On Monday of this week, we asked a simple question that sparked a firestorm of controversy: What is Houston's most overrated restaurant? Nearly 140 comments later, we published a list of the Ten Most Overrated Restaurants -- according to a tally of your comments -- that incited a flamewar here on the blog, on the slideshow itself and on Twitter.
Amidst all the vitriol and accusations, however, people seemed to forget that our query was the first part of a two-part question, the second part being this: What is Houston's most underrated restaurant? Both questions were intended for one purpose: to spark discussion in the food community. And, sadly, this doesn't seem to have been the focus after all.
To that end, as promised, we are requesting your thoughts on Houston's most underrated restaurant -- the place that you're continually stunned to find that no one else has heard of, the place that deserves more praise or attention than it receives, the place that makes food so good as to make your grandmother weep bitter tears of frustration.
So let's hear it folks. What is Houston's most underrated restaurant? Sound off in the comments section below.


Designer Cushions and Designer Sofas – Separate Entities or Parts of the Same Picture?
It must at first seem obvious. Designer cushions and designer sofas are clearly parts of the same thing. You can't have a sofa without cushions, after all. That would just be a frame.
Only the cushions referred to when a person normally talks about designed cushions are not the ones you sit on, but the ones used as a kind of cherry on the cake – the throw cushions, which may even be removed before the sofa is used for its intended practical purpose of supporting a sitting or reclining body. So clearly the designer cushion is not a part of the intrinsic definition of the item we think of as a sofa. It may not even be an intrinsic part of the item we think of as a designed sofa: which is clearly different from the normal sofa.
Or is it? A designer sofa, after all, shares so many qualities with an off the shelf sofa that it can be hard to put a finger on the difference. Both are designed to be sat on – even if the off the shelf sofa has been designed by a computer rather than a human. Both have legs or are supported in some way so they sit upright on a floor.
Also, some designer sofas have arms while others do not. This is also true of off the shelf sofas. At which point, we have to ask whether what we are investigating here is even the suite of properties that go to make up a sofa – or whether there is some other inherently objective definition of sofa-ness to which we can refer when we think about furniture.
Plato maintained that there was a universe of ideal forms, which the human mind refers to when it wishes to understand what class of object something in the real world is. In essence, you can look at a circular object (despite the fact that there is no such thing as an actual geometrically perfect circle anywhere in the world in space) and know that it is circular because the perfect circle exists in your head. When you look at a sofa, you do the same thing – only on a more complex level, because there are more variables at work in the idea of "sofa" than there are in the idea of a circle.
So what does all this have to do with the divide (if there is one) between a sofa and a cushion? Obviously (as noted at the start) a sofa has cushions – so there's a sense in which a sofa and its cushions are indivisible. Yet we can remove some cushions from a sofa without preventing it from being a sofa. Or can we remove all cushions from the sofa and still have it as a sofa?
In this last instance, the sofa is clearly unusable, at least by anyone who wants to recline on it comfortably. This raises a further question: whether the use of the sofa is more important to defining it as a sofa, than its appearance.
Designer cushions and designer sofas have inherent properties of their own – but what makes one separate from the other?
Mary Richmond and her husband Ronald Richmond have been manufacturing designer cushions and designer sofas for around seven years.


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New York Post Feature: Millennials Canceling Netflix for TV Antennas
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Our founder and CEO, Richard Schneider, spoke with the New York Post about the rapid adoption of TV antennas among Millennial and Gen Z consumers as they seek out alternatives to costly streaming services. With inflation rates at the highest in their lifetimes, millennials and Gen Zers are starting to evaluate their spending and turning to alternatives that might seem strange… FREE TV in the form of a TV antenna!
Now this is music to our ears. Antennas are one of the fastest growing categories in consumer electronics in 2022, and this is largely due to inflation.
"We're hearing directly from customers that they're having to either choose to pay for groceries or to pay for six streaming services, which is tragic," Schneider told The Post. And what really surprises people is that with a TV antenna they can get 50 to 150 channels for free, and it's totally legal! This is a no-brainer for those looking to save money.
With more than 40 million American households (1 in 3) currently using an antenna, and 50 million more expected by 2025, that's a LARGE chunk of an estimated 127 million households. The issue we see is that there is still such a large percentage of the population that is still unaware that over-the-air digital TV even exists. And we hope to help educate those people and help save millions of households save MILLIONS of dollars!
Think about it… the average cable bill is $2,400 a year. If 50 million households cancel cable, that's a combined $120 BILLION DOLLARS. You're welcome, America!
You can read the full New York Post article HERE. And if you're a Millennial or Gen Zer (or lets face it, honestly anyone looking for a TV antenna), give our customer service a call at 877-825-5572 and they can help you determine the best antenna for your specific location.

