Email Author Margaret Downing

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 22, 2011

  "Mistaken Identities"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

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

  "The Whipping Boy"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published June 3, 2010

  "Homeless High"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published June 4, 2009

  "Let the Record Reflect"

• 2009 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published April 10, 2008

  "Exit Exams"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 8, 2008

  "Mental Anguish"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "Bad Faith"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 31, 2007

  "Killing Fences"

• 2008 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published August 23, 2007

  "Judging Books and Their Covers"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out'

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published May 11, 2006

  "Diary of a Mad Man"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Who Cares?"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published February 17, 2005

  "Mind Reading"

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2012 Stories by Margaret Downing

• A Little Respect

  published February 2, 2012

  Antonia Rivas didn't want much out of life. She loved her family: two daughters living in Houston and a son in the U.S. Army stationed in... More >>

• Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia Part 2: Guy Roberts on the Long Arc

  published Jan 31, 2012

  The most annoying and in some ways enthralling character in Voyage, the first part of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy, is revolutionary Michael Bakunin. In fact, there are some parts of hi... More >>

• Bring It On: Now with Behind-the-Scenes Flips on Video

  published Jan 27, 2012

  Our intrepid Art Director Monica Fuentes went behind the scene to film the cheerleaders rehearsal for Bring It On: The Musical. As our reviewer said previously, this is a show filled with flips and d... More >>

• Houston Grand Opera Announces Its Next Season

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Expanding to include a seventh opera, a gung-ho Houston Grand Opera today announced its upcoming 2012-13, which will include four new productions. Without further ado, here's the season: Puccini: La... More >>

• Mistakes Were Made: A Comedy of Errors on the Phone

  published Jan 25, 2012

  Be prepared. In Mistakes Were Made there will be silent parts. That's because for the entire 90 minutes of the comedy opening at Stages Repertory Theatre next Friday, actor David Matranga is alone ons... More >>

• And the Winner of Two Artopia VIP Tickets Is....

  published Jan 24, 2012

  We got a lot of response to our giveaway offer for two free VIP tickets to the Houston Press fourth annual Artopia party at Winter Street Studios on January 28. And the person picked randomly from a... More >>

• Adrienne Warren Adds Cheerleading Stunts to Her Repertoire

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Last time out, actress Adrienne Warren was touring in a revival of Dream Girls and before that she was in The Wiz. Now she's hitting the boards in Bring It On: The Musical, a show in which dancing, s... More >>

• HGO's La Traviata Changes Tenors at the Last Minute

  published Jan 23, 2012

  Mexican tenor David Lomeli, who was scheduled to sing the Alfredo role in the Houston Grand Opera production of La Traviata, has had to bow out at the last minute due to illness. He has been replaced... More >>

• Carol O'Connell: The Chalk Girl

  published January 12, 2012

  A red-haired, eight-year-old girl with an elfin smile runs up to strangers looking for a hug. Rather than embracing her, they back off.... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Connor Barwin Shows Up at Our Artopia Preview Party! You Should Have Been There!

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Check out the rest of our pics from last night's Artopia Preview Party at Roak. Texans linebacker Connor Barwin showed up at last night's Artopia Preview Party and posed for a few photos with devoted... More >>

• The Addams Family: The Broadway Musical

  published January 12, 2012

  Forget about hitting the gym in order to get in shape for a role. All actor Blake Hammond, who plays Uncle Fester in the touring company of the... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Union Protest at Comcast Friday Over Low-Income Kids Internet Program

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Back in September, Comcast made a deal with the Federal Communications Commission as part of its takeover of NBC and Universal Studios that it would provide low-cost Internet services and a cheaply pr... More >>

• Win Two VIP Tickets to the Houston Press Artopia Party

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Okay, so the Houston Press is about to throw its annual Artopia party at Winter Street Studios at the end of this month -- a celebration of all things arty and the people who are so inclined. We're ... More >>

• La Traviata's Soprano Albina Shagimuratova & HGO's Life-Changing Possibilities

  published Jan 17, 2012

  Albina Shagimuratova was going to be a concert pianist. Growing up in what has become the independent republic of Uzbekistan, she was 12 years old when she heard a recording of Maria Callas singing th... More >>

• Mike Lunceford Elected Prez of HISD School Board, Love Boat-Style

  published Jan 13, 2012

  It was a veritable love fest on Thursday night as Michael Lunceford was elected the new president of the Houston ISD school board, nominated by the two trustees who had reportedly been in the running ... More >>

• Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia Opens at Main Street Theater

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Main Street Theater Executive Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden says she loves the work of playwright Sir Tom Stoppard -- "his ideas and his language and the way he's able to articulate complicat... More >>

• Bring It On: The Musical -- Complete With Stunts & Cheers

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Last time out, playwright Jeff Whitty put foul-mouthed puppets on stage and won a Tony for Avenue Q. So why go from that to Bring It On: The Musical (soon to be at Houston's Hobby Center courtesy of... More >>

• Carol O'Connell Back with Another Kathy Mallory Mystery, Book Signing

  published Jan 05, 2012

  It's difficult to say what's the more gripping image in the opening pages of The Chalk Girl. Is it the strange, elfin child with the wide grin who's covered in dirt and suspicious red spots who unwis... More >>

• Happy New Year to You

  published Jan 01, 2012

  It's Happy New Year time. A wide range of hope (Will this headache ever quitr Can we have world peacer) abounds. You've partied, you've spent, you're full of good ideas for a better 2012. We've been ... More >>