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Houston's cityscape has changed drastically since the photo below was taken by Dmitri Kessel in 1946; one would expect nothing less from a city that's continually reinventing itself, erasing its own history and creating new futures with each passing day.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Chicago Love.

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...

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 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...

Texas history just got a little more expensive. Beginning yesterday, visitors to the San Jacinto Battleground will have to pay a dollar to get in — the first entry fee in the park's 123-year history. The fee comes because maintenance and operation costs are rising and the state park system's burget was cut 5 percent for 2006-07, leaving officials with no other way to pay the bills.