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Welcome To The Latest, Greatest Must Win Game For The Cougars

​The Cougars are one game short of regular-season perfection. One game short of the team's best win total. Ever. One game short of the Conference USA title game. A BCS Bowl is just over the horizon. Of course, the Cougars haven't played the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Tulsa's overall record ... More >>

Modest Mussorgsky: History's Most Trolled Composer

Public DomainModest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)​This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian's most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know him for A Night on Bald Mountain (sometimes transla ... More >>

Soul Man

Paul Giamatti's wit is the heart of Cold Souls.

UPDATED: Astros Doctor Can't Follow Tender, Delicate Team PLUS Spring Training Updates

Photo by OakleyOriginalsThis may hurt a little. The Houston Astros signed Mike Hampton earlier this off-season. Mike Hampton has not pitched a complete season of baseball since 2004. And last season they signed Kaz Matsui who gets injured while standing still. Brandon Backe and Chris Sampson hav ... More >>

UPDATED: Astros Doctor Can't Follow Tender, Delicate Team PLUS Spring Training Updates

Photo by OakleyOriginalsThis may hurt a little. The Houston Astros signed Mike Hampton earlier this off-season. Mike Hampton has not pitched a complete season of baseball since 2004. And last season they signed Kaz Matsui who gets injured while standing still. Brandon Backe and Chris Sampson hav ... More >>

Muffuletta Burger at Hubcap Grill

Photo by OakleyOriginalsThis may hurt a little. The Houston Astros signed Mike Hampton earlier this off-season. Mike Hampton has not pitched a complete season of baseball since 2004. And last season they signed Kaz Matsui who gets injured while standing still. Brandon Backe and Chris Sampson hav ... More >>

MLB Playoffs: Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox Move Up

Photo by OakleyOriginalsThis may hurt a little. The Houston Astros signed Mike Hampton earlier this off-season. Mike Hampton has not pitched a complete season of baseball since 2004. And last season they signed Kaz Matsui who gets injured while standing still. Brandon Backe and Chris Sampson hav ... More >>

The Return of the Police Blotter

Photo by OakleyOriginalsThis may hurt a little. The Houston Astros signed Mike Hampton earlier this off-season. Mike Hampton has not pitched a complete season of baseball since 2004. And last season they signed Kaz Matsui who gets injured while standing still. Brandon Backe and Chris Sampson hav ... More >>

Stairway to Heaven

Gauging 2005's rock deaths with the Greil Marcus Death Meter

Pot Shots

Raiding narcs get a hibiscus low from their horticulture shock

Death and the Salesmen

Psst: Wanna buy a truckload of smoke-damaged caskets?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Capitalist

Painter Vladimir Gorsky learned how to work the system in the Soviet Union for personal gain. He discovered that things operate much the same way in America.

Viva Verdi

Compelling leads take Traviata past staging problems

Wrong Turn

Florida police say Chronicle columnist Fran Blinebury got "lost" after dinner and drinks, smashed into a police car and left the scene

Write or Wrong?

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

DoV-ine Inspiration

Harvey Bott has a system. And Kelly Klaasmeyer has a travelogue.

History in the Faking

Anastasia plays fast and loose with the truth

Dealer of the Art

In his 14 years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Peter Marzio has increased the MFA's endowment tenfold, tripled MFA Membership and gotten it started on a huge new home. He hasn't done badly for himself, either.

A Prince in Disguise

In his 14 years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Peter Marzio has increased the MFA's endowment tenfold, tripled MFA Membership and gotten it started on a huge new home. He hasn't done badly for himself, either.

Dead in the water

Bothered by shrinking catches, growing regulations and a sense of frustration, Galveston Bay's shrimpers say that they, not the shrimp, are the endangered species.

The Curriculum Question

Businessman John Privett thought he had a solution to the problems of some of Houston's troubled schools. The parents wanted to try it. The teachers wanted to try it. But HISD administrators said no.

Hard Times at the Ballet

When the dancers of the Houston Ballet learned their artistic director, Ben Stevenson, had been forced into a medical leave, they had to wonder: were there problems ahead?

Dying for Dollars

As the death-care industry booms and consolidates, Houston's Service Corporation International is leading the way