Margaret Downing

5 days ago | houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press

In one of the best starts to a Houston ISD board meeting in recent memory, Houston ISD highlighted the achievements of the record-setting Lamar High School boy's track team — Ryan Johnson, Bailey Hashmi, Devin Carpenter and Jordan Godfrey — that just set a national record in the 4x400 race, introduced the remarkable 7-year old Zach Teoh who just won the Scripps regional spelling bee and lauded a small select group of teachers and administrators for their service.

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press

Negotiating the details of retirement can be hard for anyone, but when Eddie Lee's wife joins him, that's when he feels the need to get out of the house. So he meets with other retired friends — all male — and they play chess and talk about their lives over coffee at local restaurants. It's when a new woman moves into a nearby abandoned house along with her enticing coconut cake, that the men's worlds threaten to be upended.

1 week ago | rvpnews.com | Margaret Downing

At the April 21 bi-monthly city council meeting, Loves Park aldermen approved a number of items:*A resolution authorizing the appointment to various positions was approved for the following employees: Shannon Messinger, (pay rate $115,00 a year), Nathan Bruck,  community development director, (pay rate $106,000 a year), Craig McDonald, water superintendent, ($106,00 a year), David Jacobson, and Russell Caveny, water department manager (pay rate $97,000 a year).

2 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press

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2 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | Margaret Downing |Houston Press

Four actors take on more than 30 roles in the stripped down, fast paced production of Hamlet about to go on stage at 4th Wall Theatre Company. But only one of the actors plays just one character. That would be Wesley Whitson as the Danish prince. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the title character is a Danish prince studying in Germany who is called home by the death of his father the king. Once there he discovers Gertrude, his mother, has already remarried and it's to his Uncle Claudius.