
The charming, historic property is an ideal base from which to enjoy the area’s top-notch barbecue.
John Nova Lomax has been an oyster shucker in Tennessee, a landscape gardener and British Telecom mail clerk in Lancashire, and a field hand on a kibbutz in the Arava section of the Negev in Israel. He is also the author of Houston's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Bayou City, a guidebook to Houston dive bars, and co-author of Murder & Mayhem in Houston: Historic Bayou City Crime, a compilation of notorious Houston crimes.
Lomax has been a full-time journalist in the Bayou City since 2001. He spent eleven years at the Houston Press as a music editor and staff writer and is proudest of helping discover Hayes Carll, rediscover Lil’ Joe Washington, and winning an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 2008. With future Marfa city councilman and justice of the peace David Beebe, Lomax walked a total of more than 200 miles of Houston streets on about a dozen different trips, writing about the adventures as part of the “Sole of Houston” blog series. After leaving the music beat, Lomax covered crime, courts and culture for the Press. His work has also appeared in Spin, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and LA Weekly. He has been a senior editor with Texas Monthly since January 2015.
Aug 16, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
The charming, historic property is an ideal base from which to enjoy the area’s top-notch barbecue.
Jul 25, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
The Texan’s 1965 hit is pivotal to ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’
Jul 19, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
The national Latinx civil rights organization pushes for the Central Texas army base to finally honor a Texan hero.
Jun 27, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
I spoke to the man who shot the photo that inspired the song covered on Willie Nelson’s new album. (He’s my dad.)
Jun 21, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
The Red Headed Stranger honors his fellow Texas troubadour with two tracks on his new album.
Jun 20, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
If the city hopes to become a tourist draw, it should market its multiculturalism, not the same lineup of attractions found elsewhere.
Jun 18, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
We should honor this badass Medal of Honor winner, not an incompetent Confederate general who fought against the United States government in defense of slavery.
Jun 14, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Digging into the provenance of a provocative message carved into a shrine to fallen soldiers.
Jun 5, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
What should be done with the historic dreadnought once it’s relocated from its longtime home?
May 24, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Everyone agrees that the recent event—full of drunken fights and scores of wrecks—escalated dangerously. But many Bolivar Peninsula residents will be damned if they’ll accept new rules to curtail the anarchy.
May 20, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Although they're on the rebound in Central Texas, these magical flying beetles aren't lighting up the sky like they used to. A New Braunfels expert says they're still out there if you know where to look.
May 14, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Launched in 2018, the Houston Community Land Trust aims to make home ownership attainable for families of limited means.
Apr 29, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Our latest homegrown football star has been drafted away from the city he loves.
Apr 25, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
No shower caps, bonnets, Do-rags, or saggy pants? The principal’s dress code for parents is about more than just school-appropriate attire.
Apr 16, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
First of all, it memorializes a parking garage.
Apr 11, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
A visit to the beloved mega-convenience chain’s first store outside its home state.
Apr 3, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
Happy WhataGames! May the ketchup be ever in your flavor.
Jan 30, 2019 — By John Spong, John Nova Lomax, Larry L. King and Michael Hall
Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.
Jan 14, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
The Texas Longhorn legend will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame this year. Here's why he absolutely deserves it.
Jan 5, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
For the Renaissance man—a baseball player, a features writer, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker—the sky posed no limit.
Jan 2, 2019 — By John Nova Lomax
And, yes, we understand that they've won a National Championship.
Dec 11, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
After 42 years, Fitzgerald's is closing. The legendary club certainly made its mark.
Dec 3, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Simply put, “y’all” is the best way in the English language to address more than one person, and we speak to a linguist who argues the same.
Nov 18, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
The Houston Astros owner probably isn’t too worried that his team didn’t go all the way this year—he’s settling in for the long haul.
Oct 31, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
In our latest episode, we explore uniquely Texan sayings that make us happy as a clam in high tide.
Oct 30, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
The computer system ranking don't like the Longhorns. Here's why.
Oct 9, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Depends on what you mean by back. But most of y'all need to slow your roll.
Oct 5, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
With the state fair in full swing and the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners teeing it up in the Cotton Bowl, we start our series in Dallas.
Sep 24, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
In our latest podcast, we explore the sometimes messy but always rewarding collision of Spanish and English in the Lone Star State.
Aug 28, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Is it Mammaw and Pappaw? Oma and Opa? Abuelo and abuela? Or something else entirely?
Jul 27, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
What do you call that little road next to the great big freeway?
Jul 25, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Dismayed by sky-high rents and yearning for a slower-paced lifestyle, a new generation of Texans is ditching the big city and fostering a Rural renaissance across the state.
Jul 12, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
In the inaugural episode of our new Talk Like a Texan podcast, we explore the proper pronunciation of our state nut.
Jun 8, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Through the food he sought out, Bourdain recognized the particulars that made a city unique, rather than what the city aspired to be.
Apr 13, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Artists Ana Fernandez and Cruz Ortiz on finding inspiration in their hometown.
Mar 29, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Houston Astros fans offer their outlook on the team’s first season as the defending world champions.
Mar 8, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Welcome to chunking territory.
Mar 6, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
The “ridiculous scroll” didn’t top the structure until after the Battle of the Alamo.
Mar 1, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
A pronunciation investigation involving two Bowie men known for living large.
Feb 27, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
One of the last markers of the Houstonian dialect dates back to the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Feb 21, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
The founder of Cristo Rey Jesuit College Prep in Houston's last gift to his students—and to all of us—was his wisdom.
Feb 16, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
It's better than good—at least if you're talking about cotton quality.
Feb 7, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Prepare for a tale of blackface minstrelsy and swashbuckling high seas adventures, a whodunit with the last page maddeningly ripped out.
Feb 6, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Prepositionally, you can go over or out to Abilene—depending on where you're coming from.
Jan 24, 2018 — By John Nova Lomax
Who should play on Black Heritage Night? And who gets to decide?
Dec 16, 2017 — By John Nova Lomax
The senior quarterback for Texas A&M at Commerce, the winner of Division II's version of the Heisman, has one of the strangest stories in all of football.
Dec 11, 2017 — By John Nova Lomax
Ridin’ Dirty on the stovetop.
Dec 4, 2017 — By John Nova Lomax
An etymological investigation into the Southern phrase.
Nov 28, 2017 — By John Nova Lomax
From Amarila to Wad-a-loop to the Purda-nalleez River, we've taken some liberties when it comes to pronunciation.
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