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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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Houston St. Patrick's Day Guide
Our guide to going green for St. Paddy'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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Barack Obama and Me (255)
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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Lisa Lampanelli
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Lisa Landolt and Jo Barrett
Two law-school-grads-turned-chick-lit-authors show us amore might be the death of us yet
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade
Watch downtown turn into cowpoke heaven
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Free First Sundays: Family Flicks
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films
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One for Doc Concert
HSPVA grads say thanks to Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus Dr. Robert Morgan
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Over the Weekend: SXSW, Rockets and Fishnet
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SXSW: Fourteen Bands in Eight Hours
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Batman Forever: Battier Gets His Due
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Bushmills 1608 for St. Paddy’s Day
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That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Living with cerebral palsy, Josh Blue was aware of the stares he received. But rather than shy away, the bushy, bearded St. Paul native decided "to give them something to stare at." Blue's struggle to live with his illness has become the bedrock of his stand-up routine, which has been featured on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia and NBC's Last Comic Standing. Known for a technique he calls "reverse teasing," Blue composes and masters a set of material and then improvises around it, often including audience members in his act to endear them to him. His instinct to tease rises as a sort of defense mechanism. But there isn't much Blue should feel defensive about. More than simply living with cerebral palsy, Blue has risen to the challenge of playing on the U.S. Paralympic Soccer team.
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