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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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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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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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It's Hip to Be Square at Masraff's
Continental cuisine is over, so why would anybody want to eat at this retirees' hang-out on South Post Oak Lane?
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Barack Obama and Me (254)
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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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)
All This Useless Beauty
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What's the Problem Houston? (5)
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard (5)
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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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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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade
Watch downtown turn into cowpoke heaven
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Lisa Lampanelli
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Free First Sundays: Family Flicks
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films
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Last Comic Standing Auditions and Showcase
NBC’s comedy reality show hunts Houston for humor
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You Know What I Don’t Understand? Andy Rooney
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MP3: The Soundtrack of Our Lives Play New Songs at SXSW
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Woody Williams Stats Not So Solid
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Jameson’s Rarest Vintage Reserve at $250 a Bottle
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The Western Civilization
Five-piece from the north side heads out on first tour
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: September 27, 2007
Local popsters The Western Civilization are hitting the road and hoping fans will help out. “We have all kinds of expenses coming up with the tour in October and could really use some help,” says a tour donation request on the group’s MySpace page. (Uh, yeah, let us know how that goes, kids.) But all naive gimmicks aside, the five-piece group from the north side has an impressive collection of beautifully layered pop musings. Western Civilization recalls bits and pieces of The Rentals, The Decembrists and the Postal Service, along with various other radio-friendly songsters, but don’t file them under “same old, same old.” This group of guys and gals has a well-defined pop sensibility, and if they sound as flawless live as they do on their recently released debut Letters of Recognition, they’ll likely rake in enough album and T-shirt sales to support a trek all the way from today’s show at Walter’s, through the States and back again. Hollywood Black, Elbows as Weapons and Papermoons start the night off.
Fri., Sept. 28, 8 p.m., 2007
