Baghdad

C.I.T.Y.'s Top 6 Geographically-Based Rap Songs

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place -- lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good -- so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? E-mail sheaserrano@gmail.com. ... More >>

Ashes of the Wake: A Playlist for Baghdad

On this day in 762 A.D., caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad in what is modern-day Iraq. The area was and remains one of the commercial and intellectual centers of the Arab world, though it's obviously had a few problems since the U.S. invaded in 2003 and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. No ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bridge 11: Lia Cook," "CTRL group two," "How I Will Die," "Members," "Pressing News," "Prints," "reverse of volume RG"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Anodyne," "Between Heaven and Home," "CTRL group two," "Elixir," "Pressing News," "Prints"

Combat Veterans Fall Prey to Gambling Addictions at an Alarming Rate

where's the military when the chips are down?

5 Fun Facts About 2012 Masters Champion Bubba Watson

If you're a diehard golf fan, be warned that this post contains practically no Masters 2012 analysis, and I can virtually assure you that you won't learn anything new. However, if you're a casual golf fan who only pays attention to the sport when Tiger Woods is a) in the mix to win a tournament, b) ... More >>

The Astros' Jim Crane Era Begins: Get Caught Up On The Team With This Quiz

Do you recognize this man?​For the first time in a long time, the Houston Astros will not be led by a hyper, motto-spouting grocery magnate. Drayton McLane has sold the team to Houston businessman Jim Crane. It may be the first piece of Astro news you've bothered with this year. The team was ... More >>

Exactly How Safe Is Juarez?

"Secrets of the Silk Road"

Meet a woman who's 3,800 years old - and still looks good

Warped Tour Extra: Houston Fans Sure Love To Throw Things

Marc Brubaker/ Click here for a slideshow​Kids these days must like throwing shit. Judging by what we saw at the Vans Warped Tour Friday afternoon, it seems to be second or third to smoking dope and being sexually active. Don't worry about that, though; Trojan Condoms was out in force giving u ... More >>

Tom Simmons

The comedian confounded a colonel when he asked about nonviolence as a weapon

The Complete History of America (Abridged)

See the story of the U.S. smashed into just 90 minutes

Christmas In Baghdad With One Houstonian

​Hair Balls was able to check in by e-mail with Houstonian Private First Class Matthew Slayden, currently deployed to Baghdad with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Married, with a wife and kids at home, Slayden is scheduled to return stateside early next year. We got to ask him a ... 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.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

There are movies, there are films and then there is cinema

Set to Explode

As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.

KBR In Iraq -- Come For The Nation-Building, Stay For The Brothels

Jo Frederiksen of The Woodlands has joined the ever-growing number of women who claim they were sexually abused and harassed in Iraq under the watch of their former employer, Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root. She recently filed a lawsuit in Harris County District Court against the company. ... More >>

Eminem: Relapse

Mack Brown vs. Iraq & John Lomax vs. a Metro bus

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

UT's Mack Brown Visits The Troops, And Complains Endlessly

Mack Brown, along with a handful of other NCAA coaches, is making a goodwill visit to the troops in Germany, Iraq and Kuwait. (He's following in the footsteps of a coach at an actual good football school, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis, who visited the Middle East earlier this year.)Brown's to be com ... More >>

Turning the Screw: Bun B, Trae & Lil Keke, Rihanna, Snoop, Eminem vs. Nick Cannon, Jay-Z, T.I., E-40, South Park Mexican and More

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Grey Cassette," Trae feat Bun B and Lil Keke Wire To Wire Ummm, we're not going to link to them, but s ... More >>

U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

"Iraqi Artists in Exile" Showcase Their Haunting Works

Cut and Shot

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Kiss My Ass, W

Soldier Suicides

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

A Modest Proposal: Teach the Gangbangers Respect

Sign Me Up

They'll take Iraq over Houston

No End in Sight, Twin Peaks, The Other Side of the Mirror and Talk to Me

No End in Sight

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devastates

Drenched In Blog: We Wanna Get High, So High

Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn performs Saturday, November 18, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Problems at Home

Brad and Angelina are out to kill each other. You may want a piece of them, too.

Recommended Reading

Booking It

These travel narratives are as much about the teller as the terrain

Gambling on Iraq

Hundreds of Houstonians have signed up for wartime jobs with KBR. The hefty paychecks come with a scary, bloody price.

Horrific Haikus

Death-metal band names make for fun magnetic poetry

To Quirk or Not to Quirk

When does idiosyncrasy stop being idiosyncratic?

Eliza Gilkyson

Thursday, April 8

Burying the Past

A farewell slap to a Chronicle columnist

Wesley Willis

Wednesday, April 23

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen becomes very mighty indeed

Bloody Sunday

Yet another weekend newspaper magazine bites the dust

Weapons of Mass Distraction

At Miami's Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Pap Fiction

Travolta unloads another awful bomb in Basic

Killing the Leaders

Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Democrats' dilemma: the difference between antiwar and anti-U.S.

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Seek Bomb Shelter

Director Rod Lurie's nuclear debate blows up in his face

News of the Weird

The Brother Graham (Part II)

Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true