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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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Mescaline on the Mexican Border
Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.
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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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Ghost Town CFS: Carriage House Cafe
Step back in time — to a spooky old carriage barn with a monster chicken-fried steak
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Barack Obama and Me (246)
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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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
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (13)
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? (6)
All This Useless Beauty
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Rotten to the Corps: A Question of Justice at Texas A&M (140)
Thanks to A& M and a district attorney, two cadets escape punishment for beating in a student's face
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge?
All This Useless Beauty
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Tired of the Hype, But That's All There Is
Next month, Houston gets to be a cool kid. But only for a week.
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The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson
"La La" Love You
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Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC
The Why Chromosome
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A New Official State Song for Texas?
A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song
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Over the Weekend: Fotos, Dogs and Sausage
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Los Super 7's latest is a grande dinner of Tex-Mex glory.
Subject(s): Los Super 7
The third time is quite the charm for ever-morphing Mexican-American musical confederation Los Super 7. With 1960s Texas border radio as the concept, this already Grammy-winning supergrupo delivers an album that's, well, super. Charlie Sexton proves himself Mr. Texas Record Man as producer. Calexico and sharp players from the Austin and San Antonio blues and country crew summon up vivid and alluring musical tracks to match the marquee lineup of singers. On the whole, the set kidnaps you from the first note to the last. The Lone Stars singing here include some of this state's signature voices -- Delbert McClinton, Lyle Lovett, Freddy Fender, Rodney Crowell, Ruben Ramos, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Rick Treviño -- as well as singers so good (Raul Malo and John Hiatt) they oughta be Texans. They crack open the songbooks of Buddy Holly, Bobby Fuller, Doug Sahm, Sunny & the Sunliners and ZZ Top and have at them with new but thoroughly true reworkings that mine the rich essence of Tex-Mex, C&W, R&B, rock and roll, and blues. The result is a shimmering jewel of an album, and a reminder of the time when musical and media rebels eschewed genres and songs were hits simply because of the magic in their grooves. Every track is a champion and the CD is a winner all the way down to the smart and informative liner notes. If there were a half-million-watt, truly clear channel radio signal to air this masterwork, it'd be a sales smash as well as the musical monument it is.
