We choose this year’s winner of the Best Chicken Fried Steak.
Best Chicken Fried Steak: Killen’s
Bib Gourmand–awarded chef Ronnie Killen’s Southern comfort spot offers a chicken fried steak that’s as refined as it is nostalgic. Made with ribeye, it’s got that gorgeously golden, craggly crust, creamy mashed potatoes and a pour of velvety gravy that hits just right. With chef Ryan Hildebrand (FM Kitchen & Bar) recently joining as culinary director, this legacy only getting stronger.
If family-friendly means more than just chicken fingers, this fast-casual Montrose spot delivers big — with a spacious patio and a global menu that wows adults and kids alike. The well-traveled menu offers crowd-pleasers like butter chicken samosas, shrimp pad Thai, lamb dumplings, and carne frita — plus a new Little Explorer’s Menu packed with kid-approved classics from lo mein and cheeseburgers to fish and chips. Add $3 soft-serve ice cream to seal the deal.
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The holiday season is upon us, and with all due respect to Andy Williams, whose winter ditty “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” cites the Christmas season as just that, the most wonderful time of the year, if we are going to narrow it down to one weekend for football fans, Thanksgiving weekend is the most wonderful time of the year, hands down.
Starting late Thursday morning, once we get our token Turkey Trots and family touch football games out of the way, the holiday gods give us license to sit on the couch for four days. Unless you’re working, the only reason you should leave the couch is for bathroom breaks, drink refills, and leftover turkey sandwiches.
For folks in the Houston area, there is a ton of meaningful football being played over the next 72 hours, but you might need a map to navigate all of it. So, as James Taylor would say, “that’s why I’m here!” (Not sure why I keep quoting old, male singers. But I digress.)
So, for your gluttony and sloth benefit, here is my guide to football watching for the Houston football fan this weekend, with a brief blurb on each of these games, and what’s at stake:
Thursday, November 27
Chiefs at Cowboys, 3:30 p.m. (CBS)
Houstonians will have to pinch their nose and tolerate rooting for the Cowboys for a few hours on Turkey Day, because a Dallas win over the Chiefs would be a huge help to the Texans’ playoff hopes.
Bengals at Ravens, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)
The Bengals should be getting their quarterback Joe Burrow back in this one. Similar to the Cowboys, the Bengals can become the Texans’ best friends by damaging the 6-5 Ravens.
Friday, November 28
Texas at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (ABC)
Texas A&M can complete an historic undefeated regular season, clinch a slot in the SEC Title Game, and get one step closer to a first round bye in the College Football Playoff. Texas is trying to keep its microscopic playoff hopes alive. Oh, also, these two schools hate each other.
Saturday, November 29
Texas Tech at West Virginia, 11 a.m.
The Red Raiders are a 24 point favorite, but stranger things have happened on the road in college football. A win clinches a spot in the Big XII Title Game for Tech, and gets them one step closer to the school’s first playoff berth.
Houston at Baylor, 11 a.m.
A win for the Coogs here gets them to 9-3 on the season, and should lock up a pretty substantial bowl berth, with several projections sending them to San Antonio and the Alamo Bowl. Baylor will be staying at home during bowl season, trying to figure out what to do with head coach Dave Aranda.
SMU at Cal, 7 p.m.
Hey, we’ll throw a bone to some of the Houston area Mustang alum! A win for SMU clinches a spot in the ACC title game, and gets them one step closer to a second straight playoff appearance.
Sunday, November 30
Texans at Colts, Noon (CBS)
Not much needs to be said here, as several million of you, here in Houston, will be watching the latest “most important game of the season” for the Texans.
Jaguars at Titans, Noon (CBS)
The Texans remain a game back of the Jaguars for second place in the division and a wild card spot in the postseason. The Titans are the worst team in football, and similar to the Cowboys, very painful for Houstonians to root for. However, a Titan upset would be huge for the Texans.
Bills at Steelers, 3:25 p.m. (CBS)
These are two teams the Texans are looking up at in the standings. The Texans just beat the Bills, so the Texans have the head to head tiebreaker, if they end up tied after the season. The Steelers beating the Bills is the play for which to root here, as the Steelers winning the AFC North doesn’t affect the Texans’ playoff standing. Buffalo falling to 7-5, combined with a Texans win, would vault the Texans past the Bills in the standings.
Need a last-minute Thanksgiving idea? EZ’s Liquor Lounge, 3301 White Oak, is hosting its annual Thanksgiving community potluck on Thanksgiving Day, with owner Matt Tanner serving up his signature Goose & Andouille Gumbo. All are invited to bring a favorite dish or simply come as they are to enjoy the good company
Now through Sunday, November 30, Burger Bodega and House of Pies are teaming up on a Bayou Goo Pie Shake ($10), available atBurger Bodega, 4520 Washington, Thursday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The shake blends House of Pies’ beloved Bayou Goo – featuring layers of velvety sweet cream cheese, pecans, vanilla custard and chocolate shavings – into a classic Burger Bodega milkshake, finished with milk chocolate shavings.
In honor of 15 years since opening their first shop in Miami, PINCHO is celebrating in Miami and Houston, throwing it back with fan-favorites from its vault of craveable specials. From November 28–December 4, folks can dig into the Cartel Burger and Cartel Hot Dog – your choice of signature beef patty or all-beef dog topped with cheddar, bacon, papitas, pink sauce and mango sauce, all tucked into a butter-toasted brioche bun.
The Kid, 1815 North Durham, hosts a one-night Cocktails for a Cause event on Friday, December 5 from 4 to 9 p.m., raising funds for Kids’ Meals Houston. Guests can sip two specialty cocktails – the Comeback Kid made with bourbon donated by Redemption Bourbon and the Kids’ Table featuring cantaloupe syrup and lime – with 100 percent of proceeds benefiting the nonprofit’s mission to fight childhood hunger. Children are welcome until 7 p.m. and Happy Hour food pricing runs until 7 p.m.
