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This video is very fitting considering the past month(s) of rain we have been enduring*. It is also fitting because Travis is in town tonight playing at the Verizon Wireless Theater with John Paul White. Why Does It Always Rain on Me? is off of Travis’ second album, The Man Who (produced by Nigel Godrich), and led to the Band’s surge in popularity in the late 90’s and paved the way for other British...

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick...

Week after week, KTRK's Marvin Zindler is out there righting wrongs for people who have come head-to-head with The Man — and lose. But few of his recent crusades have caught our attention like one reported yesterday, in which Zindler helped a woman who severely overpaid her electric bill. We're not just talking a couple hundred dollars here: Norma Mento paid TXU $13,500 on her $135 bill. Wow.

A few guys that are in the rock and roll history books are coming to town this week. Blues great BB King (and his guitar Lucille) will be in Galveston at the Grand 1894 Opera House Thursday night, and Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham brings his solo tour to Verizon Wireless on Friday. In a darker part of the history books is Vanilla Ice (pictured above -- yes, we know that's an old photo,...

OK, don't laugh. Sometimes, a little escapism is just what's called for, now that school's back in full swing, summer vacation's over, and we actually have to think a lot. With this in mind, please don't make terrible fun of us for paying money to see The Covenant. It has a negligible plot about witchy things, privilidged high school students, and how powr corrupts. More importantly, it has a lot of pretty people. People you've seen before in such fantastic cinematic achievements as She's The Man and John Tucker Must Die.

Houstonist loves music, and we love sharing good music with you — that right there sounds like a '70s love ballad. We all got together to structure a list of our favorite albums of 2005. After lots of debating and a few bloody noses (OK, OK, Arcade Fire’s album was technically released last year, so we won’t include it — geesh!), we finally settled on our favorite albums of the year, in no particular order:...

Houstonist loves books. They're the perfect gift, they look impressive on your bookshelf, and they're even fun to read on occasion. With the holiday season fully upon us and plenty of travel looming on the horizon, now is the perfect time to pick one up. Houstonist offers these suggestions from the year that was: Fiction: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics award, and a nigh endless...