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Bootlegging Dr Pepper
The demand for sugar-sweetened Dublin Dr Pepper has never been higher — just ask the bootleggers
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There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection
The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?
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A compendium of Cure-related information
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Fast Food at the French House
This restaurant's sandwiches are surprisingly good, if you stick with the baguettes and croissants
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Madagascar Birthmarks at French Riviera Bakery
This fabulous little French Bakery is one of the coolest hangouts in the Galleria
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The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not (17)
They are American in everything but name. They can go to college in Texas and improve themselves. Doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they're just illegal immigrants without social security numbers or futures.
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Ten Things I Love About the Houston Music Scene (6)
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Fast Food at the French House (5)
This restaurant's sandwiches are surprisingly good, if you stick with the baguettes and croissants
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Machinist and Truck Drivers (5)
The College Question
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Punks, Jocks and Justice (8)
There was a killing and now a conviction. Even those can't stop the fierce war raging between the Panhandle punks and athletes of Amarillo.
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A compendium of Cure-related information
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High Gas Prices Still Hurting Touring Bands
Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy
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Denny's Adopts Rock Bands
The diner chain now serves up a little rock on the side
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Here's the soundtrack to your future unemployment!
Worked Up
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God, Texas and Tom Waits
Tom Waits may not come from around here, but a good chunk of his favorite music does
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I Cannot Stop Watching the Trojan Vibrator Ad
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Music Awards Nominees Announced Today; UGK, Indian Jewelry, Arthur Yoria, Tontons Head List
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Astros-Dodgers: Extra Innings Not Enough
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Tex-Mex Temples: Combo Platters of Hopes and Dreams
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Moses Guest's Best Laid Plans often lead to lengthy guitar solos.
Subject(s): Moses Guest, Continental Club
Most of the band doesn't live here anymore, but Best Laid Plans, the latest CD from Moses Guest (Continental Club, July 4-5) was recorded at Montrose Studios, so that makes them local, right? Of course it does. Or as local as they can be considering practically the entire disc is about the pleasure and pain of the road. Musically, it jams (duh), but it's closer to the Southern boogie — albeit laid-back boogie — of the Allman Brothers or Widespread Panic than the Grateful Dead's dark-star trips. The song lengths will still outlast all but the stoutest joints, though. Not so for the bands congregating at an Independence Day Houston/Austin punk-rock summit (and rumored 6 p.m. barbecue) on Washington. This Moment in Black History, Black Congress, Thieves Like Us, Camp X-Ray and Monocles (Walter's, July 4) do it quick, raw and dirty, just like 500 Megatons of Boogie and the Jonx (Rudz, July 5) — the new Jonx CD is already making waves; let's just hope it's out soon. Beguiling indie torch singer Sabra Laval (Notsuoh, July 6) may be about to replace Opie Hendrix as the most recent Houstonian to pull up stakes for greener pastures — her current MySpace headline is "Moving back to Denton friends" — but she'll be back July 28, so the separation anxiety won't be too great. But isn't that what they always say?
