Music Monday: Buxton’s ‘Half A Native’ Is One Of The Best Texas Albums Of The Year
Houston's Buxton dropped an alt-country gem you might've missed.
Houston's Buxton dropped an alt-country gem you might've missed.
HERO evokes another era—one we shouldn’t be proud of.
It's unfortunate, but the numbers don't lie.
Don’t be fooled by claims of economic diversification—the city still runs on oil.
Just when it appeared we had hit peak bacon—last week’s introduction of Sizzl, Oscar Meyer’s dating app for bacon lovers, could be pinpointed as the moment things jumped the shark—Chris Shepherd, the chef at Underbelly in Houston, found a way to improve the most popular ingredient of the past five
According to Blanca Borrego's family, she was taken into an exam room where sheriff's deputies were waiting for her.
Legends in the barbecue world perpetuate themselves. Keeping your doors open for decades takes hard work, loyal customers, and a little luck, and it doesn’t happen that often. In return, such barbecue joints are worshiped for their longevity, and rightly so. It’s a huge benefit, but it also comes with
An Instagram look at the insta-joy of the ice cream's triumphant return
Chronicling the rivalries of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin.
The ad, paid for by Houston Unites, relies on the bathroom panic surrounding transgender women.
There’s a little red building with yellow trim along Kuykendahl Road on the north side of Houston. The fresh coat of paint is hard not to notice even while speeding along, and inside is some of the city’s best and most thoughtful barbecue.For Steve and Sherice Garner, this building has been a long
He’s the best defensive player in the NFL but writes his own Christmas cards. He has thousands of fans who’d love to party, but he goes to bed at seven-thirty. He could be the league’s next MVP but enjoys buying his own groceries. Is Houston’s J. J. Watt for real?
J.J. Watt and friends had their HBO debut last night. Here’s what you might have missed.
Advocates for the equal rights ordinance are calling on Queen B to leverage her clout for the cause.
As the doors to Cuban travel slowly re-open, the author’s dad recalls his epic road/cruise ship trip to Havana just before Castro’s take-over, and we remember Castro’s hero’s welcome in Houston a few months later.
The music sharing service shows how little Dallas and Houston have in common, how Austin loves critical darlings, and how much Aggies love Aggies.
Seven years since it was last ravaged by a hurricane, Galveston is doing as well as ever. Will it always be so fortunate?
It’s big, it’s bright red, and Jackson Street BBQ is a great new option for Texas barbecue in downtown Houston. Opened earlier this year, it’s a joint venture between Houston chef Bryan Caswell and local pitmaster Greg Gatlin. The two joined forces on a menu with plenty of variety, and
The transition from competition barbecue to commercial barbecue can be challenging. Restaurateurs generally have to cook more than once a week, there’s more meat to smoke, and a lot more people need to be pleased than one table of judges. In my experience, shelves full of competition trophies don’t often translate
Houston goes a bit nuts over a storm that was nothing like the Memorial Day floods.
Spoiler: They’re both in the path of a tropical storm right now.
Proponents says it’s outgrown its small-neighborhood roots and that the move is indicative of the triumph of LGBT rights. Opponents say the event forsaking its soul in the name of dubious progress.
According to a New York Times blog, our mid-seventies hockey prowess elevates us to only eleventh among cursed sports towns.
As Houston basketball fans mourn the end of the Rockets season, we remember the efforts of one of the team’s all-time greats.
After ravaging the Hill Country, the Memorial Day rains played havoc on Houston.
Before you bust out your checkbook, there’s a big catch you should be aware of.
It was part musical, part dance movie, and part love story, and in June 1980 it unleashed an unprecedented fervor for country music, Western wear, and, yes, mechanical bulls. More than three decades later, the film’s stars (including John Travolta, Debra Winger, Mickey Gilley, and Johnny Lee) and many Gilley’s regulars recall the movie that made America fall in love with Texas.
When you’ve got Barney Smith’s toilet seat exhibit, who needs the Rothko Chapel?
Meet SnapStream, a Google-style search engine for television.
Nobody expected much out of the Astros this year, but a month into the season, the team is sitting pretty atop the AL West, five games above .500. How did that happen?
A Houston-area high school chose to drop a policy that would have required all female prom guests to submit photos of their dresses for “pre-approval.”
Not only are there 18 museums within a 1.5-mile radius, but the magnificent 445-acre Hermann Park is now in full bloom.
And could converting streets to two-way revitalize blighted sections of Texan inner cities, especially Houston’s still-moribund downtown?
A century after it was first proposed, Houston’s Hermann Park is finally in full bloom.
More like awwwstronaut, right?
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
Houston’s Oporto Fooding House is almost certainly the finest Italian-Portuguese-Indian fusion restaurant in the world.
An unnamed teacher at Foster High School, in Richmond, distributed a lesson that included “If taken hostage by radical Islamists, what to do,” and a very broad estimate of how many jihadists there are around the world.
Houston, Dallas, and … Laredo?
A Brazoria County task force executed a 21 Jump Street-style sting in area high schools over the past several months, culminating in the arrests of six students.
The World Animal Awareness Society is using camera-equipped drones to film a pilot episode of a stray-dog-related television show in Houston.
Sorry, Cleveland.
A guide to three great Texas museums.
Owner/Pitmaster: Brooks’ Place; Opened 2009Age: 45Smoker: Indirect Heat Wood-Fired PitWood: Red Oak, Pecan, Hickory, and MesquiteBrooks’ Place isn’t exactly easy to get to, but that’s part of its charm. Cypress is at least a thirty minute drive from downtown Houston. It’s a destination, and those in line
Houston Redditors makes wishes that will probably never come true.
We’re not even a quarter of the way through 2015 yet, and mosques have been burned, loyalty oaths have been demanded, and—in Dallas last week—a Muslim man was shot in the back while watching the snow fall.
Will he be pulled from the bill?
On Monday, the Houston Chronicle posted a slide show of photos of a late Longview teenager who suffered from anorexia, inviting readers “witness her fatal transformation.”
Owner/Pitmaster: Davis Meat Market; Opened 1988Age: 76Smoker: Gas-fired Rotisserie SmokerWood: OakI rang a buzzer outside this bright red metal building in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and owner James Davis met me at the door. As soon as I stepped inside the smell of raw meat was present, but not
Despite a century of homegrown rebranding efforts, some historians believe Texas remains as Dixie as ever.