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Woe to he who ignores blessings as righteous as these: Ben and Jerry's, the crazy Vermonter ice cream chain, is offering a free cone of ice cream today from noon to 8 PM at all of its area locations. There's no catch; just show up and enjoy. The venerable ice cream makers are marking this year's Free Cone Day by introducing two new flavors, Créme Brulée and Cinnamon Buns, thus propagating the trend of...

Hobby Center Brilliant Lecture Series: Kofi Annan In February, the Hobby Center's Brilliant Lecture Series welcomed Sir Sidney Poitier. This month continues the series with Kofi Annan of Ghana. Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of its staff. He began his first term on 1 January 1997 and completed his second, and final, term on 31 December 2006. His priorities as secretary-general were...

In an official proclamation that probably made the entire world cheer for the courage of our mayor, Bill White has officially declared today the Day of Azerbaijanis. And it's about time, literally, as today March 21st is the traditional Azerbaijani festival of Novruz, commemorating the spring equinox and "the awakening of natural life", in Mayor White's words. As devout members of Bill White's fan club already know, our mayor's fondness for the country on...

Thanks to our friends at Shanghaiist, we have word of another list Houston's on — but this one doesn't have anything to do with our weight, children, dog poo or gold diggers. No, this has to do with The Economist magazine's Worldwide Cost of Living index, which ranks Houston 47th among the world's 132 most expensive cities in which to live, up one spot from last year's 48th place ranking. Shanghaiist has the details;...

Start spreading the news: Emirates Airlines has chosen Houston Intercontinental as its second North American destination for direct flights to and from Dubai. Starting in early December, the flight will be Emirate's longest at a comfy 17 solid hours from the UAE to Houston. If you're looking for extremely luxurious living that's only a slightly longer commute than The Woodlands, this could be the beginnings of your next exurb. This news should also come...

We probably wouldn't buy Britney Spears' recently shaved off hair, but we would peer pressure our other millionaire friends to do so. Perhaps the City of Houston should step up to the plate on this one. Just think, Houston would be all over the world news, tabloids, and internet scene, and with a population of just over 2 million, it would only cost fifty cents per citizen. There are numerous other ways to spend...

Aggie President Dr. Robert Gates has accepted President Bush's nomination for Secretary of Defense in the wake of former Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. Rumsfeld announced his resignation on Wednesday in the wake of the large Republican losses in Tuesday's midterm election. Gates is no stranger to the Intelligence and Defense arenas or politics. He began his career in 1966 as a CIA analyst and moved up from there eventually serving as the Director of Central Intelligence...

KHOU reports today that the FBI is on the lookout for Gerardo "El Gallo" Salazar, the alleged ringleader of a human trafficiking group responsible for kidnapping young women and forcing them into prostitution in several locations across Houston. Five men have already been convicted in the case, but Salazar, the sixth, went on the run — and officials believe he might come back to Houston, if he isn't here already. “The human trafficking business is...

We knew the lower prices at the pump might be too good to last. The price of gasoline fluctuates with the forward month crude oil contract, and that contract has been on the rise of late. Norway has lowered it's output of oil and natural gas liquids by almost 300,000 barrels per day, the result of safety concerns (regarding life boat standards) surrounding two of it's offshore platforms. The biggest news causing the rise...

Ten Houston teenagers with the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation cut their trip to Haifa, Israel short and came home last week because of the violence between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The first missile targeted at the city on July 13 hit a church the students had been at just hours before as a part of a tour of holy sites. The travel program was created nearly 26 years ago by then-U.S....

>>World: After about a month of repairs, London icon Big Ben keeps on ticking. >>Nation: In an Ohio village, you might just wake up with an outhouse on your lawn, and guess what? You have to pay to have it hauled off. >>Texas: Cindy Sheehan not only wants to protest at President Bush's Crawford ranch, she wants free parking too. >>Offbeat:A North Carolina ice cream shop is asking customers to sign a liability waiver...

>> Texas: A Dallas man who was attacked by a Bengal tiger that escaped from an animal sanctuary last week is expected to make a full recovery. >> Nation: In Atlanta, defense attorneys for a scorned grandmother accused of killing her 89-year-old ex-boyfriend are claiming she won't get a fair trial because the legal age for jury exemption in Georgia is 70. >> World: New York, of all places, was ranked one of the...

OK, so it didn't happen in Houston. But Houstonist laughed out loud when we heard it last night on the New 93Q's nightly Radio Lia show, so we decided to share. Apparently a woman who was performing what the Telegraph, a UK newspaper, refers to as a "provacative dance" designed to "arouse her husband". After being asked to demonstrate her "gyrations" in court, she explained how her husband had disappeared into the bedroom and...

Lithuanian police thought their breathalyzer device was broken when they recently pulled over a truck driver and found him to have a blood alcohol content 18 times the legal limit. 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol, while the country's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter. Apparently anything above 3.5 is lethal amd Mr. Sungaila should have been out cold, but alas, he was still driving — he must not...

In case you haven't heard, 2005 is going to last one second longer than usual — that's because the world's timekeepers (they're the ones who run the atomic clock) are adding a "leap second" to make up for the Earth's deceleration. Houstonist had a pretty good year, so we're glad we'll get to enjoy it one second longer. We were especially excited when we thought it would mean one second more of partying at midnight...