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Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisis
Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition
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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life?
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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So Much for No Child Left Behind
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
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Doña Rosita’s Jalapeno Kitchen and “Perspectivas: A Window into Their World”
A one-woman show and an art exhibit share the spotlight as part of the 2008 Texas Sor Juana Festival
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Sitting Down with La Porte's Buxton (13)
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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life? (10)
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder? (7)
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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So Much for No Child Left Behind (5)
School test scores rise as more low-scoring students drop out.
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Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston (5)
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Should Bruce Springsteen Be Forgiven?
Arguments for reconsidering the missteps on the Boss's otherwise impeccable track record
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Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green
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The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us
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Last Concert Café
Hippie wolves haunt and howl at the former whorehouse
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Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston
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This Just In: Griffin Stolen from Bishop’s Palace in Galveston
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Reverberations: Born Liars and The Heys
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Astros-Nationals: One Game Over Five Hundred
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By John Geluardi
No one can accuse Dale Watson of not being country enough. The Austin-based, Pasadena-bred singer-songwriter, supported on this bill by Jim Dalton and Tony Nascar, has a bottomless barroom voice, a wonderfully baroque delivery and a pronounced ornery streak he proudly displays on "Country My Ass," in which he attacks watered-down C&W with the couplet "Force feed us that shit / Ain't you real tired of it?" Moreover, he actually lives the country life, as director Zalman King learned while making Crazy Again, a 2006 documentary in which Watson tells about the nervous breakdown he suffered after a car accident killed his girlfriend; during the worst moments of his madness, he believed Satan was talking to him directly. Watson's struggles, as well as his adventures, inform every note of his best recordings, including 2006's From the Cradle to the Grave, in ways that the Tims and Faiths and Kennys of the world can't possibly replicate. That, my friends, is country.
