Houstonist has always loved the groovy, psychedelic, exotic sounds of Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer hired on the cheap in the 1960s to write soundtracks for the so-called spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone and others. The eerie bird calls, dark tension and lines like "Keep your hand on your gun. Don't you trust anyone. There's just one kinda man you can trust, that's a dead man," give Houstonist the feelings of tension and struggle for survival that make those movies so great.
1
Results tagged “collegestation”
After assistant head coach Mike Sherman left the Texans for College Station and the Texas A&M job, Texans head coach Gary Kubiak was tasked with finding a replacement for the architect of his offense. Though Kubes is himself a former offensive coordinator, he's made a practice of surrounding himself with other top-tier assistants ever since he took the Texans job.
There's absolutely no question in our minds that Houstonist readers have amazing skills when it comes to ye olde shutter box. And although we'd love to hoard your talent under our beds and keep it for ourselves for a rainy day (which will be, um, tomorrow), we know your talent deserves more exposure than that. But you can't blame us for trying. That's why we want to be sure that you know to enter the...
We haven't had a good story about a Houston-related airplane disturbance since everyone's favorite co-pastor pitched a fit and got thrown off a Continental flight a year and a half ago — but Wednesday night, someone else made a stink and forced a Houston-bound Continental Express plane to make an unscheduled landing.
The University of Houston Cougars Softball team won its first Conference USA title Saturday afternoon, surviving a heated pitching duel. Tournament MVP Angel Shamblin tossed a 2-hit shutout give the Cougars the Conference title in a narrow 1-0 victory over East Carolina. The Cougars scored what would turn out to be the only run of the game in the 1st inning, capitalizing on a pair of fielding errors. We notice that for some reason...
More details are emerging in the Thursday stabbing death of Rice basketball player Jonathan Bailey — but that doesn't mean things are necessarily getting any clearer. The Chronicle has information from the Brazos County sheriff's office about the incident, which apparently grew out of a bar scuffle between Bailey's twin brother Janson and Michael Fuller, a Marine who had recently come home from Iraq:
A College Station bar fight early Thursday morning left Jonathan Bailey, a 22-year-old Rice University basketball player, dead and his twin brother Janson hospitalized. Details are still few, but according to police, the Bailey brothers were involved in a fight at the V Bar, a club near the Texas A&M campus. Those involved in the fight were asked to leave the bar and the fight continued outside; that's when police say Jonathan and Janson Bailey were stabbed. They were found at about 1:45 a.m. and were taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan, where Jonathan died and Janson is being treated for multiple stab wounds.
And you thought all that Texas A&M students had to do was put up with the inevitable Aggie jokes. Turns out being an Ag is getting more expensive: a proposal for a 13% increase in tuition and fees is coming up before the school's Board of Regents today, and is expected to pass, writes the Chronicle.
Dynamo back-up goal keeper Zach Wells made an incredilbe P.K. save yesterday vs. Puntarenas FC, but it didn't serve well enough to make the win. The Dynamo was in Coasta Rica for the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. By winning the 2006 MLS Cup, the Houston Dynamo secured one of two MLS spots representing the United States in the Champions Cup, the other being D.C. United. In addition, the Dynamo becomes the first...
Face it. You've been wanting to go treasure hunting ever since you saw the Goonies chasing One-eyed Willy's loot and running from the Fratelli's. Don't lie or we'll make you do the truffle shuffle.
Three men, one from College Station (we're holding off on the Aggie joke, and you should too), one from The Woodlands, and one from Needville, were indicted yesterday by a Montgomery County grand jury on charges of soliciting sex from teenagers on the internet.
Aggie President Dr. Robert Gates has accepted President Bush's nomination for Secretary of Defense in the wake of former Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. Rumsfeld announced his resignation on Wednesday in the wake of the large Republican losses in Tuesday's midterm election. Gates is no stranger to the Intelligence and Defense arenas or politics. He began his career in 1966 as a CIA analyst and moved up from there eventually serving as the Director of Central Intelligence...
The bad news: It's another rainy morning, and it looks like we may be in for isolated strong storms tonight. The good news: When all this moves through the area, we'll have a beautiful weekend. As long as the city doesn't flood, we're OK with that.
Wow, it sure rained a lot overnight. We mean a lot — more than seven inches fell downtown, more than six in southern Brazoria County, just as much in east Harris County and part of Liberty County. The good news is that most of the heavy rain has moved north of the Beltway, but the bad news is that it's now sitting over Katy, northwest Harris County, Montgomery County, Bryan-College Station, Huntsville ... yeah, you...
We're just a little over two months away from Election Day 2006. (It’s on Nov. 7), which means we can expect to see a lot more of the candidates in the next few weeks. Today, independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Kinky Friedman hits town in the midst of his college tour — he's making a stop today at the University of Houston, and then tonight, you can catch him at the Flying Saucer downtown. Nothing...
So here's something interesting: There was a cattle drive in downtown Houston today. It wasn't a big one, and it wasn't actually, you know, , but still — you don't see that just every day. (Fortunately, though, you can see it today in this raw footage from KHOU.)
Last night, while Houstonist was busy separating the wheat from the chaff of local news, we were keeping an eye on NBC's epic 10.5: Apocalypse. It had everything you'd expect from a TV disaster flick: cheesy special effects, dreadful acting and a script that must have been written by a strung-out third grader. Yeah, yeah, big deal. Pass the Donettes. But what really got our attention was the end of the movie, when a...
The bodies of two women were found within miles of each other, and police believe their deaths may be connected A car crashed into a light pole on the Hardy Toll Road this morning, throwing the driver onto the other side of the freeway and pinning the passenger in the car The father of a missing 3-year-old boy has been charged with injury to a child even as the search for the boy continues The...
At Westbury High, a catfight between evacuees and local students led to 27 arrests and one extremely minor injury With a few hours to go until the Astros' deadline to offer Roger Clemens salary arbitration, there are murmurs that the 'Stros will be setting the Rocket free The freeze line tonight should stay north of Huntsville and College Station, meaning cold rain for Houston but potentially icy conditions in Central and North Texas The 5th...
« Previous
1
Next »