Whiskey Cake is throwing a Prohibition Party across all Houston locations on Friday, December 5, where the whiskey flows legally and the mischief is encouraged. Expect live music, hand-rolled cigars on the patio and bartenders slinging bootleg-inspired cocktails from Whiskey Cake’s scratch bar. Doors open at 7 p.m., the band starts at 8 and guests are encouraged to dress the part. Admission is free.
Brasserie 19, 1962 West Gray, is kicking off the holiday season with a high-energy holiday edition of its signature monthly brunch party, Santa Le Brunch de Funk, held on Saturday, December 6 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Expect melted raclette, holiday cocktails and a live DJ spinning seasonal favorites and chic brunch beats. Guests are encouraged to arrive in Christmas sweaters or cozy pajamas.
The Audrey, 9595 Six Pines, will host a Holiday Nutcracker Tea on Saturday and Sunday, December 6–7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., offering an enchanting morning filled with seasonal magic. Guests can enjoy elegant teas, festive bites, and visits from Nutcracker ballerinas — including Clara and her mischievous mice — dancing through the dining room for charming photo ops. Reserve via OpenTable for Saturday or Sunday.
Flaming cocktails. Live guitar. Fire dancing. The vibiest weekend brunch in Houston is at Toca Madera, the sultry modern Mexican stunner on the ground floor of The Pavilion at The Allen. Expect dramatic design moments from a velvet-clad lounge wrapped in a giant bird’s nest to sweeping wood ceilings and lush greenery, plus bold brunch plates and a killer tequila-forward cocktail list. Kick things off with the But First… Coffee, a bold mix of reposado tequila, espresso, coffee liqueur, tajín, and cinnamon Coca-Cola reduction; then dive into dishes like hamachi with smoked truffle ponzu, seasonal mushroom tacos, tres leches French toast and short rib barbacoa breakfast enchiladas. It’s a full-on sensory experience — and yes, it’s as extra as it sounds.
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When it comes to denim, “best” is highly subjective. Trends wax and wane with alarming frequency, waistlines rise and fall like the tides, and the range of fits seen on the racks in one season can go from skintight to palazzo-pant-level loose. Right now, however, designers are bucking the tendency to avoid extremes. Quiet luxury isn’t a factor for fall—denim from Levi’s to Lanvin is testing the limits of what it means to be a pair of jeans. Take the latter brand’s pleated denim, or the former’s bell-shaped XL baggy slacks, which come with a tie at the waist.
Of course, classics are not off the menu by any means—these are blue jeans we’re talking about, the epitome of a signature. We’re loving bootcut styles from Abercrombie just as much as the higher-priced versions from Celine and Isabel Marant. Straight-leg has proven a mainstay, and Prada and The Row’s styles epitomize why this silhouette will always be an ideal. When it comes to an off-duty denim look, unusual and surreal shapes are finally hitting the jeans market, after making stops on couture and ready-to-wear runways. Now, this trend is manifesting in horseshoe pants by Alaïa and Forme. For more of our favorite jeans of the moment, keep scrolling:
The Straight-and-Narrow
If you’re looking to wade back into skinny jean territory, we implore you, just start here for now.
A Slight Flare
On the other hand, if it’s the flare resurgence you seek, ease your way in with a pair of boot-cut jeans.
Neat Pleat
Take your slacks up a notch with this teeny tailoring detail: a stitch that makes all the difference.
Room to Breathe
Big, baggy styles were all over the fall 2025 runways (and, of late, in the streets of lower Manhattan), signifying a return to even more ’90s jeans styles. But these garments are far from old-school.
New Shapes
Horseshoe, barrel leg, über-XL styles—whatever your flavor, this season has a silhouette for you.
The “going out” top is having a renaissance, and Hailey Bieber headed straight to the source—the late 1990s, to be exact—for the ultimate reference. Over the weekend, the Rhode mogul rang in her 29th birthday with an intimate party in Los Angeles, all while wearing a glittering halter top directly from Total Request Live.
Bieber’s archival DKNY disco ball top is the exact same style worn by Britney Spears in her 1999 “Born to Make You Happy” music video. Sourced from the Netherlands-based vintage store Heripum, it features a high neckline, a flouncy, midriff-baring hemline, and criss-cross straps at the back.
Although Spears opted to pair her tank with matching trousers, Bieber pulled out a pair of vintage bootcut Levi’s to offset the design’s club-ready feel. Paired with Carrie Bradshaw-esque Manolo Blahnik sandals from The Vintage Marché, it was as if she’d walked straight out of a lost scene from Sex and the City.
It’s likely Bieber’s top isn’t the exact one Spears wore in 1999, considering the style was commercially available and not custom-made for the singer (Yes, there was actually a time when high fashion brands paid scant attention to teen pop stars). Though this isn’t the first time Bieber has channeled the princess of pop. Bieber dressed up as …Baby One More Time-era Spears for Halloween 2021.
Spears wasn’t the only reference Bieber had on her birthday mood board this year. Late last week, she hosted a Rhode party in a vintage Versace leather coat with a fringed hem and laces up the back. Not only shown on the brand’s spring 2002 runway, the jacket was also later worn by Donatella Versace to take her bow during the fall 2002 runway. Bieber styled the archival gem with vintage Prada trousers from the early 2000s, naturally.
Year after year, Bieber has turned her birthday into a full-on fashion moment with archival looks from the likes of Thierry Mugler and Tom Ford-era Gucci. This year, with her Versace and Spears-approved DKNY, she just had to give us more.
In 1977, Mary Boone paid about $1,700 a month to rent a gallery space in SoHo to show relatively unknown artists. Within a few years, her eponymous gallery and the artists she championed, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, and David Salle, had ushered in a new creative era. Known as a no-nonsense dealmaker, Boone cultivated difficult geniuses, wooed pedigreed collectors, and accumulated a closetful of Chanel. But in 2018, after four decades in the art world, she was suddenly embroiled in scandal. Boone was convicted of tax fraud, forced to close her two galleries, and served 13 months in prison. She kept a low profile after her release, but that didn’t last long. In 2024, the band Vampire Weekend released a single titled “Mary Boone.” “[Lead singer] Ezra Koenig called me up and said, ‘Tomorrow we’re going to drop your song,’ ” recalls Boone. “It’s flattering.” Now she’s enjoying a comeback. On a recent Tuesday, the 74-year-old was at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, the uptown Manhattan gallery where her first curatorial effort post-prison has been on view since September. “Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties” features work by the artists she helped launch. After prison, she says, “I thought I was never going to do this again!”
