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Janis Joplins posthumous masterpiece turns 50 FacebookTwitterEmail Janis Joplin in London.Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix, Contributor / Getty Images Fifty years ago, Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half-century later, the sound of an artist really finding her voice. “Pearl” contained Joplin’s take on “Me and Bobby McGee,” an instantly revered recording that...

World-renowned expert Ben Neuman shares which COVID vaccine hed take, given the choice FacebookTwitterEmail This week virologist Ben Neuman answers questions from readers. Before most of us knew what a coronavirus even was, Neuman was one of the world’s top experts on them. He’s science-world famous for growing SARS-type coronavirus in the lab and is a professor of biology, and Global Health Research Complex Chief Virologist at Texas A&M University. Soon after the discovery of the virus no...

Hearst Foundations award $100,000 to the Womens Home in Houston FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A former resident at The Womans Home residential rehab program, Cathy Bradley, 42, center, with her Paul Mitchell student volunteers, at left, Heather Williams, Johnathan Gonzalez, Sharon Fontenot and Patrice Green at The Womans Home Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, in Houston. Bradley, who found her way into the program 6 years ago, is one of the success stories, kicking her dependence on drugs, enrolling in school...

Houstons Premier Wrestling Federation still delivers hits during quarantine Jef Rouner, Correspondent FacebookTwitterEmail Chris Carter (left) vs. RTK fight in a match from Houstons Premier Wrestling FederationCourtesy Premier Wrestling Federation The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on the wrestling industry and has led to bizarre spectacles such as tapings in empty arenas. One Houston company, Premier Wrestling Federation, has managed to hold together through a combination of incredible i...

ZZ Tops first album turns 50.The making of an iconic Texas band. FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 FILE - In this June 24, 2016, file photo, Dusty Hill, left, and Billy Gibbons from the rock band ZZ Top perform at the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm, in Somerset, England. Joe Walsh will be joined by ZZ Top, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, and Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit at his VetsAid music festival to benefit veterans. The award-winning musician announced Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, that...

Memoir tracks a career from Houston to the White House with Jimmy Carter FacebookTwitterEmail Raised in Houston, Barry Jagoda is the author of Journeys With Jimmy Carter and Other Adventures in Media.File Deep into his memoir about a life in journalism and media, Barry Jagoda looks back on his college years and recalls an old poly-sci class in which he learned the definition of “politics”: “the skill of resolving conflict.” Jagoda’s career would take him through news, the White House ...