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2nd Annual Haute Wheels of Houston — The Food Truck Festival

HCC Barely Manages To Inform Students Its Northeast Campus Has a Three-Day Shutdown

So many questions, so few answers​Shutting down an entire college campus for three days is something you'd think the students would like to know about, right? But Houston Community College, which so often has managed to bungle the most simplest things, like awarding contracts without being sh ... More >>

MetroRail Suspending Service This Weekend: BestFest Plan Bs

Monica FuentesThe Superblock: No (train) cars go.​As a frequent and mostly satisfied mass-transit commuter ourselves, Rocks Off has been recommending those of you headed to our Best of Houston® BestFest this weekend take the MetroRail to the McGowen stop. It would have been nice, but we just ... More >>

HCC Board Finally Takes Some Action On Its Members' Ethics

Wrists are being slapped​Seven freaking years ago our Josh Harkinson wrote about the board members of the Houston Community College System and their very relaxed attitude toward ethics and conflicts of interest and so on. HCCS pretty much closed up the ranks and did nothing much. Now it look ... More >>

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Better Block Houston: Hip Street Life Comes This Saturday

For 12 hours this Saturday, a lonely block near the Houston Community College main campus will be transformed into a bit of Portland, with bike lanes, street life and everything else that seems so elusive in Houston. From 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., the intersection of Holman and LaBranch in Midtown wil ... More >>

What's Closed: Your One-Stop List, Updated Throughout the Day

​The announcements of closings due to the anticipated winter storm are beginning to roll in, the most significant so far being HISD closing all its schools and offices tomorrow. We'll be keeping a list of what's closed and updating it throughout the day, so check back frequently for news. Our ... More >>

Stocking Up for the Snowpocalypse

Long lines at Whole Foods on Kirby this afternoon.​"People are panic buying!" read a half-joking email from a friend of mine at Whole Foods this afternoon. "The lines were long earlier," it continued. "It comes in waves." With the threat of a snow day tomorrow that's already cancelled classes ... More >>

RIP, Fear Factory: Decrepit Building Bites The Dust

Unlike he building, we hope these guys are still with us​Just two years after winning Best Abandoned Building by us, the old apartments known to everyone as the Fear Factory have been town down.Located a block north of Milam and Elgin, the building has always looked spooky, and a weathered sign ad ... More >>

iPhones: World's Least Imaginative Crook Is Stealing Them At HCC Stafford

Take the iPhone and run​Sometimes you don't have to spend weeks or months in your criminal lair thinking up highly intricate plots to attain riches and power.Sometimes the keep it simple, stupid path actually works.Houston Community College has sent an e-mail warning out to students at the Staffor ... More >>

RealFilms Screening: Living with the Trinity

How the Trinity River made political history

Lance Reyna: An Arrest, But No Hate-Crime Charges

An easier prosecution without a hate crime angle, prosecutors say​Authorities have made an arrest in the assault of a gay-rights leader who was attacked on the central campus of Houston Community College, but no hate-crime charges will be filed.HCC student Terrance Calhoun, 22, was charged in the ... More >>

One Hot Texican Summer (or the Summer I Found Out I was Mexican)

So if your mom is Mexican, and your dad is Mexican, that makes you...

Houston Community College's Police Department Is Under Fire

cutline​All is not well at the Houston Community College police department.Over the past six months, several officers have either been fired by Police Chief Gregory Cunningham or filed complaints with federal employment officials alleging unfair treatment, discrimination and retaliation. And other ... More >>

Surprise! Another Community College System Is Unhappy With Former HCCS Head Bruce Leslie

Photo by Daniel Kramer​Former Houston Community College System chancellor Bruce Leslie left his job in 2006 before his term was up, after some stormy times with the system's board.As the Houston Press reported two years prior to that, dissatisfaction with Leslie was rampant. Critics said he suppre ... More >>

Last Call for Art: Graffiti & Teen Angst

​Saturday is the last day to see "Pieced Together, All Texas Graffiti Show" over at Aerosol Warfare Gallery & Boutique. The first traveling graffiti art exhibit to make its way around the state, "Pieced Together" features works by Austin's Sloke (who curated), San Antonio's Enks, and Houston's ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Circuses And Murderous Old Ladies

 Who knew Houston was such a big circus town? Along with a couple of plays closing this weekend, a trio of circuses are folding their tents (so to speak). If you can only see one show this weekend, make it Rêver by Sol y Luna Dance Company. Speaking with us, Soly y Luna's Artistic Direc ... More >>

Arsenic and Old Lace

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Honk! A Musical Fable for Grown-ups

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Capsule Stage Reviews: The Seven Year Itch, "The Share of the Future", Rigoletto, Working

The Early-Voting Rush Isn't Everywhere

Some Unlikely People Get Priority

The Power of Men

The boys in Tomás Urtusástegui’s domestic comedy hold back on the nookie

No Logo — Brands, Globalization, Resistance

Naomi Klein’s documentary about branding covers clothes, shoes and people

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Theater for your mind

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

HCC presents Ntozake Shange’s landmark play

Par for the Course

Forget the money crunch, let's play golf

Yeah, on the Catwalk

Class Conscious

Live and learn with some of Houston's most entertaining courses

Awards Time

The Houston Press and two of its writers are named finalists in a regional journalism contest

Beauty and the Bestiality

A Greek has a bully time in Mildred's Umbrella's Hotel Pasiphae

Hugo: The Humble Magician

Hugo Ortega

Best Light Rail Station

Best Republican

Letters

Love and Marriage

Stages sings songs of heterosexual hookups

Letters

Like It's 1999

A not-exactly-original idea (at 7 a.m., 4, 5 and 10 p.m.)

Taxing Tales

Two trustees didn't pay their bills, even if HCCS wants yours to go higher

Color Commentary

Perry House Gets Real

Sherri O'Malley, "Poet of Blight"

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Public access TV promises to become a little less public

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