Houstonist is trying to attend all of the not-to-be-missed events around town this weekend, one of which is the Annual ArtCrawl taking place downtown this Saturday in the area formerly know as Frost Town. The event began in 1993 when community artists opened their studios to the public the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Since then the ArtCrawl has become one of Houston's most anticipated annual parties events. This year twenty-six studios throughout downtown and over......

Lucky's Pub has become the place for Houstonist’s pre and post Astros game hangout. Haven’t been there yet? Where ya’ been? Yeah, the ‘Stros may be hovering around last place in their division, but that’s no reason not to take in as many games as you can and have a good time, regardless of standings or the final score. Don’t have tickets for the game? There’s no shortage of TV’s around, including the 21 foot......

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Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

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Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Last week the AIA hosted their annual home tour, and tomorrow the Downtown Houston Alliance is giving folks a chance to see residences in some of Houston's most historic and moneyed buildings. The Live Downtown Home Tour is from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, November 3rd. Stops on the tour include Commerce Towers, The Beaconsfield (not the Savoy across the street!), the Four Seasons, Hogg Palace (no, not this place), and several other loft properties.......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Blue Kingdom. Check out this amazing view of downtown from the 60th Floor of the JP Morgan Chase tower. What a great shot. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 360 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more......

Face the Music: An Evening of Jazz Dedicated to Fighting AIDS in Africa A college student-led nonprofit organization that raises funds to eradicate AIDS in Africa will hold a fundraising benefit concert tonight at Red Cat Jazz Cafe [924 Congress St.] in Downtown Houston. The University of Texas at Austin branch of FACE AIDS is coordinating the concert featuring five local college student jazz musicians who graduated from the High School for the Performing and......

Downtown Houston Nightcrawl Still celebrating the blue skys since the Bllind Melon gods have bestowed upon us a week without precip? Why not celebrate outdoors? Join the Downtown Houston Nighcrawl tonight. "Discover downtown Houston’s hottest nightspots after dark but before the crowds arrive." Whether you’re just passing through the city or looking for a way to entertain friends or business colleagues or celebrate a special event, Discover Houston Tours guarantees you a laugh and a......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor espngo. Houstonist loves night shots, we also love long exposure shots as well as shots of downtown and with this image we get all three. Big thanks to espngo for this great shot of downtown. We'd like to remind everyone out there that if you have a flickr account and have images of Houston you'd like to share with us, please......

The consensus of people at an urban planning workshop on the Main Street corridor Monday? In short: It needs to be more urban. The Planning Partnership, a Toronto firm hired to create a development plan for Main Street, held the workshop, which was meant to get the public's input on how to guide future construction along the corridor. Because the MetroRail line is already in place and major buildings already stand along Main, planning will......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor j-a-x. Unless you work downtown, you just don't get to see Houston from this height. Houstonist loves new perspectives of its CBD. Such a wonderful grouping of buildings with just the right amount of sprawl in the distance and crane up front. Thanks for the view, j-a-x. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining almost 200 of......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor j-a-x. What's that big orange thing up there? No, not Marvin Zindler... next to him. It's the sun! Boy, that's a nice change. In honor of the first sunny day in longer than we want to remember here is a great shot of the more "modern" portion of downtown as taken by j-a-x, master of light. Enjoy it becuase it's going away very soon. If......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor *Lauren. This is a nice shot of Downtown Houston, capturing that post-sunset period where it is bright enough to see objects clearly at a distance, but you'd be better off with your headlights on. It kind of makes this shot work. A little history of the Hogan Allnoch Dry Goods buildling (the building at the bottom right), now home to a law firm, can be......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor cybertoad. No, you're not on acid. This is real. Created by Jo Anne Fleischhauer, the Parasol Project is an art installation here in Houston. The idea is to bring a new atmosphere to Houston's historic Foley House. The Downtown Houston Alliance has the information on their website. The Houston Chronicle also has a storyabout the colorful goings on downtown. According to the Chron: "One of......

It’s nice outside today. Feels like a good day for a protest, right? Sure! They’re happening all across the country (we were tipped off by reading LAist). And sure enough, Houston is partaking in the trend. After all, we already established that we’re hip. It’s being organized by The World Can’t Wait. And if you’re “red”, this will not, we repeat, NOT be your cup of joe. However, if you’re more on the “blue”......

City Council yesterday approved a flat rate for all taxi rides within the downtown freeway loop and the creation of at least eight new taxi stands downtown, all part of an effort to make downtown more accessible to visitors, people without cars and downtown office workers. The flat rate, $6 for any trip inside the loop bounded by I-10, I-45 and Highway 59, applies no matter how many people share the cab. We fully expect......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Houston Filmmaker. This shot is of a confusing landmark that tells a lot about the history of theaters in Houston. This is the Majestic Metro Banquet Hall, formerly the Ritz Theatre. This shouldn't be confused with the Majestic or Metropolitan theaters that once existed in Houston. Here's the scoop on the original Majestic, one of Houston's early movie palaces: "The Majestic was John Eberson's first......

The shot from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor cybertoad. "Picture of a larger mural located on a 2-story wall of a church near Downtown Houston - it's my favorite one in the city and the colors are so vibrant. " The colors are vibrant (and rich) and the window almost doesn't appear to be real at the first glance. The church is behind a Chevrolet dealership off of Washington and Houston Street. If......

Eventually, we're going to have to come up with a better name for this. If you didn't catch it yesterday, we now have a houstonist flickr group. Thanks to the many of you who already joined, there are tons of amazing photos and we're going to try and get to them all. The first shot is from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor slight clutter. Her caption: "pick your route wisely." In addtion to......

Heads up. We're under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 6:03 pm, and we should be past that. Risks include hail, lightining, wind and the such. Check out the radar here. The text from the NWS: AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY EXTENDING ALONG THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF BELTWAY 8. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST......