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The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Wild Game Cook-off, Art Cars & Food Trucks, a Craw-wish Boil and a Mother's Day Reminder

Yaga's Wild Game BBQ Cook-off Saturday, 8 a.m. Pier 21, Galveston Island Yaga's has been one of the most consistent fixtures on downtown Galveston's Strand for decades, and this year the restaurant is celebrating its 17th annual Yaga's Wild Game BBQ Cook-off by raising its millionth dollar for Galv ... More >>

The Truth About Tom Brady's New Contract (With Special Guest Star Matt Schaub!)

Of the three major professional sports leagues, football has the methodology of compensation that is the least broken and the fiscal system that is least susceptible to ruin at the hands of compulsively spending owners, and it's all because of the NFL's policy of utilizing non-guaranteed contracts. ... More >>

Anti-Social: Employers Want Candidates' Facebook and Twitter Logins

Privacy has increasingly become an important topic in the technology world. There are concerns that web sites like Google and Facebook are collecting data to sell to advertisers. There is the worry that the government is using the massive amounts of information passed around the Internet every day t ... More >>

Texas Roadhouse Discriminates Against Old People, Feds Say

There's not a lot that's authentically Texas about the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain -- it's based in Massachusetts, after all -- but there are 52 locations here in the state, including a handful in the Houston area. We think we've eaten there once, but have forgotten, which says about as much a ... More >>

Summer Jobs: Top Five Ways to Get Employed

Somebody's got to roll the burritos.​It's just about summertime, when the heat descends and the bugs surface, reminding you that you do actually live on a swamp. And if you're a teen, there's another thing a'coming to bite you in the butt -- the summer job search. This season will be no picni ... More >>

Whole Foods Now Hiring 300 Houston Workers

This guy either already works there, or will be applying. ​Anarcho-socialist free range green organic vegan gluten-free hippie liberal commie pinko grocery chain Whole Foods has announced that they're hiring 300 (or so) workers in the Houston area. And we have a totally legit Whole Foods job ... More >>

So You Want To Be The University of Texas Offensive Coordinator...APPLY HERE

What are the hours?​As a resident of the great state of Texas, it pains me to see our tax dollars being wasted. Case in point, somewhere in Austin there is a person who had to spend a couple hours of his or her day posting the offensive and defensive coordinator positions for the University ... More >>

Cecil Harris Young & Recessioned: At A Job Fair, Trying To Find A People Job

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Cecil Harris, who spent Monday afternoon at a Houston career fair trying to find some work. I've been looking for a job since December, and it's like, there are no jobs. I was working as a dispatcher with an incorporated company for Con ... More >>

Shannon Franklin, Young & Recessioned: Spell The Hiring Manager's Name Correctly, Please

​Today's installment of Young and Recessioned features Shannon Franklin, assistant director of the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, who says that even Rice students might have to do anything at any point to try to make some income. We help them with networking, resume building ... More >>

Janet Civitelli: How Not To Be Young & Recessioned

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Janet Civitelli, associate director of career services at the University of Houston, who helps college grads find jobs in a toughened job market. When the economy is booming, you can have mediocre job search skills and still land a job. But ... More >>

Viet Tran, Young & Recessioned: You Can't Be Afraid To Be Goofy

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Viet Tran, a 27-year-old University of Houston grad who has used reality TV, YouTube episodes and street corner stunts to find his dream job. I went into commercial real estate right after I graduated. I did that for about three years. I had ... More >>

Sidan Baca, Young & Recessioned: Tips On Job Interviews -- Wear Something Classier Than A T-Shirt, Please

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Sidan Baca, who worked as a job recruiter for nine years before leaving the industry to manage Pub Fiction. Working as a job recruiter is tough. It's a tough market. I [recruited] for just about every industry. There are a lot of people look ... More >>

Dmetrius Alexander, Young & Recessioned: You're Just A Set Of Keywords In A Search Engine

​Today's Installment of Young & Recessioned features Dmetrius Alexander, a 26-year-old from San Antonio that found the only thing worse than being unemployed in Houston for ten months is searching for jobs online. I went to St. Mary's University in San Antonio. I always wanted to get into busi ... More >>

Yes, Anastasia, You Too Can Cyber Land a Job in a Recession

​Pardon us, but we're about to impart some useful, seasoned knowledge on you. Don't get too accustomed to it, however. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming of a wee bit of technology talk with a whole lot of intertwined innuendo in no time.But for today, we educate. Our topic? E ... More >>

Hard Times on Milam For A Man Who Wants No Publicity For His Publicity Stunt

Just minutes ago we got a text from a friend on lunch break, informing us of neatly dressed man briskly walking down Milam armed with a posterboard that read "I Need a Job." He gave us no other clues to go on but when one hears about someone meandering around downtown carrying a sign, we will always ... More >>

The Houston/San Antonio Chronicle-Express Takes Another Step Forward

Hey, copy editors and page designers at the San Antonio Express!!Like your jobs? Then you better hope you like Houston.A memo to staff from Express editor Robert Rivard offers more details on the coming consolidation of operations between the Express and the Houston Chronicle, both Hearst newspapers ... More >>

Press Secretary Search Goes On at HISD; District Creates New Position on Top of One Held by Terry Abbott

The Annotated Alberto Gonzales

A look at Gonzo's job hunt

A Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

Corset Rock

Meeting of the Minds

Hilarity ensues after a UH scheduling mix-up

"Raiz" and Race

Jose Manuel Pellicer examines an overlooked minority

Libertarian Laffs

Fool's Gold

Desperate clients hand over thousands of dollars for a chance at a job

Free-Falling

H-town skydiving options

Taking the Plunge

Saad Mahmoud is a Rice engineering grad. Instead of fielding $60,000-a-year job offers, he's been trading manual-labor skills for rent-free living -- while waiting out one of the worst job markets in two decades.

Uploading

If her capers as comptroller don't catch her, Carole Rylander is ready to ride the Internet to greater political fame