Mary Boone pictured in 1956, at age 5.
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Born in Pennsylvania to Egyptian parents, Boone moved to Los Angeles as a child after her father died. In Los Angeles, she says, “it was like every day was Saturday. We lived by the beach; you were always in the sand.” Growing up, she discovered she had a talent for drawing. “Everyone encouraged me to become an artist.”
Boone with Michael Werner.
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Boone married the German art dealer Michael Werner in 1986. Their honeymoon, in Venice, overlapped with a professional commitment: One of Werner’s artists, Sigmar Polke, was included in the city’s Biennale. “It always seemed like the art world and our lives intermixed,” says Boone. Like her, Werner had emerged from a working-class background, and had earned a reputation for nurturing young talent. Though they divorced in the 1990s, the two remain close friends.
Boone pictured in her SoHo gallery in 1982.
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Boone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. As a student, she caught the attention of the artist Lynda Benglis, who also lectured at universities. Benglis told her, “You can’t be in Providence—you have to be in New York.” Boone moved to the city in 1970 and hung out in the Max’s Kansas City scene, which was populated with the likes of John Chamberlain, David Bowie, and Patti Smith. Mostly, though, she found herself at the Odeon and the Ocean Club. “You’d go in, and there would be a table with Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Sarah Charlesworth. Then there’d be another group with David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and Ross Bleckner. It was just fun.”
Ileana Sonnabend and Boone.
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Boone’s first gallery was at 420 West Broadway, which also housed the influential galleries run by divorced art world giants Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend. “I used to joke that when the elevator was broken, which was a lot of the time, people would come into my gallery instead of going up to see theirs.” Both became important mentors and friends of hers. Here, Sonnabend and Boone celebrate their joint birthday in October 1981. “I was turning 30, and she was not turning 30.”
Leo Castelli with his then girlfriend, the art writer Laura de Coppet (left), and Boone at art collector Douglas Cramer’s Los Angeles ranch for a party celebrating Boone’s wedding, in 1986.
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Castelli joined forces with Boone to usher in the neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s. “Leo didn’t race to show my artists. I had to persuade him to do a show with me,” says Boone.
Boone in front of the Berlin Wall in 1989, while on a trip to visit an artist.
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Boone met Werner in 1981 at the opening party for Norman Rosenthal’s landmark show “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Many of Werner’s artists, including Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer, were on display, and Boone wanted to exhibit them in New York. “I was too young of a dealer to show them, but slowly we started working together.”
In 1987, Boone and Werner had their only child, a son named Max. After giving birth, “I just got a whim to have my hair cut off,” says Boone. “It was a lot of change becoming a parent. I was really lucky—I have a great kid.” Max has worked with both Boone and Werner, and recently struck out on his own as a gallerist.
“Jean-Michel found out where Andy Warhol would go to lunch, and he went there and started selling drawings to everybody,” says Boone, who staged a Basquiat show in 1984. “I made it my business to meet him.” At top, Basquiat and Boone are pictured at that exhibition in Boone’s gallery. “He had a thing with his mother. I think I became a substitute for his mother, and Andy became a substitute for his father.” Warhol took the bottom photo in 1985, as Basquiat prepared for an opening. “He didn’t let the packers pack up his paintings. He rolled them up and dragged them.”
“I always liked artists who did something I had never seen before,” says Boone. She originally turned down the chance to represent Eric Fischl, known as the “bad boy of painting” for his voyeuristic style, but she eventually relented and worked with him for 30 years. The two are seen here at the opening of his show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in 1986.
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Boone attends the 1990 launch party for Bob Colacello’s Andy Warhol biography, Holy Terror. She showed numerous Warhol works throughout her career, and he eagerly embraced her stable of young artists. “I think he really loved being the head figure,” says Boone. Warhol was the first person to show up to Boone’s inaugural Basquiat exhibition, together with “this man who was smaller than he was, and it turned out to be Manolo Blahnik. Andy tried to get him to buy a Basquiat painting, which was, like, $10,000 at the time. Maybe $5,000. Manolo said he was saving up his money to open a shoe store.”
Boone and Nicole Miller attend a party in 1989 at The Lowell to celebrate Miller’s collaboration with Absolut Vodka.
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“Nicole Miller and I have been friends since our days at RISD. We moved to New York together.” While Boone rose to the top ranks of the art scene, Miller’s fashion brand established her as a household name in the 1980s. “I’m very loyal, and so is she.”
Boone with Eric Fischl (center) and Michael Werner at Fischl’s 1985 solo show at Kunsthalle Basel.
Courtesy of Mary Boone
When Boone first moved to New York, she worked at Bykert Gallery, which was run by Lynda Benglis’s boyfriend, Klaus Kertess. “At around four or five, all the artists would start coming in, like Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, and Agnes Martin. Hearing these artists talk about art really was educational,” she says. Kertess left the gallery in 1975 to become a writer, and Boone decided to strike out on her own. “For every artist I ended up showing, I went to a thousand studios. Slowly, I put together a group.” Here, she is pictured with Eric Fischl (center) and Werner at Fischl’s 1985 solo show at Kunsthalle Basel.
Boone attending a Christophe de Menil fashion show at the Palladium, in 1985.
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Boone’s first brush with the press had come in 1974, when a young Anna Wintour asked to include her in a Harpers & Queen story on stylish young New York women. “I told her, ‘Please don’t write about me, because I don’t want to be talked about in terms of my clothes. I want to open my gallery.’ ” Nonetheless, Boone paid attention to fashion. “It started with Armani. I, and a lot of other dealers, wore the low-key gray.” She developed a taste for Chanel when she found a trove of vintage couture suits in her size at auction. “I bought one or two. Tina Chow bought the rest of them, like, 30. Then Lagerfeld took over Chanel, and I wore that most of the time.”
