A Comprehensive List of How Texans Mispronounce Places With Spanish Names
From Amarila to Wad-a-loop to the Purda-nalleez River, we've taken some liberties when it comes to pronunciation.
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.
Articles by John Nova Lomax
What Carlos Beltrán Means to Houstonians
The Astro transformed from a young talent to the team's elder statesman.
Devin Kelley on What It’s Like to Share a Name With a Mass Shooter
After the Sutherland Springs tragedy, he looked at his phone and saw strangers wishing he would die. But they had the wrong Devin.
How the World Series Finally Vindicated Astros Fans
There’s been years of heartbreak. That’s what makes the Astros' World Series win so sweet.
Being a Raccoon Doesn’t Stop Gattis McCann From Rooting for the Astros
Meet the furry good luck totem of Houston Heights.
The Complete Story of the River Oaks Tank
The HOA wasn’t the only foe that Tony Buzbee and his tank, Cheyenne, faced in the Battle of River Oaks Boulevard.
Here’s What We Found Out From the JFK File Dump
Most of it was pretty lackluster, but there were a few interesting tidbits.
How the Astros United Three Generations of Women
A mother and daughter carry on a tradition passed down through generations.
The Blues Has Evolved Into Grown Folks Music
The blues is decidedly not dead, just evolved, as grown as the folks who love it now.
Big Oil Meets Folk Art at Eclectic Menagerie Park
The freewheeling sculpture garden Eclectic Menagerie is the most Houston museum in the Bayou City.
