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Live in Africa (RAS Records)

By Tim Fleck
Nov 21, 2002

Nearly three decades after roots reggae bubbled out of a handful of recording laboratories in Kingston, Jamaica, and spilled onto the world's airwaves, only a few of the original practitioners can still command a stage. There's Winston Rodney of Burning Spear; Neville "Bunny Wailer" Livingston, the last of the original...
Chris Bell

Comeback Kids!

By Tim Fleck
Sep 26, 2002

It isn't every day a politician wins the inside track to one office by getting beaten in a race for another. But that's exactly what happened to attorney and former at-large Houston city councilman Chris Bell, who turned a third-place finish for mayor in 2001 into a front-running candidacy as...
Follow the Bouncing Checks!

He dropped lots of big names to raise scholarship money. Now some of them are dropping him.

By Tim Fleck
Sep 19, 2002

The invitations last spring for the third annual Hispanic Scholarship of Greater Houston reception at Minute Maid Park looked impressive. They listed virtually every local Latino politician as an honoree and claimed solid corporate sponsors like the Houston Astros and Aramark food services. As one star-struck student applicant who attended...
Patti Smith

Land (1975-2002) (Arista)

By Tim Fleck
May 9, 2002

Now that she's been officially resurrected with a successful comeback album, a spot on Jay Leno and an adoring profile in The New Yorker titled "The Torch Singer," what's next for Patti Smith, the woman who's gone from poet to painter to rock star to Detroit suburban homemaker and then...
Gene Green

U.S. representative from the 29th Congressional District of Texas

By Tim Fleck
Sep 20, 2001

When Texas legislators used their redistricting clout in 1991 to draw a Houston congressional district that a Hispanic could win, a wily state senator named Gene Green helped in the design. He had ulterior motives. The final shape of the district resembled a praying mantis, with arms snaking out in...

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