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  Remembering Macario Ramirez, the Embodiment of Mexican American Culture

  June 15 at 4:30 a.m.

  His own personal history was captivating — brutally hot summers in his childhood spent as a migrant farmworker with his immigrant parents and six siblings, a friend of Cesar Chavez as a young Chicano activist, a language adviser with the U.S. Department of Defense who braved the hotspots of South...

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  Evelyn Rubio is Crossing Borders - Musical and Otherwise

  June 2 at 4 a.m.

  In the Age of Coronavirus, musicians all over Houston (and the world) are understandably itchy to get back onstage—even under new rules and restrictions for live venues. And for artists who also happen to have new records to promote, there’s an extra twist of the metaphorical knife. That’s how Houston-based...

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  Tuesday's March Planned to Honor George Floyd and His Family

  June 1 at 5:08 p.m.

  Beginning his afternoon press conference Monday with word of two more deaths in the city due to COVID-19, Mayor Sylvester Turner reminded one and all that the coronavirus is still present in Houston and urged participants in the recent marches related to George Floyd's death to take advantage of the...

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  City of Houston Prepares For Saturday Night After Friday's Protests Took a Bad Turn

  May 30 at 5:23 p.m.

  As he attributed most of Friday night's vandalism problems to about 10-20 percent of the participants at the Justice For George Flynn march in Houston, Police Chief Art Acevedo at a 3 p.m. press conference today said officers will be out in force tonight trying to make sure looting and...

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  Country Legends Willie and Kenny (and Their Friends) Shine on Pair of Specials

  April 8 at 4 a.m.

  With most folks in Coronavirus Quarantine, our televisions are likely going 24/7 with all the watching, playing, and streaming (stocks I should have bought two months ago: Charmin, Purell, Zoom, and Netflix). Fortunately for the music fan, we live in a golden age of documentaries and concerts across seemingly all...

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  Houston Native and Music Megastar Kenny Rogers Dies at 81

  March 21 at 7:52 a.m.

  And somewhere in the darkness, the Gambler he broke even. This won’t be the first – or hundredth – obituary for singer Kenny Rogers which quotes that line from his signature tune, “The Gambler.” The Don Schlitz-penned story song about two Old West characters on a train with one imparting...