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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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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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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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Breakfast Enchiladas at Mi Sombrero
At this old-fashioned Tex-Mex joint on North Shepherd, the huevos are served all day on weekends
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Barack Obama and Me (259)
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 (26)
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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"The Big Show, 2007" (29)
The curator of "The Big Show" does the job right
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X-Clan's Brother J Drops Some Knowledge (4)
Revolution Through Evolution
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What's the Problem Houston?
The city's skuzzy alt-rock scene thinks it is dying
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Houston's Matt Clark Strums for New Orleans' Glen David Andrews
A River Oaks kid learns the Basin Street Blues
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The Last Word from the Press on SXSW 2008
We swear, we're done now
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An Elevated Conversation with Perseph One and AndAcc
Oh Slippin'
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Goodbye, Chango Jackson. Hello, Chango Man and Yoko Mono
Out of the ashes of Chango Jackson come two new denizens of the primate house
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What I’m Thinking About When I Think About Films From the 1980s
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Drenched in Blog: Dr. Pepper, Axl Rose and Chinese Democracy
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Play Ball: John Royal’s Predictions for the Houston Astros
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High Price of Crawfish
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Recent Articles By Bob Ruggiero
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Detroit Cobras, Willowz
concert preview
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Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers
Valient Thorr and Riverboat Gamblers perform Monday, August 6, at Red Room inside Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. ASG and Totimoshi are also on the bill.
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Grady
Grady performs Saturday, July 28, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899. Studio Magick Black is also on the bill.
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Elvis on Speed, Amplified Heat
Elvis on Speed and Amplified Heat perform Friday, July 13, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh, 713-521-0521.
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Houston Roller Derby
Skating queens hit the rink -- and each other
National Features
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Miami New Times
Perez Hilton: Exposed!
Can a "crazy, flamboyant dork" from Miami find happiness as a Hollywood mudslinger?
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Nashville Scene
Chip Off the Old Rock
Songwriter Justin Townes Earle has struggled with addiction--just like his proud papa.
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Phoenix New Times
"Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy"
Have they become the magic words when a state wants to terminate parental rights?
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SF Weekly
Out of the Woodwork
Union carpenters describe a little slice of Jim Crow smack dab in the middle of America's most PC city.
By Lauren Smiley
On their first studio release since re-forming in 2005, the Black Crowes show how a little time off from each other can work wonders. Warpaint continues to improve their winning brand of Southern-fried power blues-rock, as opener "Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution" and "Movin' on Down the Line" gallop from the speakers like the charging horses on the album cover, while "Oh Josephine" and "Locust Street" are lush, elegant ballads. Vocalist Chris Robinson's lyrics remain their usual combination of poetically obtuse and hippily hopeful — although with their talk of stealing out by moonlight, fucking in the sunshine and setting your mind to fly, clunkers "Evergreen" and "Wounded Bird" are a little too heavy on the flower power. The frontman's fascination with religious imagery also continues on the strident, urgent "Walk Believer Walk" and Warpaint's only cover, a raucous, holy-roller version of Rev. Charlie Jackson's "God's Got It." Meanwhile, the combustible, slide-strewn sound of new lead guitarist Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars) provides a fresh sounding board for rhythm guitarist and co-songwriter Rich Robinson. Old West cautionary tale "There's Gold in Them Hills" is one of the finest moments on any Crowes record, and Warpaint may finally silence critics who insist on throwing out those lazy Stones/Faces/Band comparisons the Crowes have long since outgrown.
