Boy Scouts of America

Perry Believes Opposing Slavery Is the Same as Opposing Gay Rights, Apparently

I don't think there are many out there that would say Rick Perry is unprincipled. The epithets are plenty, and his mistakes are many, but there are few that would claim that Perry is anything approaching the slippery flip-floppery of Mitt Romney. He's a man of his word. Thus, when Rick Perry, flyin ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, The Night of the Iguana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Gays In The Boy Scouts: Texas Elected Officials Are Signing On To Say Hell No

A conservative group called "Texas Values" is taking a new approach in the battle to make sure that no Lone Star boy scout ever, ever gets cooties from being near a gay person -- the group is circulating a letter urging the Boy Scouts of America to reject gay scouts, it's getting elected officials t ... More >>

Ten Houston Men Named (So Far) In Boy Scouts "Perversion Files"

Since 1919 the Boy Scouts of America has maintained a database of "ineligible volunteers." Known informally as "the perversion files," the database contains the name of 5,000 men and a few women who have been expelled from the BSA because of allegations of sexual abuse of children. Last week a grou ... More >>

Campaign to End Boy Scouts Gay Ban Gains Steam

A campaign, spearheaded by an ousted den mother, is gaining some momentum as it picks up the support of board members of the Boy Scouts. Jennifer Tyrrell, a gay mother from Bridgeport, Ohio, was no longer allowed to be a den mother in April of last year. Tyrrell started a petition on Change.org that ... More >>

Camping with Gasoline

Children's Museum of Houston's Kidpendence Day

Crossing the Line: Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The T-Mac Question

Stacy McLady or true superstar?

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 >>

Grounded

Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.

Hello, Houston!

Noise breaks down the months of live music ahead

SPECIAL APRIL FOOLS' DAY EDITION

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 >>

The ManKind Project

Raw Nerves

The Sopranos Final Moment -- Why It Was Horrible

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

Some people still favor Texas's zero-tolerance rules

Recycled Steel

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

Ghouls on the Go

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

No-Balls Buzz

Morning-radio wackiness has its limits

The Princess Diaries

The HMNS presents a phenomenon that just won't Di

Bloody Biking

The MS 150 is a war zone, one activist claims

Nailed by the Cops

A fashionable burglar gets nabbed

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.)

Freewheelin'

Cub Scouts get ready to drag

Pimpin' Ain't Easy

Tension mounts at the Chronicle

Starry Night

Eyes on the skies at Moody Gardens

Letters, November 15

Fishy Business, Bad Taste, Band Aid

Cinderfella

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

Air Sic

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

Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

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

Dish

Letters

The Insider

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide