Results tagged “angels”

The Houston Astros have announced they have come to terms on a one-year, $1 million contract with incentives with Darin Erstard. Erstad, who can play outfield and first base, is a two-time All-Star (1998, 2000). Last year with the Chicago White Sox, Erstad batted .248 with four home runs runs and 32 RBI in 87 games.

Radio rock fans have a decision to make tonight: see the currently hot band Avenged Sevenfold at Warehouse Live or catch the now-grown-up Silverchair at The Meridian. Speaking of the 90's, old school rapper Tone Loc will stop off at Fitzgerald's Thursday night. Local eclectic classical trio Two Star Symphony plays a special show Saturday night on the St. Thomas campus. Another local favorite, The Mathletes, open a show at Rudyard's Saturday night. The...

Somewhere, Marvin Zindler is rolling over in what is no doubt a very lavish coffin. While this article in the Chron todaylooks into the health inspections at sports venues makes no particular mention of slime or its proximity relative to the ice machine, you can be sure that Marvin would've known and would've shouted it from the rooftops. Or at least from somewhere near Dave Ward's elbow. The stadiums reviewed under the auspices of the...

Houstonist found this Dad missing his daughter to be the saddest Missed Connection in our career of lighting up you chumps for sucking at talking to folks. Mr. Man, you need to hold yourself together. Like that old lady at the laundromat says, "Home is where your midget is." Reduce the 900 miles to 9 and you're in business. Now back to our regularly scheduled shenanigans already in progress. Strippers are really angels working...

A veritable Houston legend and one of our favorite local celebrities, KTRK's muckraking Marvin Zindler died today at 85 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He announced on air earlier this summer that he was suffering from cancer, but, characteristically, he didn't let it slow him down. In his last days, Zindler was still hard at work, filing reports and doing newscasts from his hospital bed. It's hard to say what exactly Zindler is "best-known"...

With a holiday in the middle of the week, celebrations of the musical variety are happening all over the city. Houston’s official Independence Day celebration, the 2007 Chevy's Freedom Over Texas with Fireworks Presented by Shell (yes that is really the full name of it) takes place in Eleanor Tinsley Park from 4pm – 10pm with headliner Montgomery Gentry. However, if you are like us and don’t enjoy pushing your way through the expected...

The road to 3,000 continued at Minute Maid Park, Texas as Craig Biggio came into Thursday night's contest only three hits away. In the third inning while facing Aaron Cook with a 2-2 count, Biggio lined a single into center field for career hit 2,998. Biggio would return to the plate in the fifth inning and would smack an Aaron Cook curve ball to Rockies third baseman Garrett Atkins, who then overthrew first baseman...

The road to 3,000 continued Tuesday night in Los Angeles as Craig Biggio recorded two hits to move closer to baseball history. While facing Bartolo Colon in the top of the fourth inning, Biggio punched a single over the glove of Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick for career hit 2,991. In the top of the sixth inning while facing an 0-2 count from Colon, Biggio smacked an infield single to shortstop Orlando Cabrera for hit...

With 10 hits to go for the historic mark, Houstonist will be counting down as Craig Biggio marches towards his 3,000th hit. Last night vs. the Angels, Craig Biggio recorded hit 2,990 in the fifth inning off Angels pitcher and native Texan John Lackey. Biggio Fact of the Day: Biggio is the only player in MLB history to be elected to the All-Star game as a catcher (1991) and second baseman ('92, '94-'98). 3,000...

Arriving into Los Angeles with their first three-game sweep, the Astros came into Angel Stadium to make a statement and to turn a mediocre season around. With the game on the line, Angels manager Mike Scioscia went to his closer in the ninth inning to preserve a 9-9 game. He knew the importance of this game and managed like it and it paid off. Francisco Rodriguez got out of a bases loaded jam to...

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA...

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In...

A lot of people seemed to like last month’s iMix (and, in all honesty, we did, too), so we’re proud to bring you Houstonist iMix: April 2007. This month, we bring you some more new and uprising artists, including some of those that we caught at SXSW last month (The Black Angels, The Bird and the Bee, Mika, RJD2). We threw in some other independent artists we like (Beulah, Marah) and a band that’s so...

