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The Bellaire Corridor Donut: There’s an International Zone Between the Loop...
University of Houston architecture professor Susan Rogers explores the Bellaire-Holcombe corridor from Highway 6 to the Med Center and finds a donut in her path. For each census tract that intersects...
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Your Condo Hard Sell Is No Longer Needed
It’s not clear exactly who it was that first noticed the oh, maybe 9- or 10-inch-tall object sitting upright in the background of a bathroom photo included in the for-sale listing on Cressida Glen Ln....
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Relief in Alief: The Condo Hard Sell Gets Results
That was fast: Yesterday, just a day before Valentine’s Day — and almost exactly 2 weeks after a seemingly candid photo of one of the home’s 2 full bathrooms gained attention all over the internet —...
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A Change of Screenery for the West Oaks Mall
How long will the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema be sticking around at the West Oaks Mall, now that Regal Entertainment Group has announced it’s going to open a new 14-screen Edwards Theatre multiplex there...
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Turtlewood Square: The Rough Road to Little Saigon
Update, 6/20: Hoang has issued a statement about his nanny. Mayor Parker has requested a separate city investigation into whether council member Al Hoang forged the signatures of 16 neighbors in a bid...
View ArticleThe Nanny Didn’t Do It
In a statement released last Friday, council member Al Hoang clarifies statements he made earlier to the Chronicle and KHOU 11 News’s Jeremy Rogalski that appeared to place blame for the forging of 16...
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Somebody Forged Turtlewood Square Signatures, but It Wasn’t Hoang
Who forged neighbor signatures on a petition circulated to change the name of Turtlewood Dr. to Little Saigon Dr.? Someone who submitted them to city council member Al Hoang, a preliminary inquiry by...
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New Arts Complex Planned for Abandoned JCPenney at West Oaks Mall
How did an artist out of L.A. convince the owners of Houston’s West Oaks Mall to turn the vacant building of former mall anchor JCPenney into a 100,000-sq.-ft. department-store-sized arts complex?...
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Comment of the Day: Feeding the West Oaks Mall JCPenney Arts Behemoth
“At 100,000 square feet, it is more than twice as big as all the alternative/artist-run spaces currently in existence in Houston combined. If it can actually be filled with stuff and events in a...
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New Art House at West Oaks Mall Opens This Weekend with Vacant JCPenney Dancers
The very first event at the brand-new West Oaks Art House takes place this Friday night, when the Suchu Dance company performs its first work in the eerie fluorescent-lit cavern left behind by...
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WOAH, Much Bigger Than a Hole in the Wall
Dancers ranging through the 100,000-sq.-ft. former JCPenney at the West Oaks Mall — now known as the West Oaks Art House — “got pretty vigorous,” explains local art blogger Robert Boyd, who attended...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Neighborhood Names Stick
“Alief didn’t start getting rebranded as the International District till about 3 years ago; as a matter of fact, no one that lived there knew anyone was calling it something other than Alief. It wasn’t...
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