A team of three Galveston and Houston-area developers could be bringing music and merriment back to the seawall on the very spot where the ghost of the Balinese Room still haunts the shore. The trio ...

GALVESTON - The marquee at the Balinese Room on Seawall Boulevard once twinkled with the names of the nation's best-known entertainers while high-rollers gambled in the back room. The luster faded ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The way is clear for developers to complete plans for a new 3,000-seat Balinese Room concert venue on the Galveston beachfront after the city’s governing council approved a ...

Scott Arnold, the Houston attorney who bought Galveston’s Balinese Room in 2001 and watched it get washed into the Gulf of Mexico during the early hours of Hurricane Ike’s landfall, has posted an open ...

With all due respect to Brennan’s, the Houston area’s greatest cultural casualty of Hurricane Ike is – or was – on a Galveston pier overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. The Balinese Room, the legendary ...

Among the many structures Hurricane Ike damaged or washed away are some historic sites in Galveston, Texas. The famed Balinese Room, where Frank Sinatra once sang, and other landmarks were in Ike's ...

Hayes Carll, the Balinese Room, and Hurricane Ike I’ve embedded a live performance of “She Left Me for Jesus” below; give a listen, and spend a couple minutes of your day honoring a place that, for ...