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Memorial services for David Alexander Coats will be held at First Presbyterian Church on May 20, 2013, at 1 p.m. with the Rev.

With 20 plus homes in the tour this year, the 45th annual Calvert Y+Tour of Homes is being billed as the Historical Pilgramage.

Do you have a hard time getting your family to eat their vegetables? May is National Salad Month and with it many Houston area restaurants are serving up salad specials that may tempt even the most vegetable challenged person in your family.

Thankfully ameliorating the perils of modern flight with her Mad Men -era attendant's cap and saber-sharp punch lines, that gorgeous standup stew from Australia jets back into Houston this Friday with the appropriately titled Pam Ann: Cockpit! The title is appropriate in that you'll see more gay men in her audience than on a junket to San Francisco ... (more)

Courageous Faith Christian Center, shepherd by Pastor JD Herron, will host the renowned Mississippi Mass Choir on May 18.

A man driving a pickup truck was shot in the head, causing him to crash into a home in southeast Houston, police said.

A doctor preparing for his son's funeral also had to deal with a break-in at his northeast Houston office early Friday.

Weeks like this one make it hard to believe I'm actually leaving this post next Friday, because what a whirlwind of activity we've seen in the last seven days.

A Houston property owner has installed headstones as part of a convoluted plot to keep vagrants from loitering on his land.

Uchi's Phillip Speer, left, and Kaz Edwards, chef de cuisine, work on dishes at the Blaffer Art Museum fundraiser.

Maestro Hans Graf will conduct the Houston Symphony in his final concerts as Music Director tonight, May 17 and the 18th.

Houston doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to what happens in Hempstead. But a small town fight over a giant garbage dump has attracted two of the highest profile combatants in the big city's public arena.

In the current round of art projects at Project Row Houses, artist Rahul Mitra has filled his art house with colorful cardboard boxes and black-and-white wall drawings.

HOUSTON Police are rounding up suspects in a burglar at Dollar General in northeast Houston.

The chemical was found leaking into a bayou at 2439 Albright Drive and Queens around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- Jesse Bateman reacts after winning the 2013 Ascension Idol competition, a fundraiser for the Ascension Fund.

Throughout the year, The Friendship Circle of Houston provides social and recreational activities for special needs children and teens while teaching them about their Jewish heritage.

At a press conference at 10:00 AM Tuesday in the Proclamation Room at Houston City Hall, Mayor Annise Parker revealed her $4.9 billion proposed budget for Fiscal Year 14 beginning July 1, 2013.

A shrill whine from the cat, no doubt frustrated by the fact that its rear paws are duct-taped together.

Most discussion of the Uptown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone's plan, which goes before City Council this week, has been about a proposal to annex Memorial Park into the zone and spend $100 million restoring the drought-stricken park.