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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 (247)
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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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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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (14)
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? (6)
All This Useless Beauty
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Rotten to the Corps: A Question of Justice at Texas A&M (140)
Thanks to A& M and a district attorney, two cadets escape punishment for beating in a student's face
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge?
All This Useless Beauty
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Tired of the Hype, But That's All There Is
Next month, Houston gets to be a cool kid. But only for a week.
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The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson
"La La" Love You
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Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC
The Why Chromosome
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A New Official State Song for Texas?
A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song
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Over the Weekend: Fotos, Dogs and Sausage. And Hannah Montana Too.
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Last Night: Hannah Montana at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
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Spring Training Doesn’t Count, Except for When It Does
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Sausage Fest: Bangers and Mash at Red Lion Pub
11:40AM 03/08/08
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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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Houston Roller Derby
Skating queens hit the rink -- and each other
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Dave Mason
Dave Mason performs Friday, June 15, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.
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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.
By Bob Ruggiero
Published: July 12, 2007Now that the Great Garage Rock Revival is at an end, the next genre to resurge from the past seems to be '70s-style hard rock and boogie, as Wolfmother, Rose Hill Drive and Black Stone Cherry discover their inner James Gang, Motörhead and Cactus. Surprisingly (or not), several other rising bong-friendly acts are based up the road in Austin. The Sword's D&D/Conan thunder rock has already broken through nationally, and these two hirsute power trios are coming on strong. Elvis on Speed (Billy Leger Jr., guitar/vocals; Chris Gillis, bass; Shawn Alvear, drums) has a blistering, Southern sound given to frequent guitar freak-outs on the catchy, crunchy "I Was Rock and Roll" and "Stacked Deck," while "Corn Fed Fred" is a stone-country picker. The Ortiz brothers of Amplified Heat (Jim, guitar/vocals; Chris, drums; Gian, bass) are harder and more frenetic, and they seem barely contained by speakers. The death of their father, Gian and Chris's street-fight stabbings and a recording studio flood may have taken things down a notch, as the upcoming How Do You Like the Sound of That? (Arclight) is more grounded and groove-oriented than previous LP In for Sin. This more mature sound suits them, and the trio also has just rereleased 2003's self-titled debut EP. All told, this is a great double bill, definitely influenced by the past but not chained to it. Whorehound opens.
