You know something? Weingarten Realty is really starting to piss me off. Houston is already known around the country as a sprawling hellhole full of nothing but run-down strip malls and all-too-common strip clubs. Weingarten and its ilk prosper from the growth of strip malls and help to slowly destroy any sense of uniqueness the city may posses. First, it… Read more →
Category: Houston Archive
Help Find Henry
I saw this on Lisa Foronda’s Animal Attraction pet blog and couldn’t help but re-post. The photo on the right is of Henry and his owner, Tara. Henry has been missing in midtown since December 8 and his owner has put up a website dedicated to finding him. From the site: On December 8, 2006, my dog, Henry, ran away.… Read more →
Dickens is Apparently Everywhere
It was the best of holidays. It was the worst of holidays. In Charles Dickens’ time, street waifs begged for crumbs of bread and bootblacks were as common as gruel. How is it that we transformed the Dickensian nightmare into an annual holiday event of fun and frivolity? Easy…we pretend. Frankly, that’s fine with me because this isn’t 19th century… Read more →
Houston Rock Clubs Dropping Like Flies
Sidecar Pub is closing and Walter’s is on the brink. Helios is done and Mary Jane’s has been gone. In reality, that leaves Continental Club, Rudyard’s, the Proletariat, Dan Electro’s and Last Concert Cafe as the only remaining live, original music venues in Houston that still cater to local rock bands. Even that is a stretch considering Dan’s is mostly… Read more →
Spilled Chickens Important, Dead Guy Not So Much
I know that it makes an interesting headline and all, but methinks the Chron could have been a tad more sensitive when it ran 10 tons of chicken spilled in fatal Houston crash as the headline for a story about the death of a man driving a truck full of frozen fowl. A rental truck crashed on an elevated freeway… Read more →
Preserving the Houston Heights
Most of you know that I am a resident of Houston’s oldest neighborhood, the Historic Houston Heights. Not only have I lived here for more than 10 years, but both sets of grandparents lived in Timbergrove (just to the west of Heights proper) since I was born and I went to school in Oak Forest (just to the north). I… Read more →
Update on Saving West 11th Street Park
As I told you a few months back, a bunch of good folks are trying to save the West 11th Street Park from developers. They have made progress, but still have a long way to go. They also have a new website you can visit to find out how you can help. The Chron, KUHF, Houstonist.com and Off the Kuff… Read more →
The Best Part of the Texans Season is…
…that it kills time before the start of basketball season and just about the time the Texans’ season is over, the Rockets get going. Woo hoo! Read more →
Yeah, I Drove Through It!
This was last week in Houston when we were getting all the rain. Katya and I had to run some errands – they had to be done that day – and this is what we got. This was taken at the intersection of 43rd and Oak Forest right off of 610. I was going to my CPA’s office to pick… Read more →
Local Elementary School v. Recess
School: You want recess?Students: Yes, please.School: DENIED!!! I can't be certain it went like that except in my head, but it seems plausible. Do you want to know why they are eliminating recess? Of course you do. A student's mother tells us what the principal said. “I questioned why they don't have it and she said unfortunately it's a regional… Read more →