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

  July 18 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

  June 7 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?

  March 22 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

  February 14 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...

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  Two Months After Harvey, Landlord Evicts Tenants Because of Uninhabitable Conditions

  Friday, October 27, 2017 at 5 a.m.

  The management ripped out the sinks when they ripped out the walls. Inside the Legacy Apartments, on Lockwood Drive in the Fifth Ward, there is no such thing as privacy or even real rooms on the lower-floor units. In James Jackson's unit, you can see from the kitchen straight into...