Boone and Julian Schnabel in 1980.
Photo by Bob Kiss
Julian Schnabel’s first solo show in New York, at Boone’s gallery in 1979, was a breakthrough for both artist and gallerist. Previously, Schnabel had worked as a cook at the trendy Ocean Club restaurant. (David Salle, another of Boone’s artists, also cooked there.) Schnabel’s plate paintings—literally paintings on broken plates affixed to a canvas—marked a break from the minimalism of the 1970s. “It was just something completely different,” Boone says.
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Schnabel’s defection from Boone’s gallery to Pace, in 1984, was her first major setback. “I was heartbroken,” she says. Here, she poses with Schnabel’s son Vito at his gallery show in 2008. “It shows you life is just a circle of events. Hopefully, the good outweighs the bad.”
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A 1982 New York magazine cover on the booming art market named Boone “The New Queen of the Art Scene.” The city had emerged from bankruptcy, and suddenly money was flowing into the art world. The article painted Boone as a new type of gallerist, one always ready to pour a glass of champagne or make 10 phone calls to close a sale. “I kind of blocked it out,” she says. “I became a symbol. But, listen, a lot of young women, like Thelma Golden, came up to me and said, ‘I wanted to go into the arts because of seeing that cover.’ ” She credits Wintour, then working as New York’s fashion editor, for her inclusion.
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In the 1980s, a magazine asked a selection of gallerists how they celebrated a big sale. Most said with champagne or food. Boone said she bought a new pair of shoes. Her reputation as a shoe lover has followed her ever since. “Someone told me Warhol read that. Then I got my first invitation to lunch at the Factory,” she says. “I do like shoes, because they’re about moving forward. And particularly being a woman in what was still a man’s world, it was like taking steps.”
Boone with Parker Posey and Posey in the film Basquiat.
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Parker Posey with Boone, played a fictionalized version of the gallerist in Schnabel’s 1996 film, Basquiat (right). Boone likes to separate herself from the character: “Parker asked me some things, but she pretty much did her own thing.” Even so, Boone is a fan of both the actor (“I wish she could play me in real life”) and the film. “This is Julian’s story about what he thinks of me, Jean-Michel, and himself. It’s a good movie because he’s a painter. A lot of the problem with movies about artists is believability.”
Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan, photos by Elisabeth Bernstein
Initially, Boone and her band of artists were dismissed as a fad. “I never really listened to that,” says Boone. “I just had to keep doing serious shows.” Her 2025 exhibition at Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents the people she worked with as the definitive 1980s American artists.
Boone with collector Stan Cohen on opening night of her 2025 exhibition.
Courtesy of Mary Boone
The exhibition includes a Barbara Kruger silkscreen bearing the phrase: what me worry? “I’ve shown that work three different times, and it’s never looked as good as it does here.”
Boone with Pharrell Williams and the artist KAWS in 2013.
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The VIPs who have shown up to Boone’s galleries on opening night include Steve Martin, Monica Lewinsky, Diane Sawyer, Bianca Jagger, Katie Couric, and David Bowie, among many more. Here, she poses with Pharrell Williams and the artist KAWS at the opening of a 2013 show she organized. Nonetheless, Boone never chases celebrities on opening night. “There should be a lot of energy focused on the art and the artists.”
Chef Bryan Caswell — of longtime Midtown staple Reef — is back, this time bringing his signature Gulf Coast flavors and love of the Lone Star to Houston’s Memorial neighborhood. At Latuli, he taps local farms and ranches for polished plates that are unmistakably Texan: think smoked redfish and pimento cheese dips, Wagyu barbacoa with sunchoke purée, and field pea posole with pickled serrano. Don’t skip dessert — the seven-layer Texas sheet cake is a worthy showstopper.
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Deep in the heart of Houston’s east end is a deli that wears its Italian roots and love for the University of Houston on its sleeve (and walls and tables). Mandola’s, which has been serving terrific Italian deli fare since for 50 years, is the perfect example of a Houston-style deli. Yes, it has a classic deli counter with amazing sandwiches like the incredible meatball sub and the muffaletta, but it blends homestyle cooking — in this case, wonderful Italian dishes, pizza and pasta — with classic po’boys like fried shrimp. Comforting and always welcoming, Mandola’s is a terrific neighborhood deli and a Houston institution.
It can be easy to forget, in a sports city like Houston, that there are real bright spots. Sure, they are often fleeting, but hen they shine they do shine pretty brightly. Right now, that spotlight is on the Houston Rockets.
Houston is, ultimately like the rest of Texas, a football city. But, when the Texans are, well, the Texans, and the Astros are starting their slow inevitable decline after a decade of excellence, we are lucky that the Rockets are here to pick us up. At 11-4 with the third best record in the Western Conference, they give us a lot to be thankful for, so on the eve of Thanksgiving, let’s give thanks for…
Ime Udoka
Udoka went from a suspended former coach in Boston to one of the best young talents in the NBA. His almost monotone demeanor and willingness to bench literally anyone in pursuit of greatness was exactly what this franchise needed after years of rebuilding and futility. He immediately brought credibility to a moribund team that was running 19-year-olds on the floor every night as starters. He has quickly built this into one of the most dangerous teams in basketball with an innovative and forward-thinking approach to a game that, often, feels like one tweak away from a complete left turn. Kudos to a coach who is beloved by his team and deserving of all his accolades.
The Terror Twins
At the moment, Tari Eason is injured, but it’s more about how he and Amen Thompson have instilled a sense of never quit into the Rockets defense. This is a team that will finish the season near the top of the league in defensive efficiency yet again and their relentless perimeter length (this includes Jabari Smith, Jr. and, eventually, Dorian Finney-Smith) absolutely befuddles opponents. The length of this team morphs good teams into sputtering messes and will keep them in any game they play no matter who they face.
