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From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

Baseball's most self-pitying franchise is at it again. The Chicago Cubs are pissed at the Astros for the players that the Astros sent out to play against the Brewers this week. The Cubs and Brewers are locked in a struggle for the NL Central title, with the Brewers currently on top; baseball courtesy dictates that the Astros field their best team against the Brewers, so as not to hand them "cheap" wins. It's a supposed...

Back in February of this year, Houstonist attended a screening of the 1983 ground-breaking documentary Style Wars, as part of the MFA's "Movies Houstonians Love" series. The film, presented by one half of UGK,Bun B, was screened to a sold out crowd of Houstonians, and was followed by more than an hour's worth of conversation surrounding Houston's underground music and art culture, that was co-led by Style Wars star and DJ legend, Kay Slay....

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...

The African Children's Choir, which is made up of children ages 7 - 11 who are all orphans of the AIDS pandemic and civil violence in Uganda and other countries, will be performing at two very prestigious venues tonight and again on Sunday. Tonight's performance is on FOX's American Idol. This is part of a special "Idol Gives Back" episode. During the show, viewers can make their donations to the Charity Projects Entertainment Fund by...

Movies Houstonians Love: Houston Rapper Bun B presents "Style Wars" It's just that Larry Dierker, Barbara Bush, and B-U-N-B! That's right, folks. Houston's hometown rap impresario, and one half of UGK, Bun B joins the Movies Houstonians Love series at the Museum at Fine Arts tonight. Bun will be presenting "Style Wars", regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip-hop culture.An emblem of the spirit that burst forth from underground tunnels, uptown...

Photograph of Rick Santorum conceding defeat with his family by Gene J. Puskar/AP The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores....

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor erinen31.

Polish that peg leg and dust off your eye patch - September 19, 2006 is International "Talk Like a Pirate" Day - or TLAPD. Avast mateys ye can almost get away with bringing yer parrot to work - at the least ye can talk silly and tell that pesky co-worker to "Walk the plank ye scurvy dog". Rising from humble beginnings (a friendly raquetball game on June 5, 1995) the first officially recognized TLAPD...

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this week's Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate...

It's too darn hot for a lot of things, but see what you think of these. Don't forget to email and yell at us if we missed something you wanted to see here ... Friday, August 4 Noisefest 2006: Metal acts from the Houston area. At $8 a day, beginnig today at 6 and tomorrow at 5 pm, the price is right to come headbang and enjoy some upandcoming acts. You saw them before they...

The Style network has a new partner in Houstonian Beyonce Knowles. They’re teaming up to create fall programming that will focus on the clothing line Beyonce has with her mother, Tina Knowles, called House of Dereon:

Get on the bus and get over to the Bayou City Art Festival this weekend in Memorial Park. This annual Houston event, put on by the Art Colony Association, is outdoor art gallery on an 8/10 of a mile loop featuring over 300 artists that create nineteen different forms of artistic media. The Art Colony Association is dedicated to putting on high quality art festivals to provide financial support to local organizations - to...

Worried that Chloe Dao is going to leave Houston for promise of fame and fortune in New York or L.A.? Don't: She's in Houston and she plans on staying around. As the winner of the second installment of Project Runway on Bravo, Dao has scooped up some really spiffy prizes, but it's still not enough to take her away from Houston. After all, her Rice Village boutique, Lot8, has been doing great since opening in...

Houstonist's favorite Galleria employee tipped us off to a hoodie sale at Lady Foot Locker. For a limited time, you can buy two full-zip fleece hoodies for $30, which is a good deal. When we stopped in they had most colors and sizes available, though time is running out.