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“Measuring your Grave” with Dumas at Menil
Dutch painter Marlene Dumas uses the human face and body as a canvas to display the range of emotion, politics and gender concerns. Dumas is an internationally celebrated painter, and is featured in a mid-career survey exhibition now at the Menil Collection titled Measuring Your Own Grave. The exhibition has toured since summer 2008 and […]
JoCo Paul&Storm review
March 26, 2009
Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy, and Jonathan Coulton tells us all about it. Coulton’s brand of music is part folk, part soft rock, with a little nerdcore thrown in. If you enjoy getting your geek on, this is the act for you. His set at the relatively new House of Blues Friday March 13 […]
Best stock tip this year
March 12, 2009
The chronicle ran a fantastic story about the link between corrupt tycoons and sporting team sponsorship. What are the ramifications for our college athletes?
Grass-mud horsing around
March 12, 2009
China’s repressive censorship laws hit a classic rut—or is that a hoofprint? And why is Texas beating the internet regulation dead horse?
Cornering interest in SGA elections
March 12, 2009
Parking, jobs and the ever-rising fee-bill are only a few challenges facing students in their coming semesters. Student candidates for today and tomorrow’s SGA elections are focusing on these concerns to get students to polls. Students graduating in May are going to be scrambling for jobs. According to CNN, they will be job hunting in […]
Shenanigans in SGA election
March 12, 2009
Politics in Texas has always been a little spicier than in other states, but that is no reason for shady tactics during the UH Student Government Association Spring 2009 election. Tuesday night, The Daily Cougar received a tip that the “Red Now” party was at the Cougar Den bar on campus and was offering free […]
March 3, 2009
Desmond Tutu speaks behind Sudan’s about the imminent issuance of a warrant for the Darfur genocide. Highly educated immigrants are leaving the U.S. in droves, for a variety of reasons.
service journalism
March 3, 2009
http://blogs.chron.com/aboutchron/archives/2009/02/mayor_white_jud_1.html Chronicle work prompts investigation of federal judge for sexual misconduct, obstruction of justice.
Ellen Cohen rides again
March 2, 2009
Rep. Cohen, founder of area charity Houston Area Women’s Center, is revisiting the idea of a fee per patron at Houston strip clubs, the proceeds of which would benefit local sexual assault and prevention programs.
Story ideas
March 2, 2009
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3472872.html NYT editorial on exculpatory DNA evidence after conviction. Texas may have executed a man whose DNA would have saved him. What does the UH Law school folks have to say about this? What about the political science folks? Still lots of financial mismanagement: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25dowd.html Health care: Kristof uses student as example. Might be a […]
Houston Gadfly 
March 31, 2009
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