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Margaret Downing

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Music Editor Chris Gray Getting Even Better

    Photo by Margaret DowningChris Gray can laugh now.​Houston Press Music Editor Chris Gray, who has been hospitalized since Friday when he collapsed at a Metro light rail station on his way to work, suffering an apparent heart attack, has improved enough that doctors are talking about sending hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Music Editor Chris Gray Getting Even Better

    Photo by Margaret DowningChris Gray can laugh now​Houston Press Music Editor Chris Gray who has been hospitalized since Friday when he collapsed at a Metro light rail station on his way to work, suffering an apparent heart attack, has improved enough that doctors are talking about sending him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    HISD Lesson for Today: Tutoring Works, Now What Do We Do?

    Margaret DowningTerry Grier stays on TAKS. ​It was a masterful performance. At the start of his press conference Thursday in which he announced gains in math and science student test scores, Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier announced that "We're not going to talk about accountability rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    HISD Cuts Millions, May Not Be Enough

    Margaret DowningBig, skeptical crowd at HISD budget-cuts meeting​Last night was an elected official's nightmare. Not only did Houston ISD trustees vote to significantly reduce funding for the district's kids and schools, to clear the way to cut hundreds of teachers' jobs, and to potentially cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Terry Grier Girds His Loins And Wants You to Do the Same

    Photos by Margaret DowningFormer Governor Mark White with Terry Grier​Declaring "we can't afford to press the pause button on our children's education," Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier vowed to continue doing the things he believes have to be done, even if the Texas economy is in the cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    5 Desserts That Are Actually Better Than Sex

    ​Many claim the hyperbolic title - cakes, pies, layer desserts and the like - but few truly live up to the name. Here's a list we put together (from a solicitation of all the EOW bloggers) that could claim the description truthfully. 5. Paula Deen's "Is it really better than sex?" Cake While ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Chef Jeramie Robison Plays Around With Gumbo and More at Zimm's Little Deck

    Photos by Margaret DowningOutside deck area with petanque court behind it (French version of Italian bocce).​We stopped in at the just-opened Zimm's Little Deck the other night for a tasting session - zoomed right past the place at first and had to reverse course, it being just a left hand tur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Money Rains From the Skies For HISD

    Photo by Margaret DowningTerry Grier: Always nice to announce new money coming in​Houston ISD got a double dose of good news today when it learned it's getting $31.5 million in Teacher Incentive Fund grant money (spread out over five years) to help enable it to continue paying bonuses to teachers ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2010

    Beauty School Dropouts

    HISD might close cosmetology program.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Corpse Flower: Five Things To Do While Waiting For It To Bloom

    Come on already, you diva​The Houston Museum of Natural Science has been furiously twittering about the ever-impending rare blooming of its corpse flower, a huge plant that becomes extremely smelly -- like dead-flesh smelly -- on the few occasions it opens up.Trouble is, this rare blooming has bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Mark Ivy Gets Set To Rock Little Shop of Horrors At Miller Outdoor Theatre

    Photo by Margaret DowningA whole swarm of Humphreys School of Musical Theatre students have been incorporated into the show and here test out their balcony scene. ​It's not too many 6-year-olds who decide to go into musical theater because they want to play a down-on-his-luck floral assistant who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    HISD Maintenance Department Receives A Low Grade

    Photo by Margaret DowningIssa Dadoush is already fielding a lot of calls from principals about his plans to reallocate custodians​A just-released independent study of the Houston ISD's maintenance department came up with 23 key points that it says should change in the operation of the district's C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Looking for a Lover of Blogging and the Arts

    Dancing about architecture​The Houston Press is looking to fill its new position of Arts & Culture Editor. Applicants should be well versed in blogging, Twitter, and Facebook, have interest in and knowledge of the arts scene in Houston, and be able to write clearly, cleverly and with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Golfer Carol Mann: Tiger Woods Is Learning To Become a Human Being

    Photo by Margaret Downing​LPGA Hall of Famer Carol Mann, the featured speaker at today's 2010 Lunch With a Legend series, said it took her until she was in her late 20s to start becoming a human being -- a metamorphosis that she says fellow golfer Tiger Woods is just embarking upon now.Mann, who h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Young Sisters Get Boys Haircuts And A Role In TUTS' Miss Saigon

    Two Houston sisters, Audrey and Emma Kim, ages 4 and 6 respectively, sacrificed their long hair the other day in order to play the part of Tam, the son who is born to the main character Kim in Miss Saigon. The girls, both students at Theatre Under the Stars' Humphries School, were alternately in hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    HISD Superintendent Terry Grier Sings The Banana Song

