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So we noted earlier this week that people who attended this year's Essence Music Festival whined about how Houston isn't New Orleans. And now festival organizers have joined in, saying Houston apparently didn't realize just how important the three-day music, shopping and education festival was.

hard yesterday, you'll probably remember the Essence Music Festival, held in Houston for the first time this year as its traditional home, New Orleans, struggles to get back on its feet. We knew the festival events would go on as usual — at Reliant Park rather than the Superdome — but the big unknown was how festivalgoers would react to Houston. As we've heard over and over again post-Katrina, Houston is not New Orleans, but the city hoped no one would really notice and the EMF would help propel Houston into the ranks of world-class minority tourist destinations.

As the curtain falls tonight on the 2006 Essence Music Festival, marking the end of the event's first year away from New Orleans, organizers expect other cities to start trying to make sure it never goes back. The three-day festival is a potential windfall for convention and tourism bureaus: It draws thousands of visitors and their wallets, and it could help position a city as a minority tourist destination. At least that's what Houston hopes....

Here's some advice: Unless you're attending the Essence Music Festival this weekend, you might want to avoid the Essence Music Festival. That's because more than 200,000 people may come to the three-day festival, being held in Houston for the first time this year. We just don't think Reliant Park-area traffic will be any fun. The EMF started in New Orleans in 1994 to mark the 25th anniversary of Essence magazine. Since then, it's grown into...

Tuesday Will T. Massey sings from the heart. He’s exactly what you would expect from a singer/songwriter from San Angelo – a good folk storyteller. 8 p.m. at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck | info Wednesday Experimental is probably the best word to use when describing the Legendary Pink Dots. They’ve been around over a quarter of a century now, and have been likened to Pink Floyd, but if you listen to some of their 80’s...

Before he had his own reality TV show, before he was in jail multiple times for drug charges, before he married Whitney Houston, and before he was a hot solo act, Bobby Brown was a member of the teen band New Edition. It was announced this week that Bobby Brown would be reuniting with the band in Houston this summer for the Essence Music Festival. We hope Whitney shows up, too – that media circus would be fun.

Police arrested a Cy-Fair high school student today after a pregnant woman said he tried to kidnap her while she was out for her morning walk Esteban Tovar, a UH anthropology major, is trying to spread the word about cars fueled by leftover vegetable oil — he converted his car to run on oil, which he siphons from vats in the back of restaurants Prosecutors who indicted Tom DeLay will ask the state to restore...