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Harvard University

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Top 5 Liars in College Football History -- A List Dedicated to Bobby Petrino

    Fired and liars rhyme. Just sayin'. This week, Bobby Petrino, a married father of four, was canned from his gig as head football coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. As Hair Balls previously rapped about, Petrino was let go for lying about his motorcycle accident, his extramarital affair with a fello ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Jeremy Lin vs. Yao Ming: The Breakdown

    NBA executives are beaming these days with the Tim Tebow-like mania for the Knicks' Jeremy Lin, a Harvard grad whose family comes from Taiwan. Not only is Lin getting hysteria in the States, but he is reawakening visions of opening the lucrative Chinese and Asian market back to the NBA, dreams whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    The Happy Humor of the Harvard Sailing Team

    Before there was "Shit Girls Say," there was "Boys Will Be Girls." The funnier take on the concept from the Harvard Sailing Team made the Internet rounds in the spring of 2010 and forever popularized the phrase "Totes the best hun-cal fro-yo." Now, the sketch comedy group comprised of neither Harvar ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    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?

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Lamest Cop Impersonator Ever Gets Arrested

    An iPhone looked like this?​The mind of a 17-year-old male is a wondrous thing to behold, especially because oftentimes it isn't working properly. Take the case of one unnamed Montgomery County teen who, according to the police blotter, now faces charges of impersonating a public servant. Su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    10 Confederate Flag Bikinis And The Subtle Political Statements They Make

    Despite Sam Houston's fervent wishes, Texas joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. Perhaps old Sam would have endorsed the move if he knew it would eventually lead to the phenomenon of confederate-flag bikinis. These bikinis, to be sure, do not promote slavery or racism. Instead they make a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    R.I.P Derek Boogaard, 28: Feared Enforcer On The Ice, Soft-Spoken Off It

    Derek Boogaard in his last enforcer gig​Derek Boogaard, the ungainly 6-foot-7 hockey enforcer who went from the Aeros to the NHL's Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers, has died at the age of 28. He was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment on Friday. No cause of death has been determined, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Tommy Lee Jones For Senate: Congressman Gene Green Says Why the Hell Not?

    Senator Tommy Lee Jones?​Geoff Berg, host of KPFT's Partisan Gridlock show is leading the improbable battle to draft Tommy Lee Jones as a Democratic candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. They've got a Facebook page and everything, including a petition with an op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Hogg Middle School May Transform into an IB School After Parents Fuss

    Can Hogg make the jump to an IB school?​It was the politest group of revolutionaries Hair Balls can ever remember meeting. Gathered in the church parlor at St. Mark's United Methodist Church in the Heights, a small group of mothers gathered last night to discuss their petition drive to revital ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Idol Beat: Schlemiel. Schlimazel.

    ​So it seems the only difference between the two-hour Wednesday Idols and their one hour counterparts on Thursdays is twice as many "wacky" interludes (über Green Bay Packer fan Megan Frazier is going to make one lucky man...really miserable someday) and a third more shots of Steven Tyler wal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Tiger Moms: Seven Songs To Help Tame Those Cubs

    ​Amy Chua's controversial book/parenting guide, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has moms everywhere wondering how to tame their young ones. But you don't need a copy of the book to learn how to breed strong, smart, successful cubs, because Rocks Off has found the musical translations of Chua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    The 10 Sexiest (Male) Texans Of Our Lifetime

    Last week we gave you our 10 Sexiest Texans of Our Lifetime. It was a list that was, admittedly, vagina-biased. We make it up to the people who love guys with this definitive list, which involved more asking around than the first one. Here are, then, the 10 sexiest Texas men of our lives: 10. Sea ... More >>

  • Film

    November 4, 2010

    Greed, Interrupted

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

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Mission Accomplished: Your Buzzword Is My Band Name, Part 2

    ​We're getting closer to a midterm election that, more and more, is coming to resemble two dachshunds we had as a kid who would lose their little doggy minds over a chew toy and attack each other in a weiner-dog whirlwind of until separated by a garden hose. The attack ads are a-flying, and e ... More >>

  • Film

    September 30, 2010

    Who Needs Friends?

    David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. With The Social Network, he invites you to join him.

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010

    When I Knew: A Staged Reading

    It’s all in the knowing

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Galveston: Accounts Of Our Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

    Galveston joins the chior invisible​There is a blog out there called 24/7Wall St., and it went out on the great search for web hits with a almost-scientific survey that produced a list of "America's 10 Dead Cities."Among them: Buffalo and Detroit. Also New Orleans, which is a little more debatable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Cold Hard Cash to Fifth Graders in HISD Who Do the Math

    You did your homework? Cha-ching​Students at 25 Houston ISD schools -- and their parents -- will have a chance to earn cash by, get this: Doing their homework!"Why not?" was the consensus reached today by the seven trustees at a workshop meeting. Equipped with a $1.5 million private donation from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Forbes Says Houston Is The Best City For Young Professionals, So It Must Be, Right?

