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Zack Kopplin, The 19-Year-Old Face of the Anti-Creationist Movement

Having fought his battles in Louisiana, the Rice University student is now ready for Texas and any move to put faux science in the public schools here.

The Longhorn Network's Sad, Defensive Twitter Account

Come on: You can see us in TWO bars in Dallas!!!​College football fans all across the nation are eagerly awaiting the biggest game of the decade: LSU-Alabama Texas-Kansas. Unfortunately for those (very few) fans, the game is being broadcast on the Longhorn Network, an operation with all the r ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast

Top 5 Worst Big 12 Football Games of 2011 (With Suggested Alternatives)

If only Kansas' basketball season started in September.​Compared to the best Big 12 gridiron match-ups of 2011, these stink bombs make us want to reschedule our college-football recordings to international cricket. Texas Tech is on here because year after year, they have proven that they are ... More >>

Abortion Sonogram Hearing: Novel Arguments from Plaintffs, So Judge Wants More Briefs

Novel arguments from abortion-rights supporters, judge says.​Opponents trying to block the state's new so-called sonogram bill may have a tougher road in Texas than they've had in other states. This morning's hearing in Austin, before U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, did not produce an immedia ... More >>

Joseph Harrell, Waco Minister, Pleads Guilty To Selling Millions of Fake Shares in "Petro America" Investment Scam

Photo by Mandy OaklanderA member of the Ministers Alliance on his way to a meeting at Denny's, in typical Alliance uniform.​Yesterday, a Waco minister named Joseph Harrell pleaded guilty in a Missouri federal court to playing a key role in a nationwide securities scam. Harrell admitted sellin ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Julienne Desjardins of Wild Geese Tavern

​You would never know it by looking at her, but Julienne Desjardins is tired. "I've been taking care of a sick child all day," she laughs. Despite this, she's still hustling about on a busy Tuesday evening, pouring beers, shaking shots, and getting everyone nice and tipsy at the Wild Geese Tav ... More >>

Wicked

The other side of the rainbow is wicked fun

Game Time: Your March Madness Preview, Complete With WARNING LABEL

"If Kansas is the best team in the country, college basketball is going to suck this season." -- @SeanCablinasian on Twitter That was a post I had on Twitter, dated and time stamped 10:29 PM on November 17. Kansas was the top-ranked team in the country at the time, and they were plodding their way ... More >>

Sugar Land Gets Ready To Abase Itself To Google

​Google, which is a company that is web-related (we think), is asking communities around the nation to abase themselves in a competition to get an experimental ultra-high-speed fiber system that can deliver the net at more than one gigabyte a second.That is about twice as fast as a system that del ... More >>

If You Can't Text and Drive in Galveston, What Can You Do?

​In the City That Was Supposed to be Houston, famed for its throwback seaside kitsch and relentless resilience in the face of crippling natural disasters, the technology tide has turned. More accurately, the City Council transformed itself into progress-hatin' Dementors last night, entering y ... More >>

Steve Hockensmith: The Crack in the Lens

This novel gives us the Sherlock Holmes of the Wild West

Our Favorite ZZ Top Covers: QOTSA, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Tina Turner and... Rapeman?

[Note: Now with added Ministry.] Counting down to Friday's ZZ Top/Aerosmith show in The Woodlands is starting to feel like the week Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played there last year: a steady build of anticipation and antsiness, until Friday we're flat-out squirming to get out of the office. ... More >>

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Roses are red…hey, wait a minute — you’re not a rose!

25 Random March Madness Facts

Photo by All your picture are belong to us It's once again time for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, or as most refer to it, March Madness. And instead of doing an analysis and picking the winner, like I do (badly) every year, I've decided to go another way. I'm sure you've all seen those Fac ... More >>

25 Random March Madness Facts

Photo by All your picture are belong to us It's once again time for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, or as most refer to it, March Madness. And instead of doing an analysis and picking the winner, like I do (badly) every year, I've decided to go another way. I'm sure you've all seen those Fac ... More >>

Houston Ranks Second in All-Important Commando Cilantro Index

Photo by babyparentingguideDamn, guys, what's up with Houston only being the 39th manliest city in the land? We're only one spot above Seattle, and we all know what kind of dudes hang out there. Not very manly dudes, that's who. In all seriousness, this is easily one of the lamest surveys ever. ... More >>

College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

Announcing Our "10 Things to Eat Before You Die" Contest Winners

College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition

Football U: Texas Roundup, and Then Some

College Football Preview, Tea Leoni Edition

Single File

Tonight: Boxmasters at Scout Bar, Part 1

John Royal’s NCAA Basketball Picks, Take Two

John Royal’s NCAA Picks

The College Football Review, Week 14: The BCS System Blows

The College Football Preview, Week 12: Now with 84 Percent Fewer References to Erin Andrews

The College Football Review, Week 11: What Happened to the Coogs?

The College Football Preview, Week 11: Sorry, Charlize, I'm Just Not Feeling It...

The College Football Review, Week Ten: Rice Is Officially Better than Notre Dame

The College Football Preview, Week Ten: Reality TV Bites

The College Football Review, Week Nine: Is Hawaii the Next Boise State?

The College Football Preview, Week Nine: What Do Pushing Daisies, The Office and Chuck Have to Do with Football? Good Question.

The College Football Preview, Week Seven: Babes. Lots and Lots of Babes.

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Monkey Business

Creationism and the Dumbing Down of Texas

Time for a Little House Cleaning

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Punk-o-Rama

Our intrepid reporters set out to experience the Vans Warped Tour -- so you don't have to

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Writes and Wrongs

In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

Scary Ordinary

Todd Hido's images of the everyday are ominous and forlorn

Stay Young and Stupid

Dear Lord, please stop the Stingification of Beck

Split Lip Rayfield

Saturday, December 1

Stirred and Shaken

Grasshopper's Mocha Tini

Ease on Down the Aisle

The Wiz's audience-friendly antics make the '70s-era musical accessible to everyone

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