World Trade Center

Keep Calm and Carry On Twittering: Social Media Returns to Form After Tragedy

Less than 24 hours after the worst bombing on American soil since 9/11, one of my friends posted on Facebook a picture of Darth Vader riding a unicycle wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes. I scroll through my Twitter feed and see the familiar jokes, memes, posts about food and talk of the Rockets an ... More >>

War/Photography

Images of battles won and lost paint us all with the brush of brutality at a searing, resonating MFAH exhibit.

Leftover Crack

5 More Great 9/11 Songs

Rewind: The Top 5 Best & Worst Songs About 9/11 Looking at it now, 11 years to the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the al-Qaeda-led terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, it's still difficult to underestimate how much the world changed that day. The real ... More >>

9/11 Idiocy, To Go

Top Five Best & Worst Songs About 9/11

​This Sunday will be 10 years since America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. In that time, a lot of musical ground has been covered. Some artists mention that day only in passing, as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys do in "Empire State of Mind," but some have crafted songs about 9/11 itself. Some of thes ... More >>

United: Continental's Merger Partner Keeps Tripping Up on 9/11

We all await the next misstep​Remember the good old days, when Houston's Continental Airlines only had to endure PR fiascos like killing off the Concorde? The airline has, of course, merged with United Airlines, and things have not gone smoothly from a public-relations standpoint. The new pl ... More >>

2000 - 2010: A DECADE TO FORGET

How Things Went Downhill

Top 10 Houston Breakout Acts Of 2010

​These ten Houston artists opened our eyes and made us roll off the couch or out of the cubicle to go see them this year, health or sleep be damned. Craig's Hlist's two favorite things are sleeping and drinking, and thankfully these bands play where alcohol is served. It's been a fun year so ... More >>

Louie Gohmert Makes Debbie Riddle Look Sane On CNN

You thought Texas came off bad on Anderson Cooper's show Wednesday when Tomball state rep Debbie Riddle blabbered on incomprehensibly about Terror Babies?It got worse for Texas last night.

This Year in Deliciousness

Photo by This Is Freaking RidiculousAn AK-47 made entirely out of bacon? Yup, that's pretty much 2009 summed up.​ So this is the time of year when we normally say things like "Wow, another year gone by already!" and "Can ya believe it's almost 2010?" and "Say there, how come you just broke my ... More >>

Top 7 Couples' Costumes for Halloween

Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. Check out past entries here, here and here. There's one thing -- or should ... More >>

In Honor Of The Defunct Penthouse Club, The Five Best Strip Club Scenes

We at the Houston Press are pretty broken up about the closing of the Penthouse Club. Not because any of us were frequent patrons, of course (*cough*), or because we aren't wholly convinced the City's efforts to shutter "gentlemen's clubs" will eliminate crime as we know it, but because the strip ... More >>

Towering Cinema in Man on Wire

Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

Toxic Town: Contamination in Somerville Schools

Somerville's schools continue to show elevated toxins, but are the health risks bad enough to shut down the schools?

Toxic Town: Contamination in Somerville Schools

Do See Headlights at SXSW, Don't See YACHT

Free First Sundays: Family Flicks

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts four kid-friendly films

John Vanderslice

Emerald City

Transformers

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

The Terrorist's Mind

Farce of a Champion

The End of Days

DiverseWorks goes apocalyptic in "Run For Your Lives!"

Oh, Yes

World Trade Center

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the twin towers

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Cult Hit for Nobody

Bombs and Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Like Moths to a Flame

Americans likely will swarm to Ladder 49, an unabashed homage to firefighters

Best Curator

Kim Davenport

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Reel Life

Duncan Ganley can't seem to tell the difference between fact and fiction

Democracy of Photographs

Professionals and amateurs capture 9/11 in a stunning exhibition

I Will Always Be the World Trade Center

The electro-pop duo's name was cute. Then came September 11.

Brace for Impact

Risky, dangerous and difficult, We Have Some Planes soars

Barry Bad

Sonnenfeld's comic caper is in Big Trouble

Dems' New Year Vow: Oust GOP Judges

Candidate recruits include a former Republican jurist

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

City E-mail Endorses Terrorism

Controller is appalled at the inaction of Mayor Brown

Hell of a Long Day

24 has been the most talked-about show of the season and for all the wrong reasons

Racket

Greg Wood is back with a new band, a new album, and a couple of jokes

Imagine All the Pitas

Houstonians have broad minds, and stomachs

A Firefighter's Life

Firefighters showcase the skills they use on a daily basis

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

It's Only Business

Readers complain of Chronicle price gouging

Dream Taker

When political egos and a basketball star vow to beautify a derelict building next door to Enron Field, what do you get after more than a year? Nothing.

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