Subject: Suicide

• Tragedy in Webster

  January 4, 2007

• Space Case

  June 8, 2007

• Cover Story: Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

  May 8, 2008

• Troubled Jail Inmate Arrested Again

  Early this morning, Laura Howard was arrested with her boyfriend because they allegedly broke into a gas station and took cigarettes sometime last week. It's been about two weeks since we published a story about Howard, who was first arrested last year after a suicide attempt at her home and ended up spending about four months in the Harris County jail.Howard was without psych meds for a large portion of her stay, unless she traded food for pills with inmates, and she quickly deteriorated. After

  December 22, 2008

• Case Closed?

  May 2, 1996

• What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?

  August 7, 1997

• Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

  Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, at least, one of them) of Catastrophic, is a hard-core Pixies fan. "Working with Black Francis is, to me, one step removed from working with Bob Dylan," he says. "It turns out he's an incredibly graci

  March 13, 2009

• Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

  Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, at least, one of them) of Catastrophic, is a hard-core Pixies fan. "Working with Black Francis is, to me, one step removed from working with Bob Dylan," he says. "It turns out he's an incredibly grac

  March 13, 2009

• Exit Strategy

  May 27, 1999

• Michael Berry vs. Bill White

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  March 26, 2009

• Christopher Titus

  Web exclusive!

  April 16, 2009

• Merry Christmas, George Bailey

  December 11, 2008

• Network

  Web exclusive!

  November 20, 2008

• Fic at NiteBoomsday

  Web exclusive

  November 6, 2008

• Soldier Suicides

  Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

  October 2, 2008

• Chris Grabenstein

  The author of Mad Mouse signs his new adult title, Hell Hole, and new young adult release, The Crossroads

  August 14, 2008

• Robert Crais

  Did everything go horribly, horribly wrong in Chasing Darkness?

  July 24, 2008

• A New Retreat for the ManKind Project Houston

  The organization settles a lawsuit, says it'll make changes

  June 26, 2008

• Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

  Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

  May 8, 2008

• “How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination”

  This exhibit explores the horrors behind the “mercy killings” of the Holocaust

  September 20, 2007

• Nipples to the Wind

  Coco and Anderson deliver a night of silliness

  July 26, 2007

• Hooked Up

  January 12, 2006

• Deadly Photo Shoot

  Oscar Bony has a blast

  January 19, 2006

• Oh, the Gaul!

  January 26, 2006

• A Stella Show

  May 11, 2006

• He'd Better Be Rich

  June 1, 2006

• A Tale of Two Brooklyns

  July 13, 2006

• Beat the Crowd

  June 14, 2007

• CRACKED UP

  Gary Webb's reporting on CIA ties to cocaine destroyed his life, too

  October 5, 2006

• Baby Blues

  Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

  September 14, 2006

• A History of Violence

  FotoFest tackles yet another theme, with mixed results

  April 6, 2006

• Best Actress

  September 23, 2004

• People Are Strange

  Diane Arbus taps into the weirdness of us all

  July 15, 2004

• Lindsey's Loss

  The wild ride of the teen who became a front-seat witness to her father's killing

  April 8, 2004

• Best Two-Man Show

  Alley Theatre's Stones in His Pocket

  September 25, 2003

• Benefit for the Children of Danny Armantrout, Featuring Simpleton and Dinosaur Salad

  Saturday, July 5

  July 3, 2003

• A Hanging Offense

  Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

  April 24, 2003

• Steal This Movie

  Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

  February 27, 2003

• The Private Trial of Donald Davis

  A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

  November 30, 2000

• Downing

  Texas Lottery. Let's buy our tickets and bet on the day that Robert Arthur Pearson finally kills himself in public while we all watch

  November 25, 1999

• Mad Dog's Demise

  Alan Mabry was a man on a mission. His death last month left friends, colleagues and authorities baffled -- as did his obsessive life.

  June 15, 1995

• Bayou Body Count: Death Doesn't Take A Holiday

  Unfortunately, murder doesn't recognize holiday weekends, as evidenced by the following homicide investigations recently opened by area law enforcement.A man was killed following a shootout with Humble police late this morning. Details are limited, but the incident occurred outside an employment officer in the 9800 block of FM 1960 Bypass, according to Humble police. An officer working an extra job at a nearby bank responded to a call of a man with a gun holding a female hostage. The officer obs

  May 26, 2009

• Israeli Film Festival

  July 9, 2009

• Dillinger Is Dead

  July 23, 2009

• Joan Rivers

  August 6, 2009

• Kathryn Casey

  August 20, 2009

• Six More Mysterious Musical Deaths We'd Like to See Reopened

  That's Brian Jones, who is still dead, in the lower right corner.​Original Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool 40 years ago. It was declared "death by misadventure," a cause of death that probably didn't come as a shock to those who had been aware of Jones' steady descent into drug addiction over the preceding years, as well as his recent departute/dismissal from the Stones. This week, however, police in Sussex announced they will be reexamini

  September 1, 2009