God bless Kevin Durant. Credit: Cody Barclay
The Double Big Lineup
The Houston Rockets are out offensive rebounding opponents by a greater margin than the league has seen since the 1970s. They can turn the ball over on offense, miss jumpers, even launch ill-advised shots and still win games because no team in the NBA rebounds the basketball like they do. Credit Udoka’s creative use of the unique talents of Alperen Sengun, Steven Adams, and now Clint Capela. Instead of clogging up the offensive end of the floor with a bunch of big slow guys, this massive (biggest in the league) lineup forces other teams to adjust and is spawning clones across basketball.
Kevin Durant
Going from middle of the league on offense to first takes more than scheme, it takes transcendent talent. Welcome to Houston, Kevin Durant. He has shot 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from three this season, just like the rest of his storied, Hall-of-Fame career. His offensive efficiency has literally transformed a team from one of the worst offenses in basketball to one of the best in one offseason. It is impossible to understate his impact on the Rockets as a 37-year-old veteran.
Rafael Stone
Just look at the moves that the Rockets GM has made. From drafting Jalen Green, Sengun, Eason, Smith, Jr., Thompson, and (now) Reed Sheppard, to bringing in savvy veterans like Adams and Fred VanVleet to making the tough but necessary move to trade for Durant, Stone has been remarkably consistent in pulling every right string to turn this into one of the most talented and deepest teams in basketball. And the Rockets have all kinds of assets including draft picks and pick swamps to continue to improve an already insane roster.
Annam brought serious style to Autry Park when it opened in early 2025, blending French-Vietnamese flavors with striking, hand-crafted interiors. Led by chef-partner Chris Kinjo (of MF Sushi fame), the shareable menu mashes classics with refinement—think butter lemongrass beef and shrimp rolls, sizzling clams with basil, pan-fried whole branzino, shaking filet mignon, and a bold Vietnamese riff on bouillabaisse with fish head.
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Thanksgiving 1976 was one for the ages in San Francisco. The 5,000 people lucky enough to score tickets for The Band’s “Last Waltz” concert attended maybe the best rock and roll party ever.
A full Thanksgiving dinner was served to kick things off, followed by ballroom dancing and readings from Beat poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure. Then came the concert itself, which began with a 12-song set from The Band. Then it was time for (musical) dessert, as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jone Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and others joined The Band to celebrate their shared musical heritage. In all, over four hours of incredible and historic music making.
Firing up the Martin Scorsese film which documented the event as part of your Thanksgiving celebration is a fine idea. The Last Waltz looks great, and the audio is excellent considering the era. However, don’t be sucked in by the myth that is created by Scorsese and Band guitarist Robbie Robertson. Each man wanted out of the collaboration. As a mega music fan Scorsese wanted a path into the world of rock and roll. Robertson, on the other hand, was looking to get into the movie business.
All well and good, but Robertson had unilaterally made the decision to terminate The Band’s performing career, and the other members of the group – particularly drummer / vocalist Levon Helm) were not happy about it. This accounts for their collective glum demeanor during most of the film’s interview segments, and it also explains Robertson’s desire to cast (with Scorsese’s help) The Band as musicians who had given their all for their art and were simply too depleted – physically and emotionally – to continue any longer.
In point of fact, The Band had not toured all that much during its existence, certainly not in comparison to bluesmen like Muddy Waters. Sure, business travel of any kind is taxing and not all the fun that it’s cracked up to be, but don’t buy dramatic (and probably pre-scripted) Robertson quotes like, “16 years on the road. The numbers start to scare you. I mean, I couldn’t live with 20 years on the road. I don’t think I could even discuss it.”
As a footnote, check out Scorsese during the interview segments. Remind you of anybody? If you said, “Marty DiBergi from Spinal Tap!” go to the head of the class. But – to quote the esteemed Mr. DiBergi – enough of my yakkin’. Whaddaya say? Let’s boogie!
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San Angelo’s purveyors of Texican rock and roll, Los Lonely Boys, kind of wandered in the desert (maybe literally, considering their location) for several years after hitting it big with the single “Heaven.” After taking a lengthy break, the Garza brothers checked the balance in their bank accounts, got back together and released a new album (Resurrection) last year. Tickets are on sale now for their concert at the House of Blues on Saturday, February 14.
Also performing on Valentine’s Day is Houston’s own Kat Edmonson, whose “Only the Bare Essentials” tour promises intimate evenings in which “[s]ubtlety and nuance will be served up as main courses for this show, and the music, so delicately played, will leave you feeling entirely full.” Wow, that’s a lot to swallow! You can get tickets now for Edmonson’s show on Saturday, February 14, at the Heights Theater.
Wolfmother will play at the House of Blues on Monday, June 8, marking the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut album, and tickets are on sale now. Though the band has been hounded (sorry) by accusation of classic rock appropriation, that’s a bit off the mark. Sure, you can tell that these guys listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath growing up, but is that such a bad thing?
After working behind the scenes in the music business as a songwriter and producer for several years, Meghan Trainor’s solo career took off with 2014’s “All About That Bass,” a song that flipped the gender of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” and threw in some body-positivity messages for good measure. Trainor’s “Get in Girl” tour will stop at Toyota Center on Tuesday, July 28, and tickets are on sale now.
Much like the Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffett before him, Jack Johnson has made a career by creating a surf-and-sand vibe that is easy to listen to and not terribly demanding. But hey, he comes by it honestly, having been raised in Hawaii and making a name for himself as a professional surfer during his teenage years. Johnson will perform on Friday, August 28, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, so get yourself a pocketful of edibles and get ready.
Concerts This Week
While the following week will be occupied with Thanksgiving-related activities, there are a few options available if you and your cool cousins want to get out of the house for a bit. On Friday, OG funkster George Clinton will perform at the House of Blues along with Parliament-Funkadelic. George is 84 years old, so you might want to catch his act while you can. But, as “Flashlight” says, “most of all, most of all” this show represents the opportunity to experience some 100 proof funk as dispensed by the master.
