Subject: Margaret Downing

• Radio Houstoned: Laurie Perry and Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair

  October 12, 2007

• The Triumphant Return of the High School Photo Contest

  September 3, 2008

• MasterMinds -- Deadline Approacheth

  October 28, 2008

• This week signals a change in leadership at the Houston Press.

  February 19, 1998

• The French Connection

  April 2, 1998

• Letters

  April 30, 1998

• Food Fight at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

  Photo by Margaret Downing Click here for plenty more photos of fried goodness. The food was carefully laid out on each judge's plate. First up, a beef burrito taco. We had palate cleansers (pickles, crackers and green grapes) and water at the ready. Cameras were clicking and video was running. A microphone was on each of the three round judging tables. It was picture perfect. The wind picked up, blowing napkins and judging slips all over the place.It also airlifted the plate of the judge

  March 5, 2009

• Food Fight at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

  Photo by Margaret Downing Click here for plenty more photos of fried goodness. The food was carefully laid out on each judge's plate. First up, a beef burrito taco. We had palate cleansers (pickles, crackers and green grapes) and water at the ready. Cameras were clicking and video was running. A microphone was on each of the three round judging tables. It was picture perfect. The wind picked up, blowing napkins and judging slips all over the place.It also airlifted the plate of the judge

  March 5, 2009

• Letters

  April 29, 1999

• High School Debate

  February 19, 2009

• Getting Our Props

  Houston Press writers do well in national and state contests

  May 19, 2005

• Klan Comedy

  Plus: Driving Him Mad, Cable Curse, Gay Players

  November 28, 2002

• Poor Treatment of Returning Veterans

  August 14, 2008

• Mental Anguish for West Oaks Hospital

  West Oaks Story

  May 29, 2008

• No Child Left Behind?

  April 24, 2008

• Bar X Views

  Plus: Junk Food, Junk Suits; Pigeon Hold, Meds for the Poor

  February 6, 2003

• Peli Peli: Take a Right at Louetta Off Highway 249 to Get to South Africa

  Photo courtesy of Peli PeliJumbo prawns (that's shrimp to you and me) at Peli PeliThe bongo drums, violin and guitar trio is going at it joyfully, continuously and well, a little too loudly (something that never faded) as we walked into Peli Peli, a restaurant whose interior is a dark and bright odd mish mash of high tech and African touches throughout. A symbolic acacia tree stands in the middle of the room - Chef Paul Friedman tells us he wanted to put it there because at home, acacia trees gr

  April 16, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  May 25, 2006

• Journalism Award

  Press writers are finalists in Missouri Lifestyle contest

  July 7, 2005

• And the Winners Are

  Houston Press does well in a two-state contest

  April 21, 2005

• Recognition Time

  Contests honor Houston Press writers

  March 31, 2005

• Letters

  October 28, 2004

• Letters

  September 30, 2004

• Letters

  April 29, 2004

• Letters

  April 22, 2004

• Letters

  April 1, 2004

• Letters

  November 20, 2003

• Letters

  November 6, 2003

• Letters

  May 1, 2003

• Letters

  April 24, 2003

• Letters

  April 17, 2003

• Letters

  April 10, 2003

• Letters

  April 3, 2003

• Letters

  March 6, 2003

• It's a SNAP

  Plus: Over Troubled Waters, Season of Discontent, Rump Roast

  December 26, 2002

• Cut the Apple

  Plus: Buck Rogers, Harvesting Knowledge, Star Pizza Resolve

  November 14, 2002

• The Fate of Yates

  Plus: Leaf Them Alone, Thais to Houston, Culture Stock

  April 11, 2002

• Fostering Praise, Down on Westbury, TEA Trickery?

  Letters from Novemeber 1

  November 1, 2001

• Letters

  Music Mayhem, Poisoned Pooch, In the John

  August 9, 2001

• Letters

  Last Chance, Revival of the Fittest

  January 4, 2001

• Letters

  Mind Games, Bad Form, Executioner's Wrong

  December 7, 2000

• Letters

  Mental Health Madness, Residental Revelations, English or Else?

  November 23, 2000

• Letters

  Investigate CEP, Santa Fe's Shame, Politics Makes Strange...

  October 12, 2000

• Letters

  May 6, 1999

• Sunday's Walk for the Breast Cancer Network of Strength

  Photo by Margaret DowningBetty Trobaugh was there in a wheelchair. She enlisted the help of her three daughters to push her through the three-mile course. The first half of the non-competitive walk which started at Sam Houston Park and went down Allen Parkway wasn't bad -- all downhill. Coming back after the turn at Waugh, it was another matter. Temperatures by now were in the low-90s and it was an uphill climb. About halfway through the second half of the walk, Trobaugh said one of her daughter

  May 11, 2009

• Cure For Swine Flu Is Here!!!

  Photo by Margaret DowningWell, maybe the cure for swine flu is here.Note to self: The BBQ fund-raisers at Stafford's Calvary Church are probably not worth the drive. On the other hand, someone definitely should tell the Centers for Disease Control about this.

  May 12, 2009

• Customized Cupcakes

  Photos by Margaret DowningSummery cupcakes at CRAVEApparently one new way to show your business has really arrived is to have its logo, or a symbol of the type of work it does (think oil derrick), made into a roller image that can then be ironed into every fondant placed atop the cupcakes at your reception or gathering. CRAVE Cupcakes unveiled its new "event" collection this week. The cupcakes it showed off weren't just status symbols. There were fun ones for kids' birthdays -- butterflies and

  May 22, 2009

• Kill Bill

  May 28, 2009

• Everyday He's Hustlin': Only 18, But He's Got A Bigger Multi-Media Empire than You

  Photo by Margaret Downing Well, there he was at a table in an H-E-B in Fort Bend County and he was peddling books, which is either the most naive or desperate or optimistic of things someone can do in a grocery store on a weekend. Actually, it was his book. Eighteen years old and an author -- not of a children's book -- but of a book that promises to give its readers the "steps to become a successful young entrepreneur." Keith J. Davis, Jr., AKA Jer'Rod,  graduated from Cy-Sprin

  June 24, 2009

• Moving Day For Mary Poppins Isn't Exactly Supercalifragetc.

  Photo by Margaret Downing​The Mary Poppins house was brought in by truck and moved into the Hobby Center in two big pieces starting Wednesday morning. First the top was suspended from the ceiling and then the bottom slid in under that. It was a majestic sight, a feat of well-practiced engineering. Well, Hair Balls is taking that last part on faith, actually, since by the time the media was called in to look at the amazing moving house, it had already been moved in ahead of schedule. Less

  October 21, 2009