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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Houston Activists Say New Recycling System is Not the Way To Go

A day after Mayor Annise Parker jubilantly announced the city had won $1 million by being a finalist in a municipal-improvements contest, experts held a press conference to say the city's winning "One Bin For All" recycling project is bad for the environment. Experts like Tyson Sowell of the Texas ... More >>

Cover Story: A Brief History of Joe Sample and the Crusaders

What a badass. As chronicled in this week's cover story, there's a reason why Joe Sample is Texas Southern University's artist-in-residence at the school's jazz studies program -- and why he may be able to reinvent TSU's disgraced reputation. Cover Story: The New Crusaders Joe Sample Attempts to ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in the Third Ward

All of Houston's original six wards are rich with history, but none captivate me quite as much as the Third Ward. Once home to the city's wealthiest residents, the area just southeast of downtown has gone through a tremendous amount of change since it was first established in 1836. The Third Ward h ... More >>

New Baylor Stadium: Now Texas Can Actually Have a Good College Football Venue

On Friday, Baylor regents gave a thumbs-up to the construction of a new $250-million stadium that will post up on the Waco campus and alongside the Brazos River. If Waco City Council green lights the $35 million tax increment financing zone funds that would be needed, then the 45,000-seat venue coul ... More >>

Homegrown Houston - 3G

Dynamo Tailgating: There Are Limits

A lot of fans rejoiced when the city eased off on anti-tailgating restrictions that would have barred the practice at the Dynamo's new downtown BBVA Compass Stadium. After opening the season with four straight road games, the Dynamo will finally open up their new park May 12, and they have announce ... More >>

All That Jazz

Critics say KTSU has lost its listeners, not to mention its soul, by ditching its cutting-edge music and many of its veteran DJs.

KTSU's Take Ova Crew Brings Student Voices To "The Choice"

Take Ova Crew on FacebookThe Take Ova Crew welcomes Houston's own Devin the Dude.​In 1972, the FCC approved a license for Texas Southern University's FM radio station, 90.9 KTSU ("The Choice"). The station was originally intended to give students in the communications department an opportunity ... More >>

Our HAUS

Houston gets its first co-op — decades after other cities took the plunge.

Rashad Minix, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 95

Shot near TSU​An alleged drive-by shooting near the Texas Southern University campus early Sunday morning left one person dead. Rashad Minix, 20, was killed in the incident in the 3400 block of Rosedale about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Houston police say. Another man injured in the shooting was expect ... More >>

Comment of the Day: She's No Barbara Jordan

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Honoring Barbara Jordan's 75th Birthday: Five Video Clips

Starting tomorrow, Texas Southern University will begin a year-long celebration of what would be the 75th birthday of alumna Barbara Jordan. Jordan was steeped in Houston, a Wheatley High grad who represented the Fifth Ward in Congress throughout the '70s. Here are five video clips of her career: ... More >>

10th Annual Trinity Jazz Festival

Tchernavia Sessum, Young & Recessioned: "I Had No Idea It Would Be This Hard"

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Tchernavia Sessum, a 26-year-old Clark Atlanta University grad, who struggled for several years in the job market before finding a job that put her schooling to use. Everybody in my family either went to Texas Southern [University] or Prairi ... More >>

Last Call for Art: Graffiti & Teen Angst

​Saturday is the last day to see "Pieced Together, All Texas Graffiti Show" over at Aerosol Warfare Gallery & Boutique. The first traveling graffiti art exhibit to make its way around the state, "Pieced Together" features works by Austin's Sloke (who curated), San Antonio's Enks, and Houston's ... More >>

Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke

Rocks Off knows it's hard to have fun without spending money. Trust us, like Bill Clinton, we feel your pain. But we've been combing the club listings and put together a list of shows and other music-related happenings that won't set you back too any more than $10. You can thank us later, because yo ... More >>

Bill Cosby Remembers A Segregated Houston

Photo courtesy Houston SymphonyFrom time to time, Hair Balls talks to celebrities (real celebrities, not the "I invented a purple potato" type of pseudo-celebrities). And from time to time, those celebrities can be, oh, shall we say, unconventional. (Larry Harlow once slammed us for not being ... More >>

Foul Ball and Quick Fix

Where To Get Supplies From FEMA

FEMA Looking Good at TSU Distribution Center

Houston Law Students Have Some Buyer's Remorse

This Just In: Mistrial for Priscilla Slade

This Just In: Priscilla Slade Jury Still Deadlocked

“Homecoming: The 3rd Biennial TSU Art Alumni Invitational”

More than 40 works from 30 of TSU’s top students

From Gaza, with Love

Young Palestinian refugees make moves for peace

Letters

Who's Your Diddy?

It's Cristal and basketball with Coach Combs

News to Use

A Pearland guy causes a Beltway firestorm

Beauty Secrets

No one will be ready for your jelly when style diva Jenyne Raines is done with you

Best Neighborhood Association

Arts Grant

A basketball icon brings classics of African-American art to TSU

All in the NAACP Family

A husband-and-wife team sparks controversy

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Getting Lonely at the Top

A recycled city official comes home to roost

Best Local Boy Made Good

Rod Paige U.S. Secretary of Education

Lucky Star

The brass ring fell in Kirk Whalum's lap. He's kept it in his pocket ever since.

The Insider

Political Goodfellows Editor: Gabe and Gary get new toys; Lee and Mario cry in their stockings

Too Much for Words

Educational Savior Seeks New Sinner

Night & Day

November 26 - December 2, 1998

Press Picks

Lost in the Cause

In the early 1960s, Eldrewey Stearns was a powerful force for integration in a segregated society. Then he forgot his way, and history forgot him. Until, that is, he met writer Thomas R. Cole.

Educated Sounds

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All the Colors of Jazz

Kirk Whalum's sax paints with a broad palette of sounds

The Art of Community

Visible Man

Carlton Thompson has a sportswriter's dream job. But he keeps getting asked for some I.D.

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