::MFA Projection Bomb!:: We caught wind of this earlier this week and couldn't resist reposting. Introducing the first guerrilla drive-in theater on the roof of the MFA parking garage this Thursday night. Be part of a smart mob for a 20 minute projection bomb. Bring a car full! Details below, poster attached. (Good attendance would really help my thesis project). Thanks! Clint - - - - - - - - - - - - -......

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The Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo publicly stated opposition to the proposed redevelopment of the Astrodome into a hotel and convention center. Giving the reason that it would have negative effects on the Texans and the HLSR, spokesfolks didn't actually release details yet to back it up. Since the Astros' abandonment of the Astrodome, it has been tough to try to agree and finance good uses for it year-round. The hotel and......

Good morning, Houston. Want to hear something weird? Investigators say a North Texas man had a stolen bone implanted in his neck. The man, Jim Livingston, had a herniated disk in his neck; in 2005, a surgeon replaced it with a small bone from a donor. Everything was fine until last year, when Livingston got a call informing him that the bone was believed to have been stolen from a body at a funeral......

We were hoping that the nearly posthumous landmark designation and demolition-delaying rain spells might have given Weingarten Realty that last little bit of time to ruminate over their plans to demolish the River Oaks Shopping Center - unfortunately, according to Cherry Demolition, the bulldozers move in Tuesday to begin the demolition and make way for the big box anchor Barnes and Noble plus a four story parking garage. We were sad to see places like......

More on Hines' proposed 47-story downtown skyscraper: The Chronicle has some details about the building and its design, and it looks like it really could be something different for the CBD. Plans call for the 630-foot building to be clad in glass, with the west facade featuring projecting vertical glass fins to shade offices from afternoon sunlight. Near the top of the building, on its east side, will be a notched opening that'll shelter......

If you're downtown often, you've probably noticed the new parking garage that's being completed at Main and Walker. We first paid attention to the garage because of its fugly concrete-frame exterior — yeah, that's the way the garage is really going to look, and apparently, its design isn't sitting too well with residents of Commerce Towers, the condo development across Walker Avenue. "In my room, it seems like thousands," Daniel Woodson said. "It's probably only......

More information in the story of Sonoma, the giant mixed-use development being planned for a two-block site in the Rice Village: The Chronicle reports that the city has released the appraisals for the 2400 block of Bolsover Street, and there's a little bit of variation between the two — about a half-million dollars' worth, to be specific. The appraisals — for $913,171 and $1,460,340 — pertain to Lamesa Properties' plans to buy that stretch of......

Earlier this year, we talked about the downtown real estate boom: One Park Place, the apartment tower under construction at the edge of Discovery Green; Houston Pavilions, the retail and office complex being built on Main Street; and a few skyscrapers in the planning stages. Well, the Houston Business Journal reported on one of those proposed new buildings Friday: a 47-story skyscraper being planned by Hines in the 800 block of Main Street. There......

We're not sure whether it was something in the air or what, but something seems to have made Houstonians decide to crash into each other (and, in a couple of cases, walls) on area roads last night. First there was the guy who backed through a wall of the Houston House parking garage — we already talked about that — and then, around 8 p.m., a driver crashed into an Indian restaurant at Dairy Ashford......

Bizarre news from downtown: A man driving through the parking garage at the high-rise Houston House apartments somehow ended up crashing through a wall of the garage yesterday evening, sending his car plummeting about five floors onto the roof of an adjacent building. The man — who was driving a Mustang convertible — died. The crash was reported around 6:30 p.m., and it's not clear yet exactly how it happened, though KTRK reports that the......

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. My husband and I went out to dinner last night. The restaurant was valet only, and it cost $6. We didn’t really mind until we watched the attendant park the car just a few feet from where we were standing. Then, after dinner, we had to give a different valet guy a few dollars for a tip when he retrieved our car. Seems......

If you were anywhere near downtown yesterday afternoon, chances are you noticed the scores of police cars and helicopters in the area — and if you checked out the news to see what was going on, chances are you found out it was a manhunt at the Exxon Mobil parking garage. The whole thing started at about 3 p.m. at UH-Downtown's Daly Street parking lot, where two men took a 1997 white Honda Civic at......

The Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission voted yesterday to begin the landmark designation process for the River Oaks Shopping Center, River Oaks Theater and Alabama Theater/Bookstop, the three significant Art Deco structures that have been in the news since news broke last summer that Weingarten Realty Investors could be planning to demolish them to make way for new development. The move toward designating the buildings city landmarks comes without Weingarten's approval — the first......

More on yesterday's news that Metro is now in the business of land investing: According to county tax officials, the transit agency could end up having to pay taxes on two blocks of Midtown property it's holding for a private developer for several months. Metro's board approved the purchase of the property in question, a two-block, $7.2 million parcel bordered by Main, Holman, Travis and Winbern, on March 22. The seller is developer Robert H.......

