I think, I'm not sure but I think that the missing lights from Mecom Fountain are back. I was swinging around the fountain last night after work and I noticed that they were more illuminated than usual. It could have been that someone was shining a spot on them, but I'm pretty sure that the lights were coming from within. I'll double check ( Read more... )

Tonight seems to be the insane start of the holiday season.

At Diverseworks, there's a reception to welcome Johnathan Glus, the new director of the Houston Arts Alliance. I've met him before, and he's a really nice guy.

At Lawndale, there's a kickoff party for the Houston. It's Worth It. book ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl, my father would tell me a bedtime story. It was about two people, one named Denton, the other named Black Mike. But in my head, they were bulls, because he'd given the two bulls at the ranch the same names. He'd sit by my bedside late at night, and tell the story to me and my brother. I was maybe five, six years old ( Read more... )

I remember reading this newspaper article the day it was published, May 5, 1997. It was a Monday morning. I was working at the Harris County Attorney's office under a clerkship through school, and I was just finishing my fourth semester of law school. I'd gone to the Westheimer Street Festival (*sniff* R.I.P.) the day before (this is an ( Read more... )

Cactus Records is back from the dead!! How appropriate today, Day of the Dead, to celebrate the resurrection of Cactus Music & Video. The venerable Houston store that died and was buried a year and a half ago is coming back to life ( Read more... )

So the weather gods decided to skip a step and head directly to what we call "winter" yesterday. I woke up to humidity and thanking the various deities that are responsible for air conditioning that I live in a modern, civilized world. I went to bed last night pulling my wool Pendelton blanket out of its summer resting spot at the bottom of my ( Read more... )

This whole Acres Homes thing is freaking me out a little. There've been seven bodies of naked women discovered in the last year and a half in that part of Houston. And they don't think it's just one psycho: Detectives are not linking Jones to at least six other women's bodies discovered in that area since January 2006. Also, they say there is no ( Read more... )

Every now and then I get shit for living in Houston. Apparently, we're an backwards redneck ugly city with no culture. I dunno about the backwards redneck ugly stuff, but I'm happy to see that we're not without culture. Yesterday, at a sold out luncheon downtown, the Houston Partnership (our chamber of commerce) released the findings a cultural ( Read more... )

So tonight I'm going to the Erotic Caberet for their 25th Anniversary cocktail party ( Read more... )

This is how these things work. Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a tropical depression/storm/hurricane forms and the meteorologists get all excited. The storm upgrades and downgrades and takes out the economy of small islands in the Caribbean. We follow the depression/storm/hurricane on our tracking charts for awhile and someone in ( Read more... )