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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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Geraldo Rivera Is Stupid: A Review of His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
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Weekend Music: Help Save the Houston Music Scene
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To Do: Hockey and Roller Derby
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Sausage Fest: Bangers and Mash at Red Lion Pub
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Recent Articles By Rob Patterson
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Mötley Crüe
Friday, March 24, Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 713-758-7200
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Oasis
Tuesday, March 28, Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1666
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OK Go
Thursday, March 9, Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-629-3700.
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Elton John
Saturday, March 26, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 713-758-7200
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Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
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MexiCali-roots-meets-prog-rock by the wolves
Subject(s): Los Lobos
Will the wolves survive? And thrive? Their tenth studio album in a powerful 22-year run finds Los Lobos treading water, albeit with the artful grace of an aquatic ballet. Rather than charm and/or stun, as they've done in their most winning and/or ingenious past moments, they use The Town and the City to lay back into their by-now-organic grooves, eventually, after enough spins, seducing the listener into the desert-heat ambience of their mature MexiCali-roots-meets-prog-rock style. But such seemingly signature songs as "Road to Gila Bend" and "Two Dogs and a Bone" lack the zest and sparkle necessary to leave a mark, while "Free Up" needs to be a bit more wild and free to spark the irresistible sing-n-sway-along allure it strives for. Then again, the way "Little Things" approaches the stately grandeur of the Band -- complete with David Hidalgo channeling the crackling vocal emotionality of Rick Danko -- reminds you how both border-crossing groups remain peerless in the art of creating definitive American rock music.
