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Bridget Brown
- April 13, 2005
Medicine show brings back roots
Eight years ago, a coffee shop called The Mausoleum was a small shack of a house better known as an underground haven for the club across the street's (Numbers Nightclub) Friday-night gothic spillover. Now,...
- March 22, 2005
Walker shakes it for rodeo fans
Clay Walker brought the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to a close Sunday night, and not without offering his backside ample time on the jumbo screen. Stephen Pinchback/The Daily CougarIt was the season for...
- March 11, 2005
Urban becomes a rodeo legend
Keith Urban may not have been born in Nashville or anywhere near it, but the Australian proved with his performance at RodeoHouston that birthplace will not stop him from going country.Stephen Pinchback/The Daily CougarKeith...
- March 4, 2005
Rodeo features festivities enjoyed by all walks of life
You could almost hear The Good, the Bad and The Ugly theme song whirring on the wind as five cowboys swaggered with their boots clanking in unison up the long walkway to the Houston...
- January 25, 2005
Grade A acts set to perform at Rodeo
The soulful songtress and Grammy award winner Alicia Keys will perform this year on Black Heritage Day at the Rodeo on March 4. Photo courtesy of J RecordsAfter the calves are roped, the bucking...
- October 27, 2004
Spirits spy on Spaghetti servers
Before new employees get comfy with the table numbers, menu or wine list at the Spaghetti Warehouse downtown, they must first learn the most important aspect of working at the century-old building — watch...
- October 19, 2004
They do Voodoo
Snapshot lights lit up the pitch black sky over New Orleans' City Park on Sunday night as tourists got a bit too comfortable with the NooMoon Tribes' the Worms Union. They laughed into the...
- October 15, 2004
New Orleans keeps up ‘best fest’ tradition this year with Voodoo in the park
The Big Easy kicks off the fall the only way it knows how — with a melting pot of music, booze and black magic. Big-name and indie bands will help New Orleans conjure the...
- October 14, 2004
Death doesn’t stop janitor from making rounds
Some library patrons have reported hearing ghostly violin music echoing through the rotunda in the Houston Public Library's Julia Ideson Building. Kristin Ortwerth/The Daily CougarIn the fall of 1936, Mrs. John Widman of Baker,...
- October 13, 2003
Energy Department grant to fuel research
It has the ideas, now the UH Center for Materials Chemistry has the means to pay for those ideas. A $500,000 grant from the Department of Energy, will allow the CMC to investigate ways...