Some of the scaredy cats in Houston who emailed us in the wee hours of this morning could take a lesson from little Cayenne of Galveston, Texas. Our Tejano Hurricane Kit guy in downtown Houston wrote to say, “Now...

Thanks to Hurricane Ike’s humongous girth (ow!) many people in Houston and Galveston are gathering their hurricane kits in preparation of the storm’s supersperminous wrath. One reader sent us a picture of what he calls his Tejano Hurricane Preparedness...

Did you know Hurricane Ike is almost the size of Texas? CAN YOU EVEN WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THAT, PEOPLE??? With the news that over 1 million Texans face “certain death” if they stay in the area, weathermen are...

Stormpulse has a beautiful, up-to-the-minute, animated map that lets you track Hurricane Ike’s progress across the Gulf of Mexico. Which will be worthless when the power goes out, so run over and check it now. Last we looked, it...

Hurricane Ike, which already love tapped our brethren down in Cuba, has seemingly turned its sites northwesterly towards the city of Houston, Texas sparking a mandatory evacuation order from emergency officials for the postal codes 77058, 77059, 77062, 77520,...

Sure, we’ve perused Craigslist’s Missed Connections section as much as the next creepy, self-absorbed person, so we thought it was a cute idea on Houstonist’s part to pick a few and make fun of them so that people reading...

Twenty-three bilingual police officers in Houston, Texas are suing for unpaid overtime and other compensation due to the amount of work they have to do because, they say, the department has not hired enough Spanish-speaking officers: The officers are...

Houston blogger Shoegirl Corner noticed an interesting gentrification trend the other night while hanging out at her mother-in-law’s favorite old-man bar in the historically Hispanic neighborhood of Lindale: These small neighborhood bars in the Hispanic parts of town have...

A Houston judge has ruled that the city’s new “taco truck” ordinance could go into effect this week, much to the chagrin of mobile food truck vendors and the gordita-crazed masses who love them so: The new ordinance requires...

We had no idea there was such a wealth of culture to be garnered from the prolific Canestaro-Garcia kids of Houston, Texas. Turns out there’s a poet in the family, too. A performing artist poet. We love those. And...

A Georgetown, Texas car salesman got fired after distributing an email ad with the headline “Tired of the Wet Backs????” The ad was a promotion for vehicles with air-conditioned seats. The offending spam was sent to 1,200 customers, including...

We heard that Peta’s new, naked Alicia Silverstone ad touting the physical benefits of vegetarianism was launched in Houston because: [I]t is often high on lists of cities with unhealthy eating habits. Houston was named the sixth fattest city...

Mexican heiress/”actress” Issabela Camil, (her IMDB credits include an episode each of “Walker Texas Ranger” and the Mexican “Ugly Betty,” but her dad is Mexican millionaire Jaime Camil Garza, so who cares?), and her betrothed Mexican actor boyfriend Sergio...

The upper classes of Mexico have been enjoying the fruits of America’s southwestern states while simultaneously turning their noses up at its locals since the Conquistadores first raped the Indians, but somehow the New York Times is just finding...

Will U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales be welcomed back to his hometown of Houston if he ends up getting shit-canned from his current gig in Washington? According to local Houston TV station KHOU’s investigation he will. That investigation includes...