Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug...
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In northeast Houston this afternoon, police found a 1-year-old baby in a car believed to have been used in an armed robbery; the suspect's family was reportedly babysitting the child, who was not harmed
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Andrea Yates, reportedly "terrified" of a second trial, may end up in a plea deal with prosecutors
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Results tagged “cemetery”
It's been called "maybe the best movie ever made in Pittsburgh," but George Romero's classic, Night of the Living Dead, is considered by many to be the movie that set the standard for the horror film genre and influenced countless productions. Per Rex Reed:If you want to see what turns a B movie into a classic...don't miss Night of the Living Dead. It is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in horror movies not to see...
Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor laanba. Built in 1871, Glenwood Cemetery was the first professionally designed cemetery in Houston. Many notable Houstonians are buried here including Howard Hughes, William P. Hobby and Roy Hofheinz. With over 65 pastoral acres and views of Buffalo Bayou consider a nice walk through here when the weather cools. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over...
More than 1,000 people gathered at Congregation Beth Israel yesterday morning to bid farewell to Marvin Zindler, the legendary TV personality who died Monday. The theme of the funeral — attended by a variety of TV news colleagues, religious leaders and others — was the years of work Zindler put in on behalf of people who needed his help. That's how KTRK anchor Dave Ward remembered him: "On television, as you know, he was flamboyant...
This morning, Houston City Council designated Old Sixth Ward as the first and only Protected Historic District in the city. This new status will enable the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission to prohibit the demolition of historic structures within Old Sixth Ward's 33.8 acres. There was only one dissenting vote for this measure, which came from council member/real estate broker Michael Berry. As far as actual limitations on properties within the district, the Greater Houston...
Free Movie Monday @ Domy Books It's no mystery that we love us some Domy Books. And not in the "we love anything that is next door to Cafe Brasil" kinda way, more like in the way we love perusing the shelves of this quirky book store and entering a world of the weird and unique. And in the fashion of the weird and unique, each Monday night Domy screens off-beat thrillers, cult classics,...
Good morning, Houston. Where do you go when you want to get away? The Chronicle asked some of its readers that and published their answers Friday — and it's not such a bad list, with day trips, museums and natural attractions. (Also on the list: the mausoleum at Forest Park Westheimer cemetery, which definitely takes a certain kind of person to enjoy.) The suggestion we're most interested in checking out is ex-state Rep. Debra...
You might not have heard of Olivewood Cemetery, a black graveyard founded in the 1870s on land where freed slaves were once buried. Olivewood is still with us today, at 1300 Court St. (behind the Grocers Supply warehouse at Studemont and Hicks), but it's largely overgrown and forgotten — though it won't be for long if two groups vying to become its caretaker have their way. The question now, though, is which group will win...
Hot Town, Cool City Premieres on PBS Remember when we went on and on about the Hot Town, Cool City movie premiere? Well, in case you missed the sold out showing at the MFA, you are in luck. Set those TIVOs, HTCC will be playing tonight on PBS @ 10:00 pm. We haven't been this excited about PBS since Mr. Rogers went off the air. The movie, directed and written by Houstonian Maureen McNamara, offers...
Service Corporation International, the Houston-based funeral-services giant, has found another way to rake in piles of money from the families of the dead honor the cultural heritage of its community: At its Forest Park Westheimer cemetery, SCI has built Houston's first feng shui-designed burial ground. The feng shui-compliant area of Forest Park Westheimer is arranged in circles centered on a pond, allowing the more than 1,700 plots to face all eight of the compass points...
Let's face it: In a big city, there are places where you wouldn't be surprised if you were robbed — but we wouldn't expect a cemetery to be one of them. And yet KTRK reports that several mourners at the Houston National Cemetery have found themselves victims of thieves in the last few months.
Some good news for local park lovers today: City Council has unanimously agreed to designate Sam Houston Park a protected city landmark. The designation means that Sam Houston Park is protected — or at least as protected as anything gets in Houston — from obliteration by future development; any future action that would alter or threaten the park would have to be approved by the city. The city bought the first part of the park...
