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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 discussion is put in terms of individualism. People see this as the government or other entities making ...

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 some in the legislature would go out of their way to hurt anyone’s kids?” said Zeph Capo, presid...

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 biggest freeways in Houston, I found it when I was on an errand to secure a PlayStation 5 from the t...

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,” premiering Tuesday on Disney+. That’s a lot of stars to war over. But what are the sources of thi...