The always unpredictable and irrepressible Erykah Badu will play two nights, Friday and Saturday, this week at the 713 Music Hall. Badu’s “Return of Automatic Slim” tour marks the 25th anniversary of her album Mama’s Gun, and indications are that “reimaginings” of some of the disc’s tracks will be on the set list. Hope she doesn’t stray too far from the original arrangements – they were classics.
Think you might need some honky-tonk after all that turkey and dressing? Then Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge is your spot on Friday, when Dale Watson and His Lonestars will be tending the flame of traditional country music. How rootsy is Watson? He opened a recording studio in Memphis with the original board from Sun Studio, where Elvis, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lewis produced all of their early hits. Now that’s hardcore.
Hidden in a North Main strip mall, Jane and the Lion Bakehouse is a pastry wonderland from chef Jane Wild, where everything is made with real-deal ingredients and “rebel soul.” The pastry case is stacked ith craveworthy stuff like sour milk biscuits, fat quiche, gorgeous sourdoughs, gooey s’mores cookies, and bialeys with schmear. But the pies are the real showstoppers—think Cherry Streusel, Peaches & Cream, and Salted Honey, all wrapped in a golden, buttery crust that dreams are made of.
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Since opening late last year, this stylish bar and kitchen has been drawing a mix of neighbors and in-the-know Houstonians to the fully reimagined La Grange off Lower Westheimer. James Beard-nominated and Michelin-starred chef Emmanuel Chavez crafted a menu of standout bar snacks to match its drinks program — kampachi tiradito with shiso and charred oranges, spicy tuna rice crisps, smoked pigs in a blanket, two-day brined chicken tenders, and a house burger made with 44 Farms beef.
You might be forgiven if you missed Las Tortas Perronas, situated in a little strip center just north of Spring Branch, if not for the giant I HEART TORTAS sign in the window and the wild decor inside and out. Now that you know, it’s worth a visit for this little tribute to the amazing Mexican sandwich. In this case, the Hawaina, a delightful pork/ham/cheese/lettuce/onion/grilled pineapple concoction on their in-house-baked bread. It’s savory and a little sweet and, like so many things in Houston, a mixtape of our multicultural melting pot. Add some green or red in-house-made salsa and you have a unique Cubano-slash-Hawaiian-slash-Mexican sandwich that is spectacular.
Based on overwhelming evidence that Republican lawmakers intended to racially gerrymander Congressional redistricting maps — because they said as much during public testimony early in the process — University of Houston law professor David Froomkin said he believes a district judge’s order to block the maps should stand.
“They said it was about race before they said it was about politics,” Froomkin said Monday.
But the maps approved by the state legislature in August, intended to flip five seats in favor of Republicans, will remain in place temporarily, per a Supreme Court ruling on November 21.
The decision, handed down by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, is a short-term pause while the high court decides which map Texas should use as a court battle over its legality plays out. The ruling came three days after a panel of district judges led by Donald Trump appointee Jeffrey Brown ruled on November 18 that Texas couldn’t use the maps approved in August, citing substantial evidence of racial gerrymandering.
Alito’s decision adds yet another layer of confusion for candidates and voters in the upcoming March 2026 primaries, for which the filing deadline is December 8. Froomkin said Monday that “we shouldn’t read too much into” Alito’s temporary stay.
“That is likely to be reconsidered by the entire Supreme Court in the coming weeks,” he said. “I imagine they will be sensitive to the December 8 filing deadline. I think there’s a strong chance that the district court decision will stand and that candidates certainly should stay the course for now.”
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican presidents.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the mid-decade redistricting effort after he received a letter suggesting he do so from the U.S. Department of Justice. Republican legislators at first said they needed to redraw the maps to fix racial gerrymandering that occurred in 2021. When confronted with federal court testimony showing that Republicans referred to the ’21 maps as “race-blind,” the GOP changed its tune.
Froomkin said they were given bad legal advice.
“This is a relatively easy case in that there was a fairly explicit racial gerrymander here,” he said. “The story here is really a story of the careless, sloppy lawyering that we have come to expect from this administration. This decision could have been easily avoided if Republicans had consulted good lawyers [at the onset] rather than shooting from the hip.”
Abbott appealed the district judges’ decision to the Supreme Court and said in a press release last week that the maps approved by the legislature over the summer were drawn to “better reflect Texas’ conservative voting preferences — and for no other reason.”
As it stands today with the temporary stay in place, Congressman Al Green, a Democrat from Houston, no longer lives in District 9, an area he’s represented for 20 years. He now lives in District 18. Green filed for the District 18 seat earlier this month, but if Brown’s ruling stands, Green goes back to District 9. He’s one of several candidates in limbo pending a ruling from the Supreme Court.
The Congressional District 18 seat has been vacant since former Rep. Sylvester Turner died in March. Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards are in a January 31 runoff to fill Turner’s unexpired term. The special election runoff will be governed by the maps that were in place when Turner was elected in 2024.
Froomkin said back in August, after Texas Republicans pushed through their map, that “the premise underlying this redistricting plan was that there was a racial problem with the prior map that needed to be corrected.”
The professor said Monday that even though the Republicans walked back the messaging that they were redistricting to correct a racial gerrymander, the damage was already done.
“It’s quite rare for the state to announce that it has a racial objective behind a redistricting plan,” he said. “In fact, announcing that the objective of a redistricting plan is to reallocate political power on the basis of race is exactly what a state is not supposed to do.”
“Even if, by some incredible coincidence, the mapmakers achieved the very result that they had been encouraged to reach by the DOJ without relying on racial demographic data, the fact that state officials characterized the plan’s goals in racial terms is itself a sufficient reason to invalidate the plan as a racial gerrymander,” he added.
The opinion handed down last week from Brown, a district judge from Galveston, offered scathing remarks toward the Trump administration for micromanaging a state’s redistricting process and chastised Governor Abbott and the elected Republicans for doing Trump’s bidding.
