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The Real School of Rock Beefs Up Its Curriculum

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 24, 2020

Jason Hanley, Ph.D., says he’s used to the reaction. As the VP of Education and Visitor Engagement at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, he’s attended plenty of educational conferences and meetings to let teachers and school administrators know about Rock Hall EDU, the educational component of...
Hidalgo Pleads For Limited Thanksgiving Gatherings As County’s Top Doctor Steps Down

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 17, 2020

On Tuesday afternoon, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo once again urged county residents to limit their contacts with the outside world ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and as COVID-19 continues to ravage our community. Due to the troubling trends in the local COVID-19 test positivity rate, steadily rising local coronavirus...
MFAH Opens Doors (Free Weekend!) of the New Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 17, 2020

The culmination of events more than a decade in the making — the Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art — was celebrated Monday at a gathering of media, VIPS and donors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Everyone in attendance was properly masked and seated in socially distanced...
Top 5 Ways Biden Can Reverse Trump On Climate Change

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 11, 2020

It’s no secret that Donald Trump isn’t exactly a tree-hugging environmentalist. Far from it — During Trump’s administration, the United States has pulled out of the biggest international agreement to fight climate change, rolled back regulations on emissions of harmful gases into the atmosphere and has taken down guardrails put...
As COVID-19 Spreads Like Crazy, Health Experts Say Vaccine Won't End Mask-Wearing Overnight

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 6, 2020

While the world waits on the results of the U.S. presidential race, the United States finds itself reeling from a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite the possibility of a vaccine coming to market by early next year, local public health experts say that we’re still months and...
Turns Out Today Was the Day to Vote in the Houston Area if You Wanted Short Lines

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 3, 2020

Tens of thousands of voters headed to the polls in the first several hours of Election Day Tuesday in greater Houston, but record-setting turnout throughout this year’s extended early voting period has made for lines that are short to nonexistent across much of the area. At 11:47 a.m. Harris County...
Harris County Closes Nine of Ten Drive-Thru Voting Sites On Election Day

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 3, 2020

Citing the fear of future legal challenges, Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins announced via Twitter late Monday night that all but one of the 10 drive-thru voting locations within the county would be shut down on Election Day. Despite Monday’s federal court ruling that said the nearly 127,000 votes cast...
Going Virtual with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 3, 2020

Since the first event in 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony has taken place in different cities (New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland). It’s been televised or not televised, shown live or later, and in its entirety or edited. It has even occurred before there even...
Federal Judge Rules 127,000 Drive-Thru Votes In Harris County Will Count

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 2, 2020

On Monday afternoon, a federal judge dismissed the Republican-led effort to throw out the nearly 127,000 ballots cast through Harris County’s drive-thru voting system during early voting, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to have the votes invalidated. The decision from U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen came after local...
What Does and Doesn't Happen if Democrats Take Over the Texas House of Representatives

By Schaefer Edwards
Nov 2, 2020

It’s no secret that the Texas Democratic Party has been the state GOP’s wimpy little cousin for decades now. Despite the party’s best efforts, Democrats haven’t been able to break through to enough Texas voters to get a real seat at the table to put up anything resembling a real...
Benjy's Turns Local, K&Z Buffalo Speedway Closes

By Lorretta Ruggiero
Oct 30, 2020

Benjy's, 2424 Dunstan, closed back in March after the pandemic restrictions were instituted regarding restaurant dining. Benjy Levit's last location of his eponymous restaurant will not reopen. Instead, the space is being transformed into a Local Foods and Local Foods Market, another of Levit's concepts. It is expected to open...
Kulkarni Hopes To Flip Another Texas Seat Blue In an Accusation-Filled Toss-Up Race With Nehls

By Schaefer Edwards
Oct 30, 2020

In Texas's 22nd Congressional District, TV viewers have been routinely bombarded with ominous attack ads from both sides of the aisle for weeks now. One tells the tale of a reckless police officer who was fired for destroying evidence and turned a blind eye to racial profiling, while another commercial accuses...
Bird Flies Again...But Hopes to Land in Some New Nests

By Bob Ruggiero
Oct 30, 2020

Today, their names are among the highest of jazz titans, familiar even generations after they laid down their most famous work: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charlie Parker. But it’s easy to forget that when these jazz men first started playing the new strain of bebop...
Abbot Claims He Ordered National Guard Troops To Houston Just In Case Of Post-Election Riots

By Schaefer Edwards
Oct 28, 2020

On Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott attempted to justify his decision to deploy Texas Army National Guard troops to Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth ahead of Election Day next week by citing fears of post-election riots in the streets of Texas, and promised that troops would stay clear of polling...
Book Tells the Whole Horrific Story of the Station Nightclub Fire

By Bob Ruggiero
Oct 27, 2020

Ninety seconds doesn’t seem like a long amount of time. Most people can sing all of “The Star Spangled Banner” in that period. But a minute and a half was all that it took for 100 people to die and 200+ more to be seriously injured on the night of...
Turner Sounds Alarm On Houston COVID-19 Metrics Ahead Of Potential Third Wave

By Schaefer Edwards
Oct 27, 2020

On Monday afternoon, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Dr. Persse of the Houston Health Department warned city residents that troubling upticks in Houston’s COVID-19 metrics could portend a dangerous coronavirus surge if people don’t take precautions soon. Turner said that weeks of watching Houston’s COVID-19 test positivity rate decline led...
Through Early Voting Week One, Greater Houston Casts Ballots At Record Pace

By Schaefer Edwards
Oct 20, 2020

Americans have already been voting like crazy, and there are still two weeks to go before Election Day on November 3. That holds especially true for Texas, where so far over four million voters have already voted early, putting the Lone Star State above all others for early voting so...
HISD Starts In-Person Classes As 13,000 Students Still Unaccounted For

By Schaefer Edwards
Oct 19, 2020

On Monday, Houston Independent School District’s Interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan was joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and other local lawmakers to celebrate the district’s first day of in-person classes amid the coronavirus pandemic after six weeks of online-only learning. Lathan’s 10:30 a.m. press conference — held at Highland Heights...
Chris Shepherd Tests Positive for Coronavirus

By Lorretta Ruggiero
Oct 16, 2020

Houston's much loved and respected chef, Chris Shepherd, announced in an Instagram post Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. Shepherd, who operates a number of restaurants in Houston under the Underbelly Hospitality umbrella including UB Preserv, Georgia James, Hay Merchant and One Fifth, is known almost as...
Computer Error Means Rocky Start To Early Voting In Fort Bend County [UPDATED]

By Schaefer Edwards and Margaret Downing
Oct 13, 2020

On the first day of early voting, widespread technical difficulties in Fort Bend County meant that no votes could be cast when polls opened at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. Hundreds of would-be voters were queued up in massive lines at polling places across the county, many of whom gave up...

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