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North Forest ISD's Hopes To Avoid HISD Merger Vanishing Quickly

The likelihood of North Forest Independent School District being annexed into Houston Independent School District seems imminently probable, even though North Forest promises at least one more appeal of the decision. North Forest, which has been in disarray for almost two decades now, threw a Hail ... More >>

Maribel Vasquez: Low-Rent Beer Entrepreneur With Big Dreams Gets Busted, Not Applauded

Fill a need -- that's what they tell you in business school. (We assume, anyway, since we escaped from a business major about two courses into it.) Fill a need and you can charge a premium to folks who can't get what you're selling anywhere else. It's a sophisticated plan, although the word "sophis ... More >>

John Shango: 14 Quotes From A Certifiably Insane Dallas Cowboys Fanboy Video

Since the advent of the internet, more specifically YouTube and social media, as a means for virtually anyone with a laptop and a nearby wi-fi connection to convey his or her thoughts, it seems as though the best way to get noticed is to perform the following sequence: 1. Scream your thoughts as l ... More >>

Bad Teacher

Sexts Got Teacher Fired.

Jeffrey Guzman: The Very NSFW Sexts Cops Say He Sent A Student

An Alief teacher economics teacher (Really? Economics?) faces a felony charge of improper relationship with a student after authorities learned about lewd texts and illegal physical contact between him and a 17-year-old female student. Jeffrey Nichcolas Guzman, 32, got into the improper relationshi ... More >>

If the Addicks and Barker Dams Fail

They've already been labeled "high risk." Experts say the resulting damage could be bigger than Katrina in New Orleans.

Dr. Pete: Feel the Power of the Dork Side

The Ten Quickest Ways to Get Un-Followed or De-Friended on Twitter and Facebook

Anyone who spends an extended period of time on social networks like Facebook and Twitter understands that there are certain offenses that are nearly unforgivable. Just as in real life, there are lines that don't need to be crossed. You might be slightly more tolerant of them online simply because t ... More >>

High-rise Robbery

Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.

Houston's TranStar Gets Some Major Tech-Geek Love

From a TranStar PowerPoint on the system​The Web site Jalopnik, home to all things automotive, takes a lengthy and glowing look today at TranStar's use of Bluetooth devices to track traffic jams. "[N]o one has tried snatching real-time data directly from Bluetooth devices along a network of s ... More >>

Harris County Sheriff's Diversity Training: Our PowerPoint Presentation

Diversity: It's The Right Thing To Do!​Remember back in 2008, when the Harris County Sheriff's Department circulated those internal e-mails making fun of everyone (but white men?) And later that year, when deputies handcuffed a Sikh woman and her entire family -- and called them Muslims -- bec ... More >>

Five Jobs for Fastow

Enron honcho needs work.

Andy Fastow Needs Work: Some Potential Jobs

Andy Fastow: Time to get a job​As you might have heard, Andy Fastow has returned to Houston after his stint in a federal prison. He's currently in a halfway house and, let's face it, he needs a job. Luckily the rules allow him to leave the facility for work or community service. But Fastow c ... More >>

Betting Their Lives

It's easy for a three-time felon to get $20 million for his investment company, as long as no one asks any questions.

An Oyster by Any Other Name

Pepper Grove oyster on the half shell at Branch Water Tavern.​At this past weekend's inaugural Foodways Texas symposium, one of the most eagerly anticipated seminars wasn't held in a conference room, and it didn't come with a PowerPoint presentation. Attendees instead slurped down all manner o ... More >>

A Day at the Concealed Handgun Class: Sunday Morning Coming Down

Photos by Craig HlavatyA Sunday morning on the firing line​"Don't point your gun at anything you are not willing to destroy or kill," reads the sign in the middle of the room. It's 8 a.m on Sunday morning and I am reading this, while drinking a cup of coffee, still bleary from being dragged ou ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

Is ibogaine really an addict cure-all?

