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Spent all your cash on girlie drinks and shattered dreams again this weekend, didn't you? No worries - Thriftster gives you the lowdown on cheap stuff to do until Paycheck Friday. Monday: We are confused about the Sona play date, so let's try again shall we? The weather is awesome, as if you haven't noticed, so tonight you and your main squeeze should grab a blanket and hit the outdoors to watch the free screening...
As you get ready to head out for your July 4th holiday, we thought you might like to have some tunes to play on the way. Houstonist contributors have put together a collection of songs that are currently on the most played list on our iPod. There is a variety, so you should find something you like (and if you're open-minded musically, you'll probably like them all). This month, we have a couple of Houston...
Before Midtown became a buzz word and velvet ropes infiltrated the area, Leon's Lounge was serving beer and booze in the soft glow of chandeliers. In fact, word on the street is that it's 1953 establishment date makes it one of the oldest watering holes in town, second to La Carafe. The location can't be beat for convenience. Situated just outside of downtown at McGowen and Main Street, Leon's is spitting distance from the McGowen...
Yes, we know Houston doesn't boast the famous haunted places some of our sister -ists do — London, for example, where you can hardly turn around without running into some long since beheaded spirit (or, for that matter, spirits). But still, in the spirit of the season, we combed the Interweb and found some local haunted sites, some of which you might have heard of and some you might not know about. So steel your...
The national media occasionally forgets about everything it criticizes Houston for — sprawl, smog, oil, heat, bugs, lack of topography, Enron — and admits, though sometimes begrudgingly, that our fair city ain't such a bad place after all. The latest such nod is from the AP, which is carrying a story touting Houston as a budget vacation spot. "There's lots of Texas-size fun to be had for less than $20 in the nation's fourth largest...
You might have heard about the GoogleCenter of the universe, which Wired reported on Wednesday — that's the spot you find if you zoom as close as you can on the default Google map. Turns out it's a field near Coffeyville, Kansas. Naturally, the -ists jumped on the bandwagon by finding the GoogleCenters of their hometowns: Gothamist did it first, and then Bostonist, Chicagoist, DCist and Seattlest followed suit. So Houstonist is a little...
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