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After a long journalism career at the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle, Clifford Pugh has discovered the joys of the web in creating a unique news and information site that covers Houston in real time. His claim to journalism fame came at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, when screenwriter Alexander Payne asked him to hold his Oscar while he went to the bathroom.
 

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News_Ashby HighRise_Parking Protest_May 2012

The fight goes on

Stop Ashby High Rise group stages "park-in" to show traffic problems around proposed tower

By Clifford Pugh, Karen Burd

Residents near the site of the Ashby high rise have vowed to do everything legally possible to stop construction of the proposed 23-story tower. On Monday, in the first of ...


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Cliff Notes

Changing times? All-white jury in police beating acquittal seems strange in diverse Houston

By Clifford Pugh

As I was driving to work this morning, a couple of back-to-back local stories on KUHF-FM caught my attention.  The first story, which has riveted and divided the city, was ...


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Up in the air

The United argument: Southwest international flights at Hobby will hurt Houston, benefit Dallas and Atlanta

By Clifford Pugh, Whitney Radley

Like a feuding couple, the new United Airlines and Houston are in a rocky relationship. Picking Chicago over Houston for the combined airline's headquarters left a lot of hurt ...


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Strike a pose

Celebrity media models rock the runway at Haute for Hope Celebrity Luncheon and Fashion Show

By Clifford Pugh

Some of Houston's best-known television personalities rocked the runway at the Star of Hope celebrity fashion show.


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cliff notes

1987: The year Houston became a more livable, more interesting city because . . .

By Clifford Pugh

At the time, 1987 didn't seem like an especially eventful year in Houston's history. Historians could argue that other years made much more of an impact: 1836 (when ...


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The CultureMap interview

Food, flowers & fashion: Andrew Gn reveals his passions and how he's become a red carpet fave

By Clifford Pugh

Paris fashion designer Andrew Gn's most recent Houston visit included a whirlwind appearance at the Passion for Fashion luncheon, a trunk show at Tootsies and frequent visits to the ...


News_Kinkaid_proposed changes_May 2012

Ballot box

Kollenberg easily re-elected in Piney Point council race centered around Kinkaid expansion plans

By Clifford Pugh

In a race that raised passions in Piney Point and drew a lot of attention outside the small Memorial-area hamlet, Henry Kollenberg was re-elected to the Piney Point city council ...


News_Kinkaid_proposed changes_May 2012

Divided loyalties

Kinkaid School expansion at center of Piney Point city council election fight

By Clifford Pugh

Elections in the affluent bedroom community of Piney Point Village are usually a sedate affair. But Saturday's city council race, where commercial real estate developer Bobby Orr Jr. is ...


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Fab fashion

Houston's got fashion talent: See the winners of The Little Black Dress Project (with video)

By Clifford Pugh, Joel Luks

A year ago Erick Tovar was an accountant with a dream of becoming a fashion designer. The Houston Community College fashion design student took a giant step toward his goal ...


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Fashion Central

Fourth annual Little Black Dress Project draws fashion lovin' crowd

By Clifford Pugh

Houston's fashion faithful turned out for the fourth annual Little Black Dress Project at House of Blues Tuesday night. After gathering in the club's Foundation Room for drinks ...


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"Wow!"

President Obama's support of gay marriage surprises Houston's lesbian mayor

By Clifford Pugh

President Obama's surprise announcement that he supports gay marriage caught a lot of people by surprise — including Mayor Annise Parker. Upon hearing the news, the mayor, an avowed fan ...


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Cliff Notes

For one night, Texas teachers get their due at H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards

By Clifford Pugh

"This is what it must feel like at the Oscars," a teary Lesley-Anne Balido-Dean told a cheering audience at the Intercontinental Hotel Sunday night. And in a way it was ...


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Their future is now

Teens with talent: Young designers create unique styles from offbeat materials for CAMH fashion show

By Clifford Pugh

Aspiring fashion designers asserted their creative spirit at the CAMH Teen Fashion Show. See their interesting looks.  


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Inspiring words

"Fight, Fight, Fight": What Gabrielle Giffords continues to teach Mark Kelly — and the world

By Clifford Pugh

Appearing before a packed ballroom of 600 educators at the H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards Sunday night at the Intercontinental Hotel, former astronaut Mark Kelly held his arm in an ...


News_George Clooney_Brilliant Lecture_May 2012

He's dreamy

George Clooney unplugged: 10 things Hollywood's hottest star taught us during his Brilliant visit

By Clifford Pugh

George Clooney isn't a god, but it might have seemed that way Thursday night at the Brilliant Lecture series because the set of the Wortham Center stage resembled a ...


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Houston pride is at stake

Shark, gator, grasshopper & mystery meat: Are you fearless enough for a Feast of the Brave?

By Clifford Pugh

One of the perks of working at CultureMap is that you never know who is going to show up at our doorstep. So today, when I was feeling particularly hungry ...


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Opens Friday

Get ready to shop: First look at Neiman Marcus' discount Last Call Studio (with video)

By Clifford Pugh

Until now, there have been two Neiman Marcus concept stores in the Houston area — the luxury retailer's Galleria showcase and the Last Call clearance center at Katy Mills Mall ...


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In town Thursday night

A Brilliant maneuver: How George Clooney's major Houston appearance came about

By Clifford Pugh

When Scott Brogan launched the Brilliant Lecture Series in 2006, he hoped to draw some of the world's most interesting people to Houston to talk about the important issues ...


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Mother's Day kickoff

Dynamic duos: Fashion Gene Award-winning mothers & daughters spill their style secrets

By Clifford Pugh

The Fashion Gene Awards honors Houston's most stylish mothers and daughters to benefit Recipe for Success. Here's what they had to say.


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Fashion frenzy

DKNY PR Girl's best gal pals make a Houston visit

By Clifford Pugh

Few fashion houses have been as savvy about social media as Donna Karan, where DKNY PR Girl's witty Twitter postings attract more than 386,000 followers. Started by Aliza ...


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