Message-ID: <5218596.1075853085292.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:30:04 -0700 (PDT) From: newsletter-request@lists.houstonpress.com To: newsletter@lists.houstonpress.com Subject: This week in www.houstonpress.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: newsletter-request@lists.houstonpress.com X-To: newsletter@lists.houstonpress.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MCUILLA (Non-Privileged)\Cuilla, Martin\Deleted Items X-Origin: Cuilla-M X-FileName: MCUILLA (Non-Privileged).pst ====================== houstonpress.com Newsletter October 18, 2001 http://www.houstonpress.com ====================== Burn off some calories and help the Child ID Program. Sign up for the Houston Press Dome Run. Events include a 10K, 5K Walk, 5K Run, and a Kids K. Register before November 3rd and save $7. http://www.houstonpress.com/domerun/2001/index.html?src=newsletter For more information on the Child ID program, visit: http://www.childidprogram.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEWS & FEATURES http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/news_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Saving Nicholas He was hurt by his mother, ripped away from the foster parents who loved him and put in an institution where he was abused. That's when Alice and Ellery Riha really decided to fight. By Brian Wallstin http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/feature.html/page1.html?src=newsletter Payback Time? Dick DeGuerin beat the IRS. Now there's a bigger war over basic rights. By George Flynn http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/news.html?src=newsletter Fine Arts Fallout Will local groups get hammered by the post-terrorist hotel tax dive? By Jennifer Mathieu http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/news2.html?src=newsletter Taking Aim Texas inmates fleeing the coop might as well pin targets on their backs, under a new prison policy. By Melissa Hung http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/news3.html?src=newsletter But Who's Counting? Thousands of students disappear from our schools yearly, but the TEA insists they're not dropouts By Margaret Downing http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/downing.html?src=newsletter Reel War The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles By Robert Wilonsky http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/stuff.html?src=newsletter Letters Don't Fault CPS, Skirting the Issue, Bearing Witness http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/letters.html?src=newsletter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NIGHT & DAY http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/nightday_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Opera Is Cool The "Elvis of Opera" plays down his pop-star status By Dylan Otto Krider http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/calendar.html?src=newsletter They See Dead People Houston's glut of construction may just be pissing off the ghosts of this town By Dylan Otto Krider http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/calendar2.html?src=newsletter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAFE http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/cafe_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Kirby Kong Exotic Hong Kong-style seafood inside the Loop By Robb Walsh http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/cafe.html?src=newsletter Imagine All the Pitas Houstonians have broad minds, and stomachs By George Alexander http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/dish.html?src=newsletter Dude, Where's My Car? Regina Ruiz By Robb Walsh http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/toque.html?src=newsletter Road Warrior Roadster Grill By Melanie Knight http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/plate.html?src=newsletter Stirred and Shaken Mark's Maker's Mark Lemonade By George Alexander http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/stirred.html?src=newsletter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MUSIC http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/music_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Wizard of Boz Boz Scaggs evolves along with his beloved R&B By Bob Ruggiero http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/music.html?src=newsletter Be Cool Elmore Leonard finds fodder for fiction in the Stone Coyotes, a real-life rock and roll band By Aaron Howard http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/music2.html?src=newsletter School Daze Pot Roast's Sebastian Ayus dishes out open-ended jams and bleary-eyed Texas history By Mike Emery http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/music3.html?src=newsletter Racket Local music goes unnoticed in the Bayou City By John Nova Lomax http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/racket.html?src=newsletter I Want My M(ontrose) TV! Video killed the radio bars, at least in Montrose By Craig D. Lindsey http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/nightfly.html?src=newsletter Playbill The Butthole Surfers By Rob Patterson http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/playbill.html?src=newsletter Playbill Robbie Fulks By Rob Patterson http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/playbill2.html?src=newsletter Minibill Albert & Gage By Rob Patterson http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/minibill.html?src=newsletter Minibill Bianca DeLeon By John Nova Lomax http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/minibill2.html?src=newsletter Minibill The Magnetic IV By John Nova Lomax http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/minibill3.html?src=newsletter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FILM http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/film_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Hollywood Hells David Lynch crashes on Mulholland Drive, but the wreckage is smashing By Gregory Weinkauf http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/film.html?src=newsletter Dead Last Redford and Lurie wave the flag but fail to earn their stripes. By Luke Y. Thompson http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/film2.html?src=newsletter Blood Brothers Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell. By Gregory Weinkauf http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/film3.html?src=newsletter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ARTS & THEATER http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/arts_toc.html?src=newsletter ========================================= Culture Schlock Alley's Art blows funny and formidable holes in our pseudo-fashionable ways. By Lee Williams http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/theater.html?src=newsletter High-Tech Spectacle Jennifer Steinkamp and Sharon Engelstein bring back the big and bold. By Kelly Klaasmeyer http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-10-18/art.html?src=newsletter ===================================================================== If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the following word unsubscribe on a line by itself in the body (not the subject) of an email to: newsletter-request@lists.houstonpress.com ===================================================================== houstonpress.com weekly news eLetter from Houston Press Copyright 2001 New Times. All rights reserved. Read our Privacy Policy http://www.houstonpress.com/about/privacy_policy.html