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In Grits' household, the missus launches Christmas music rather aggressively beginning the day after Thanksgiving every year. This yea...

Check out the August episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast. We've got a special treat this month, with Texas Monthly's Michae...

Your correspondent was in Houston over the weekend and stopped in at an exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Museum dubbed " Walls Turned...

While I'm preoccupied with other matters, including another small video project to be unveiled soon (the last one has been viewed about...

On the TribTalk site, filmmaker Richard Linklater authored an earnest and revealing account of how he came to make the movie "Bernie,...

Dallas has been tepidly experimenting with the idea of "free walls" for graffiti artists (see prior Grits coverage ) to divert the...

For those of y'all who chipped in to help fund Kelsey Erin Shipman's Kickstarter campaign to publish a book of poetry by Travis Co...

I received an email from Kelsey Erin Shipman - the creative writing instructor who teaches a poetry class in the Trafis County Jail - to sa...

I don't think I've ever plugged a Kickstarter campaign on Grits, but a friend of the blog suggested this one by a young creative wr...

Here are a few items that caught my attention this week but haven't made it into individual posts: Constitutional challenge to 'im...

Really cool story by Michael Hoinski at Texas Monthly on "paños, the handkerchiefs that prisoners decorate with black ballpoint pens ...

If you're in Austin, you may want to check out a documentary film on Wednesday at UT's LBJ School about the long-term effects of so...

Check out Maurice Chammah's story in Texas Monthly, " When prisoners read Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' it's...

Here are several national electronic privacy stories that relate to presently pending Texas legislation.

The first bit of publicity for the Pardon O. Henry! campaign at pardonohenry.org is starting to roll in. Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronic...

After Barack Obama last November quoted the renowned short story writer O. Henry while pardoning a turkey, even though the writer's own ...

Regular readers know Grits thinks "sending a message" though criminal penalties is one of the worst communication methods imaginab...

UPDATE : See the Pardonohenry.org website and campaign blog which were inspired by this post. Sign a petition asking President Obama to p...

" What do Jon Stewart, William Shakespeare, Sojouner Truth, Juan Williams, Jenna Bush, 50 Cent, John Grisham, Noam Chomsky, Stephen K...

If you've ever wondered why the public has a skewed view of the criminal justice system and a flawed perception that criminals have ...