From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • A small plane made an emergency landing on a street near Lake Conroe. The plane landed safely, no one was injured and now it's up to the FAA to decide how to move the plane. • Several people were robbed while standing in line to by sneakers (did we just type that?) at Greenspoint Mall. The thief fled in a black Chevy......

::Movie Monday - Double Feature:: Two series we love return tonight: Monday Night Movies at Domy Books, and Movies Houstonians Love at the MFA. Liquid Sky, 1983, 112 min Domy Books | 1709 Westheimer 8:30 - 10:30pm FREE Drugs, 80s Art Punks, and Aliens translated through director Slava Tsukerman would be the easy way to describe Liquid Sky. The hard way would include the endless amount of unlikable characters (including the two leads played by......

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits... • Morning rains have created some road closures in town. • A body has been discovered in a gully near Seabrook • Hit and run accident critically injures pedestrian. • Unmanned drones are being tested by the FAA in Houston. • Could it really be? Lower property taxes for Harris county homeowners. • A plane owned by a Houston area man crashed in......

Houstonist doesn't get it. What's with all the hype surrounding Arcodoro? Why is this place getting such rave reviews from foodies we usually respect? Are we missing something here? Perhaps Houstonist readers can shed some light on our very dark Arcodoro experience. Houston's recent annual Restaurant Week was a great opportunity to sample a three course dinner from a variety of notable restaurants. After careful scrutiny, we chose Arcodoro, a restaurant we've heard a lot......

Each week Houstonist checks out the Missed Connections on Craiglist. Here's a few that we found interesting. thats funny - m4w - 20 hey, i dont understand what the hell is wrong with you?! first of all you dump me for some ugly ass jobless loser, because i went out with my friends?! how the hell does that happen im hot, in great shape, and thats what you leave me for a fat, huge......

When Houstonist was a rookie Texan, we once debated a colleague about films that were "quintessentially Texas." Any film set in Texas, filmed in Texas, starring Texans, etc. was eligible. The point was to build a list of movies to watch so that we could figure out the reason for the nauseating levels of Texanism and the fascination of the outside world with the state of Texas. Surely armadillos, oil rigs and interstate were......

Good morning, Houston. In case you didn't hear yesterday, we'll soon see the end of an era in air travel: Beginning Oct. 2, Southwest Airlines will assign passengers a place in line based on the order in which they check in. That means no more of the airline's (in)famous "cattle call" boarding process, which means there's no longer any point in arriving at the airport 16 hours early to get in the A group......

Good morning, Houston. Yeah, we remember how (relatively) mild the first part of the summer was, and we're grateful for that. But now, after weeks of oppressive heat, we're sick of the weather — so you can imagine how excited we were when we checked out the long-range forecast and saw highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s coming in early September. But it might not come as early as......

Missed Connections are weird ramblings that seem a better fit for the walls of a bathroom stall. In fact, it seems as if an inordinate amount of MCs occur in bathrooms or locker rooms. That's just creepy kinda like this guy but different. Try to visualize the following MCs written in fat marker print on your favorite stall wall. We think it'll help them seem more normal. Missing Astros Can't seem to find the......

Good morning, Houston. Did you happen to be in the West U. area last night? If so, maybe you noticed the train derailment in the area, which prompted the evacuation of a handful of houses and the closure of a section of Bissonnet Street. The derailment, which involved seven cars, happened on the Union Pacific line near the corner of Community and Judson; four of the cars were carrying wheat and lumber, and another......

The road to 3,000 continued Tuesday night in Los Angeles as Craig Biggio recorded two hits to move closer to baseball history. While facing Bartolo Colon in the top of the fourth inning, Biggio punched a single over the glove of Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick for career hit 2,991. In the top of the sixth inning while facing an 0-2 count from Colon, Biggio smacked an infield single to shortstop Orlando Cabrera for hit......

We haven't had a good story about a Houston-related airplane disturbance since everyone's favorite co-pastor pitched a fit and got thrown off a Continental flight a year and a half ago — but Wednesday night, someone else made a stink and forced a Houston-bound Continental Express plane to make an unscheduled landing. About 20 minutes after the plane took off from Dallas, 23-year-old passenger Brian Thomas Vande-Stouwe of Phoenix reportedly got out of his seat......

So you know how Lakewood Church pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen have taken a vow of poverty, right? Yeah, yeah, we're kidding — but if you're anything like Houstonist, you've wondered at one time or another exactly how much the Osteens are worth. (Go ahead, admit it.) Turns out we're not the only ones: Reginald McKamie, the attorney for Continental flight attendant Sharon Brown, asked a judge yesterday to make the Osteens' net worth public......

Things are apparently progressing — slowly — in the lawsuit against Victoria Osteen filed in September: The Chronicle is reporting that the attorney for a flight attendant accusing Osteen, the wife of Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen, of assault wants to have the interior of the airplane where the incident occurred photographed. This all goes back to Dec. 19, 2005, when Osteen reportedly went ballistic about some liquid that had been spilled on her first-class......

