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Good morning, Houston. At Houstonist world headquarters, our e-mail boxes are graced almost daily with offers from people who want to move millions of dollars to U.S. bank accounts and allow us to take a huge share of the money just for helping — eh, all in a day. But there's a new e-mail in the same vein floating around now: It comes from someone claiming to be Michelle Kristine Kraiser, the "the Confidential...

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked...

Good morning, Houston. It's back to the books for many area students this week, although HISD won't begin until August 27. Many local private schools have already started classes, and many will start up again this week, and many colleges will begin class this week as well. Although the temperatures are still pretty summer-y, these next couple of weeks have that end-of-August, book-reports-due feel to them. >> Hurricane + no tax = shopping!: Stories...

So Gov. Rick Perry has appointed five regents to the Texas Southern University board. That leaves four seats open, and though there has been a surge in the number of applicants in the last year, finding people to fill those empty spots won't be easy, as the Chronicle notes today. State records show that fewer than 50 people applied for spots on the TSU board over the past six years, while twice as many applied...

The Chronicle reports on the latest developments in the TSU saga today: Three of the school's regents are resisting Gov. Rick Perry's call for their resignations, and an accrediting agency says Perry's plan for state conservatorship could endanger TSU's accreditation. "I'm not going to resign because that would be an acknowledgment of doing something wrong," Regent David Diaz told the Chronicle. "I haven't done anything wrong." Diaz, the Rev. Robert Childress and Belinda Griffin had...

Good morning, Houston. You know what the problem is around this town? We'll tell you: mismatched news racks. But never fear — City Council is trying to save us. Under an ordinance presented to council this week, newspaper vendors would have to make their racks relatively the same size, keep them clean and in working order and paint them all the same color: forest green (we had some details back in the summer). The reaction?...

Texas A&M University has announced that educational content from a variety of classes will be made available via iTunes U to the general public. A&M is the first university in Texas to offer "coursecasts," podcasts of classroom-type content, to folks not affiliated with the university. In order to "Click. Sync. Learn. Gig'em," interested parties must first download and install iTunes before launching TAMU on iTunes U. It's so easy even a caveman an Aggie can...

Non-profit art center DiverseWorks kicks-off its fall season with the 8th annual Downtown Stomp Around. The free event gives art lovers the chance to view a wide range of artwork in the DiverseWork artspace, O’Kane Gallery at UH Downntown, Fotofest, and the Anam Cara Gallery at Erie City Ironworks. DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art, by providing local artists a venue to test new ideas in the public arena. You’ll find...

College graduates are finally reaping the rewards of shelling out an absurd amount of money (not to mention a lot of time) for their higher education. The Chronicle reports that for the first time in years, graduates are leaving college with something that was looking scarce: a job. It's a scenario that means the seven-year-plan is paying off for some people. Companies are visiting colleges more for recruiting, offering signing bonuses, and higher starting...

Nearly two dozen Missouri City homes have been evacuated as a nearly 400-acre grass fire spreads, but officials say they have the blaze under control Grady Davis, a retired teacher, was robbed and killed this morning as he cleaned his barbecue pit at a northeast Houston car wash A combined $10,000 reward has been offered for information in the Mother's Day hit-and-run that claimed the life of cyclist Eric Schlueter on Hempstead Highway A parent...

What if you held a bowl game and nobody came? The situation leading into Friday's Fort Worth Bowl isn't as bad as that, but tickets aren't selling like hotcakes at the University of Houston or the University of Kansas. According to reports, UH has sold about 4,000 tickets out of its allotment of 10,000, while Kansas has sold about 6,000. That isn't really an accurate picture of who's going to be at the game, though,...