::MFA Projection Bomb!:: We caught wind of this earlier this week and couldn't resist reposting. Introducing the first guerrilla drive-in theater on the roof of the MFA parking garage this Thursday night. Be part of a smart mob for a 20 minute projection bomb. Bring a car full! Details below, poster attached. (Good attendance would really help my thesis project). Thanks! Clint - - - - - - - - - - - - -......

Good morning, Houston. Hey, guess who's having a birthday today? Well, OK, it's technically not Houstonist — our second birthday was back on Nov. 20, but we figured that if the queen can have two birthdays, so can we. And so we're throwing ourselves a little birthday party tonight, and you're all invited. It starts at 6 p.m. at Monsoon Wok, Lamar at San Jacinto (yes, street parking is free downtown after 6). Six......

"Houstonist. What do you want?" ... "Oh, hey. What up?" ... "Hell, yeah. Our birthday party is tomorrow night!" ... "Tomorrow night at 6. Downtown." ... "AT MONSOON WOK. Thought you said you read the first post?" ... "You'd better show up or we'll beat your ass." ... "Love you, too." Houstonist Birthday Party 6 PM on Thursday, December 6th Monsoon Wok (McKinney @ San Jacinto) --- Photo: flickr user princessrica.......

Here you go Houston, more food and wine events for you to peruse. We are going to work to get you more than one Culinary Events posting per week, as the holidays can increase the number of events, dinners, fund-raising food and beverage activities and festivals. Also, we strive to give you some advance notice - as you can't always get your reservations or tickets, which ever the case may be, on the day......

Houstonist is two years old. We have made great strides during our second year. We are proud to have showcased the city and the work of many talented photographers during 600 sq mi. And, we are also proud and very relieved to have safely hosted over 60 folks on the Light Rail Pub Crawl. Thanks to our 11 veteran readers and our one new recruit. We love you. You're the jam in our jelly......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Chicago Love. What a lovely perspective of this stoic monument. Thanks for sharing with us Chicago Love. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 430 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more great photography check out the Houston......

While most of the baseball world was focused yesterday on the races for the final playoff spots, including the Mets historic collapse in the NL East, as usual, Craig Biggio was just doing his job, just like he's done for the past 20 years. But for the first time in 20 years, Biggio won't be going back to work today. For those of us who grew up in Houston, Biggio is just as much a......

We've heard a lot about yesterday's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and we also noted a story yesterday about repairs on a Highway 288 bridge that had to be carried out after recent heavy rains washed out part of the bridge's embankment. The natural question, then: Could something like the Minneapolis collapse happen in Houston? And the answer: Sure it could, but officials are doing their best to make sure it doesn't. According to the Chronicle,......

This is your last chance to see Jana Hunter perform before she moves to Baltimore, MD. Along with KABLE and Hearts of Animals at DiverseWorks this should be an amazing performance and at $7/ticket - you cannot go wrong (it is an all ages performance). The music begins at 9:00 p.m. and DiverseWorks Art Space is located at 1117 East Freeway (I-10 folks), between San Jacinto and Main. Jana is promoting her latest release "There's......

A little news in the story of the Baytown woman who was killed late Saturday while her car was being towed from the RV park where she lived: First of all, according to the Chronicle, her name was Cathy Deemer Soileau, not Cathy Regina Deemer as was originally reported. The Harris County Medical Examiner's office figured out her true name using DPS fingerprint records; according to medical examiner's office spokeswoman Jennifer Coston, Deemer was listed......

Jenna Jameson Hosts UFC Party @ Rich's Nightclub We just couldn't resist the irony of this. As we told you this morning, the UFC will be in town today and tomorrow. And in the ultimate paradox, tonight on Good Friday, adult film goddess, Jenna Jameson and UFC Champ Tito Ortiz host the "Pre-Party Pornstar Lingerie Ball" (creative name, huh?) We really don't have any details of the party, but really, with Jenna Jameson, who needs......

Reds, Whites & Blues: Emerging Leaders Host Wine Tasting With all the buzz lately about the fate and future of downtown, Houstonist is excited to see that young professionals continue to take an interest in revitalizing the heart of Houston. Emerging Leaders, a young leaders part of the Houston Downtown Alliance, comprises Houston's largest young professionals group. Tonight they host their largest event of the year, the 7th Annual Wine Tasting "Reds, Whites, &......

Via Austinist, the American Institute of Architects celebrated its 150th birthday last month by surveying 1,800 randomly chosen Americans on what their favorite U.S. works of architecture were. An AIA panel then narrowed those choices down to come up with America's Favorite Architecture, a list of the 150 most popular structures in the country. As you'd expect, at the top of the list are a bunch of national icons: the Empire State Building, the......

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Texas. Happy birthday to you. The Republic of Texas was born 171 years ago today when forty-one recently elected delegates gathered at Washington-on-the-Brazos and unanimously decided that Texas should be free. They would no longer tolerate the dictatorship of Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna. The revolutionary war escalated. The Alamo fell. Santa Anna was captured at San Jacinto. And, the rest is......

We've all heard about people using stolen identities to buy electronics, jewelry, whatever — but yesterday, a Houston man was arrested for appropriating another man's identity and using it to buy an entire beauty salon. William Cornell Robinson, 36, is accused of stealing the identity of a San Jacinto County man and using it to buy the Awesome Hair Salon this summer. According to the previous owner of the salon, who still works there, Robinson......

