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High School Musical, Houston Style

Out of the Park

Second Ward slugger Aaron Treviņo scores a scholarship and prepares to leave the barrio behind

The Schools Of Houston Are (Allegedly) Filled With Ghosts

If you're looking for a little Hump Day time waster, we suggest strangeusa.com, which lists haunted locales across the country. Houston has a bunch of them.Many on the site are ones we've heard before - the Spaghetti Warehouse, La Carafe, the old Jeff Davis Hospital, various cemeteries - which a ... More >>

A Question of Competence

State Comptroller John Sharp has suggested that HISD needs to fire more incompetent teachers. But as the case of Beverly Goodie shows, it's not that simple. Just how do you tell who's incompetent? And what happens when you try?

East End Transit

Why have bus lines to Mexico bloomed all across the East End? Maybe because it's a family affair.

Bum Deal?

Politics plays an uncertain backup to this "Gimme Shelter"

Tommy Tune Award Nominees Announced; St. Agnes Kicks Ass

Logo courtesy TUTSTUTS' Tommy Tune Awards have become a big deal -- they're the Tonys for high-school musicals.Which may sound lame, but the ceremony is actually pretty nice and the productions some of these schools put on are impressive.As always, they're not to be confused with these high-school T ... More >>

Class Cops

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

The Best of ACL Fest

After Columbine, has HISD gone overboard trying to make schools safer?

Homeless in Suburbia

Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

Letters

Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

What Price Glory?

In an era when booster dollars give high school football teams a high-tech edge, scratching out a winning season gets tougher and tougher

Letters

In an era when booster dollars give high school football teams a high-tech edge, scratching out a winning season gets tougher and tougher

Survivors

What does it take not to be left behind?

Telling Secrets

Child victims of sex abuse put their pain on T-shirts for all the world to see. Do not avert your eyes.

Gentleman's Agreement

Fine words and policies are wonderful. Unless there's a secret subtext, with a different set of dos and don'ts.

Inquiring Minds: Teen Country Queen Katie Armiger

Traci GoudieWhat did you do your senior year? Studying? Prom? So did Sugar Land native and eventual Austin High School graduate Katie Armiger, but she also spent it writing, recording and promoting her second album, 2008's Believe. Armiger, who co-wrote ten of Believe's 11 songs and wrote "Gone" and ... More >>

Bohemeo's Baja Vibe

Fish and shrimp tacos rock.

FBISD Says Don't Worry, We Took Care of That Austin High Mold

A spritz here, a spritz there.​One of the lesser joys of getting ready for a new school year comes when teachers return to the classroom and flip on a switch. At Austin High School in the Fort Bend ISD, last week a few teachers were greeted with the unwelcome discovery of what one person des ... More >>