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Take a Staycation: How to Spend 48 Hours in the Museum District

June 1, 2014, 10:00 pm

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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Ridin' Dirty Volume V

June 9, 2014, 10:23 am

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

June 23, 2014, 8:33 am

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

June 23, 2014, 12:26 pm

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

June 24, 2014, 9:25 am

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?

June 25, 2014, 10:01 am

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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Touring the Girl Scout History Museum

July 11, 2014, 6:00 am

Image: Courtesy of Girl Scouts of San JacintoGoodykoontz Museum of Girl Scout HistoryMon–Fri from 9–5; Sat 9–1Free3110 Southwest Fwy713-292-0300gssjc.org“On my honor I will try: To serve God and my...

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Second-Hand Madness

July 30, 2014, 8:19 am

I've been a thrift store fan for years, and now that my daughter takes a three-hour gym class in Southwest Houston, I have ample time and opportunity to explore one of Houston's great second-hand...

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The Street Couches of Houston: Volume II

August 28, 2014, 9:01 am

Earlier this summer we brought you the first installment of The Street Couches of Houston, and since then we've seen many more and also received a steady trickle of contributions from Abandoned...

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Meet Sebastien Boncy, Houston's Poet of Visual Blight

September 9, 2014, 11:30 am

Once you've become a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.So wrote Nelson...

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How Now Giant Dancing Cow? And Who?

May 15, 2014, 8:56 am

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

May 21, 2014, 12:01 pm

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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