Okay, photographers, try to ignore the painfully tight jeans and embarrassingly mop-like 'do for just one moment - '80s arena rocker and power balladeer Billy Squire wrote a song just for you. You got it. Everybody wants you. Oh, you're so used to being in such high demand, aren't you? And who wants you now, pray tell, Houstonist? Well, none other than the United Way of Greater Houston. "But Houstonist," you ask, scratching your head...
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In the Shadow of the Moon should be required viewing for every Houstonian: after all, the movie celebrates what many consider to be the greatest achievement (moon landing!) of Houston's greatest contribution to the country (no, not barbeque...NASA!). This incredibly moving documentary film (presented by Rom Howard, who already explored this subject to fascinating event in Apollo 13.
OK, so it didn't happen in Houston. But Houstonist laughed out loud when we heard it last night on the New 93Q's nightly Radio Lia show, so we decided to share. Apparently a woman who was performing what the Telegraph, a UK newspaper, refers to as a "provacative dance" designed to "arouse her husband". After being asked to demonstrate her "gyrations" in court, she explained how her husband had disappeared into the bedroom and...
Remeber earlier in the week, when Dallas said it couldn't handle the 40,000 Harris County evacuees the state might ask it to take in case of a hurricane? Well, now Dallas-area officials are starting to backpedal on that, apparently after realizing that it makes them look rather uppity and selfish. But Houstonist is confused — isn't that why we love Dallas?
So we've all seen the TV news spots where someone takes a black light and finds all sorts of nasty stuff in hotel rooms, right? But you've said to yourself, "That doesn't happen in nice hotels." Well, think again: ABC News investigated 20 fancy hotels in NYC, LA, Houston and Miami, and they found some pretty foul things — including a lot of urine.
Our freedom to run red lights is in its last days — the city today began testing red-light cameras that snap photos of motorists as they cruise through stoplights. The cameras, each from a different vendor, are at four downtown and midtown intersections: Texas at Travis, Texas at San Jacinto, Milam at Jefferson and Travis at McGowen. The city will evaluate the cameras for 30 days and decide which brand to eventually install at...
Gables Residential has announced a mega-residential/commercial project near Westheimer and Kirby, on the site of the old River Oaks Tennis center. Speculation is that the project could have more than 700 apartment units, according to the Houston Business Journal — a drop in the bucket compared to the 12,000 to 15,000 new apartments built in the city each year.
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