Results tagged “icecream”

He can make you burn, make you rock, or teach you about triangles. Houstonist recently caught up with Trevi "Big Daddy" Biles, local hot sauce maker/ Whorehound band member/ geometry teacher. Here's what Big Daddy Trevi had to say about Big Daddy's Ass Burn "Hell Goin' In Hell Goin' Out" Hot Sauce:

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art is kicking off its Fall with a fantastic afternoon for families, children, artists and all very cool persons who enjoy art cars! Saturday, September 29th from 1-4pm, head on over to Munger Street, home of The Orange Show Monument, for food, drinks and the return of the 2006 winner of the Mayor's Cup - Atomic Dog, created by Waltrip High School. Those of you who hit the Art...

We scream, you scream. We all scream for…frozen rice pudding on a stick. Doesn’t sound all that appetizing? Head over to La Paletera and give it a go. But be warned, you might find yourself coming home with a few more paletas (fruit bars) than you had planned. La Paletera is summer in a store. In addition to paletas, they also serve fruit cups (sprinkled with their signature lime/chili seasoning), snow cones, ice cream, smoothies,...

Kevin Russell Performs Solo Show with Fried Ice Cream at Under The Volcano A big thanks to one of our loyal readers, Chris Sarrat, for bringing this awesome event on our radar. If you have not heard the new Gourds record, you'll be surprised to hear horns on the first cut "How Will You Shine." Tonight, Houston-based 9-piece funk, R&B, and jazz group Fried Ice Cream's horn section will be playing with The Gourds' singer...

Missed Connections users from both the gay and straight communities rallied around Dewayne from Guava Lamp as he expressed his devotion to the Sound Guy Jose to ward off a persistent suitor. Nice work, Dewayne. Houstonist hasn't seen the Missed Connections gang this unified since that lady was getting nekkid in the office near the gas station. Comcast (TimeWarner) Tech in baytown......... - w4m - 22I know he is married, and so am I...

It’s hot, ya’ll. But we’ve got the perfect summertime treat to beat the heat. Hidden in one of the many new strip malls that are popping up all over Chinatown-Bellaire is a humble little place called the Juice Box (not to be confused with Minute Maid Park). This place is always packed with patrons hunkering for their fruit bowls. Fruit bowls people! The fruit bowls are only $5 and come in a plastic bowl piled...

Looks like no one really expected David Ritcheson to jump from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend: The Chronicle is reporting that Ritcheson told a couple of friends he was thinking of jumping the night before he did so. "I'm going to jump first thing in the morning before anyone is awake," Ritcheson told two friends, according to a 10-year-old North Texas girl who overheard the exchange. The child, Landee...

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...

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with...

Woe to he who ignores blessings as righteous as these: Ben and Jerry's, the crazy Vermonter ice cream chain, is offering a free cone of ice cream today from noon to 8 PM at all of its area locations. There's no catch; just show up and enjoy. The venerable ice cream makers are marking this year's Free Cone Day by introducing two new flavors, Créme Brulée and Cinnamon Buns, thus propagating the trend of...

Good morning, Houston. Are you registered to vote in the May 12 special election? If not, you'd better get on it: Harris County residents must deliver their registration applications to a county tax office by 4:45 p.m. today or have them postmarked before midnight tonight. Remember, if you don't vote, you give up your right to complain. And we will enforce that. >> New organs, a new life: Maria Mendez, a 14-year-old girl, is...

Yeah, we know the headline isn't eloquent. So what? Rainbow Lodge's brunch offering will leave your head spinning and your tummy smiling. Houstonist was excited to try Rainbow Lodge for the first time. Although Rainbow Lodge has been serving an eclectic menu for 30 years, we had not experienced it for ourselves. Fortunately, their recent move to Ella & TC Jester placed it in our backyard. The sign out front says "Casual Sunday Brunch,"...

The Art Car Parade requires about 400 volunteers, in order to go off without a hitch. The parade is Saturday, May 12th, and the volunteer recruiting is getting off with a bang tomorrow with a Kick-Off Party at the Whole Foods in West University, located at 4004 Bellaire Boulevard @ Weslayan. Essentially, there will be a big parking lot party from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. with food, music, schwag giveaways and some art cars...

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like...

Ruggles Grill (907 Westheimer) is a die-hard veteran among Houston restaurants. Houstonist used to frequent Ruggles for special occasions and celebrations. With the opening of so many good restaurants in Houston in the last five years, and the establishment of the casual and laid-back Ruggles Café in Rice Village, it had been years since we’ve returned. Recently, Houstonist dined at Ruggles Grill to bring back the memories. And sadly, the memories were infinitely better than...

