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Houstonist found this week's crop of Missed Connections sweet & torid but relatively dull until we found the Springer-tastic posts listed below.

The home of the late, great Stables Restaurant was demolished this week after shutting down operation last December. The restaurant was sold to an investment partnership last fall, ending the 40-year run of one of Houston's favorite dining establishments. The same investment partnership has been acquiring other tracts of land in the area.

A police chase early this morning ended with the two suspects getting away and police finding a shotgun, purse and ski masks in their car. It clearly means something, but Houstonist has no idea what it is: The guys were trying to be as stereotypical as possible while robbing people? In drag?

Sometimes, we think the only way to get Houstonians to part with their cars would be to pry the vehicles from their cold, dead hands. But no — it turns out it might be done with hundreds of dollars' worth of incentives! At least that's what the South Main Alliance has in mind with its One Less Car Houston challenge, in which the group is trying to get 15 South Main-area households to give their...

It looks like Metro might not have won critics of the proposed University light rail line's Richmond Avenue alignment over last night at the first of three public meetings on the project: KTRK and the Chronicle report that the people who oppose having the rail on Richmond still oppose it, even with a "compromise" unveiled this week that would switch the line from Richmond to Westpark at Greenway Plaza. "None of this is any different from the meetings that we had a year ago," Richmond business owner Daphne Scarbrough told KTRK. "All of it's the same."

There's news today from the Chronicle on Metro's proposed University light rail line: Metro Chairman David Wolff met with the Chron's editorial board this morning and said he could "live with" an alignment that would take the line from Main Street west along Richmond Avenue, then south at Greenway Plaza to Westpark. It's a Metro compromise between keeping part of the line on Richmond and avoiding Afton Oaks and residential areas between Greenway and the...

The shot from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor irees.

What would a weekend in Houston be without some transit closures? This time around, we have a double shot: A road closure on the Katy Freeway and a MetroRail closure and bus detour in the Medical Center. First, the Katy: All eastbound lanes of the freeway between Silber and Washington will be closed from 9 p.m. today through 5 a.m. Monday. You can use east-west surface streets as a detour, or just stay home and...

Houstonist remembers times when, as a kid, we'd fall asleep on our school bus. But we never ended up like 6-year-old Janeka Fulgham, who fell asleep on her bus Monday and ended up walking more than a mile down a busy street before someone noticed. (Usually, someone would gently wake us by giving us a wedgie or pouring their Capri Sun on our head. And after hearing this news, we're glad.)

Yesterday on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Angel Lane was unveiled after three months of construction by Habitat for Humanity volunteers and hurricane victims who have relocated to Houston. The project is a new subdivision — The Village of Glen Iris, located on South Main — that will be home to 50 families displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

It seems to us that Houston has had more than its share of car chases lately — hardly a week has gone by recently when there hasn't been one or two minor chases, and once in a while we get something exciting like Wednesday afternoon's high-speed romp. With all the attention focused on that chase, you might have overlooked an incident early Thursday morning that sent police officers looking for drugs on I-10.