Good morning, Houston. Good news for anyone who loves to travel and have a spare $200,000 laying around: You can now buy tickets to space, with the journey set for 2009 on Richard Branson's space plane. More than 100 tickets have already been sold, and Houston travel agents Tara Hyland and Diane Vest are two of the only "Accredited Space Agents" offering them in the U.S. And yes, the tickets are $200K each. Anyone?......

What's up with Continental this week? Yesterday we heard about the pilot pilot who had a heart attack at the controls, and then there was the Continental flight that was delayed because of a bomb threat. The threat, which was delivered by voice mail, was against a twin turboprop plane bond from Tyler to Bush Intercontinental. Tyler Regional Airport manager David Dickson said his staff heard the message Monday morning; the plane landed at Bush......

From the "It's probably better you don't know what's going on in the cockpit" file comes the story of a Continental Airlines pilot who collapsed in flight Saturday aboard a flight from Houston to Puerto Vallarta. Fortunately, it didn't turn into a situation like one you'd see in a bad suspense movie — in fact, officials say the 210 people on board the flight were never in any danger. The flight took off from Bush......

We don't know about you, but it's friggin cold out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that's just us. Either way, we're freezing. Austinist said goodbye to their co-editor (sell-out) and played rumor monger on the SXSW lineup. And when dozens of dead birds littered downtown Austin, it's......

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......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor darkhairedgirl. Coincidence? We think not. Either way, it's a fun shot of a sign and its corresponding meaning. It reminds us of the time a friend of ours from school shot a video of himself slowly walking across the street in front of a sign reading "Slow Children at Play." Double props to the photographer for capturing the plane against the white could, thus giving......

Can it really have been a year since Victoria Osteen's airplane tantrum? How time flies! Fortunately, we won't have to go through the 2006 holiday season without more wacky on-board antics. Unfortunately, Mrs. Osteen isn't involved this time — instead, it's a guy names Nboru Akao, who is expected to appear in federal court today after making a jackass of himself on a flight yesterday. According to KTRK, Akao became unruly during the last two......

We're going to share something a little embarrassing about ourselves: We have trouble backing a vehicle up. We can hardly make it out of a driveway without veering off onto the grass — and when it comes to backing out of a garage, forget it. So we can sympathize with the person who accidentally backed a Boeing 737 into another 737 at Bush Intercontinental yesterday. "The airplane that was moving backed up and the right......

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa... -Austinist reveled in the dumb antics of some U.T. law students and posted some great audio from former New Orleans natives who've decided to stay in Austin. But the best news for Austinist? They were voted Best Local Entertainment Web Site by the local Austin alt-weekly. Congrats, Austinist. -DCist gloried in being told their musical tastes made......

From the "stories you thought you'd heard the last of" file, we bring you news that Victoria Osteen, the wife of Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen, has been fined $3,000 by the FAA for interfering with a Continental Airlines flight attendant last year — and she's facing a lawsuit by a flight attendant who claims Osteen assaulted her during the now-infamous on-board snit. Surely you remember the story of Victoria Osteen's run-in with Continental personnel......

Where were you the day JFK was shot? When the statement was uttered "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?" Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? Houstonist remembers exactly where we were when the tragedy occurred: watching a television at work, amid of a handful of employees at an office downtown, wondering, "Is that a Die Hard movie?” But then we noticed the CNN logo in the corner of the screen......

A plane crashed in Montgomery County this afternoon; engine failure was apparently the cause Tuesday's police chase by the guy who thought he couldn't be chased had City Council all atwitter this week The Labor Department has proposed a $12 million settlement to cover some Enron workers' claims Kalip Jefferson, 18, was found guilty of murder today for killing a woman when he ran a red light during a 2005 police chase Donations to the......

Since Snakes on a Plane was a blog phenomenon, we thought we would feature one of the movie's music videos, "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" by Cobra Starship. The band is a one-time collaboration of several indie rockers -- The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, and The Sounds. Just like the movie, the video is cheesy as hell. The band members sneak snakes through security by using a scantly-dressed woman as a decoy,......

After we showed you KHOU's look at airport screeners' jobs, a related tale is reported in today's Chronicle. A July 31 episode in which a New York resident was arrested after walking through a totally empty security checkpoint at Houston's Hobby Airport has led to disciplinary action against the team of screeners on duty at the time and to dire warnings from TSA officials, who call the mistake a "serious problem", according to the Chronicle.......

We've all seen Snakes on a Plane, right? Well, get ready for Bats in a School: in this case, it's Bellaire High School, where three bats have been found hanging out in a third-floor hallway. The bats were noticed over the past two weeks, and Bellaire police officer Richard Perez got called to the school when one was captured. "One was actually hanging off the ceiling tile, and there was one behind a doorway entry......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this week's Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......