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  Canoe Chronicles: Knee Deep in Buffalo Bayou

  October 19 at 4 a.m.

  This is part four of an ongoing series of posts about my purchase of a canoe during the pandemic. It was a beautiful, if warm, late Saturday morning and I was standing knee deep in Buffalo Bayou. Above me, cars were whizzing by on the West Loop with no idea...

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  Beloved Alice’s Tall Texan Bar Is Closing Its Doors Forever In August

  August 3 at 4 a.m.

  Alice’s Tall Texan bar has recently announced on their Facebook page that they will be permanently closing in August.

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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...