When Yia Yia Mary's comes into conversation, we automatically are plagued by the overwhelming scent of Lysol and fall into the fetal position. Commercials involving cleaning solutions come to mind as we reminisce about the most disappointing dining experience in Houston so far. Too harsh? You be the judge. After months of hearing about Yia Yia Mary's, we finally stopped in for some mind boggling Greek food. Hummus has quickly climbed the list to become...
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A woman was killed in a fire at a Galleria-area apartment complex this morning
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After stuffing ourselves silly on Thanksgiving, Houstonist vowed to take it easy on all the eating. We dutifully held our promise for a few hours, until our friend called us for lunch at Southwell’s. We don’t know whether our friend calculated that we would never turn down Southwell’s Hamburger Grill (despite binging just twelve hours earlier). Our friend, the pickiest eater we've ever known, had us at "Southwell's." We’ve been eating at Southwell’s for years...
National Bike Month is over, but the partying isn't. The Mayor's office and Bayou City Outdoors will give Bike Month one last hurrah this evening, and everyone is invited.
The FBI is on the lookout for a bank robber they're calling the "Desperate Dad" — a guy who robbed an Uptown Wachovia Bank branch last month, claiming that he needed the money because he had lost his job and had a baby at home. The man walked into the bank at 4906 San Felipe at 12:37 p.m. March 6, walked to the teller counter and pulled a chrome pistol from a navy blue zippered...
Regular shelterporners will know about our soft spot for contemporary architecture — more specifically, good contemporary architecture — so it's no wonder we're excited to feature the only Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed house in Houston, a 1982 home in Turner Addition. As Stephen Fox says in the Houston Architectural Guide, it's "self-effacing from the street and quite opulent inside." True enough. Richard Keating, the partner in charge of SOM's local office from the mid-1970s...
Good morning, Houston. Some good news: It's Friday. Some bad news: If you entered a contest on the Chronicle's website, your personal information could have been made public. SecurityProNews discovered a public section of the site that contained the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of thousands of people trying to win stuff from the Chron — and though the information has been removed, there's still the chance that John Q. Public could...
Ten more red-light cameras have gone online around the city, many of them — like in the last group to begin operating — along the Southwest Freeway. The locations of the new cameras are: West Loop at San Felipe (east frontage road) Southwest Freeway at Bellaire (west frontage road) Bissonnet westbound at Southwest Freeway east frontage road Southwest Freeway at Beechnut (east frontage road) Southwest Freeway at Fondren (east frontage road) Chartres northbound at...
Looks like more changes are in store for Allen Parkway: According to the Chronicle, the Allen House apartments will soon be demolished to make way for Regent Square, a mixed-use "urban village" development. Construction on the first phase of the project, at Allen Parkway and Dunlavy, is expected to begin in September, with completion scheduled for 2010. The initial phase of Regent Square will include 740 apartment units, 230,000 square feet of retail space, 60,000...
It’s an annual tradition on Thanksgiving night to drive over to Uptown Park for the holiday lighting ceremonies. It’s a great way to kick-off the Christmas holiday season with all of those Christmas traditions: Santa, lights, large crowds, vendors, funnel cakes, and fireworks (those are all traditions in your family, right?). If you’ve never experienced the Uptown Holiday Lighting celebration, you need to at least once. You’ll see the simultaneous lighting of over half a...
A reader tipped us (thanks) to a Houston Business Journal report that Eatzi's is closing its Houston location at 6 PM today. The Post Oak business was a favorite Galleria area lunch destination as well as offering a full fare of take-out options for dinner, which we pawned off as our own on many occasions. The Dallas-based company has not commented on the closing, nor does their web site offer insight on the matter. However,...
As if you didn't have enough good reasons to avoid Uptown on a weekend, here's another one for you: major traffic closures on the West Loop. What, that wasn't enough to get your attention? All right, then, the details: The ramp from the West Loop northbound to the Katy Freeway in both directions will be closed from 9 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Saturday. One lane of the ramps from the Katy Freeway (both directions)...
Would any of our weekends be complete without a major construction-related traffic jam on the Katy Freeway or the West Loop? Fortunately, we don't have to waste any time considering the possibility of a jam-free weekend: Big traffic problems are expected on the West Loop this weekend as new pavement is opened between San Felipe and Highway 290. The move means two alternate lanes of the northbound Loop between Richmond Avenue and 290 will be...
Even though the traffic will be so thick we're sure we'll never get to go there, Houstonist was excited to learn this morning that a super-sized Whole Foods Market flagship store is coming to Uptown. Whole Foods announced it will build an 80,000-square-foot store in the unfortunately named BLVD Place (which, the Chronicle tells us, is pronounced "Boulevard Place" — so, uh, why not just name it that?), a 21-acre mixed-use development at the corner...
The next time you're thinking about confronting someone who pisses you off while driving, you might want to remember Roy Perez, the subject of one of the weekend's most bizarre news stories. Perez, the victim of a hit-and-run in Bellaire, ended up taking a two-and-a-half mile ride on the West Loop on the hood of an SUV. It started at Bellaire Boulevard and Stella Link, where Perez said 17-year-old Alan Athari, who was driving a...
Gas prices jumped in Texas this week on concerns over possible summer gas shortages, landing at an average $2.59 per gallon statewide, the weekly AAA Texas gas price survey says. That's 11 cents higher than last week and 45 cents higher than this time last year, and it's just a penny under the national average of $2.60 a gallon. Houston is ahead of the state and national averages, with a local average gas price of...
Another week, another change for Houston freeways: This time, the ramp to the West Loop northbound from Post Oak Boulevard will close — and it won't reopen until the end of the year.
Katy Freeway chaos is getting to be a weekly ritual: This weekend, you can expect yet more delays on the west side. It hurts so good.
As we at Houstonist started our day, the Buzz's Brother Rod was playing a crowd favorite "Drive Thru Sing-a-Long" during which courageous contestants festively sang "Deck the Halls," hoping an unknowing drive-thru attendant would chime in with the chorus. (We'll sing with you … fa la la la la, lala la la!) To our dismay, it took over an hour and countless attempts for someone to win this reindeer game. So where's the holiday spirit?...
Sure, festive decorations began going up around town in early October, but it just doesn't feel like Christmas until the lights are turned on along Post Oak Boulevard in Uptown. This is the 20th year the lights have gone on with a bang during the Uptown Holiday Lighting on Thanksgiving night.
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