<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium" src="https://cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/09105018/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg" alt="A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white" width="1000" height="563" /></p><p>On Friday's show: We learn what took place at Houston protests in connection with the fatal <a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5670289/ice-minneapolis-shooting-immigration-crackdown" rel="noopener">ICE shooting in Minneapolis</a>.</p><p>Also this hour: We find out why the state teacher's union is suing the TEA following investigations into teachers’ social media posts last fall.</p><p>Then, our non-experts consider <a target="_blank" href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/topics/good-bad-ugly/" rel="noopener"><em>The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly</em></a> of the week.</p><p>And the series <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mfah.org/events/films/movies-houstonians-love" rel="noopener">Movies Houstonians Love</a> returns this weekend to the MFAH with a documentary decades in the making. The 2023 film <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29629778/" rel="noopener"><em>Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird</em></a> focuses on Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala, the duo behind the El Paso progressive rock band <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mars_Volta" rel="noopener">The Mars Volta</a>. It’s culled from hundreds of hours of footage filmed across decades. Houston DJ and producer Gracie Chavez talks about why this film means so much to her.</p><p><b>Watch</b></p><p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8DILB3gK0ZU?si=YdS_o2QI9PvG47PC&amp;start=465" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>