Houston Jewish Community Center Among 11 to Receive Bomb Threats Across...
A Houston Jewish community center became the latest target of slew of coordinated bomb threats across the country, which have come in waves on a regular basis since January. Around 10 a.m. Monday, the...
View ArticleRefusing to Watch LGBT Video, Houston Judge Sues Employer for Religious...
While some florists and bakers have refused to serve gay couples in the name of "religious freedom," an administrative social security judge in Houston is taking that argument to a whole new level....
View ArticleSupreme Court Gives Duane Buck a New Chance to Appeal His Death Sentence
Duane Buck has long argued that a Harris County jury sentenced him to death by lethal injection partly due to racial prejudice after a psychologist called by his own attorney testified that Buck was...
View ArticleState Rep. Farrar Wants To Make Masturbation a Punishable Offense In Pointed...
If all potential life is sacred then masturbation is a waste of baby-making material, state Rep. Jessica Farrar has concluded in a newly filed bill. Republicans in the state legislature are fond of...
View ArticleState AG Paxton Claims Texas School's Prayer Room Is for Muslims Only (It's Not)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton criticized a north Texas school district for providing a prayer space only for Muslim students — but the district says it accommodates students of all faiths, and the...
View ArticleA $1 Bill Has Landed a NASA Scientist in a Turkish Prison for Nine Months
When Serkan Golge and his wife, Kubra, boarded a plane at George Bush Intercontinental Airport to visit Turkey last summer with their two sons, they had no idea they were walking into a political...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules Texas Can't Use "Lennie Test" To Execute Mentally Disabled
More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot execute a mentally disabled person, the Supreme Court has nixed the Of Mice and Men standards that Texas has been using to...
View ArticleTexas Bill Would Allow Clerks to Refuse to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
This June will mark two years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to legalize gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, but even now Texas lawmakers are still trying to chip away the rights brought to...
View ArticleRep. Al Green Receives Racist Death Threats After Calling for Trump's...
After calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump last week, U.S. Rep. Al Green of Houston received a host of racist death threats on his voicemail and email. Green played recordings of the...
View ArticleIn White House Meeting With Erdogan, Trump Doesn't Mention American Jailed in...
Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old scientist employed at the Johnson Space Center and an American citizen who has made his home in Houston the past three years, has been held in Turkey for 10 months, with...
View ArticleTexas Supreme Court Declines to Extend Marriage Benefits to Gay Couples — For...
Another state trial court is going to be reviewing whether the City of Houston has the right to extend city-employee benefits to the spouses of same-sex couples, thanks to the latest decision from the...
View ArticleTurkey Denies Bail for Jailed NASA Scientist — Again
Before Serkan Golge left Old Dominion University in Virginia to start his job at the Johnson Space Center in 2013, he gave his friend and colleague Alicia Hofler a map of Turkey as a gift, with the...
View ArticleDPS Finds Trooper in Sandra Bland Traffic Stop Failed to Follow Protocol
When Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia pulled Sandra Bland over after she failed to signal a lane change in Waller County on July 21, 2015, Encinia claimed that Bland's...
View ArticleOlympic Gymnast McKayla Maroney Says She Was Molested At Karolyi Ranch
As the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal continues to unfold, a former Olympic gymnast took to Twitter on Wednesday to remind everyone that the reality of powerful men taking advantage of girls and women is...
View ArticleDickinson Demands People Seeking Harvey Relief Promise Not To Boycott Israel
Before you can receive any money from the City of Dickinson to start rebuilding your home or your business, the city is going to need you to make a few promises. You'll have to follow all the building...
View ArticleNASA Scientist Held in Turkey Denied Bail Yet Again
At this point it's not exactly a surprise that Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old physicist and U.S.-Turkish dual citizen who has been held in Turkey for more than a year on charges of his alleged involvement...
View ArticleHorna Show at White Swan Cancelled After Outcry Calling Them Nazis and...
Houston music has been in a decidedly “fuck Nazis and their Nazi bullshit” mood for the past few years. The latest skirmish in that fight was a public outcry against an upcoming show by Horna at White...
View ArticleMac Sabbath's Fast Food Philosophy
This is Texas, where we take our beef seriously. After all, we are residents of the state where Oprah Winfrey was sued by an Amarillo cattleman for disparaging the food on her talk show. Remember, this...
View ArticleFlogging Molly Say Life is Good on Land and on Sea
In recent years, the marriage of live music and the high seas has been particularly thriving – not to mention fruitful and multiplying. It seems that cruises either centered around a specific band...
View ArticleThe Metal God Confesses Everything. And He Means Everything
Confess: The Autobiography By Rob Halford 368 pp. $30 Hachette Books For much of the 1970’s and ‘80s, even as he was fronting Judas Priest, one of the most popular, loved, and revered heavy metal bands...
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