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Where to begin? Pick your spot. Reliant Park, a popular convention site, is on the Metrorail route, close to Reliant Stadium (home of the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo). So are the hotels and high-rises of Houston's downtown business district. Near the northern end of the rails lie the Toyota Center, where Yao Ming's Rockets hold court, and Minute Maid Park (known locally as the Juice Box), where Roger Clemens pitches...
...motto it embraced eight months before 9/11, which played off the individuality and independence of today's young men and women and tried to convince them that soldiers are more than mere cogs in a dehumanizing military machine. Today the Army sponsors NASCAR racing cars, football games, rodeo riders and a popular Internet video game called America's Army. But just how much those teenage touchstones do for military recruiting is an open question. A federal study found that although the military doubled its spending on advertising--from $299 million in 1998 to $592 million in 2003--it couldn...
...practice bull riding,” I assumed it meant mechanical bulls, like in bars in movies about Texas. But as I found out, it’s the bulls who are practicing. Of every 200 bulls or broncos only one will buck adequately for a rodeo and a dozen professional riders are on hand every Wednesday night weeding out the candidates for the monthly rodeo. I’m content to sit in the stands and enjoy the free entertainment with my mediocre chicken parmagiana, until the MC announces that for $11 and a simple signature the experience...
...ANGELES Bohemian starlets like Kate Hudson have been eyeing Hermes' $4,100 Trim Anate--complete with hippie-style fringe--at the Rodeo Drive store...
...Pablo Silva, managing director of the Casa Silva winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley, whose family's once staid operation is poised to make winemaking more of a fiesta. "By September," Silva gushes, "we plan to offer a high-end hotel with a restaurant, polo games during tastings, Chilean rodeo and horseback riding" beneath the Andes. Casa Silva and many other Chilean wineries are partying because their high-stakes bet--a red-wine grape called Carmenere--is paying off. Brought to South America from France in the 1800s, Carmenere was rediscovered in Chile in the 1990s as a delicious compromise...