Results tagged “chucke”

At Chuck E Cheese, a kid can be a kid. Not so, however, in Harris County, where we prosecute more teens as adults than do four other heavily populated Texas counties....combined. Judges and prosecutors think we can expect the number of teens in prison to increase in the coming years as well, since recent sex scandals at the Texas Youth Commission (the juvenile hall end of the law) have led to a new rule where...

When we were very young, there was a pizza joint called Showbiz Pizza (which became Chuck E. Cheese), which featured the usual: cardboard pizza, games, and singing animals. Well, those singing animals (known as Rockafire Explosion) that scared the bejesus out of us back in those days are back -- singing Bubba Sparxxx's hip-hop tune "Ms. New Booty." It seems that someone who calls themselves Christhrash on YouTube, bought these mechanical animals and decide...

Milk. It's one of those things we rarely give much thought to — but then we read about how rising milk prices are driving the cost of all dairy-based products up. In fact, according to an expert at the Department of Agriculture, the price of milk-based ingredients used in cheese, ice cream and pizza has gone up by as much as 60 percent in the past year, which means those products end up costing consumers...

Next time you're enjoying pizza and Skee-ball with the family, you'd better take care who you piss off. The suspect, Brandon Glover, allegedly shot acquaintance Troy Reed in the parking lot of a Sugarland Chuck E. Cheese. Police are still seeking Glover who's bond has been set at $200,000 on an aggravated assault charge. Motive for the shooting is not yet clear, but Houstonist would not be surprised if the fight was a a spillover...

We figured Chuck E. Cheese's was bound to have a lot of bad karma stored up, considering the zillions of kids it's subjected to bad pizza, pinball and enormous, oddly cheerful rats. So it wasn't that much of a surprise to us when a gunman held up a Sugar Land Chuck E. Cheese's last week. It happened Thursday, just after the restaurant in the 2300 block of Town Center Drive had closed. The man, who...