Happy Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving, enjoy these two short videos and this one long song. May we all be warm and well fed, in good company, enjoying our naps. Happy holidays!…
KEEPING IT REAL: Denny’s Heritage
This is the first Denny’s location in Houston that has been redone as part of Denny’s new “Heritage brand re-imaging campaign, “ which seeks to remodel 70% of the chain’s locations by 2024 with “all-new, locally-inspired design and diner menu[s].”…
LOLCATS DOWN — Demand Net Neutrality
The Internet has been a place where size does not matter, but that could soon change.…
inAPPROPRIATion
Is there anything more appropriative than hip hop -- a pastiche, collage form born literally from splicing together bits of music that came before? And in 2024, is there anything more universal than hip hop? It is a truly global phenomenon.…
Open Call For Election-Related Submissions
In the spirit of free and open speech, for the next week, through the election, Free Press Houston is providing you this commons, a virtual soapbox with a megaphone, to say anything and everything you want to say about the upcoming election. …
Letters to Wendy’s
What strikes me as noteworthy is the way in which this ad makes light of and commercializes the concepts of privilege, authenticity, appropriation, and a globalized monoculture even as it boasts of spreading that taste-free, high-fat, high-sodium, large-carbon-footprint monoculture.…
Baker Hughes Wants to Fracking Drill Your Pink Bits
Local oilfield serviced company Baker Hughes is donating $100,000 to the questionable Susan G. Komen Foundation and painting 1,000 of their drill bits pink, yay!…
HOUSTON TO HOST WORLD’S FIRST MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY
Instead of being discouraged by his deportation, the plucky, enterprising Jesús Cruz found inspiration in his captivity.…
2nd Ward – A Bicycle Opera
The sounds might entice the cyclist to ride faster, slower, stop, turn in circles, or pause beneath the shade of a tree for listening.…
El Viento Viene, El Viento Se Va — La Frontera @ HCCC
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has the dubious distinction of being one…
