Chances are that we all know Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic Life magazine photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day — easily one of the most-recognized photographs in American history. In the half-century since that photo was taken, there's been a lot of speculation over who, exactly, the sailor and nurse were: In the midst of the celebration, Eisenstaedt didn't stop to ask names, and there were apparently a lot of...
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If you've missed the fountains at Main Street Square, which have been turned off since a hard freeze six weeks ago screwed up a seal between two pipes, there's good news: The fountains are back. We'll give you a few minutes to celebrate. Honestly — and Houstonist goes past Main Street Square pretty frequently — we hadn't even realized anything was wrong. It's been windy the last few weeks, so we figured the fountains were...
Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not...
Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you...
Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants its money back. LAist are a big bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for...
An update on a rather confusing, semi pointless weight-loss contest sponsored by Good Morning America and AOL.com: The Houstonians are still heavier than the New Yorkers. Throughout the month, a team in Houston — which was named the fattest American city by Men's Health magazine in 2005 — and a team of "GMA" audience members have been competing to lose the most weight. On Jan. 2, the team in Houston weighed in at 2,231...
So ... is there anyone on Earth who hasn't heard that enormous telecommunication company SBC is now enormous telecommunication company AT&T? The combined company, which is calling itself "the new AT&T," rolled out an ad campaign over the weekend to ensure we don't forget that we're supposed to call our local phone service, DSL, satellite TV and cell phone network something different. Austin ad agency GSD&M is handling the advertising push, which seems to be...
One of the good things about living in the Central Time Zone is that, on New Year's Eve, we can watch the ball drop in Times Square at 11 p.m. and still have time to watch Houston's — how do we put it nicely? — typically less-than-spectacular midnight celebration downtown. But this year might be a turning point for our local NYE party: Houston finally has something to drop at midnight. Except it will rise,...
Do you keep track of Houston's music scene? Consider yourself a culture junkie? Rush to try a new restaurant when it opens? Stay on top of local news? Party like a (local) rock star? Maybe you should be a part of the Houstonist team!
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