dudemeister

Several cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, and even Dallas along with many European cities have allowed dogs on restaurant patios. And guess what?

Nothing happened and any supposed "health risks" have yet to materialize in those cities from legally allowing dogs on restaurant patios.

It should be up to the individual business owner to decide.

Strange that Qantas would drop SFO, unless it's consolidating at LAX, or something. People on the west coast don't seem to mind running down the coast to connect through Los Angeles on trans-Pacific flights. But if you told a New Yorker they had to connect in Atlanta to get to Europe, they'd scream bloody murder. Maybe because the west coast shuttle runs (LAX, SFO, PDX, SEA on Alaska and Virgin mostly) go farther than the east coast shuttles do (BOS, LGA/EWR, DCA on Delta, US Airways, and Amtrak).

This mostly has to do with Qantas being in the same airline alliance as American Airlines which will serve as a feeder route into the Qantas flight because of the AA hub at DFW.

Anyways SFO already has Air New Zealand which provides alot of competition for connecting from North America to that part of the world (which along with United having a hub there is also feeding passengers onto that airline).

I'm sorry that I missed that.

I need to read the Chronicle more often instead of just the online version.

American is supposed to be adding direct flights out of DFW to both Rio de Janeiro and Barbados as well starting in November.

I went to an Avalanche game once which was fun but pretty expensive, but as far as I am concerned more bang for your buck compared with MLB.

Anyways there are enough midwestern/canadian/european transplants in both Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston (not to mention Austin and San Antonio) for Texas to have two NHL teams given that California has three NHL teams total. Plus given the huge corporate presence in both any NHL team should profit from having the luxury boxes being filled.

Most likely scenario is either Nashville or Phoenix gets relocated to Houston with the other team going to either Winnipeg, Hamilton, or Kansas City.

Ok fair enough now i see what you are saying.

Then again most succesfull musicians are tools it does not matter what the genre is. Case in point Bono of U2 among others.

I've listened to most of those, except for Chamillionare, and didn't really care for most except for Outkast and Eminem.

Most of those people (including Eminem) are tools. They carry themselves like gangsta wannabe's and act as if they were the greatest artists since Jesus.

Before you critiise Nas as a gangster wannabee listen to "I Can". That song is basically encouraging kids to stay in school and make something of themselves.

Likewise Eminem talks or raps about the hardships in his life in addition to humerous takes on the f****d up politicians and celebrities in this country.

I don't live in Montrose but I think it is cool that H-E-B is considering putting in underground parking for the store similar to the Randall's in Midtown.

In other cities such as Miami, Washington D.C. and Annapolis, MD some of these big box stores have multi level parking due to spacial constraints and it would be great to see more or this type of development in Houston.

Oh. Okay.

Didn't realize it was hip to sing about nothing but shooting people, drugs, cops, and just getting as wasted as possible.

In the 70's, they mostly talked about drugs, but at least they just talked about the whacked out dreams they had with them.

I take it you never ever listened to either Lil Wayne, Common, Nas, Chingo Bling, Chamillionaire, Outkast, Kanye West, or Eminem. Neither of those rappers fit your label of "sing about nothing but shooting people, drugs, cops, and just getting as wasted as posible".

So, I guess Los Angeles has some competition now with Dallas!

Due to film incentives being offered outside of California, LA already has competition with Albuquerque, Austin, Shreveport, New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, etc.

Anyways I have always said that Houston and Dallas are related to LA, this just proves it.

This might be worth watching.

Matt Nix is the creator/producer of this show also wrote/produced/directed Burn Notice which is pretty good.

What exactly did the kid do to recieve the beating?

With Pandora and XM, radio is a dying media, similar to newspapers so most stations will play it safe with the top 40 stuff.

Houston Chronicle: New H-E-B concept is discount minded

H-E-B is introducing a new prototype store concept to counter Aldi's expansion in Texas. The store is located in 12305 Antoine Drive in Northwest Houston is expected to open up sometime this May.

Official Site

I thought some of you guys might find this hilarious or interesting. I just recently discovered this old article on Time Magazine about Houston taking over the San Fernando Valley's title of America's Pornography Capital.

