South Texas College of Law

Houston-Bred Attorney Marc G. Rosenthal Wants His Federal Racketeering Trial Moved Here. Let the Circus Begin.

A Houston-bred attorney from a prominent local family wants to come home for the biggest day of his life: his upcoming 13-count federal racketeering trial. If the feds grant his change of venue request from Brownsville to Houston, Marc G. Rosenthal will bring one of the juiciest legal scandals in Te ... More >>

Noise Ordinance Bombs

Noise Ordinance Is Bombing In Court; Cases Dropped

Due to a lack of witnesses and insufficient evidence, the Harris County court system shuttered each and every sound ordinance case that was heard late last week. Local musicians, DJs and bar owners have been under the microscope since Houston City Council overhauled its decade-old sound ordinance ... More >>

Houston's Cryptic New Noise Ordinance

Confusing new law has bar and club owners screaming.

Cover Story: Houston's Noise Ordinance Has Bar and Club Owners Screaming

Things have been quite noisy since Houston's new noise ordinance became law. In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council passed on October 10. While a Houston Police Department officer is confident that the noise ordin ... More >>

Ruth Piller: Big-Firm Attorney Says Colleagues Photoshopped Her Face onto Totally Inappropriate Pics

Photoshopped images of a female attorney's face on the body of a stripper, a naked woman partially covered in sushi, and a woman in knee-high boots and leopard-print bikini are among a bevvy of e-mails at the heart of an Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint against the Houston law firm Hays, McCon ... More >>

Kony: Some Thoughts from a Local Expert (and General Crankiness from Us)

If you're a sentient creature, chances are you've seen, or heard tell of, Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign, and chances are you have an opinion about it. There's also a good chance that, regardless of which camp you're in, you're an insufferable, sanctimonious dillweed. (Sorry; we've just had ... More >>

26th Law and the Media Seminar Tackles the WikiLeaks Debate

​The 26th Law and the Media Seminar will feature a discussion of the legal, ethical and practical implications of WikiLeaks. The mega site that has released hundreds of documents to the media over the past couple years stirred up a firestorm of controversy over how this information should be h ... More >>

Ben's Beans: Another New Coffee Shop Opens Downtown

Ben Deaton not only kept the old Royal Blue sign outside Ben's Beans, he had it fixed up and fitted with new lights.​After years without a decent coffee shop, downtown is suddenly spoiled for options: Cafe Luz on the north end of downtown opened a few weeks ago. And now Ben's Beans, next door ... More >>

David J. Stern: Former Klein Forest Soccer Coach, Now Epicenter of Florida's Foreclosure Crisis

David J. Stern: Former Houston-area soccer coach getting no respect.​A man named David J. Stern has been getting a lot of attention lately -- The New York Times and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel have named him as a key figure in the massive collapse of Florida's mortgage and foreclosure crisi ... More >>

What's Closed: Your One-Stop List, Updated Throughout the Day

​The announcements of closings due to the anticipated winter storm are beginning to roll in, the most significant so far being HISD closing all its schools and offices tomorrow. We'll be keeping a list of what's closed and updating it throughout the day, so check back frequently for news. Our ... More >>

David Kaczynski: Unabomber's Brother Campaigns Against Death Penalty

Photo by Craig MalisowDavid Kaczynski hasn't heard from Ted lately​Once you become forever known as "The Unabomber's Brother," there are probably two ways you can go: you can do your best to hide (say, maybe move to a cozy, isolated cabin in Montana?) or you can use your position to further a caus ... More >>

Outed on the Internet: A Houston professor's plight becomes a web phenomenon

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What It's Like To Get Outed On The Blogosphere

Photo courtest STCLBlevins the BloggerThe famous blogger was on the computer in his mother's basement when he got the news. A rival had uncovered his true identity and would soon reveal it to the world.And so John Blevins gathered his kids and went to lunch.Blevins, a professor at South Texas Colleg ... More >>

No-Kill Animal Shelter Speaker Comes To Town Tomorrow

Photo by Daniel KramerTickets are still available for no-kill animal shelter advocate Nathan Winograd's seminar Saturday. The California-based Winograd will present his "Building a No Kill Community" workshop at the South Texas College of Law, 1303 San Jacinto Street. Tickets are available at www.No ... More >>

A Pleasure Cruiser and The Worst Song in the World

On the Trailer

BARC Down To Its Last Vet

Photo by Daniel KramerVeterinarian David Rundell resigned today from the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, spokeswoman Kathy Barton confirmed. Nicole Sica at the Houston Examiner was the first on the story.  Rundell was suspended with pay three weeks ago for allegedly treating a sick d ... More >>

UH-Downtown Gets Set To Vote On World's Least Necessary Name Change

Max Castillo, president of UH-Downtown, confirmed to the Houston Chronicle what he told us last month: he really, really wants to change the name of his school.And now he's taking it online!The school has put up on its webpage a whole collection of facts, lists, criteria and suggested names for stud ... More >>

Former Houston Prosecutor's Most Famous Case Gets Thrown Out By Bush

The right-wing got the gift it had been howling for -- today President Bush commuted the sentences of two Border Patrol agents who shot an illegal alien and then tried to cover up the incident.Conservatives have made the case a cause celebre for years, saying the agents had been railroaded.Not every ... More >>

Harris County Actually Agrees To Preserve Some History

This is Houston, where we tear down anything that isn't a) Less than 15 years old, and b) The Astrodome.So it's a pleasant surprise to see that the county commissioners court has actually -- despite these tough economic times -- agreed to go ahead with the renovation of the original Harris County Co ... More >>

Rough Justice

Randall Jamail rides again

Tunnel Mole Heads Above Ground

Big Love, Texas-Style

Polygamists live in a compound on our state's dry western plains

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Running Over the Defense?

Clara Harris argues that Justice Nuchia, the ex-chief of police, has never met a conviction he didn't like

Pulp Fiction

Will Carpenter's short story was too frightening for his office

Slipping into Darkness

A lobbyist's last tango: politics, sex, drugs, death

Tempting Teens

Does a police sting program make kids into too-easy targets?

Tattle Tales

The use of jailhouse snitches has been debated for ages, especially since they don't always tell the truth

Lethal Legacy

Yates isn't dying to prove the equity of Harris County executions

Grassroots Campaign

A Galveston D.A. candidate comes out for cannabis

Racket

In his first 24 years of life, Brad Turcotte has already become a music-business veteran

Subpoena Envy

A legislative panel summons local GOP leaders to a show-and-tell

Almighty Municipality

With League City controlled by the Christian right, citizens can rezone - and repent

Eviction Friction

An apartment complex is uprooting plants and the tenants who own them

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Spin Out

A Family Affair

Roland Garcia has the political backing to be the U.S. Attorney for South Texas. He also has a brother imprisoned for murder and drug trafficking -- a fact he somehow forgot to tell his congressional sponsors. That may not be enough to disqualify him, but

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Looney and Liedtke For the Defense (Almost)

How two Houston lawyers would have represented the most hated man in America

Press Picks

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

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