On Tuesday, December 2, local chefs raised the roof at VOICE for Lucky Leash Rescue

Sausage, burgers, fajitas, bacon, beer and inflated linebackers in the parking lot of Reliant Stadium during the 2008 season

What's bar-hopping without variety? A look at two very different places on the evening of Saturday, November 29. PHOTOS BY BILL OLIVE

Reindeer, Carmen Miranda, Mrs. Claus and Santa himself flew into town on Thursday, November 27.

Low-riders, art cars, SpongeBob, Santa Claus, D-list celebs, marching bands, stick-fighting Sikhs and plump Shriners in souped-up go-carts -- where else could it be but the HEB Thanksgiving Day Parade?

In case you were having trouble thinking of something to be thankful about this Thanksgiving, remember this: It isn't September 13th, and we aren't waiting for a giant-ass storm to make landfall.

The National, Usher, Baby Bash, Metallica and Madonna. Voting, posing, drawing and partying. Bikinis. Face paint. One helluva month.

Before he got the boot from Usher's security, Craig Hlavaty managed to get a few snaps of the R&B prince's "Ladies Only" stopover at House of Blues on Monday, November 24. Yeah!

Well, none of us really ever thought the day would come, but Guns 'N' Roses - or Axl Rose and his hired goons, anyway - finally released Chinese Democracy, available exclusively at Best Buy, November 23. Once the reviews subside, critics are going to have to come up with a new metaphor for something that takes forever. Or at least longer than the following historical events...

Gawking and walking in the Warehouse District on Saturday, November 22. Click here for video.

Artists and onlookers gathered on Saturday, November 22, for the first day of the outdoor chalk-drawing festival benefiting the Center for Hearing and Speech.

A tour of 77002's most hideous edifices