The 2008-2009 DiverseWorks season opens on September 19 with Understanding Poverty, a multimedia exhibition by Houston-based photojournalist Ben Tecumseh DeSoto. The exhibition will feature DeSoto's 20-year investigation into Houston's homeless and working poor, with field reporting contributed by Ann Walton Sieber and a special light installation by Sarah Whatley Ayers.
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For the past 25 years, the Houston Area Survey, directed by Rice University Sociology Professor Stephen Klineberg, has been offering a timely window into the minds of Houstonians. The recently completed 2007 survey especially shows how Houston's attitudes reflect the changes in our post-Katrina city. This year, crime was the number one worry for Houston residents, but immigration is a fast-growing concern. For the second year, the number of people who believe that the racial...
So you know how Lakewood Church pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen have taken a vow of poverty, right? Yeah, yeah, we're kidding — but if you're anything like Houstonist, you've wondered at one time or another exactly how much the Osteens are worth. (Go ahead, admit it.) Turns out we're not the only ones: Reginald McKamie, the attorney for Continental flight attendant Sharon Brown, asked a judge yesterday to make the Osteens' net worth public...
The last time we brought you Social-ist, we nearly ended up on National TV. Keyword being "nearly." But thanks to the damn terrorists, our appearance was shelved. We swear! Some people's priorities! Last night Houstonist scoped out Houston's own Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's Rice Village shop, Lot 8, for a Dress for Success fundraiser. From our count, most of the boutique's namesake, the eight Dao sisters, were in attendance, including sister Sydney, who can...
Houstonist grew up in this city (for the most part), and we think we turned out fine. Right? Well, our shortcomings and hangups aside, it's dangerous to be a kid in Houston these days, according to Children at Risk President Robert Sanborn. Sanborn spoke to a group of child advocates at a summit at the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast yesterday. This is what he had to say about the state of affairs...
Good morning, Houston! There's some good news: If you graduated from high school, you're already ahead of a third of Texas students. Of course, that means there's also some bad news — namely, that a third of Texas students don't finish high school. And according to statistics, the situation is even worse in the state's big cities: There, more students drop out than finish high school. Elleen Coppola, a Rice University researcher, said dropouts...
Food Not Bombs Houston, the local chapter of a global organization dedicated to eradicating the problem of poverty all over the world, recently launched a program that helps to feed many of downtown Houston's homeless. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm, volunteers gather on the corner of McKinney and Smith to hand out food. From their mission statement: As an organization, Food Not Bombs simply tries to redistribute a tiny...
A decade ago, the Houston band Caedmon’s Call was attracting thousands of young people to their weekly show Monday nights at Houston’s First Baptist Church. A few years later, the band would go on to become one of the most popular bands in Contemporary Christian music.
Once again, business leaders are looking at ways to spruce up Houston’s global image between now and 2016. Does this ten-year window have anything to do with our Olympic hopes that same year? Probably.
Kids, if you're fans of questionable scrambled eggs, cafeteria-style biscuits, hash-brown sticks and those tiny cartons of milk, have we got some good news for you: All HISD students could get free school breakfasts every day under a proposal expected to be approved by the district's trustees next week. Breakfasts now cost 10 cents for students who qualify for reduced-priced meals and 90 cents for everyone else. Last year, nearly 70,000 HISD students ate breakfast at school, 14,000 of whom paid $1 million over the couse of the year for the meals. The others qualified for free meals because their families live below the poverty line.
This post is from future Houstonist contributor Jack Collins. Tomorrow night, more than a thousand Houstonians will stop talking the talk and start walking the walk — literally — when they participate in the Global Night Commute to support the international charity Invisible Children. The name "invisible children" refers to the children of Uganda who live in fear of abduction by a rebel army. These children are completely desensitized, as they are sexually assaulted, forced...
New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas, who a couple of weeks ago said the city didn't want public housing residents who didn't want to work to return, apologized yesterday for his language but said he still believes in what he said.
Houstonist admits it: We haven't always been friendly and compassionate to the people who approach us on the street downtown asking for a couple of dollars for gas/food/a broken fan belt/beer/bus fare/cigarettes/a cheap hotel/a doctor's visit/whatever. So when we read that Houston has been named the seventh-meanest city to the homeless, our first thought was, "Uh-oh."
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