By Alex Wukman
For many people 1998 will always be marked with the milestones of life-graduations, marriages, births and deaths. For scholars of pop culture it’s a year that produced many great movies-Big Lebowski, Rushmore, Pi, …

By Alex Wukman
For most of the world Houston is a hot and humid oil town-it’s a place whose  current form was only made possible because of air conditioning and black gold. However, just like in …

Free Press Houston: Podcast 08.08.11
Released Aug 08, 2025
In this podcast, FPH discusses drug abuse in the artist community, recaps Texas Governor Rick Perry’s bid for the White House, and interviews Catastrophic Theater’s Jason Nodler.
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By Alex Wukman
On the 66th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a few hours after a downgrade of the US credit rating, a train filled with pastors and protestors went one stop past a station decorated …

By Alex Wukman
It looks like the Free Press was a little too early to the Rick Perry for President party. In the few months since we last blogged about it Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions have …

By Alex Wukman
As no one needs to be reminded this spring’s political conversation was dominated by the fight over public education funding, both here in Texas and across the nation. As the story unfolded one …

By Alex Wukman
The intersection of Westheimer and Taft is where Montrose begins. Even though the street named for the flour selling German immigrant Michael Louis Westheimer starts a few blocks to the east, the community …

By Alex Wukman
Oh internet, how I love you. With less than two weeks left in this year’s Texas legislative session I was sure I wouldn’t be able to find something to bitch about today. Then …

By Alex Wukman
I’m in the process of getting drunk as I write this. Normally I don’t practice, nor do I advocate, Blogging While Intoxicated; but after seeing today’s news out of Austin there was no other logical response except …

By Alex Wukman
After word came out in early March that Texas Governor Rick Perry was blocking reporters from his twitter account Free Press decided to see if we could sign up. Not surprisingly we are …