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  • Film

    August 11, 2011

    Invasion of Piracy

    Illegal downloading costs the film industry billions of dollars per year. But does the legal strategy designed to recoup this lost bounty amount to extortion?

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Jamie Leigh Jones Rape Suit: Jury Rules in Favor of KBR

    Jamie Leigh Jones had a long wait for her day in court.​A federal jury rejected claims by Jamie Leigh Jones, who says she was gang-raped as a KBR employee in Iraq and then mistreated by the company. The jury found she was not raped, and KBR did not commit fraud. Jones, 26, sued KBR/Halliburt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Five Great Uses Of Music As A Weapon

    Ed. Note: Jef With One F does not distinguish fiction from reality from video games. We let it slide because he accepts checks from the "Bank of Mordor"... we just hope it's not rubbing off on us. teecraze.com​Music is a weapon. That's what angry political bands will tell you. They'll bend yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Who Are The Greatest Rap Duos of All Time?

    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? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com.  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Texas Longhorns: The Most Laughable Report Card Ever

    Longhorns: Grading on the curve​There's an episode of The Sorpanos in Season 5 entitled (ironically so) "All Happy Families." Sopranos fans will remember the fifth season as the one where Tony and Carmela spent a majority of the season separated, so in turn, they also fought a lot. In "All Happy ... More >>

  • Film

    March 11, 2010

    Mission Finally Accomplished

    American hero Matt Damon and his WMD of a movie Green Zone confirm the big lie, Hollywood-style.

  • Music

    March 4, 2010

    Chatter: Say Hey

    Spearhead leader Michael Franti's Middle Eastern trip inspires an unlikely Top 40 hit.

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Heroic Iraqi Refugee On His Deathbed As Family Struggles to Obtain Temporary Visas to Be At His Side

    Photo courtesy of Dario Lipovac​Houston's Iraqi refugee community is saying a painful goodbye to one of its most valued members. Now Marwan Hamza's friends are scrambling to help his family do the same. Hamza, 22, is on his deathbed at Memorial Herman hospital after crashing his car earlie ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 21, 2009

    Summer of Salvation

    The Terminator is back. Plus lots of other movies we can't wait to see this season.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    SXSW: Anatomy of a Swag Bag

    As an official SXSW registrant, your first task after checking in your hotel is to go to the Convention Center and pick up your official badge. Task 1B is to go downstairs afterward and pick up your swag bag. Over the years, I have learned you can tell a fair bit about both the music business and t ... More >>

  • News

    February 26, 2009

    Guantánamo's Final Days

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

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Bush: The Memoir

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

  • Film

    October 16, 2008

    Bush's Brain: W.

    Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

  • News

    August 21, 2008
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    August 12, 2008
  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008
  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Jeremy Scahill

    Author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army heads to Houston

  • Music

    March 6, 2008

    Goodbye, Chango Jackson. Hello, Chango Man and Yoko Mono

    Out of the ashes of Chango Jackson come two new denizens of the primate house

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

    Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.

  • Film

    January 10, 2008

    Grace Is Gone

    A Marine mom dies in Iraq

  • News

    December 27, 2007

    The Year In Film

    Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  • Film

    November 1, 2007

    Bee Movie

    No wonder all the bees are dying — Seinfeld's movie is embarrassing

  • Music

    October 25, 2007

    Lee Hazlewood: Stranger in This Land

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    James Howard Kunstler Finally Drags His Ass to Houston

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2007

    Trading Spaces: Mock Draft Version 4.0

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2007

    That Man Makes a Mean Lemonade

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2006

    A Right Wing Take on the Walter's War

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  • Film

    February 16, 2006

    Blood Business

    Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

  • News

    October 20, 2005

    Speed Racers

    Every kid wants an ultra-fast sport bike -- until the day he dies

  • Music

    March 17, 2005

    String Theory

    Twinemen get the ball rolling again after the untimely demise of Morphine

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Books, Bullets and Guns

    TSU was failing in campus safety long before Ashley Sloan was gunned down

  • Film

    August 5, 2004

    Collateral Damaged

    When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    Letters

    When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  • Film

    June 24, 2004

    George of the Bungle

    Michael Moore goes Bushwacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Tax Cuts for Some

    Bugged about property taxes? Buy a skyscraper.

  • Film

    June 10, 2004

    The Whole Truth?

    Inside Al-Jazeera, journalists tell a familiar story unfamiliarly

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    The Sex Life of Cynthia Hunt

    Between the sheets with KPRC's ace reporter

  • Music

    September 11, 2003

    2 Filthy, 2 Furious

    The Sex Pistols have re-formed (again), and Johnny Rotten is spewing pure vitriol (still)

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Parting Shots

    Foes of Mayor Lee Brown can't wait to see him gone. And a lot of his friends feel that way, too.

  • Music

    April 17, 2003

    Fests of Fury

    Alex Lozano trumpets a 420 soiree and the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

  • Music

    March 27, 2003

    Hissin' Dixie.

    Country stars battle it out on the eve of war

  • Music

    June 14, 2001

    World Class?

    Houston can't join the ranks of other cities until it has an anthem of its own

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Letters

    Houston can't join the ranks of other cities until it has an anthem of its own

  • News

    March 28, 1996

    The Brothers Graham (Part I)

    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,

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