Recessions and Depressions

Art Rock: Recession Thursday at Numbers Tonight

Art Rock: Recession Thursday at Numbers

UH Prof Isn't Optimistic About Jobs

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

Making Book

Seabiscuit is a good enough breed to overtake other summer movies

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 ... More >>

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 yo ... More >>

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 burge ... More >>

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 mont ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 risin ... More >>

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 diffe ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

New Found Glory: Not Without a Fight

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 th ... More >>

Bud, Not Buddy

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Fish Out of (Frozen) Water in New in Town

Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Dryope and Iole

Theatre Suburbia hosts a world premiere play by Nancy Kiefer

B L A C K I E

Type-concerned MC proves to be quite the pacemaker

“The Big Show”

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

Local Motion

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

Absolutely Fabulous

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

Charlie Poole

You Ain't Talkin' to Me

Rice Freeze

Market losses force a temporary hiring ban at the university

Awake and Sing!

The depression hits home

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 ... More >>

he Lighter Side of the Recession

Radio Music Theatre is laughing all the way to the poorhouse

Pine Leaf Boys

Radio Music Theatre is laughing all the way to the poorhouse

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

Radio Music Theatre is laughing all the way to the poorhouse

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 r ... More >>

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

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 r ... More >>

Yes, Anastasia, You Too Can Cyber Land a Job in a Recession

​Pardon us, but we're about to impart some useful, seasoned knowledge on you. Don't get too accustomed to it, however. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming of a wee bit of technology talk with a whole lot of intertwined innuendo in no time.But for today, we educate. Our topic? E ... More >>

"Whatever was Splendid: New American Photographs"

Walker Evans and the Great Depression, Part II

Lauren McCabe, Young & Recessioned: Three Jobs At A Time

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Lauren McCabe, a 25-year-old living in New Orleans who went from being unemployed to teaching how not to do it. I went to school at Columbia in New York City. I didn't have any idea what I wanted to do. And even people who say they do, ... More >>

Janet Civitelli: How Not To Be Young & Recessioned

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Janet Civitelli, associate director of career services at the University of Houston, who helps college grads find jobs in a toughened job market. When the economy is booming, you can have mediocre job search skills and still land a job. But ... More >>

Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Janet Civitelli, associate director of career services at the University of Houston, who helps college grads find jobs in a toughened job market. When the economy is booming, you can have mediocre job search skills and still land a job. But ... More >>

Hayes Carll

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Janet Civitelli, associate director of career services at the University of Houston, who helps college grads find jobs in a toughened job market. When the economy is booming, you can have mediocre job search skills and still land a job. But ... More >>

Texas Budget Gap: The Estimate Comes In, and It's Huge

Maybe we could use less lighting on the capitol building​Let's harken back to the blissful days of autumn 2010, when Governor Rick Perry was able to deflect any talk of a looming budget gap by blithely noting no official estimate for it had been made. Democrats' talk that it might be as high ... More >>