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Janeth Arcain

Houston Comets guard

By Steve McVicker
Sep 20, 2001

Although the Houston Comets did not win their fifth straight WNBA championship, there were still reasons to celebrate the team's season. One reason was the emergence of guard Janeth Arcain, who in the absence of marquee players like Cynthia Cooper (retired) and Sheryl Swoopes (injured) stepped up and became one...
Heartburn Can Be Murder

A body may soon be unburied in the bizarre Basso case

By Steve McVicker
May 27, 1999

In a wildly embellished wedding announcement that got past Houston Chronicle fact checkers three and a half years ago, Susan and Carmine Basso revealed to the world that it would be death until they parted. Carmine departed this world two years ago at age 47, presumably a good bit sooner...
Up To Date on '98

By Shaila Dewan, Tim Fleck, Steve McVicker, Brad Tyer, Russell Contreras and Bob Burtman
Jan 7, 1999

In real life, stories don't end with "happily ever after." They roll forward with no regard for narrative neatness: The prince becomes king; he files for divorce; Cinderella writes a tell-all book; the kids date topless dancers and form a post-punk band. And so on. With such developments in mind,...
An Open But Shut Case

Paul Beauchamp's death was ruled a homicide. So why isn't the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office investigating?

By Steve McVicker
Jul 30, 1998

It was cold that Sunday, the day after Christmas 1993; too cold for the two volunteer firemen to wade into the small pond in a secluded part of Montgomery County and retrieve the body of the white man floating amid the water lilies. Instead, they used a small boat and...
The Reformist School

By Steve McVicker
Jun 4, 1998

In the grand tradition of confined artists such as John Wayne Gacey and Elmer Wayne Henley, the Art League of Houston presents "The Prison Show: Art from Inside: Out" -- an exhibition the New York Times described as "outsider art at the grittiest of grassroots levels." The exhibit's drawings, paintings...

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