Results tagged “babies”

You might have noticed a couple of changes to Houstonist — and we're here to explain what they mean. Tags Instead of being classified by categories, all our posts are now tagged with content-specific keywords. Not only will they help you find broad subjects (like sports or music), but also specific kinds of posts (like posts about the Museum District, babies, City Hall and, oddly enough, snow). Soon, all our categories will be converted to...

We have a confession to make. Merely two weeks into our low cholesterol diet, we've fallen off the low cholesterol wagon and dove into the chow wagon. But it wasn't our fault! We were tempted by an evil and sinister force: oysters. More specifically, Danton oysters. So, you understand, right? Right? Confession aside, let's get to the nitty gritty--these oysters are anything but gritty. We walked into the place with full intentions to abide by...

Henry Dittman and Joan (justjoan) are the hosts of the Internet-based travelogue called The Smart Show sponsored by Holiday Inn Express. By now you're probably familiar with the H.I.E. ads that purports to convey savant-like intellect on its patrons. "I'm not a vascular surgeon, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night," says a broke writer after requesting a scalpel from the O.R. nurse. Despite having a title sponsor, The Smart Show does...

Good morning, Houston. In these days of near-$3 gas, there's one group of drivers who aren't so worried: hypermilers, who use certain techniques to squeeze every possible M out of their MPG. Hypermiling involves a few pretty simple changes in the way you drive, including coasting, accelerating slowly from stops and the skillful use of cruise control. Used correctly, hypermiling can increase your car's fuel efficiency by 30 percent or more — so why...

For about 40 years, Houstonians have known where buy the best pies. Founded in 1967 The Flying Saucer Pie Company has been baking up a wide variety of pies daily, using the freshest available ingredients. Other than HoustonistMama, who is getting tired of baking for us, these are the bestest pies ever. We are partial to their line of cream pies! Whether you are ordering your meal pre-cooked, or popping your turkey or turducken in...

If you were inside on Saturday, avoiding the heat and humidity, you had the opportunity to watch the Texans take on the reigning NFC Champion Chicago Bears. Preseason or not, the Texans were no match for the Bears, losing 20-19 at Reliant. Franchise savior du jour Matt Schaub was 3-5 on pass attempts, but he did actually show poise in the pocket in situations that would've made David Carr curl into a fetal position. RB...

The results are in and Texas tops the charts in births to girls aged 15 - 19. The Anne E. Casey Foundation publishes KIDS COUNT study annually but these results are based on figures from 2004. State law requires that abstinence be emphasized during sex education classes in schools. However, local jurisdictions are able to plot their own course with delivery method (of the class, not the babies) and amount of information conveyed. The...

Interested in getting in touch with your most animal nature? This will probably be the healthiest avenue to do so: Tuesday evening, the Jung Center of Houston kicks off its Student/Member Lecture Series with a presentation entitled, Creature Comforts: Animals, Nature and Healing. If you've got nature on the brain after thinking about the Top 10ist topic of the week, then this may be the perfect satiating experience. According to the Jung website, "[a]nimal-assisted...

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

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...

No, we're not kidding. In what was meant to be an effort to reduce the incidence of abortion in Texas, the lovable State Sen. Dan Patrick has come up with a bill to pay $500 to mothers who give their babies up for adoption within sixty days of birth. But wait a minute, isn't that baby-selling (and really cheap baby-selling)? Don't worry - the bill states that "Section 25.08, Penal Code, does not apply to...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Does anyone else suffer from crippling shyness at the gym? We read these painful exercise-inspired posts all the time on Craigslist's Missed Connections and thought we'd wonder aloud how common this problem is. People seem to have a really hard time finding love on the elliptical. For instance, the woman below doesn't even seem to care who she attracts; she just wants a gym boyfriend. 24hour fitness greenbriar and holcolmbe So many cute boys...

Just in case you forgot, Houstonist is throwing ourselves a little birthday bash this Wednesday evening, the 13th, at Warren's downtown. We're a year old now, but this party won't be like those torturous ones your friends with babies make you sit through: no cupcakes, no party favors, no dumb kids' songs (unless you count what's on the jukebox at Warren's — we're sure something would qualify). Instead, there'll be something you don't usually find...

Houston's Craigslist users continue to wuss out and miss connections. Knuckle-up and ask them out while you've got the chance. Hell yes I want your taquito! You sat across from me this morning [in Whataburger] with your cute unshaven face and made eye contact several times, once in particular while adjusting your cap. I was too shy to ask if you were interested. I was definitely interested! Hoping you will see this and let me...

If you think traffic on I-10 was a bad repercussion of yesterday’s downpour, try being washed away from your nest. You would have to be a bird to have experienced that, but you get the idea. Rain storms usually cause a lot of phone calls to come into Wildlife Rehab and Education, a non-profit organization, and yesterday was no different. Among those the group rescued Monday were a family of cottontail rabbits flooded out of...

Houstonist has heard the stories about babies being left on people's doorsteps and in trash cans, but the baby who was left in an apartment complex's mail room was a new one on us. It happened at the Haverstock Hill Apartments in north Houston. “Doctors think she was about a day old, and they think she must have been a home delivery because she had her umbilical cord tied with a rubber band,” said...

As we've said before, it's not a good time to be Tom DeLay — the ethics questions, the ties to Jack Abramoff, those criminal charges that just won't go away. And now, according to a Chronicle poll, DeLay's support in his home district is crumbling. The poll found only half the people who voted for DeLay in 2004 said they'll vote for him again. Of the remainder, about half haven't decided who they'll support and...

Who can forget "Don't Mess with Texas?" This year, the anti-litter ad campaign that's become part of our state's consciousness turns 20 — and TxDOT is marking its birthday with a star-studded series of ads that will debut during the Cotton Bowl today featuring Texans including Lance Armstrong and Erykah Badu. We were kind of amazed by how versatile the campaign has been: The inaugural "Don't Mess with Texas" campaign targeted sports-and-music-loving, pickup-truck-driving men...