10.31.07
Posted in News at 10:20 am by Paloma Cruz
The Houston Chronicle staff list their picks for best horror flicks.
Lana Berkowitz picks “Die, Monster, Die! (1965) / Planet of the Vampires (1965)”
Syd Kearney & Louis B. Parks pick “Alien (1979)”
Andrew Dansby picks, of all things, “Evil Dead 2 (1987)”
Eric Harrison picks “The Sixth Sense (1999)” (with which I agree)
Tracy Scott picks “Audition (1999)” which I’ve never seen
Andy Olin picks “The Shining (1980)”
The Houston Press has this post:
Halloween: The haunting score, the moment
Laurie Strode looks out the window of her high school classroom and
sees Michael Meyers standing in broad daylight staring at her, Donald
Pleasence’s weird little accent, the scene in the closet between Laurie
and Michael. This is a perfect scary movie from start to finish.
Suspiria: When little Suzy Banyon arrives
at a prestigious dancing school, she has no idea what’s in store for
her. Italian director Dario Argento has created a masterpiece of horror
with bizarre camera and lighting effects and an obsession with the
color red. You’ll never walk your dog alone again after this one.
Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow plays the
paranoid pregnant mother of Satan’s spawn with such a mix of fear and
despair it made me want to get my tubes tied. Artsy effects mixed with
a weird theme song (sung by Farrow herself) and Sidney Blackmer and
Ruth Gordon as the nosiest neighbors ever add up to a total frightfest.
This is not a dream, this is really happening!
Scream: Scary and ironic at the same time,
which is a hard one to pull off. Wes Craven filled the movie with so
many inside jokes that horror movie fans needed to watch it at least
three times to catch all the references. Yummy!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The original, of
course. It’s got odd moments of humor, and Houston’s own Marilyn Burns
as the sole survivor kicks total ass! The blood on her face and body
was really hers as she was filmed being chased through the woods by
Leatherface. She earns every letter of the title Scream Queen. My heart
races just thinking about it.
Which do you think is the scariest movie ever?
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10.29.07
Posted in News at 9:37 pm by Paloma Cruz
KHOU is reporting that a “A Pasadena pharmacist is in jail Monday. She’s accused of pocketing drugs she was supposed to be selling. She worked at an HEB pharmacy on the Fairmont Parkway.“
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Posted in News at 9:28 am by Paloma Cruz
The Houston Chronicle2 reports, “The Fallen Skateboard Team will be at the Baybrook Mall for a free autograph session from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2.”
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10.25.07
Posted in News at 8:52 am by Paloma Cruz
Revitalization strikes Friendswood downtown
City makes changes to try and become more business-friendly
– Houston Chronicle2
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After years of slow but steady development, downtown Friendswood is
starting to see the fruits of its economic development efforts.
Buzbee, president of Buzbee Properties Inc., a property development
and management firm, is investing $9 million to build Town Home Center,
a mixed-use development at 502 S. Friendswood Ave.
The three-story building will include office and retail space on the
first and second floors, and high-end lofts on the third floor.
Some of the tenants will include HomeTown Bank, a coffee shop, a title company and Buzbee Properties Inc. offices.
Groundbreaking is expected to take place this fall or early 2008.
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10.24.07
Posted in News at 9:29 am by Paloma Cruz
PEARLAND ISD DEBATE
Trustees vote to begin meetings with remarks, not opening prayer
Compromise means members will decide what to say in statements
– Houston Chronicle2
School trustees defused what had become a thorny issue over the long-followed tradition of opening board meetings with a prayer by adopting a plan to have members take turns starting meetings with opening remarks.
Each board member will decide what to include in the remarks, according to the policy unanimously approved Tuesday. They can include “inspirational remarks, a moment of silence or an nonproselytizing prayer.”
More than a hundred people attended the meeting, most in favor of keeping the opening prayer. Two weeks ago more than 200 attended a meeting when word got around the community that trustee Suzy Roberts had asked other members to consider doing away with the prayer.
Roberts said she feared the school district was liable to have to defend itself against a lawsuit involving the opening prayer. She also said that Pear- land had many people who are offended by the opening prayer. “We have an Islamic center and a very large Hindu temple,” she said before the earlier meeting.
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10.23.07
Posted in News at 9:07 am by Paloma Cruz
Isle to get more sand to kick up
Eroded beaches in Galveston and elsewhere are being widened
– Houston Chronicle2
Cars may once again be able to drive off the end of the seawall and onto 200-foot wide beaches once a $13.5 million beach restoration project to be announced today is completed.
The plan to widen three miles of eroded beaches west of the seawall with more than 1 million cubic feet of sand is the largest ever undertaken by Texas General Land Office, spokesman Jim Suydam said Monday.
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10.22.07
Posted in News at 10:36 am by Paloma Cruz
I didn’t pack my coat when I went to work today. That seems to be a mistake. I did bring my umbrella, and am glad. Wet winter weather arrives to Houston and surrounding areas today. Let’s see if it’s mild enough to enjoy.
Temperature drop today to bring winter to Houston
– Houston Chronicle2
A cold front swept into Harris County this morning, bringing thunderstorms and creating a 10-degree temperature difference between Houston’s two major airports at 9:45 a.m.
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The front was passing over Bush and expected to drop temperatures in the area into the 60s and below by the lunch hour, National Weather Service meteorologist Wendy Wong said. Overnight lows into the lower 50s could persist through most of the week.
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Posted in News at 8:59 am by Paloma Cruz
Youths rally behind Pearland smoking ban
– by the Houston Chronicle2
Voters will decide Nov. 6 if members of a sixth-grade science class had a good idea when they proposed a ban on smoking in most public places.
The issue has been quiet since last spring, when members of the Sablatura Middle School class presented their proposed smoking ban ordinance to City Council. They also handed in petitions with enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot.
The students are seventh-graders now and in junior high, but they haven’t forgotten.
“We’re thinking about having a car wash or something to raise money to make signs,” said Mitchell Hoffman. Last spring he was upset because the council didn’t adopt the ordinance without putting it before voters first. “That means I’ll have to breathe smoke for seven more months,” he said.
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10.17.07
Posted in News at 9:03 am by Paloma Cruz
Kudos to Mary Walker, at J. Frank Dobie High School, for taking the initiative and teaching kids web skills.
Teacher develops award-winning program
Mary Walker’s Dobie students learn Web skills
– Houston Chronicle
Mary Walker always expects her students to win first place. There is no reason for them not to.
Since the inception of J. Frank Dobie High School’s Web Mastering program in 2001, a Dobie team has won first place in the Pasadena Independent School District Web design contest every year.
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In Web I, students complete Web sites based on school subjects using various software and programming languages. Walker chooses one site to represent the school at district.
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Walker sees the program being expanded and more teachers being added. Slated for January 2008, Web mastering will move to a new computer lab in Dobie’s appended wing.
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To learn more about the program and to view the winning sites, visit www.jfrankdobie.org.
Fast fact:
Dobie is the only school in PISD to have its own domain name. In 1995, Mary Walker and her husband, attorney Milton Walker, taught themselves HTML programming so they could develop the Web site. They thought Dobie needed a site to “let everyone know” of the many accomplishments at the school. The program receives no funding, but Walker credits Principal Steve Jamail with supporting the program “whole-heartedly”
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10.16.07
Posted in News at 11:51 am by Paloma Cruz
Some media covering today’s “holiday:”
I’m taking my boss out for lunch later this week. Staff got together to get her a card and flowers.
Did you celebrate?
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