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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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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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Movie Pirates
That couple in the back row — they're making out big time, but not in the way you think
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Barack Obama and Me (257)
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 (24)
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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What's the Problem Houston? (6)
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)
All This Useless Beauty
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"The Big Show, 2007" (28)
The curator of "The Big Show" does the job right
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Lisa Lampanelli
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade
Watch downtown turn into cowpoke heaven
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Texas Fetish Ball
Pony play is just one form of erotic excitement at Dare Ware’s annual fetish funhouse
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Free First Sundays: Family Flicks
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films
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One for Doc Concert
HSPVA grads say thanks to Director of Jazz Studies Emeritus Dr. Robert Morgan
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Paris Hilton Does Her Best Angelina Jolie Impression
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"Foxy Lady" to "Bitch": Dayna Steele's Houston Radio Odyssey
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Aeros Win, as Does Britany
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Scenes from a Farmers’ Market in Monterrey, Mexico
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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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Village Voice
A Long Way Wrong?
Another celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces.
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LA Weekly
Hoop Dawg
Billionaire Donald T. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers and loves the ladies. And those are just two of his problems.
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The Pitch
Children of the Porn
Elvin Boone's sex-shop empire crumbles as his offspring feud.
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Westword
The Good Soldier
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, they messed with the wrong coward.
By Joel Warner
A Christmas Story at Texas Repertory Theatre
Remember the days when a BB gun could solve all your problems?
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: December 13, 2007
Nine-year-old Ralphie wants just one thing from Santa: a Red Ryder BB gun. The warm comedy A Christmas Story follows his increasingly desperate pursuit of said firearm. The holiday classic also features high jinks by his little brother, friends and “haven’t-got-a-clue” parents. 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Texas Repertory Theatre, 14243 Stuebner Airline Road. Through December 30. For tickets and information, call 281-583-7573 or visit www.texrep-theatre.org. $20 to $40.
Thursdays-Sundays. Starts: Dec. 6. Continues through Dec. 30, 2007
