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New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

2012 College Football Media Days, From Best to Most All-Out Painful

A few years ago, ESPN anointed the various college football media days as the unofficial start to the season. We get it. Folks are starved for some mutha-effing football so placing an artificial start date on the season and posting previews and interviews is going to get media outlets a hell of a l ... More >>

Spindletop Sued for Gross Negligence After Toddler's Foot Is Caught In Rotating Floor

Set at the very top of the Hyatt Regency Houston hotel downtown, Spindletop is a popular destination for date nights and special occasions. The rotating floors in the restaurant spin guests slowly around for impeccable views of the city skyline, making Spindletop a draw since it first opened in 1972 ... More >>

All-star Sweet & Savory Fundraiser Raises $19,100 for Lucky Dog Rescue

Pastry chef, Top Chef Just Desserts contestant, and hometown girl Rebecca Masson loves dogs. "If I could save them all myself, I would," she said as she thanked all those who had generously donated time and funds for the Lucky Dog Rescue charity. This past Sunday, her Sweet and Savory fundraiser a ... More >>

Summer Fest Ticket Prices Go Up At 10 p.m.; More Talent "Soon-Ish"

Free Press Summer Fest is increasing ticket prices tonight, with a promise to compensate by adding more talent to the two-day music festival on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. According to FPSF's email blast this morning, the price of passes will go up at 10 p.m. tonight, and the festival will announce ... More >>

Upcoming Events: Beer, [Crawfish] Boils and Burgers

It's shaping up to be a busy couple of weeks around here as "Spring" "comes" to Houston. God, shoot me now. I can't make it to August like this. Ahem. Tomorrow, get your hands dirty at the 2012 Crawfish Festival in the Heights. Admission is free and Dr. Gleem Car Wash -- you know, the one that hou ... More >>

Atheist Woodstock: "Free Thinkers" Respond to Rick Perry's Prayerapalooza

The Response happened. Now, some "atheist superstars" are responding to The Response. This weekend, the Texas Freethought Convention/Atheist Alliance National Meeting will go off for its "From Grassroots to Global Impact" event. The weekend-long shindig will feature left-of-field speakers such as ... More >>

10 TV Rooms In Houses Big Enough To Have Elevators

If your house is big and fancy enough to have an elevator (or a shaft ready for an elevator if you desire), then it's probably not your basic shotgun shack. And you, the owner, are probably someone who puts a lot of thought into your home.Like, say, in the TV/media room.We checked the Houston Associ ... More >>

Sponsors, VIPs and Media Go Over A Hotel Ledge For Special Olympics Texas

Photos: Tom McCarrick PhotographyRisk your life? Eh, it's for a good cause.​There are a number of ways to raise money for charity: car washes, bake sales, telethons or walkathons. Special Olympics Texas took those into consideration, "but we wanted to do something fun, something people would remem ... More >>

Buh-Bye 2009

Where to celebrate the dawn of a new year: Our guide to the best events in town.

Buh-Bye 2009

Where to celebrate the dawn of a new year: Our guide to the best events in town.

Oregon Trail

Art Brut taps ex-Pixie Black Francis for the down-and-dirty Art Brut vs. Satan.

Allen Stanford Deserves A Better Jail Cell, Dammit

​Allen Stanford, the alleged Ponzi-schemer who led a billionaire's life allegedly on the alleged backs of allegedly bilked investors, doesn't like his jail cell.It's got no air-conditioning, it's dark, it's crowded. In other words, it's a lot like Houston in the weeks after Ike. But we're guessing ... More >>

Greater Houston Partnership: Geraldo Rivera

Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

Not So Clear Cut

What are you really eating when you order fajitas in a Tex-Mex restaurant?

A Super Bowl In Rice Village

We're only days away from what's become known as America's biggest secular holiday -- the Super Bowl.This year's match-up is underwhelming, to say the least: the Pittsburgh Steelers should beat the Arizona Cardinals easily enough.But the atmosphere surrounding The Game has long become bigger than Th ... More >>

There Are Traffic Lanes To Spare Downtown, Apparently

Did we lose a lane on Dallas Street? Up until recently, Dallas Street from Louisiana to Travis had five lanes, now it has four. In place of the far right lane, there are concrete platforms for METRO passengers to embark on to/disembark from buses at the end of each block, and trees dividing parki ... More >>

Party's Over In Houston, Guru Barton Smith Says

Every year at this time, Houston's leaders gather to hear the pearls of wisdom that come from UH professor Barton Smith as he predicts where the city's economy will go in the future. Today, as in the past, the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency was sold out. If the 1,000 or so people in attendance w ... More >>

Trails to Terror

2008 Halloween Guide

Trails to Terror

2008 Halloween Guide

Houston Halloween Guide 2008

Trails to Terror

The Downtown Open/Closed List

Shula's Steakhouse

The Wayback Machine: 15, 10 and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

Get Lit: American Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction, by Brian Alexander

Real Recognize Real?

Promotional Cacophony at Miami's Ozone Awards

Gays, censorship, alligators, mobsters, Houston Texans

Hyatt says "Get a room!" to gay romance

Tall Texas Tale

South By Lomax: Part One

Let There Be Gifts

If you want to honor this preacher's wife, don't be cheap

Katrina & The Waves

Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

Tips for Treats

Get a load of ghosts, goblins and goths this Halloween weekend

Up for a Spin

At Spindletop, it's the view, not the food, that dazzles

Peace Signs

Third–generation activist Luchita Rodriguez and her friends find the missing rally bus — and a fresh, family-style fight against war in Iraq

Christmas Miracle

A media benefit helps a charity that's been questioned

Best Bed-and-Breakfast

Robin's Nest

Who Stollen Christmas?

Joe Mannke gives us the dish on German food

The Good Ol' Days

The Allen Oldies Band is taking a different route to fame

Dude, Where's My Car?

Regina Ruiz

Leftover Lies?

Once More With Feeling

Rotation

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Static

Coffee with Betti and the FBI

Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

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Fight to the Finish

A bout at the Arena leaves one promoter flat on the canvas

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