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Good morning, Houston. We forgot to mention a bit of news last week: According to ForbesTraveler.com, Houston is the sixth-best restaurant city in the country. "San Antonio may have a far more manifest Mexican food culture, but Houston, which spirals forever outward, has far more breadth and depth," the site said; it specifically cited upper-end Tony's, Café Annie and Américas, but also mentioned the Breakfast Klub, with its "irresistible" chicken and waffles. Mmm. >>...

A bizarre scene that involved a car accident, an SUV atop a Cadillac and gunfire reportedly brought traffic to a standstill along the Southwest Freeway in front of Memorial Hermann Southwest hospital yesterday morning — but thanks to TV news, it's hard to know exactly what happened.

More details today on the multiple-vehicle wreck that shut down the Katy Freeway near Highway 6 yesterday: According to KPRC, it was apparently caused when one of the Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables escorting a wide load decided to shut down an outside lane of the eastbound freeway, which caused drivers in other lanes to stop, too. One of those cars was a Ford Expedition, which ended up being rear-ended by an 18-wheeler that couldn't stop in time; the crash turned into a chain reaction, the SUV burst into flames and chaos ensued.

Don't you hate it when someone steals the $50,000 that you always keep in the briefcase in the trunk of your car? That's exactly what happened yesterday to a man while he was pulling into his driveway. The robbers took off in a Ford Expedition, and the victim chased them down (in his Mercedes) until he was halted by a flat tire. Dang, talk about a bad day. No word on what he was doing...

Though Houstonist doesn't really know much about cars, we get excited every winter when the Houston Auto Show opens — we'd much rather climb around the new-model cards at Reliant Center than pretend we're going to buy one so we can test drive it at the dealership.