Last winter, bulldozers chopped down 41 trees at Memorial Park. Most people didn't have any idea why. City councilmembers didn't recall approving a plan to kill trees. Turns...
Though he's only 18 years old, he says he's been in the rap game for 25 years. They say he bought out Taco Cabana and will soon be renaming it Chingo Cabana. He's the number...
Tlacoyos turn out to be fried pielike ovals of masa dough filled with beans and then baked. There are three of them on the plate, covered with salsa verde, sour cream, chopped...
Most will deny it, but inside every grown man lurks a hypersensitive adolescent girl. Allow me to tell you all about mine and to share some of my poetry… Whoa! Relax. Put...
Before the curtains part on Things Being at the Worst, the audience sits in the dark, listening to the sounds of the disastrous opening night of a play-within-a-play called The...
The first thing you should know about Russell Crotty is that he lives in California, in the hills above Malibu. The second thing you should know is that he has his own small...
For the love of Christ, does Houston really need to jump on the religious-courthouses bandwagon? Few things in life are more tedious than cable-network shoutfests over such...
I feel like someone is stepping on my neck, and it's time to let off," says Nick Midulla, the guitarist/songwriter/leader for Houston's modern rock band Superna. The injury is...
Before you get heated up over which is better, New York thin-crust or Chicago thick-crust pizza, Star Pizza (2111 Norfolk, 713-523-0800, and 77 Harvard, 713-869-1241) has...
Many observant Jews in Israel and America are outraged by writer-director Eitan Gorlin's brash first feature, The Holy Land, and it's easy to see why. It's not every day you...
Thursday, September 4 "You're suspended!" isn't a phrase that members of CoRE Suspension would find too punishing. They like being suspended, hanging in the air by pieces of...
Like most officials of nonprofit groups, the executive committee members of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People don't like...
Rock bands are used to dealing with the unexpected. Missed sound checks, flat tires, broken strings, nonexistent hotel reservations and stolen amps are all part of the routine...
Almost a decade ago, April Reynolds, the author of Knee-Deep in Wonder, went to the hospital with her family to say good-bye to her father, who was expected to die. But he...
Unlike a lot of media, the Houston Press was never an enthusiastic cheerleader for the so-called Houston Miracle, the unending public relations barrage that landed former HISD...
As Billy Joe Shaver played his 1940s-style "The Good Ol' USA," only the eightysomething guy in the old Stetson and the UT golf shirt knew the moves. Dancing with a pretty blond...
Are you a name-brand shopper? If so, then "5x7/Houston" probably isn't for you. Billed as an "exhibition and art spree," it's an annual fund-raiser for the Austin-based...
Despite being cash-strapped and prone to cutbacks these days, the Houston Independent School District dug into its piggy banks and came up with half a million dollars to...
Explaining Brown Whörnet's music is no picnic. Critics have tripped all over themselves trying to describe the Austin collective's sound, one of which takes the cake: "Yes...
SAT 9/6 Fight Night Blood. Mayhem. Flying teeth. No, it isn't hockey (even if it does pull in the same big-spending, action-hungry, beer-fed fans). It's extreme...
