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::Martin Luther King Jr. Grande Parade::

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Sweet Jesus, we can't believe that this video game actually exists. Granted, this entry from Electronic Arts and Def Jam is only the latest in the successful franchise, games in which famous hip hop artists duke it out in boxing and wrestling rings. It used to be a sort of wacky twist on the usual bout genre. But in Icon, these sorts of pretenses have been removed, and we are left with a straight-up...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

On what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 78th birthday, some Houstonians are saying the city hasn't done enough to commemorate the life of the civil rights leader through the years. Sure, there's the street in southeast Houston that bears his name and there's the bust of MLK at Bricker Park, but maybe that's not enough for a city like Houston. By this time next year, the Chronicle reports, at least two groups hope...

Why have one parade when you can have two? That's our philosophy, and the federal judge who ruled last week that the city must allow both competing MLK, Jr. day parades to march through downtown agrees. The city had previously only granted the necessary parade permit to Charles Stamps of the MLK Parade Foundation, much to the chagrin of Ovide Duncantell of the Black Heritage Society. Duncantell filed suit against Bill White (unheard of!) and...

Happy Martin Luther King Day, Houston. Whether you decide to attend one of the dueling parades or just stay in, we're sure you're keeping an eye on the weather — which seems to be this morning's big story. Hello, winter! >> Enter winter: We started to wonder last night if the cold weather would ever get here — but in case you haven't noticed, it did. It's rainy and around 40 degrees downtown now,...

More than a thousand of Ken Lay's friends and associates and local dignitaries attended Ken Lay's second memorial service yesterday at First Methodist Church downtown, remembering the human side of the former Enron chief. Among the speakers at the service was the Rev. Bill Lawson, who officiated at Lay's first memorial Sunday in Aspen, Colo. On Monday, Lawson compared Lay with John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus; yesterday, he paralleled Lay and...

Thanks to the Chronicle's Shelby Hodge, we have an idea of what Ken Lay's first memorial service was like yesterday. The Lay family barred media from the Aspen, Colo., service, which we suppose is why the AP story was relatively short on details. But Hodge talked to some people who attended, and she got a pretty good idea of what went on. Nearly 200 people attended the service, at which the Rev. Bill Lawson of...

More news from Houston's ongoing effort to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality and harmony: It looks like an arbitrator's decision on the city's dueling MLK Day parades is setting off yet another fight. We thought this year's joint parade between the Black Heritage Society and the March For Freedom Foundation — the first in years — might be the first step toward some kind of agreement, but the day after the parade,...

The day after rival black heritage groups held Houston's first joint Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in years, the race was on again to get separate parade permits from the city. Ovide Duncantell, director of the Black Heritage Society, filed for a permit for a 2007 MLK Day parade and said he was sure MLK Grande Parade Foundation President Charles Stamps would do the same. "Whoever has the permit has the parade," Duncantell said....

to the Rothko Chapel's reflecting pool. The metal sculpture has been undergoing an 18-month restoration because it corroded faster than expected, but the interesting part of the story is how the piece got where it is.

In an irony-free world, a bitter 10-year dispute over who has the right to hold a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade wouldn't be funny. Thank goodness we have irony, though, so we can fully appreciate the news that rival groups have reached an agreement — sort of — to sponsor a joint MLK parade next week.