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As a reward for making it through yet another Monday, prepare yourself to see a few Houston landmarks in a whole new light (and don't worry; despite the title, the video is completely SFW): more ›

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::Rice University's Second Annual Asian Film Festival:: more ›

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Indra Vishnampet: Local Entrepeneur Indra Vishnampet who was recently named "Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" by The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce Greater Houston sat down with Purva Patel of The Houston Chronicle and answered a few questions about her local multi-million dollar software integration business which has offices in Houston, Canada and India. Missouri City Not Experiencing "Comcastic" Service Hats off to a group of... more ›

Good morning, Houston. There's a new weapon in the battle to make Houston the most beautiful city in America: Beginning next week, commercial property owners will have to hide their Dumpsters behind a building, wall, fence, berm or shrub. Officials said they hope the rule — which City Council approved six months ago — will help increase property values and make properties safer (and, of course, prettier). Anyone who violates the ordinance can be... more ›

HMNA presents a Special Lecture: Excavations at Aksum Tonight, the Houston Museum of Natural Science Distinguished Lecture Series presents Excavations at Aksum, Insights to the Early Christian Kingdom in Ethiopia, presented by Kathryn Bard, Ph.D., Boston University, and Rodolfo Fattovich, Ph.D., University of Naples. One of the oldest African kingdoms, Aksum arose in a high altitude region of Northern Ethiopia in the 4th century BC. This was a literate state that left writing in Greek,... more ›

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Compaq Gets A New Logo Houston based Compaq unveiled a new logo for the company at a technology conference in India. HP/Compaq has modernized the font and given the trademark Compaq Q a weird new look. Houstonist is still on the fence about this logo. Dwight Silverman over at The Chron covered this story in a Tech Blog post and you can see the graphics he... more ›

John McCormack, CEO and founder of Visible Changes, the popular chain of hair salons, made a big promise to his employees fifteen years ago. He told them that if any of their children wanted to go to medical school, the company would pay for it. At the time, most of his employees did not even have high school diplomas and many were immigrants from developing nations. KHOU profiled two Visible Changes employees, one from Vietnam... more ›

We hate to ruin the suspense, but what the heck: the rum? Still gone, people. That's indicative of the general tenor of Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End. There's still Orlando Bloom being kind of a tool for the most part, still Keira Knightly being plucky, and still Johnny Depp being Keith Richards. Of course, this time there's also Keith Richards being Keith Richards, which may explain Depp's seeming drop in quality from movies one and two in the series. Or perhaps, it's just that his deliciously subversive Captain Jack Sparrow isn't a pleasant surprise anymore, but a given. more ›

Houston City Council Member M.J. Khan of District F will be traveling to Doha, Qatar April 6-13 as a representative of the State Department's Speaker and Specialist Program. Council Member Khan will be meeting with local businessman, dignitaries, academics, students, and politicians from the region. During these visits, he will discuss topics ranging from Houston council business to the American political process and living as a Muslim in the United States. He will visit students at some of the local universities and schools including Qatar University and the Texas A&M University Campus in Doha. He will also visit with the Central Municipal Council, Pakistani Youth Society, and Qatar Businessmen’s Association. more ›

The Chronicle ran a report this morning on Google’s semi-new search engine “Google Trends,” which allows you to type in multiple words and phrases and see the Top 10 cities and regions that have googled those terms in the past two years. We think it’s a fun feature, too, so we thought we would share someof our findings. Since we’re so competitive with other Texas sports franchises, we thought we’d take a look at... more ›

After Tuesday's terrorist commuter train bombings in India and non-terrorist, but still scary subway fire in Chicago, Metro officials took no chances with our little rail system. Yesterday, security was beefed up along the MetroRail line though officials said there had been no immediate threat in Houston. The increased security includes extra Metro police officers at rail stations and K-9 units and a special operations response team to patrol the rail line. If there's ever... more ›

Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling's lawyers continued hammering at key points of the prosecution's case in the trial of the two ex-Enron executives yesterday, focusing on former CFO Andy Fastow's alleged attempt to get preferential treatment for his LJM side companies. more ›

The bewildering British sport of cricket could soon bring its interminable matches (and frequent tea breaks) Stateside under a plan from the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Houston, New York, Chicago and the Bay Area are all locations tabbed to host one-day exhibition matches as part of an international tour of the Indian cricket team (the team would also hit Toronto, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai, among other cities). more ›

Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow wrapped up his testimony yesterday, maintaining that he and other Enron executives broke the law despite hammering by defense lawyers. It was ex-Chairman Ken Lay's lawyer Mike Ramsey's turn to cross-examine Fastow on Monday, and he repeatedly accused Fastow of exaggerating his testimony to try to make himself look better. more ›

As we enter the seventh week of the trial of ex-Enron Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling, the Chronicle takes a look at some of the iffy investments Enron made before it imploded. The foreign energy deals weren't nearly as stable as Enron execs indicated, but most of them are still operational — though, as the Chronicle notes, it's not clear how well they're doing today. more ›