Email Author Craig Malisow

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 15, 2011

  "Down the Hatch"

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published December 15, 2011

  "Down the Hatch"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published October 14, 2010

  "The Littlest People"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "Prison Pays"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "Prison Pays"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published January 21, 2010

  "Net Gains and Losses"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published January 29, 2009

  "BARC Sucks"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published July 16, 2009

  "Cover Me"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published December 3, 2009

  "Credit Repair"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 16, 2009

  "Cover Me"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published January 29, 2009

  "BARC Sucks"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "Language Barrier"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "The Plane Truth"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "The Plane Truth"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published September 21, 2006

  "Penal Violations"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published February 2, 2006

  "Wize Guys"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 15, 2006

  "Feel My Pain"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005

  "Exposed Nerve"

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 21, 2005

  "Dr. Nice"

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 7, 2005

  "Exposed Nerve"

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2010 Stories by Craig Malisow

• GEO: Private-Prison Company Somehow Keeps Getting Contracts In Texas

  published Dec 29, 2010

  When Arthur William Brown left his Houston halfway house December 15, he did the usual: he signed the check-out form that residents of the facility have to sign whenever they leave the premises f... More >>

• Prison Pays: How It Started

  published December 30, 2010

  Texas's reliance on private prisons was borne out of a landmark prisoners' rights case that completely restructured the state's corrections... More >>

• Prison Pays

  published December 30, 2010

  Anthony Ferrell left the Ben A. Reid halfway house in northeast Houston on October 25, 2010, to go to work. He never came back. Just... More >>

• Animal Abuse: The Five Worst Houston Examples In 2010

  published Dec 24, 2010

  We like to think that animal abusers will not only get a lump of coal from Santa this time of year, but a pitchfork-in-the-ass from the Other Guy in Red as well. For those of you who like to keep tabs... More >>

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  Seven Best Texas Sex Stories Of 2010

  published Dec 21, 2010

  'Twas the night before Chritmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...except for an ex-surgeon with a suitcase full of dildos.That's just one of the Christmas tales parents can tel... More >>

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  Kevin Shumate: Bow & Arrow Practice With Pussycats As Targets

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Generally, when dudes are described in police reports as "shirtless white male wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat" the next words usually aren't "was stopped by officers and given ... More >>

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  Cal-Maine Egg Farm: Don't Look At This Video While Eating Breakfast

  published Dec 15, 2010

  If it's been too long since your last undercover-video-of-ghastly-animal-abuse fix, then check out the footage cited in this lawsuit concerning the Cal-Maine egg farm in Travis County. The Animal... More >>

• Houston Represents (Of Course) On New Obesity Reality-TV Series

  published Dec 14, 2010

  When Tom dropped out of high school and was no longer the football star, his weight increased with his depression. By the time he was 37, he packed 638 pounds onto a 5-foot-nine frame. Jodi, also 37,... More >>

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  Michael Brown: Sex Toys And Porn Bring Dubai Trouble For TV's Hand Doctor

  published Dec 07, 2010

  We don't know how we missed this, but cocaine-using, wife-beating, medical-license-losing ex-hand surgeon Michael Brown was detained in Dubai earlier this year when authorities there confiscated "sexu... More >>

• Worst Hanukkah Ever: Gifts From Anti-Semitic Hate Websites

  published Dec 02, 2010

  If you spent Black Friday fighting for Hanukkah gifts for your Jewish friends, chances are you completely forgot about the people who feel especially left out during the Festival of Lights: anti-Semit... More >>

• Electronic Frontier Foundation, Others Seek To Protect Texas Masturbators

  published Dec 01, 2010

  The anonymous masturbators being sued in a Dallas federal court for allegedly illegally downloading porn won't have to reveal their identities if the consumer advocacy groups representing them ha... More >>

• Whitney Harper: Song Downloader's Appeal Slapped Down By U.S. Supreme Court

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Five record labels that sued a 16-year-old San Antonio girl six years ago for illegally downloading a bunch of shitty music the labels vomited upon the listening public can finally... More >>

• Pleasantly Plump: One-Third of Overweight Women in Denial

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Good news for chubby-chasers in Texas: a new study out of the University of Texas Medical Branch claims that "37 percent of overweight women and 10.5 percent of obese women were of the notion that the... More >>

• Preserving the Sanctity of Marriage Through Ted Bundy and NAMBLA

  published Nov 24, 2010

  With a closet Muslim in the White House and gay teachers recruiting our innocent children, it's no wonder that American values have crumbled to the point where four out of ten people say marriage is o... More >>

• You've Got Mail: Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Stealing

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Ever mail something to a friend or family member, like some birthday cash, or perhaps a kidney, only to have it go missingr Things like that kept happening along the route of Houston letter ... More >>

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  Blow Hard: Burzynski Gets Favorable Media Coverage

  published Nov 22, 2010

  We were glad to see that Austin's FOX affiliate gave Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski -- you know, the doctor who cured cancer -- his second big Texas media blowjob of the month. Houston's KHOU was first with ... More >>

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  Jashona Franklin: Wailing Away On Teen Daughter's Classmate

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Finally, a nice twist on school violence: Instead of kids attacking each other, or an unbalanced teacher going nuts on a pupil, KPRC brings us the story of a high school mom allegedly assaulting her d... More >>

• Walter Netschi: Convicted On $80 Million Ponzi Scheme, He Got His Start Right Here In Houston

  published Nov 17, 2010

  A former Houstonian is headed to prison for running an $80 million Ponzi scheme that involved selling stakes in non-existent ATMs. Part of his downfall: An investor apparently so impressed he owned an... More >>

• Royal Wedding: The Five Hottest Royal Brides In History

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Hair Balls was positively ecstatic to learn that Prince William is getting hitched to longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton. Although the wedding isn't planned until 2011, we're already worrying over wha... More >>

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  Anthony Ray Ferrell, The Good Samaritan Killer: Third Escapee From His Halfway House In 20 Months

  published Nov 16, 2010

  rThe man charged with killing a Good Samaritan during a purse-snatching is the third person to escape the same state-contracted halfway house in the last 20 months.Anthony Ray Ferrell had fled... More >>

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  Warning Labels: Six More That Are Desperately Needed

  published Nov 12, 2010

  So the U.S. Federal Drug Administration does nothing to monitor the financial conflicts of interest of researchers who run clinical trials on human test subjects; can't adequately inspect foreign manu... More >>

• Fiona Dawson: Pitching An Anti-Prejudice Reality Show

  published Nov 11, 2010

  Hair Balls is a very finicky TV watcher, opting mostly for shark-based shows, or dramas featuring the Amish getting out of tricky situations using only their earthy wiles, but we'd definitely watch th... More >>

• More Priest-Abuse Suits, This Time With Chloroform

  published Nov 09, 2010

  The Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is facing more allegations of abuse and fraud related to a Houston priest who died in 2000.In a lawsuit set to be filed today, Guadalupe Gonzale... More >>

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  Bath Salts As Fake Coke: How Five Movies Would Have Been Different

  published Nov 05, 2010

  With all this talk about synthetic marijuana (K2), Hair Balls was already feeling despair for kids these days. But when we checked out the Beaumont Enterprise recently, we completely lost all faith: p... More >>

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  Bill White Quits Race Before All Votes Are Counted, Proving He's Sensible

  published Nov 02, 2010

  Bill White just conceded the guv'ship to Rick Perry, surprising exactly no one. "We hope this campaign has been worthy, and we will never forget what you have done," the former Houston mayor told the ... More >>