When Houstonist was a rookie Texan, we once debated a colleague about films that were "quintessentially Texas." Any film set in Texas, filmed in Texas, starring Texans, etc. was eligible. The point was to build a list of movies to watch so that we could figure out the reason for the nauseating levels of Texanism and the fascination of the outside world with the state of Texas. Surely armadillos, oil rigs and interstate were...
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When Houstonist was little, this video freaked us out. Not sure if it was the punked-out middle school girl, the suit-clad men with chainsaws, or the multiple instruments being destroyed. It's weirdness is what made the Art of Noise's "Close (To the Edit)" extraordinary back in 1984. Many people (including us) didn't know that the band Art of Noise was created by record producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley. Horn is best...
We know you just had lunch not long ago, but it's time to start thinking about your dinner plans tonight. And oy, just look at you! You're all skin and bones these days—what you need is some protein and fat. Houstonist wants our readers to look strong, sanguine, and healthy, so we've drawn up a list of steaks that you might want to consider for tonight. Today's the hump day, after all, and we're...
When Houstonist was growing up, You Can’t Do That On Television was sadly the edgiest kids/pre-teen show around. While we got a kick out of seeing a young Alanis Morissette watch as a cast member gets covered with green slime (which happened everytime a cast member said “I don’t know), looking back, it was a pretty stupid show. Nowadays, the kids have it better. Sure, the stupid shows aimed towards kids far outnumber the smart,...
When Houstonist was in the third grade, we didn't really know the finer points of handling contraband at school — then again, the stuff we sneaked in back then mainly consisted of candy bars and Garbage Pail Kids cards. We certainly never took a grenade to school (probably because we never had the chance to), and if we had, we'd like to think we would have been savvy enough not to show it to our...
When Houstonist hears about an upcoming festival we typically think of sweaty strolls to downtown, meat on a stick and sword fights by knights in homemade armor. CityFest Houston, adds a new wrinkle to the mix when it brings "festival envangelism" to Eleanor Tinsley Park on Saturday & Sunday. Festival evangelism aims to spread the Gospel to the non-church crowd by attracting them with a mash up of music, extreme sports and bible study. Festival...
When Houstonist thinks of retailing behemoth Wal-Mart, the first thing that springs to our mind isn't fine art. But that could change when the heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton open the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2009. In the meantime, the museum's permanent collection is growing, but there's no place to display the paintings — which is how the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is going to get to borrow a genuine...
When Houstonist goes to pump gas, we have a lot on our minds — how we're going to go broke if gas gets any more expensive, how dirty the water in the window-cleaner bin must really be, whether the station will explode if someone calls us. And now we might have something else to look out for: out-of-control vehicles. It would be on your mind, too, if you happened to be at the Shell station...
When Houstonist missed Dave Chappelle's Block Party Tour last week at the Verizon, we had no idea we were actually missing one of the year's most inexplicable two-fer events. Yes, everyone's favorite congresswoman joined the comedian on stage for no apparent reason — we don't even know if there were any TV cameras around. The news comes to us from the Houston Press, which tells the story better than we could: Just before intermission, Chappelle...
When Houstonist was little, we'd sometimes pretend we were things we weren't — you know, an astronaut, the president, a race car driver, Dr. Quincy. But we never took it seriously (except for the Dr. Quincy part, but that's another story). Seems some people never really grow out of that phase, though, like Weylin Spradley, a 25-year-old Houstonian who is pretending to be a security officer. Not only does Spradley have a fake police-type uniform,...
When Houstonist went to bed last night, it was warm and muggy. When we woke up, it was brisk. And now it's headed toward downright cold — fast! Today started at about 66 degrees, but the temperature suddenly fell about 10 degrees this morning and looks like it's not going to stop. The Official Houstonist Weather Station shows 56 degrees now, but "meterologists" say it's closer to 52 or 53. It's all part of a...
Imagine Houston overrun with Republicans. Oh, wait. Houston is one of 31 cities invited yesterday to compete for the 2008 Republican National Convention, and it looks like the city might go after the event. Though it's unclear who worked to get Houston on the list of possible host cities, we all know how much attention the Republican convention can bring a town — just look at New York in 2004. The funny thing is, Mayor...
When Houstonist was little, we took frequent school field trips to NASA's Johnson Space Center. That was before the flashy Disney visitors center — back then, they'd herd us into a circa-1962 wood-paneled conference room and tell us about how space shuttles were going to allow us to kick Soviet butt. Then they'd bring out a tiny fragment of moon rock and make a big deal about how we couldn't touch it. That led to...
When Houstonist was growing up in the suburbs, we knew people who never bothered to go into Houston unless they were sick or needed to get on an airplane. So when we grew up and moved to town, we were surprised to find a similar attitude — of course, people who lived in Houston had been to Houston, but had they really seen Houston? In many cases, we found out they had never taken the...
You never know what you're going to hear when a U.S. appeals court tackles the case of a once-obscure monument once located in Courthouse Square: "If everyone in Harris County ... accepted Christ as their savior, we would be better than if they were all Hindus." That gem came from previous testimony of former Star of Hope President Carloss Morris, who supports retaining the monument to local businessman and Star of Hope supporter William S....
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