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Adventures In Vine: Notre Dame Recruit Flushes Nick Saban Down The Toilet

For the second time in 24 hours, college football recruiting, Notre Dame football, and social media have met at an unique nexus that shines as much of a light on the virtual lack of barriers in communication in 2013 as it does on the principals themselves. Meet Elijah Hood. He is a five star runn ... More >>

Houston Ranked No. 3 on Happiest Cities for Recent College Grads List

I think it is fair to say Houstonians are a friendly lot. We say "hi" to people on the street whether we know them or not. We take in hurricane victims and wave at our neighbors. Syndicated sports talk show host Travis Rogers once explained to me how confused he was when a total stranger started up ... More >>

Southwest Introducing Nonstop to Washington, D.C., Reagan National Airport

Beginning the first week of August, if you need a flight to DC, it just got a little easier. Southwest Airlines is launching nonstop flight service between Hobby Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, according to a release. Recently, the airline began nonstop service to Pittsburgh ( ... More >>

Turnovers, Inconsistency, Lack of Defense Hurt the Rockets During Losing Streak

Sometimes, as the saying goes, you can't hit the ocean from the beach. During the Rockets' seven-game losing streak, which mercifully came to an end at Charlotte on Monday afternoon with a 100-96 Martin Luther King Day matinee win, the Rockets have been awful from the floor. James Harden has been sh ... More >>

Beat LA: Rockets Take Out Injury-Riddled Lakers to Run Streak to Five

The Rockets faced a depleted Lakers squad missing three key players including Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard Tuesday night at Toyota Center in a classic trap game. The first game of yet another five-games-in-four-nights stretch for the Rockets against a very short-handed team makes for situation Coach ... More >>

Hornets to Become the Pelicans? Dear NOLA, Blame Utah

The city of New Orleans has been forced to suffer many indignities when it comes to sports. Whether it was the long period of disastrous play by the "Ain'ts", so bad that fans came to games at the Super Dome with paper bags over their heads; or the fact that the team currently known as the Hornets e ... More >>

NBA Commish David Stern Asks Jim Rome "Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?"

"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" -- NBA Commissioner David Stern in what I hope was a rhetorical question to Jim Rome, 6/13/12 Since the first NBA Draft Lottery in 1985 gift-wrapped Patrick Ewing to the downtrodden New York Knicks, there have been conspiracy theorists galore that have sur ... More >>

Bet on the Rockets

What will the second half bring?

Houston Rockets Second-Half Preview in Gambling-Speak

The Rockets kick off the second half of the 2011-2012 season tonight. I'm not sure how many of you care about this. The acres of empty seats at Toyota Center lead me to believe that fewer of you care than Kevin McHale, Daryl Morey and Leslie Alexander would have hoped for. Television ratings indicat ... More >>

Musical Dads & Daughters: The Good, The Bad & The Awkward

OK Magazine​Blood, they say, is thicker than water. When Matthew Knowles and Beyonce ended their business relationship earlier this week, both stressed the fact that family is still family. "He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly," Beyonce said in her statement. "I love my daughter ... More >>

Big Fetish Fair Headed To Houston

May I believe in the Texans again, mistress?​Houstonians are deeply into S&M, if you're just judging by the behavoir of the city's sports fans, who eagerly pay to be humiliated, tortured and teased time and time again.So we guess it's only natural that the Fetish Fair Fleamarket, a big Boston- ... More >>

What Do YOU Want To Do With Your Life??: Bad Dads In Music Videos

Sorry ladies, he's taken. By my mom.​This weekend is Father's Day, a holiday in which fathers all over the Hallmark Empire receive cards and gifts ranging from power drills and bourbon to celebrate them sticking it out for the duration of your ragged existence on earth. Craig's Hlist and hi ... More >>

Aging Disgracefully

Sex and the City 2 struggles against nature to stay forever young.

