Former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley was found dead in his Missouri City home this morning. After receiving a 911 emergency call from the Grimsley household, police rushed to the scene at 9:00am only to find a lifeless body. An autopsy is set to be performed by the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office, however initial reports claim that an accidental gunshot wound was the cause of the untimely death. Grimsley was a sixth round......

The Red Sox has permeated nearly every facet of Bostonist's lives. When they're not live-blogging the games, waxing poetic about the games, thanking Curt Schilling for his splendid work, or telling Dane Cook to watch his hair, they're watching certain presidential candidates hop on the Red Sox bandwagon (sorry, Gothamist). The Sox are so branded on the local brain that people are using the Series to spice up their sex lives. Speaking of spice, Bostonist......

Kickers are lame. When kids play pickup football games, no one gets chosen first because they can split the uprights with a perfect field goal. Plus, they're only on the field about ten plays a game, if that. But tonight, Kris Brown is the toast of the town after leading the Texans to a nail-biter win over the Miami Dolphins at Reliant Stadium today. After suffering a heel injury on his non-kicking foot on the......

Texans DT Cedric Killings, who was almost paralyzed during Sunday's game against the Colts, arrived at the Texans practice facility yesterday, not to work out with his teammates, but to show them something none of them had expected: he was walking. A full recovery from the fractured vertebrae he suffered while attempting a tackle is expected, and he wanted the team to join in his celebration. Surgeons at Methodist Hospital stabilized Killings soon after the......

This past Sunday, Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett was very nearly paralyzed in a brutal on-field collision during the Bills' game against the Denver Broncos. Doctors originally thought that chances of a full recovery were 80-90% against, with a strong possibility that he would be a quadrapeligic; today, the Port Arthur-raised Everett is moving his limbs and breathing on his own, and his family and doctors are optimistic for a full recovery. Everett played......

Google recently announced two exciting new features. One is street view, a new feature of Google Maps, which allows you to see street-side views of locations in many major cities. Right now, the feature is available only in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver, and there are plenty of interesting things to be seen, aside from the feature being helpful if you're traveling to a new location. Google has also started incorporating......

One of this week's most popular blogging topics was Senator Dan Patrick's trip to Hooter's. Miya Shay broke the story on her Houston Political Blog. It was re-blogged by Burnt Orange Report and several other Texas political blogs. Lone Star Times responded to the slight uproar that had been created in good humor, referring to the incident as "Fried Pickle-Gate," because Senator Patrick was at Hooter's with his son and his girlfriend, who likes the......

This weekend marked the opening of Commerce Street Artists' intriguing new exhibit Goin' Mobile. Inspired by The Who song of the same name Goin’ Mobile is an on-the-road inspired traveling exhibition that investigates the literal sense of travel—point A to B, beginning to end, start to finish, back and forth, and one way—Goin’ Mobile ventures in every direction to guide the viewer on a trip to those familiar and unknown places along our traveled......

Good morning, Houston. Do you feel more metropolitan? Or bigger, maybe? According to estimates released by the Census Bureau yesterday, the influx of hurricane evacuees has made the Houston metro area the country's sixth largest. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area now has an estimated 5,483,857 residents, which puts it ahead of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach but still behind the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and Philadelphia metro areas. Another population fact: Harris County......

Thanks to our friends at Shanghaiist, we have word of another list Houston's on — but this one doesn't have anything to do with our weight, children, dog poo or gold diggers. No, this has to do with The Economist magazine's Worldwide Cost of Living index, which ranks Houston 47th among the world's 132 most expensive cities in which to live, up one spot from last year's 48th place ranking. Shanghaiist has the details;......

First Will Smith, then CSI, and now Reno 911!. Maybe it's time to bring back Miamist. The Comedy Central hit show makes the leap to the big screen with Reno 911!:Miami. Scion is sponsoring a free preview at Alamo Drafthouse tonight. Admission is free, but you'll need to RSVP in advance and plan on showing up earlier rather than later as it's first-come, first-serve. DJ Brotha Jibril sprinning from 9pm-10pm. -------- When: Friday, February 23rd,......

If you haven't already made lunch plans, why not go ahead and have that triple cheeseburger, large order of fries and milkshake? And why not wash it down with a giant dessert? A celebration is in order, you see: Houston has slipped to No. 6 in the Men's Fitness annual ranking of America's fattest cities. Looks like Mayor White's Jazzercise really paid off. In this year's MF rankings, Las Vegas takes the coveted title of......

