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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 (253)
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 (21)
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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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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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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"CSI: The Experience"
Exhibit inspired by CBS series puts you behind the evidence
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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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Michael Winslow
The man with ten thousand noises comes to Houston
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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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Over the Weekend: Fotos, Dogs and Sausage. And Hannah Montana Too.
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Last Night: The Slits and Friends at Numbers
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Spring Training: Pain, Pain and Ball Girls
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Jameson’s Rarest Vintage Reserve at $250 a Bottle
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By Michael Musto
Gore Vidal’s play The Best Man is about two presidential candidates (no, not Hillary and Obama). Secretary of State William Russell (played by Jim Salners) and Senator Joe Cantwell (Justin Doran) are pulling out the stops as they battle for the nomination at their party’s national convention. When Cantwell threatens to reveal a damning personal secret about Russell, Russell’s own ethics are put to the test. Will he fight fire with fire and drag Cantwell into the mud? Or will he keep his honor but lose the nomination? The wit and wisdom of writer Gore Vidal are timeless, and audiences will recognize the plot’s dirty tricks, feigned populism and docile flip-flopping (we see them often enough on the nightly news). Main Street Theater gives you a primer on what to expect when this campaign season goes into overdrive.
Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m.; Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Starts: Aug. 25. Continues through Sept. 16
