Results tagged “animalrights”

Rockets center Yao Ming got married yesterday, or two days ago, or perhaps last month (we're not good with the whole International Date Line thing here at Houstonist) to his long-time girlfriend Ye Li. Lest you think that Ye is going to look like a pixie next to 7'6" Yao, keep in mind that she's 6'2" herself. She's a basketball player on China's national team in her own right. Their children will no doubt be...

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...

The 80th Texas Legislature is proving to be one of the zaniest yet. This week, Senator Glenn Hegar, a Republican from Katy, amended a bill to allow for legalized horse slaughtering in Texas. The bill, SB 911 (ha ha), along with Hegar's amendment, would allow the sale of horsemeat for human consumption, if the animals are tested by the commission. But isn't that illegal in Texas? Well, Hegar has only the most humane interests. He...

If you're the type to get up in arms over New York City's ban on sous vide or Chicago's outlawing the sale of foie gras, you might want to make a reservation for dinner Thursday at Noé, the swank restaurant at the Omni Houston hotel. That night, chef Robert Gadsby will serve a seven-course "Outlaw Dinner" featuring a variety of ingredients and preparations that have been, or may soon be, banned: • Morels, mushrooms that...

The dinner was at chic New York restaurant Nobu 57, and that’s where the PETA members confronted Beyonce about wearing fur and using it in the clothing line House of Dereon. They waited until after their orders had been placed, then started firing questions, and even broke out a portable DVD player with footage of minks being killed for fur. The PETA members are said to never have raised their voices, but that didn’t keep them from being escorted out of the restaurant. Beyonce, along with her mom and sister, stayed.