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Barack Obama and Me
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
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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Little Bitty Burger Barn
"It's okay to be little bitty in the big city" is an apt slogan for this new burger joint, where sliders rule
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Houston St. Patrick's Day Guide
Our guide to going green for St. Paddy's
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Barack Obama and Me (254)
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 (22)
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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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)
All This Useless Beauty
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What's the Problem Houston? (5)
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard (5)
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Barack Obama and Me
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
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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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Houston St. Patrick's Day Guide
Our guide to going green for St. Paddy's
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The Judy's Come Back
Just in time for SXSW, the Pearland New Wavers brush off the mothballs
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Child Support
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Freddy's Nightmare
Nine years meant nothing. Crescent gave the deli two hours to clear out.
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A Real Deli Deal
Freddy's Deli takes on Crescent and wins
By Brian Wallstin
Published: February 28, 2002A deli owner who sued one of the nation's largest landlords over an eviction has reached an agreement that will allow him to remain as a tenant until December 2004.
Daniel Jackson, attorney for deli owner Nadir Foteh, said the settlement was confidential, "but basically he'll be allowed to remain in the building until his lease expires." Foteh operates Freddy's Deli on the ground floor of the 1800 West Loop South building owned by Crescent Real Estate Equities. After nine years in business there, Foteh was ordered by Crescent to vacant the premises in two hours on January 25 (see "Freddy's Nightmare," by Brian Wallstin, February 21). Crescent claimed that it was ending the current five-year lease because Freddy's exhaust and grease trap systems had not been "adequately cleaned" and were a health hazard.
Foteh gained a court order postponing the eviction, pending a hearing before a justice of the peace. The case appeared headed for mediation, where Foteh hoped to convince Crescent to reimburse him for the three years remaining on his lease. Neither Jackson nor Crescent would comment on what led to the settlement.
Foteh had produced an invoice that showed he spent $575 to have the exhaust and grease systems cleaned before the attempted ouster. The eviction also elicited numerous letters of support for Freddy's from other tenants in the building.
