler: Enchanted Rock and Fredericksburg
Enchanted Rock, the legend says, was home to ghost fires. That’s how the Tonkawas explained the crackling and popping sounds that emanated from the rock on cool evenings. Today we know this: Enchanted Rock is one of the country’s largest plutons, a gigantic pink granite pebble unearthed by erosion. The…
Follow Along As Houstonians Hunt WW2 Ghosts…If You Dare!!!
Houston will have some local representation when the largest paranormal investigation in the history of paranormal investigations goes down Saturday night in Tampa Bay, Florida.Members of Southern Paranormal Investigators will join a 25-person investigative team as it looks for activity on the USS American Victory, a transport ship that sailed…
