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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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County Attorney Candidate Vince Ryan Sues Linebarger Goggan
Saying he deserves a bigger piece of the pie, the former city councilman serves up cherry information to his current political opponent
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Hippie Cops and Loan Sharks
No beards allowed at HPD
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The Not Terrible Hulk
In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing
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Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present Laughter, The Splasher
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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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Houston Has a Bad Reputation with Touring Indie Bands (5)
They'd just as soon give us a miss.
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Machinist and Truck Drivers (5)
The College Question
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Temples of Tex-Mex: A Diner's Guide to the State's Oldest Mexican Restaurants (5)
We took a pilgrimage in search of old-fashioned tamales, chili con carne and cheese enchiladas
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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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The 2008 Vans Warped Tour, with Angels & Airwaves
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Juneteenth Revisited
Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event
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Precisely 88 mph at Etro Lounge
Montrose Throwback
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What Do Shepard Smith and Soulja Boy have in common?
Wack's here to tell you: more than you might expect
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Houstoned Is Not Long for This World
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Texans Electric Touch Top Amazon's MP3 Chart
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Twelve Best Sports Books of All Time
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Be It Ever So at Humble Cafe
10:19AM 07/09/08
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National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Sexual Healing
For Florida's sole remaining sex surrogate, love is a many splintered thing.
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City Pages
Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer
It's not just giant companies cashing in on America's defense industry.
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The Pitch
Supersizing Sonic
How a throwaway idea at the Barkley ad agency became the "Sonic Guys."
By Justin Kendall
If you're unfamiliar with Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment, it's the Austin-based booking agency whose clients make generous use of the stomp box (that small wooden box with a microphone pickup inside that, when struck with the foot, makes a tremendous racket), release albums with names like Log Bomb, Dirty Old One Man Band and Cold and Blind, and have been known, on occasion, to draw unflattering comparisons between womankind and the devil. In other words, that wild-eyed hillbilly blues gene born of too much rotgut whiskey and sun-drenched days in the sharecropping fields has hardly been bred out of existence — it's just skipped several generations and migrated west to the Texas Hill Country, in the case of Kerrville's Possessed by Paul James and San Marcos's Scott H. Biram, and all the way out to Tucson in the case of helmet-wearing weirdo (even for this bunch) Bob Log III. These three gentlemen don't so much strum their guitars as assault them, and their lyrics rush past at a mile a minute as each works out his negotiations with God, Satan and/or the bottle on the fly. Even Rudz, which endures some of the loudest and heaviest music in town on a more or less nightly basis, might have to open a window or two for this one.
