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They were filming a new show called America's Best Bites, set to premiere in fall 2011 on local Tribune channels across the country, including KIAH 39 in Houston. The cameraman described America's Best Bites as similar to Diners Drive-In and Dives, but better and funnier. Host Ted Brunson (along with Natalie Forte) got behind the counter at Hubcap and mingled with diners ranging from construction workers to suited businessmen.

And yet the early success of Revival Market in the Heights shows that a small grocer with a laser-like focus, niche market and sufficient buzz can bring people in. Perhaps when it comes to serving the downtown market, the lesson of Byrd's is to know what you do and do it well.

The owners have changed, but the space has been serving Mexican fare with a side of music on Nance since it was opened by Elena "Mama" Lopez in 1949. According to current owner Dawn Fudge, Last Concert was originally a kind of speakeasy, which explains the lack of signage and the knock to enter system.

These factors were selected because, according to Kotkin, "college-educated migrants (who also tend to be under 30), new families and immigrants will be critical in shaping the future." When all was said and done, Houston ranked in a respectable fifth place among the 52, due to "low housing prices, a stable job market and a vibrant immigrant community."

Houston’s own Hamilton Shirt Company has earned some national press for one of its latest creations: the City Camo shirt. In the August issue of GQ, which hits stands today, creative director Jim Moore writes that it “combines the cut of a classic dress shirt with the mojo of a vintage print.”

For 11 years, Baylor College of Medicine has been involved with the Cancer Genetics Network database, a group of statisticians, clinicians and oncologists, which has registered data on family cancer history of more than 10,000 patients.

Some area artists are making old look new by featuring recycled materials in their work. Their pieces, showcased Saturday at the Green Arts Festival at the Talento Bilingue de Houston in the East End, include glass, metal, scrap wood and even bottle caps. Janise Cookston, who has been painting for seven years, said her recent effort to include recycled materials is challenging her to be more creative. "I don't make as many trips to the art store now," the public relations representative said. "I just sit in my studio and see what I have and what I can make from that."

Turning remnant fabrics into wearable art isn't new. But Kristi Rae Wilson, a jewelry designer who calls herself a "materialsmith," has created an unusual accessories collection by transforming remnants into colorful necklaces and brooches. For example, one of her pieces is made from a Victorian-inspired dress she found while working at Buffalo Exchange.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced that three internationally renowned architectural firms — Steven Holl Architects of New York City, Morphosis Architects of Culver City, Calif., and Snøhetta of Oslo and New York—will prepare conceptual design proposals for a new museum building to contain its permanent collection of 20th- and 21st- century art, galleries for traveling exhibitions, a library and study-resources center, a theater, a restaurant, and other program spaces.

ot only will the $7.5 million Partnership for College Completion provide up to $250 a year in matching funds for her family, but participating will make her 18-year-old son, John, eligible for a scholarship of up to $12,500. (The top 20 percent of participating seniors in 2012 will receive the scholarships over five years.)

the music that Lankford has so casually let loose upon the unsuspecting eardrums of the people is simply too great to be real. Folk Family Revival does indeed some up the sound nicely. The four Lankford brothers channel Dylan, Petty, Cash, and most of all their own amazing brand of... whatever it is. The depth of the songs on Unfolding is just unbelievable, especially coming from a songwriter who hasn't even crawled out of his teens yet. Roadsongs, heartbreaks, and unflinching look at popular religion make up the lyrical content buoyed upon a combination of catchy modern pop production and pure Appalachian style country. And while the music is genius, it is as a lyricist that Lankford truly excels.

It's not the history that makes the restaurant, however. It's the food: down-home, honest-to-goodness tasty Tex-Mex that has people coming back regularly.

She paints. He sculpts. At their home in Beaumont, art abounds. Texture greets you at the gate. Peers through the trees. Plays, from ground up. Art lives in their address. In light that runs through their house… whether in the living room they call the gallery or in a corner I’d call Jacks (a standard poodle). David’s not big on giving names to things. In fact, at the Dishman Art Museum where both of their work is on exhibit through Aug. 10, the label of each piece reads either “Hers” of “His.” Their work is presented exactly as they had hoped. “One voice,” David said.

The JSC does a lot of science that is not necessarily related to manned space. Lots of samples from the moon, stardust, meteorites — that observation will continue. That office will also help commercials use the testing facilities so they won't lay fallow. There will be a loss of personnel, and that's a shame for Houston, but they are building up the Orion space module for new generation of launches.

Although Kosten has vaccines for several types of dependencies in the works, we found his work on a vaccine for cocaine addiction the most fascinating. Kosten's cocaine vaccine works by preventing the cocaine from getting into the brain and activating the receptors that produce the drug's desired effect — an artificial sense of euphoria caused by dopamine. Preventing the desired effect also acts to detox the abuser as they're vaccinated, effectively weaning the abuser off the drug.

Some are new restaurants entirely, while others are seasoned venues with new offerings, but all are well worth a visit.

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