Bullet Train Dream Still Remains Popular, If Not Likely To Happen

Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail Presentation When we wrote earlier this week about a Japanese executive giving a presentation about a bullet train between Houston and Dallas, we really didn't think much of it. They've been talki ... More >>

The 5 Worst Houston Restaurant Websites

​Yesterday, we rolled out our list of the five best Houston restaurant websites. Today is something different. In scouring dozens of websites over the past week, we came to realize something. Restaurant websites in Houston are mostly terrible. This may be true of other industries as well, bu ... More >>

Corporate Takeover

The Yes Men take on companies using their own tools.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bert Long's RED Book", "Group Show: Shoman, Benhelima, Forero, Zet, Wilson & Wolfson",

"Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With the Yes Men", "Round 32: eco, xiang, echo: meditations on the african, andean & asian

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bert Long's RED Book", "Group Show: Shoman, Benhelima, Forero, Zet, Wilson & Wolfson", "Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With the Yes Men"

"Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men"

Notorious protesters get the retrospective treatment

HISD Trustees Give Grier a History Lesson

Photo by Margaret Downing​Sounding a bit like a past-the-honeymoon-stage couple whose partners are starting to feel misunderstood and underappreciated, Superintendent Terry Grier and the Houston ISD trustees got through Thursday's board workshop with a patina of camaraderie, occasionally interrupt ... More >>

O'Brien's Song

After years of fighting everybody and anybody, now the ornery, annoying civil rights activist has to concentrate on fighting for his life.

Merry Pranksters

The Yes Men's cheerful quest for social justice.

Houston's Choice for Mayor

Black Guy, Rich White Guy, Lesbian or Hispanic Republican

The Mid-Week Match-Up: Serena Williams Vs. Marsellus Wallace

In life, everything can be distilled down to chart form. It's a truism born of the PowerPoint age.Each week we will examine some pressing event or trend via the easy-to-follow form of putting a chart together that explains things. Today's subject: Serena Williams.Houston's Serena Williams made natio ... More >>

Byrne's Eye View

The ex-Talking Heads front man takes stock of his homeland on his second Brian Eno collaboration.

That Pavilion No One Uses At Galveston's Seawolf Park To Be Replaced

Pretty much no one ever goes to visit the modernistic white pavilion at Galveston's Seawolf Park.Now they never will.The building, which is mostly a kind of visual landmark seen by people cruising on the ferry, was heavily damaged by Ike. Since it was a bit of a white elephant, the city's Parks Boar ... More >>

THE FLAT'S RUSSIAN MAIL-ORDER BRIDE

Mat Johnson

A University of Houston faculty member reads and discusses his graphic novels

Austin City Limits: The Unforeseen

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas

Houston Press Music Awards Winners

Devin the Dude, Katie Stuckey and The Dimes clean up

18th Houston Press Music Awards Marked by Politeness, Bleeding

Deep-Sixed

Hollywood pounces on 6-6-06 with a needless Omen revival

Suburban Import

Kiran Verma's culinary chutzpah finds a home inside the Loop

Digging It

Tunnels are a rare bird in Houston. But will they fly for I-45?

She's Got Game

Video game vixen Morgan Webb stops by for a little X-Play

The Power of Yes

A pair of political pranksters invent the art of "identity correction"

No Kids in the Hall

Don't let the cuteness fool you: Aisha Tyler's act is for adults

Ronald Reagan's Army

In your heart, you know the Yuppie Prick$ are right

Tee Time

Lee High School dropped football, deciding golf was a better sport for its kids, no matter how poor or new to this country they might be

Certifiably Crazy?

Unbending state and HISD policies are pushing away a much-praised teacher

Overdose

Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

Tribal Warfare

Carroll Cocchia says she's one-third Indian, and is trying to bring local Native Americans together. Detractors say she's white, and is helping to tear them apart.

The Santa Express

He was the perfect St. Nicholas. If he could just move faster.