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Banned Books at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisis
Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition
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So Much for No Child Left Behind
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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Doña Rositas Jalapeno Kitchen and Perspectivas: A Window into Their World
A one-woman show and an art exhibit share the spotlight as part of the 2008 Texas Sor Juana Festival
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Sitting Down with La Porte's Buxton (13)
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Banned Books at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (7)
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder? (6)
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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Who's On Deck for the Houston Astros in 2008? (6)
The Astros' post-Biggio era begins with a lot of unanswered questions, but the biggest one of all is: Just how bad are things going to get?
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (16)
All This Useless Beauty
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Should Bruce Springsteen Be Forgiven?
Arguments for reconsidering the missteps on the Boss's otherwise impeccable track record
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Houston Music Festivals
The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver
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Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green
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Remaking Michael Jackson
Why waste money on (or steal) those bogus Thriller remixes when you can get better ones legally for free?
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The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us
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Slideshow: Taking Extraordinary Photos of Ordinary Life
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Overnight Express: Woman Hit by Metro Rail Near Continental Club
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The Five Best Broadcasters in the History of Houston Sports
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National Features
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Last Step to Redemption
Drug counselor Richard Entrekin swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.
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Village Voice
The Cro-Mag Diaries
Remembering the brutal life and times of John "Bloodclot" Joseph, New York hardcore icon.
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Miami New Times
Class Warfare
At a Florida school, kids threaten teachers, whose bosses look the other way.
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SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
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Ramon Medina's Matagorda Island Discs
(In which locals sound off on the ten records they would take to Matagorda Island, the nearest major unpopulated sandbar to Houston.)
Published: May 1, 2008
In our third installment, we present the picks of Linus Pauling Quartet guitarist and Free Press Houston music critic Ramon Medina. (Ramon had better hope that there's a variety of playback devices down there.) Here are his picks, both of tunes and formats:
1) Deer Tick: War Elephant (CD). Horribly underappreciated by many, but I haven't been able to put it down.
2) Fripp and Eno: No Pussyfooting (LP). This is best played loud — really loud!
3) Gay Marriage: Self-titled (CDR). If someone ever releases this as a 7" EP, I will rank it up with the Party Owls 7" as a Houston landmark.
4) Hearts Of Animals: Lemming Baby (CDR). My copy is long lost, still one of the most unexpectedly wonderful things to come out of Houston. I dream of a follow-up.
5) Jana Hunter: There Is No Home (LP). Laid-back, confident and droll — everything I love about Jana.
6) The Minutemen: Double Nickels on The Dime (2XLP). The greatest double LP ever. Not one bad song in the lot, and it plays with energy and wit throughout.
7) Party Owls: Rock Out EP (7"). This is the holy grail of all music!
8) Really Red: Rest in Pain/Teaching You the Fear (CD). Confrontational, aggressive and even arty at times, this was the band that showed me that punk wasn't just something happening elsewhere, but right here in Houston.
9) Reigning Sound: Time Bomb High School (LP). You can't be human and not love Greg Cartwright's ability to make rock and roll tropes rock or just rip your heart out.
10) Replacements/Paul Westerberg (mix tape) (K7). The godhead of all bands — at least everything through Pleased to Meet Me. Paul Westerberg's solo stuff may be spotty, but there are always some amazing gems hidden in there.
If they are serving martinis, then I'll have to add Jimmy Smith's The Sermon (LP or the Rudy Van Gelder remastered CD) as a bonus album. If you've done martinis at Warren's, you'll know what I mean.
(Want your own picks to appear in this space? Send them to john.lomax@houstonpress.com. You can write about your picks as much or as little as you want.)












i AM guilty of clicking the b&w photo above. but the lovely (and I mean LOVELY) color photo is by none other than digital photographer extra-ordinaire john van.
Comment by rosaposer — April 30, 2008 @ 11:40AM