Many were disheartened by the "successful" petition to overturn Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, which protects LGBT+ individuals and other members of groups from discrimination. But now it appears signatures on the petition may have been forged.
In July, a 16-year-old Houston teen named Jada was raped at a party, an assault that was photographed, with the images then passed around on social media. MSNBC's Ronan Farrow is reporting that two people have been arrested in the case, an adult and a minor; he displayed the adult's mug shot but did not report his…
Houston mayor Annise Parker has been sent between 500 and 1,000 Bibles at her home, part of a bizarre protest effort orchestrated by Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, and with enthusiastic support from Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. That quartet of geniuses claims that Parker, Houston's first openly gay mayor, is spearheading…
Last week, a man who had been banned from a Houston Starbucks retaliated by throwing a tiny Chihuahua puppy at the storefront, nearly killing the poor pup, not even a year old.
This morning, a U.S. district judge heard closing arguments in the legal battle over the newest round of Texas' insanely and needlessly severe abortion restrictions. If they're upheld, they'll shut down all but seven abortion providers in the state. Texas women will be totally fucked — a fact the Houston city council…
A bystander captured heart-stopping footage of an emergency rescue during a fire that broke out at a construction site in Houston on Tuesday.
Houston area hippie-dippie restaurant Roots Bistro ran a sign on its marquee this weekend proclaiming "Beer should be like violence: domestic."
First of all, here is a 1996 Subaru on sale in Wilton, Connecticut for $3,995. Let's all just let that marinate in our brain-juice for a second.
Happening now in Houston: A new $5 "sin tax" on strip clubs — called a "pole tax" — is expected to generate over $1 million in revenue for the city, and the cash will be used to help the city process rape kits. According to ABC News, Houston has an estimated 4,000-6,000 rape kits that have remained untested because of…
Residents of Houston, ready your pearls for the clutching: it turns out that one of the city's newspapers had in its employ a woman who, while spending her days writing about society goings-on, was spending her nights taking her clothes off for a living. And the writer's secret life as an "active stripper" was…
A string of murders of women in downtown Houston has led some to suspect there's a serial killer at large.
[Houston, June 26. Image via Getty]
Yesterday I attended the premiere of the documentary Exxxit: Life After Porn. I learned some disturbing things about what it's like to have sex on camera — and to stop.
[Houston, May 24. Image via AP]
[Houston, May 13. Image via Getty]
As previously mentioned, in a time when publications are shutting down left and right, there's a new kid on the newsstand: The Most!, a gossip rag from the peeps at Vibe. We checked it out… and we learned a lot!
In attempts to bring more women into the skatepark, Lori Peltier, a skater-mom from Houston, has started the "Babes on Boards" clinic. "The girls are going to go crazy!" she said. [Houston Chronicle]