“To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map,” Brown said in his opinion. “But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”
The Brown ruling was a blow to Republicans who were hoping that the new maps would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts and protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House. Alito’s “pause” issued a few days later didn’t garner much response from either political party, as it appears they’re waiting to see what happens next, Froomkin said.
“I think that Judge Brown’s opinion for the district court was very careful, methodical and well-grounded in existing law and precedent. I would also observe that I really don’t think the Supreme Court has strong grounds to overrule the district court because the main issues are factual issues.”
Since opening two years back in Uptown’s Post Oak Place, Rumi’s Kitchen has brought Houston some of the city’s most exciting Persian flavors. Chef Ali Mesghali showcases dishes like charred saffron-orange shrimp kabob, grape-molasses glazed lamb ribs, roasted corn ribs with black seed dukkah and three-bone pomegranate short rib. Flawlessly spiced and artfully presented, the dishes pair gorgeously with inventive cocktails and a world-class wine list; while weekend brunch service brings delights from Iranish coffee to shakshuka.
Here it is the day after Kathy Ng’s World Premiere of Beautiful Princess Disorder at Catastrophic Theatre and the vertigo from the mood swings is still hanging around. Beautiful PrincessDisorder might not be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but maybe it should be. Or maybe you will just know it when you see it after this will-never-get-out-of-your-head production.
First of all, get used to “heaven” having the required fluffy and puffy cloud coverage, but also a 1971 dilapidated once super deluxe station wagon sitting in the parking lot where entrants to heaven await being processed. “God is procrastinating His judgment.”
And who is waiting in this parking lot? Triangle Person (A mind-blowingly funny but also serious as a heart attack actress T Lavois Thiebaud), Mother Theresa (Amy Bruce, proving that only the best actresses can pull off showing the Most Famous Nun in the World at her worst), and infamous killer whale Tilikum, also known as Tilly (a vivacious Kyle Sturdivant, who is so meow-meow funny one minute, and then the next is answering interrogation questions to get into heaven that will punch you in the gut). This is quite the trio of actors, and they make the avante-garde-ing that Catastrophic is known for look easy—but of course it’s not, and that kind of risky business never is.
Triangle Person DEMANDS that she is a beautiful princess, and Disney is one of her many homes. But she’s not in Disney Land, she is in the Heaven Can Wait Parking lot, breaking the 4th Wall with a sledgehammer, demanding the audience coach her as a competitive swimmer for external success and saccharine photos of a fabulous elite-swimmer-coach relationship. It’s the kind of pie-in-the-sky delusion on demand that Triangle Person welcome us to, literally: “Welcome to the Sky.” And what is the sky? No borders, and one anticlimax after another. This surreal psychological and physical landscape is bonkers: a killer whale has a better chance than Mother Theresa of getting into heaven! But is that really so different than anything else in the world? Hmmm.
Did I mention that Triangle Person has a big yellow triangle for a head while in a “no-nonsense” swimsuit ready for intense competition and external validation sown through obsessive hard work to model after the loved/hated freak of nature Michael Phelps? You might be thinking the yellow triangle is an ironic yield sign for the Beautiful Princess Disorder in which there is no filter and no yielding, because that would get in the way of some serious Bi-Polar or Borderline Personality Disorderly conduct. Or you might just think “Constant Triangulation to up the drama quotient, as in on stage, right now?” Don’t stress too much about it—you are going to try to allegorize, but better just to float on the water of the show and hope that you are not in a pool near Tilly.
Expertly directed by Founding Artistic Director Jason Nodler, this production had extensive consultations and deep revisions with the playwright, Kathy Ng, who was present for an illuminating talk-back after Sunday’s performance. In the play, Ng appears in a filmed backdrop of her discussing herself in a way that illuminates the autobiographical elements in the play.
Maybe this is Theatre of the Absurd, but who cares what you call it? The world is a little too much with us, reality showing through too much for the dodge of that label. Mother Theresa is a hot mess of insecurity and not-enough-ness paired with cruelty and a big empathy deficit. You might think she was the best nun in the world, but Christopher Hitchens’ book expose of her, The Missionary Position, is tossed around and there’s no unringing that bell. Your formerly favorite nun is a sketchy fraud who says she is pro-life, but she won’t even entertain Triangle Person’s pleas for her to care about all the “Thought Babies” that are killed. If a nun won’t care about your aborted dreams, who will?
In Ng’s liminal waiting room, God is right next door to heaven, but he never visits. He wants people to do Netflix specials that are more to his liking. But what has replaced God in this play? Well, the internet and podcasts—they provide the answers to everything, right? One of the best scenes is when Triangle Person tries to reach the pinnacle of her head mentioning all sorts of triangles of improvement that we have shoved into our own triangle heads, like that ridiculous food pyramid and even Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which is such a struggle, impossible really, to reach.
Amy Bruce as Mother Teresa and Kyle Sturdivant as Tilikum Credit: Anthony Rathbun
Matt Fries’ set design, the spot-on costumes by Macy Lyne, the pendulum of soft and harsh lighting by Roma Flowers, and the music, video and sound design by James Templeton all dovetail to create a theatrical experience that keeps you engaged and in a state of constant interpretive schizophrenia, but in a good way.
Triangle Person is a Beautiful Princess but has “never been treated like one.” Maybe she is a petulant brat, maybe she has one of the types of bipolar disorder, or maybe it is a just a big case of “Welcome to the Sky,” where there are no borders, but plenty of room for borderline personality disorder. But who doesn’t have THAT in this play, where a killer whale is shamed for killing, even though he “loves” his victims? They just trigger major splitting as they fail to give the external validation that keeps the performing animal doing their bidding. You wouldn’t think that Sturdivant’s interrogation answers in a full Orca costume would move you so much, but they do. Plus, the bonus that this play probably dramatizes BPD better than any college course or podcast ever will.