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick...

Living With War: The Black Angels / VietNam Official After Party @ Jet Lounge As you learned in yesterday's Music Calendar, some of Houstonist's favorite sounds will be making an appearance tonight at Warehouse Live. Fresh off of SXSW, Austin's The Black Angels and The Fader's recent obsession, VietNam, play tonight, with locals Flowers to Hide supporting. Following the sure-to-be-stellar show, Squad Car Media hosts the Official After Party for both bands at nearby...

Now that most of the SXSW artists have left Texas, we have a slower week for concerts, but there are still some great shows to catch. Houstonist caught The Black Angels and VietNam in Austin this past weekend, and we're glad to hear that they (along with Flowers to Hide) are making a stop at Warehouse Live on Wednesday. The Westheimer Street Festival is this Saturday, with several dozen local acts on the roster....

The Children's Hospital begins with driving rain and with a mediocre medical student named Jemma Claflin attending the birth of a baby so hideously deformed that she is “her very own syndrome.” The rain, as it turns out, is no accident – it is a planned apocalypse, the beginning of a flood that will drown everything but Jemma's hospital, left floating above miles of water, carrying humanity’s last remnants. What follows is a tremendously creative...

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Erci.

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor randyman.

Tuesday Discovered by Peter Gabriel, Akron, Ohio’s Joseph Arthur is a singer/songwriter whose music is full of layered, swirling choruses. While his studio albums are very produced, his live show gives fans to hear his music in a new light. 8 p.m. at the Meridian | tickets and info Wednesday In the late 90’s, Jude came on the scene with a bang – a song on the City of Angels soundtrack, a debut album...

Last week, we told you about the home in Conroe with the image of Jesus in its foyer (or Jerry Garcia, depending on how you look at it). But now we have something even better than that: Jesus himself — or at least a guy claiming to be him — has moved into the Houston suburbs. Take that, Dallas!

23-year-old Juan Solis was sentenced to 80 years in prison today for raping a Galleria employee in a parking garage in 2003 Tom Nixon, the HPD officer who criticized the department's chase policy earlier this year, has been fired; he said he plans to appeal the decision The bicyclist struck by a Metro bus yesterday morning is in fair condition at Ben Taub with head injuries and a fractured pelvic bone and rib Guardian Angels...

Ah, another national study of something we'd never thought about researching: the best and worst U.S. cities for road rage. Looks like drivers in Miami are the nation's rudest, while people in Minneapolis are veritable traffic angels. The Driver's Seat Road Rage Survey, commissioned by AutoVantage, polled people in 20 major cities to get their thoughts on how nasty drivers in their towns were, and the results were pretty much what you'd expect: People get mean when they get stressed, and people get stupid when they multitask while driving.

Wednesday Keeping his father’s tradition of outlaw country music, Shooter Jennings brings his Put the O Back in Country (think about it) tour to Houston. 7 p.m. at the Meridian | tickets and info Thursday It’s like a Reese's commercial – two musicians (Deb Talan and Steve Tannen) meet each other while performing and realize they can make beautiful folk/pop music together as The Weepies. Music: “The World Spins Madly Around” 8 p.m. at...

Cindy Sheehan led a protest in Houston yesterday targeting Barbara Bush, who protesters hoped to convince to tell her son to stop the war in Iraq [video] A woman has been arrested for selling drugs at a South Houston bakery; her boyfriend, the bakery's owner, was arrested in 2004 for doing the same thing Closing arguments resumed today in the trial of Max Soffar, who spent 25 years on death row but had his conviction...

The Guardian Angels' arrival in Houston yesterday couldn't have been timed better: Just a few minutes before the community watch organization got to Sharpstown Mall, a group of teens got into a brawl outside a mall entrance, resulting in one teen getting pummeled on the sidewalk and shots being fired into the air. It's just the kind of thing that led Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt to ask the Angels to help clean his neighborhood up.

Puzzled over the ren-fest-like tent on the corner of Richmond and Post Oak? Speculate no more--it's the future home of Cavalia, a celebration of the "horse-man bond," produced by the same man that brought us the creepy er, "artistic," Cirque Du Soleil.