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Cult of Ferocity

True to punk's roots, Bad Religion keeps the anger alive

The Angelides Affair

A dispute over research fraud has split the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, and could jeopardize the way universities police scientific misconduct

The Reich Stuff

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

Women at Work

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

Virgin Rebirth

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe. But its appearance is just the start of the

BARC Sucks

The city's animal shelter just can't get its act together

Junot Díaz

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner reads from his debut novel

Priscilla Slade and the TSU Three

Spurred on by a fellow student's death, Oliver Brown, William Hudson and Justin Jordan ran a gauntlet on their way to bring down a president

Swift Meatpacking Plant and Illegal Immigrants

Swift & Company pitted employee against employee when it replaced injured workers with illegal immigrants

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Don't check out -- check in with the Station's "Red Fall" and "Truth to Power"

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Dark Star Orchestra

Loco for Loroco

The secret herb at Houston's pupuserias can drive you out of your mind

Your Car Isn't Broken, It's Just Become A "Stationary Driving Platform," If You Use NASA's Spin

​Used cars long ago become "pre-owned."  Kamp Krusty isn't a "fat camp," it's an "image enhancement camp." Torture is now "enhanced interrogation."The silly-euphemism bar is set pretty high these days. But NASA is taking a shot at winning the competition, not because it is easy but because it ... More >>

Game Time: The Tweet Sixteen....Readers Lament Their Brackets On Twitter

The title of my post last Friday, "My Bracket Looks Like Edward James Olmos' Face", actually came from one of my Twitter followers (@jamesmthomson). Like any blogger of integrity, I gave James full credit while inside hoping that you would ignore said credit and think that I was actually the one w ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher.

Peanut Butter Miracles

Amid the chaos that is Haiti, Dr. Patricia Wolff has made ending child malnutrition her life's work.

Anthony Ray Ferrell, The Good Samaritan Killer: Third Escapee From His Halfway House In 20 Months

Photo courtesy HPD Victim Sam Irick and his alleged killer Anthony Ray Ferrell​The man charged with killing a Good Samaritan during a purse-snatching is the third person to escape the same state-contracted halfway house in the last 20 months.Anthony Ray Ferrell had fled a "halfway house in ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

Is ibogaine really an addict cure-all?

Your Holiday Party Won't Break the Bank with $2.99 Wines From Whole Foods Market

Three Wishes, available exclusively at Whole Foods for $2.99 a bottle or $33 for a dozen. ​Save your hard-earned cash for presents by stocking your holiday party with Three Wishes wines, available exclusively at Whole Foods Market for $2.99 a bottle. At this point, some of you are no doubt s ... More >>

Prison Pays

Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private prison corporation GEO keeps getting contracts from the state.

Johnny Dowd Joins Ranks Of Oklahoma Music Greats

johnnydowd.comJohnny Dowd, one of the weirdest musical Okies of them all.​Poet, musician, avant-garde musical thinker and doer, Johnny Dowd may live in upstate New York these days, but that fellow is 100 percent died-in-the-wool Okie through and through. When Dowd opens his mouth to sing, Dust ... More >>

Pet Sounds

Animal psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick hears voices - the dog and cat kind.

Hey, Wanna Buy a (Notorious) Prison?

Bad memories included​If you've ever wanted to own a prison, now's your chance: The city of Littlefield is auctioning off the Bill Clayton Detention Center, abandoned by the GEO Group, a private prison operator with a troubled history in Texas. The Florida-based GEO pulled out after the son o ... More >>

Cover Story: Dinesh Shah's Younger "Friends"

​In addition to cultivating one-sided relationships with wealthy older people, Dinesh Shah has shown himself to be eager to "befriend" handsome young men. Two such have written in to the Houston Press since Part One of our series on Shah ran last week. One man, who wanted only to be identifi ... More >>

History, Screwed and Chopped

Julie Grob just made the U of H Library System a whole lot cooler.

Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

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?