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Good morning, Houston. At Houstonist world headquarters, our e-mail boxes are graced almost daily with offers from people who want to move millions of dollars to U.S. bank accounts and allow us to take a huge share of the money just for helping — eh, all in a day. But there's a new e-mail in the same vein floating around now: It comes from someone claiming to be Michelle Kristine Kraiser, the "the Confidential...

At Houstonist, we're always on the lookout for ways to stick it to the man — and today, we're happy to bring you one: Run a red light at a camera-controlled intersection by turning right or left. Even though it's an illegal turn, you won't get ticketed thanks to a loophole in the law governing Houston's new red-light camera system. Man, consider yourself stuck.

At Houstonist, we enjoy a good mid-century modern house. So we're really excited about Houston Mod's new exhibit Booming Houston & The Modern House: The Residential Architecture of Neuhaus & Taylor. Neuhaus & Taylor was one of Houston's premier architectural firms in the 1960s and '70s — their designs include the "Taj Mahal," the former HISD headquarters building on Richmond Avenue (which probably won't be around much longer), Galleria I and the towers of...

If you've lived in Texas for long, you've likely heard the saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait." At Houstonist, we believe in keeping track of the weather both to be prepared for the occasional onslaught of rain, hurricanes and flooding, but also because we know that a blue norther in certain months of the year is just as likely as a 90-degree day and we want to dress accordingly.

At Houstonist, we love ourselves some art, and we especially love it when the art comes in double doses right next door to each other. So you can imagine how ecstatic we are about tonight, when two exhibits we're anxious to see open side-by-side.

At Houstonist, there are few things we love more than getting wrapped up in pointless trivia. It helps us refine our witty cocktail party banter — or ensures we don’t get invited to any more cocktail parties — and, more important, spending half a day chasing useless facts across the Web means we only have to do our real job half as much. Score!

At Houstonist, we often scour the Web for the latest dirt with a beverage nearby: Diet Coke for the good days, something else for when things get rough. Occasionally, we'll get so excited over the latest car-chase news that our drink will go flying — sometimes right into a piece of electronic equipment that isn't supposed to be covered in wet, syrupy substances.