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Champagne Bubble Bath The Tasting Room - River Oaks Saturday, December 8th 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. 2409 W. Alabama 713.526.2242 Taste some "sparkling wines", (hey, it's not Champagne, unless it is actually made in Champagne, France, just saying) and try some appetizers. The cost is $50/ per person, but, you get a $5 discount if you donate a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots! Holiday Farmer's Market and Wine Tasting The Tasting...

Houstonist is pleased to see that the holidays haven't lessened the amount of folks who seem to be "a sandwich short of a full picnic basket." Still in doubt? Read on. Amazing Sex .... Why didnt i get your number? - m4w - 28 We made eye contact in the grocery store. You waited for me outside then we had amazing sex in your mini van. It was a blast and i would love...

Here's a joke waiting to be told: What would soldiers and Marines want with silly string, bubble gum and pantyhose? Go ahead, take your best shot. We'll give you a second to think it over. (In the meantime, have you heard the one about the duck that walks into a drugstore ... ?) Seriously, though — the silly string, bubble gum and pantyhose were part of military supply kits that kids at Memorial Drive Elementary...

City Council members on Wednesday approved a contract with EarthLink to build Houston's wireless Internet network, putting the city a step closer to having the nation's largest municipal Wi-Fi setup — or, as KHOU has apparently taken to calling it, a "wireless Internet bubble." (Not one, we hope, like this.)

Here's another of those things that'll make us all proud to be Houstonians: According to an environmental research group, three of the five most-polluting U.S. refineries are in the Houston area. We guess our old line to cover for our pollution problem — "That's the smell of money!" — won't quite cut it anymore. According to the Enrivonmental Integrity Project, BP's Texas City refinery, Exxon Mobil's refinery in Baytown and the Lyondell-Citgo plant in Houston...

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...

Now that the first few weeks of school have come and gone, let's see how eager Houstonians are doing in Missed Connections 101.

We suddenly wish we were in middle school again. Ok, minus the teasing and homework. But were we in grades 5 through 8, we would be eligible to take part in a Bubble Wrap contest! Isn’t that reason enough to digress to your pre-teen years? No? Then just spread the word and let the real kids know about the contest.

There's nothing like a story about declining wages for a midweek pick-me-up, is there? In that spirit, Houstonist brings you the news that, though Texas has had more job growth than the national average in the last few years, our median income is dropping. In fact, there's been a 6.2 percent drop in the median wage in Texas since 2002, and young and black workers are being hit particularly hard. The information comes from the...

If you listen to the radio, like technology and enjoy a good bubble tea once in a while, we have an easy way for you to achieve nirvana: Head over to Tropioca tomorrow night for the August Geek Gathering. Expect a good bit of tech talk, salivating over new gadgets, WiFi and food (Tropioca offers sandwiches, pizza and desserts in addition to bubble tea — which is a good thing, because Houstonist is not a...

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy...

A Houstonist reader recently wrote to ask about an art installation along Buffalo Bayou:

A news report from KHOU burst Houstonist's TV bubble this morning: It seems real-life police crime labs aren't really much like the ones on CSI. KHOU had HPD crime lab director Irma Rios and DNA division head Vanessa Nelson check out an episode of the hit crime drama, and they found a few inconsistencies between the show and real life — for example, tests that the show presents as conclusive really aren't. But the biggest...

In the holiday rush this week, we didn't notice an article in the Chronicle about Houston's proposed "Walk of Fame" (which actually doesn't have an official name yet). The walk, which will begin at the Wortham Center and extend east along Texas Avenue to Minute Maid Park, then south along Avenida de las Americas to Toyota Center, then back west along Polk, will "honor people and things that have taken the city to national and international levels." But it doesn't sound as though it'll be much like the Walk of Fame in Hollywood:

We all know the saying: Everything is bigger in Texas! Innuendo aside, Houston, the state’s largest city and the fourth largest city in the union, is a bargain in terms of cost of living. We have big cars (Hummer H2 limos by the dozen), big-ass beer and big houses. But since when have you ever received a discount for ordering the Super-Sized portion?