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Night & Day
Las Posadas Wonder Weekend
Web exclusive!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: December 11, 2008
Show your kids the cultural aspects of Christmas aren’t limited to consumer culture at the Las Posadas Wonder Weekend. Las Posadas are the Mexican nativity customs based...
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Feature
Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?: Mind-sets
Not everyone buys into crisis intervention for the mentally ill
By Paul Knight
Published: December 11, 2008
On the day before Halloween this year, a mentally ill man named Kenneth Green was killed by SWAT officers at his Houston home after his brother called HPD's nonemergency number...
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Hair Balls
Amazingly, the Comets Couldn't Survive
Who's Got Next?
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: December 11, 2008
Shocking news came this week — the Houston Comets are no more. First reactions were predictable. "The Houston Comets were still around? Do tell." But then reality began...
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Letters
Mack, Turkeys and Beaver's
What a Turkey
Published: December 11, 2008
Only one Beyoncé: I'm so glad that someone finally hit the nail on the head concerning Solange Knowles. ["Turkeys of the Year," by Rich Connelly, November 27]. I don't...
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BayouSphere
Bayousphere
By Daniel Kramer
Published: December 11, 2008
Santa wanders sadly away after getting rejected by Ms. Cleavage, looking to drown his sorrows in a bottle of Ozarka. Meanwhile, the antlered guy in front sees his chance and...
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Music
Afropop Arrives
Motherland music hit a fever pitch with U.S. bands this year
By Ryan Foley
Published: December 11, 2008
Who knew back in January, when Vampire Weekend tinkered with soukous's guitar-driven dance rhythms on its self-titled debut, the band would set the tone for the next 12...
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Noise
Making Sense of a Trying Year
By Chris Gray
Published: December 11, 2008
Although it seems like it, Noise doesn't listen to music all the time. Sometimes he watches DVDs. His immediate past viewing includes both bang-bang seasons of NBC's...
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Nightfly
21 Jump Street
Washington Avenue's newest venue adds cachet by subtracting pretense
By Shea Serrano
Published: December 11, 2008
Block 21 (2420 Washington), Washington Avenue's latest would-be nightlife king, is cool. Understand "cool" is a relative term, vulnerable to interpretation. At most places,...
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Chatter
Chatter's Ever-So-HandyAC/DCtionary
Rock Around the Clock
By Chris Gray
Published: December 11, 2008
Hands down, AC/DC are 2008's comeback kids. The Australian hard-rockers' first album in eight years, the Walmart-exclusive Black Ice, trailed only Lil Wayne in first-week...
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Local Rotation
Beyoncé: I Am...Sasha Fierce
By Ben Westhoff
Published: December 11, 2008
A decade into her absurdly successful career, this could have been the time when Beyoncé began indulging her creative impulses, taking on ill-conceived vanity projects...
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Rotation
The Killers: Day & Age
By Linda Leseman
Published: December 11, 2008
Here's a fun riddle: what do you get when you combine Talking Heads, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Queen and the country of Jamaica? The Killers' third LP, Day & Age. Echoes of...
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Rotation
Secret Machines: Secret Machines
By Daniel Mee
Published: December 11, 2008
Dallas expatriates the Secret Machines make unapologetically big recordings, with dramatic songwriting and full, wet sounds — not unlike ...Trail of Dead, a similar band...
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Rotation
Ice Cube: Raw Footage
By Ex, Kris
Published: December 11, 2008
Once upon a time (in the projects, yo), Ice Cube was easily one of the most respected rappers in the world; the prototype for East Coast props and West Coast love, aided by a...
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Playbill
Good Luck Academy
By Linda Leseman
Published: December 11, 2008
Houstonians Steven James and Evan Gamble have come a long way since dominating Stratford High School's Battle of the Bands in the late '90s. Now the founders of Austin-based...
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Playbill
Matthew Shipp Trio
By Daniel Mee
Published: December 11, 2008
What kind of jazz do they play on KTRU? Matthew Shipp would be a good thumbnail answer. Shipp is known for the abstruse improvisations that are stereotypically attributed to...
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Playbill
Alejandra Guzman
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: December 11, 2008
Mexican rocker Alejandra Guzman is the Latin answer to Tina Turner — without the getting-beat-up-by-Ike part. The 40-year-old singer's got the same cast-iron legs, the...
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Playbill
Justin Townes Earle
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: December 11, 2008
It's not easy to live up to a celebrated namesake — especially two of them. But Justin Townes Earle manages to make a name for himself by carving his own niche out of the...
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Playbill
Raul Malo
By William Michael Smith
Published: December 11, 2008
Fans of great singing should flock to Raul Malo's first album of new material in seven years, Lucky One (due March 3). The record smartly covers a gamut of styles, from the...
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Playbill
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By Arielle Castillo
Published: December 11, 2008
As half of Skinny Puppy, Nivek Ogre (or just Ogre, or Kevin Ogilvie) created a much-imitated, arresting blend of industrial and hard rock, belched forth amid bewildering...
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The Shredder
One Show, One Sentence
By Chris Gray
Published: December 11, 2008
Eugene Chadbourne & Walter Daniels: Warped stringmaster and harp hellhound send Texas country-blues through the looking glass. (Thursday, Rudyard's) Scott Miller: Sharp-witted...
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