Food and drink roundup (02-10-2005 edition)

The Chronicle‘s Allan Turner calls attention to today’s opening of the Houston International Festival, which returns to downtown after last year’s nearly fatal experience at the parking lots of the Reliant complex. In the Houston

KHOU-11 recently reported that the professional sensitives in town were very upset about the name of Houston’s new soccer team. The director of UH’s Mexican-American Studies program even let it be known that he would

There’s no restaurant review from Alison Cook this week, but it’s an otherwise informative week from Houston’s food and drink reviewers. Robb Walsh finally abandons the French obsession with a review of Himalaya Restaurant, and