A Boomtown for Pornography

Frank Trippett, Time Magazine

April 18, 2005

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...878&xid=Loomia

In the every-man-for-himself tradition that has made the Texas brand of individualism legendary, Houston has always shied away from the idea of zoning. It refused to govern growth even during the years when the town was lunging and sprawling its way to becoming the nation's fourth-largest city (pop. 1,726,000). Now Houstonians are beginning to notice that big corporations and the builders of futuristic skyscrapers have not been the only beneficiaries of the unregulated boom. Their town has become a leading contender for a little coveted title: America's Pornography Capital ...

I wonder how Los Angeles and California feels now that even the adult entertainment industry is leaving.

Oh Well I guess H-Town is now putting the word dirty in Dirty South

You've just committed the equivalent of telling all us native Texans that William Travis was a coward and Sam Houston was a wuss. Break out your umbrella, a doodoo storm is headed your way.

LOL

If it makes you feel all better Whataburger is better than McDonalds or Burger King.

Not much of a fast food person but:

For Fast Food Mexican, Taco Cabana is pretty good compared with Taco Bell plus alot of their locations are open 24/7.

James Coney Island is pretty good as well.

However I dont see the appeal of Whataburger other than their Ketchup and the fact they are open 24/7.

Plenty of better burger places to go around such as Five Guys or Mooyahs. Even Dairy Queen is superior.

Unless I am mistaken isn't there plans to add light rail from U-H to Hobby? That area is ripe for transit since their are alot of lo income apartment complexes in that vincinity.

I'm afraid I don't understand. I looked at Southwest Airlines for a flight to Cincinnati, OH (since they don't fly there, I was looking at Columbus) and I can't find anything remotely close to being a steal. What is it that I do? Book a flight to a cheap city and then book another flight from that city to Cincinnati? I'm trying to leave at the end of this month....the 28th to the 2nd.

I know this is an old post but for anyone else that is interested, the reason why southwest does not fly into Cincinatti is because until recently they avoided major airline hubs which is why until recently they did not serve Minneapolis or Denver. Delta has a monopoly at that airport which is why it is so expensice to fly there. On the plus side Louisville, Columbus, and Dayton, OH are not that far away at all with the closest alternative airport in Dayton, OH.

Some of the airports I have had a relatively good experience include Phoenix (PHX), Baltimore-Washington Int'l (BWI), New Orleans (MSY), Orlando (MCO), and Tampa (TPA).

Houston Intercontinental (IAH) is overall okay, but if you are changing planes there it is a pain in the ass, due to the strange layout. Atlanta (ATL) is insanly busy but at least I can find my way relatively quickly without going thru a maze.

O' Hare (ORD) sucks especially if you are changing planes from an international flight to a domestic one.

Washington Dulles (IAD) is horrible as well since you are forced to take these wierd mobile lounges to your concourse.

As far as hub airports go San Francisco (SFO), Cincinnati (CVG), Denver (DEN), Minneapolis (MSP) or Detroit (DTW) are pretty good as well.

Overall Denver, New Orleans, Tampa, and Phoenix rank high in my book because they offer free wi-fi service which is excellent. San Francisco, Minneapolis and Baltimore also offer excelent transit connections.

Actually the Gulf Coast in general is very popular with Vietnamese immigrants from Houston, to Baton Rouge, and New Orleans East due to the shrimping industry which attracted alot of vietnamese displaced from the Vietnam War.

Although I am glad Houston is geting positive publicity, I dont see why Houston should be ranked among the top three greenest cities in the U.S. given that almost everything in H-Town is geared to automotive transport. I mean, sure having a large amount of LEED certified buildings is good but there needs to be more consideration to transit. Come to think of it why isn't New York, or Chicago ranked up there since they have higher public transit use?

I am sure some money will be made available for expanding mass transit, but unless I am wrong, it is not TxDot's responsibility to fund mass transit.

I finally got some snow here, although most of it melted away pretty quick.

I personally don't see anything wrong with it but then again I am a 20 year old college sophmore known to sneek into bars with a fake ID (FYI, just so no one gets on my case here, I am pretty responsible and I dont really drink and drive. Also since I am currently studying architecture which is a pretty time consuming major that does not really leave me much free time to do anything to cause a severe hangover.)

Besides I have seen people way older than me, do stupid stuff when they are drunk so I don't think having a drinking age at 21 really prevents any stupid behavior from occuring.