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What Would Saved by the Bell's The Max Be Like Today?

During a relaxing champagne bubblebath, I dreamt up a 2k13 version of The Peach Pit from Beverly Hills, 90210. Well, that "fan fiction" wasn't the end for me. Instead, it got me thinking about another '90s cult hit hangout -- The Max from Saved by the Bell. Here's what I'm fairly positive The Max ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control.

Business as Usual at Music Town CDs & Records, Since 1979

When James May unlocks the doors to Music Town each day at noon, his little shop on Stuebner Airline across from Klein High School is mainly filled with CDs, new and used vinyl and an enormous amount of cassettes. When he first opened the shop in 1979, the sign actually said "Music Town Records and ... More >>

David Koepp at the End of Civilization

The writer/director on filming in NYC, George Romero and saying no to bad script notes.

Complaints and the Media

Harvard, CU-Boulder Design Downtown Houston of Your Dreams, Possibly

That up above, the dreamy rendering of the area that used to house the downtown Post Office? It's "Bayou Commons," which is "strategically designed to be downtown Houston's first residential district celebrating cultural diversity and urban lifestyle." But don't go looking for it yet.

Doctors Who Rock: 9 Musicians With Their Ph.Ds

Alice Cooper recently received an Honorary Doctorate from The Musician's Institute in Los Angeles. After receiving the award, he said, "One more of these and I can write prescriptions." Now you know that Alice Cooper could one day write you a prescription... to rock. You're welcome. Out of sheer c ... More >>

Queen Bee

One of the best singers in the state has set up residency at an unlikely venue.

Down the Hatch: The Rothman Report

A scathing, 86-page report called out doctors who "subverted scientific integrity" for money.

Down the Hatch

The Texas Attorney General's Office says a drugmaker lied in order to push an antipsychotic on foster children. So why are kids as young as three still taking the drug?

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Greed, Interrupted

Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger pointing, Inside Job will make you seethe.

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Rice Sudents Had A Great Sexual Year, Apparently

Rice gets it on​Today in Self-Serving "Studies," we have what is no doubt highly sophisticated and peer-approved from the people who make Trojan condoms.They're put their annual report on "sexual health" on America's college campuses, looking at such things as condom availability, health center ho ... More >>

5 New Pop-Star Sitcoms We'd Like To See

Today marks the 43rd anniversary of <>The Monkees winning an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, making them the first musical act ever to win that award. 1967 also marked a transitional period for the band, which was moving toward creative freedom on the television show in which they started out as ... More >>

Progressive Forum: Brian Greene

Brian Greene knows how to make you stop worrying and love physics

Chronicle Employees: Part Of "An Absolute Ton Of Fat"

Photo courtesy wikipedia commonsHearst, the privately held company that owns the Houston Chronicle and is busy killing respected dailies in San Francisco and Seattle, has good news for its newspaper employees.They are part of "an absolute ton of fat" that has been built up over the years.That's the ... More >>

The Strange Advertising Deal No One At UH Wants To Talk About

The University of Houston's Communication Department has taken bold, groundbreaking steps to preserve the study of journalism for future generations.It just depends on how you define "journalism."The Daily Cougar, the student newspaper, recently inked a sweet deal with a local company called Inverte ... More >>

A Mainstream Mormon's Test of Faith

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but the effects linger

Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

Years after Sybil, the debate continues

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Notes on a Scandal

Town Center Theatre scores a win with Night and Her Stars

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

David Halberstam, R.I.P.

Children at Risk

Death Warmed Over Again

A family's crisis feels a bit too familiar in Imaginary Heroes

The Reorient Express

Some churches are still trying to "cure" homosexuals. And some people are still lining up to trade in their sex life for eternal life.

Sister, Sister

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

The Sex Life of Cynthia Hunt

Between the sheets with KPRC's ace reporter

World Wide Web

Spider-Man does whatever a spider can and much more

Bayou City Body Snatchers

How cold war fears fueled a hot market for Houston's human parts business.

Her-story Lessons

The Delany sisters recount 100 years of American history in the compelling Having Our Say

Hard Bop

Jazz legend Rick Porter has beaten more than his drum kit. He's also beaten addiction.

Bebopping Along

Former jazz guitar prodigy Scott Hardy finds he's also in tune with the acoustic bass

Death Row Show

The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

Fondle with Care

Sarofim II: The Next (De)Generation

In the latest divorce donnybrook, things didn't go better with coke

Learning Curves

Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a hard lesson -- one the state should have known fouryears and $77 million ago

News of the Weird

Generation Exceptional

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Critical Diagnosis

If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates

Hip to Be Square

Quality, not fashion, drives the legacy of Simon and Garfunkel

Press Picks

Rap of Ages Inc.

Roots Rasslin'

At Tugboat Taylor's gym, would-be wrestlers are taught the eternal verities: It's more fun to be a heel, but heels always lose.

Press Picks

The Lost Houston of Sig Byrd

Forty years ago, one writer captured our city better than any before or since. Now he's forgotten. And the Houston he saw? All but gone.