Yesterday, Mayor Bill White announced a new plan for Old Sixth Ward - the Chronicle stated that "[Mayor White] proposed creation of a special district within the neighborhood west of downtown with design guidelines for construction and renovation, along with financial incentives to discourage demolition of historical houses." Historic, indeed: according to the Old Sixth Ward Historic District site, the neighborhood has the largest amount of Victorian homes in this region (except for Galveston,...
The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Jeff Balke. Who is Cochrum? And why does he/she/they get such a nice plot at the Glenwood Cemetery (home of Howard Hughes, William Hobby and Anson Jones)? We can't be sure, but we wonder if there isn't some relation to the Cochrum's of Kentucky that moved to Texas and brought with them their daughter Ella Cochrum, who later became Ella Fondren, husband of famous Houstonian...
Potentially interesting news about an old bone found in a truck full of soil and gravel near Santa Fe: It could be a really old bone — like hundreds of thousands of years. The bone in question is a tibia (that's a leg bone, in case you've forgotten) found in a dump truck last week, and though the jury is still out on its age, it looks like it could belong to someone who lived...
Late last week, it looked like there wouldn't be a Veterans Day parade in Houston this year because the holiday falls on a weekend — Saturday, Nov. 11 — and organizers were worried no one would show up. But as you might expect, that didn't sit well with veterans, so it turns out there will be a parade after all.
A popular southeast Houston gas station clerk was shot to death this afternoon during a robbery The National Cemetery Council of Greater Houston will hold a Veterans Day parade this year after all Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace has withdrawn from being a write-in candidate for Tom DeLay's former congressional seat State prison officials have ditched a policy that restricted long-distance travelers' visits with inmates Some northwest Houston residents are opposing HISD's plans to build...
Back in March, we talked about how the city was getting ready to re-bury some bones unearthed 20 years ago during construction at the HFD complex off Houston Avenue and Dart Street. The fire department office/training facility was built in the 1960s on top of the old City Cemetery, where Houstonians of all stripes (including quite a few Confederate soldiers) were buried between about 1840 and 1870. UH anthropologist Ken Brown, who had criticized the city for continuing to dig after the bones were found, took the remains to his lab to study them. What happened for the next 20 years isn't clear: The city claims Brown hung onto the bones, but Brown says he asked the city to re-bury them and nothing ever happened. Whatever the case, the bones were forgotten until City Councilwoman Ada Edwards heard about them and led a push to have them buried again.
Not being criminals ourselves, Houstonist doesn't always stay up on the latest crime trends, so we were a little surprised to hear about the local scrap metal craze. Thieves have begun targeting scrap yards, cemeteries, buildings, rooftops and anywhere else metal is readily available — and it's partly China's fault. According to KHOU, China is taking all the copper and aluminum it can get to make electronics and other goods, so thieves here steal...
You've probably heard the stories about a Houston hospital that was built on top of an old cemetery — but you might not know the stories were actually true, and that a fire department facility also stands on top of the dead folks. The site is off Elder Street just northwest of downtown; Jeff Davis Hospital was built there in 1924 over the City Cemetery, which was used between 1840 and around 1900. In the 1960s, HFD built an office/training complex next door to the old hospital. The old cemetery last came up — no pun intended — in 1986, when workers were digging a utility trench at the fire department property and unearthed the remains of 27 people.
in Grant's Tomb, not buried. It's sort of the same thing with the Niels Esperson Building: Nobody is buried there, and no one's entombed there, either.
In somewhat of an anticlimax to months of speculation, HISD announced yesterday that there aren't any graves on a district-owned plot of land at West Gray and Taft after all. The seven-acre parcel is supposed to one day be home to a new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and a new Gregory-Lincoln Education Center. But when the district acquired the land through eminent domain and leveled several dozen houses that stood there,...
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