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If good wine and hot artists make you feel warm and fuzzy, you should get yourself over to Avant Garden (411 Westheimer) tonight and mix, mingle and gawk for the closing of the Neoformalism1 show, curated by Ashley MacLean.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor mslouisa.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor sanctamonius.

Monday Moive Nights @ Domy Books We're loving this monday night movie series at Domy. It gives us an excuse to get out of the house on a Monday night, and a reason to watch cheesy cult classics. All the more reason to love Domy Books. Monday, August 6: "Forbidden Zone" A chaotic musical fantasy. The story revolves around a family who unwittingly stumble into a gateway to the sixth dimension, wherein the denizens are...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor deji_01.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor MasTaPiannis. We'll let the flurry of activity in this black and white photo take us into the weekend. Let's hope we don't get too much rain this weekend and that we will be able to sit outside somewhere and enjoy a meal or a tasty beverage. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 335 of Houston's...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor slipshod snapshots. Infernal Bridegroom Productions ceased operations on July 24, 2007 In the arts, the word “alternative” has been thoroughly recast as a marketing tool in an effort to resolve two incongruent sensibilities: the desire to be different and the fear of standing alone. Infernal Bridegroom Productions is…alas…was old school “alternative”. IBP confidently stood alone in bringing to stage productions that...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Jeff Balke who provides us with this stunning black and white image of a backboard that's seen better days. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 270 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more great photography check out...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Randy. It's a photo of a horse family. Just how freakin' cute is that little sucker in the middle? Houstonist decided to go for cuteness in todays photo of the day and we thank Randy for this image. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 250 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group....

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor cybertoad who wraps up this weeks black and white theme with this wonderful image from Bayou Bend Gardens. Houstonist would like thank everyone who submitted black and white images for this week's unexpected and unannounced theme. We'll get back to mixing up our photo of the day next week. Keep reading Houstonist and keep sending in photos! We thank you for...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Paper By Design who gives us this multi-view of 610 and The Galleria area. World class shopping and world class traffic makes this a highly congested area almost any time of the day. Still, it's a favorite spot of Houstonist and we thank Paper By Design for sharing this image with us.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Erci who gives us this performers perspective of the Wortham Center. It's not very often that anyone, much less Houstonist, gets this magnificent view of the theater. The Wortham Center is located downtown in the Theater District and hosts performances by such fine institutions as, The Houston Ballet and The Houston Grand Opera. If you enjoy taking pictures of Houston, consider...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor fotolilith. This black and white image captures the Rice Stadium bleachers at a great angle with nice contrast in the alternating levels of bleachers. Our flickr group has gotten some great black and white submissions for this weeks theme. Keep the photos coming, color and black and white. We love all the submissions. If you enjoy taking pictures of Houston, consider...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor karenhr. Continuing with our black and white theme brings us to this image, jaywalking. We know it's illegal and people do it anyway, but come on, right in front of HPD? That's just not smart. According to the caption from this photo, "a fairly large group of people were waiting patiently for the light to turn, this guy just strolls on...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor sanctamonius who captures a random pedestrian in the crosswalk as a MetroRail train passes. Houstonist feels a theme coming on this week. Get those black and white images submitted to the group and let's see where we can take this week's unannounced theme. If you enjoy taking pictures of Houston, consider joining over 230 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor highway6 who gives us this great angle of Houston from across the bayou. The lighting and shadows give this image an intriguing grainy and snowy feel. If you enjoy taking pictures of Houston, consider joining over 230 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, please submit it here....

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor slipshod snapshots.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Paper By Design. This striking, colorized, black and white image takes us back to more innocent days when Mondays weren't stressful, you didn't care much about time changes and when a feather in the hand was about as valuable as money in your wallet. Those were the days. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 200...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Christine. This black and white image is of the 11th Street Cafe, conveniently located on 11th Street in The Heights. Strange goings on in that locale? We're not sure but check out the description of this photo: That is not my laptop on the empty booth there; I don't know where the guy that was using it wandered off to right...

We actually saw it last week, folks. With all the other mindless drones headed to the multiplex. The point of this review is not, as it turns out, to tell those of you who were going to see it anyway how Casino Royale was. It's actually to get the rest of you--the oldschool Bond fans, the Connery-or-bust types.

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor eschipul.

One of the most creative videos to come out of the '90s was “Lucas with the Lid Off” by Lucas. The artist never made it far past this one song, but the video still remains a masterpiece. Directed by Michael Gondry (director of Enternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), the black and white video was amazingly shot in one take. Read here for more details on the making of the video.

Prosecutors in the Enron trial wrapped up their closing arguments Wednesday, hitting more highlights of 15 weeks of testimony and urging jurors to decide the case against former Enron Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling as a "black and white" matter.

The prosecution began presening its closing arguments in the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial yesterday, saying the former Enron executives were "masters of the cover story" who lied repeatedly to shareholders and the public. Prosecutor Katheryn Ruemmler told jurors that Lay and Skilling relied on "accounting tricks, fiction, hocus-pocus, trickery, misleading statements, half-truths, omissions and outright lies" to cheat and steal from Enron's shareholders, the true owners of the company:

Missing your weekly dose of art? A few notable exhibitions are closing this weekend, but there's still time to check them out: New Texas Painting at DiverseWorks (1117 East Freeway) showcases new work by Texas painters Seth Alverson, William Betts , Bill Davenport , Joey Fauerso, Ali Fitzgerald, Heyd Fontenot, Angela Fraleigh, Francesca Fuchs, Ryan Geiger, Nina Rizzo, Brian Wheeler, Jeff Wheeler, Hilary Wilder and Bill Willis. Closes Saturday. Also at DiverseWorks is Full Stop,...

Houstonist is preparing to lose ourselves in a sea of turkey, cranberry sauce, yams and pumpkin pie. But before we do, here's a look at some of today's non-football TV highlights:

• The History Channel takes a look at what the first Thanksgiving was
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