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Feature
No Honest Players Among Human Smugglers
Illegal immigrants are subject to pain and death at the hands of their "rescuers" if they don't pay up in full
By Chris Vogel
Published: August 7, 2008
Bound and gagged, Elmer Nuñez-Rodriguez watched helplessly as a stocky, dark-haired man charged toward him with a phone in one hand and a yellow claw hammer in the...
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Letters
John Edwards, The IRA and Jesus Christ
The Fugitive
Published: August 7, 2008
Online readers comment on "Irish Luck," by John Nova Lomax, July 24: He should pay: Just because someone gets to the U.S. and lives here for years doesn't mean they should get...
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Hair Balls
Busted for Blow Jobs
Beaumont officer says they were okayed
As told to Richard Connelly
Published: August 7, 2008
You're an undercover cop assigned to get the goods on an alleged prostitution ring. You get approval to have sex in the course of your investigation, approval from your...
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BayouSphere
Bayousphere
By Daniel Kramer
Published: August 7, 2008
The road to show-business success is finding that fine line between Lyle Lovett and that late-night infomercial guy who wears the suit with all the question marks on it. John...
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Music
Juke Joint Duo Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm
Living Blues
By Ben Westhoff
Published: August 7, 2008
Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm seem to personify the platonic ideals of the Delta blues. Burnside explains that he was raised alongside "eight or nine" other children in...
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Playbill
Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd
By Chris Gray
Published: August 7, 2008
Brash as he is, and certainly no stranger to the cameras of TMZ-type programs, Kid Rock has been underestimated pretty much ever since his 1998 Atlantic debut Devil Without a...
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Rotation
Totimoshi: Milagrosa
By Dave Pehling
Published: August 7, 2008
With more than a decade of bashing out sludgy, Melvins-inspired heaviness, Oakland power trio Totimoshi takes a step into new territory with a considerably more dynamic sound...
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Local Rotation
Perseph One and AndAcc; Patients of Timeless Minds
By Shea Serrano
Published: August 7, 2008
Every high school has one of those girls who wears some shit-crazy outfit each day, like a skirt with pants underneath or a bow tie and gloves. Synth-driven in production and...
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Nightfly
Hawg Heaven
Delmer Barkley's big-time small-town biker palace
By Shea Serrano
Published: August 7, 2008
Delmer Barkley is possessed of a typically coarse Southern charm. A couple of piercings and faded tattoos adorn his body, accenting his semi-flattop haircut quite nicely. His...
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Noise
Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?
By Chris Gray
Published: August 7, 2008
Among the Carrie Underwood clones and Kenny Chesney knockoffs, country music has gotten interesting again — and, as has happened so often in the past, a bumper crop of...
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Rotation Single File
Single File
By Ray Cummings
Published: August 7, 2008
Beck, "Orphans": You know, I'm liking this tune a lot more than anything off Guero or The Information — and producer Danger Mouse might know Mr. Hansen even better than...
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Cafe
Crash Course at Ristorante Cavour
Get a real Italian experience -- in both food and service
By Paul Galvani
Published: August 7, 2008
Every meal at Ristorante Cavour begins with an amuse-gueule — literally, an "amusement for the throat," which not only prepares the gustatory tract for the pleasures that...
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Dish
Baked Rolls at Sushi Nikko
By Paul Galvani
Published: August 7, 2008
Steve Hong recently opened Sushi Nikko (1140 Eldridge Pkwy., 281-493-3330) — with a little help from his friends. "A very good friend of my uncle's owns 20 locations of...
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Hot Plate
A Happy Marriage at Vietnamese Bistro & Bar
By Paul Galvani
Published: August 7, 2008
The "Pagoda roll" ($7) at Pagoda Vietnamese Bistro & Bar (4705 Inker, 832-673-0400) begs the question, "Why didn't anyone think of this before?" There are two traditional...
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Film
Rogen and Franco, on the Run and Madly in Love in Pineapple Express
True Bromance
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 7, 2008
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd...
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Night & Day
“Go for the Gold”
The Children’s Museum of Houston celebrates the Olympic spirit
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 7, 2008
Think your kid deserves a gold medal just for being a great kid? Well, she can get one at the Children’s Museum of Houston’s Go for the Gold WonderWeek. There’s...
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Night & Day
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
A Jamaican-born author offers a fictitious account of the island life of Errol Flynn
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 7, 2008
Margaret Cezair-Thompson knows what it means to be “in like Flynn.” The Jamaican-born author based her novel The Pirate’s Daughter on the promiscuous actor Errol...
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Night & Day
Hamilton Loomis
Don’t miss the chance to see a premiere blues guitarist in a small setting
By Amanda Mahmoudi
Published: August 7, 2008
Galveston native Hamilton Loomis began playing blues guitar in front of thousands of people as a teenager. Over the years, the Grammy-nominated guitarist has kept it simple. He...
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Night & Day
Sasha Milby
Redbud Gallery presents “Not Altered”
By ALEXANDRA BEGLEY
Published: August 7, 2008
Sasha Milby isn’t afraid of telling a tragic story. With her art, paintings on customized wooden boxes, she reveals intensely personal emotions and stories. Milby uses...
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Night & Day
Indie Filmmaking: From Texas to Los Angeles and Back
Chris Eska leads a workshop for potential filmmakers and screens a preview of his first feature-length release
By LEIGH BELL
Published: August 7, 2008
Really into movies? As filmmaker or as an audience member? Oh, well, it doesn’t matter because today writer/director/editor Chris Eska has something for both. For those...
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