Houstonist has a slightly healthier, and terribly tasty dip alternative for those of you who are more "health-conscious" and would eschew yesterday's Ball and Chain Dip (even though there's veggies in there) for a nice salsa fresca made with fruit! We will warn you, this is addictive - very addictive. Also, it needs to be assembled at least one day prior, so that the flavors marry properly and you get the full impact and all......

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......

Houston Contestant Competes in Telemundo Reality Series Just when it seems every Reality TV concept has been done (12 times)...Concierto Clandestino is a new reality series produced by Zeal Television USA and Animus Group for leading US-Hispanic networks Telemundo and Mun2. The series follows 4 chosen individuals over 26 weeks, on a journey to create the concert of their lives. Each ‘Promoter’ is given a venue in a specified city and a famous Hispanic......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Fed up with all the publicity and laughs garnered by Snakes On a Plane, scorpions have boarded planes. In the latest incident, a scorpion wound up in a Vermont man's pants and stung the man twice on the leg during a trip from Chicago to Vermont. It is believed that the scorpion boarded the United flight during the previous flight from Houston to Chicago. This follows on the heels of Monday's traveling scorpion incident during......

True Religion is ready to make fashion-conscious Houstonians (with well-lined pockets) truly happy. The clothing retailer will be opening a store in the Galleria this summer. The new store will carry True Religion's full line of merchandise for men and women, including T-shirts, pants, skirts, sweatshirts, and their trademark $200+ jeans. The original True Religion store was opened in 2002 in Los Angeles, CA, by husband-and-wife design team Jeffrey and Kym Lubell. They began a......

Let's face it: If you're not cooking on Thanksgiving Day, there's not a whole lot to do (except, of course, when you're eating). Enter Thanksgiving TV, your best buddy for Turkey Day — and an essential part of your post-meal nap in your favorite recliner. Start Thanksgiving Day with three parades: the H-E-B Holiday Parade from downtown Houston, the Macy's parade from New York and the WLS Thanksgiving Day Parade from Chicago. The main......

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......

If we told you that the Texans would win a nail-biter over the Dolphins 17-15, would sack Dolphins QB Daunte Culpepper 5 times, and Mario Williams would get 1.5 of those 5 sacks, would that be something you might be interested in? Well, if the crowd at Reliant Stadium is any indication, Houston Texans fans' interest is at an all-time high. With the win over the Dolphins, the Texans get their first taste of victory......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor mrp1001. Why, you may ask yourself, is Houstonist putting up a photo of buses? Ah, but they're not just any buses: They were carrying the Miami Dolphins to the airport after the Texans beat them yesterday. Not by much, mind you — the final score was 17-15 — but we'll take it. If only some of that luck had rubbed off on the 'Stros .........

Last week, we told you about the home in Conroe with the image of Jesus in its foyer (or Jerry Garcia, depending on how you look at it). But now we have something even better than that: Jesus himself — or at least a guy claiming to be him — has moved into the Houston suburbs. Take that, Dallas! Jesus, in this case, is Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, a former heroin addict who says......

By waiting an extra day to recap the Texans' 31-15 loss to the Redskins, it was our hope that we could write a thoughtful and vitriolic-free analysis. Unfortunately, after sifting through the wreckage, it appears that our optimism has taken a turn for the worse. The current state of the Texans is not a pretty sight. The once promising stable of running backs has been reduced to a game of musical chairs. Our quarterback, while......

Houston has made a respectable showing in Monopoly’s Here and Now edition. If you’ve been out of the loop, millions of internet users cast votes for months this summer to determine not only which landmarks from 22 major cities would make it onto the new Monopoly board, but the number of votes also determined the position of each city on the board. Houston’s Space Center beat out the Museum District and the Kemah Boardwalk by......

Have you ever wondered what city had the highest average monthly calls? We knew you were thinking about it and just dying to find out, so halt your quest now Verizon Wireless has beat you to the punch. Verizon just released a study conducted on the fifty largest cities in the U.S., based on census numbers, to determine where people where making and receiving the most calls. And the top five are. . .......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

One of last weekend's biggest-hyped openings, Miami Vice is directed by Michael Mann, whose dark vision gave the 80s TV show its signature look as well as embuing Mann's movies (Heat, Collateral) with a similar sensibillity. Like Mann's other flicks, Miami Vice has plenty of style and sex appeal--even the explosions are kinda hot--but unlike the others, it doesn't have the performances (of Tom Cruise in 2004's Collateral, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in Heat)......

Growing up, we remember staying up late watching Friday Night Videos on NBC. It was a condensed, network TV version of what was hot on MTV at the time. We miss those days. So we thought we would bring it back — Houstonist style. Every Friday, we'll feature a music video worth watching. Some will be from Houston, some won't. Some will be new, some will be old. Some will be great music videos that......