The Houston Rockets returned home last night, fresh off of an eight game road winning streak, to host the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers in a nationally televised match up. With Western Conference foes such as the Suns and Lakers making headline roster moves to improve their stock in an extremely competitive Western Conference, the Rockets were quickly becoming an afterthought as they fought for the final playoff seed. However, a 92-77 victory over the Cavs......

The Houston Rockets are seemingly transitioning into the New York Giants of the National Basketball Association. No, they haven't just won a championship. No, they haven't defeated arguably the best team in league history. No, they haven't snapped an opponent's 18-game winning streak. OK, so maybe they're nothing like the NFL's Super Bowl winner. Save for the fact that the Rockets have turned into road warriors (as the Giants have been characterized this season), after......

Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now December 14, 2007 – March 9, 2008 Opening reception December 13, 2007, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Sigh. This is Houston's last hurrah with Senior CAMH Curator Paola Morsiani, and we are sad. Having been with the CAMH for over eight years, Morsiani is heading north to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, an internationally renowned encyclopedic museum in the midst of a $258 million renovation and expansion.......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • The saga of Riley Ann Sawyers continues. This Chronicle article discusses how Riley's Mom ended up in Texas. • A ten year old fourth grader was cuffed in a school in Cleveland, Tx. • Four teenagers have been arrested in the murder of off-duty Precinct 6 reserve deputy constable Carltrell Lewayne Odom. • Six local firefighters were injured during a fire in......

Not that this performance will get him the kind of endorsement dollars that Reggie Bush has gotten since they both came into the league last year, but Mario Williams just plain clowned Bush yesterday. Super Mario had six tackles including four of The Greatest Running Back Ever himself. Reggie's stat line for the game: 34 yards rushing on 15 carries, and 2 fumbles. Take that, draft pundits. Of course, the real big story from the......

Good morning, Houston, and a happy Labor Day. We're abandoning our usual posting schedule today in favor of all-American grilled foods and the Jerry Lewis Telethon. We'll be back with our regular schedule tomorrow, but first, how about some Labor Day trivia? Labor Day began in the 1880s as annual street parades to show "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." In the early days, there was a movement......

Ok, ok, we KNOW we are the fattest city in the universe for like the kabillionth time. We don't need a fancy survey to tell us that. But when it's 120 degrees out and you feel like someone just threw a wet towel on your face, it's a little hard to be motivated to get fit. Ya hear what i'm saying, peeps? We don't see anyone yelling at Antarcticans to get out there and "gimme......

Rice swept Texas A&M in two games over the weekend to win themselves a trip to Omaha's College World Series: their sixth trip in history and fourth in the last six years. (Last year, the Owls were eliminated at the very end by Oregon State). In the first game of the Super-Regional, a sellout crowd watched freshman All-American Ryan Berry pitch into the eight inning, striking out ten, and went home happy as the Owls......

Police have arrested seven Houston teens in connection with the aggravated robbery of a Sugar Land doctor earlier this month — all of them students at Elsik High School and most of them claiming to be involved with the Rolling 60s gang, a subset of the Crips. The victim, who lived alone, was attacked April 19 when one of the suspects reportedly knocked on his door asking to be allowed to call his mother because......

So here's one of those stories that really makes us wish we had more details: In Cleveland, a surgeon is facing an assault charge after he allegedly threw a surgical instrument at a sales rep during an operation. We had a hard time believing it at first — after all, we don't remember ever seeing this covered on "Grey's Anatomy" — but police say it happened. According to Nicholas Spencer, the sales rep for a......

So, some good news: According to a scorecard released today by the Department of Homeland Security, Houston is the best-prepared city in Texas to deal with a major disaster, scoring higher than San Antonio and Dallas — but the bad news is that that's not really anything to write home about, Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said. The DHS surveyed 75 U.S. cities, metro areas and territories for their emergency preparedness, including advanced, integrated communication......

Remember the striking Houston janitors who protested in other cities and blocked the Westheimer/Post Oak intersection? They've been busy this week, too: Yesterday they rolled buckets and trash bins through downtown during rush hour and returned to Uptown — and today they stormed the Houston Club, disrupted a speech and gathered outside HPD headquarters. Wednesday morning, some of the janitors held a rally outside the Houston Club, where the Greater Houston Partnership and business leaders......

Good news for you Texans fans planning to attend this weekend's game: The FBI said the threat to blow up seven NFL stadiums, including Reliant, was a hoax. The online threat, you'll remember, made the news Wednesday after the Homeland Security Department put local officials and stadium owners in the cities named in the threat — Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Oakland, Miami and Seattle — on alert. But it turns out the bomb threat......

The Homeland Security Department has put officials and NFL stadium owners in seven U.S. cities, including Houston, on alert after a warning was posted online claiming that the cities' stadiums would be destroyed by dirty bombs this weekend — but the government says it's looking at the threat "with strong skepticism." The threat was posted Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing online conversation. It warned of attacks on NFL stadiums in Houston, Atlanta, New......

So yesterday, we told you about the K9 cop that bit a girl at Madison High, and today, we have the unfortunate story of a 4-month-old boy who was attacked by his dad's police dog. If we learn that police dogs are conspiring to rise up and kill us all, remember: You heard about it on Houstonist first. It happened at about 3 p.m. yesterday near Cleveland, where Marek Montgomery was sitting in a chair......

A popular southeast Houston gas station clerk was shot to death this afternoon during a robbery The National Cemetery Council of Greater Houston will hold a Veterans Day parade this year after all Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace has withdrawn from being a write-in candidate for Tom DeLay's former congressional seat State prison officials have ditched a policy that restricted long-distance travelers' visits with inmates Some northwest Houston residents are opposing HISD's plans to build......

Houston's own Rice Owls will host one of four NCAA super-regionals this weekend. The best-of-three series will write the winner's ticket to the College World Series in Omaha, which begins June 16th. Rice (boasting a 53-10 record) will play Oklahoma (44-20) at 6:05 pm on Saturday, with a second game on Sunday at noon. A third game, if needed, will follow on Monday, also at noon. Tickets are fifteen dollars and avaliable here. While you're......

Studies suggest there may be a link between living in the suburbs and being overweight. Maybe. Sort of. Or, you know, maybe not. So if you're looking for a reason for Houstonians' weight problem ... uh ... well, don't look here. The questionable link between urban sprawl and bodily sprawl is the result of at least three studies that came to contradictory conclusions. In 2003, Reid Ewing looked at 448 counties in 83 metro areas......

Sgt. William B. Meeuwsen, a 24-year-old Army soldier from Kingwood, was killed in combat in Iraq the day before Thanksgiving A&M canned defensive coordinator Carl Torbush, who drove the Aggie D to near rock bottom In the Kathleen Yi murder case, Yi's two tween sons testified about finding their mom after she had been stabbed more than 70 times with a scissors in her closet The family of a Cleveland man who suffocated while pinned......