The Weather Is Nearly Too Nice To Navigate The News [Extra Extra]
- NASA's Endeavour shuttle launched for the last time. (This is kind of a big deal for Mission Control in Houston.)
- Westlake's own Terrence Malick gets some interesting reviews at Cannes for his locally shot film Tree of Life.
- There's a high-end DJ living in suburban South Austin. Who knew?
- The Dallas Observer guesses about what’s on the ACL lineup. (They invite you to laugh after the real line-up is released.)
- Chicken fried-steak smackdown in greater Pasadena, but you can get a CFS from the winner in several locations in H-town!
- While we don’t normally recommend subscription-only stories, this New Yorker story about Danalynn Recer of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center in Houston—and her advocacy work on death penalty cases in this state -- is an important article for people who care about these issues. (This link takes you to a detailed abstract of the much longer article.)
- There’s a British pet psychic who lives in Houston. (Both Duke and Spanky found this story quite amusing!)
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