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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

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It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (6)

All This Useless Beauty
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

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

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Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC

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

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Impeach My Bush

By Mikael Wood

Published: July 13, 2006

Nowhere near as hard.

Subject(s): Peaches

Whatever your politics, you have to admit that the title of Impeach My Bush, the third album by Berlin-based raunch-rap mistress Peaches, is a joke whose time has come. (Titles might be Peaches' true talent -- see also 2003's Fatherfucker.) Whether or not you think Impeach offers more than exemplary wordplay will come down to your fondness for chintzy keyboard-preset beats and calls for a reconfigured nightlife scene in which two guys exist for every girl. In truth, Peaches' shtick has gotten rather tired, which is a better thing for society than for music. I'm not at all bummed that a woman writing songs about giving you a "tent in your pants" has lost her shock value; considering the exploitative bullshit men get away with every day on MTV, it only seems fair. Still, it's telling that Impeach is best when Peaches solicits help from her wide circle of friends: Joan Jett gives "You Love It" a crucial dose of punk-dive drive; Queen of the Stone Age Josh Homme laces "Give 'Er" with fuzzy robot-rock guitar; Samantha Maloney, formerly of Hole, plays live drums in "Do Ya," which loosens up Peaches's flow. Without them, what Peaches teaches would hit nowhere near as hard.

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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

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

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.

All This Useless Beauty

Thanks to A& M and a district attorney, two cadets escape punishment for beating in a student's face

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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