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Janis Joplin's 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 found Joplin singing Kris Kristofferson’s words with both coiled restraint and enormous feeling....

World-renowned expert Ben Neuman shares which COVID vaccine he'd 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 now shaking our world, he served on the panel that named it. (Officially, it’s not “the ‘rona.�...

Hearst Foundations award $100,000 to the Women's Home in Houston FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A former resident at The Woman's 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 Woman's 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, and becoming part of her children's lives once more. Cathy, 42, is now an instructor at Paul Mi...

Houston's Premier Wrestling Federation still delivers hits during quarantine Jef Rouner, Correspondent FacebookTwitterEmail Chris Carter (left) vs. RTK fight in a match from Houston's 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 in-ring talent and a penchant for world-class theatrics, albeit on a smaller scale. The company was...

ZZ Top's 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 tickets for the Nov. 10 concert at the Toyota Center in Houston will go on sale Friday. (Photo by ...