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  Best of Houston® 2008: City Life, Good and Services, and Sports and Recreation
  One last tour around town, looking at some of our Best of Houston® winners
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  Best of Houston® 2008: Arts and Entertainment
  A quick tour around town, looking at some of our Best of Houston® winners
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  Excerpts from Lesbian Sex: 101 Lovemaking Positions
  When this book from Jude Schell came across our desk, we just knew it was the perfect way to help supplement our sinful Best of Houston issue.
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  9:30 p.m. at Avant Garden
  One way to tell things are getting back to normal: At a benefit for the Houston Food Bank on Saturday, September 20, the cops stopped by to hand out a noise citation. PHOTOS BY BILL OLIVE
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  Silver Jews at Walter's on Washington
  On Thursday, September 18, the sight was painfully familiar: a crowd of people in a parking lot, waiting. But instead of water, ice or MREs, this group desperately needed some kind of shared experience that didn’t involve clearing debris or scavenging for supplies - in short, music (really...
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  The Journey to High Island After Hurricane Ike
  We heard High Island was a real island immediately after the storm, but we made it there on September 18 by car...eventually. Click here for a dispatch from Craig Malisow and here for video from Daniel Kramer.
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  The Aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Chambers County
  It’s probably safe to say that other than the communities on the Bolivar Peninsula, no places in Texas were ravaged worse by Hurricane Ike than the bayside Chambers County towns of Oak Island and Smith Point. Click here for a dispatch from John Nova Lomax.
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  Hurricane Ike Slams into San Leon
  Businesses, homes and cars were destroyed, and plenty of folks wound up with boats in their yards. Click here to read John Nova Lomax's account of his September 17 visit to the quaint little drinking village with a serious fishing problem.
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  The Aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Galveston
  Scenes from Monday, September 15, of boats pushed way onto land, piers shattered into thousands of pieces, and people giving each other a helping hand.
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  Hurricane Ike Smashes the Kemah Boardwalk
  Kemah definitely experienced the storm's wrath more than most places in Texas did. Click here and here to read Chris Vogel's accounts of the aftermath.
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  More Images from Before and After Hurricane Ike
  Fires, rattlesnakes, boat thieves, flotsam, flooding, cracked trees and shattered boats in Galveston, Houston, League City, Texas City and Kemah. PHOTOS BY BILL OLIVE
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  South By Southwest, Day Two
  The action continues in Austin, TX as SXSW gathers steam. Here's what you might have seen around town on Thursday, March 19, including Gomez, Andrew Bird, Daniel Johnston, and the Oak Ridge Boys. PHOTOS BY MARK C. AUSTIN
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