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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...

The Chronicle's Matt Stiles brings us the locations of the city's 10 newest red-light cameras, a couple of which we had already noticed — while lawfully stopping at red lights, we might add. And here they are: Northbound Wayside at Gulf Freeway Northbound Woodridge at Gulf Freeway Northbound West Bellfort at Southwest Freeway Northbound Fairbanks N. Houston at Northwest Freeway Northbound West Sam Houston Parkway South at Westpark Eastbound FM 2351 at Gulf Freeway Eastbound...

It was a bad, bad week in Missed Connections with Houstonians being hit left and right by inconsiderate (and sometimes thieving) passersby. What's with the bad karma? Are we beginning to take out our stress and aggression over the busy holidays on each other? What's with the hate? Let's try to make it through New Year's, shall we? I am really sad I missed you... when you decided to tip over my scooter. Yeah,...

Houstonist and Houston Photobloggers recently held our first joint photo contest to find out what everyone loves about Houston. We had a lot of great entries and want to thank everyone who shared their photos and stories with us. Below are the winning photos and the accompanying explanations from the photographers, followed by info about the people who took these shots. Next week, we'll include some other great shots that earned an honorable mention. Untitled...

This is just a reminder: Houstonist and Houston Photobloggers are holding their first ever photo contest with the theme "What I Love About Houston." Just snap a photo of your favorite aspect of Houston, write a short caption explaining why, and you could be featured on Houstonist and Houston Photobloggers. But that's not all, the Grand Prize winner will win a Holga lomo camera and film, with gift certificates to the Camera Co/Op for...

At Houstonist, we love ourselves some art, and we especially love it when the art comes in double doses right next door to each other. So you can imagine how ecstatic we are about tonight, when two exhibits we're anxious to see open side-by-side.

Do you love Houston? Do you have a camera? If you answered "Yes" to both of those questions, you're in luck. Houstonist and Houston Photobloggers are holding their first ever photo contest with the theme "What I Love About Houston." Just snap a photo of your favorite aspect of Houston, write a short caption explaining why, and you could be featured on Houstonist and Houston Photobloggers. But that's not all, the Grand Prize winner...

Though ex-Enron Broadband Services head Ken Rice stuck by his story of misleading company directors, employees and analysts with regard to EBS' failing corporate health Thursday, he said he doesn't remember confronting former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling about the deception. Much of Rice's third day on the stand in the trial of Ken Lay and Skilling was spent under cross-examination by Mark Holscher, one of Skilling's lawyers, who tried to undermine some of Rice's accusations about deceptive earnings reports: