Results tagged “birthdays”

Good morning, Houston. Hey, guess who's having a birthday today? Well, OK, it's technically not Houstonist — our second birthday was back on Nov. 20, but we figured that if the queen can have two birthdays, so can we. And so we're throwing ourselves a little birthday party tonight, and you're all invited. It starts at 6 p.m. at Monsoon Wok, Lamar at San Jacinto (yes, street parking is free downtown after 6). Six...

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. Last night, I went out with some friends for a few drinks. Since when has Cinco de Mayo become such a big drinking event? It’s not even a major holiday in Mexico. As long as Dilettante has been aware of Cinco de Mayo, it has been a drinking holiday. But it does seem to be turning into more and more of an excuse...

Sometimes, birthdays just don't turn out like you expect them to. If you don't believe us, just ask Nathaniel Jackson, a Texas City man who turned 23 Saturday — and got busted by New Jersey police for having 17 pounds of pot in his hotel room. Fort Lee, N.J., police say they found Jackson and his girlfriend Kimberly Burns, 26, putting the marijuana into bags in their hotel room. It seems the pair let the...

Houstonist noted some interesting chocolate incidents in the news recently, including the story of a worker who became trapped in a vat of chocolate (can that really be a bad thing?) and that of an employee at a chocolatier to the rich and famous who saw the Virgin Mary in chocolate drippings. Sure, they were great stories, but for us, they invoked memories of our favorite chocolate cake — iced while it's hot to increase...