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Good morning, Houston. It's always nice to see our fair city get some love from outside — so we were happy to hear that Lester Holt and a crew from the Today show were in town filming yesterday for the show's "Cities They Love" segment. The point of "Cities They Love" is to showcase off-the-beaten-path attractions, so Today visited the Beer Can House, took a ride along Buffalo Bayou and checked in at the...

We're still reeling from the success of our first annual Houstonist photo show opening. Can ya blame us? Just look at the evidence! It's no surprise that an event filled with such wonderful photographers produced such wonderful pics — please continue to upload yours to the Houstonist flickr group, and remember to tag with "600sqmi" and "houstonist." Of course this exhibit and opening didn't just appear out of thin air (geez, wouldn't that have been...

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...

Falling Apart to Half Time Dance has seen a vast resurgance in the country this year, whether blame lies with Fall Out Boy, or So You Think You Can Dance, we're not sure. But we are sure we are loving all the great talent that exists right here in dancetown Houston, TX. Swayze was so ahead of his time. Companies like the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater has helped to encourage these recent trends, and also...

Free Movie Monday @ Domy Books It's no mystery that we love us some Domy Books. And not in the "we love anything that is next door to Cafe Brasil" kinda way, more like in the way we love perusing the shelves of this quirky book store and entering a world of the weird and unique. And in the fashion of the weird and unique, each Monday night Domy screens off-beat thrillers, cult classics,...

Lawyers on both sides of the Ashley Benton murder trial are in court this morning for a hearing in which prosecutors were expected to say whether the intend to retry Benton on the original murder charge, try her on a lesser charge or drop charges altogether — or, perhaps, to accept a plea counteroffer from Benton's attorneys. Lawyers for Benton, who is accused of murder in the stabbing death of gang member Gabriel Granillo at...

Jurors today are continuing to deliberate over the fate of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old girl accused of murdering an MS-13 gang member during a gang fight at a Montrose-area last last summer. Jurors got the case yesterday after closing arguments during which prosecutors and defense attorneys again brought out baseball bats and knives, some of the weapons used in the fight, and summed up seven days' worth of evidence from the trial. "Gabriel Granillo has an appointment with death," defense attorney Kent Schaffer told jurors. "It was either his or someone else's." But it doesn't matter who the victim was, prosecutor Mia Magness said, "saint or sinner."

Sweet Charity Opens Tonight at the Hobby Center Sweet Charity, starring Trading Spaces darling, Paige Davis, opens tonight and runs through July 8th at the Hobby Center. Charity Hope Valentine is the eternal optimist. While working at the seedy Fandango ballroom, she is often taken advantage of and continually experiences bad relationships. Finally, she seems to have met a decent fellow in Oscar. Trying to hide her true profession, she lies to him and tells...

Testimony from a series of gang members continued Monday in the trial of Ashley Benton, the teenage girl accused of stabbing another teen to death during a gang fight at Chew Park last summer — but this time, a member of the gang with which Benton was reportedly associated testified for the prosecution, saying that he hoped doing so would protect him from retribution from MS-13, the rival gang. The Crazy Crew member, who calls...

Hot Town, Cool City Premieres on PBS Remember when we went on and on about the Hot Town, Cool City movie premiere? Well, in case you missed the sold out showing at the MFA, you are in luck. Set those TIVOs, HTCC will be playing tonight on PBS @ 10:00 pm. We haven't been this excited about PBS since Mr. Rogers went off the air. The movie, directed and written by Houstonian Maureen McNamara, offers...

Houstonist was busy not missing our own connections this week and just about missed yours. More man love at the gym. A few doctors in heat and a couple of diners, too. And this guy from San Antonio who is still "Desperatly" Seeking Sara(h). There's also a whole lotta love for OPP out there this week. Enjoy. Weekend Soooooooo..There must not be any fire left in your romance that you have to start shit...

