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LARRY HEARD & ROBERT OWENS @ WALLACE STUDIOS Fri, March 31.

258 Wallace Avenue.

$15 early, $20 after.

Together and separately, Chicago producer Larry Heard (a.k.a.

Mr.

Fingers) and producer/vocalist Robert Owens have made massive contributions to house music.

Together in 1986, as Fingers Inc., they recorded "Mystery of Love," one of the first house tracks to hit the Top 10 of Billboard's dance charts.

While vocalist Ron Wilson also contributed to Fingers Inc., Heard and Owens formed the core.

This extremely rare reunion gig sees the two performing a hybrid DJ/live PA set in a raw (but licensed) warehouse setting.

ba href=/sleep/a/bARCHIVE @ HZ (HERTZ) With Function, Kero, Eric Downer, Lee Osborne, Noah Pred, Wes, VitaminsForYou, Rollin' Cash, Owen, DJ Chocolate, Patrick Roots.

Sat, April 1.

99 Sudbury.

$25 from Shanti Baba, Play de Record, Odyssey, Alter Ego, Spylab, 2theBeat, Style Bomb, Soundscapes, www.harvestfestival.org/hz.

A collaborative affair between the folks of AlienInFlux, Sensor and Promise, Hertz does indeed promise two rooms of heavy bass, innovative sound and detailed decor.

The Frontline main room boasts live sets by hotly tipped German minimal techno producer ba href=/sleep/a/barchive (Richie Hawtin gives him much love), NYC's Function and Detroit's Kero.

In the Basscamp space, Toronto's VitaminsForYou performs live, with DJs dropping beats and dub.

KASKADE @ A.C.E.

WEDNESDAYS With Andy Roberts, Ollie Mac.

Wed, April 5.

Andy Poolhall, 489 College.

$10.

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It's two different cultures," the 17-year-old said, comparing Houston with the more boisterous New Orleans.

She complained that the Katrina refugees are getting preferential treatment, even though some of her classmates are even poorer than they are.

Storm victims were taken on shopping sprees to buy clothes and were showered with other gifts after they arrived.

"I feel like they shouldn't have to use that as an excuse all the time, as like, `Oh, I'm an evacuee from New Orleans,' so you get this and you get that," Tatiana said.

Just after the August hurricane, the Harris County Hospital District, the agency that runs the public hospitals and health clinics in Houston and surrounding Harris County, treated 15,000 evacuees in two weeks at the Astrodome, but now sees about 800 extra patients a month, said spokesman Bryan McLeod.

The agency treats 1.2 million patients a year, so apart from the first few weeks, the number of evacuees is "not overwhelming" and is not delaying care for Houston residents, McLeod said.

Still, treating refugees has cost $11.6 million, and the district has been reimbursed only $1.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Medicaid, he said.

The district has dipped into reserve funds, he said.

Bus ridership at the Metropolitan Transit Authority was up 12 percent in October through December from the same period a year ago.

Spokeswoman Raequel Roberts attributed the increase to evac...