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Horatio Alger

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Houston's Top Ten Female TV Reporters, Based On A Highly Scientific And Professional System

    Our own Miss Pop Rocks wrote an entry some time ago about the Secret Lives of Houston's Hottest Male Newscasters, which seemed...incomplete to me somehow.I wasn't sure of the exact problem until she followed it up with the admission of her crush on KPRC's Jennifer Reyna, then I realized that by not ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2005

    Banging with Bang! Bang!

    Chicago's rumpy-pumpiest punks dispense the Dan Savage-style advice

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    What Price Glory?

    In an era when booster dollars give high school football teams a high-tech edge, scratching out a winning season gets tougher and tougher

  • Music

    April 1, 2004

    Dizzee Miss Lizzee

    The Boy in Da Corner comes out swinging

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    South Park Monster

    Fans saw Carlos Coy as the invincible rapper, the gangsta who could become an icon for outcast Hispanics everywhere. But they didn't know his weakness -- young girls did.

  • News

    August 24, 2000

    Accidental Sexologist

    When he was young, William Simon wanted to change the world. The late University of Houston sociology professor changed the way we view sex instead.

  • Dining

    February 11, 1999
  • Film

    September 3, 1998
  • Film

    October 16, 1997

    Porn Yesterday

    The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights revisits the sex-film world of the 1970s

  • Calendar

    July 24, 1997
  • News

    March 20, 1997

    Off Line

    Take an ex-con with a smooth line of patter, a group of mystery investors and some gullible journalists. What have you got? Houston's first on-line daily newspaper. At least for a few weeks.

  • News

    May 16, 1996

    Adams Family Values

    Why do we hate Bud so? Maybe we never understood him, or those... Adams Family Values

  • Film

    December 21, 1995

    Power Trip

    Oliver Stone takes a measured look at how Richard Nixon rose and why he fell

  • Film

    June 8, 1995

    Classic Keaton, Classic Comedy

    100 years on, the MFA gives a silent-screen genius his due

  • Dining

    February 16, 1995

    Evolution of a Watering Hole

    Backstreet Cafe outgrows its niche as a fair-weather favorite

  • News

    December 1, 1994

    The Trial of Joe Russo

    An intimate look at how -- and why -- Houston's high flyer of the '80s was taken apart in court

  • Film

    March 24, 1994

    The Raising Arizona Proxy

    The Coen brothers' best movies couldn't make it, so they sent this one instead

  • Film

    February 17, 1994
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