Movers & Shakers Party @ The Mink Backroom It's probably no secret that Houstonist loves our inner city neighborhoods. And you may have picked up on the fact that we are quite fond of Midtown. With so much going on in this 20 square block area, how can we not? One of our favorite blocks in the neighborhood, affectionately referred to as "The Big Block" is an eclectic collection of bars, restaurants, music venues and...

Tucked away in a small lot, between tiny parcels of tilled fields and across the street from grazing cows and Hieden Feed & Supply, lies a tiny white house with a neon "Open" sign and an old screen door. This little building had been an eating establishment for several decades before it became Tree's Cafe (named after the owner). Tree told us he took over the place after an older relative had been running...

Let's go get some pan-Asian cuisine! Can't get enough of it these days? Obviously you all can't, as this town seems to be spawning another PF Chang's or Pei Wei or Nit Noi or So Very Tall Rockets Player Restaurant every 15 seconds. If you find yourself trapped in Sugar Land looking for some safe and non-intimidating Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese food, though, perhaps you should drop by The Wild Ginger for a slightly fresher take on the genre.

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Good news for you old farmers ... or almanac lovers: The 2007 Old Farmer's Almanac is out on newsstands! If you're not familiar with the Almanac, it's been published since 1792 (and still has a hole punches in the corner so you can hang it in your outhouse — eww) and is a repository of folksy wisdom and long-range weather forecasts of questionable value. Piquing our interest in this year's edition are something totally odd:...

And the Enron legal saga goes on: A day after we learned that Judge Sim Lake approved a request from Lay's lawyers to substitute Lay's estate for Lay in court proceedings, the first step toward vacating the dead former Enron leader's conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges, Lay's estate attorneys filed a request today to erase the convictions and dismiss the indictment against Lay. But it looks like prosecutors aren't going to take that lying down: The filing included a sentence that said Lay's lawyer, Michael Ramsey, had "conferred with [prosecutor] Kathy Ruemmler, who indicated the government will oppose this motion."

Eric Cooper's trial for tampering with a government document, which begins this week, could end up just being about a man accused of signing his name to his ex-wife's car title without permission. But it could also open the door to a lot of grief for Cooper, the guy a variety of ex-wives and girlfriends say is a smooth-talking con man who built relationships on lies. Either way, we bet it'll be pretty interesting. If...

Prosecutors in the Enron trial wrapped up their closing arguments Wednesday, hitting more highlights of 15 weeks of testimony and urging jurors to decide the case against former Enron Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling as a "black and white" matter.

The prosecution began presening its closing arguments in the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial yesterday, saying the former Enron executives were "masters of the cover story" who lied repeatedly to shareholders and the public. Prosecutor Katheryn Ruemmler told jurors that Lay and Skilling relied on "accounting tricks, fiction, hocus-pocus, trickery, misleading statements, half-truths, omissions and outright lies" to cheat and steal from Enron's shareholders, the true owners of the company:

Houstonist loves its music almost as much as a 42.8 degree Guinness Draught on St. Patty’s Day. When we hear something that makes us want to drink more, we get super excited. The Subways’ debut album “Young for Eternity” got us almost too excited. We first heard the young’ns while visiting our Austinist friends for SXSW. As one of several opening acts for Snow Patrol on March 17, the Subways provided an electrifying warm-up. And...

With nearly 20,000 Katrina and Rita evacuees enrolled in Houston-area schools, officials are trying to figure out how to deal with a new issue: widespread truancy. It's impossible to know how many evacuee students aren't going to school (or even how many are in town), but it's clear there's a problem.

If you're a fan of those lists of eerie coincidences (like the old one concerning assassinated presidents Lincoln and Kennedy), you'll love the Chronicle's comparison of Houston's MetroRail line and a new bus rapid transit line in Los Angeles. Both the lines are named for colors (red in Houston, orange in L.A.), both cost $324 million to build and vehicles on both have had problems running into things. We can only imagine transit engineers everywhere breaking out their Magic 8-Balls and taking a hard look at their plans.