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10 More Reasons Dolly Parton Is Badass

So, the 9th Annual Mountain Soul Vocal Competition is just around the corner, and you should care because it involves the ever-illustrious Country Barbie known as Ms. Dolly Parton. She's my favorite, and just saying her name makes me want to adopt a Southern accent and wear rhinestones. If you're a ... More >>

Latino Educational Group Charges Dan Patrick With Limiting Ethnic, Gender Studies at Texas Universities

When representatives from Librotraficante, a Houston-based organization best-known for its work smuggling Latino texts into Arizona last year, visited Austin on Thursday, they met with one of Sen. Dan Patrick's aides. According to Tony Diaz, Librotraficante's lead organizer, Patrick's aide informed ... More >>

Zapruder Video Analysis Of Drunk, Racist Aggie Fan Starting A Fight In An Airport

In the wake of Texas A&M's landscape-changing 29-24 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide this weekend, with his fame escalating from "local cult hero" to "full fledged Heisman candidate," Johnny Manziel and his family began the process on trademarking his catchy "Johnny Football" moniker. Their motiva ... More >>

10 More Black Stars Who Should Try Country

Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city's favorite musical genre: Mainstream country. BY MIKE SEELY With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close last week with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation's first bl ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Foreigner, Magdalene, One Kiss: The Music of Sigmund Romberg, Travelsty

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Beams Are Creaking, First Baptist of Ivy Gap, The Foreigner, Magdalene, The Unexpected Man

Last Night: Kanye West, Jay-Z and the Watch the Throne Tour at Toyota Center

Photos by Marco Torres​8:08: You know what's just never a slick move? Red wine in a plastic cup. Just an FYI, ladies. "Oh, you're drinking red wine? That's classy. Wait. Is that a plastic cup? Never mind. I forgot this was the Walmart break room." 8:58: Ooh, neat. There's a guy here wearing ... More >>

Four Gung-Ho Patriotic Tunes That Are Actually British

​Monday, July 4th, you'll celebrate Independence Day. We say you'll celebrate it because we will have already done our celebrating on the proper day... July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to tell King George III to kiss their grits. It's true that the Declaration of Independe ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Guns and Roses," "Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph," "Henry Horenstein: Show," "Minimalux," "Round 34: A Matter of Food," "The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs"

Idiots Try to Burn Mosque

Fire didn't have time to spread.​The Texas chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is asking the FBI to investigate an attempted arson at a southwest side mosque as a hate crime. Media reports say at least three men in masks broke a window at the Madrasah Islamiah mosque near ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Elaine Bradford: The Sidereal" "Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph" "Measured: Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition" "Perspectives 174: Re: Generation" "Regine Schumann: Chameleon" "The Whole World Was Watching: Civil R

Destroy All Anti-Heroes

Houston punk vets Anarchitex still full of piss and vinegar.

Sheyla Hershey: Brit Tabloid Reports Woman Famous for Huge Breast Implants Is in a Coma

Sheyla Hershey: Another sad twist​Sheyla Hershey, the local woman whose very odd and sad obsession with getting huge breast implants has been chronicled widely, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, a British tabloid is reporting. But The Sun's story is alarmingly vague and contains no detail ... More >>

How Willie Nelson & Charley Pride Integrated East Texas

politicsworldwide.com​Willie Nelson's Conroe buddy Larry Butler was not only a performer, he also ran a series of clubs in the area over the past 50 years, including Willie Nelson's Night Life on FM 1960 during Willie's IRS problem years. And while Butler has some fond memories of IRS agents ... More >>

The Wheel World

Readers share their bike messenger stories.

Houston's Black Tea Party: The Tidal Wave Begins

Crispus Attucks, the namesake​It took a while, but the spirit of Crispus Attucks -- the first casualty of the Boston Massacre, who happened to be black -- has finally worked its way into the Tea Party: Founded by über-conservative pundit and apparent uppercase "C"  fan, Anita MonCrief, ... More >>

Millet Harrison Jr.: Dude Who Removed His Mom's Brain Says He's Better Now

Millet Harrison believes in the first part of this message, at least​It's January, which means it's time once again for Millet Harrison Jr. to ask a Jefferson County court if he can leave the mental hospital he's been locked up in since he cut out his mother's brain and heart in 1994. E ... More >>

Rock Stars' Troublesome Family and Friends

​Wednesday, the NAACP released an extensive, in-depth study of the main six groups which provide the lion's share of support for the infamous Tea Party movement, and the results of their study are not encouraging. It chronicles a great deal of cross-pollination between Tea Party and white supr ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

Israeli TV Show Is Taping In Houston And Honoring Right-Wingers

Live! From Houston! It's Tuesday Night Live In Jerusalem!!​Houston is the first stop for Israeli TV hosts Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel as they take Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem across the United States. "We want to give an empowering, uplifting, inspiring message about Israel. And the ... More >>

A Scientific Comparison Of Indianapolis And New Orleans

​Even before Katrina, Houston was long a brother to New Orleans. Cars packed with revelers make that I-10 drive come Mardi Gras time, or whenever the urge hits.Katrina only cemented the bond. So with the Saints in the Super Bowl, as odd as those five words strung together may sound, we're firmly r ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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 all ... More >>

Houston 101: A Convention Center Built In 64 Days

​In 1928, Jesse Jones -- grand poobah of Houston, Lord of Suite 8-F -- was determined to bring national glory to his town by hosting the 1928 Democratic convention. Cleveland, San Francisco and Detroit also wanted the prize, but Jones took a $200,000 check to the bidding committee and got the nod. ... More >>

Mexican-American Culture

Pancho Villa's purloined pate

Bet on Black

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

Let It Blow

The Original Dirty Rapper is still coming up with new ways to scandalize

Wack Wheels

The Art Car Parade presents pimped rides

Green Achers

Undertow relishes the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

Collision Course

Cyclists are finding out what really lurks along those serene country roads

First and Foremost

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

English Muffin

The Foreigner is right at home at the Alley

Stung

Seven African-American girls tried out for the Texas City Stingarettes drill team this year. None of them made the squad.

Memories

The Chronicle locks away the Post archives

No Free Meals?

Plus: Movie Props, Blame the Magnets, Crossed Out

Townes Van Zandt

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

Doing All He Can

Bomb Osama, a KRIV reporter sings

Judicial Show and Tell

Senators Gramm and Hutchinson dig deep into applicants' political pasts

Feasted Upon

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

Letters

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

The Long Haul

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

The Judge Who Can't Talk Straight

Can a statewide race save Jim Wallace from himself?

The Good, the Bad, the Imprisoned

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

Allen's Landing

Woody's clever Celebrity charts the descending pain of fame

Letters

Pray

In a small town south of Houston, they say school prayer is a matter of religious freedom. But even in Santa Fe, freedom for one student can be tyranny for another.

War Within a War

The Ensemble explores the shades of racism in Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play

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