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If you have ever driven along North Braeswood near Kirby, you've probably smelled the awfulness that is the West University sewage plant (and yes, it's in Houston, not West University). Now that the city has cut down trees surrounding the plant - for "homeland security" reasons - the smell is making its way south of the bayou (the facility's north-facing entrance on Braeswood has never been "shielded"). Chris Peiffer, the City of West University's Public Works Director, told KTRK that the state of Texas ordered them to cut down the trees to increase the plant's visibility "so security guards can more easily spot anyone trying to break in - it's a matter of homeland security."

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor parkerjones. One of many images from "anatomy of a coffee store." I can smell the aroma of the coffee already! If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 400 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...

Come back ISP! We neeeeeed you! What happen you today? Things were gone so good buscept you screwed it up. Did you not like the freakfast in bed? That's never happened to us before. For real and stuff - we gotta have you. Please andser our call Need u bad longing for your connection, honeybaby Houstonist Time for our weekly look at Houston's Missed Connections on Craigslist. Hate yellow gummi bears? Love oragel [sic]?...

It's time to dredge through the muck and mire of the blogosphere to come out with a few gems of commentary, sass, and sarcasm about our Houston sports teams. And awaaaaaay we go: - If you're a Mario Williams apologist, Sunday was Redemption Day. The good folks at Brahsome are shouting it from the rooftops today. - As noted last week, the miscreants over at Orange Whoopass are all over the Astros search for a...

9602 Moonlight Drive, located in Meyerland at the intersection of Braesheather Drive, is one of our all time favorite mid-century homes in Houston. It was designed and built by Robert Cohen in 1964, and he and his wife lived in the home until 2004 when it was sold to John M. O'Quinn - yes that O'Quinn. From the smell of it, O'Quinn (who lives in River Oaks) let the house sit for three years and...

Houston Shakespeare Festival That which we call a free show , by any other name would smell as free. And with that poor, poor attempt at Shakespearean quote alteration, Houston kicks off the annual Shakespeare Festival. Love's Labor's Lost Directed by Sidney Berger Performances | July 27 , August 2, 4, 8, 10 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Carolyn Houston Boone Performances | July 28 , August 1, 3, 9, 11 Now celebrating its thirty-third...

If only everyone were as frank as David McLemore, the La Marque man who was pulled over for driving erratically on the Gulf Freeway on Wednesday morning — well, honestly, we're not sure where we'd be. See, McLemore was weaving through traffic while rolling a joint, and when the police pulled him over, he told them so. It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday when Gilberto Villareal, a Galveston County sheriff's deputy, noticed McLemore's car...

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. I have to go to a wedding shower this week. It’s the second one this month (two different couples), and in addition to the shower gifts, I'll bring another present to each wedding. All of this shopping is costing me a lot of money, and one of the couples is on their second marriage. At what point can I stop buying my friends...

Good morning, Houston. The Internet has become such a part of our lives that it's hard sometimes to step back and see just how pervasive it really is — but the folks at Domain Name Wire came up with an interesting way to do that: They counted the number of URLs advertised along Highway 71 and I-10 between Austin and Houston. The grand total? More than 68, including the whopper qualityconcreteandswimmingpools.com (which doesn't seem...

Though the identity of the body found in the garage of a Midtown home last weekend hasn't officially been released, The Facts is reporting that it may be that of 28-year-old Jerry Glaspie, a former Danbury resident. Laura Glaspie, Jerry Glaspie's sister-in-law, told the paper that the family got confirmation from police late last week. "It's traumatic. No doubt in our mind he was murdered," Laura Glaspie said. "They're waiting on the toxicology and autopsy reports. They don’t have an actual cause of death yet."

Steven Weinstein, the man whose car had a dead body hidden in its trunk, will be held without bond until at least Friday, a judge ruled yesterday. State District Judge Caprice Cosper said she wants Weinstein, 42, stabilized on anti-depressant medication before she considers bond and wants him examined by a mental health professional before he's released. "I appreciate what you're saying," Weinstein told Cosper. "But the best thing for me is to take my medicine, stay in my bed, in my home."

So what if you and your neighbors suspected there was a dead body hidden inside one of the houses on your block, but no one took you seriously? That's apparently what happened in Midtown for weeks before police finally investigated this weekend and discovered a body in the trunk of a car parked inside the garage of a townhome. Ugh.

Houstonist's brain cell is put to the test each week as we try to pick-out the best Missed Connections for the write-up. This week was no exception. Typically the MC's we highlight focus on are blown hook-ups or lust - like the dude looking for Jean Girard or Funky Cold Medina. Occasionally folks try to reach non-lover types like the hit-and-run jackass from Avondale & Whitney. This week's selection falls into the non-lover category, specifically the "reach out and slap the shit out of your inconsiderate boss" area.

