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12:30 pm
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Lesbian Lovers, Straight Allies, And How Far Harris County Has To Go A handful of weeks ago, before Carrie Thompson showed up with her partner, Jane, at the east entrance to last weekend's Pride Parade, she sat before a Harris County Family Court judge. Jane could... More >>
Hair Balls
12:00 pm
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
UH Fans Need To Step Up And Start Showing Up Today is the official first day of the Houston Cougars as members of the American Athletic Conference. And while this isn't quite the conference upgrade the Cougars were hoping when they signed up... More >>
Hair Balls
10:00 am
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Louie Gohmert Announces that Soviet Sex Education Taught Him to Bring King Crab to Welfare Recipients, or Something I had no idea Louie Gohmert once lived in the Soviet Union. Apparently, during the 1970s, the man headed to the USSR on some form of exchange program -- the details remain murky -- and had a chan... More >>
Hair Balls
9:00 am
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Royce White (@Highway_30) Is Saying Weird Things On Twitter Again "A lot of talk... 'Cut Royce', 'Trade Royce', only a few players with my skill set in the WHOLE league... everybody knows it. #RedNation" -- Royce White, 6/30/13 on Twitter And just like that Roy... More >>
Hair Balls
8:00 am
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Steven Mark Weinstein (The Guy Who Had a Body in His Trunk) Might Get a New Trial Back in 2008, Steven Mark Weinstein was convicted for murder after a man was found dead and decomposing in the trunk of Weinstein's car. Now Weinstein might be granted a new trial by the Court o... More >>
Hair Balls
7:00 am
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Rockets' Sole Focus in Free Agency Is Landing Howard, Adding Pieces to Compliment Him If free agent center Dwight Howard emerged from his late-night meal with the Rockets posse understanding one thing, it should be that there is no other target in the team's pursuit of a champio... More >>
Hair Balls
6:00 am
Jul. 1, 2013
Houston News
Florida Gator Crime: Walk-On Punter Gets DUI on a Scooter Aaron Hernandez is now a former New England Patriot, former in every sense of the word, having been scrubbed clean from the team's website and having his replica jersey the target of a "free excha... More >>
Hair Balls
2:00 pm
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Bummer Summer: The Most Boring Time in Houston Sports Starts Now My favorite day of the year is October 1. I carries with it both excitement and the promise of more. The first wisps of cool air will likely have breezed through our area teasing us for what is t... More >>
Hair Balls
1:00 pm
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Patrick Plots Path to Lieutenant Governor, Bashing Dewhurst in Opening Announcement In one of the worst-kept secrets in Texas, State Sen. Dan Patrick announced Thursday that he was throwing his hat in the ring for the 2014 election for Texas lieutenant governor. Patrick, the cu... More >>
Hair Balls
11:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Two-Headed Turtle at the San Antonio Zoo: The End Times Are Upon Us As if Sen. Wendy Davis's filibustering wasn't an awful enough affront to the Lord our God, the San Antonio Zoo has unleashed a monster upon the world that must surely be a harbinger of Armageddo... More >>
Hair Balls
10:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Quiet Draft for Rockets Nets PG, Dream Shake and Twitter Controversy When the most exciting thing you can say about your draft night is that the greatest player in franchise history was there to wish the commissioner well in his retirement and your current best pla... More >>
Hair Balls
9:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Adventures In YouTube: "Changed" Aaron Hernandez On The Day He Signed His Contract Extension In 2012 Last Tuesday, on the morning of June 18, less than 48 hours after the state of Massachusetts (and anyone with half a brain) contends that Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd, Hernandez tweeted thi... More >>
Hair Balls
8:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
New Voter ID, Unavailable in Seventy Counties in State, Opens With Wealth of Issues Remaining Between Sen. Wendy Davis's filibuster and the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, this week has been a strangely successful one for progressives in Texas. However... More >>
Hair Balls
7:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
North Forest ISD at the End of the Line? Judge Rejects Ruling, HISD Moves Forward If bookies are taking bets on whether North Forest ISD will get swallowed up by HISD on Monday, it looks like the smart money is on HISD. HISD officials seem pretty darn confident about it, co... More >>
Hair Balls
6:00 am
Jun. 28, 2013
Houston News
Where Have You Gone Milo Hamilton? A Fanbase Turns Its Bleeding Ears to You The Astros are soon to hit the halfway point of the season. And while the baseball team is playing somewhat better baseball, when it comes to the radio broadcast, they still come off as one of th... More >>
Hair Balls
1:32 pm
Jun. 27, 2013
Houston News
We Don't Get an Actual Shuttle, but We Get a Chance to Name a Fake One! Houston has long maintained a kind of inferiority complex. Even now after publications from coast to coast have proclaimed our surprising hipness, we still get things stuck in our craw. Case in ... More >>
Hair Balls
12:30 pm
Jun. 27, 2013
Houston News
NBA Draft is Tonight, But Rockets Real Draft Begins Monday Hours before the start of the NBA Draft, one of the most anticipated nights for basketball fans, a large majority of those following the Rockets are yawning. At the moment, the Rockets do not have... More >>
Hair Balls
11:00 am
Jun. 27, 2013
Houston News
A T-Rex, an Investigation, and #SitDownWendy - Catching Up With the Filibuster Fallout Forty-eight hours after Sen. Wendy Davis began the Great Texas Abortion Filibuster, the state has gathered its breath. Having spent nearly a full work day suffering through the largest Democratic... More >>
Hair Balls
10:00 am
Jun. 27, 2013
Houston News
Unpaid Traffic Fines Mean You Can't Renew Your Car Registration in League City There was a possibility that if you were caught speeding or blasting through that red light you could get away without paying the ticket you received. Sure, you would get a few phone calls, may... More >>
Hair Balls
9:00 am
Jun. 27, 2013
Houston News
Weather Weekend: Could We Reach Triple Digits for the First Time This Year? In case you had not left your home the last few days or have been in cryogenic freezing until just now -- that's weird -- you probably noticed it has been hot outside. Like really hot. Yesterday,... More >>

