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That Man Makes a Mean Lemonade

Well, At Least He Did Better Than the Republicans

The Astrodome Speaks

Dear John

The Astrodome Speaks

Shelby Sendelbach to Write a Letter of Apology. Love (for Alex) Conquers All.

Playbill: Mark Germino at Anderson Fair

ICE Raids Getting Flack

Balls...Hair Balls: Best Bond Villains

In compiling a list of the best Bond baddies, one has to establish a few parameters. For starters, you must take into account the bad guy's ultimate objective, weighting plans for global conquest/destruction more heavily than mere monetary gain. Then there are more esoteric factors, like backgro ... More >>

Aftermath: B.B. King at House of Blues

Photos by Mark C. Austin   B.B. King deserves a break. If the genial Buddha of the blues, now 83, would rather spend the bulk of his two-hour set bantering with the sold-out crowd about Viagra (groan) and the wayward ways of womankind instead of, you know, singing and playing, he's earne ... More >>

A Handy Guide To Terror Targets In Houston

Sometimes it seems like organizations that want to protect Americans from terrorism end up doing all the terrorists' research for them. The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, has compiled a handy guide to the nation' ... More >>

Sam Houston's Not The First Politician To Be In A Cheesy Ad

If you needed any more evidence that Comcast was an agent of evil on par with Al Qaeda or whomever makes those peanut-butter-filled pretzels, look no further than the cable company's inescapable local commercials featuring Sam Houston. The former Texas President/Governor is shown engaging in a varie ... More >>

Good Morning, Houston -- You're A Target

It's near-freezing, there's a huge accident causing traffic nightmares, half the workforce has called in gay  (and half the others are coming in with hugely contagious flu symptoms just to show they're not gay), so who needs bad news?Houston, apparently.A Washington radio station has talked to ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days, For Better Or Worse

Photo by Barry BlandOur sister paper, the Miami New Times, has done an in-depth look at the last days of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.A reporter was there for the last hearing at the camp -- involving the youngest detainee -- and when the order to close it came down the next day.The article, linked ... More >>

News Hostage

Photo by Barry BlandOur sister paper, the Miami New Times, has done an in-depth look at the last days of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.A reporter was there for the last hearing at the camp -- involving the youngest detainee -- and when the order to close it came down the next day.The article, linked ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: New Albums from Webb Wilder and Commander Cody

Sometimes Lonesome, Onry and Mean flat dreads going out to the mailbox. Why? Because there's no telling what musical mediocrity or aural atrocity lies ticking like an Al-Qaeda dirty bomb inside those bubble-packs with faraway foreign addresses like Saginaw, Michigan or Sausalito, California. I ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Thin Steak and Samuel P. Huntington

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Harold and Kumar Go to Prison

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Mexican-American Culture

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Guantánamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice

A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

The Big Valley

A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

SANGRIA

HANS' VILLAGE BIER AND VINO HAUS

Raking It In

Are Houston cops trying to make up for lost revenue?

Girls Gone Wild

It's a regular bacchanal in one small town

Train in Vain

A bomb scare at a Midtown light-rail stop

The Break-Up, with Clueless, Harris Newman and Swayback

Sunday, March 20, at Super Happy Fun Land, 2610 Ashland, 713-880-2100.

Horse Sense

Locking horns with the Unicorns

Drat!

Racket proposes a rock radio revolution. Clear Channel beats him to the punch.

Split Lip Rayfield, with the Meat Purveyors

Saturday, September 13

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Saturday, September 13

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Uncivil Defense

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Band of Brothers

Local emocore rockers the Tie that Binds lose one sibling and add another

Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Art Car Museum

Bashing Bush

The Chronicle's film critic doubles as a pinko commie naysayer

Dems' New Year Vow: Oust GOP Judges

Candidate recruits include a former Republican jurist

Repro Man

Darryl Lauster's resin antiques replicas take the art-versus-craft debate to a new level

Caring for the Kids

Plus: Last Seen Wearing..., Punch Lines, Looking Down

America's New War Against Enron

Lawyers go gunning for corporate terrorists

Letters, November 29

Piety or Pac-Man, At Any Rate, Bell View

Running on Empty

Local political campaigns struggle to get news coverage

Houston Airport System Won't Release Salaries....Because Of National Security Issues

A while back we wrote about the Houston Airport System exporting its vast knowledge of running airports to countries all over the place. HAS wasn't too forthcoming about the financial aspects of it all.A couple of months later, Mayor Bill White suddenly forced out the HAS director -- at least partly ... More >>

For Ramadan: Five Movie Muslims

Ramadan is a time of reflection and prayer for the world's Muslim population. It is meant to teach them patience and self-restraint, and to bring them closer to Allah. We at Hair Balls know little of patience, and have never been good at self-restraint, but we're nothing if not equal-opportunity i ... More >>

The Sheriff Of Crosby, N.D Protects His Citizens From Terror Better Than Adrian Garcia

​Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet wi ... More >>

Stuck In a Moment You (Still) Can't Get Out Of: Remembering 9/11 In Music

Just as none of us will ever forget where we were the morning of September 11, 2001, Rocks Off will never forget what he was listening to most of the day of the terrorist attacks. Sadly, he admits it was System of A Down's Toxicity, which had come out just the week before. For us the album conveyed ... More >>

Sam Houston Race Park Welcomes The Teabaggers

​Sam Houston Race Park has a new way of trying to entice customers to the park: radical, extreme political events wherein the office of the President of the United States will be disparaged and its occupant compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and whatever other figure talk radio comes up with.Th ... More >>

Why Notre Dame Will Win The BCS And Texas Won't, Part Ten

​This was a tough, tough week for the BCS title hopes of Texas. They played at, what -- 11 in the morning? (Again? What are these guys, some effete "Brunch Bunch"?) They played against some directional Florida school? While Oklahoma was exposing itself as worthless, therefore destroying UT's stren ... More >>

The White House Wasn't Pleased Obama's Call To The Mayor Went Public

Photo courtesy White House Flickr Group​Ever leave an extremely personal voicemail for someone, only to have what you thought was a private message broadcast to complete strangers -- or even worse, your friends? You know, maybe something about a burning sensation when you pee, or that you thi ... More >>