Subject: Ku Klux Klan

• Rebel Yell

  May 9, 2007

• Kwoutable Kwoutes

  May 10, 2007

• Shot Fired at KPFT During Zydeco Program

  August 13, 2007

• Master P Makes the KKK Say “Ugh!”

  December 11, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Listing 2007

  December 17, 2007

• Shaka's Last Supper

  He wouldn't eat it, so they did!

  June 29, 2000

• Townes Van Zandt

  Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings and The Best of Townes Van Zandt (Tomato)

  May 30, 2002

• First and Foremost

  After 21 years of arguing, Conroe still can't come up with an MLK tribute

  August 21, 2003

• Have A KKK Christmas!

  Since Hair Balls is here to serve, we have a Hints from Heloise-style Christmas decorating recommendation, courtesy of one loyal Hair Balls reader: the "Original Christmas Cross" yard decoration from the American Family Association. "Light up your front yard, porch, patio, driveway, business, organization or church this holiday season with a stunning Christmas cross," reads the AFA website. Yeah, it's stunning, all right, in the way that only a burning cross can stun. Or, as our Hair Balls

  November 19, 2008

• Press Picks

  February 17, 1994

• War Within a War

  June 9, 1994

• The Watchman of the Electronic Frontier

  July 21, 1994

• Cosmic Trash

  August 18, 1994

• Pray

  September 14, 1995

• Shutterbug

  February 29, 1996

• Black, White and a Few Shades of Gray

  July 25, 1996

• Letters

  November 14, 1996

• Texas Is Doing Great -- In The Hate-Group Rankings

  Photo by foxtongueThe count is in, and the number of hate groups in the U.S. exploded to 926 in 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's totally non-fearmongerishly titled "Year in Hate" issue of the Intelligence Report. And Texas can proudly boast the second-highest hate group count, at 66, right behind California's 84.From whence comes all this hate? According to the SPLC's website, "The number of hate groups operating in the United States continued to rise in 2008 and has grown by

  February 27, 2009

• No Free Meals?

  Plus: Movie Props, Blame the Magnets, Crossed Out

  December 5, 2002

• Harold and Kumar Go to Prison

  April 24, 2008

• “John Alexander: A Retrospective”

  The Lone Star artist, on display at the Museum of Fine arts, Houston, made multiple points

  April 17, 2008

• Dark and Lovely

  January 26, 2006

• Road Outrageous

  The Coens take Homer on a Southern-fried odyssey in O Brother

  January 11, 2001

• Art Car Parade, Bad Street Repairs, Rep. Ted Poe

  A popular Art Car gets booted

  May 24, 2007

• Mexican-American Culture

  Pancho Villa's purloined pate

  April 5, 2007

• Screwed-Up Klick

  January 11, 2007

• BAKER STREET PUB & GRILL'S

  MONICA LEWINSKY

  December 7, 2006

• Bet on Black

  Glory Road relives the season when college hoops smashed the color barrier

  January 12, 2006

• He's Bill, Beeyotch!

  A Chappelle's Show token offers some light comedy

  June 16, 2005

• Wack Wheels

  The Art Car Parade presents pimped rides

  May 12, 2005

• Great Clips

  Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary

  February 24, 2005

• Letters

  December 9, 2004

• Green Achers

  Undertow relishes the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

  October 28, 2004

• Country Teasers, with NTX+ Electric Deth

  Friday, January 23

  January 22, 2004

• Crash Course

  A stuntman is mightily impressed by Houston's rail crashes

  January 1, 2004

• English Muffin

  The Foreigner is right at home at the Alley

  July 31, 2003

• Memories

  The Chronicle locks away the Post archives

  December 12, 2002

• Fueling the Ire

  Despite downpours and dwindling diesel, the Klan tries to mount a soggy comeback

  November 14, 2002

• Doing All He Can

  Bomb Osama, a KRIV reporter sings

  November 1, 2001

• Playbill

  Steel Pulse

  July 5, 2001

• Judicial Show and Tell

  Senators Gramm and Hutchinson dig deep into applicants' political pasts

  June 28, 2001

• Feasted Upon

  A health food store and restaurant falls victim to the movement it helped create

  March 22, 2001

• Letters

  Heaven's Gates, Teaching Tolerance, Todd's Odd

  October 19, 2000

• The Long Haul

  Immigrant shrimpers survived Vietnam and the wrath of Texas rednecks. Can they do the same with new fishing restrictions?

  June 8, 2000

• The Good, the Bad, the Imprisoned

  Houston's best politicos were not always the ones elected -- or the ones who stayed in office

  December 30, 1999

• Static

  January 4, 1996

• David Duke Is Mad At Us; We Try To Muddle Through Life Anyway

  ​It's a red-letter day in our journalistic career. For the first time in our career, we are being called out in print by a former presidential candidate.Under the headline "The Eternal Life of a Lie," the would-be president and former state representative begins thusly: Sometimes when I read allegations and bald-faced lies about me bantered about in the press and on the Internet, I have to laugh out loud and wonder if other people can readily see the obvious untruth in them. Are some people

  August 13, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 16: Bushwick Bill's Little Big Man

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums that have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com. Bushwick Bill Little Big Man (Priority, 1992)​"Get to the house, all I'm thinking 'bout is shootin' her/ 'Cause shootin' her would be sweet/ But you know what'd be sweeter/ if I made her shoot me." Scarface will always be the best rapper from the Geto Boys, but the

  October 8, 2009

• Why Notre Dame Will Win The BCS Title And Texas Won't: Part Nine

  ​We have documented weekly just how Notre Dame is moving inexorably towards a BCS championship while UT is deluding itself that it is doing so.Today, though, we discuss why ND's road may be harder.We have discovered, shockingly, that the pernicious influence of the KKK and other such anti-Catholic institutions have, sadly, not been relegated to the dustbin of history, as the kind of people who say "the dustbin of history" say. Frankly, we thought this sort of discrimination had been dealt with

  November 3, 2009

• You Are Your Avatar, UT Study Declares

  ​Attention gamers: If you find yourself overflowing with hatred and killing your virtual teammates when you're supposed to be helping them, you might want to reconsider that Grand Dragon of the Knights of White Purity avatar -- a new study out of UT suggests that your online persona can affect how you play with others in a virtual world.Proving once again how totally necessary and non-ridiculous academia is, Assistant Communications Professor Jorge Pena randomly assigned study partic

  November 13, 2009