Texas Monthly has released their annual list of the Top 50 BBQ Joints In Texas in the June issue that's just hit newsstands. For you Houston barbeque fans, we hope that you like the bitter taste of disppointment with your brisket: Only two Houston restaurants made the exclusive list.
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It's official: Houston is the best place to live in America. At least according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which placed Houston at the top of their list of Best Cities to Live, Work and Play for 2008.
From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...
Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor graustark. Graustark used a lensbaby to create this striking image. The lensbaby fits all types of lenses and cameras and flickr even has a photo pool dedicated to lensbaby images. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 415 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of...
::Maurice Manning and Emily Fox Gordon Poetry Reading at Diverseworks:: Giving Houstonians a chance to hear tomorrow’s great writers today. The Inprint Studio Series, presented by Inprint in association with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Diverseworks, features some of the best young writers in the country, as well as alumni from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and leading local authors. Now in its second season, the 2007-2008 Inprint Studio Series,...
Callaloo, among the top literary magazines in the country, is sending four writers (all faculty from Callaloo's Creative Writing Workshops) to read in Houston for one night only. Terrance Hayes, Mat Johnson, Tayari Jones, and Tracy K. Smith will give a public reading Thursday, August 16 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ensemble Theatre, located at 3535 Main Street. These four writers have won more than a dozen national awards and fellowships; they are at...
Art Institute of Houston Poetry Forum Kickoff Borders Books and The Art Institute of Houston offer a monthly Poetry Reading Series at Borders River Oaks, hosted by Ken Jones, instructor at The Art Institute of Houston. The readings are the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Borders River Oaks at 3025 Kirby Drive at the corner of West Alabama. These monthly poetry events are free, open to the public, and part of...
Or perhaps a more appropriate title would be: Another One Bites the Dust (and another one down and another one down...) The cool Anime Avalon (2439 Times Blvd.) is closing its doors later this month citing difficulty in competing with big box stores. Anime Avalon (formerly Planet Anime) is an anime/manga haven, hooking up Houstonians with figures, model kits, magazines, videos and a ridiculous variety of accessories. To balm the pain, we might hit their...
Lunch Films at Aurora Earlier this week, we told you about one great event happening tonight in the Heights. And here's another just down the road. Lunch Films premieres today and tomorrow at Aurora Picture Show. “By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. I bought a filmmaker lunch because he was broke. I asked for a short film in return for the cost of the lunch and wrote rules on a napkin to...
If you're anything like us, you're probably waist deep into fantasy football magazines, watching ESPN's "Sportscenter" five times a day to catch the latest NFL training camp updates, and surfing the Internet until the wee hours of the morning to find out how that starting running back's knee is holding up to the rigors of two-a-days. No, it's just us? Either way, the dawn of a new NFL season brings with it another year of...
A little late for valentines day, but a compliment nonetheless...Houston’s own Continental Airlines was named America’s “Most Admired” airline of 2007 by Fortune Magazine. Continental beat out Southwest, JetBlue and others for the top spot. What’s it take to be the “Most Admired", you ask? (Obviously not the time it takes to walk from Gate E-19 to C-18 at IAH) The “Most Admired” honor is based on the following eight attributes: Innovation, People management, Use...
To go along with Dr. Pepper's "23 flavors" campaign, the company started a campaign called "The Hunt for More", where they hid 23 gold coins in 23 different cities in North America. The coins were "valued" between $10,000 and $1 million, giving soft drinkers the opportunity to decode clues under bottle caps and drink labels online and find the coins. As coincidence would have it, the person who found the $1 million dollar coin just...
We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,...
Local Artist Hosts Sacred Heart Series Showing @ Kobain William K. Stidham came to painting after a bruising experience in trying to get his contemporary fiction novel published. Having spent 4 years in writing, editing, choosing an agent,more editing, then shopping publishing houses and hitting a dead end... William decided to pick up a watercolor kit from the local Walgreen's in order to do something different with his creative energy. His latest series, Sacred...
It’s been almost three and a half years since The Shins released their last album Chutes Too Narrow. Since that time, their popularity has soared – mainly thanks to Zach Braff for showcasing two songs from 2001’s Oh, Inverted World in the movie and soundtrack Garden State. In that movie, the lead female character explains to Braff that The Shins will "change your life." They may or may not change your life, but they just...
Watching “The Bachelor: Rome” is, at this point, a bit like holding on to a bad relationship. You know something is awry, but you want so badly for it to be good again! The first few weeks, we could justify that maybe Prince Hottie Lorenzo just had bad taste in women. Now, all signs are strongly pointing towards puppet masters (otherwise known as producers) making the stupid decisions for him. Last night’s episode began...
Who knew that Houston had a club-slash-party scene that would rival other big (seemingly cooler) cities? And don’t start throwing empty imported beer bottles at us for not knowing how amazingly cool Houston actually is. We’re learning! At any rate, we’ve got an inside tip on some ultra hip, ultra trendy things happening around town this week. Tonight, it’s a masked ball at Splendor on West Greens Road whose title was snatched from that strange...
If you live in Sugar Land, there's really no reason not to be happy — unless, of course, you sit around dreaming about live in Fort Collins, Colo., or Napierville, Ill. See, Sugar Land is the third-best place to live in the United States, according to Money magazine and CNN/Money (only Fort Collins and Napierville came in ahead of the Houston suburb). The ranking represents a huge leap for Sugar Land, which placed 46th on...
Remember when you were in school and always had to sell crap? Magazines, sausage baskets, wrapping paper, candy bars — it was all done to benefit school programs, and of course you were guaranteed to do pretty well, because what adult would turn down a little kid with a catalog full of sausages? What we never would have imagined was someone stealing our hard-earned money, but that's what police say the PTO treasurer at a...
Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling began the rather tough task of convincing the jurors that he's just like you and me — er, like them — during his first day of testimony in his and ex-Enron Chairman Ken Lay's trial yesterday. Skilling, you'll remember, was known for the grace and charm with which he treated people during his days at the Big E (there was that infamous conference call during which Skilling called an analyst...
In her third day on the stand in the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial, ex-Enron executive Paula Rieker continued sticking by her story Thursday that Enron leaders gave a false picture of corporate health to try to boost the company's worth. However, she said she never stopped to think about whether she and others in the company were breaking the law by doing so, probably because she was making barrels of money: She said she was...
After a long weekend, we expect the Lay/Skilling trial-ravaganza to return with renewed vigor. Last week, things ended on an upbeat note when the third witness — yes, that's right, three whole witnesses in three weeks! — took the stand. That third witness was accountant Terry West, who started working at Enron in 1981, before it was even called Enron. West testified that her boss was told in 2000 to decrease the company's estimated earnings...
We admit it, when we’re bored, Houstonist loves to browse the classifieds on Craigslist. It reminds us of our younger years, browsing through Greensheet to see what useless crap people were selling. However, we are surprised at some of the things that Houstonians consider “collectibles.” Here’s a few items that can be yours with a click of the mouse: Texas pride: Miller Lite Texas-shaped neon sign ($200), UT 2005 Champs Bud Light neon sign ($300),...
So ... is there anyone on Earth who hasn't heard that enormous telecommunication company SBC is now enormous telecommunication company AT&T? The combined company, which is calling itself "the new AT&T," rolled out an ad campaign over the weekend to ensure we don't forget that we're supposed to call our local phone service, DSL, satellite TV and cell phone network something different. Austin ad agency GSD&M is handling the advertising push, which seems to be...
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