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While you might correlate cabinet gazing with weekend antiquing with your mom, tonight's Mambo Jambo exhibit opening at Rice Gallery (6100 Main St.) might just change your mind.

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. Can you tell me how they ever sell and/or keep all of that prepared food fresh at Central Market? I have a hard time believing that those stuffed meatballs I see there on Monday are not the same ones I see on Friday. -- Ahn, A Concerned Prepared-food Shopper Perhaps you should quit eyeballing the meatballs on Friday and instead buy some. Don't...

Given that there are jackasses determined to tear down all the old homes along Heights Boulevard, we figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to give you a way to protect a little bit of the Boulevard's history — all it takes is an appreciation for beautiful homes and a pretty good chunk of change. Start checking under the couch cushions now! This restored Heights Boulevard home was built around 1905 (not in 1929,...

The Music of Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony Now this one's personal. We can almost rememeer every detail of the day our visionary parents placed in our hands 4 cassettes. Standing in the kitchen, near the old antique dresser that held their supply of 8 tracks, albums, and cassettes; The place where we first laid eyes on the cover of Blind Faith's Blind Faith and knew we were looking in a drawer we shouldn't be;...

Two local pharmacies were burglarized last night. The first was Cunningham pharmacy on Airline near near Ellena Road were investigators say at least 3 people pryed the doors open. The bandits took off with codeine syrup and cash. Their next target was Champions pharmacy just down Airline, where the burglars broke into the vacant space next door to the pharmacy and then broke through the wall. A logical move when you are high on codeine...

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...

So, you might have heard about this already, but the story is too good to pass up: There was a power outage in the north end of downtown early Thursday morning, and it was caused by a raccoon trying to raid a bird nest. It happened around 12:30 a.m. at CenterPoint Energy's Gable Street substation in the 500 block of McKee when the unfortunate raccoon got electrocuted, plunging more than 1,500 customers north of Congress Avenue into darkness, including UH-Downtown, the main post office and the city and county jails.

So you've heard all the discussion about how cities must lure the so-called "creative class" if they want to be great places, right? Basically, the idea is that the creative class — knowledge workers, artists, intellectuals and creative types, a subset of workers identified by economist and author Richard Florida — spurs economic power, high-tech industry, new ideas and growth in places that court it. Sounds like something Houston should be trying to attract, right?...

KTRK has an exclusive interview with William Lewis, the man who was Tasered by an off-duty HPD officer as he tried to leave The Woman's Hospital of Texas with his newborn daughter early in the morning of April 12 — and Lewis really doesn't say much.

Slugs and Bruises!! Flat Track Action begins this Sunday with "Spring Fling" the first official bout! Houstonist is jazzed about the second season of roller derby! The exhibition bouts in the Verizon proved to us that the visibility is indeed very, very good. The action was even better, with the rookies looking very un-rookie-like and some having major talent (Rookie Savage Rose is a fantastic jammer - bodies just fly out of her path) and...

space125gallery presents UrbanScape: Opening Reception Join the Houston Arts Alliance tonight (Thursday) as they open the doors of space125gallery to present an unexpected new visual art exhibit, Urbanscape, with works by Lillian Warren, Katy Anderson, and Patrick Medrano. Half of the new exhibit takes every-day, ordinary sights and elevates them to stunning works of art. The second half of the exhibit transforms everyday pieces into sculptural art; however, both halves work in tandem and...

Every now and then, Houstonist gets a little nostalgic for the plastic trays sliding on metal bars along steaming heaps of cafeteria food. No surprises, no hard-to-pronounce names, no fancy ingredients, what-you-see-is-what-you-get comfort food. Discreetly tucked away in West U, Cleburne Cafeteria (3606 Bissonnet) proclaims they serve the "Best Food in the World." Well, that's a bit of a bold statement. "Best Cafeteria Food" might be a little more believable. "Best Cafeteria Food in Houston"...

Houstonist has their season tickets for Roller Derby, do you? It's one of the best entertainment bangs for your buck, at $10/bout for 8 bouts the whole season is a mere $80 plus applicable fees. Here's where the fee part gets interesting, should you order your very own set of tickets (for the price, you need to have a "Derby Buddy", buy two - we did), order them directly from the Houston Roller Derby website...

When Vic Shapiro set out to drive to a doctor's appointment in the River Oaks Tower yesterday, we're sure he didn't expect to end up arriving there the way he did: After suffering a fender bender while turning left off Kirby Drive, Shapiro's Audi jumped a curb, went up three steps and through a set of glass doors, coming to a stop in a fountain in the office building's lobby. Shapiro, 73, got into a...

Remember last weekend's story about Norman Fulton, the man who fell 12 stories down an elevator shaft while trying to escape from a stuck elevator at his Galleria-area condo in December? The death might have been prevented if elevators in the building where Fulton lived had been equipped with door restrictors, which prevent trapped passengers from being able to pry open the doors of a stuck elevator car before trained rescue personnel arrive to help them. And according to KTRK, many Houston buildings don't have door restrictors on their elevators.

Love her or hate her, no one in the White House Press Corps has ever stirred up as much controversy as Helen Thomas. The famed journalist will be signing and discussing her new book Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public tomorrow morning at the Brazos Bookstore. In her sixty years as a journalist, Thomas (who's always reminded us of Beaky Buzzard, for some reason) opened the...

We were starting to wonder whether anything was going to happen with Houston Pavilions, the retail/entertainment/residential/office complex planned for three blocks on the south end of downtown. After all, the land sale was completed in mid-January, and we haven't heard much since House of Blues and Lucky Strike signed on as tenants. But now there is news: The developers have secured $140 million in financing and groundbreaking is set for Nov. 6.

About a month ago, HPD arrested about 30 men for lewd activity during a sting in Memorial Park — and now some activists are wondering if the sting was homophobic. The arrests targeted activity around park restrooms, but several of the men arrested say the doors were locked and they were forced to go into the bushes to relieve themselves. That's when they say police arrested them for indecent exposure. Local civil rights activist Ray...

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!

Houstonist has just added something to our list of things we hope never happen to us: We hope a police chase never ends in our yard. That's what happened to Esther Flores, a northeast Houston woman, yesterday.

Ah, now Houstonist remembers why we didn't venture out to the Galleria area this weekend: Between the All-Star tourists and locals hoping to catch a glimpse of them, it was a madhouse. The cold weather was partly to blame for making everyone want to get indoors, but the draw of the Galleria itself — from the upscale stores to the celebrity sightings — was the main thing. Retailers reported big sales and a few star...