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  How Gibson and Its Guitars Could Turn Things Around

  July 19 at 5 a.m.

  Guitars aren't overly complicated, and as such, the business of making them shouldn't be either. So when it was revealed that legendary guitar maker Gibson was in financial ruin earlier this year, to some, it was shocking. However, to anyone who's owned one of the many Gibson masterpieces over the...

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  The U.S. Has a Long History of Ripping Minority Children From Their Mothers

  June 29 at 4 a.m.

  I am sure by now that the world is divided over the upheaval the president has caused with his snatching children from their mothers. However, I tend to take the side of some of the social media posts I’ve seen that remind the United States that this is not new...

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  Juneteenth at Miller Outdoors: A Celebration of Freedom

  June 20 at 6:47 a.m.

  The rain and grey clouds didn't stop Houstonians from celebrating Juneteenth this year, with many attending Miller Outdoor Theatre's "A Gulf Coast Juneteenth" event. Mayor Sylvester Turner was in attendance and Melanie Lawson served as emcee. The night began with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation and featured performances from Sista's the Musical, C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band, and Irma Thomas. (Photos by Mohammad Mia)

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  Mayor Turner's Juneteenth Parade Rolls Through Acres Homes

  June 16 at 9:57 p.m.

  Mayor Turner’s Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade took place early Saturday morning in Northeast Houston. The annual celebration memorializes the day when African-American slaves in Southern states received the news of their emancipation. Despite slavery officially ending on September 22 with President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, the news...

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  Joey D and Van the Man Come Together in a Jazz/Blues Summit

  May 10 at 5 a.m.

  Sometimes, a musical collaboration between two artists making a record together involves years of planning, fraught prior negotiations, and in-studio conflict. And sometimes…not. The latter seems to have been the case for multi-faceted classic rocker Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco, contemporary master of the Hammond B-3 organ. The pair’s new...

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  Journey's Jonathan Cain: Still Believin' in Music and Other Higher Powers

  May 1 at 4 a.m.

  You could practically hear the piercing screams of millions of HBO viewers across the land on the night of June 10, 2007 as they were all wondering the same thing: How could the cable TV cut out now?? That’s when we last saw New Jersey “sanitation engineer” Tony Soprano at...