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Potential governor candidate Matthew McConaughey is very chummy with proto-fascist Jordan Peterson.

Even should the Cyber Ninjas audit some up with proof that the election was stolen, Joe Biden would still be president.

“I’m going to need Governor Greg Abbott at some point to look directly into a camera and say, ‘I support a 13-year-old being forced to carry her grandfather’s baby to term.’” I was really proud of myself when I thought up that line above. For me, nothing better encapsulated the cruelty and misguided nature of the “heartbeat bill” that Abbott signed into law last week. It was short, quippy, brutal, and true, and I couldn’t wait to try it out on the constellation of conservative...

Jef Rouner May 21, 2021Updated: May 21, 2021, 7:11 am “The Last Cruise” is about the voyage of the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship that saw the first COVID-19 outbreak outside China. Photo: HBO A lot of great art is made during times of historic unrest, but it’s also hard to really understand those social cataclysms while you’re living through them. It’s like trying to draw a snake from memory after it’s swallowed you. Nonetheless, some filmmakers have tried to put the ...

The Houston Arboretum opens it's new playscape for kids to go wild in.

When discussing things with the vaccine-hesitant, there are several different tracks that the conversation can take. One is where it devolves into a conversation about freedom, sometimes even appropriating the language of the pro-choice movement with “my body, my choice.” This is very frustrating because willfully choosing to not get vaccinated is actively oppressing other people. It’s a personal choice to literally make others have less freedom. The problem has always been that this disc...

This week, the Texas House Committee on Public Education dealt what might be a fatal blow to a bill that would have mandated trans athletes compete only in sports that corresponded to the gender they were assigned at birth. The bill was voted down by the committee, leaving it unlikely that it will be passed in the brief time left in the 87th Legislative Session. “We thank the members of the House Public Education committee for their votes today against SB 29, but still do not understand why ...

In a city that is well known for treating history like it’s a rotting tree stump in need of dynamiting to build as sweet-ass dirt bike ramp, I have a particular fondness for graves. Specifically, the ones that somehow endure in strange places when all sense says they should have been destroyed and/or forgotten. In 2018, that’s how I found the lost lonely chapel of Nancy Adleman, but today’s cemetery find is far from the beaten path. In fact, it’s literally butted up against one of the ...

The latest in the survival horror video game franchise zeroes in on unsettling encounters in a remote European village.

Jef Rouner May 3, 2021 Pedro Pascal, as Din Djarin, with the Child in “The Mandalorian.” Photo: Disney+ The galaxy far, far away is bound to get a whole lot bigger. After the second season of “The Mandalorian” wrapped up in December, Disney announced eight upcoming projects set in the “Star Wars” universe, including live-action spin-offs starring Jedis Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano. New animated fare is also on the horizon, starting with “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,”...