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Houston, The City Where Workers Date The Boss

Is your boss hanging around at the moment? (Maybe monitoring non-work-related internet use?) Look at him or her closely. You are looking at a sex machine designed to satisfy the sexual urges of everyone in the cubicle farm he or she supervises. It must be exhausting work, but no one ever said bein ... More >>

College Football: National Signing Day 2013, A Decade Of Cautionary Tales

Beginning bright and early Wednesday morning, 18-year-old football players far and wide will finalize in writing their plans on where they will ply their trade for the next three to five years, causing high blood pressure in adults three times their age coast to coast and dragging the fax machine in ... More >>

Cheap Flights to Disney World Start in February on Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines, an ultra-low fare airline based in Florida, announced it will begin daily nonstop flights between Orlando and Houston on Valentine's Day this year. Hair Balls did a quick check of the cost for a round trip ticket to Orlando in February and found a fare of $118.79. By comparison, the ... More >>

Crossing the Line: Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

Houston: More Hipster-Friendly than Salt Lake City and Dallas, At Least

Earlier this month Travel and Leisure asked their readers to rank 35 American cities on the quantity and quality of their live music scenes, coffeehouses, microbrews, and independent boutiques. They also asked their readers to quantify more ineffable qualities such as the quirkiness of a city and h ... More >>

Houston Led Nation in Population Growth in Last Decade, Rice Finds

Rice U video No city in America grew more in population in the last decade than Houston, a Rice study said today. And if you don't believe it, they put out the slick video above to erase any doubt. Houston added 1,231,393 residents between 2000 and 2012, the study of census figures said; the next ... More >>

Good Tequila Actually Does Come (Relatively) Cheap

​It's 4:32 in the afternoon and I have a box of booze and nowhere to be. A box filled with two giant bottles of Familia Camarena tequila, a brand that I am not familiar with. Lord knows I do love me some tequila, but testing out strange booze can be a risky endeavor. And strange tequila is per ... More >>

Train Wreck

How Metro and its president Frank Wilson got so far off track.

Game Time: Celtics, Feel Better -- Five Officiating Decisions That Were WAY Worse Than Kendrick Perkins' Second Technical

Sorry about that fifth down.....​It's funny, because I'm from New England, people automatically assume that I am a fan of all the Boston teams. To wit, last night as the Celtics were imploding in Orlando, my iPhone was blowing up with text messages asking if I was starting to get worried about th ... More >>

Reminder: Pershing Middle School Benefit At House Of Blues

myspace.com/palerocksPale, pre-named for Twilight or any other vampire series that comes along.​ Rocks Off already mentioned this last week, but this is definitely worth re-tweeting, as it were. Tonight at House of Blues, Houston alt-rockers Pale - who, if one commenter is to be believed, have had ... More >>

Everyone's Packing Up Their U-Haul And Moving To Houston

​Houston is the top U.S. city for people relocating with U-Hauls, the company announced today.Last year we were second to Atlanta, but that city has dropped off the face of the earth, probably because it has too many Braves fans, coming in only seventh this year.More than 1 million U-Haul transact ... More >>

Idol Beat: Orlando Is Far from the Magic Kingdom

​Last night's American Idol was the fourth audition episode of Season 9 (and if you think we're almost done with the cattle-call phase, you are in for a broken heart). I cannot stress enough the unreality of the show and the brilliant way it uses editing to mess with the viewer's concept of time. ... More >>

American Idol: Orlando Is Far from the Magic Kingdom

​Last night's American Idol was the fourth audition episode of the ninth season (and if you think we're almost done with the cattle call phase, you are in for a broken heart). I cannot stress enough the unreality of the show and the brilliant way it uses editing to mess with the viewer's conce ... More >>

What Do You Get For The Couple Who Has Everything, Including A Crazy Stalker?

Oh gosh, Lisa Nowak's not going to take this news well.(That's Lisa "I was not wearing diapers" Nowak to you; one-third of the wackiest astronaut love triangle ever.)The other two parts of that triangle are getting married.Bill Oefelein, the NASA stud muffin who simply loves the ladies, is tying the ... More >>

Texas Is Doing Great -- In The Hate-Group Rankings

Photo by foxtongueThe count is in, and the number of hate groups in the U.S. exploded to 926 in 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's totally non-fearmongerishly titled "Year in Hate" issue of the Intelligence Report. And Texas can proudly boast the second-highest hate group count, at ... More >>

Houston, Thank The Real-Estate Gods That You Don't Live In Florida

You want some good economic news?Hmmm. Well, the best we can do is that the Houston area has officially been declared the third-least-risky real-estate market in the country.The PMI Group annually issues a list of markets that are most at risk of seeing home prices fall, and the 2008 report came out ... More >>

One-Fifth of the Way In, Whither the Rockets?

With about 20 percent of the season concluded, the Rockets' 11-7 record appears at first blush to be maddeningly inconsistent. But I think it's a lot easier to explain than it may seem. One way to measure the future success of the team based on its current record is to look at "bad losses" - ... More >>

Mormons, AstroWorld, Tokio Hotel and Sweet Potato Fries

Mormon Question

Marvin Zindler, One Year Later

My Morning Jacket Announce Fall Tour

Spring Training: Pain, Pain and Ball Girls

Spring Training Doesn’t Count, Except for When It Does

Spring Training: What a Glorious Place to Be, Unless Your Name Is Carlos Lee

Rockets-76ers: Night of the Living Dead

What to Watch: Football, Hockey, Football and Football

Rockets vs. Magic: Hoping, Waiting, Wishing

The Conduct of Life

Nova Arts Project's latest show is all over the place

College Football Preview: Week Three

Roberto Fonseca

Zamazu

We Truly Do Live in a Spaced City

Wize Guys

Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

Legendary Beats

Get a heady dose of drum 'n' bass at Planet of the Drums

A Hot Racket

Andre and Andy take a swing at the U.S. Tennis Clay Court Championships

Summary of a Bad Black Movie

Tyler Perry's Diary will make audiences mad

Cool Front

Things get chill when DJ Icey spins into town

Slingin' Sauce

The studs of suds raise the bar on their competition at Sherlock's

Rock Star 101

Panic in Detroit learned to play before they learned to party

Send in the Election Clowns

Don't worry, they're here

Trapped on the Tracks

A mayoral candidate wrestles with a no-win choice

Letters

Mayoral White Knight

A candidate plays a subtle race card

Food Fight Hiccup

Will four felonies spoil Four Families' Hobby deal?

Mayoral Minority Report

Who can avert the 2003 runoff from hell?

Rick Bain and the Genius Position

Crooked Autumn Sun (Official Records)

Gunning for a Runoff

Can Bell avoid being the odd man out?

Dish

Bonjour, Neighbor

Unlike many that claim the homey name, Europa is no bogus bistro

A Pericles to Ponder

What It Is, What It Was, What It Shall Be

A review of the films of '93, and hopes for an adventurous '94