At times, we've looked at all the apartments going in downtown and wondered how many people actually lived there. The answer, according to the Chronicle, is quite a few: The occupancy rate for downtown apartments is 89 percent and seems to be growing. That's up 6 percent over last year; by contrast, demand for apartments citywide decreased by 1.7 percent in the last 12 months. The main reason: convenience. "Our kids are grown and gone,"......

Via Off the Kuff, Christof at Intermodality offers an overview of information from Metro's Environmental Assessment of the proposed new intermodal terminal near North Main and Burnett on the north edge of downtown. We've been watching this unfold since early this year, and Christof points out some interesting things about what the finished product may be like. • The terminal won't be as busy as transfer hub as you might imagine. The north side BRT......

So the cold front passed through last night without causing the heavy rain, high wind and tornadoes forecasters warned about — though there was flooding in some parts of the area, especially to the north and east. In Tomball, Spring Creek is out of its banks and is expected to crest this afternoon, with about 60 homes reported flooded. Splendora schools are closed today because of a flooded Peach Creek, and flooding has been reported......

Adam Williams, the inmate who escaped from a Conroe hospital early yesterday morning, never really had a chance: His face was all over local TV news, dozens of cops and police dogs were looking for him and a helicopter was tracking his moves with heat-seeking radar. Little wonder, then, that Williams was captured late Wednesday night — in a tree. According to KHOU, two TABC agents spotted WIlliams walking along some railroad tracks near I-45......

Eric Cooper's trial for tampering with a government document, which begins this week, could end up just being about a man accused of signing his name to his ex-wife's car title without permission. But it could also open the door to a lot of grief for Cooper, the guy a variety of ex-wives and girlfriends say is a smooth-talking con man who built relationships on lies. Either way, we bet it'll be pretty interesting. If......

When you hear that the movie version of Dallas is probably going to be filmed in Canada, you get the vague feeling that something might be wrong with Texas' movie industry. Apparently, other people think so, too: Texas film professionals are gearing up to lure more filming to the Lone Star state through a statewide movie alliance that would work not only to lure outside projects, but also to promote in-state moviemaking. The Texas Motion......

No, this isn't some twisted version of Silverstein's beloved children's book. Or is it? Some may know of the three-hundred (some say one thousand) year old oak tree that dominates Texas Avenue in our eastern neighbor, Baytown. Legend says that General Sam Houston once camped under this tree prior to the battle of San Jacinto. It has now been the casualty of yet another hit and run. Apparently, this giant has been the victim of......

Interested in Metro's proposed intermodal transit station downtown? Then you might want to block off a little time this evening for a public meeting on the project, where Metro officials will discuss designs and location of the terminal. The station is proposed for nine acres of the old Hardy Rail Yard along North Main Street about a half-mile north of UH-Downtown. The Chronicle hints at a couple of possible designs, one of which shows......

So here's a Houston quiz: Do you know what and where Allen's Landing is? Houstonist wagers most Houstonians don't know what it is — or that, if they do, they've never been there. But the fact is, Allen's Landing is Houston's Plymouth Rock, the spot where those lovable real estate shysters Augustus and John Kirby Allen decided to build a town. Allen's Landing sits at the confluence of Buffalo and White Oak bayous, which form......

OK, Texas history buffs, today's your day: San Jacinto Day is being celebrated at the San Jacinto Battleground, complete with battle re-enactments, a mini-zoo and an archaeological dig. Some of the highlights: • At 3 p.m., costumed re-enactors will replicate the historic Battle of San Jacinto (and, we hear, other battles from the Texas Revolution), with period weapons and pyrotechnics. (We hope the re-enactment condenses the day-long search for Santa Anna.) • Sulters, civilians......

Happy San Jacinto Day! Celebrate all you want, but you can't visit the San Jacinto Monument yet According to Forbes.com, the Astros are worth $416 million — the 10th most valuable franchise in baseball Roderick Fountain, the father of missing 3-year-old Kendick Jackson, has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm In northeast Harris County today, a toddler was killed when his mother's car ran over him in their driveway In Galveston, the Surfenburg......

It's hard to continue operating a historic ferry. If you don't believe us, just ask Harris County, which found out no one really wants to build new boats for the Lynchburg Ferry route — and when they do, it could cost nearly twice as much as officials expected. The county Commissioners Court agreed two years ago to spend $3 million on new boats for the ferry route, which has been in operation since 1822 (before......

From Off the Kuff, Metro will hold four public meetings this week on its proposed University light rail line. In case you've forgotten (or have been out of commission after getting hit my a MetroRail train), Metro has suggested building the line, which will connect UH and the Galleria area, mostly along Richmond Avenue. Some Richmond homeowners and businesspeople are objecting to that proposal — loudly — and say Metro should build the line along......

Did you know Houston has one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in the country? Ah, if you didn't, head downtown tomorrow and catch the 47th annual St. Pat's parade, which will feature more than 125 floats, marching bands, City Council members and ... Irish lawyers? They're not the ones who ride around in those tiny cars, are they? The parade will start at 2 p.m. at Texas and Hamilton, in front of......

The national media occasionally forgets about everything it criticizes Houston for — sprawl, smog, oil, heat, bugs, lack of topography, Enron — and admits, though sometimes begrudgingly, that our fair city ain't such a bad place after all. The latest such nod is from the AP, which is carrying a story touting Houston as a budget vacation spot. "There's lots of Texas-size fun to be had for less than $20 in the nation's fourth largest......