Before we get into this week's calendar, here are some upcoming concerts recently added that you may want to snag tickets for in advance: Charlie Sexton – 4/20 @ Warehouse Live Jimmy Buffet – 4/21 @ Minute Maid Park (on sale 3/3) Damien Rice – 5/8 @ Verizon Wireless (on sale 3/9) The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo kicks off tonight. On tap this week at the HSL&R is George Strait, Los Lonely Boys,...

Here's another of those things that'll make us all proud to be Houstonians: According to an environmental research group, three of the five most-polluting U.S. refineries are in the Houston area. We guess our old line to cover for our pollution problem — "That's the smell of money!" — won't quite cut it anymore. According to the Enrivonmental Integrity Project, BP's Texas City refinery, Exxon Mobil's refinery in Baytown and the Lyondell-Citgo plant in Houston...

Good morning, Houston! So how about this weather, huh? It kinda puts us in the mood for some news — but honestly, most anything does. We're strange like that. So let's get right to it ... >> Modesty writ large: State Rep. Charlie Howard of Sugar Land has filed a bill in Austin seeking to keep explicit content off billboards, a move he said is meant to protect kids from seeing dirty stuff —...

Sound the horns ... tea is making a comeback! Just as brown is the new black and 40 is the new 30, it seems as if tea is finally becoming the hip hot beverage of choice in America. Two new tea houses have popped up in Houston this past year: The Path of Tea (2340 West Alabama) and Te House of Tea (1927 Fairview Street). Though both tea houses are distinctly different, they clearly pay...

We don't know about you, but it's friggin cold out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that's just us. Either way, we're freezing. Austinist said goodbye to their co-editor (sell-out) and played rumor monger on the SXSW lineup. And when dozens of dead birds littered downtown Austin, it's...

Petrol Station Coffeehouse has introduced Happy Minute instead of Happy Hour to promote the fact that they serve beer in addition to food and coffee.

Because Shelley Sekula-Gibbs is only going to be a congresswoman for a few weeks, we suppose she feels the need to make the news as often as possible: Earlier this week, Tom DeLay's staffers walked out on Sekula-Gibbs, and now Shelley is accusing those staffers of inappropriately wiping all the office computers clean before they left. We smell a developing Capitol Hill smackdown — no, not the one between Shelley's people and DeLay's people; we're...

If you've ever thought of the people who spend their days at the Galleria as filthy, stinking rich, well, you might not be all that far off: The mall has recently had problems with raw sewage bubbling onto the sidewalk just outside Neiman Marcus. Uh, gross.

With Houston's vast freeway network, we're used to hearing about unusual traffic situations: lost loads of patio furniture, gravel trucks that tump over, etc. But this morning there's news of a new one for us — on the Gulf Freeway this morning, two vehicles ran into a taco truck and caused it to burst into flame: The accident occurred when a truck and tractor trailer collided with a taco truck, causing the grease inside the...

There are many, many things that we love about Houston. We love food, we love independent coffee houses and we love live Jazz music. That's why, we're excited about live jazz at The Daily Grind on Washington.

This week, we take a trip into the heart of shelterporn central — River Oaks — to check out a very traditional Southern Colonial house. You can almost the old money, can't you?

Somehow we missed another of Houston's national top 10 list appearances: According to the folks at Old Spice, Houston is the ninth sweatiest city in the U.S. We suppose that explains the smell. Really, people, use some deodorant!

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Problems are still being worked out at the newly renovated Juvenile Justice Center downtown — including a broken pipe that meant the scent of raw sewage frequently wafted through the building. And you thought it was the giving off that smell!

Anyone smell bacon? No, we're not talking about the police this time: According to Citizens Against Government Waste, Texas ranks fourth in the nation in terms of congressional pork with $403 million in earmarks for 262 projects last year. It's the fourth-highest total amount, but Texas ranks 47th in the country in terms of pork per capita, receiving an average of $17.65 per person. (For the record, Houstonist hasn't seen our share yet, but we'll...

There are times when the lead paragraph of a news story is just too good to pass up. For example, this Chronicle article about a trial involving a weird online meeting:

Speaking of fresh-baked cookies — what, we were, weren't we? — there'll soon be a new place to get 'em downtown. Nestle Toll House Cafe is opening a location at Main and Capitol, on the ground floor of the Great Jones Building. There are already four Nestle cafes in town (two in the Galleria, one at Bush Intercontinental and one on Mason Road), but Houstonist thinks the new location will be an excellent addition to...