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Barmy Bayou City Buses
Some time back, Swamplot's Allyn West and his commenters were discussing Houston's never-ending quest to become more of a tourist town. Not everyone is on board with that mission, least of all Swamplot...
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Five Historic Houston Spots That Need Markers
Five local sites for future historical markers, remembering people, places and things ranging from tragic to well, mostly just sticking with tragic...But that's history for you. Never Poke A BearPlace:...
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Giant Frogs, Deep-Voiced Woman Singers and Vague Foreign Dinners
In 1928, Houston found itself in the national spotlight as never before, and as it has seldom been since. That was the year Jesse Jones brought the Democratic National Convention to the upstart Baghdad...
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Ridin' Dirty
It's funny how this works, but every mode of ground transport makes you see a different Houston. Cars focus you on the macro—billboards and buildings and such. Buses focus you on your traveling...
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Five Of Houston's Weirdest And Wackiest Buildings
Houston's ongoing real estate boom has offered little in the way of inspiring architecture. All these Neo-Tuscan condos and faux-Mediterranean mid-rise megaplexes might get the job done as far as...
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State to Former Montrose Skylane Apartments: Clean Up or Close
Essentially contending it remains the hive of scum and villainy that neighbors (and police) have long reported it to be, the State of Texas and Harris County attorney Vince Ryan have sued the real...
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Bayou Wonderland
Excluding bars, of the many locations in Houston that I've been told to visit, few have left me fulfilled. The Beer Can House, the Williams Water Wall, the various Adickes statues—all nice sites, but...
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Houston: Ugliest City In The First World
A site called Ucityguides.com claims that Houston is the ugliest city in the first world and the seventh most hideous metropolis on the planet, trailing only Mexico City, Guatemala City, Amman,...
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Like a Meth-Addled Tour of Houston
Image: John Nova Lomax The Houston that this bot creates is as surreal as the smurfy fire hyrdrants.So last night we were hipped to the web bot What Would I Say, and it's been like Internet-based crack...
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Montrose: One Of World's Best Gayborhoods
When world-classily touting the world-classiness of our world-class city to all the world's classes, local booster types seldom mention Houston's gay scene. (Except to mention how world-class it is for...
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Ridin' Dirty Volume II
Give me an iPhone, a podcast, and a sturdy battleship of a bike, and I am in hog heaven, especially on Houston's backroads. Here are the souvenirs of my latest forays. (You can see October's camera...
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Ridin' Dirty Volume III, With Video
My daughter Harriet loves to ice-skate, so yesterday my wife Kelly Graml Lomax and I decided to take her to Discovery Green's seasonal rink. Since I don't love to ice-skate but very much needed some...
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The Sole Of Houston, Revisited
Seven years ago, seized by the desire for travel and bereft of both the funds and the time necessary to do so, I started walking across Houston. I'd ride a bus out to the end of the line and then walk...
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The 10 Strangest Dining Recs in Moon Handbooks' Guide to Houston
Absolutely not.Judging by his photo in the back of the 2013 edition of Moon Handbooks Houston & the Texas Gulf Coast, author and travel writer Andy Rhodes seems like a nice guy. He lives in...
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The Gargoyles of Dunlavy
Taking my daughter to and from school, I have noticed something peculiar on my many voyages up and down Dunlavy Street.Namely, from West Gray clear down the West Alabama, the street is infested with...
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Houston's Weirdest Hotel
Houston is a city of many repurposings and rebrandings. Old chain Mexican restaurants become Goode Company Taquerias, a Palais Royal on the southwest side was renamed Royal Palace, and the Summit has...
View ArticleCatfish Reef, Happy Hollow, and Vinegar Hill
Did you know that before the Old Sixth Ward was old, people called it "The Sabine"? Neither did I. That's just one of many endangered and extinct neighborhood names in the Houston area, many of which I...
View ArticleDel Sesto, Gunspoint, and The 'Trose
Yesterday, we published a map of extinct and endangered Houston neighborhood names. Here is that map's companion—a compendium of Houston-area neighborhood nicknames still in use today.Please note: with...
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Ridin' Dirty Volume IV
So here we have another batch of pics taken on bike rides. Most of these date from the first six weeks of this year, though one was taken a couple of summers back. (Here are the...
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Houston Deplored: Our Wretched Mudhole Through History
Houston weather: Stan the Man was not a fan.Back in the late 1960s, Houston Post city columnist George Fuermann released a series of pamphlets on various aspects of local history. The series included...
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