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Stay of Execution Stay of Execution

SPACED CITY Going into the meeting of the Harris County Sports & Convention Corporation board last week, held in the glassy glory that is Reliant Stadium, there was a certain dread… More >>

Deadly Charades: Double Lives, Extortion and the Suicide of a Respected Professor Deadly Charades: Double Lives, Extortion and the Suicide of a Respected Professor

At 10:29 a.m. on January 8, Texas A&M; Communications Professor Jim Aune stood on the roof of a campus parking garage and texted the man who had been extorting him… More >>

Unleashing Houston's Pride Unleashing Houston's Pride

It has been 44 years since the now-famous Stonewall riots of New York City, which are often considered the single most monumental event in the history of gay and lesbian… More >>

Unleashing Houston's Pride: Events Unleashing Houston's Pride: Events

EVENT LISTINGS Friday, June 21 Eden: A Pride Girl Party The Usual, 5519 Allen theusualpub.com Hey, ladies! It's time to get funky. Swing by The Usual for the first-ever Pride event dedicated to the female… More >>

The Tattler

Highlights from Hair Balls Courts Ex-hand surgeon Michael "More Cocaine, Please" Brown once told his bodyguard to "suck my dick," and chased his wife Rachel around the grounds of his Memorial Drive… More >>

Chemically Burned: Dow Chemical Tries to Avoid Hot Water in Worker's Death Chemically Burned: Dow Chemical Tries to Avoid Hot Water in Worker's Death

His skin was on fire. Brian Johns couldn't feel exactly what was happening to him through the jolt of endorphins and adrenaline pumping through his body, but the acid was… More >>

Dear 59/610 Exchange Drivers, Seriously, WTF?

Highlights from Hair Balls Spaced City Hi, fellow Houston drivers. Listen, if you ever drive on Loop 610 or Interstate 59 and use the intersection of those two freeways, we need to talk.… More >>

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