Columbia University

David Halberstam, R.I.P.

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.

The Sex Life of Cynthia Hunt

Between the sheets with KPRC's ace reporter

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 >>

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.

Press Picks

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.

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.

Rap of Ages Inc.

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.

Lost in the Cause

In the early 1960s, Eldrewey Stearns was a powerful force for integration in a segregated society. Then he forgot his way, and history forgot him. Until, that is, he met writer Thomas R. Cole.

Press Picks

In the early 1960s, Eldrewey Stearns was a powerful force for integration in a segregated society. Then he forgot his way, and history forgot him. Until, that is, he met writer Thomas R. Cole.

Hip to Be Square

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

Critical Diagnosis

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

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Generation Exceptional

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

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 >>

News of the Weird

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 >>

Fondle with Care

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 >>

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

Children at Risk

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)

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

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.

Positive Love

Love proves stronger than fear in these couples where one partner tests positive for HIV, the other negative for the dread disease.

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

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

Progressive Forum: Brian Greene

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

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 >>

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 >>

SPECIAL BEST-OF EDITION

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 >>

Greed, Interrupted

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

FAIR-y Tales

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

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?

Queen Bee

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