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A Texas School Reopens and Everyone Holds Their Breath
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—On the eighth day of opening a school to students, Superintendent Eddie Conger marveled that there were no reported Covid-19 cases. He had established safety measures, some beyond federal guidelines, but still was braced for the virus to strike. In a conference room that day, he got a jolt. An administrator told him a laser temperature check in the drop-off lane revealed a student with a fever.
Apartment Evictions Are Mounting in Houston, and Could Get Worse
It was 9:07 a.m. when Cammessia Mitchell started banging on a courtroom door in Southwest Houston. She thought she was early for her June eviction hearing. Minutes later, she learned that her landlord had already won the case. She is appealing the decision next month, but if she loses Ms. Mitchell could be kicked out of her home of 14 years because of the rent payments she has missed during the pandemic after losing her job. “The...
Sax Appeal - Houston CityBook
It’s a sticky September afternoon, and inside Salento Bistro in Rice Village, patrons are enjoying the cafe’s air-conditioned ambience, many conversing in both Spanish and English. Seated on a vintage couch, ignoring her espresso and croissant, singer-saxophonist Evelyn Rubio leans forward, describing the first time she heard Aretha Franklin. “I was like, wait a minute. What’s that?” says Rubio, who was raised in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a densely populated and dangerous slum of Mexico City.
Punk Princes - Houston CityBook
A tray of tequila shots emerges from the band-sticker-poxed doors of Montrose hipster haunt Poison Girl before making a rough landing on a rusty and paint-chipped metal table around which the members of four-piece punk outfit Ruiners are assembled for a much-needed, mid-week drink-slamming session. The shots go up with a cheers and go down without a grimace, not unlike the energetic and pleasantly angsty tracks on the band’s new album Typecast, which dropped in early September.
A Growing Number of People Are Navigating Retirement Alone. This Woman Is Spearheading a Movement to Change That
Carol Marak helped her aging parents for a total of six years, frequently driving the 125 miles between her home in Dallas and theirs in West, Texas, to shop, clean, cook and do other tasks for them. “I realized there are so many demands in giving care to an older person,” says Marak, now 67. “I don’t have family to do that for me.” So in February 2016, she started the Elder Orphans Facebook group, which has since grown to 8,000 members.
Brother’s Keeper
When Stephanie Wittels Wachs appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers in February to talk about her new memoir recounting the death of her actor-comedian brother Harris Wittels by a heroin overdose, she channeled a bit of his inimitable and irreverent sense of humor. “I can’t think of a better way to honor him, than [for you] to read his response to an email from NBC execs inviting him to a sexual harassment seminar,” said Meyers.
The Ex-Navy SEAL Who Inspired 'Lone Survivor' on Learning to Recover
I thought I was too small to be a Navy SEAL. When I started working out in high school, I was so tiny that I could barely lift a 45-pound barbell. I would drink three 4,000-calorie milkshakes a day, then wake up in the middle of the night and have a fourth and two peanut-butter sandwiches. But I still couldn’t gain an ounce. I played tennis and was in drama, because I was too small for football. When I graduated from high school, I was 5’6?, 154 pounds. I just didn’t grow right.
ACL in Pics: Radiohead, M83, Kendrick Lamar and More
Since expanding to two weekends in 2013, the annual Austin City Limits music festival has been able to offer two chances to see your favorite touring acts. Here are some of ours from the 15th annual concert extravaganza, which wrapped up over the weekend.
Free Press Summer Fest Shines in the Rain
Though a tiny, intense, whirling, dancing dervish of a kid threatened to steal the spotlight at this year's Free Press Summer Fest, it was still the headliners at this year's festival that brought the house down over the weekend.
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