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Capsule Art Reviews: "The Clearing — Joey Fauerso" "Exurb: Input/Output" "George Gittoes: Witness to War" "Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series" "Liz Hickok: Jiggling Geography" "Mitch Dobrowner: New Work" "Musicians Who Make Ar

Capsule Art Reviews: "The Clearing — Joey Fauerso" "Exurb: Input/Output" "George Gittoes: Witness to War" "Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series" "Mitch Dobrowner: New Work" "Musicians Who Make Art"

Capsule Art Reviews: "The Clearing — Joey Fauerso," "Evergreen: Original Contemporary Prints," "Exurb: Input/Output," "George Gittoes: Witness to War," "Jackie Gendel: Fables in Slang," "Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Evergreen: Original Contemporary Prints" "George Gittoes: Witness to War" "Jackie Gendel: Fables in Slang" "Just Press Print!" "Musicians Who Make Art" "Voodoo Pop: Mary Hayslip and Trey Speegle"

Capsule Art Reviews: "George Gittoes: Witness to War" "Jackie Gendel: Fables in Slang" "Musicians Who Make Art" "Nathan Green: Fill the Sky" "Perspectives 174: Re: Generation" "Voodoo Pop: Mary Hayslip and Trey Speegle"

The Spits

Pop Rocks: Lights, Camera, Osama

It'll be the feel-good movie of the year.​On the Geologic Internet Time Scale, the news of Osama bin Laden's death took place almost a century ago. We're already fondly recalling our whereabouts when we heard the fateful news (drinking beer and watching The Killing...NEVAR FORGET) and relivi ... More >>

WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops

DynCorp: WikiLeaks is not kind​Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satelli ... More >>

Homecoming Mums In Texas: Five Examples Of An Arms Race Gone Mad

What? No bears on that thing?​Homecoming season is nigh, and in Texas that means...very, very, very large homecoming mums.Nowhere else, it seems, do high school girls put their energy, money, ego and shamelessness into effect when it comes to what used to be a simple flower and ribbon.Even back in ... More >>

Remembering Our Friends, The Mujahideen

​Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about the President's management of the Afghanistan War, exposes some pretty significant divisions between Obama's civilian advisers and the U.S. military on strategy concerning what is now America's longest war: Book excerpts published yesterday sugges ... More >>

Sports Illustrated's 10 Strangest Covers Of The `60s

We all know Sports Illustrated, for decades the leading athletic magazine around. Even in its heyday, though, editors felt the need to be hip and edgy.Sometimes.Or maybe they just did a lot of drugs in the Time-Life offices, and occasionally the boss who was supposed to stop terrible cover ideas was ... More >>

Captured in Afghanistan

American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Five Bad Valentine Day's Gifts That Guys Who Listen To Sports-Talk Radio Will Probably Buy

We know nothing about getting good gifts for women, as our wife would testify. So Valentine's Day sucks. (in our case, it's followed by the gift-dilemma of a wedding anniversary four days later. Our wife has long grown used to disappointment, which she hides well.)One thing we do know, though: Liste ... More >>

For The Cold Snap: Bikinis Ain't What They Used To Be, Thank God

As Houston gets ready for an actual deep freeze this week, it brings to mind enduring winters up north. A day or two of nighttime temperatures getting near 20 is nothing like a few months when you're begging for the thermometer to get in the upper 30s, believe us.But growing up in New Jersey, there ... More >>

Five Ways To Sex Up Your Thanksgiving

Is there a less sexy holiday than Thanksgiving? Sure, Memorial Day can be a downer, what with all the remembering the heroic dearly departed. And Columbus Day gets into all that stuff about Europeans spreading STDs like a rogue fraternity with a big-time roofie pipeline.But Thanksgiving? Really not ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Javier de Villota," "Round 30: Home. Space"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Glenn Beck Takes a Break From the Economy; Talks with Marcus Luttrell, Former SEAL Who Chased Down Men Accused of Shooting His Yellow Lab

If you have been listening to right-wing pundit Glenn Beck's daily syndicated radio show on 740 AM KTRH in the mornings or watching his Fox News Channel TV show in the evenings, no doubt you have heard the sad tale of former Navy SEAL and Navy Cross recipient Marcus Luttrell. The distinguished war ... More >>

Yet Another Strange Houston Connection To Tech-Savvy Terrorists

Photo by (nutmeg)For of those of you who are tired of getting your War on Terror information from biased western media sources who are doing the bidding of the American capitalist infidels, you might want to check out this allegedly Taliban-sponsored site -- hosted by a server right here in Houston! ... More >>

“Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul”

Much of the art in this exhibit was saved by brave individuals who risked their lives to protect it

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

Charlie Wilson's War Continues

We wrote in August about the brouhaha over UT's plans to name a chair in South Asian studies for Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. Rep played by Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson's War.UT professors protested, saying Wilson had done far more harm than good over there.Now a niece of Benazir Bhutto, the late ... More >>

More Houston Strippers Busted

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Marvel

Mighty Avenger

Lifting the Veil

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy shows us the lives of women in Afghanistan

The Kite Runner

Controversy aside, this adaptation just won't fly

Houston's Ten Worst Songs

…and we're still not as bad as Dallas

Guantánamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice

A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

Mexican-American Culture

Why do prietos always get the blame?

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Homebody Alone

Bring your heart, intellect and stamina to this extraordinary play

Pot o' Gold

Riches await Houston theatergoers

Hell on Earth

A real view of the Afghan situation

Radio Daze

One man, one jambox and four walls. For 24 hours.

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

The Right Footage

"Fade In: New Film and Video" may need some focus, but it shines bright

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban

Letters

The Class of '03

Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

My Way

Stanley Jordan plays his own kind of jazz

Killing the Leaders

The Art of War

The MFAH presents "Afghanistan: A Timeless History." What's next -- "Iraqis Are People Too"?

Saving Beauty

An exhibit at the MFA highlights Afghanistan's cultural riches

Living in Harmony

Global Groove's Wednesday-night jam puts the hump back in hump day

The Saga Continues

The fat lady has yet to sing at KPFT

Letters, November 29

Piety or Pac-Man, At Any Rate, Bell View

No Veiled Threats

Heidi covers her face when she leaves the house. So do an increasing number of Muslim women in Houston. But don't call them terrorists -- or oppressed.

Imagine All the Pitas

Houstonians have broad minds, and stomachs