The Chronicle reports today on an interesting land deal going down in Midtown: Metro is buying two blocks of Main Street property from a developer with plans to sell it back to the developer after a few months so the developer can build a transit-oriented development there. For developer Robert H. Schultz of RHS Interests, it's a pretty sweet deal: He gets cash in hand for the property now, a year-long guarantee that he can......

Remember when the Astrodome was considered to be the 8th wonder of the world? It is amazing how quickly times have changed…now the redevelopment is struggling to meet funding deadlines for the $450 million project. In August 2006, the Astrodome Redevelopment Corporation (catchy name) signed a letter of intent proposing a 1,000 room 4-star luxury hotel and parking garage inside the previous sports stadium. The first 'proof of funding' deadline passed in December of 2006,......

The Chronicle's Matt Stiles and KTRK's Miya Shay reported earlier this week on the "courtesy" program that allows certain local elected officials to park free at Houston's airports, noting that more than 100 city officials, state legislators and members of Congress have racked up around $100,000 in free parking under the perk. Officials have been offered the free parking since the 1980s; it's intended for use during official business, but some of the instances were......

Houston police have arrested a man who they say sexually assaulted at least two women in Galleria parking garages. Colby Dmon Minix, a former Galleria security guard, is being held without bond in connection with the assaults and with two aggravated robberies that also happened at the mall. Minix was caught, it turns out, thanks to the quick thinking of his latest would-be victim. On Friday night, the woman had gotten off work at the......

In the midst of all the news about juveniles being abused in prison, Halliburton's motives and who will say what in the (still distant) presidential election, it's nice to run across a heartwarming story about a cat that fell from the fifth floor of a building. Oh, that's not the heartwarming part — this is: The cat's alive and doing well. And she's cute! Cat, the name the kitty's going by for now, fell from......

If you've missed the fountains at Main Street Square, which have been turned off since a hard freeze six weeks ago screwed up a seal between two pipes, there's good news: The fountains are back. We'll give you a few minutes to celebrate. Honestly — and Houstonist goes past Main Street Square pretty frequently — we hadn't even realized anything was wrong. It's been windy the last few weeks, so we figured the fountains were......

After about a year of date-pushing, today marks the groundbreaking ceremony for the Houston Pavilions project downtown, which was apparently only attended by about 75-100 people. Two more anchor tenants were announced - Books-A-Million and Forever21 - in addition to the already secured House of Blues and Lucky Strike Lanes. Restaurants supposedly set to be included are Lawry's, McCormick & Schmick's, Yao's, Antica Osteria, and Guadalajara del Centro (don't leave your American Express at home,......

Today, Preservation Texas named five Houston-area sites to its list of 2007's Most Endangered Places in the state: the River Oaks Shopping Center, River Oaks and Alabama theaters, the West Mansion in Clear Lake, the Capitan Theater in Pasadena and unprotected neighborhoods in Galveston. This year's list focuses on historic movie theaters, but all the sites made it for a reason — unfortunately: All of them are in imminent danger of being lost through demolition......

Via Off the Kuff, Rice Village-area residents are a little ticked off by a sign advertising Sonoma, the residential component of the proposed Piazza mixed-use development just off Rice Boulevard. You remember that, right? It's the $100 million, seven-story behemoth for which a block of Bolsover Street will be closed, with 225 condominiums, 100,000 square feet of retail space and an underground parking garage. But according to the Examiner, it's not the size of the......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Notsuoh Photography. A nice black-and-white look at Tranquillity Park, the futuristic downtown spot built to commemorate NASA's Apollo program and the moon landing. The park is tricky for two reasons: First, the gold towers at its center are fountains, but they're also ventilation shafts for the Civic Center parking garage, and second, "Tranquillity" has two L's (the park was named to commemorate the Sea of......

More today on the selection of "Discovery Green" as the name of the new downtown park: The name was the brainchild of Kim Borja, an accountant for Pappas Restaurants, and park officials liked it so much that it was the only name they forwarded to Mayor Bill White. Wow. "I definitely wanted something other than 'park' in the name, so I decided on 'green,'" said Borja, who hasn't yet claimed his prizes — a signed......

So hey, did you hear about the rain yesterday? If the rain and thunder overnight didn't wake you up and you had electricity while you were getting ready for work, surely you got caught in the morning rush hour from hell. It was all the fault of a warm front that moved ashore from the Gulf, resulting in more than 10 inches of rain in some parts of town — and that left us with......

Sad news from the old Town & Country Mall: A construction worker was killed yesterday when an overhead walkway collapsed between a parking garage and the former Neiman Marcus store. It happened just after 4:30 p.m.; according to KHOU, crews demolishing the overhead walkway cut a support beam, causing the structure to fall on the worker. The ex-Neiman's is one of a few parts of Town & Country left standing after much of the mall......

Hollis Grizzard, a former debate teacher at Pearland High, was found guilty today of assaulting a 15-year-old student Harris County prosecutor Diana Glaeser is undergoing treatment for an apparent heart attack; she was found collapsed in a downtown parking garage this morning Workers with Republic Waste went back to work this morning, ending a strike during which more than 100 garbage collectors refused to pick up trash Christopher Pichon, a student athlete at Booker T.......