If you're anything like Houstonist, you love Hermann Park (or, at the very least, you recognize that the little statue of Sam Houston which is prominently displayed on our logo actually resides in Hermann Park). Whether you have fond childhood memories of riding the train to the Zoo, rolling down the hill at the Miller Outdoor Theater, and spending hours in the Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, or more recent......

Calling all pooches! Oliver, a friendly (obviously, he's hosting this soiree) Golden Retriever is having a little canine social event, the Bow-Wow Bash at the Houston Arboretum this Saturday from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Please RSVP quickly here, to ensure your participation. There will be music and refreshments in the meadow and dog owners get poochie punch and a doggie bag with bottled water and a treat for their "party animal". Please be sure......

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......

Mother Nature has been teasing us – toying with us even. Here it is, late October and nary a sweater touched, a wool sock adorned, a scarf wrapped. The hair is still frizzy and the a/c continues to crank. But, by golly, the optimist in us has gone into full-fledged autumn-mode: dining al fresco. Every year, about this time of year, Houstonist wills the weather to get cooler by changing our dining strategy to all-al-fresco-all-the-time.......

Tokyo Police Club @ Meridian We love when a band with critical-acclaim like Tokyo Police Club stops by the Bayou City. Sure, albeit on a Monday night, probably headed to or from Austin, but we are glad to have them nonetheless. We caught TPC at a few festivals this year and every set we've seen has been stellar, even in the hot, hot heat of a 2:00pm set time at Cocahella, they still got the......

Interested in getting in touch with your most animal nature? This will probably be the healthiest avenue to do so: Tuesday evening, the Jung Center of Houston kicks off its Student/Member Lecture Series with a presentation entitled, Creature Comforts: Animals, Nature and Healing. If you've got nature on the brain after thinking about the Top 10ist topic of the week, then this may be the perfect satiating experience. According to the Jung website, "[a]nimal-assisted......

Houstonist has seen them: crawling around the bathroom, flitting through doors, hovering in the kitchen. And Houstonist has felt them: at dusk, after a rain, or mysteriously, in the middle of the afternoon. The bugs have returned in force, and we recommend you do something about them. Educate: The Texas Bug Book: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a top-notch tome, with up-close pictures and information on life cycles, habitats, economic importance,......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor paper by design. It's a gorgeous spring image taken near Woodlands Parkway and Cochran's Crossing. The photographer also has another image of this area which can be viewed here. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 250 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Cybastean and contains this description: A quiet walk through the Houston Arboretum. And that's pretty much what you get when you traverse this 155 acre non-profit urban nature sanctuary with over 5 miles of trails. There's also a meadow, a pond and forested areas for you to explore, as well as a nature center with exhibits, volunteers and stuff for the......

The Internet has changed everything: Now, your friends and family can receive e-mails from you even after you die. We can't decide whether that's really interesting or really disturbing — or, you know, both. The service is provided by David Eagleman, an assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. It's called Deathswitch, and the Chronicle tells us all about it today. Here's the skinny: While you're alive, you subscribe to Deathswitch......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor phototainable. We'd be shirking our duty if we didn't include this great, timely shot that captures the abundance of rain dropped on the city. Most of the area to the left side of the bayou is walkable, if that gives you any idea of just how bad the short-lived flooding was. Excellent detail from the photog: "This picture is taken from a bridge looking onto......

As a wise individual once said, "I've got to get me some of that sh*&!" It appears that where there is bacteria from the genus Ralstonia, there very well may be gold. From Science: Bacterial biofilms are associated with secondary gold grains from two sites in Australia. 16S ribosomal DNA clones of the genus Ralstonia that bear 99% similarity to the bacterium Ralstonia metallidurans—shown to precipitate gold from aqueous gold(III) tetrachloride—were present on all DNA-positive......

The shot from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor Jeff Balke. He's also a Houstonist contributor. This is at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, HANC, which reminds me... the 2006 Summer Camp series is going on all this month. If you're looking for something to do with the little ones you should check it out. If you would like to join Houston's best photographers in the houstonist photo group, click here.......

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy’s most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use for......

Hurricane season officially ends today — and what a season it's been. But at the last minute, just as we were letting our guard down, Mother Nature threw one last punch: Tropical Storm Epsilon, which formed in the Atlantic about 800 miles east of Bermuda on Tuesday. Epsilon isn't expected to make landfall, but it could make for dangerous surf conditions in Bermuda in the next few days. So at least we, New Orleans and......