Vending machines are leaving Texas school cafeterias. But the mother lode of "minimal nutritional value" has hardly gone away.
Comedian-actor Bellamy may be the greatest performer he's ever seen
Houston, you love your caffeine, but only when it comes cold and bubbly.The second annual Caffeinated Cities survey came out today; it's conducted by something called HealthSaver and looks at caffeine use across the country.The Most Caffeinated City in America? Tampa. (Huh?) Followed by Seattle (tha ... More >>
You know where you could be right this moment, which is about 7:30 in the morning Houston time?You could be waiting in FREEZING Washington, DC, getting on line to go through security checks so you could wait for hours and hours to watch Barack Obama's inauguration from a half-mile away.On the one ha ... More >>
You know where you could be right this moment, which is about 7:30 in the morning Houston time?You could be waiting in FREEZING Washington, DC, getting on line to go through security checks so you could wait for hours and hours to watch Barack Obama's inauguration from a half-mile away.On the one ha ... More >>
Oh God, my stomach is so distended. WHY do I do this to myself every Super Bowl Sunday? I watch one football game each year and it's this one, and the only reason I watch it is to have an excuse to eat snacks and watch commercials. A few thoughts on this year's game: First of all, choirs are ver ... More >>
FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>
FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>
Is Pepsi in bed with the gays? That's what former Texas Republican Party Treasurer and General Counsel Gina Parker Ford believes. Hair Balls knows this because Ford sent us a commentary detailing her outrage over a recent episode of Family Guy that "promote[d] homosexuality, gay orgies and also slan ... More >>
FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>
FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>
FROM: KPRC STATION MANAGEMENT TO: ALL KPRC STAFF CC: KPRC SALES STAFF SUBJECT: ASHLEY MADISON.COM As I'm sure most of you have heard, during the third period of Sunday's Super Bowl - and wasn't that an exciting game by the way - this television station aired a commercial for a website known ... More >>
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H-Town's most prominent hip-hop DJ crew heads back for the underground
H-Town's most prominent hip-hop DJ crew heads back for the underground
This old TV drama still moves us
Jesus Camp pitches its tent in the other America
Some are curmudgeonly but intriguing. Others are just a bad trip to S&M; land.
Some are curmudgeonly but intriguing. Others are just a bad trip to S&M; land.
Rice's women's soccer team kicks it up a notch
This Baylor medical "expert" cashed in on infomercials. Now he's showing how things go better with Coke.
Saturday, April 9, at the Hawg Stop, 11335 Sheldon, 281-456-7867
T.I. and Lil' Flip rumble in Cloverland, bringing one of the great rap feuds of recent years to a head
After Grady Spears's departure, The Burning Pear still smolders
With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?
Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez stirs up some Pride
Ludacris rankles the white pride of the National Alliance and Bill O'Reilly
Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later
Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later
Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)
Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)
Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)
Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)
Via The Hill's blog, we've learned of our own Sheila Jackson Lee's epic attempt to immortalize Michael Jackson (who is being celebrated as we speak; check out the twittering/liveblogging at the music blog of our sister paper LA Weekly).Amazingly, Lee's bill declaring the House of Representatives "re ... More >>
Via The Hill's blog, we've learned of our own Sheila Jackson Lee's epic attempt to immortalize Michael Jackson (who is being celebrated as we speak; check out the twittering/liveblogging at the music blog of our sister paper LA Weekly).Amazingly, Lee's bill declaring the House of Representatives "re ... More >>
One day, someone ridiculously wise (or someone that was obviously getting ripped a new asshole by the media) once said, "No press is bad press." Unfortunately, that old adage probably isn't applicable to Pepsi, and won't be in this lifetime.We suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that Pepsi deve ... More >>
I have to admit, I love a good train wreck. When you're driving down the freeway, and traffic is at a standstill because there's a five-car pile up on the OTHER side of the interstate, I'm the guy who's slowing everything down, taking it all in. My top two priorities on my DVR are Beverly Hills ... More >>
Photos by Justine SchmiderWhere: Bar-B-Que Blues, 5404 Almeda, 713-533-1230What $13 gets you: No beef but a lot of meat and a pink lemonade.On this beautiful day, before the big snow storm arrives, we thought we'd travel to the Third Ward for some lunch at Bar-B-Que Blues. We'd been to the ... More >>
There's no doubt that Corporate America knows how to enter a market, break down consumer attitudes and needs, and sell them a product they're going to buy. Pepsi's been around for a minute so you know they know what's up. But in an effort to sell the urban community more of their product (trust us ... More >>
For anyone following the Houston Latino rap theme as of late and are wondering why Rocks Off might be telling more of a cultural story than a hip-hop one with our artist profiles, it's because amongst the traditional hip-hop following in America, Houston's Latino rappers may very well be looked ... More >>
Will Lil Young be one of this decade's breakout Latino rap stars? Can Latino hip-hop in Houston continue to thrive as a black-market force, of sorts, whose sales are invisible to the IRS, and evolve into a powerful underground economy without the acknowledgement or praise of mainstream music medi ... More >>
NASA famously bombed the moon last year in a desperate attempt to prove there's water on it. While water was indeed discovered, we have yet to hear any reliable figures on collateral damage to the affected areas or the native population.It turns out, instead of almost triggering a Earth-Moon war ... More >>
I have been eating a lot of Randall's country fried chicken lately, and I have to say, it's damn tasty. It might sound a little strange that a grocery store has really great chicken, but why not? If you get there relatively early in the afternoon when the guys are still in the back of the pre ... More >>
We're not really nostalgic for any of these food items--perhaps it hasn't been long enough yet? What 1990s foods do you remember consuming in great quantities (that you're willing to admit)? 5. Fat-Free/Diet Snack Foods All of that playing around in the laboratory led to some pretty sketc ... More >>
