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Late last year, the troubled future of the University of Texas — Medical Branch was Galveston's direst long-term threat. Ike slammed the medical school and hospital...
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Spaced City
Memories of A Bookseller
Adios, legendary Alabama Bookstop
By John Nova Lomax
With the exception of legendary one-eyed bookseller Jim Brown, nobody knows the...
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Twice this summer, on mornings in June and August, I stood at the corner of Commerce and San Jacinto as the inmates came shuffling out of the Harris County Jail, tired and...
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Super Bull
Rad Rich: That was a great article and a great primer for this season. I am passing this article on to all my friends ["No More Bull," by Rich Connelly,...
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Now known as one of Houston's premier spots for eclectic, esoteric, eccentric and just downright insane music, in 2003 the original Super Happy Fun Land was slightly...
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Don't weep for Washington Avenue. One of Houston's oldest thoroughfares, it was a primary stagecoach route before eventually being paved, and the city's principal Austin...
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"Going from musician to politician is definitely a step down," says Kinky Friedman, who announced his Texas gubernatorial candidacy Tuesday morning. "But I'll take it for...
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Once a product of the college scene around Lafayette, Louisiana, the Pine Leaf Boys have, in a relatively short time, become world phenoms. They recently completed a three-day...
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Perhaps it's New Zealand's breezy way with pop music that bestows an extended life expectancy upon its inhabitants. The Brunettes are at the head of that class, crafting...
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Fans of dirtbags and leather boots will converge on Mango's to hear two of Houston's most volatile bands skronk out long-gestating new material, with Austin's No No No Hopes...
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In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, Lou Gehrig gave his famous "luckiest man on the face of the Earth" retirement speech and a handful of students at the Alabama Institute for the...
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In the wake of Summer Fest, Houston is quickly waking up to the fact that there's enough homegrown talent here to fill out a festival anytime somebody wants to throw one...
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The quarter roast beef poor boy at Mama's Cajun Cuisine on Barker Cypress is piled so high with falling-apart roast beef, I can barely get my mouth around it. The meat chunks...
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In keeping with the horror-movie theme of this funky little place, Ray's Franks n More (1302 Nance, 713-224-6441), the onion rings are called Scissor Stix ($3), after the 1990...
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Houston isn't my hometown, but I've lived here for ten years now. And yet, horror of horrors, until recently I'd never been to Lola's Depot (2327 Grant St., 713-528-8342)....
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Nancy Dougherty used to be the manager at Inka, before it closed after sustaining damage from Hurricane Ike. Now she works at Seppia Restaurant & Wine Bar (2800 Sage,...
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Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit, with wooden hands, copper fingers and the titular numeral emblazoned on his...
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Into the Woods This Tony winner from 1987 is Stephen Sondheim at his most accessible, and Pasadena Little Theatre performs the fairy-tale infused musical with great charm and...
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"Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an image from this exhibition, a...
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Dear Mexican,
Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both...
