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Bayousphere
"We are SO going to kick Colt ass today!! Whooo!! I am talking a 17-point lead with five minutes to go!!! But I gotta leave early, so I hope I don't miss anything in those last five minutes." Arturo Murillo, a.k.a. El Toro Loco, was probably a little...
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…
Apologize: Hurricane Ike was an S.O.B., but Eisenhower was not a bastard ["You Bastard!" by Richard Connelly, September 18]. He was truly a great American hero and deserves respect and honor, especially from an organization that benefits from th...
Hitler’s Desk, Death of a Bookstore, and Premium Problems
Houstonian Jack McConn has a desk set he wants to sell. It's not just any old desk set, mind you. It's the one Hitler used to sign the Munich Pact back in 1938. (For those of you who skipped history class that day, the Munich Pact was an agreement b...
How Many Innocent People Has Harris County Sent to Prison?
Ronald Gene Taylor's long night began one morning 15 years ago when he was awakened by the sound of police kicking in the neighbor's door. Taylor was 33 years old at the time — a black man who had dropped out of high school, served time in pri...
The Cardinals
As skipper of the Cardinals, Ryan Adams has made some moves like another noted Redbird: St. Louis baseball manager Tony La Russa. Adams tools with the group's lineup and modulates the game plan due to each player's strengths, though some of his metho...
Paul Winstanley & Nameless Sound
In certain Houston circles, the words "Lexington Street" are spoken in the hushed, reverent tones reserved for other bohemian enclaves like San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury or Chicago's Wicker Park. For several years in the early to mid-'90s, the...

