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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 (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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HoustonHipHop.com Relaunch Party (5)
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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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"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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Cover Story: The Judy’s Come Back
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Kaki King does NOT live up to the Hungarian translation of her name
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Rockets-Hawks: Where 20 in a Row Happens
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Jameson’s Rarest Vintage Reserve at $250 a Bottle
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Recent Articles By Olivia Flores Alvarez
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“Face the Music: An Evening of Jazz Dedicated to Fighting AIDS in Africa”
Music for a good cause
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Downtown Houston Night Crawl
This is the “I didn’t know that!” tour
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“Richard Black: The Art of Cue”
HCCC presents works by craftsman Richard Black
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“Seeing Beneath Mount Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes
Anne Sheehan talks about earthquakes, Mount Everest and scorpions
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Madame de…
What goes around, comes around
National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Noise for Toys
Mucky Duck does it for Christmas
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: November 29, 2007The 18th Annual Noise for Toys at McGon-igel’s Mucky Duck is a collision of honky-tonk rock and roll and a great cause, the Marine Corps’s Toys for Tots program. Admission to the show is one new, unwrapped kid’s toy. So, for the price of a Tonka truck or a Barbie doll, you get a power-packed lineup. Donate a Scrabble game and enjoy an evening’s worth of great music.
Performing will be Cirby Ryan (think Patsy Cline meets Etta James), Harry Fish String Band (Texas by way of Appalachia) and Kimberly M’Carver (with what our own John Nova Lomax called “a sitting-on-the-beach-house-porch-in-a-breezy-sunset ambience”). Jack Saunders, Ezra Charles, John Evans, Sugar Bayou, Moodafaruka and Liz Dannemiller are also on the bill. As if that weren’t enough, a couple of hunky Marines in full-dress uniform will be on hand to make sure you cough up your donation. 7 p.m. 2425 Norfolk. For information, call 713-528-5999 or visit www.mcgonigels.com. Free (with donated toy).
Tue., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., 2007
