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  Amazon's Houston Footprint Grows: Inside the New HOU2 Facility

  Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 6:21 a.m.

  Houston, being the size that it is, is no stranger to business expansion. It’s likely that there’s not a single week that goes by in the city that at least a few businesses upgrade their facilities or open new outposts as their business continues to grow. What is rarer in...

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  Smashing Pumpkins' Shiny And Oh So Bright Tour 2018 at Toyota Center

  Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 6:31 a.m.

  Smashing Pumpkins' Shiny And Oh So Bright Tour 2018 made its Houston stop at Toyota Center on Tuesday, July 17. This tour features music from Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, and Machina. The last time this photographer shot Smashing Pumpkins was back in 2010 when they toured with Jimmy Eat World. This time around, Canadian synth rockers, Metric are the current support act. (Photos by Eric Sauseda)

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  Five AstroWorld Videos to Give You That Sweet Glow of Nostalgia

  Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 6 a.m.

  We know that the 50th anniversary of the opening of AstroWorld has stirred in you a variety of feelings. Sadness that it’s gone, bitterness at how Six Flags for how they ended it, and the joy that’s associated with your memories of the park. Sure, the anniversary on June 1...

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  St. Paddy's Day in Boulder: Drinkers Vs. Smokers, Who Had the Better Party?

  Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Last weekend, circumstances created an unusual travel opportunity for me. It’s a long story, but it involves catching a red-eye to Boulder, Colorado for a day’s stay before heading back to Houston by car. A day isn’t much time to devote to as nice a destination as Boulder, but I...

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  Houston, Not Surprisingly, Has Feelings About Astrodome Restoration

  Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 7:19 a.m.

  This is a fact: on February 13, 2018, Harris County commissioners approved a plan, scheduled to cost over $100 million, to renovate the Astrodome. In any other story about any other building in any other city, this would be seen as a historic moment where a community found the money...

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  Before You Head to the Polls in Harris County, Check Your T-Shirt

  Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5 a.m.

  If you show up to the polls to vote on the Houston bond initiative and the many other issues on the ballot this election season, vet your choice of apparel carefully first. Just as Katie Beth Gottlieb was about to walk toward a voting both at the Fiesta on Old...