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Summerguide
Break the summer monotony at one of these out-of-the-way destinations.
By Blake Whitaker
Driving Texas is all a matter of perspective. Anyone who's ever
rolled across the state with purely pragmatic intentions knows the pain
of realizing that, after hours in a...
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Summerguide
Farmers' markets take over Houston.
By Katharine Shilcutt
There was a time when Houstonians on the prowl for farm-fresh
produce were limited to produce stands on the side of country roads or
to the vast lots behind Canino's Produce on...
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Summerguide
The Terminator is back. Plus lots of other movies we can't wait to see this season.
By Chuck Wilson
The cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake," Alfred
Hitchcock once said, and if that's true — and who are we to
dispute the Master? — then summertime is...
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Hair Balls
Plus: Our very own Will Hunting
POLITICAL ANIMALS
Revolving Door Works Again
He covered the sheriff, now he'll spin for him
Richard Connelly
Alan Bernstein, the longtime political reporter for...
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Crime
When the charge is rape of a minor, a fair trial can be hard to come by.
By Randall Patterson
When the victim showed up at the door, on a fall morning in 2006,
nearly everyone wanted to help her.
She was 14 years old and told the guidance counselor at the Ninth
Grade...
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Letters
C List
What's the difference? I find it interesting in your article
"Craigslist Declassified " [by Bradley Campell and Matt Snyders, May
7], you write about the Connecticut...
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Music
Tragic, hilarious and maybe the sweetest rock doc ever made.
By Jennifer Maerz
An old-school metal band's dramatic epic is about to hit movie
theaters. This is a group that started in the early '80s and influenced
rock legends like Slash, Lemmy from...
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Noise
By Chris Gray
At left, you'll see SF Weekly music editor Jennifer Maerz's
assessment of Anvil! The Story of Anvil, director Sacha
Gervasi's documentary about the Canadian metal band with...
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Chatter
The proud vegans in this San Diego grindcore outfit welcome you to The Harvest Floor.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
On the title track of Cattle Decapitation's 2004 album
Humanure, vocalist Travis Ryan growls the line "Here's to your
health." But don't get the wrong impression, as he...
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Local Rotation
By Ben Westhoff
Did high gas prices kill off Paul Wall? Not really — that's
just a coincidence. Rather, the H-Town artist known for his candy cars
and diamond grills has suffered from...
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Rotation
By Bob Ruggiero
When Black Sabbath 3.0 got back together to record new material for
2007 anthology The Dio Years, the three resulting songs were
shockingly good. The band must have thought so...
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Rotation
By William Michael Smith
People either love Cracker or find David Lowery's post-Camper Van
Beethoven outfit wearily obtuse and trying-too-hard ironic. Sunrise
in the Land of Milk and Honey does have...
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Rotation
By Ben Westhoff
On the strength of Jazze Pha and Lil Jon productions like "Goodies"
and "1, 2 Step," Atlanta singer Ciara rose to fame in 2004 as crunk's
queen. But five years is an eternity...
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Playbill
By Daniel Mee
Isis's 2002 album Oceanic is perhaps the central text in the
history of the young branch of experimental heavy music called
post-metal; in the stark and immense simplicity of...
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Playbill
By Jonathan Cunningham
When India.Arie first debuted her music to the world on 2001's
Acoustic Soul, she was seen as a welcome change within the music
industry. Existing slightly inside of the...
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Playbill
By Ernest Barteldes
After the Indigo Girls left Hollywood Records (and the major-label
game altogether) last year, the duo channeled their feelings toward
recent events regarding the legality (or...
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Playbill
By Pace, J.
Here's a heartwarming story: Cross-cultural collaboration makes
good, endures death of original member, overcomes visa troubles
courtesy of then-Senator Barack Obama and helps...
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Playbill
By Craig D. Lindsey
If you were there that Friday evening in 1997 when the reunited New
Edition came to town and performed at the long-gone arena known as The
Summit, there's a good chance you...
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Playbill
By Craig D. Lindsey
Singer, mother, former kid shoplifter, ex-porn actress, bisexual sex
activist, cancer survivor — Candye Kane's life is more
fascinating than most of the bawdy blues songs...
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Playbill
By Craig Hlavaty
Softcore slide-guitar maniac Bob Log III loves him some boobs, live
and on record. Forever clad in a motorcycle helmet, the Tucson native
makes female (and sometimes even male)...
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