The incredibly talented and modest Mlee Marie Suprean has to be one of the hardest working musicians in Houston. Juggling five musical projects (including the fantastic Hearts of Animals) at the same time can’t be easy for anybody, but even while recovering from a nasty cough, Suprean still made time to talk to the Houstonist about what’s on both her mind and plate. Mlee is an interesting name. Where did that come from? My......

Saturday marks the "piece de resistance" of Art Car Weekend - The Art Car Parade! Houstonist is singing "I Love a Parade" in our very best Ethel Merman voice in celebration of this event (normally, we stick to "There's No Business Like Show Business"). The world's largest and oldest parade of its kind makes its way into downtown on Allen Parkway for the 20th year to an anticipated crowd of over 200,000 people. This year's......

A new controversy has risen out of the larger issue of proposed federal legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants: the use of the Mexican flag as a symbol by those protesting the stricter laws. The Chronicle notes today a case at Reagan High School, where Principal Robert Pambello flew the Mexican flag along with the U.S. and Texas flags on the school's flagpole yesterday. Pambello was ordered to remove the Mexican flag because......

This week in stupid, 11 teenagers have been arrested for a two-month crime spree that they videotaped for posterity. The teens drove through their neighborhoods in North Shore and Woodforest knocking down mailboxes, shattering car windows and damaging random things — and capturing all 24 incidents on tape. "It seemed like there was very little remorse in any of their actions -- that they were having such a good time. It didn't seem like anybody......

Turns out the guy in the prison jumpsuit isn't the only piece of stupid news to come across Houstonist's desk today. We offer for your consideration two North Shore High School students who tried — and failed — to fool Crime Stoppers. School officials found a handgun, a butterfly knife and bullets inside a 15-year-old boy's backpack at North Shore 9-10 High School at about 11:30 a.m. Investigators said two other 15-year-old boys put the......