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Now that Halloween is over, you’ll start hearing Christmas music everywhere you turn – on the radio, while shopping, and from that annoying singing Santa doll on your cubicle neighbor’s desk. Well, we have a sanctuary for you from Michael Bolton singing “Silent Night”: the "Houstonist iMix. Our picks for November include a track from excellent new CD from now Austin-based Sam Beam, otherwise known as Iron & Wine. The latest from Seattle’s indie-pop Band...

Happy Halloween ghosts and ghouls! There’s a slew of great bands playing in Houston this week before heading up to a certain festival this weekend (hint: ____ ). We’ve got mega-celebs that have their own fragrances wrecking the Toyota Center in English AND Espanol on Wed., we’ve got huge indie bands Spoon and the New Pornographers teaching class on Thurs, and we have the Houstonist pick o’ the week: M.I.A. and Paul Wall on...

|| Game Date: April 30, 2007 || Game Location: Houston || Playoff Round: One || Series Record: Rockets 3 - Utah 2 || Final Score: 96 HOU - 92 UTAH || Box Score: Rockets @ Utah Info from NBA.com ______________________________________________________ First Quarter - A half empty arena greeted the Rockets when the game started and with only 36% shooting it was a rough start for the team. Yao would shoot only one of nine...

|| Game Date: April 21, 2007 || Game Location: Toyota Center, Houston || Series Record: Rockets 1 - Utah 0 || Final Score: 84 HOU - 75 UTAH || Box Score: Utah @ Rockets Info from NBA.com ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ After a strong start and a give and take first quarter, the Rockets appeared to come out with a lack of gumption (or maybe it was nerves) and ended the first half down by nine,...

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:...