Subject: Charitable Giving

• Jesus Saves

  June 28, 2007

• This Just In: The Hand Center's Michael Brown Is Awesome

  January 11, 2008

• Open Season on Pit Bulls’ Genitals

  August 15, 2008

• Tom Petty Week, Part 5: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Cover "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

  August 29, 2008

• Presidential Kids' Charity

  Call to contribute to the Bush bid, and guess who answers?

  March 25, 1999

• Knowles Sisters' Ike Benefit Cancelled

  Next Tuesday's "Hope for the Holidays" concert with Beyonce and Solange Knowles, which was going to be taped to air December 21 on the cable music network Fuse, with proceeds benefiting the Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund, has been cancelled. No further information was immediately available. - Chris Gray

  December 4, 2008

• The Burial and Resurrection (maybe) of Doug Sanders

  June 16, 1994

• Crisis on Cullen Boulevard

  September 1, 1994

• Variety Club Follies

  July 25, 1996

• The Insider

  October 10, 1996

• The Insider

  October 31, 1996

• The Insider

  December 5, 1996

• WrestleMania In A Dispute Over A Charity Event; No Chairs Hurled (Yet)

  Logo courtesy WWEIn the world of professional wrestling, there appears to be a smackdown going on outside the ring.Hair Balls was alerted to this controversy after reading an article in Professional Wrestling Insider -- one of our favorite sources of news about big sweaty thespians pretending to beat each other senseless with folding chairs -- accusing World Wrestling Entertainment of poaching talent from local wrestling legend Booker T's charity event, slated for the same weekend as WrestleMani

  March 4, 2009

• Metro's Math Hitting The Homeless Hard

  The price of bus tickets jumped by a quarter in November, to $1.25, and the increase was probably long overdue. Metro had gone 14 years without a hike.But a less publicized change that went into effect about a year ago has done far more to drain the pockets of some of Metro's regular customers -- the poor, and the social agencies that help them. Those agencies spend about $51,000 a month on bus tickets. Since the day pass was eliminated last January -- and, later, the discount charities receive

  April 1, 2009

• Wrestlers, Art, A Library & Bill White: The Madness Arrives

  Cameras flashed, the crowd oohed and ahhed, and WWE superstar Jeff Hardy carefully painted a nose onto an oversized white canvas. The WWE onslaught that culminates with Sunday's Wrestlemania XXV eased its way into Houston this evening in an unusually genteel (and slightly unsettling) fashion -- a charity auction called WrestlemaniArt. Waiters in bow ties carried around trays of hors' doeuvres, and some of professional wrestling's more outrageous characters -- Jerry "The King" Lawler, Santi

  April 2, 2009

• Letters

  February 3, 2000

• The Annual Jewish Community Center Bagel Ball

  Web exclusive!

  December 18, 2008

• Vagabond Cirque

  L’imprevu Bellydance hosts a sexy circus for the bad kid in you

  November 6, 2008

• Houston Survivor Challenge

  October 23, 2008

• Thong and Dance

  Hang with the scantily clad at the No Pants Party

  September 9, 2004

• Charity Cases

  Nonprofits chase the younger set in the search for new blood

  March 4, 2004

• Shell Houston Open

  March 27, 2008

• “Consequences of Love”

  Linda Simien Kelly fights sickle cell with art

  August 30, 2007

• Hey, Ladies!

  January 19, 2006

• Libertarian Laffs

  February 2, 2006

• Junction Jog

  May 25, 2006

• Pampered Philanthropy

  June 15, 2006

• Any Means Necessary

  June 29, 2006

• Return of the Alt-Country King

  August 10, 2006

• Drag Queen Bingo

  Where blue balls are called every game!

  May 10, 2007

• Who Is Marc Sparks?

  February 2, 2006

• When Steve Met Tracy

  The Rockets' past and future face off at the Clutch City Classic

  October 6, 2005

• Swan Balls

  The Nightfly's feathery tribute to Björk

  June 16, 2005

• Best Doughnuts

  September 23, 2004

• Sweet Charity

  For years Tom DeLay has used nonprofits to help himself. Now the heat is on.

  June 10, 2004

• Best Collector

  Carolyn Farb

  September 25, 2003

• Prom and Proper

  Cross-dressers help high schoolers have a fun night out in the gown

  May 8, 2003

• Christmas Miracle

  A media benefit helps a charity that's been questioned

  December 26, 2002

• Down the Road

  The city buys the historic Cohn House to move it into a possible future tourism center

  December 26, 2002

• Costs You Money!

  The furniture king finds himself in a charity-ticket tangle

  September 5, 2002

• This Old House

  The City of Houston wants to further spiff up the area around Minute Maid Park. The historic Cohn House stands in its way.

  July 25, 2002

• Salad Daze

  A chef and a produce grower get into a pissing match over ten pounds of greens

  May 10, 2001

• Playbill

  The Bob Marley Festival

  March 8, 2001

• Charity Case

  After the big split, HCC goes for the glamorous giving

  January 4, 2001

• Union Joan

  England's Joan Armatrading comes to town with her fanciful folk music

  July 13, 2000

• Missed Your Free Ice Cream Cone Last Week?

  Don't despair: Baskin-Robbins has your back. Today only, the ice cream chain is holding its annual 31 Cent Scoop Night to benefit the National Volunteer Firefighters Council and firefighters across the United States.  A small scoop of one of the 31 ice cream flavors is a mere 31 cents at participating locations.  You'll also have the opportunity to donate to Houston-area fire charities in the stores. So it isn't free.  But it's tasty, frozen goodness.  And

  April 29, 2009

• Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue Benefit

  June 11, 2009

• The ACLU, Stirring It Up Again In Texas And Elsewhere

  Muslims in Texas and around the United States aren't being allowed to practice one of the key tenets of their religion -- namely charitable giving -- because of our country's terrorism-finance laws, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.In its 164-report "Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity," the ACLU is almost certain to once again boil the blood of right-wing talk show hosts here and around the country.The report blames the Bush administration and its anti-terrorism efforts in the finan

  June 17, 2009

• Dynamo Charities Cup

  October 8, 2009

• Upcoming Events

  This weekend, get outside and enjoy this beautiful weather while it lasts. The Slow Food Picnic Dinner at Discovery Green is just one way to do that. Monica Pope and Andrea Lazar of t'afia are putting on the at 6 p.m. It will feature locally grown and caught food prepared by local chefs like Randy Evans from Haven, Kiran Verma from Kiran's and Joe Bentely of Raven Grill. The 10-course menu is only $45, but you must purchase your tickets soon! Starting tonight at 7 p.m., the Houston Peruvian

  November 13, 2009