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CARR KARMA
Gorgeous weather, Guinness and the Mayor make for a perfect St. Patrick's Day Parade
By Caroline Gallay
Mar 13th, 2010 at 7:03 PM
God must be Irish because it was a picture-perfect day for the 2010 Saint Patrick's Day parade. It was a family affair, with dozens of Irish Houston ...
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
Montrose residents protest plans for new HEB supermarket
By Steven Thomson
Mar 13th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
More than 100 Montrose-area residents gathered on Saturday afternoon to protest plans for a new H-E-B supermarket at West Alabama and Dunlavy streets. The group marched a few ...
TANKER TORMENT
Update: West Loop reopens after tanker spill causes traffic nightmare
By Chris Baldwin
Mar 12th, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Just when you thought Houston traffic couldn't get any worse — a fuel tanker added itself to the Friday rush hour mix, creating a near historic traffic mess ...
CELEB SPOTTING
There's a Situation at RA Sushi
By Sarah Rufca
Mar 12th, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Two nights before his Jersey Shore bestie Pauly D spins at Vintage for a sold-out crowd, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and his crew were spotted at RA Sushi ...
CANEWBIES
The Race is on: Catch a prime spot to watch Saturday's Buffalo Bayou Regatta
By Caroline Gallay
Mar 12th, 2010 at 4:14 PM
Between 500 and 600 paddlers of varying experience levels will take over Houston's prime waterway for a 15-mile race to downtown's Sesquicentennial Park at the Buffalo ...
WTF
Sadly, Wal-Mart motor shopping carts aren't a good highway car: Lessons from a botched joyride
By Sarah Rufca
Mar 12th, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Here's a math problem for you: If someone steals a motorized shopping cart from the Wal-Mart in Porter, Texas, and drives it at the cart's maximum ...
WHERE'S MCGRUFF?
Choo-choo trainspotting: 7-year-old brings pot to Houston elementary
By Sarah Rufca
Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:11 AM
To quote Clueless's Cher Horowitz's opinion on drugs at school, it is one thing to spark up a doobie and get laced at parties, but it ...
THAT'S SO WAC
Squatting in the abandoned Landmark Chevrolet parking lot to make a furniture statement
By Steven Thomson
Mar 12th, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Watch out, Mattress Mac. You've got a guerrilla retail ambush in your backyard. Earlier this week, the furniture visionary, wacdesignstudio, hosted a daylong event at the now-abandoned ...
COCKTAIL HOUR
Passing the bar (knowledge): New spots to wine, dine, sip & shoot
By Caroline Gallay
Mar 11th, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Now that we've heard the news that drinking might actually be good for you, we're going to have to try out a few of the myriad ...
THE VANITY FAIR LUNCH INTERVIEW
Five things we didn't know about Joel Osteen
By Clifford Pugh
Mar 11th, 2010 at 1:14 PM
We thought we knew everything about Houston's Joel Osteen. But in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Osteen lunches with writer John Heilpern and reveals several ...
THE GILDED AGE
The billionaire next door: Nine Houstonians rank among the world's richest
By Sarah Rufca
Mar 11th, 2010 at 12:30 PM
As Warren Buffett says, "When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble." The financial upheaval has made a mess of the global economy over ...
BRONC TALE GROWS
Rodeo Hall of Famer: Runaway bull would have reached the fair if not for cowboy hero
By Chris Baldwin
Mar 10th, 2010 at 7:00 PM
You don't Taser a bull. They don't put that in police manuals, but any cowboy worth his stirrups knows that's about as sound an idea ...
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Splatter sports: Go ahead and shoot your friends (see our video)
By Peter Barnes - March 13th, 2010
A herd of pre-teen girls from a church group gathered outside the mesh safety fence, giggling, sealing alliances with hugs, and chatting incessantly beneath the Saturday sunshine. They were surprisingly ...
On the set for rare Houston movie making: Filming Puncture in the Heights
By Sarah Rufca - March 12th, 2010
With the exception of the series of sparkling white trailers parked on the corner of 17th Street and Durham, there's no evidence that a quirky green bungalow on a ...
Home and Deranged
Toasting out-of-towners: How I fell back in love with Texas
By Caroline Gallay - March 12th, 2010
Recently, I had the pleasure of squiring some first-timers around my fine state, and I didn't realize just how fond I am of the place and the people until ...
TRENDYSOMETHING IN SOMO
Missed Connections: The social casino of Chatroulette
By Steven Thomson - March 11th, 2010
It was September of 2006, and Facebook had just made the crucial crossover from college connector to international networking site. No longer was a .edu email address an obligatory first ...
Tattered Jeans
Feeling caged in at the Houston rodeo
By Katie Oxford - March 10th, 2010
I’m an animal advocate and the only ones I eat (on occasion) live in the ocean so the likelihood of me going to a rodeo is sorta similar to ...
POPP CULTURE
Raise a glass of green beer to the real history behind St. Patrick's Day
By Steve Popp - March 10th, 2010
Next Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day. Now the average party-goer at Keneally’s or the Dubliner will probably, and rightfully, care more about what substance made their beer green ...
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