Travel|Houston's Culinary Bragging Rights and other top stories.

• Travel|Houston's Culinary Bragging Rights

  Photo Rabbit loin at BCN Taste & Tradition, a year-old Spanish restaurant named for the Barcelona airport’s call letters. Credit Stacy Sodolak for The New York Times Texans like me brag about all sorts of outlandish things, from the ostentatious display of our firearms in public places to the awesome awfulness of our weather. Until fairly recently, we maintained a telling silence on the subject of our state’s fine dining scene. Our most famous restaurants (Tony’s in Hou..

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• How Architects Reconfigure Historic Homes for Modern Lifestyles

  

  Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between rounding up historic homes on the market and answering questions we’ve always had about older structures. Any Downton Abbey fan can tell you that the way some people lived about 100 years ago is different from the way we live today. At the turn of the 20th century, domestic staff was much more commonplace—an expectation, even—in grander homes. A house essentially functioned in two ways: as a place for living and entertaining..

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• AJ Tarpley retires from NFL at 23, Bills linebacker cites health ...

  

  A.J. Tarpley — who ended the Jets' season with an interception of Ryan Fitzpatrick in Buffalo in Week 17 — announced his retirement Wednesday evening in an ...

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• High school student takes on Carl Paladino in Buffalo school board ...

  

  ALBANY — A high school student with area labor unions' backing is challenging former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for his seat on the fractious Buffalo school board, saying it desperately needs "some adult behavior." Austin Harig, 18, of South Buffalo, told POLITICO New York he’s not afraid of going up against the conservative real-estate developer and 2010 GOP nominee for governor in an effort to bring balance to the board, which has six seats up for grabs in the May 3 ele..

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• 5 Alternatives to Trendy Superfoods That Are Just as Healthy

  

  Photo: Getty Images Can’t stomach kale, or quinoa? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Many of my clients aren’t fans of the latest trendy superfoods. Fortunately for anyone with an aversion to chia seeds and goji berries, there are equally good-for-you alternatives. Each of the replacements below contains similar nutrients but differs in texture or flavor—so you can get the same super-healthy perks and please your palate too. Eat cabbage instead of cauliflower Cauliflower recently stepped into the ..

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• Late-season injuries provide Bickell another shot with 'Hawks

  

  CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Blackhawks think they will be at full strength when the NHL playoffs start next week. Right now, not so much. The defending Stanley Cup champions will be without goaltender Corey Crawford and forwards Artem Anisimov, Marian Hossa and Andrew Shaw when they take on the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. Crawford, Anisimov and Shaw are out with upper-body injuries, and Hossa is making his way back from a lower-body injury. Crawford and Hossa participated in Chicago’s morni..

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