Good morning, Houston. If you've lived here a while, you probably know that the city is prone to livestock running amok — so it shouldn't be too surprising that Third Ward residents found a pair of ewes loose in their neighborhood yesterday. Some neighbors and a KTRK crew tried to catch the animals and eventually chased them to the TSU campus, where a Harris County sheriff's deputy and KTRK photographer Ben Lutman made a......

Looks like more changes are in store for Allen Parkway: According to the Chronicle, the Allen House apartments will soon be demolished to make way for Regent Square, a mixed-use "urban village" development. Construction on the first phase of the project, at Allen Parkway and Dunlavy, is expected to begin in September, with completion scheduled for 2010. The initial phase of Regent Square will include 740 apartment units, 230,000 square feet of retail space, 60,000......

We were kind of surprised to read about Houston's 170th birthday party, which will be held downtown this evening — not that Houston doesn't deserve a birthday bash, but we've always heard the city's real birthday was Aug. 30, 1836, the day the Allen brothers opened Houston up for development with a series of, um, optimistic newspaper ads. So the city is celebrating its birthday a week early? Well, whatever. More important to most people,......

More than a thousand of Ken Lay's friends and associates and local dignitaries attended Ken Lay's second memorial service yesterday at First Methodist Church downtown, remembering the human side of the former Enron chief. Among the speakers at the service was the Rev. Bill Lawson, who officiated at Lay's first memorial Sunday in Aspen, Colo. On Monday, Lawson compared Lay with John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus; yesterday, he paralleled Lay and......

Even though the traffic will be so thick we're sure we'll never get to go there, Houstonist was excited to learn this morning that a super-sized Whole Foods Market flagship store is coming to Uptown. Whole Foods announced it will build an 80,000-square-foot store in the unfortunately named BLVD Place (which, the Chronicle tells us, is pronounced "Boulevard Place" — so, uh, why not just name it that?), a 21-acre mixed-use development at the corner......