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Lamenting the Death of Montrose Is an Old Game
A while back I penned a rant about rising rent in Montrose, and how the place was losing something of its essence. Turns out I was participating in a Houston tradition with roots as deep in the mire of...
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Two Old Men Lament Houston's Progress in 1938
If not so well-written as Sig Byrd's Houston, Jesse Ziegler's Wave of the Gulf is as vital a key to understanding local history. Where Byrd was noirish, observational, and even fly-on-the-wall in...
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Bring the Dome to Your Throne
Late last year, James Glassman, blogger par deluxe of all local arcana at Houstorian, approached his younger counterpart Dena Yanowski (who is also a crafter) with a commission.Glassman was already a...
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Go Ahead: Raid That Minibar
Image: Courtesy of the Four Seasons Houston The nicest suites at the Four Seasons Houston come with full-sized bottles of booze in their not-so-minibars.One of the more salient memories from a certain...
View ArticleConan Insults, We Respond
For some unfathomable reason known only to the darkest recesses of his martyred, shame-benighted Irish Catholic soul, Conan O'Brien is filming a week's worth of shows in Dallas, of all places.To curry...
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Houstonia's Wild Animal Outbreak
Walter was the first of the Tortie Sisters to be trapped.So over the past month or so we've had an outbreak of feral cats here at the Houstonia House on Heights Blvd. It started with three gorgeous...
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Houston Disassembled and Displayed
I love maps, and I was absolutely over the moon when local artist Carrie Marie Schneider tipped me off to this beauty:Those are Houston neighborhoods, ripped from their contexts, and more or less...
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How Now Giant Dancing Cow? And Who?
Christopher Keeble was meandering home along the Heights Bike Trail taking photos yesterday afternoon. Near the corner of Goliad St. and Spring St., in the First Ward, he came across a new mural by...
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This Week In Neighborhood Names: The Deroloc Addition
This morning eagle-eyed local attorney Steven Grubbs sent me a link to a house for sale at 2206 Eclipse St., near the corner of Pinemont and T.C. Jester, right outside of Oak Forest and Candle Light...
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How to Spend 48 Hours in the Museum District
Image: Shannon O'Hara Monarch Bistro's dining room at Hotel ZaZaLooking to leave it all behind for the weekend? Why not decamp to a place that won’t cost an arm and a leg, that doesn’t need months of...
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Hermann Park at 100
Image: Shutterstock It’s hard to imagine today, but Hermann Park’s statue of Sam Houston was once a controversial fixture.From atop its 35-foot marble arch, the iconic equestrian statue of Sam Houston...
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Ridin' Dirty Volume V
It's been awhile -- time for another iPhone dump of some of my favorite shots I've taken of this fabulously messed-up city we call home. As the great 30footFALL singer / longtime downtown bike...
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Exploring Timbergrove Park Apartments, Part One
Just west of TC Jester on West 11th stands the ruins of the Timbergrove Park Apartments. Not since the long-delayed demolition of the Parc Memorial complex on Memorial at Detering has there been such a...
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Exploring Timbergrove Park Apartments, Part II
Earlier we brought your Part One of our adventures at the abandoned, partially demolished, 56-year-old Timbergrove Park apartments. That post covered the parking lot, pool area, and courtyards; this...
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The Street Couches of Houston
I guess it's the boom times we are living through—people moving around and/or upgrading their settees—but in the last year or so Houston's street couch population has exploded. Here is a whole...
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Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?
The amount of talent that was in and around Houston's music scene in 1968 is simply astounding. All it takes is a quick reading of issue #2 of Mother, Larry Sepulvado's short-lived rock magazine, to...
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Houston Disassembled and Displayed
I love maps, and I was absolutely over the moon when local artist Carrie Marie Schneider tipped me off to this beauty:Those are Houston neighborhoods, ripped from their contexts, and more or less...
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How Now Giant Dancing Cow? And Who?
Christopher Keeble was meandering home along the Heights Bike Trail taking photos yesterday afternoon. Near the corner of Goliad St. and Spring St., in the First Ward, he came across a new mural by...
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This Week In Neighborhood Names: The Deroloc Addition
This morning eagle-eyed local attorney Steven Grubbs sent me a link to a house for sale at 2206 Eclipse St., near the corner of Pinemont and T.C. Jester, right outside of Oak Forest and Candle Light...
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Hermann Park at 100
Image: Shutterstock It’s hard to imagine today, but Hermann Park’s statue of Sam Houston was once a controversial fixture.From atop its 35-foot marble arch, the iconic equestrian statue of Sam Houston...
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