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Radio rock fans have a decision to make tonight: see the currently hot band Avenged Sevenfold at Warehouse Live or catch the now-grown-up Silverchair at The Meridian. Speaking of the 90's, old school rapper Tone Loc will stop off at Fitzgerald's Thursday night. Local eclectic classical trio Two Star Symphony plays a special show Saturday night on the St. Thomas campus. Another local favorite, The Mathletes, open a show at Rudyard's Saturday night. The...

More than 1,000 people gathered at Congregation Beth Israel yesterday morning to bid farewell to Marvin Zindler, the legendary TV personality who died Monday. The theme of the funeral — attended by a variety of TV news colleagues, religious leaders and others — was the years of work Zindler put in on behalf of people who needed his help. That's how KTRK anchor Dave Ward remembered him: "On television, as you know, he was flamboyant...

A veritable Houston legend and one of our favorite local celebrities, KTRK's muckraking Marvin Zindler died today at 85 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He announced on air earlier this summer that he was suffering from cancer, but, characteristically, he didn't let it slow him down. In his last days, Zindler was still hard at work, filing reports and doing newscasts from his hospital bed. It's hard to say what exactly Zindler is "best-known"...

Milk. It's one of those things we rarely give much thought to — but then we read about how rising milk prices are driving the cost of all dairy-based products up. In fact, according to an expert at the Department of Agriculture, the price of milk-based ingredients used in cheese, ice cream and pizza has gone up by as much as 60 percent in the past year, which means those products end up costing consumers...

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with...

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In...

On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author, so take it up with her if you have a problem. Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. So the Public News is back? Finally, something to read when I’m done with 002. A paper calling itself “Public News” and using a familiar logo made its debut this week,...

Houstonist spends December either crazy busy or stupid tired, what with all of the parties, shopping, home decorating and general Christmas season ilk going on. We discovered these, "on accident" and even though we are pushing all of our limits, we simply cannot bring ourselves to endorse pre-cut, refrigerated cookies that come with their own icing. There is something so wrong with it, our sensibilities are offended. We may kill ourselves, figuratively, but the cookies...

Things are hard in River Oaks these days: first there was the rat problem, and then early this morning, a police chase ended in one of the residents' front yards. The chase stared around 2:30 a.m. near West Dallas and Columbus when the suspect ran a red light and nearly hit a deputy sheriff's car head-on. When police gave chase, the suspect led them through Montrose and River Oaks for about 15 minutes, finally ending...

So you think life in River Oaks is easy? Ah, you're wrong — residents of the tony neighborhood may have piles of money and fancy cars, but they also have a rat problem, courtesy of an abandoned home off Willowick Road. Neighbors say the house at 11 Pinehill Lane, which has been empty for years, is a breeding ground for rats. They've called in pest-control experts and have even secured a court order to...

Metro finally figured out what caused a power outage that shut down the MetroRail line Wednesday: a rat(s). No, we're not kidding. A rat or rats had crawled beneath a pole connected to an underground cable box near the Rice University platform and begun chewing on the casing surrounding an electric cable. Power had been shut off for maintenance Tuesday. When the system powered up at 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, Feeley said, the exposed cable came...

Houstonist has its own guilty pleasures when it comes to TV, but we're happy to say ABC's Wife Swap isn't among them. Even so, we've seen enough commercials for the show to know the basics: Two families switch moms, one of them with certain traits and the other with the opposite traits. Chaos ensues. And now it's come to the Houston area! In last night's episode, Shantrise Maness of League City swapped with Frankie Roy...