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Last Friday night's 3rd Annual Light Rail Pub Crawl was our most successful one yet. Over 60 folks gathered at The Flying Saucer to kick-off things at 5:30. Next, we headed to the reborn Leon's Lounge in Midtown - arriving and departing before the Vinyl Ranch crowd rocked the house with their country vibe. By the time we arrived at Tacos a Go-Go for belly filling, our crawl had grown to include upwards of 85 folks that packed both Tacos and Big Top Lounge.

So dodge Lumbergh and get the hell out of the office. See you upstairs at Flying Saucer at 5:30! The first round is on us if you show up soon.

The 3rd Annual Light Rail Pub Crawl rolls through Downtown and Midtown this Friday evening. Here's the inside scoop on our TENTATIVE schedule. And by TENTATIVE we mean "subject to change because we're having a great time at a place and don't want to leave or because the trains are slow." However, you should be aware that we run a tighter ship as the evening progresses because the frequency of the trains slows down.

The 3rd Annual Light Rail Pub Crawl rolls through Downtown and Midtown this Friday evening. In the immortal words of Tommy Boy, "Get ready to live!" Don't worry. It'll be more fun than cow tipping with much less risk of faceplanting in a cow pattie.

Thanks to our 11 readers and their parole officers for joining us at The Ice House last Friday. We had a good time and hope you did, too.

The Texans travel to Jacksonville this weekend to face the resurgent Jaguars in a battle to see who will stand out as the more improved AFC team. The Texans got the season off to a hot start, but injuries and tough opponents bring them to this weekend with a 3-2 record. However, with the immenent return of Ahman Green and Jacoby Jones, the sporadically brilliant offense will get a much-needed upgradein the offensive options department....

Google recently announced two exciting new features. One is street view, a new feature of Google Maps, which allows you to see street-side views of locations in many major cities. Right now, the feature is available only in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver, and there are plenty of interesting things to be seen, aside from the feature being helpful if you're traveling to a new location. Google has also started incorporating...

Good morning, Houston. If you haven't gotten a speeding ticket in the city lately, consider yourself lucky — a lot of your fellow Houston drivers have. According to a report from the National Motorists Association, Houston is the third worst speed trap in the nation (up from fifth place last year). The ranking was based on the number of Houston-related posts to the NMA's Speed Trap Exchange — which, by the way, is definitely...

Amid a slew of noteworthy guest bloggers this week (Ed Brandon, Ted Oberg, and Ray Peters are all participating), the mikemcguff blog managed to get out a couple posts by its rightful owner, including this one about Westwood Mall, formerly located at Bissonnet and 59. In the late 90's the mall shut down and became what will know be known as Southwest Corporate Center. McGuff reminisces about filming movies and playing arcade games at the...

Good morning, Houston. The good thing about having a lovers' spat is that there's almost always someone else out there having one that's far worse — take, for example, the story of a Conroe quarrel that led to a woman ramming her ex-boyfriend's car. Thomas Young-Davis told police that his ex got upset that he had a new girlfriend, so she followed him to a gas station yesterday afternoon, backed into his car twice...

An interesting note on Metro's proposed downtown intermodal terminal: Yesterday, the transit authority's board apparently voted to buy land on which the terminal will sit, but Metro officials are refusing to tell anyone exactly where the land is.

Wow, we guess Houston really does have a big-city mass transit system after all: Monday afternoon, a fight that began on the Main Street Square MetroRail platform led to a man slashing another man in the throat with a box cutter. In the middle of the afternoon. In the middle of downtown.

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...

Dear Al Gore & all those people who keep telling us that driving cars causes global warming, An inconvenient truth of a misplaced vehicle led to Houstonist riding the bus to work yesterday instead of driving. Turns out that things were a bit more convenient that our assumptions about the use of mass transit in car-centric Houston. So, we thought we'd share a bit of our experience with you in hopes that other non-mass...

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year! Austinist was all about controversy as new construction to increase urban density ran rampant in 2006, as did threats to the city's image from gigantic corporations looking to set up shop in town, leading...

Post-election, there's a potentially interesting situation shaping up on the transportation funding subcommittee of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. That's the group, remember, that OKs federal transit funds — it's the one U.S. Rep. John Culberson sits on, and it is his membership in that subcommittee that allowed Culberson to deal a strong blow to Richmond light rail plans this summer. But here's what may be interesting: With Democratic control of the House, newly elected...

It's no secret to anyone who uses local toll roads — even occasionally — that they can get just as crowded and backed up as the non-toll freeways. It's a problem that seems to have no easy situation: build more roads, widen the existing ones, create a useful mass transit network (God forbid) or ... raise tolls. It's that last option that Harris County officials are spending $250,000 to study.

Sometimes, we think the only way to get Houstonians to part with their cars would be to pry the vehicles from their cold, dead hands. But no — it turns out it might be done with hundreds of dollars' worth of incentives! At least that's what the South Main Alliance has in mind with its One Less Car Houston challenge, in which the group is trying to get 15 South Main-area households to give their...

So we all know that gas is expensive, right? But it's kind of amazing what it's driving people to do — according to KHOU, Metro ridership has increased 10 percent in the last few months. Since September, the average price of a gallon of gas in Houston has increased about 15 cents, but Metro has recorded 4 million more bus boardings and 600,000 more light-rail boardings than in the same period last year. Of course, the rise in readership may not be totally based on higher gas prices:

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while the...

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.