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Description: Comedy Nights with Kapil - Deepika, SRK & Rohit Shetty - 6th July 2013 - Full Episode (HD).In this episode, Shah Rukh Khan comes as special guest, who promotes his film Chennai Express. Further in the skit, Kapil and Simona enact husband-wife. Simona asks Kapil to act as a rich guy in front of her friends. In contradiction, Kapil acts as servant while the actual servant has to act as the owner. The whole misunderstanding makes the scene funnier. At last, Deepika Padukone and Rohit Shetty also come and join the conversation with Shahrukh Khan and Kapil.


Wow, I thought, when I saw photos of Bill West's garage. Bikes and gardening tools hung on panelled walls, storage containers lined shelves, and the floor and walls were white. I thought about the clutter in my garage and decided to talk to the Colorado-based real estate agent and member of the National Association of Professional Organizers. Here's Bill's nine-step system for creating a "clean, functional and organized garage," which is also presented in his book, Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage (Paragon Garage Company, $31).
1 When in doubt, throw it out. "Clutter really does block energy," says Bill. "Once you start throwing things out, you get energized." Go through the garage and identify items to throw or give away. Garage sales are great, but they can offer a pretty low return for the time and effort required. Sometimes it's faster and easier to give items to charity. And for a fee, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (1800gotjunk.com), a Canadian company, will cart stuff away for you.
2 Categorize before you organize. Before buying cabinets, hooks or racks, separate items into categories like automotive, tools, gardening tools, sports equipment (which might be further broken down by type, season or family member), camping equipment and cleaning supplies. "When you store a category in a particular cabinet, it's easy to find what you need," says Bill.
3 Organize to visualize. "If you can see it, you can find it," says Bill. Make that your guiding principle when choosing organizing systems. Built-ins, such as cabinets and shelves, are especially helpful. Useful systems include a large, easily identifiable tool chest, see-through storage containers of every size (from tiny drawers for screws and nails to large-scale tubs for tents and sleeping bags), shelves for containers and racks that allow you to display frequently used items. Replace a single exposed lightbulb with track lights, and install task lights at your workbench.
4 If it's on the floor, it's time to store. Elevating everything makes cleaning the floor easier and reduces hiding spots where critters might make nests. Even Bill's tool chest is on casters so that he can wheel it out of the garage when it's time to mop. What's more, "The floor naturally slopes toward the garage door for drainage, so cabinets on the floor may never sit square, and then the doors don't open," he says.
In his garage, Bill installed a panel system that was designed for retail display (StoreWall, storewall.com for info). "The panels come in wood grains and colours and are easy to install on garage walls," he says. Big and small hooks, bins, shelves and more fit into the panel's grooves and can be moved around, maximizing the system's flexibility and eliminating the need to drill a new hole every time you buy a tool.
The Dream Garage (thedreamgarage.net), a Markham, Ont.-based company, can also help you organize your garage with cabinetry, grid storage and more, all guaranteed for as long as you own your home. Individual lockers made of furniture-grade particleboard lockers and hung on a wall-mounted steel rail are also useful for storing sports equipment. I love this idea because even my son understands how to organize his belongings in his cubby at preschool.
5 Lateral thinking maximizes vertical storage. In other words, utilize every surface for storage, including the walls, support posts and ceiling. Bill boxed the posts in his garage with the panel system and used a ceiling-mounted shelf for storing off-season tires and other objects that aren't used regularly.
6 Keep it neat, treat the concrete. Coat the floor with white or light-colour epoxy paint. The idea, he says, is to create "a light, bright, inviting environment" that makes the garage feel like a multipurpose room that's part of the house. It will be obvious when the floor needs to be cleaned, and an epoxy coating makes it easy to mop.
7 Put it away and the garage will stay that way: organized. For every action of not putting an object in its place after using it, says Bill, there is an opposite and undesirable reaction when attempting to locate that object again, resulting in time wasted.
8 Your ride belongs inside. Once you organize your garage, you'll actually have room to park in it, too.
9 Don't be hasty, practise safety. Proper ventilation and locked, elevated storage of poisonous material and dangerous power tools are just a few ideas that should be part of your garage-organizing plan.