    Photos by Margaret Downing​Not since the days of former superintendent Billy Reagan has the Houston media had a chance to sit down in a media roundtable with the superintendent of the Houston ISD, but Tuesday morning Superintendent Terry Grier rejuvenated the discarded tradition and invited ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Carnegie Vanguard May Finally (And Happily) Move To A New Home

    Photo by Margaret Downing​Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier says he loves working with "prickly parents" because they care about their children and want what's best for them.Perhaps that's why he and the HISD administrative team are finally on the brink of landing a new home for Carnagie Vang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Strip House Restaurant: Five Years of Fine Dining and Pictures of Naked Women

    Photos by Margaret DowningChef Steven "Skip" Vanderpool says he learned that it's best not to have too many flavors in the same dish. ​In honor of its Fifth Anniversary, the Strip House, 1200 McKinney, is offering a five-course meal for $55 that is a real deal for anyone not bothered by a whole lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 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 enginee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    An Ode to Sugar -- But Watch Out for That Nasty Oil and Fat!

    Photos by Margaret Downing​A new cookbook called The Worry-Free Bakery arrived in Eating...Our Words' inbox the other day. It both promoted the worth of sweet desserts, and promised recipes that were fat free. Author Kumiko Ibaraki, a former public health nurse who left nursing to g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    A New Chuy's in Westchase

    Photo by Margaret Downing​The about-to-be-just-opened new Chuy's Westchase at 9350 Westheimer was loud and busy Monday night as service staff tried to get their timing down before the public opening on Tuesday. Full marks had to go to the wait staff -- besides our lead waiter Wesley who hus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Nobody Beats The Wiz, When It Comes To Lining Up

    Photo by Margaret Downing​Hair Balls decided to take in the free showing of The Wiz at Miller Outdoor Theatre this weekend. The show has been in an extended run at the Ensemble Theatre (not for free) but, for two nights only, transferred over to the city's outdoor and free stage for the vox populi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Ra Sushi's Second Location at City Centre

    Photos by Margaret Downing Tuna Cado, thinly sliced Ahi tuna dusted with Japanese rice crackers and black sesame seeds​The just-opened Ra Sushi at Interstate 10 and Beltway 8 is a little tough to find. Even though the address is 800 W. Sam Houston (a better address might be 12860 Queensbur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 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 -- ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2009

    Kill Bill

    Readers respond to ill-defined proposed legislation.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Over the Weekend: Houston Artopia at Winter Street Studios

    Photo by Daniel Kramer As you should know if you've been following the Houston Press recently (and why wouldn't you?) we held a little get-together called Artopia at Winter Street Studios in the Heights to honor and showcase local artists and performers. Sandwiched in between the railroad tracks ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Ike, You Bastard

    Houston gets hit with big one

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Battle station: Kroger’s

    Houston gets hit with big one

  • Dining

    March 13, 2008

    Tiny Boxwood's Cafe, Voice at Hotel Icon and Cafe Zol

    Houston gets hit with big one

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2007

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

    Houston gets hit with big one

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Alley Theatre

    The stage company gets over a thin-skinned response

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Mail Call

    On the Fence

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    Killing Fences: Totally Misconstrued

    The department of homeland security is doing its best to get its message across

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2007

    We Wanted to Get High, So High, But We Didn’t

    The department of homeland security is doing its best to get its message across

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    Recognition Time

    Contests honor Houston Press writers

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Letters

    Contests honor Houston Press writers

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Letters

    Contests honor Houston Press writers

  • News

    October 14, 2004

    Letters

    Contests honor Houston Press writers

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Can You Keep a Secret?

    Not if you put it on a chat line, duh

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Letters

    Not if you put it on a chat line, duh

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    It's a SNAP

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

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    Klan Comedy

    Plus: Driving Him Mad, Cable Curse, Gay Players

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Vanguard Battles

    Plus: All in the Family, Slam Dunk, Car Killer

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Backing Off

    HISD cuts $2 million from CEP's lucrative deal and adds more controls.

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    Letters 09-14-2000

    Blowing Smoke, Pay to Play, Ill Will

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Letters 08-03-2000

    Blowing Smoke, Pay to Play, Ill Will

  • News

    May 20, 1999

    Letters

    Blowing Smoke, Pay to Play, Ill Will

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    Letters

    Blowing Smoke, Pay to Play, Ill Will

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