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It looks like the story of Our Lady of the Pizza Pan isn't turning out like we expected. Over the weekend, the Chronicle reported that officials at Pugh Elementary — where cafeteria worker Guadalupe Rodriguez discovered the silhouette of the Virgin Mary on a pizza pan on Ash Wednesday — worked out a deal so Rodriguez could keep the pan. But today, when Rodriguez was supposed to pick up the pan, HISD ordered that it...

Big news in Houston this weekend: the Blessed Virgin Mary, that holy trickster known for showing up in all sorts of unexpected places, chose to make an appearance on a pizza pan in a local elementary school kitchen. It happened on Ash Wednesday when Guadalupe Rodriguez, a cafeteria worker at Pugh Elementary, was washing the pizza pan in question and noticed a stubborn stain. "On the third rinse I started watching it, trying to discover...

Good morning, Houston. If you attended mass on Ash Wednesday, we hope it went more smoothly than one at the cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. During the mass, CD players duct-taped to the undersides of pews began blasting sexually explicit language — as you might expect, it was disruptive. Church staff members took the CD players to the basement, after which a bomb squad arrived and blew two of the three players up. For...

The Titties and Beads Edition It's Fat Tuesday Houston. A day made for over eating, over drinking, over partying, and pretty much over indulgence in general. For those of you non historically minded people, Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras in French, has evolved from a glutonous day long celebration the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (the start of Lent), into weeks and months of balls, parades, ceremonies, and bar tabs. Oh, and lest we forget, beads....