Day Trips: Houston Temple, Houston

Intricate wooden temple goes up in smoke in November

"...Houston Temple looks strangely out of place in a warehouse..."

June 7, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Gerald D. Hines Waterwall, Houston

Find a roaring waterfall in the middle of Houston’s Uptown District

"...The Gerald D. Hines Waterwall in Houston roars like Niagara Falls, looks like a painting, and,..."

June 21, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Baby Buc-ee's, a bonfire ban, and bluebonnet planting top our fall news

"...Burn ban. The final performance of award-winning, Houston-based artist, and composer Lisa E. Harris’ four-part performance series,..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Plus dispatches from SandFest, farewell to Gary Oliver, and more

"...Texas stayed there at one time or another. Sam Houston is said to have stayed more than 13 times..."

May 3, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Nature, history, and more to explore in 2023

"...Kerrville, Lunar New Year festivities in Grand Prairie and Houston, and a food party in Surfside Beach. Stay warm..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Historic hotels, hummingbirds, and highways

"...art and artifacts. Bryan built his fortune in the Houston energy sector. The Palacios Preservation Association announced on Aug...."

Sept. 6, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Deli Man

This doc about Jewish delis is tasty but fatty

"...deli man who currently operates Kenny & Ziggy’s in Houston, Texas. A classically trained chef, Gruber is a graduate..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Friday Night Lights': Texas Highways Edition

"...perimeter: Region I (West Texas), II (Dallas/North Texas), III (Houston/East Texas), and IV (San Antonio/South Texas). Teams from our..."

Nov. 16, 2006 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Day Trips: Statue of Union, Sugar Land

Houston-area statue rises to third-tallest in the U.S.

"...at 10098 Synott Rd. next to the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in an industrial area mixed with houses of worship..."

April 18, 2025 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A tribute songwriting Legend Cindy Walker, Daikaiju, A Giant Dog & Go Fever, Sonic Movidas with Carrie Rodriguez, and Temple of Angels

"...Fest 2019. Surfing an instrumentally primal Stooges punkgasm, Kabuki-masked Houston/Austin quartet Daikaiju performed a portion of their Molotov cocktail..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Roller Derby Update: 11/27/10

The off season is on

"...plenty of news, starting with a pick-up bout in Houston this weekend...."

Nov. 27, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Aggies Hook Horns, Astros Land Lee

"...- who, according to a front-page article in the Houston Chronicle, are now every bit as suburban, SAT-savvy, and..."

Nov. 25, 2006 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...called Monster Island Studios, which, as a satellite of Houston-based animé giant A.D. Vision – the largest distributor of..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin-Shot Oil Epic The Iron Orchard Gets Its First Trailer

First look at this story of West Texas oil field life and Houston greed

"...overlooked classic of West Texas oil field life and Houston greed. After decades of abortive productions, now a film..."

Feb. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks Confirm for Austin Psych Fest

ZZ Top frontman reunites Sixties psych act here in April

"...Moving Sidewalks reissue, a 2-CD mini box compiling the Houston psych quartet’s sole 1968 LP and attendant singles and..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

UT Softball Looks to Remain Undefeated in Exhibition Play

"...Classic in my hometown of Spring (just north of Houston). Sunday's two games were canceled due to rain. UT..."

Oct. 17, 2006 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Six-String Singularity

Adam Holzman, the man largely responsible for Austin's burgeoning classical guitar scene, gives a rare recital off the UT campus

"...then had never actually been to Austin. "I'd toured Houston, Temple, El Paso, Arlington, but never Austin. The opportunity..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...off amid applause that rises into the heavens. Sunday: Houston Cruise Ship Terminal..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

"...OWEN TEMPLE..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Review

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...Stone Savage or Trace Ordiway on bass, guitarists Kent Temple and Pat Reynolds, Tom Colwell and David Perkoff on..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...I had strip-mined the clubs and concert halls of Houston for five years, veering from the blues bars in..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Pine Curtain

First-time author Dina Temple-Raston's A Death in Texas pulls the James Byrd Jr. murder out of the East Texas woods.

"...James Byrd Jr. and its aftermath, first-time author Dina Temple-Raston trots out William Faulkner's canonical observation that in the..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Fall into fun!

"...Revised and Revisited," the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston presents 77 of Kōkei’s prints plus a collection of..."

Aug. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

"...Ranch project, the Foster Ranch, and the Barsana Dahm temple. They also retained counsel to examine the city's efforts..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Top Guns

Kent A. Caperton ($885,000-$2,925,000 )

"...Octanes Corp. $10,000-$24,999 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. $10,000-$24,999 Houston Lighting & Power Co. $10,000-$24,999 Huntsman Chemical Corp. $10,000-$24,999..."

Feb. 12, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...see the need to go to a church or temple from time to time. Transcendence to another reality. I..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is full of festivals and flowers

"...a six-month engagement at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston. One of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of..."

March 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...in 2014. That followed a strong 2006 mixtape featuring Houston legends Paul Wall and Trae the Truth. – Kahron..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Lege Lowdown

"...entire strain of cancer. In fact, Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, and Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, have filed a..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column

Owen Temple

"...Owen TempleMountain Home (El Paisano)..."

May 13, 2011 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

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