Lindsay Perth is a transplanted Canadian artist who now resides in Scotland. She is one of the artists whose work is exhibited in the Never Been to Houston show. On the right is one of her photographs from the exhibit. Lindsay answered a few questions about Houston and the show for us. Read on: What was your perception of Houston before you started this project? My perception was of lots of glass and reflections and...

Do you have issues? Houstonist has issues - hey, that pint of ice cream, half pound of dark chocolate and six pack of good beer we must have to survive this night, is going to take up residence on our carcass - we have issues with that! Seriously, if you are all out of romance, if you are over this, um, holiday? If Lurlene has not pressed charges on you for that shiner you gave...

For Houstonist, Valentine's Day is just another night spent eating whole pints of ice cream and watching reality shows on MTV. But that doesn't mean we can't help those of you who have managed to coerce purchase find a date come up with the perfect gift for your significant other. Might we suggest a personalized Valentine delivered by three Houston Texans cheerleaders?

Tomorrow is the second birthday of Urban Harvest's Bayou City Farmers' Market, from 8 am to noon. Enjoy birthday cake, hand-cranked ice cream, live music, and other activities along with the wide array of locally-produced vegetables, fruits, coffee, grass-fed meats, honey, baked goods and more. The market is located near the intersection of Richmond Ave. and Eastside St., and is open rain or shine every Wednesday from 4-7 pm and Saturday from 8 am...

The story of Ashton Glover, the Sugarland teen who was murdered in early July, received tons of media coverage, including right here in Houstonist. Her friends have still been frequent visitors to her myspace page, leaving her birthday wishes and notes telling her how much she is missed. And now there's going to be a memorial concert to raise money to help her family and to put up a permanent memorial outside of her school, Clements High, to make sure she is always remembered.

The two men involved in a Texas City apartment explosion yesterday may have been involved in an anarchist group, sources tell KHOU Michael Shelby, a former U.S. attorney who was found dead at his Houston home Tuesday, shot himself, his autopsy report said State Attorney General Greg Abbott will ask the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling that Tom DeLay must remain on the November ballot Two 12-year-old boys were killed overnight...

>>World: After about a month of repairs, London icon Big Ben keeps on ticking. >>Nation: In an Ohio village, you might just wake up with an outhouse on your lawn, and guess what? You have to pay to have it hauled off. >>Texas: Cindy Sheehan not only wants to protest at President Bush's Crawford ranch, she wants free parking too. >>Offbeat:A North Carolina ice cream shop is asking customers to sign a liability waiver...

Somehow, people above the Mason-Dixon line have a reputation for a passion for the summer treat--They certainly have more ice cream stands...and a union of ice cream professionals. Houstonist, however, thinks it's time to celebrate what we have here: possibly by taste-testing every variety. Who needs a pub crawl when there's ice cream to test all over town?

The shot from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor Marlboro!.

Don't tell anyone we told you, but we hear this greenhouse gas emissions stuff is, like, bad for the environment. We know, we know... we couldn't believe it either. We were pondering the implications of the supposed lack of "renewable energy" when in our inbox plopped an invitation to use Kroger's new corn-based, alternative ethanol fuel.

Another day of unseasonably warm temperatures – what a great day for free ice cream! Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating 28 years of existence by hosting a Free Cone Day. Even though the Houston location is much younger (and looks it, thank you), they are partaking in the festivities. You have until 8 p.m. tonight to pickup your free stoner-induced flavor (Cherry Garcia, Half-Baked, Phish Food), or Houstonist’s favorite, Chunky Monkey. Free Cone Day...

Speaking of fresh-baked cookies — what, we were, weren't we? — there'll soon be a new place to get 'em downtown. Nestle Toll House Cafe is opening a location at Main and Capitol, on the ground floor of the Great Jones Building. There are already four Nestle cafes in town (two in the Galleria, one at Bush Intercontinental and one on Mason Road), but Houstonist thinks the new location will be an excellent addition to...

When Houstonist was little, we took frequent school field trips to NASA's Johnson Space Center. That was before the flashy Disney visitors center — back then, they'd herd us into a circa-1962 wood-paneled conference room and tell us about how space shuttles were going to allow us to kick Soviet butt. Then they'd bring out a tiny fragment of moon rock and make a big deal about how we couldn't touch it. That led to...