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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Movie Pirates
That couple in the back row — they're making out big time, but not in the way you think
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It's Hip to Be Square at Masraff's
Continental cuisine is over, so why would anybody want to eat at this retirees' hang-out on South Post Oak Lane?
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Breakfast Enchiladas at Mi Sombrero
At this old-fashioned Tex-Mex joint on North Shepherd, the huevos are served all day on weekends
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Barack Obama and Me (259)
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (26)
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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What's the Problem Houston? (6)
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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"The Big Show, 2007" (29)
The curator of "The Big Show" does the job right
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X-Clan's Brother J Drops Some Knowledge (4)
Revolution Through Evolution
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Texas Fetish Ball
Pony play is just one form of erotic excitement at Dare Ware’s annual fetish funhouse
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Lisa Lampanelli
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Public Broomstick Adventure
Discover Houston Tours shows off the city’s creepy, creaky, ghost-filled sites
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Othello
The Alley Theatre takes on Shakespeare sans set
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Patti LaBelle
The woman with a once-in-a-generation voice bares her soul to Houston
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What I’m Thinking About When I Think About Films From the 1980s
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Drenched in Blog: Emo Kids Getting Attacked in Mexico
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Play Ball: John Royal’s Predictions for the Houston Astros
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High Price of Crawfish
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Recent Articles By Clay McNear
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Generation Exceptional
Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave
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Night & Day
August 20 - 26, 1998
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Sexual Healing
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Night & Day
August 13 - 19, 1998
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Night & Day
August 6 - 12, 1998
National Features
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Miami New Times
Perez Hilton: Exposed!
Can a "crazy, flamboyant dork" from Miami find happiness as a Hollywood mudslinger?
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Nashville Scene
Chip Off the Old Rock
Songwriter Justin Townes Earle has struggled with addiction--just like his proud papa.
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Phoenix New Times
"Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy"
Have they become the magic words when a state wants to terminate parental rights?
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SF Weekly
Out of the Woodwork
Union carpenters describe a little slice of Jim Crow smack dab in the middle of America's most PC city.
By Lauren Smiley
Night & Day
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Published: June 4, 1998
Wednesday
June 10
Choreographer/playwright/performance artist/hoofer Mark Dendy endows his inspired creations with camp and sass. In What Becomes a Legend Most?, Dendy and partner Lawrence Keigwin stick it (lovingly) to modern-dance maven Martha Graham -- that vain queen of furrowed-brow sincerity -- and the brilliant Russian lunatic Vaslav Nijinsky. Legend, which opens the Houston Fringe Theater Festival, includes Dendy's takes on Nijinsky's "Afternoon of a Faun" and Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." Dendy portrays Graham; Keigwin handles the lion's share of the Nijinsky role, but Dendy also dons the guise for a dueling-Nijinsky segment. The run opens at 8 tonight and continues through June 13. DiverseWorks, 1117 East Freeway. Info: 228-0914, 868-7516. $12 to $15; $10 for students and seniors.
Fans of The Phantom of the Opera and the Galveston Island Outdoor Musicals face a tough decision tonight, as the Andrew Lloyd Webber piece and the annual Galveston series square off with head-to-head debuts. Lloyd Webber's ham-handed melodics reached their nadir with the screechy, inexplicably exalted Phantom, and drove us from the hall long before the chandelier dropped. The popularity of the Outdoor Musicals is slightly more comprehensible, if only because of the pleasant breezes wafting off the nearby Gulf. But Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella? Heck, the series opener looks cutting-edge compared to the rest of the season's lineup, which includes those rode-hard-and-put-up-wet warhorses Hello, Dolly! and Anything Goes. Phantom opens at 8 p.m. and continues through July 12. Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, 227-3974. $16 to $66 (629-3700). Cinderella bows at the same time and runs through June 27. The Mary Moody Northen Amphitheatre, FM 3005 and 13-Mile Road. Info: (800) 54-SHOWS. $20 to $30.
