Results tagged “rats”

This week, don’t be looking for the big, A-list concerts, but that doesn’t mean that there’s a void of good live music choices. Last week’s big winner at the Houston Press Music Awards, The Dimes, will be playing at The Proletariat with several other bands Friday night. Sam Houston Race Park continues their summer concert series with Cory Morrow the same night. Saturday, you can take a step back into the 80’s with legendary...

The beauty of Missed Connections is that so many are clearly total bullshit while others are endearing works of sincerity and a few make you wonder if they are true or not. Of course stalkers and way too many schlong shots freak us out. Speaking of, some guy wants to feed his hotdog to a JCI fan. When I Saw You, You Had Caught My Eye - 46 You were holding some trendy drink...

The Chronicle reported this weekend on the current state of the former AstroWorld site — and it's not too good: The site's new owner, Angel-McIver Interests of Conroe, has been cited by the city for letting the 104 acres become overgrown. Angel-McIver last week was given 30 days to clean up the site or face a city cleanup bill and a fine of up to $1,500; officials with the company blamed the recent rainy weather....

The big show this week, of course, is the reunion of The Police. But if you don’t feel like paying $100 to see Sting sing songs he sings at his solo concerts too (OK, yes, it’s different since Summers and Copeland are with him, but is it that different?), then you can opt for some other good shows Friday night: singer/songwriter Radney Foster (now writing hits for other people) plays two shows at the...

Some people don't want to make arrangements to take care of their lawns, apparently: Take, for example, Linda A. Ballew, who was released from the Harris County Jail yesterday after serving four days because she refused to clean up her back yard. The jail term was the result of an ongoing disagreement between Ballew and the Kirkmont Association, which took her to court in 2004 over her overgrown yard and won an injunction against her that required her to mow her yard twice a month and trim her trees and shrubs once a year. So she cut her front yard, but left the back as it was — which meant the back yard was, as a neighbor described, a "jungle" with grass up to 9 feet high. "We've had nutria rats — the ones that look like beavers — caught in the trap in my backyard," said neighbor David Carroll, who's also president of the homeowners association board. "I have had run-ins with large snakes. My dog has been sprayed by a skunk. ... My children are not allowed to walk the property unless I go out there first."

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending...

Whoooaaawhoaaooohoooh! It's not unusual to dig Tom Jones! We digress. Cat people of Houston, aficionados, fanciers, breeders and cat lovers in general, there is a cat show here, on the green, green astroturf grass of home. Now, we don't think you will actually see Tom Jones (rats! Maybe this handsome orange devil on the right will perform?), but, actual cats will abound and will be judged by breed and for best overall. The 55th Annual...

Here at Houstonist, we don't get all of our gift purchasing completed by Halloween. Sometimes, we are in the mad rush on Christmas Eve ( Aunt WHO is going to be there? RATS - now, I need another gift!). So, if you are anything at all like us, and are still cramming gifts and tissue paper into those cute little gift bags, wrapping boxes up with bows and realizing you forgot someone important - today and/or tomorrow are the last days to e-shop in time for a Chrismas delivery.

After watching a news report about famine in Ethiopia, Boomtown Rats lead singer Bob Geldof (now “Sir Bob Geldof,” thanks to this aid effort) called up his friend Midge Ure (from Ultravox) and decided to gather up British musicians to record a benefit song. The supergroup Band Aid was formed, and their song “Do They Know it’s Christmas” resulted in millions of dollars in relief for famine in Africa. Due to its success, Geldof...

Instead of vegging in front of the TV, or fighting the crowds at the mall, we suggest one of these concerts to pass away your holidays. Houston’s Allen Oldies Band is celebrating their 10th anniversary Wednesday night, allowing you to dance off some pounds before you fill up on turkey. Some great original local bands to catch this week include The Dimes and Something Fierce at Walter’s, and Ryan Scroggins’ ska band at Fitz....

Remember Jim Stevenson, the bird expert accused of shooting a cat to death at San Luis Pass last week? He hasn't admitted that he shot the cat, but the Chronicle reports today that the incident apparently wouldn't be that unusual for Stevenson, who claims to have shot dozens of cats after building his home on Galveston Island in the late 1990s. The anti-cat manifesto came in a 1999 Internet posting:

Houstonist made a botched burger attempt this past weekend at Guy's Meat Market. At first - we were sorely disappointed to learn that you can only get one of Guy's smoked burgers Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. (or - until they are gone). Rats. Well - that's a frenzied drive from work in the making - just to try one of the burgers billed as "one of the best". The...

We figured Chuck E. Cheese's was bound to have a lot of bad karma stored up, considering the zillions of kids it's subjected to bad pizza, pinball and enormous, oddly cheerful rats. So it wasn't that much of a surprise to us when a gunman held up a Sugar Land Chuck E. Cheese's last week. It happened Thursday, just after the restaurant in the 2300 block of Town Center Drive had closed. The man, who...

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy...

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...