AltWeeklies Wire
Jana Hunter Isn't in a Talkative Moodnew
We're in a small conference room listening to her new CD, There's No Home, and instead of the usual barely contained enthusiasm most singer/songwriters display, Hunter is wearing a little frown.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
04-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jana Hunter
Translating Critic-speaknew
Ever read a CD review and think, "What the hell does that mean?" We do. Sometimes readers need a cheat sheet to decipher the terms critics use, so we thought we'd start a Critics Dictionary.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
04-03-2007 |
Music
Cyrus Rafizadeh Investigates ORIXnew

In what he calls "the mother of all lawsuits for criminal violations of SEC regulations," Rafizadeh sued Wells Fargo and its loan servicer, Dallas-based ORIX, for fraud after they sued and bankrupted his mom.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
04-03-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Saint Matthew's Churches, Inc.new
Christians send in money for prayer requests which may just go up in smoke.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
03-27-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
'The Whole Houston Sound'new
Honky-tonk hero explores his hardscrabble Houston roots with an autobiography and a CD.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Johnny Bush
Song Title Scramblenew
We took the top 20 songs on the Billboard hit singles chart and scrambled the words in the titles and came up with new, improved (and we hope clever) titles.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
03-05-2007 |
Music
SXSW, Wtf?new
The evolution of SXSW into the goliath it is today might or might not have been inevitable, but once its momentum started, it was difficult to stop.
Houston Press |
Jonanna Widner |
03-05-2007 |
Music
Everyone's All-Americannew
Joe Savery and the top-ranked Rice Owls fight for college baseball glory.
Houston Press |
Richard Connelly |
02-13-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Zero to Fiftynew
Red Star of the Solar Federation started as an instrumental sludge-rock band -- now they've added vocals.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
02-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fadin' Renegadenew
Doug Supernaw's long, sad spiral.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
02-13-2007 |
Music
Tags: Doug Supernaw
The Anti-Drummer Drummernew
VietNam's Michael Foss on the band's "off the norm" ways.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
02-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vietnam
How to Hide Your Weednew

An ex-cop from East Texas decides to switch sides.
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
02-05-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Coming Soon: New Music Genresnew
Gangsta jazz (repped by Branford Marsalis), underground gospel, and more.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
01-31-2007 |
Music
Goodbye Joe, Me Gotta Gonew
There are 25,000 Cajuns in Houston, and almost none of them play Cajun music -- why not?
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
01-31-2007 |
Music
Whose Best Interests?new
Margie Hill got sick, became a ward of the county and was moved to a nursing home; son Marvin wants her back home -- but she can't get out.
Houston Press |
Todd Spivak |
01-31-2007 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families