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Walking on Bellaire
Over at Houstoned, professional barfly John Nova Lomax and crooner David Beebe take a long, strange trip down the entire length of Bellaire Blvd.—on foot. Lomax’s conclusion: If Westheimer is mainly...
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Beautiful Southwest Houston: The Golden Age of Apartment Living
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5mvVXGGjc 400 330] This charming period piece from the abortive early-’80s Southwest Houston apartment renaissance surfaced on YouTube late last month, to the...
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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnLsrK5Tjs 400 330] The brave work of Southwest Houston and Houston Apartment Renaissance scholars has been rewarded — a second mid-1980s Colonial House TV...
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Entourages and Animal Acts: Airing the Dirty Laundry at Colonial House
David Kaplan of the Chronicle catches up with Houston-apartment legend Michael Pollack and fills in a few details of the Colonial House story: According to media reports then, Pollack lived in a...
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Swamplot Street Sleuths: Calling the Kettle
Got an answer to any of these reader questions? Or just want to be a sleuth for Swamplot? Here’s your chance! Add your report in a comment, or send a note to our tipline. Galveston: Watercolor artist...
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That’ll Show ’Em What a Magnet for Tourists Houston Really Is
Upset at New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s oh-so-cruel insinuation that Houston isn’t much of a tourist town, local talk-show host Michael Berry has responded with an ad on this billboard, carefully...
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S. Rice Readies for Triple Chicken Fight in the Walmart Parking Lot(s)
The density of fast-food chicken options at S. Rice Ave. just south of 59 is increasing precipitously, a couple of readers note. The most recent addition: the newly-constructed Chik-Fil-A at 5325 S....
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Gang-Run Brothel No Longer in Business at the Carriage Way Apartments in Gulfton
Residents in the strip of apartments a block north of Bellaire between Mullins and Rampart don’t seem too rattled — reports Gabrielle Banks — after a criminal operation was shut down in their complex...
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Gulfton Salvation Army Thrift Store Will Soon Be Surrounded by Murals
Longtime Gulfton activist Tammy Rodriguez’s likeness is now fully rendered in the mural above, as well as that of Pastor Alejandro Montes, to her right. The pair makes up one third of the population...
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Where Gulfton Sidewalks Will Trip You Up and Where They Completely Disappear
The results are in from the Kinder Institute’s recent survey of Gulfton sidewalks: where they exist, they’re in bad shape. The map above uses a stoplight-style color scheme to rank the condition of...
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