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“Feast” fit for a king
Ah, balance. My calves’ liver was perfectly balanced on top of a mound of mashed potatoes, with a few rashers of bacon on top, awash in a warm brown sea of gravy. Feast bills its cuisine as “rustic European fare,” a tradition involving “nose to tail” use of proteins. This restaurant, while amazing, is not […]
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April 13, 2009
Texas Representative Betty Brown(R, Terrell) thinks Asians should change their names for ease of pronunciation, she suggested while talking with Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey Ko. On the same day in Oklahoma, Representative Randy Terrell (R-Moore) sponsored a bill designating English as the state language of Oklahoma. It may be these English-speaking isolationist legislators […]
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State bill provides protections necessary for freedom of press
April 2, 2009
Vanessa Leggett didn’t want to become an informant for the federal prosecutors’ office in 2001. On July 20, 2001, she was incarcerated for not turning in subpoenaed material collected on the case. Wednesday, the Texas House overwhelmingly approved HB 670, the Texas Free Flow of Information Act, with a 146-2 vote. The bill provides limited […]
Posted in: Editorials
“Measuring your Grave” with Dumas at Menil
March 31, 2009
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 […]
Posted in: Columns
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 […]
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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?
Posted in: story ideas
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?
Posted in: story ideas
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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in: Editorials, Politics
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.
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Houston Gadfly 
April 23, 2009
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