Sex and the City 2 Midnight Screening

Get out your Manolo Blahniks

HOWL AT THE MOON'S TENNESSEE TEA

Stirred and Shaken: Howl at the Moon's Tennessee Tea

Photo by Troy Fields​The musical act is the main draw at Howl at the Moon (612 Hadley, 713-658-9700), a dueling-piano bar in Midtown (and in Scottsdale, Charlotte, Baltimore, etc.). The bar features a stable of multi-instrumentalists whose job it is to work the crowd while plunking out up-temp ... More >>

Continental Airlines: Work Hard, Fly Right -- Unless You're A Kid

For the second time in a week, Houston's Continental Airlines has admitted they sent an unaccompanied minor passenger to the wrong destination.One 10-year-old girl who was trying to get from Boston to Cleveland ended up in Newark. (The only time ending up in Newark is "not so bad" is when you were i ... More >>

Swine To Watch Out For: Five Bad Movie Pigs

News about the potential swine flu outbreak has veered from grim to cautiously optimistic and back again over the last few days, with much emphasis given to the pigs themselves. Should massive reprisals against our bacon-generating friends be necessary, here's some movie material to get you in the ... More >>

Rockets-Bobcats: Yao-Artest Form Improved Dynamic Duo

At some point during the will he, won't he saga of Tracy McGrady's ongoing knee problems, the heart and identity of the Rockets shifted from a Yao Ming and McGrady-led team to one led by Yao and Ron Artest. So far, the Rockets seem all the better for it. Artest scored 26 points on five three-point ... More >>

Rockets-Bobcats: Yao-Artest Form Improved Dynamic Duo

At some point during the will he, won't he saga of Tracy McGrady's ongoing knee problems, the heart and identity of the Rockets shifted from a Yao Ming and McGrady-led team to one led by Yao and Ron Artest. So far, the Rockets seem all the better for it. Artest scored 26 points on five three-point ... More >>

Rockets Fast Break: Adelman Stresses Consistency at Point

To Rockets coach Rick Adelman, consistency trumps contrast. When fans initially heard the Rafer Alston trade Thursday afternoon, much of the immediate reaction was negative. In addition to questioning the team going forward without an experienced starting point guard, many wondered why the team w ... More >>

Rockets Fast Break: Adelman Stresses Consistency at Point

To Rockets coach Rick Adelman, consistency trumps contrast. When fans initially heard the Rafer Alston trade Thursday afternoon, much of the immediate reaction was negative. In addition to questioning the team going forward without an experienced starting point guard, many wondered why the team w ... More >>

Anthony Hamilton

Cheap Sex and the City: The Movie

Despite the labels and levity, it's a poor-woman's knockoff

Get Lit: Buckingham Palace Gardens, by Anne Perry

Rockets-Hawks: Where 20 in a Row Happens

Still the Same: John Royal on the Houston Texans

John Royal's NFL Picks: Week Two

Economic Development, the Houston Chronicle, Frivolous Lawsuits and Bad Travel Agents

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune.

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune.

Whip Smart

The new Castlevania lives up to its legacy.

Pot o' Gold

Riches await Houston theatergoers

What Ever Happened to Lady Jane?

Fonda's humiliation is only one reason this Monster is such a dog

Iron Men

Recent releases document the Maiden voyage

'Tis a Foine, Foine Loife

In the holiday insta-classic Evelyn, Pierce Brosnan forms a family bond

Evening the Odds

In three decades, women jockeys have made tremendous strides. But in the male-dominated world of horse racing, equality remains elusive.

Golden Room with No View

Merchant Ivory's lush take on Henry James needs a few more turns of the screw

Air Sic

In cargo holds or plane cabins, critters are taking more than flights of fancy

Spin Sisters

Women are staking their claim in the boys' club known as the DJ booth

Meet Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Jones

Some Houstonians say monogamy doesn't work for them. They don't cheat. They don't swing. They do have more than one spouse at a time. And the whole family knows about it.

Almost Famous

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell isn't Carrie Bradshaw. Like, really.

Hell Just Froze Over

Houston's first female hockey team gives new meaning to the term "body check"

News Hostage

We Are Not Amused

Everything Old Is New Again

Darby's flashes back to a gentler time

Good Night

Press Picks

The Insider

Cut & Run

He made millions sculpting the figures of Houston women while dodging one of the largest malpractice judgments in Texas history. But after botching another surgery, can Dr. Gerald Johnson continue to operate?

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