Trigger warnings: there is lots of sexual innuendo, hilarious physical demands on the actors, obsessions with sushi and Californication, compulsory blasphemy, accusations against the audience by Triangle Person that make you feel like maybe you are guilty. But mainly the trigger warning is for the revelation that it is a Never Enough World—two medical miracles won’t get you into heaven, you need to look down and eat dirt all the time, you have to swim and swim and swim and never stop unless you think you are about to have a heart attack. You might not know that from the internet and all.
It’s The Catastrophic Theatre being The Catastrophic Theatre, just like a killer whale has to be a killer whale. You know: that animal we take our kids to see in case they might want to be a marine biologist.
Beautiful Princess Disorder continues through December 13 at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH), 3400 Main. Special Monday Night performance on December 1 at 7:30pm. This production is recommended for audiences 12 and older, but this reviewer recommends older. For more information, call 713-521-4533 or visit matchouston.org. Pay What You Can.
Fort Bend County District Attorney Brian Middleton acknowledged last week that embattled Judge KP George is making every possible attempt to get out of being prosecuted for money laundering and involvement in a social media hoax, but said George’s allegations of prosecutorial misconduct are meritless.
George, who has served as Fort Bend County judge since 2019, is scheduled for a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge of identity misrepresentation — involving allegations that he worked with a staff member to fake racist attacks against his own campaign on social media — on January 6, with a pre-trial conference hearing set for December 16.
Middleton is also planning to prosecute George on felony money laundering charges in February. A pretrial hearing on that case, which alleges that George used campaign funds to pay his property taxes and put a down payment on a house, is scheduled for December 15 in the 458th District Court.
George, a new Republican, and Middleton, a Democrat, are both up for re-election in 2026. George has maintained that Middleton is pursuing a political vendetta against him and committed prosecutorial misconduct by withholding evidence, including recorded conversations and text messages about the cases against George.
Middleton’s response to George’s accusations states that several text messages sent to the media by George’s attorneys were cherry-picked from hundreds of thousands of communications and are unrelated to Middleton’s prosecutorial or governmental duties and responsibilities.
George’s attorney Jared Woodfill published some of the text messages in a first round of legal filings on October 31 and added more fuel to the fire in another set of documents filed last week. Woodfill is asking that the cases against George be dismissed, or at the very least that Middleton and his office be disqualified from involvement in the case.
The attorney is also requesting the immediate cessation of encrypted, auto-deleting communication apps by the DA’s office and production of remaining electronic communications that haven’t yet been disclosed.
Woodfill told the Houston Press that he obtained secret audio recordings and text messages from George’s former chief of staff Taral Patel, who was charged in the social media hoax and sentenced to probation. Those transcripts and text messages were not included in the discovery provided by the DA’s office, Woodfill said, alleging that Middleton withheld such evidence because he knew about the social media hoax while it was going on.
“What is extremely troubling is that the last few minutes of a three-hour proffer interview with Patel by the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office has been wiped clean,” George’s legal filing states. “This is highly suspicious, as the discussion just prior to erasure centered around which Fort Bend County public figures — and of course Middleton is one of those public figures — knew about Patel’s activities.”
In Middleton’s response, he points out that a 130-second portion of the videotaped interview was indeed corrupted but his office provided a backup video that captured the entire meeting with Patel. Woodfill claims the backup video is of poor quality and even a transcriber wasn’t able to make out what was said.
The DA’s office responded to George’s original legal documents by pointing out “the inaccuracies and lack of evidence to support such wild accusations.”
Wesley Wittig, second assistant DA and a spokesman for the office, said George continues to make “the same tired argument,” but Middleton would file an official response to the latest accusations.
“This is yet another desperate attempt, in a long line of attempts, to smear anyone (especially the Fort Bend County District Attorney) through allegations that are baseless and inaccurate,” Wittig said in an email to the Press. “There is no retaliation, no misconduct, and no evidence was destroyed or withheld.”
“We look forward to challenging these assertions in the courtroom and focusing our energy on the upcoming trials of KP George for the criminal conduct he is charged with,” Wittig added.
A 15-page legal filing from the DA’s office issued in early November states that “George has shown no basis for disqualification of the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office on the merits of his motion. He does not cite a statutory reason for disqualification, nor does he allege a non-statutory circumstance the Court of Criminal Appeals has recognized as due process violation.”
“Instead, he seeks to disqualify the elected District Attorney Brian Middleton and his entire office on the basis that at some point, prior to the filing of this case, DA Middleton used messaging application with disappearing-messages feature; that certain messages appear to demonstrate personal animus against him; and that if DA Middleton failed to preserve the messages it could constitute other law violations. This theory does not establish conflict of interest, much less one that meets the due process violation standard,” the motion continues.
The text messages and phone call transcripts produced by George’s legal team aren’t particularly flattering to Middleton. They’re littered with profanity and suggestions that the DA’s office wants to “destroy” political opponents. However, those close to the matter have pointed out that the documents came from Patel, who was sentenced for identity misrepresentation, and brought forth by the legal team of George, who is accused of faking social media accounts and posts.
Woodfill told the Press that he had not deposed Patel because that’s not a standard practice in a criminal case, but he did ask for an evidentiary hearing, at which time a judge would likely ask the question of whether the text messages and recorded conversations were AI-generated or otherwise “faked.”
Middleton’s office has opposed an evidentiary hearing, claiming it’s not needed since the accusations are without merit.
Woodfill said last week the text messages obtained from Patel’s phone outline numerous conversations with Middleton that prove the DA is willing to take down those who oppose him.
“It appears based on that evidence that we put in our motion that if you cross [Middleton] or make him mad, he will fight you and go after you and use our taxpayer dollars to target you,” Woodfill said. “The recordings show that he was clearly complicit in the fake Facebook campaign. Why wouldn’t he disqualify himself and let another judge hear it? He needs to resign.”
The felony case against George, 61, carries a potential sentence of two to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $10,000. Woodfill maintains that George gave himself a campaign loan, a common practice when running for office, and paid it back but the paperwork was not filed properly. As for the social media hoax, George’s lawyers say there’s no evidence that the judge was involved.
If anyone wants to wade through the back and forth paperwork that’s been filed in this case, here it is for your reading pleasure:
