 The only other major publication to serve the city is the "Houston Press", a free alternative weekly with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers.KTRK's Marvin Zindler became a recognized television journalist throughout the United States in the 1970s.His week-long exposé on the Chicken Ranch brothel became the basis for the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and his consumer and health reports on local restaurants, usually focusing on the presences of cockroaches and rats, have made the phrase "slime in the ice machine" immediately recognizable to any local.