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Scissors for Lefty is rolling into town tomorrow night to play an all ages show with Suffrajett at Jet Lounge. The San Francisco quintet has landed spots opening for the Arctic Monkeys and The Killers, as well as stage time at this year's South by Southwest Festival. Scissors is currently on a national tour with Juliette and the Licks. Spin has called Scissors one “of the biggest up-and-coming bands making noise on the West...

If you're anything like us, you're probably waist deep into fantasy football magazines, watching ESPN's "Sportscenter" five times a day to catch the latest NFL training camp updates, and surfing the Internet until the wee hours of the morning to find out how that starting running back's knee is holding up to the rigors of two-a-days. No, it's just us? Either way, the dawn of a new NFL season brings with it another year of...

So, Houston cable subscribers, the much-talked-about day is here: Today, Time Warner cable service in the city officially becomes Comcast cable service. Feel any different yet? You probably won't unless you go looking for the TV Guide Channel or west coast feeds of the Disney Channel and Encore, which have been dropped from the cable lineup. In their place are 20 new channels, some of which KHOU has listed: high-definition versions of Starz, The Golf...

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...

University of Houston quarterback Kevin Kolb was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round, 36th overall, in the NFL draft on Saturday. Kolb, one the nation's best quarterbacks last year, was in Poth, Texas at a family ranch and was stunned to receive the early call. "It was a shock. Obviously, as an athlete you feel you are as capable as anyone else on the board, but in the draft it has...

Normally, the opening of another chain retail store in another suburban Houston mall wouldn’t make it to our pages. (Or maybe it would.) But this time, we’re really excited about the new store, which caters to the young, trendy, ever so slightly angry (or would that be emo?) crowd. It’s called Anchor Blue, and they’re just starting to spread to the Eastern parts of the US. Deerbrook Mall in Humble is going to be...

Thanks to the dual miracles of sports talk radio and the interwebs, it's now possible to know virtually everything about your hometeam team on a second-by-second basis. The slightest tweak in a back-up tight end's tooth becomes a code red emergency, leaving the fan base gasping in disarray. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to a gap in information involving, you know, all those other teams in the National Football League. In hopes of rectifying this...

Tuesday San Francisco’s Birdmonster has a good fan base on the west coast, and as their travels take them east, that base is growing. The alternative band influences include punk, country, and hip-hop, givng them their own original sound. Free show! Music: “Cause You Can” 9 p.m. at The Proletariat | info Wednesday Groups like the John Evans Band make you proud to be a Texan. Some call them rockabilly, but we think its...

Last night, while Houstonist was busy separating the wheat from the chaff of local news, we were keeping an eye on NBC's epic 10.5: Apocalypse. It had everything you'd expect from a TV disaster flick: cheesy special effects, dreadful acting and a script that must have been written by a strung-out third grader. Yeah, yeah, big deal. Pass the Donettes. But what really got our attention was the end of the movie, when a...

Wednesday Time will tell if Hoobastank will be able to avoid the sophomore-slump, or if they will be singing “The Reason” at bar mitvahs for years to come. They’ll be previewing their upcoming CD Everyman for Himself tonight. 8 p.m. at Warehouse Live | tickets and info Thursday Two Mat(t)s for the price of one. Matt Wertz just finished opening up for Jamie Cullum on the West Coast. The Kansas City native is touring...

Ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling kept denying accusations against him during testimony in his trial yesterday, saying he would have called the FBI if he had ever become aware of any criminal activity at Enron. Maybe. "I was aware of no illegal activity occurring at Enron Corp.," Skilling said. "I would have called the FBI. I might have a little hesitation now about doing that," he said. "You're a little angry at the government aren't you?"...

A former high-level Enron executive gave testimony yesterday that may be the most damaging yet to ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, saying the company used monetary reserves to smooth gains and losses and pretended it wasn't a successful energy trader when it actually was. David Delainey, former CEO of Enron's retail division and its North American trading unit, began his testimony yesterday in the trial of Skilling and ex-Enron Chairman Ken Lay. Delainey became CEO of...