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Rice Denies "Terrorist," "Axis of Evil" Racial Slurs Surrounding Implosion of Men's Basketball Team

It's been four long, sad decades for the Rice men's basketball program. There have been a few moments of levity -- the opening of Tudor Fieldhouse, Morris Almond's mid-range jumper, Willis Wilson's mustache -- but, by and large, the tale's been one of cumbersome academics and milquetoast community ... More >>

Pope Francis I: Five Questions We Want Answered About The New Guy

We've got white smoke; we've got cheering crowds, habemas papem, as they say. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio got the gig and, even though his name ends in a vowel and looks like it should be preceded by a nickname, he's not Italian. For the third time in a row, the College of Cardinals has elected ... More >>

Darkness on the Edge of Town

The thrilling manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty.

Reality Bites: Kourtney & Kim Take New York

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. I'm guilty of a great many entertainment-related crimes against humanity. I'm an unapologetic fan of the show COPS, have given favorable reviews to most all the Resident Evil movies, and attende ... More >>

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

The 2011 Houston Press Crimes of the Year

From a fake vampire to a getaway guy in a wheelchair, a defendant peeing in court to a cop-car backseat blow job, it's been a wild year.

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

Mistaken Identities

Being a Sikh means you get called a terrorist because your hair is bound up in a turban on your head. Now imagine being a Sikh teenager in Texas, where if you follow your faith you'll never blend in.

Five Jobs Even Riskier Than Texans' QB, Such As Spinal Tap Drummer

If you didn't read our Texans' game wrap -- and you should, it offers positive thoughts for the team's future this season -- you might not know that Matt Leinart, the backup quarterback playing his first game as a Texan because starter Matt Schaub had a season-ending injury, suffered his own season ... More >>

Barry Walter Bujol Jr.: Hempstead Student Convicted of Helping Al Qaeda

Guilty, judge says​A 30-year-old Prairie View A&M student has been convicted of providing aid to Al Qaeda. Barry Walter Bujol Jr. had a four-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who ruled this afternoon. Bujol offered no witnesses or defense to charges he had materially a ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Come On People, Bert and Ernie Are Totally Straight

You people are sick.​Pop quiz, PBS. Now that your government is once again threatening to slash funding for anything not related to defense or entitlement spending, and your continued liberal heresies have put you squarely on the chopping block, do you: a) Let Philip Morris start advertising ... More >>

Gourds Unleash Old Mad Joy On Unsuspecting Public

Joe Ryan​As an album title, Old Mad Joy sounds like redundancy when placed in the context of Austin roots rock gonzos the Gourds. As anyone who has ever been in earshot of the band or its records, if the Gourds could bottle the music and sell it at the drug store, the corporations who manufact ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Lights, Camera, Osama

It'll be the feel-good movie of the year.​On the Geologic Internet Time Scale, the news of Osama bin Laden's death took place almost a century ago. We're already fondly recalling our whereabouts when we heard the fateful news (drinking beer and watching The Killing...NEVAR FORGET) and relivi ... More >>

The 10 Worst Things Texas Has Given To The Modern World

It's not nature's way, it's Houston's​If we were to list all the great, terrific things Texas, Our Texas has given to civilization, we would be here all day. (Two words: Jessica Simpson.) Unfortunately, Texas has also gifted America and the world with some things the world and America would n ... More >>

Keyboardist Seeks Arabic Players To Explore Local Scene

​Rocks Off combs through Craigslist's postings hoping to find the genesis of some great musical endeavor. So when we saw a posting looking for Arabic singers, we were intrigued. After all, this is a time of mosque burnings and our upstairs neighbors passing anti-Sharia laws. It must take a he ... More >>

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Beheading Related To Case Or Not?

A tradition unlike any other​The Mexican military leader of the investigation into the disappearance of David Michael Hartley has been beheaded, according to Texas state representative Aaron Pena and Zapata County sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez.A spokesman in the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office c ... 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 >>

Noncombat Deaths: Another Casualty of War

The mass shooting at Fort Hood was just one of a growing number of troubling military deaths, murders and suicides.

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 >>

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 >>

George H.W. Bush To Aggies: Please Don't Be Aggies When Obama Visits

​President Obama is headed to College Station Friday, at the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush, to speak about community service and whatnot.Obama, having already spoken at Notre Dame earlier this career, apparently decided to find an even more hostile environment. (Next stop: Bob Jo ... More >>

Radar Eyes: Hangin' With the Homopolice

Hello and welcome back to Radar Eyes. I've been away for the last three weeks... Our Focus = Underground/ Unreleased/ Underexposed/ Misunderstood/ Unappreciated/ Etc., etc. I am Chemical Mange. R.I.P. Sandor Benczedi. Rosa GuerreroWelcome Beau Beasley of Homopolice, Heavy Leather Records, etc ... 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 >>

Soldier Suicides

Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

Review: Moscow Rules, by Daniel Silva

Harold and Kumar Go to Prison

The duo get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1 in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Jason Friedman’s NFL Playoff Preview: Hillary Clinton is to the New England Patriots as Chuck Norris is to Jessica Simpson

Migrants and Minutemen

Two exhibitions at DiverseWorks explore both sides of a hot-button issue

Getting Schooled: Bombs Away

Rep. Culberson is ready to take the gloves off in Iraq

The Plane Truth

Houston minister Dr. K.A. Paul flies around the globe using Jesus to pull in worldwide donations -- unfortunately spending more money on jet fuel than orphans

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

Raking It In

Are Houston cops trying to make up for lost revenue?

Train in Vain

A bomb scare at a Midtown light-rail stop

Karachi Rock

Haven't heard of Junoon? They've sold 20 million albums, and they're at the Meridian this week.

Holiday Spirit

A real-life Christmas move in Kemah

Talking Turkey

Time again to honor the best in Houston

George of the Bungle

Michael Moore goes Bushwacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

Drat!

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

Business with the Unusual

Bill White steps into his own political spotlight

Olympic Moments

A marathon through the downtown tunnel, a rowing venue in a flooded Katy Freeway, the javelina throw -- how splendid, how Houston!

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

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

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Doing All He Can

Bomb Osama, a KRIV reporter sings

Running on Empty

Local political campaigns struggle to get news coverage