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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 (251)
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 (15)
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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HoustonHipHop.com Relaunch Party (5)
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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. And Hannah Montana Too.
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Friday Night: Wilco at Verizon Wireless Theater
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Spring Training Doesn’t Count, Except for When It Does
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Sausage Fest: Bangers and Mash at Red Lion Pub
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Recent Articles By James Bolen
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The Police
The Police perform Friday, June 29, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk St., 713-627-9622. Fiction Plane also performs.
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Ozma
Ozma performs Tuesday, June 5, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Eastern Conference Champions and The Actual also perform.
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Accordion Kings & Queens
Accordion Kings & Queens will perform on Saturday, June 2, at Miller Outdoor Theatre, 100 Concert Dr., 713-533-3276.
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Keller Williams
Dream
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Tea Leaf Green
Rock 'n' Roll Band
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?
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Little Brother
Little Brother performs Friday, June 29, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Orgone and DJ Haul also perform.
By James Bolen
Published: June 28, 2007North Carolina's Little Brother is not your average Southern hip-hop group. Unlike its Dirty South counterparts, the duo rarely raps about dubs, drugs or the usual bitches and hoes, unless done in a satirical manner, as on 2005's The Minstrel Show. Formed in 1998 at North Carolina Central University, the group is a throwback to non-gangsta, mid-school acts like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. Original members included emcees Phonte (Phonte Coleman) and Big Pooh (Thomas Jones), along with celebrated producer 9th Wonder (Pat Douthit). Douthit (known for his work with Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Mos Def and The Game, among many others) left the group in January 2007. Around that same time, the band also parted ways with Atlantic, its short-lived major label, and signed up with indie ABB Records. Always popular on the underground mixtape scene, Little Brother then went back to what they know best, touring and dropping knowledge. Part of the Scion Live Metro tour.
