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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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Miss Pop Rocks Loves Some Whole Foods Boys
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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
11:40AM 03/08/08
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Recent Articles By Brett Koshkin
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Melt Banana
Melt Banana performs Sunday, May 27, with XBXRX and The Jonx, at Numbers, 300 Westheimer, 713-526-6551.
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PPT
Tres Monos in Love
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The Jonx
No Turn Jonx Red
National Features
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SF Weekly
The Candidate
Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.
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The Pitch
How Not To Be a Rap Star
First of all, lay off the Ecstasy.
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Village Voice
Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
By Michael Musto
The Rapture
The Rapture performs on Wednesday, May 16, at Warehouse Live, 813 Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Shiney Toy Guns also perform.
By Brett Koshkin
Published: May 10, 2007Few bands spawn a bidding war for their first album, but after the release of the Rapture's Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks EP on Sub Pop in 2001, that's exactly what happened. When record execs saw how New York-based Rapture was leading the charge to reexamine and recapture the sound of late-'70s/early-'80s post-punk, everyone wanted to sign on. The band's first full-length album, Echoes, channeled the post-punk influence of godfathers Gang of Four and the dancier side of the genre popularized by bands like ESG and Liquid Liquid. Butt-shaking underground anthem “House of Jealous Lovers” found its way to dance floors around the world, while angular rocked-out cuts like “Heaven” showcased just how well the group can use distortion pedals. Their sophomore effort, last year's Pieces of the People We Love, saw the band disposing of the edgy rock songs in favor of disco-influenced pop. But don't think for a minute that the boys have lost their way. They still know how to rock a party even without Echoes super producers DFA behind them.
