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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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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life?
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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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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Doña Rosita’s 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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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life? (10)
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder? (7)
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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So Much for No Child Left Behind (5)
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
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Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston (5)
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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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Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green
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The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us
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Last Concert Café
Hippie wolves haunt and howl at the former whorehouse
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Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston
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This Just In: Griffin Stolen from Bishop’s Palace in Galveston
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Reverberations: Born Liars and The Heys
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Astros-Nationals: One Game Over Five Hundred
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Get Lit: Hamburger America: A State-By-State Guide to 100 Great Burger Joints, by George Motz
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National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
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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Seattle Weekly
Being Gary Busey
Everybody thinks Jeff Swanson is somebody famous. And he does nothing to dissuade them of the notion.
By Aimee Curl -
SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
J.D. Herman's Matagorda Island Discs
Published: May 8, 2008
In this week's installment of Matagorda Island Discs, we have a little twist. J.D. Herman, former guitarist/frontman for punk-y trio Hayflick Limit and currently in the same role in new band the Castabouts, presents us not with the music he would take to Matagorda Island, but the music he did take to Matagorda Island. The kayaker/fisherman recently camped down there, and he says that the music below is what his iPod registers him having played the most on the island "to drown out the coyotes and the buzz of the skeeters."
1) Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: Global A Go-Go
2) Townes Van Zandt: Live at the Old Quarter
3) Joe Purdy: You Can Tell Georgia
4) X: Under The Big Black Sun
5) Bob Marley: Exodus
6) The Jam: Sound Affects
7) Buddy Holly: Best Of
8) Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
9) Billy Bragg: Workers Playtime
10) Van Morrison: Moondance
(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.)
