ARE YOU GROWING A MOVEMBER ?

Throughout the country and around the world November has been re-appropriated as Movember, a fun and trendy public health campaign that raises millions of dollars worldwide in efforts to eradicate prostate and other men's cancers.

In 2003, inspired by the successful fundraising and awareness efforts of women's breast cancer health campaigns, a clever bunch of hirsute Australians came up with the concept for Movember over a round of beers (probably Foster's). Together, they agreed upon the concept: Shave it all on Nov. 1 and let one's moustache — and only the moustache — grow uninhibited for the rest of the month.

The campaign quickly caught on in other countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, The Netherlands and Finland. Houston has jumped on-board en masse, with dozens of local teams and a handful of hairy Houston Texans helping to raise awareness.