    Better than Boston or San Francisco!​The online Forbes empire never tires of putting together lists that rank American cities in any number of categories, all in the vain hope that media in the city named number one will write about -- DAMN! Fell for it again!!Okay, we'll give them an item, since ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    "Summertime" From Beyond The Grave

    ​Today marks the 44th anniversary of Janis Joplin's first gig with Big Brother and the Holding Company. One of rock's most staggering vocalists, Joplin became another star who left us too soon on October 4, 1970, when she overdosed on heroin while recording Pearl. George Gershwin's "Summertime" wa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2009

    The Wayside Motor Inn

    Web exclusive

  • Film

    May 14, 2009

    Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks

    Another treat for whacked-out male conspiracy theorists

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Harvard Elementary Kids, Get Your Butts Back To School

    Another HISD school has declared total victory in the battle against swine flu (No political correctness here, pork industry!!). Harvard Elementary in the Heights, one of the first district schools to close down, will reopen tomorrow.The city's health department has given the OK for the move, HISD s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    InPrint/Methodist Hospital Studio Series

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    The Epic 1969 UH-Harvard Debate Competition Still Haunts

    Photo courtesy Debate TeamThings we did not know until today: The University of Houston had a kick-ass debate team in 1969, one that swaggered in to the national finals predicting victory only to lose to Harvard. And one of the members of that team has never gotten over the loss, and gotten so depre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    The Sweet Smell Of Condenscension, From Harvard Via Dallas

    There's some sort of school up north called Harvard, or something like that (we guess it's like Rice), and it has some sort of business school.Now apparently when you get a degree from that there Harvard business school, you can pretty much pick and choose what city you want to work in. (Or, as they ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 22, 2009

    Thin Steak and Samuel P. Huntington

    There's some sort of school up north called Harvard, or something like that (we guess it's like Rice), and it has some sort of business school.Now apparently when you get a degree from that there Harvard business school, you can pretty much pick and choose what city you want to work in. (Or, as they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Hanukkah Latkes: Increasing Our Dependence on Oil?

    The fried potato pancakes called latkes are the traditional food of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday which begins this year on the night of December 21. Explanations about the connection between the Eastern European potato pancakes and the commemoration of a battle against the ancient Assyrians general ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    Teacher Of The Year And Hero To Drunk Drivers

    The fried potato pancakes called latkes are the traditional food of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday which begins this year on the night of December 21. Explanations about the connection between the Eastern European potato pancakes and the commemoration of a battle against the ancient Assyrians general ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Not So Great News from the Health Department

    The fried potato pancakes called latkes are the traditional food of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday which begins this year on the night of December 21. Explanations about the connection between the Eastern European potato pancakes and the commemoration of a battle against the ancient Assyrians general ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Houston, We Are Not Loved

    The fried potato pancakes called latkes are the traditional food of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday which begins this year on the night of December 21. Explanations about the connection between the Eastern European potato pancakes and the commemoration of a battle against the ancient Assyrians general ... More >>

  • Music

    May 22, 2008

    Notable tour sponsorships in U.S. history

    Take It On the Run

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2007

    That's the Story of the Hurricane

    Take It On the Run

  • Culture

    November 30, 2006

    Wabs and Gabachos on Leprecanos

    Take It On the Run

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    Lights On or Off?

    The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football

  • Home Entertainment

    September 15, 2005

    New releases available this week

    The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2004

    Bears in Bed

    SNL writer T. Sean Shannon stands up for himself at the Laff Stop

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    SNL writer T. Sean Shannon stands up for himself at the Laff Stop

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Harvard and the Boogeyman

    Will it be the Aeros' brawler or brainiac who gets to the NHL?

  • Dining

    September 4, 2003

    Deconstructing Joe

    Star Pizza

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Celebrate Good Times

    The Bush inaugural is a wonderful, wonderful thing

  • Music

    July 15, 1999

    Fresh Princess

    Tatyana Ali's back, all right, along with more face stars than you can shake a booty at

  • Calendar

    October 29, 1998

    Night & Day

    October 29 - November 4, 1998

  • News

    October 24, 1996

    Man Overboard

    October 29 - November 4, 1998

  • Calendar

    October 3, 1996

    Press Picks

    October 29 - November 4, 1998

  • Calendar

    April 11, 1996

    Press Picks

    October 29 - November 4, 1998

  • Film

    March 2, 1995

    The Evil and the Stupid

    Reactionary and racist, Just Cause is just too dumb to get worked up about

  • Calendar

    November 10, 1994

    Press Picks

    Reactionary and racist, Just Cause is just too dumb to get worked up about

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