- Indie darling Jenny Lewis, famous for her songwriting both as a solo artist as well as with her band Rilo Kiley rolled through town on Wednesday night. There was a little drama when, after seven songs she cut off Trying My Best To Love You due to some talking. We could have done without her boyfriend Jonathan Rice's tasteless comment, "it was good enough for Austin and Dallas, but maybe Houston just can't hack it." That aside, however, we felt she handled it pretty well, moving forward and rounding out a pretty good set. We heard plenty of whining about the show afterward, so for those of you that felt differently, we have a couple suggestions:
- If you're paying money to see a show, shut up and watch it.
- If you think she was out of line, have some perspective - if you were on a tour bus all day, playing every night, you wouldn't want to deal with bullshit either.
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The 37th annual Chevron Houston Marathon took place this past Sunday, on the kind of beautiful, crisp winter's day that makes the Houston summers totally worth it. The over 200,000 spectators and 15,000 runners who turned out for the race make it difficult to imagine that the first Houston Marathon in 1972 had a mere 113 competitors.
Ever since LIFE opened its archive of mostly unpublished photographs from 1750 onward, Houstonist has been obsessed with searching through old pictures of Houston (among many other things, of course). Pictures of Judge Roy Hofheinz's apartment in the Astrodome? Check. An eerily barren River Oaks Boulevard? Check. Shudde Brothers before the surrounding neighborhood went downhill and came back up again? Check. Buzz Aldrin glumly sitting in a Tilt-A-Whirl at Astroworld? Check. Houston revelling in its redneck glory at the erstwhile Frontier Festival? Check.
Almost 1,000 Houstonians showed up to City Hall this past Saturday afternoon to protest the passage of California's Proposition 8. And although we didn't have any popular comediennes come out at our protest, we still had a strong turnout befitting Houston's status as the largest LGBT community in Texas (nearly 62,000 people in Houston identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) and the sixth largest in the nation.
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