Results tagged “language”

Saturday, March 31: Mixed Media @ MFA

The English vs. Every Other Language debate got a little more heated last night in Friendswood as local officials and residents debated the merits of making English the city's official language. You may remember when the issue came up last week after resident William Hilburn complained to the city that he couldn't communicate with city employees trimming trees near his house.

It’s always fun to track the way pop culture lingo is evolving from year to year. Sunday the Global Language Monitor, a word-trend group, named the top buzz words of the year, which include originals from Comedy Central’s

Forget Fun for a Hamilton, what's more fun than a Sunday NY Times for only a Washington? Maybe this was just a one-off event, but Houstonist was able to purchase the normally $5 paper for just $1 at the Starbucks near the Apple store in the Galleria.

Houstonist loves music, and we love sharing good music with you — that right there sounds like a '70s love ballad. We all got together to structure a list of our favorite albums of 2005. After lots of debating and a few bloody noses (OK, OK, Arcade Fire’s album was technically released last year, so we won’t include it — geesh!), we finally settled on our favorite albums of the year, in no particular order:...