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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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Sausage Fest: Bangers and Mash at Red Lion Pub
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Recent Articles By Travis Ritter
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T.I., Yung Joc, Ciara, T-Pain, Lloyd
Screamfest hollas 8 p.m. Saturday, August 4, at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk. 713-627-9622.
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Kid Koala
Kid Koala spins 8 p.m. Saturday, July 28, in MFAH's Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main, 713-639-7300. $15 nonmembers; $10 students with ID. Eighteen and up.
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Get Him Eat Him
Get Him Eat Him performs Thursday, July 19, at Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.
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Lifesavas
Lifesavas performs Sunday, June 3, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199. Strange Fruit Project and DJ Marc Sense also perform.
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Eliot Lipp
Eliot Lipp performs Sunday, May 27, at The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199. Dark Party, Theory of Everything, Ceeplus, Dunnock and On Hiatus also perform.
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By Michael Musto
Only the fresh faces of The Lonely H, five longhaired kids barely out of high school, bear the markings of just how young they are. Their music is mature and honed with finesse, aged well beyond the members' years, from back when rock unironically riffed and strutted and gestured mischievously. Maybe they just had cool dads (or grandpas, for that matter) who showed them the ropes of how rock was really done — their small hometown of Port Angeles, Washington, isn't exactly a cultural hotbed. Perhaps it's that lack of infiltrating outside sources that makes The Lonely H's sound uniquely theirs, while owing a bit to what has come before. It says something about a band's potential when after-school and weekend jam sessions result in a pair of strong records: 2006 debut Kick Upstairs and now Hair. For kids whose parents had to drive them to shows, Kick Upstairs was a fine start, but Hair shows vocalist/keyboardist Mark Fredson's continued songwriting growth and maturity, and the rich vocal harmonies of an experienced pro. His bandmates are right there along with him. Loaded with classic-rock riffage, Hair's catchiest songs — "The Meal," "Hair," "Say Your Prayers" — are just what "alternative" stations, with their latticed web of pitchy, nasally vocals, need. (The band does have one of those too, just in case: "The Drought.") Hard to say just how far The Lonely H will go, but let's just say these former high school nobodies are going to be the most popular at their class reunion.
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The Lonely H: Rocking beyond their years.
Subject(s): The Lonely H
The Lonely H performs Tuesday, August 14, at Super Happy Fun Land, 2610 Ashland, 713-880-2100. The Watermarks, The Gold Sounds and Ladyheat are also on the bill.
