Galveston

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Has Found No Takers For Corporate Sponsor Program

In July, reeling from state budget cuts, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department came up with a surefire way to make a bit of extra scratch: corporate sponsorships. The proposal didn't include naming rights -- no British Petroleum State Park at Galveston Island, for example -- but companies who paid ... More >>

The Best Foodie Events of the Week, including a Seriously Awesome Road Trip

Wednesday, November 28 The Mason Bar is throwing a little Holiday Open House with complementary "select house cocktails and menu tasting" from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, November 29 A new weekly music series will be held at Klyde Warren Park, Set List on the Green, featuring local musicians. Check it o ... More >>

Five Events for the Week, Oktoberfest, Beer, Two Sticks of Buttah and a Bowl of Gumbo

Just put all these options in a hat and pick one. Maybe two. Becuase it's just too hard to decide. It's a busy weekend. If you strategize, you might be able the hit most things on the list. Addison celebrates their 25th Anniversary of Oktoberfest this weekend. There will be more schnitzel then you ... More >>

Judge Blocks Texas' New Voter Registration Laws, Calls Registration Drives "Vital"

A U.S. District Court judge in Galveston yesterday blocked five parts of Texas' new voter registration laws, all of which were aimed at curtailing large voter registration drives. Voting for America and Project Vote, two affiliated national projects that hire canvassers to register new voters, had ... More >>

Nando's Is Open at Preston and Royal

Nando's opened a couple of weeks ago at the southwest corner of Preston and Royal (specifically, the opposite end of the strip from Gazebo Burgers where Le Rendezvous used to be). The chef is from the landmark Original Mexican Café in Galveston. At Nando's entry is a bar with a fancy chandelier ... More >>

Hoochies Oyster House, Featuring Dollar Beers (and Perhaps Oysters?), is Open in Denton

Hoochies Oyster House (207 S. Bell, Denton) held a quasi-secret soft opening last week to a small but boisterous group of beer-guzzling Dentonites. We checked it out on a perfectly breezy night and have already planned the next few visits just to sit on that magic patio and drink beer that costs les ... More >>

Texas' Plan for Rising Sea Levels: Wait Till God Tells Us to Build an Ark

Want to give yourself a good case of the climate-change willies? Go to climatecentral.org, click on their report on sea level rise and look for Texas. We could be in for it worse than California, depending on how you measure. When national media talk about sea-level rises, they tend to focus on New ... More >>

Definitive Abstractions

Three Years After Ike, the Shrimp and Fish are Still Frying on Galveston

Lauren Drewes DanielsGaidos, the grandaddy of Galveston seafood restaurants, was spared the brunt of Ike and keeps dishing out the shrimp.​After the hurricane of 1900 annihilated what was then the bustling market center of Galveston, residents vowed to rebuild and never allow another such cata ... More >>

What 19-century Texans Ate for Independence Day

Celebrate Texas Independence Day by eating a native dish -- like tacos, say, or enchiladas.​The first observances of Texas Independence Day were relatively sedate affairs: The semi-centennial in 1886 was marked by readings of the Declaration and a sprucing-up of Sam Houston's grave. In Brenham ... More >>

Oyster Appellations Return to the Gulf Coast

More than a century ago, there wasn't any such thing as a "gulf oyster." Oysters were offered under specific place names -- a tradition revived this weekend at the first Foodways Texas symposium in Galveston. Jenny Wang​The program wasn't devoted entirely to oysters: Kelly Yandell, one of a f ... More >>

Foodways Texas and Smoke Let You
Step Out of Your Shell

​One of the best invitations I've received this year was an e-mail beckoning me to College Station for the founding of Foodways Texas. Now, you too have the opportunity to support the organization, as august a group of chefs, food writers, scholars, fishermen, pitmasters, chuckwagon cooks and ... More >>

Once, Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman Were Two Kids In a Photo Taken in Dallas in 1913. This Morning, At Last, They Come to Life.

Lewis Wickes HineSix-year-old Odell McDuffey, left, and 7-year-old Sam Stillman on a Dallas street corner in October 1913​We first saw this photo of Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman selling newspapers on a downtown Dallas street corner in December 2008, when it showed up on Shorpy accompanied only ... More >>

Dinghy Bar & Grill: Where Would-Be Parrotheads Flock.

Man Of Many Faces

The Webb Gallery shows the strange work of Gordon Carver

Plenty of Folks Are Starting to Place, and Hedge, Their Bets on Casinos in Texas

One week ago today, state Sen. John Carona introduced proposed legislation, S.J.R. No. 31, that would allow for at least 12 casinos scattered throughout the state -- seven "in different urban areas," two "located on islands in the Gulf of Mexico that are tourist destinations with at least 1,000 gue ... More >>

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike

Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back together

Odds and Sods: Of Michaels, the Meadows Foundation and the Eternal Sunshine of Downtown Dallas

While we wait for Sam to post from the city council briefing -- where, for the first time, the entire council will discuss the smoking ordinance -- a few random notes. First, a Friend of Unfair Park points us toward the latest earnings report from Irving-based arts-and-craft emporium Michaels Stores ... More >>

Texas Mutual Says Thanks, But No Thanks, to State Oversight

Texas’ leading workers’ comp insurer says we don’t need courts and juries watching over them. Yeah, right.

Take It Easy On Lupe. And: EARTHQUAKE!

My 10 Top Texas Beers

ACL Fest: More Scenes from Zilker Park

Texas Rangers Will Try to Brighten Day of Kids Still Living at Convention Center

Matt Bauer Moves Islands In Storms. Also, A Giveaway!

Bless Us, Oh Lard

Damn fajitas and health-conscious eaters. They're killing traditional Tex-Mex.

Caraway Cares About The Kids

Clinton's Coming to Town. Not That One.

Ain't Life Grand? It Is, At Least According to Preservation Texas.

Lesbozos

See some queer comedy in Fort Worth

Free At Last

Favorite Fables

Local boys make good

Exclusive: Feds Damn County Jail as "Grossly Inadequate"

Fed Up from the Check Up

We Hate Your Guts

What a disturbing new lawsuit says about the county jail

Active Cultures

Juneteenth Film Festival is worth the wait

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Slave Wages

The fight for slavery reparations takes on a local twist

Inhale With Hale

Itinerant pro-pot candidate Steven Hale is down again, but not out

The Right Stuff

Producers say Space Station 3D is "over the moon"

Local Yokels

Photographer Ann Stautberg walks the razor's edge of a good regional artist

This Sand is Your Sand

On the Texas coast, the only thing eroding faster than the sand is the state’s Open Beaches Act

Cruel and Unusual

Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

Disturbing personality

An unsolved string of cat mutilations in North Dallas leaves police and residents wondering who could do such a thing

Sofa kingdom

The Contemporary British Painters exhibit soothes the critic's savage breast

Out of the rubble

A new book on Deep Ellum's past strips away the dust of myth and history

Power lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but don't tell him that

Out Here

Stylistic etouffee

Hippie Gumbo gets it right

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX