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Boy Scouts of America

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    SXSW: Tom Morello, A Vigilant And Emphatic Nightwatchman

    Besides Music World Gospel, New West Records is probably the most locally connected sub-major record label, and owner/partial Houstonian George Fontaine has long worn his heart on his sleeve about local music in general and recent New West additions the Wild Moccasins, Robert Ellis, Buxton and Grand ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    Hands-On Experience

    Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by police officers. Critics say the Boy Scouts, who oversee the program, should share the blame.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Cops Sexually Abusing Teens Learning to Be Cops

    ​What could go wrong with young kids learning to be cops by hanging with them as they do their jobs? Lots, according to this week's cover story. The Explorer program is administered by Learning for Life, a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. Teenage girls and boys take part all over the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Five Reasons Why Perry's Attempt to Block Negative Social Media Content Is a Bad Idea

    Controlling negative publicity is tough business in the modern world. Virtually everything is caught on tape -- good and bad -- and the Internet provides the ideal place for opposition. From anonymous commenters to bloggers to people on social networking sites, it is impossible to prevent negative c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2011

    Top Four Patriotic Sex Positions

    Recently, Houston's patriotism has been questioned by Stephen Colbert, who took us to task for our fireworks ban, and Men's Health magazine, who ranked us the 89th most patriotic city. Houston was beat by Austin (21), Dallas (60), and San Antonio (78). Well! We can't stand for that. We're unable to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    14 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Springfield

    2. Rick Springfield is a stone cold sex fiend... ​In recent years, many musicians have put down their instruments (at least temporarily) and picked up the computer keyboard to produce some pretty revelatory memoirs. And in one case, perhaps too revelatory - Billy Joel recently pulled the plug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Robin Jeanette Jordan: Sole Arrest So Far in Raid on Fort Bend Cul-de-Sac Cathouse

    Hookers in Pecan Grove. Who knew?​Apparently, pecans weren't the only nuts hanging in the Richmond, Texas suburb of Pecan Grove. Authorities based both there and here in Houston say that 37-year-old Robin Jeanette Jordan, a.k.a. "Lianna," has been involved in an Internet-based prostitution r ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 10, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Billy Elliot, A Fertle Farewell, An Inspector Calls, Shards of Love

    Hookers in Pecan Grove. Who knew?​Apparently, pecans weren't the only nuts hanging in the Richmond, Texas suburb of Pecan Grove. Authorities based both there and here in Houston say that 37-year-old Robin Jeanette Jordan, a.k.a. "Lianna," has been involved in an Internet-based prostitution r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Houston Music's People Of The Year

    Craig Hlavaty​Editor's Pick: Grandfather Child. It was a good year for the blues all around - the Black Keys' well-deserved radio breakthrough with Brothers; Lightnin' Hopkins' long-overdue historical marker in Third Ward - but Lucas Gorham's crew is a razor-sharp reminder that the best blues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Chron Arts Writer's "How To Deal With Me" Memo Goes National

    NO chit-chat with the critic, please​Douglas Britt is the arts critic of the Houston Chronicle who, somewhat recently, was also ordered to shoulder part of the paper's society coverage.As a result, he's apparently desperate to manage his time better. So he wrote a 1,400-word memo to arts instituti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Obama Attempting Again To Brainwash Schoolkids

    Those poor, unsuspecting minds​Remember the glorious fall of 2009, when the right-wing universe exploded in paranoid fear that President Obama was going to give a speech to schoolkids? Just like his Republican predecessors had?Talk radio frothed, politicians shouted and school districts scrambled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    A Street Tale: The $15,000 Condom

    ​Around noon on February 11, an unidentified Beaumont man -- a horny one, by the sound of this report -- was patrolling the city's southside streets in his SUV, looking for action.He found it in the form of 26-year-old Renee Denise Stoker, who likely didn't advertise the fact that she had been arr ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 8, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Barefoot in the Park, La Bohème, Speech and Debate

    ​Around noon on February 11, an unidentified Beaumont man -- a horny one, by the sound of this report -- was patrolling the city's southside streets in his SUV, looking for action.He found it in the form of 26-year-old Renee Denise Stoker, who likely didn't advertise the fact that she had been arr ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 1, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, Our Late Night, Speech and Debate

    ​Around noon on February 11, an unidentified Beaumont man -- a horny one, by the sound of this report -- was patrolling the city's southside streets in his SUV, looking for action.He found it in the form of 26-year-old Renee Denise Stoker, who likely didn't advertise the fact that she had been arr ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 25, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: The New Century, Our Late Night, Speech and Debate

    ​Around noon on February 11, an unidentified Beaumont man -- a horny one, by the sound of this report -- was patrolling the city's southside streets in his SUV, looking for action.He found it in the form of 26-year-old Renee Denise Stoker, who likely didn't advertise the fact that she had been arr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    In Ongoing Bat Invasion Of Texas, Terrifying New Theaters Of War Opened

    ​Two weeks ago today, in an nearly all-but-exclusive report, Hair Balls broke the story of the ongoing bat invasion of Texas schools and courthouses.At the time, the winged mammals had seized control of two schools in Clear Lake and one each in Chambers and Matagorda counties. They had also staked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Texas Traveler: St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary

    Photos by Brittanie Shey​North of Houston, outside the small town of Montgomery, there is a house where lobos in limbo live, the St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary. The sanctuary, a non-profit organization staffed entirely by volunteers, aims to provide a permanent home to captive-born wolves and wolf-dog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    He Said She Said: Our Musical Resolutions for 2010

    ​It's barely a week into 2010, and we still find ourselves writing 2009 on invoices and checks. We can't seem to shake that last quasi-awful year out of our heads. It seemed like one of the most interminable years we had ever had the bittersweet pleasure to find ourselves mired in. Little wonder t ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2009

    The T-Mac Question

    Stacy McLady or true superstar?

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Some Aeros Miscellania, Including Cheerleaders

    Photo Jason Villanueva/Houston Aeros​Just thought I would share a little Houston Aeros hockey news today -- for some reason, I can't get into football yet, but I'm fully up on all hockey. I can't explain it...okay, yes I can. I got to watch the tryouts for the Aeros cheerleaders, the Aero Dynamics ... More >>

  • Film

    May 28, 2009

    Grounded

    Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.

  • Music

    April 23, 2009

    Hello, Houston!

    Noise breaks down the months of live music ahead

  • Culture

    March 26, 2009

    SPECIAL APRIL FOOLS' DAY EDITION

    Noise breaks down the months of live music ahead

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Groups Protest The "Lock Up the Immigrants" Facility

    Photo courtesy Houston Independent Media CenterJust before noon on Saturday some 50 protesters, including members of Houston's Students for a Democratic Society, gathered at the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center outside Taylor, Texas, a holding facility for families of undocumented immigrants tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Miss Pop Rocks’ Letter from the Future

    Have you heard about the future according to right-wing freakies Focus on the Family? According to FOF, it will be bleak, full of gays running everything and the Boy Scouts banished from the Earth (along with the Pledge of Allegiance). This is all according to a “Letter from 2012” that Foc ... More >>

  • News

    October 18, 2007
  • Blogs

    June 11, 2007
  • News

    March 15, 2007

    School Discipline, Lisa Nowak, Terry Abbott, GHCVB Gay Ads

    Some people still favor Texas's zero-tolerance rules

  • Film

    June 29, 2006

    Recycled Steel

    You'll swear you've seen this Superman somewhere before

  • Home Entertainment

    March 9, 2006

    Ghouls on the Go

    A Resident Evil remake captures all the creepy fun of the original

  • News

    March 2, 2006

    No-Balls Buzz

    Morning-radio wackiness has its limits

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    The Princess Diaries

    The HMNS presents a phenomenon that just won't Di

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Bloody Biking

    The MS 150 is a war zone, one activist claims

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Nailed by the Cops

    A fashionable burglar gets nabbed

  • Music

    March 24, 2005
  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Mind Reading

    Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2004

    Freewheelin'

    Cub Scouts get ready to drag

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Pimpin' Ain't Easy

    Tension mounts at the Chronicle

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2003

    Starry Night

    Eyes on the skies at Moody Gardens

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Space Invaders

    The Chron loves another convention

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    Letters, November 15

    Fishy Business, Bad Taste, Band Aid

  • Culture

    November 1, 2001

    Cinderfella

    Boy Meets Boy is too old-fashioned for the new millennium

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Air Sic

    In cargo holds or plane cabins, critters are taking more than flights of fancy

  • Film

    July 20, 2000

    Mystery Men

    Comic-book characters remain two-dimensional in the special effects-laden X-Men

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

    Rachelle Anderson just took super Girl Scout honors. And it wasn't hustling cookies that got her there.

  • Dining

    March 25, 1999

    On a Roll

    Sandwiches and sociability atthe Big Time Cafe

  • Dining

    September 24, 1998

    Dish

    Sandwiches and sociability atthe Big Time Cafe

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Letters

    Sandwiches and sociability atthe Big Time Cafe

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    The Insider

    Sandwiches and sociability atthe Big Time Cafe

  • Calendar

    May 23, 1996

    Beat the Heat!

    1996 Summer Guide

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