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The Voice of America: Whitney Houston (1963-2012)
Several years ago in Los Angeles, I walked out of a hotel in Westwood and saw a beautiful but slight woman step out of a limousine, stride past her bodyguards...
Grammy Watch: Whitney’s Legacy, in TV and Divas
The Grammys honored Houston in the awards themselves, which showcased forceful women who had dominated the year in music, and reminded us of her TV influence as...
Whitney Houston’s Friends Deliver Rousing Eulogies at Funeral
The nearly three-and-a-half hour memorial service saw a number of Whitney Houston’s closest friends take the stage to remember her. See what Tyler Perry and...
After Whitney Houston, Musicians Say: I’m Afraid
The death of Whitney Houston has inspired some soul-searching in the music world. “I’m obsessed with why our heroes are not making it past 50,” Questlove told me...
Whitney Houston’s Best—Her Ten Most Memorable Songs
Upon the death of the pop superstar, TIME looks at ten of her best tunes.
200 Houston High Schoolers Caught Cheating on Exam
Hundreds of students from Clear Lake High School in Houston tried to pull a fast one on their teachers by texting one another answers to a final exam last month...
Houston Restaurant Kicks Out Diner For Sending Offensive Tweet
Be careful what you tweet about, restaurant patrons. Allison Matsu was at Down House, a restaurant in Houston, sitting at the bar, when she reportedly sent a...
Apollo 13 at 40: Houston, We Have a Miracle
Say this about the flight of Apollo 13: The spashdown, which occurred 40 years ago today, was perfect. That's not just because the crew actually managed a...
What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas
The news that a lesbian had been elected mayor of Houston, deep in the heart of the conservative South, was greeted with surprise this week. After defeats on gay...
Annise Parker, Houston's Gay Mayor
Houston voters made history in December, electing the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. Annise Parker, 53, takes the oath of office on Jan. 1 to lead...
Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike
There are bread lines in Houston. Last night the bread aisle at the Midtown Randalls at Milam and Hadley streets was picked bare. The truck showed up around 7:45...
Evacuees Grow Anxious in Houston
Following arrows drawn in bright-red ink ,Tamara Green, 28, and her husband Myriaun Clark, 20, apprehensively shuffled Green's seven youngsters, aged 1 to 12,...
Space: Guten Tag, Houston Control!
The scene could have been the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Computer control panels were labeled with such typical NASA acronyms as PAP (payload activity...
Houston: The Enron Tour
These are painful times for Houston. Not only must it watch as former executives of Enron, the once celebrated hometown company, turn on one another, take the...
Another Recusal in Houston
Wanted in Houston: someone — anyone — without ties to Enron. Southern District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal, who was overseeing some 45 cases involving 401(k)...
Discussion: The Houston Child Killings
When Russell Yates picked up his office phone Wednesday morning, he heard his wife Andrea telling him to come home. "Is anyone hurt?" he asked. "Yes," she said...
WELL OILED: Topping Out In Houston Again
Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the...
Topping Out In Houston Again
Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the...
DVD: The Greatest Hits: Whitney Houston
Divas, one would think, have to keep up with the latest styles. But what's most remarkable about this DVD collection of videos, from You Give Good Love (1985) to...
