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Pitchers and catchers report this week! Hell yes! Our long national nightmare is over! We'll take a look at the Astros roster in more detail later this week, but until then, here's what the blogs are saying about our local teams. Warning: not responsible for ball jokes about the Rockets.

Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now December 14, 2007 – March 9, 2008 Opening reception December 13, 2007, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Sigh. This is Houston's last hurrah with Senior CAMH Curator Paola Morsiani, and we are sad. Having been with the CAMH for over eight years, Morsiani is heading north to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, an internationally renowned encyclopedic museum in the midst of a $258 million renovation and expansion....

"Biggio" is the word on many bloggers minds this week, so this'll be a pretty Astros-heavy week here at the blog roundup. - Orange Whoopass is putting together some of the most poignant tributes to number 7. Here are a couple of them. - Biggio didn't break the all-time hit-by-pitch record (he came two short, but still holds the modern-era record). Plunk Biggio breaks it down with a great tribute, and some finger pointing. -...

We here at Houstonist are a sucker for animals, especially strong willed cute ones that have lived through hell and survived. Perhaps you remember Harley; a black lab mix who was found wandering the streets after Hurricane Rita with his back badly burned from a fire. The kind people at the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took the poor guy in and got him back to good health. He became a...

DeBakey High School is one of Houston’s elite, even being named the premier school in the city the March 2006 issue of The Houston Press. Now, just two months later, HISD’s premier magnet high school is embroiled in a very public controversy, according to the same publication that gave them the title of being the best.

The Houston Press and the non-profit advocacy group Children At Risk took on the painstaking task of ranking 116 public high schools in Harris and Fort Bend counties plus Friendswood and Pearland. The Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions in the Houston ISD was chosen the area's best high school. The Houston Press reports, "It produces studious, high-achieving, self-assured brainiacs. The student body is a model of diversity: half the kids come from...