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One of the more frustrating things about the remote learning process over the last year is that my daughter’s school district has never really addressed what the hell to do when she is ill. Luckily, she’s been pretty healthy (turns out your kids gets sick a lot less when they never interact with the other walking petri dishes), but over the course of 2020 we discovered that she had inherited chronic migraines from my wife. That means that for a couple of days she was not feeling well enough...

I got a PlayStation 5, but I’m still really unhappy with how I did. Originally, I was going to use part of my first stimulus check in 2020 to set-up a pre-order for the system at GameStop like I did with my PS4. Delays in getting that check meant I missed the very narrow window, and of course being in a global pandemic that affected most of the arts and events I freelance cover in this city meant that I quickly had other uses for that $500. When the new year rolled around, I would continuousl...

Handwritten signs calling President Biden a traitor have appeared all over the city.

Prison rape jokes only make the world a less safe place

In the aftermath of Derek Chauvins conviction for murdering Houstonian George Floyd, the subject of what it means to interact with the cops has never been timelier. Enter Brooklyn artist Shaun Leonardo, who will be presenting a piece called “Your First Interaction With Police” at the University of Houston main campus. The work is a constantly evolving dialogue about how people from all walks of life experience meeting with cops. “To portray and feel deeply a fuller self that is not conta...

Senator Ted Cruz met with the marine corporal who has been sitting outside his home to protest his anti-military actions.

On Wednesday, State Rep. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) went before the House State Affairs Committee to advocate for House Bill 2497, which would create the 1836 Project. We should be very worried that it’s a bunch of Confederate glorifications in disguise. The bill would create an advisory board to promote “patriotic education” in Texas schools. The name is taken from the founding of the Republic of Texas in 1836 but is also obviously a call back to former President Donald Trump’s ridic...

COVID has been hard on the local film industry, with a lot of filmmakers unable to operate safe sets to continue their craft. However, at least one has managed to release something so rampagingly puerile and obscene that it can’t help but be admired. That man is Jeremy Sumrall ( Pickaxe), who has finally put out the fake trailer, Cannibal Call Girls From Hell. It had a debut at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin over the past weekend. The project was originally for a mock trailer contest at Tex...

I was obsessed with Resident Evil as a teenager to the point that I got into at least one screaming argument with my brother over a plot point in a spin-off novel ( Caliban Cove, represent). As the series moved away from its survival horror roots into a more military tactical direction, I lost interest, but like everyone else on the internet I perked back up when I saw the giant vampire lady with the swag hat starring in the upcoming Resident Evil: Village. Coincidentally, Sony was offering ...

People making outrageous claims about Six Days In Fallujah are doing so without evidence. Its time to get a grip.