Ah, The Summer Of `09: What Would Bryan Adams Write About It?

Labor Day is here, and that means the unofficial end to the summer. Especially in Houston, if you’re talking about temperature.

But no summer would be complete without a nostalgic look back to that innocent time, the Summer of `09, when we actually thought — however briefly — that we could Beat LA.

There was a whole bunch of partying going on elsewhere, and we’ve collected a greatest hits collection from the slideshows we’ve run in the past few months to let you savor things.

This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2009.