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February 14, 2008

The quest for Houston’s best margarita continued forward last night with a stop at Picos Mex Mex, situated at the corner of Bellaire and Renwick. Taste Before we visit any dining establishment, we always peruse the web site to see what we’re in for. After navigating our browser over to Picos Mex Mex’s URL, we found ourselves drooling on our keyboard. There, in all of its HTML-encoded glory, was a two-page margarita menu! We......

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January 27, 2008

Texas schools came out of Saturday's college basketball action with a collective 3-2 record, spread across two different conferences. (Big XII and Conference USA) The premier showdown of the weekend pitted the 12th ranked Texas Longhorns against Bobby Knight's Red Raiders of Texas Tech. With an outstanding defensive effort put up by head coach Rick Barnes' boys, the Longhorns were able to run away with a 73-47 victory in Austin. Texas won its 12th straight......

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November 5, 2007

With half of its Opening Day offense totting clipboards on the sidelines, and its defensive leader headed to the hospital with a busted hamstring, the Texans might have been justified in being pessimistic. Fortunately, for a team that's already been through more injuries than a Very Special Episode of ER, Sage Rosenfels and Ron Dayne wouldn't let them lose hope, allowing the Texans to escape Oakland with a 24-17 win. After starting hot in the......

Continue Reading "Texans Beat Raiders With The Sweet Smell of Sage"

November 2, 2007

The Texans bandwagon that looked so promising at the beginning of this season has definitely seen better days: the wheels have fallen off, the axles have snapped, and all but the Pollyanna-esque optimists and the mentally ill have given up the possibility of the playoffs. So as the Texans make their second trip to California in as many weeks to face the Raiders in Oakland, the question becomes: what's the best case scenario from here......

Continue Reading "Going Back To Cali: Texans Preview 11/2"

March 7, 2007

Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure. It's spring and Astros fever is catching around town. But, football season is almost here five months away, and the draft is looming on the horizon. The Texans are making moves in the Free Agent market to gain talent and have a better idea their needs from the draft. Former Greenbay Packers running back, Ahman Green, will join the the backfield after signing on Sunday. Now the Texans are entertaining......

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August 8, 2006

From the "Haven't you heard things in this store are cheap?" file comes the story of a man who police say has robbed up to 30 dollar and 99-cent stores in Harris and Fort Bend counties since March. He reportedly enters the store pretending to be a customer, picks up an item and brings it to the cash register, and buys it. When the sale is finished, he shows the clerk a pistol tucked in......

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March 19, 2006

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. Houstonist is no stranger to megachurches or stripmalls or mega-strip-churchmalls. The children of Houston are under assault by unknown forces as this week a playground......

Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the -ist-a-verse: shamrock shakes, pants on fire and the wonders of Google"

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