Subject: Recessions and Depressions

• Art Rock: Recession Thursday at Numbers Tonight

  July 17, 2008

• Art Rock: Recession Thursday at Numbers

  August 14, 2008

• UH Prof Isn't Optimistic About Jobs

  August 21, 2008

• Art Rock: Blackie, The Mathletes, The Goods, Giant Princess and Generation Landslide at Numbers

  August 28, 2008

• Making Book

  Seabiscuit is a good enough breed to overtake other summer movies

  July 24, 2003

• Readers In Ireland Sadly Misinformed About Houston

  You know the old saying – “any publicity is good publicity.” But might not some publicity be utterly pointless? We ask, because we have come across some that seems to be just that. Now ordinarily, a little blurb about your event in a paper like Dublin’s The Irish Independent would be a PR coup. After all, the 103-year-old paper is Ireland’s most widely-circulated daily newspaper. But why on earth would they be sending a shout-out to local alternative paper Free Press Houston’s

  November 20, 2008

• A Black Friday Soundtrack

  It's become a tradition. You spend two days cooking, slaving over a hot stove, sweating into the family green bean casserole, making gallons upon gallons of iced tea for assorted loved and loathed ones. But instead of taking the next day off to go comatose and let the fullness subside, what do you do? You wake up the next morning at 3 a.m. to go to your local mall or big-box store to fight people for a cheap plasma television. It's come to be called Black Friday, by shoppers and merchants a

  November 28, 2008

• This Damn "Angry Whopper" Could Be a Damn Sight Angrier, Damn It

  You ever get the feeling that sometimes corporations go about product development backwards? That they begin with an abstract idea, and then reverse engineer the idea until they find a product they can sell to us? Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Angry Whopper from Burger King. The only burger in the world that was created from the essence of an emotion. They have attempted to create a food product that is meant to evoke white-knuckled shithouse rage in Americans. Someone at corporate mus

  January 20, 2009

• The Last Piece Of Good Economic News?

  The 88 major job markets across the U.S. lost a total of 1.2 million jobs in 2008, according to a study by Bizjournals.Only 15 of the 88 markets saw a job increase in the year. And the city with the largest increase of all -- Houston.We added 57,300 jobs in 2008. While that may have been a good month in the boom times, you take what you can get now.Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio came in second and third, further cementing the view that the current economic calamity has hit lightest in Texas.

  February 6, 2009

• Culinary Schadenfreude Comes to Houston

  A victim of misfortune scha·den·freu·de [shahd-n-froi-duh]-nounsatisfaction or pleasure derived from the misfortune of others I'm going to get to the point of this post right now: My life as a food lover is better because the economy is in a recession. There I said it. And before you label me as some kind of foodie recession profiteer, I can assure you I'm actually trying to do the right thing. Let me explain. Across the country restaurants are struggling. New York City is especially hard

  February 20, 2009

• Some Recession Survival Tips For Houstonians

  Photo by AfroswedeRemember that Houston energy-industry buffer that some economists were talking about? The one that would protect us, at least for a while, from the free-falling economic recession the US (and most of the world) now finds itself in? Well, it's gone. The unemployment rate is rising, the number of new jobs created is nearing a standstill, and overall the city is in the worst economic shape it's been since the summer of 2004. That was a bad summer; we spent most of our time tryi

  March 6, 2009

• ABC's World News Tonight To Examine Just How Great Houston Is

  ABC's World News Tonight, their anchor network-news show, will be originating from Houston next week, in part to examine why we seem to have escaped (so far) the crunchiest part of the economic crunch.Charlie Gibson is taking the show around the country to assess how the recession is affecting different areas. We're, apparently, on the "not so bad" side of the ledger."Houston...has been relatively well-insulated from the economic downturn gripping so much of the U.S.," the network said. "Gibson

  March 20, 2009

• Mims Hopes He's Still Hot

  In 2007, you'd have hard going trying to find a radio station/club/block party/baby christening that was not blaring Mims' beautifully simplistic "This Is Why I'm Hot." It was absurdly catchy, spawning countless bootleg remixes, parodies, and even a thesis by the Village Voice's own Rob Harvilla that received honorable mention in the Da Capo Best Music Writing book series. Two years later, Mims is back out on the grind, promoting new single "Move" (which is fairly dope itself) and today's rele

  April 7, 2009

• New Found Glory: Not Without a Fight

  April 2, 2009

• Houston's Working Class Gets Bumped into Homelessness and Poverty by the Crashing Economy

  An already strained system struggles to accommodate a new breed of homeless.

  March 19, 2009

• Bud, Not Buddy

  February 5, 2009

• Fish Out of (Frozen) Water in New in Town

  January 29, 2009

• Dryope and Iole

  January 8, 2009

• B L A C K I E

  Type-concerned MC proves to be quite the pacemaker

  August 28, 2008

• “The Big Show”

  Who will win top honors at the Lawndale Art Center’s annual art contest?

  July 10, 2008

• Local Motion

  November 1, 2007

• Absolutely Fabulous

  This sweet fairy tale will charm even the grumpiest of grown-ups

  January 12, 2006

• Charlie Poole

  You Ain't Talkin' to Me

  May 26, 2005

• Rice Freeze

  Market losses force a temporary hiring ban at the university

  December 12, 2002

• Awake and Sing!

  May 21, 2009

• Recession Or Not, Pasadena's Getting Some New Theater

  Byron Hagan and Marshall Hainley​Nobody told the Red Door Theater Company there was a recession going on. The plucky theater troupe launched their group earlier this year in, of all theater-starved places, Pasadena. With true Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney/"Let's Put on a Show" spunk, Artistic Director Josh Jordon, Company Manager Tiffany Blair and Managing Director April McEachern have taken an old transmission shop and transformed it into a community theater. (They did all the hammering a

  July 30, 2009

• he Lighter Side of the Recession

  September 10, 2009

• Pine Leaf Boys

  September 10, 2009

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Into the Woods, The House of Yes, The Lighter Side of the Recession

  September 10, 2009

• Slim Thug Laments the Recession's Impact on His Entourage, Video Hos on The Daily Show

  The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSlim Thug Feels the Recessionwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul Interview Houston's own Boss of All Bosses, Slim Thug, got six minutes of face time on The Daily Show Wednesday night, in correspondent Wyatt Cenac's report on how the recession is affecting the economics of making it rain and other perks of the baller lifestyle. Some of the things Thugga has had to adjust to, he says, are downsizing from a tour bus

  October 8, 2009

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Lighter Side of the Recession, Little Shop of Horrors, Our Town

  October 22, 2009