We've reported before about how Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt was pissing officers off with his campaign banning tattoos and beards, but now matters have gone to a whole...
We don't have a Drudge Report siren, but if we did it'd be blaring now. BREAKING NEWS (MUST CREDIT HOUSTON PRESS): High school kids can act up as the end of the school year...
Rice University is the latest campus to get a student sex magazine. It looks like they need it. As part of the inaugural issue of Open magazine, which is as disappointingly...
Karen Augustine of Porter decided she wanted a "companion dog." She went to the Montgomery County animal shelter and paid $100 to adopt a mixed-breed female she named...
Some Houstonians have long been inordinately proud of Alberto Gonzales. Raised in Humble, he went to Rice and spent his early career working for one of Houston's largest law...
School officials in Houston, as elsewhere in Texas, take the TAKS basic-skills test very, very seriously. But if you want hard-core, go to New Braunfels: In that touristy...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has finally come through with some answers for the bizarre-seeming list of books that were banned from inmates in 2007 (see Hair Balls,...
As some in the blogging world found out recently, it's not an easy thing to find out which books the Texas prison system has barred from inmates. Ask the Texas Department of...
We live to serve here at the Houston Press. But that philosophy can occasionally lead us down some very twisty trails. A reader had a seemingly simple request: He wanted to...
It just ain't easy being a hip and trendy preacher these days. Chris Seay, head of Houston's Ecclesia Church, is once again roiling the neighborhood. Awhile back, it was the...
There may be people who think the oil business is a sedate, classy industry, full of stolid professionals who quietly earn their companies well-deserved billions. Those people...
There's one thing we do know: Mayor Bill White got a million-dollar reduction on his Memorial-area home's tax assessment. Why he got it seems to be more problematic. Here's...
Houston accountant Tim Hebert is pissed about his property taxes. So he decided to do a little research at the Harris County Appraisal District Web site. And there he learned...
Houston artist Robyn O'Neil is a serious player on the local scene — some critics like her work, some don't, but she's been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial so she must...
Houstonians had been eagerly awaiting the federal court hearing where Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal would try to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt...
Which would you rather do — patrol the streets of Baghdad, the mountains of Afghanistan or Fondren Southwest? If the recruiting efforts of the Houston police department...
Scientology Rumors Swirl The inexplicable career of former HISD superintendent Rod Paige may be taking another strange turn: into the land of Xenu, thetans and L. Ron...
The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road (Other potential names: the Fort Bend Street Avenue and the Fort Bend Boulevard Highway), which connects Highway 6 and Beltway 8, has been open...
We'd like to think it is only due to the lengthy writers' strike, but we have to admit it's much more likely due to the decline and fall of Western civilization: American...
And on the seventh day, God cemented Texas's reputation as the home of ignorant yokels who don't need no book-larnin'. In case you haven't heard, an advisory panel to the...
