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Bayou City Arts Festival: Call for Entries The Bayou City Art Festival Downtown (not to be confused with the Sping Festival in Memorial Park) has announced the call for entries for its third annual “Art on Water” floating art competition on the City Hall Reflection Pool at Hermann Square. This year’s theme is “Water in Motion.” "We’re asking local artists to express movement through artwork either stationary or through kinetic nature of sculpture or installation,”...

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. Since hurricane season begins Friday, Dilettante thought it might be time to share the tips that have seen her through various weather “events” over the years. Print this up and tape it to the inside of your bathroom cabinet in case of emergency. - If you are faced with an imminent flood, tornado, hurricane or other natural disaster, the first thing you must...

That's right, gents and ladies, we at Houstonist have a new feature for you to sink your teeth into, and it's called the Top 10ist. Since we're pretty sure Letterman doesn't have a trademark on top ten lists, we are going to start coming up with our own top ten lists - HOUSTON STYLE. Won't you help us? Read on. Here's the idea: every Monday, we present a question or prompt for the next...

Universal Happy Hour Day Houstonist loves happy hour, and we especially love it on Thursdays, when it seems that everyone in the world loves happy hour. It is our early evening celebration of the approaching weekend. In honor of what we like to call "Happy Hour Day", here is a list of Thursday Happy Hours in and around the Houston area... enjoy! Amazon Grill 5114 Kirby Drive Houston, TX 77098 4pm-7pm $1 off wine Various...

Besides being blustery, today is special because it is World AIDS Day. An estimated 40.3 million people are HIV-positive worldwide, a rise from 2004's 39.4 million. A slew of events are planned in Houston. Among them: noon: World AIDS Day Luncheon at the Corinthian downtown. The luncheon honors Jackson Hicks for his assistance to AIDS services and prevention education. It might be too late to go, but check with Julie Eberly at eberlyj@afhouston.org to...

Hanukkah this year starts the night of December 15th, and it’s just one more reason for the (Jewish) people of Houston to get their party on. Invitations to Christmas parties are flying all over the place, so we wanted to make sure that the fiestas to celebrate the Festival of Lights get their moment, too. First, there’s the big daddy of Houston Hanukkah parties, the JCCBagel Ball. //Sunday, December 24 //Pub Fiction //2303 Smith...

Houstonist understands the importance of bar food, so we were interested in checking out the offerings during a recent trip to Pub Fiction for a friendly get-together with our bowling league compadres. Pub Fiction is located across Smith Street from the Spec’s Liquor Warehouse in Midtown and has a moderate amount of parking available; inside, it has a hip "nightclub marries sports bar" look, with a wall of televisions and an area for live...

OK, we admit it: We think we're going to become addicted to the Chronicle's TrialWatch blog, which gave a somewhat behind-the-scenes look at federal courthouse action surrounding jury selection in the Ken Lay/Jeff Skilling trial. How else would we have learned about these gems: • Lay arrived at the federal courthouse first, at about 8:30 a.m., and was reportedly mobbed by reporters as he crossed Smith Street. Skilling showed up a few minutes later and...

As the world waits for jury selection to be finished in the trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, news outlets are doing everything they can to come up with pre-trial Enron content. And once you sift through the personality stories, the legal jargon, the jury stuff, one burning question remains: What happened to those flashy metal E's that used to decorate Enron headquarters? Turns out the E that fetched the most at auction —...