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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2011 Stories by Craig Malisow

• The Best, Most Dramatic Walmart Lawsuit Ever

  published Jun 06, 2011

  Alonzo Ross is suing his local Walmart pharmacy for negligence, but it's the way he's doing it that got our attention. Instead of writing a stuffy old list of allegations, Ross decided to write a comp... More >>

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  Patti LaBelle Sued for Assault by West Point Cadet (UPDATED With Incredible Video)

  published Jun 02, 2011

  Airport security camera footage shows what appears to be at least two members of singer Patti LaBelle's entourage beating a West Point cadet who was waiting to be picked up by his father and brother. ... More >>

• Foster Care in Texas: A Broken System, Without Much Hope for Improvement

  published Jun 01, 2011

  Thousands of Texas foster children are subject to "immeasurable and permanent harm and are deprived of the opportunity for a safe children," according to a class-action lawsuit filed by a New York-bas... More >>

• Broken System: Levels of Care

  published June 2, 2011

  Where a child is placed, and how many times a child is moved, depends in part on the child's Level of Care. In 2003, the Department of... More >>

• Broken System: The People Behind PPP

  published June 2, 2011

  In December 2010, the Department of Family and Protective Service's Public-Private Partnership panel issued its recommendations on a foster... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Broken System

  published June 2, 2011

  Twelve years ago, Texas Child Protective Services took 11-year-old Ashley Gallardo and her younger brothers from their home because workers... More >>

• Have a KKK Memorial Day

  published May 27, 2011

  If your white-power group is having trouble finding cool Memorial Day rallies where you can wave the stars 'n stripes 'n swastikas, then we suggest you check out reputable racist-friendly Web site Sto... More >>

• Wanna Date Nikki Araguzr AND Be on a Reality Showr

  published May 19, 2011

  If you've been dying for the chance to date Nikki Araguz, transgender widow of a fallen Wharton firefighter, wait no longer: Local filmmaker Cressandra Thibodeaux is working on a reality series called... More >>

• Big Weekend for Pet Adoptions in Houston

  published May 13, 2011

  We're going to go ahead and make a terrible "raining cats and dogs" joke because there's simply no other way to describe the mondo pet adoption opportunities Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and ... More >>

• Frank Ulysses "Frenchfry" Tiller: Texas Man Arrested for 1999 Murder of 83-Year-Old Man in Six-Dollar Robbery

  published May 10, 2011

  Two months ago, Illinois police used a fingerprint to arrest a man for the 1988 rape of a 12-year-old girl in Orange County, Texas. In another OC-related cold case, police in Orange County last week a... More >>

• Humane Society President Speaks On Texas's "Puppy-Mill" Bill

  published May 10, 2011

  In advance of Humane Society of the United States President Wayne Pacelle's May 15 Houston book-signing stop, we thought we'd ask about Texas's so-called "Puppy Mill bill." Introduced by State Represe... More >>

• Houston "Best Bachelor" City: But Aren't We Also Fattest, Sweatiest, Dumbest, Etc. Etc.r

  published May 05, 2011

  Hair Balls was stoked by Houston's ass-kicking turnout in recent national listings, including Fast Company's "city of the year," and Rent.com's ranking of us as the best city for bachelors. The highl... More >>

• Is Glee Too Gayr Fox 26 (Actually) Debates It

  published May 03, 2011

  The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is demanding an apology from MyFox Houston for a debate segment called "Is TV Too Gayr" that was shown after TV's Gayest Show Ever, Glee. The debate pit... More >>

• Sex Dolls & Texans

  published May 5, 2011

  TEXAS, WHATEVER Sex Dolls & Texans The men who love pseudo-women By Craig... More >>

• Google Wedding: Houston Couple Nabs $25K Prize

  published May 03, 2011

  Screw William and Kate -- the only wedding Hair Balls can get excited about is the upcoming one of Google Wedding sweepstakes winners (and Houstonians) Philong Nguyen and Nhu-Y Nguyen. The couple plan... More >>

• What Not to Expect When You're Expecting: Two Pregnant Sisters Brawl

  published May 02, 2011

  What should have been a bucolic weekend family visit to a Lufkin McDonald's turned nasty when two pregnant sisters attacked each other for unknown reasons. According to the Lufkin Police Department r... More >>

• Roy James Samuel: Indicted After Telling TV Reporter Yeah, I Killed My Girlfriend

  published Apr 29, 2011

  It's a staple of any TV show or movie involving a high-profile murder case; hell, it's a Law & Order staple: millions of reporters flocking to a perp-walk, shoving microphones in the suspect's face an... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Final Meals Project

  published Apr 29, 2011

  Only a select few get to witness prisoner executions in Texas; fewer still get to watch the guilty (or wrongly convicted) party wolf down his last meal. Fortunately, Chicago art collective Lucky Pierr... More >>

• Giving Calligraphy a Whirl & Getting Your Ommmmm On

  published Apr 27, 2011

  The Houston Arts Alliance will host an interactive workshop on calligraphy in religious expression May 22, featuring artists from Islamic, Jewish and Buddhist traditions. Part of the Sacred Songs, Sa... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Sex Dolls and the Texans Who Love Them

  published Apr 27, 2011

  While intending to Google "existentialism and Sartre" Tuesday, Hair Balls accidentally typed "sex dolls Texas," and wound up at The Doll Forum: A Meeting Place for Love Doll Owners & Admirers. Just as... More >>

• Bob Lindsey: "No Such Thing As Debt" Financial Adviser Must Repay $14 Million to Texans

  published Apr 26, 2011

  A guy who told debtors he could erase their credit card debt because there's no such thing as "credit" just landed into some money problems of his own: Bob Lindsey must repay $13.8 million to hundreds... More >>

• Dallas Wiens: Faceless Texan Says Brit Tabloid Forged His Name On Photo-Release Contract

  published Apr 22, 2011

  You know what's worse than getting your entire face seared off by an exposed power liner Well...not much, actually. But having a British tabloid forge your name on a contract in order to publish pictu... More >>

• Cover Story: Kidnapped by Family

  published Apr 20, 2011

  Fourteen-year-old Andrew Mosier disappeared from his Houston home in August 2010. Two months prior, his uncle Doug Lazell, in violation of custody orders, took the boy to Colorado, an incident for whi... More >>

• Underground Footage From a Texas Dairy Farm (Not for the Weak of Stomach)

  published Apr 20, 2011

  Undercover footage from a dairy farm southwest of Amarillo shows workers crushing sick and injured calves' skulls with pickaxes and hammers, and tossing dying calves on a pile of dead ones in the b... More >>

• Parents Baffled By Outbreak of Birth Defects in Aggieland

  published Apr 19, 2011

  When five families in Bryan-College Station conceived children with an uncommon -- and usually fatal -- birth defect, they began searching for answers. And now, state health investigators and Texas A&... More >>