Subject: Rutgers University

• Football U: Garden State Variety

  November 10, 2006

• Football U: Garden State Variety

  November 10, 2006

• The College Football Preview, Week Six: The Red River Showdown, the Tears of Touchdown Jesus, the Glory of the Rice Owls

  October 5, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week Eight: More Babes. And More Babes.

  October 19, 2007

• The College Football Review, Week Eight: Rice Is Just as Good as Notre Dame

  October 22, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week Nine: What Do Pushing Daisies, The Office and Chuck Have to Do with Football? Good Question.

  October 26, 2007

• Press Picks

  February 3, 1994

• Rejoice, Football Fans: Notre Dame May Be Coming To Houston

  The eyes of millions of Houstonians were glued to ESPN last night, to see if there was a chance they would be uniquely blessed.Sure, hundreds of thousands were just Rutgers fans, but.....okay, maybe a dozen were Rutgers fans. And maybe only a dozen more were watching the game, especially after the Scarlet Knights (that's Rutgers, btw) went up 49-0 at the half.But Rutgers' win may mean a Very Big Thing: Notre Dame is coming to Houston to play a football game.We'll give all you UT fans a chance

  December 5, 2008

• Rejoice, Football Fans: Notre Dame May Be Coming To The Texas Bowl

  The eyes of millions of Houstonians were glued to ESPN last night, to see if there was a chance they would be uniquely blessed.Sure, hundreds of thousands were just Rutgers fans, but.....okay, maybe a dozen were Rutgers fans. And maybe only a dozen more were watching the game, especially after the Scarlet Knights (that's Rutgers, btw) went up 49-0 at the half.But Rutgers' win may mean a Very Big Thing: Notre Dame is coming to Houston to play a football game.We'll give all you UT fans a chance

  December 5, 2008

• Big-Time Spending At The Texas Bowl Gets Rutgers In Trouble

  Who says the Texas Bowl doesn't bring in big amounts of revenue to Houston?Maybe this year's game won't -- after all, it's between hometown team Rice (no hotel rooms needed) and relatively unknown Western Michigan (not many hotel rooms needed).But the 2006 game was a bonanza, if you believe state auditors in New Jersey.They notified Rutgers University today that a full-scale audit of the school's football program will be conducted.Among the things that triggered concern: How much money Rutgers s

  December 15, 2008

• College Bowl Season: Previews By A Real Expert

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 19, 2008

• Press Picks

  August 4, 1994

• A Feel for the Real

  February 6, 1997

• Educated Sounds

  March 27, 1997

• Mall Rat

  November 6, 1997

• News of the Weird

  December 16, 1999

• College Bowl Season: Previews By A Real Expert

  The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterably lame Dad's musical tastes are. So here are the first of three sets of bowl-game capsules by noted college football expert Patrick Connelly, who somehow doesn't think Charlie Weis needs to be fired

  December 19, 2008

• Junot Díaz

  The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner reads from his debut novel

  September 11, 2008

• Don't Call the Cops!

  William Pope.L's "eRacism" crawls into town

  February 13, 2003

• Not Your Father's N-Word

  Eight months after its "burial," the American language's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop

  April 3, 2008

• "Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones & Associates"

  Otabenga Jones & Associates teach us a few things at the Menil

  December 6, 2007

• Back to "School"

  June 29, 2006

• Live Free or Die Hard

  Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just...old

  June 28, 2007

• Helping Hands

  Rod Paige is still milking the Bush connection

  January 4, 2007

• Why do Mexicans call people with curly hair chinos?

  October 26, 2006

• Ships Ahoy

  Danielson sets course for indie paradise

  July 6, 2006

• Rush to Judgment

  In World War II, Houston attorney Leon Jaworski prosecuted a group of black American soldiers. In a hurried-up trial, they were court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor. The verdict was probably wrong. And Jaworski had a lot to do with that.

  June 22, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 28, 2005

• Globe Theater

  East meets West at the Houston Shakespeare Festival

  July 29, 2004

• Midtown

  Thursday, October 10

  October 10, 2002

• War on War Books

  Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

  November 22, 2001

• The Texas Bowl Grows Up, Bit By Bit

  Well, Houstonians, our bowl game has grown up. That's right, the Texas Bowl is going big time and this year will be joining ESPN's Capital One Bowl Week lineup. The game will be played on New Year's Eve this year, and kick-off will be at 2:30 pm.Did I mention the game is on ESPN this year?That means that most of the nation might actually be able to see the game, seeing as for the past three years the game has been shown on the NFL Network. Of course, I'm not sure what a television audience wil

  July 23, 2009

• Polo by Jason Villegas

  October 22, 2009

• Last Call: "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas," "Leandra DiBuelna" and"Unseen and Rediscovered"

  There are three art exhibits vying for your attention this weekend, and each of them is worth a visit. First is "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, which closes November 1. A University of Houston graduate, Villegas is living in Brooklyn while he attends grad school at Rutgers. ​For "Perspectives 167," which was curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Villegas's work is made up of cast off-clothing, which he cuts, glues, and stuffs into collages and scul

  October 30, 2009

• The Big 12: We Want Mediocre Bowl Games, Dammit

  ​Apparently the Big 12 is so bad when it comes to football that the league's commissioner is begging the NCAA to declare that any team that wins six games is automatically invited to a bowl game.As if most of the bowl games weren't bad enough to begin with, just think of how bad they will be when ESPN the Ocho is televising a bowl game featuring the Aggies and the Big 10 equivalent of the Aggies. The Texas Bowl is already on the verge of becoming unmatchable with it's new push to dump enterta

  November 3, 2009