Latest Stories

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  University of Houston Pianist Crushed By a Building, Emerges with Resilience

  John Amar | May 15 at 4 a.m.

  In November 2018,  Sonya Bandouil and her boyfriend Alex Pankiewicz took a weekend vacation to Boston. At the trip’s end, they stopped at a café on their way to the train station before returning to New York. “I was looking at the menu...

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  From Malawi With Love: Local Artist Designs Custom Furniture That Gives Back

  Susie Tommaney | May 13 at 4 a.m.

  People come into our lives for a reason. Sometimes they're just agents of change, reminding us of dormant potential; others keep us focused on our path and goals; some will guide and teach; and then there are those difference-makers who share our...

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  A First Look at Common Bond and Van Gogh

  Lorretta Ruggiero | March 27 at 5 a.m.

  April in Paris may be the dream of many a romantic soul, but April in Houston can be pretty wonderful, too. We may not have the Eiffel Tower or the Seine, but we've got The Williams Tower and Buffalo Bayou. If longing for champagne in France on a...

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  Inventors Suing InventHelp Want to Know Why George Foreman Represents the Company

  Margaret Downing | September 4 at 4 a.m.

  Etta Calhoun of Spring, Texas is a lovely, gracious, soft-spoken woman who as a devout Christian believes in the word of God and its power. She has lived her life by Biblical principles; they give her comfort and hope. One day she came up with an...

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  Announcing the 2018 Houston Theater Awards

  D. L. Groover | August 20 at 5 a.m.

  The 2017-18 theater season began underwater. Literally. In late August, 2017, Harvey roared through our Bayou City and lived up to its biblical plague prediction. The monster storm dumped more than 50 inches of rain on us, and the effects are...

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  Did Texas Prison Guards Drive Marinda Griggs to Kill Herself?

  Margaret Downing | June 14 at 4 a.m.

  On a late September day in 2015, Inmate No. 1455104 was supposed to be standing quietly in line for a midday prison count in the women’s unit at a Gatesville prison. But Marinda Griggs, a longtime epileptic, could feel a seizure coming on and...