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Some Houston Signmaker is Really Mad at President Biden

By Jef Rouner
Apr 27, 2021

Random sentiments plastered to wrong way signs by our more… exuberant residents are pretty common in Houston. Most of them are trying to sell you sham health insurance or buy your diabetic strips. However, one person has gone the extra length to cover the city in one angry screed: BIDEN...
Seriously, What's With the Ultra-Creepy Halloween Decorations This Year?

By Jeff Balke
Oct 28, 2020

Pumpkins. Candy. Adorable kiddos yelling "Trick or treat!" Neighborhood Halloweens have typically been family affairs with candy and mischief but generally good, clean fun. Sure, the adults may come out later and find their own debauchery, but when it comes to your garden variety trick or treating, it's pretty tame...
10 Best Bets This Weekend: Robert Frank on Film, Jeff Goldblum, and the Moon

By Susie Tommaney
Sep 19, 2019

Jeff Goldblum in concert, Bill Maher on satire, and the late Robert Frank on film are just a few of the stellar events this weekend in Houston. There's a two day jazz festival, experimental film by female artists, and the world premiere of a new dance by Houston Ballet's Oliver Halkowich...
Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Dog Show, Moor Fest and GONZO247's Jet

By Susie Tommaney
Jul 17, 2019

Imagine this weekend in Houston is a massive interactive scavenger hunt. Before Sunday is over, we'll have seen bar crawlers wearing Santa hats, dogs groomed to look like lions, a Hawker jet tricked out in 1960s colors, the first Moorish American festival in more than a century, and a simultaneous...
Fireworks: A Cautionary Tale

By Jeff Balke
Jul 4, 2019

I tried to hide it. As I scurried back into my house, my right hand behind my back, I did my best to sneak off to my room, but then I heard her voice. "Jeff, come in here." It was my mom. Some friends of the family had stopped by...
Ray Viator Knows How Houston Earned the Name Space City

By Susie Tommaney
May 20, 2019

Almost 50 years ago, as those glued to television sets were collectively holding their breath while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin completed their lunar module landing tasks, we heard those now famous words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." The Apollo 11 lunar landing forever cemented Houston as Space City in...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Star Wars, Kentucky Derby and J.J. Watt

By Susie Tommaney
May 3, 2019

We can bet on the trifecta this weekend with multiple reasons to celebrate: Cinco de Mayo, the Kentucky Derby, and Star Wars Day. Feel-good events are in the mix too with the JJ Watt Foundation Charity Classic and the BARC pet walk at Rice. Dance, comedy, a divot stomp at...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Star Wars in Concert and at Rice Owls

By Susie Tommaney
Mar 21, 2019

We're just months away from celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, though we're never too far from that final frontier here in Space City. This weekend brings a Star Wars themed concert and screening with Houston Symphony, dueling lightsabers at Rice Owls, and a sci-fi dance of...
Openings and Closings: True Anomaly Brewing Opens, Veegos Mexican Vegan Debuts

By Lorretta Ruggiero
Mar 8, 2019

True Anomaly Brewing Company, 2012 Dallas, opened its doors to the public February 20. The new brewery has one of the largest barrel rooms in Houston which is adjacent to the tap room. What started out as four guys in a garage, albeit rocket scientist, space suit-developing, mission-managing type of...
Amazon's Houston Footprint Grows: Inside the New HOU2 Facility

By Cory Garcia
Sep 13, 2018

Houston, being the size that it is, is no stranger to business expansion. It’s likely that there’s not a single week that goes by in the city that at least a few businesses upgrade their facilities or open new outposts as their business continues to grow. What is rarer in...
Five AstroWorld Videos to Give You That Sweet Glow of Nostalgia

By Cory Garcia
Jun 7, 2018

We know that the 50th anniversary of the opening of AstroWorld has stirred in you a variety of feelings. Sadness that it’s gone, bitterness at how Six Flags for how they ended it, and the joy that’s associated with your memories of the park. Sure, the anniversary on June 1...
St. Paddy's Day in Boulder: Drinkers Vs. Smokers, Who Had the Better Party?

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.
Mar 22, 2018

Last weekend, circumstances created an unusual travel opportunity for me. It’s a long story, but it involves catching a red-eye to Boulder, Colorado for a day’s stay before heading back to Houston by car. A day isn’t much time to devote to as nice a destination as Boulder, but I...
Houston, Not Surprisingly, Has Feelings About Astrodome Restoration

By Cory Garcia
Feb 14, 2018

This is a fact: on February 13, 2018, Harris County commissioners approved a plan, scheduled to cost over $100 million, to renovate the Astrodome. In any other story about any other building in any other city, this would be seen as a historic moment where a community found the money...
Before You Head to the Polls in Harris County, Check Your T-Shirt

By Dianna Wray
Oct 30, 2017

If you show up to the polls to vote on the Houston bond initiative and the many other issues on the ballot this election season, vet your choice of apparel carefully first. Just as Katie Beth Gottlieb was about to walk toward a voting both at the Fiesta on Old...
Two Months After Harvey, Landlord Evicts Tenants Because of Uninhabitable Conditions

By Meagan Flynn
Oct 27, 2017

The management ripped out the sinks when they ripped out the walls. Inside the Legacy Apartments, on Lockwood Drive in the Fifth Ward, there is no such thing as privacy or even real rooms on the lower-floor units. In James Jackson's unit, you can see from the kitchen straight into...
EPA Approves Plan for Post-Harvey Repairs to San Jacinto Waste Pits

By Dianna Wray
Oct 20, 2017

After spending a lot of time dodging the question of whether or not the San Jacinto Waste Pits were damaged during Hurricane Harvey, officials with the federal Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that the pits had indeed been damaged earlier this month. Now, they've admitted the extent of the damage, and...
Houston Firefighters Rescue Homeless Man Who Got Stuck in Manhole for Days

By Meagan Flynn
Oct 16, 2017

A homeless man was rescued from a manhole early Sunday morning after somehow getting stuck underground for days, the Houston Fire Department said Monday morning. Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a construction company doing repairs near Sam Houston Parkway and Dover Road discovered the man and called 911. HFD arrived and...
Renowned Houston Tattoo Artist Lana Gooding Dead at 36 [UPDATED]

By Craig Malisow
Oct 13, 2017

Beloved Houston tattoo artist Lana Gooding, named best in her field in the 2016 Houston Press Best of Houston issue, died Wednesday at age 36, leaving behind two young sons. The preliminary findings suggest she died of a heart attack, her brother, Nash Wingo, told the Press Friday morning. The...
Armageddon Will Not Be Upon Us This Sunday, NASA Maintains

By Dianna Wray
Oct 13, 2017

The beginning of the end of all days was supposed to start last month, but now the word goes that the end of the world will actually kick off this Sunday. As we've noted before, this whole the-end-is-nigh business started with a four-minute video by the evangelical Christian publication Unsealed...
Following Obama-Era Guidance, EPA Orders San Jacinto Waste Pits Removed

By Dianna Wray
Oct 12, 2017

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has made good on his word. With three days to go before the football game between Oklahoma University and University of Texas, the deadline Pruitt set when he visited the San Jacinto Waste Pits and other Houston-area sites after Hurricane Harvey rolled...

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