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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
Mescaline on the Mexican Border

Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.
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.
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
Ghost Town CFS: Carriage House Cafe

Step back in time — to a spooky old carriage barn with a monster chicken-fried steak

Barack Obama and Me (253)

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (21)

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.
Save Lobo: A Siberian Husky Mix is Sentenced to Die (28)

Why? Because he's big and intimidating and because one family complained about him over and over again
Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)

All This Useless Beauty
HoustonHipHop.com Relaunch Party (5)

Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge?

All This Useless Beauty
Tired of the Hype, But That's All There Is

Next month, Houston gets to be a cool kid. But only for a week.
The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson

"La La" Love You
Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC

The Why Chromosome
A New Official State Song for Texas?

A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song

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While the nearby Super Bash may have the quantity, this multiday downtown mega-getdown will have the quality, and what's more, it's all absolutely free. Sure, none of the national names on this one are as big as the Red Rocker's, but when you've got Charlie Robison, Los Lobos, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Cha's, the Neville Brothers, Flaco Jimenez, Marcia Ball and Delbert McClinton, it only goes to show that merit seldom equals notoriety. (And arguably K.C. & the Sunshine Band is just as famous as Hagar, but that just goes to prove my point.) Austin's amazingly good flamenco-blues-rock group Del Castillo is also slated to perform, and we don't call many flamenco-blues-rock groups amazingly good. Then there are locals like John Evans, Step Rideau, Fito Olivares and Grady Gaines... As the wizened rednecks on the Old Milwaukee commercials used to say, "It don't git any better n'at." A full performance schedule is available at www.click2houston.com/sports/2761303/detail.html

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It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.

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.

"It's okay to be little bitty in the big city" is an apt slogan for this new burger joint, where sliders rule

Step back in time — to a spooky old carriage barn with a monster chicken-fried steak

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

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.

Why? Because he's big and intimidating and because one family complained about him over and over again

All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty

Next month, Houston gets to be a cool kid. But only for a week.

"La La" Love You

The Why Chromosome

A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song

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