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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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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...
View ArticleForget It, Jake. It’s Asiatown
The Chronicle quietly debuts that new, more inclusive name for the pan-Asian strip along Bellaire Blvd. between 59 and Highway 6 formerly known as Chinatown: Asiatown. A recent email describing...
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The Champion Forest House Ruined by Animal Excrement, and the Rhinestoned...
What better character to hawk a house slathered in animal dung than a leather-jacketed agent from Rockstar Real Estate Group? Rhinestone-loving Paul Gomberg, who operates under the umbrella of Keller...
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The Continuing YouTube Ventures of Paul Gomberg, Conroe Real Estate Agent
Leather-clad real estate agent Paul Gomberg, perhaps best known for the sales video of that Champion Forest house filled with excrement that made the rounds back in early January, is now starring in a...
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Champions House of Animal Excrement Update: The Vomiting Visitors, the...
Has it really been a whole year since the famed house at 5623 Willow Walk Ln. in Huntwick Forest — touted by its sales agent, Paul Gomberg, as “the Filthiest House in Houston” — first appeared on the...
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Comment of the Day: The Ongoing Rewrite of Houston’s East Side Story
“East River? Ugh, another name copied from New York City. We’ve got the East Village being developed (or is it ‘east village’, in all lowercase?), we’ve got Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown (none of which...
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Tiny Tokyos Grow as Ivy Lofts Scraps Second Tower, Hotel Plans
The new, new design views of the Ivy Lofts highrise have been trickling out this week, and the glossy view above is fresh out into the digital ether as of late last night. The project’s marketing...
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National Burger and Drag Chain Hamburger Mary’s Heading to Montrose
The latest ad for the in-the-works Houston franchise of restaurant and periodic drag venue Hamburger Mary’s includes a collection of cartoonified downtown landmarks (among them Pennzoil Place and Bank...
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Comment of the Day: How 2-Syllable Neighborhood Nicknames Are Born
“I’m with WR: who are these supposed ‘Houston residents’ who call it ADLA? I’ll bet those ‘residents’ are people who got here 6 months ago (and/or are the writer and his buddy). As far as the headline...
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Steering Clear of the Super Bowl Crowds, Whether They Show Up or Not
Steve Jansen of the Houston Press runs through some numbers this week for the impending Super Bowl LI — many of which depend on the wide range of visitor estimates put forth by booster groups and...
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Comment of the Day: Houston Needs a New T-Shirt
“. . . LA and New York marketers just don’t know enough about Houston or don’t bother to learn more. They just hear ‘Houston’ and queue up the rocket launch. This might have been magnified by the rumor...
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How Many Downtowns Does Houston Have?
The list of Houston neighborhoods with potential to be mistaken for Downtown by outsiders, Blake Mathews of KHOU writes this week, is long, and includes at least “Uptown (Galleria), the Texas Medical...
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1937 Log Cabin in Park Place Is Yours for Half a Million in Cash
Technically, that’s just $499,423, cash sale, only — but you get the idea. The former Monta Beach Boy Scout Lodge at 3003 Dover St. was build in 1937 and converted into a 2-bedroom house in the early...
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Demolished City Code Enforcement Office Beats Houston Swimming Hole Boosters...
Those Swamplot commenters who’ve been taking particular and unabashed pleasure in the long, slow demise of the former city code enforcement office at 3300 Main St. may also enjoy the shot above of the...
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Comment of the Day: Renovatability Is In The Eye of the Beholder
“When we were home shopping in the Memorial Villages area, we considered several homes that were marketed as ‘Lot Value Only/No Showings of the House’. What I discovered was: 1) A buyer is a buyer. Any...
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In Which the Owner of That Mannequin-Packed House in Richmond Answers Your...
“I’m just trying to sell my house,” says the long-time artist resident of 4302 Colony West Dr. in Richmond (the mind-boggling contents of which sent no fewer than 10 readers scrambling to send the...
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Comment of the Day: The Even Bigger Reason Houston Might Want To Address Its...
“People in Houston need to talk with people in other parts of the country to be able to understand the need for funding massive improvements in our flood control infrastructure. I had friends and...
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Here Comes Another Surge of ‘Did Not Flood’ Signs
Popular yet again in Houston: The DID NOT FLOOD sign topper. Here’s a new one spotted by wandering photographer Joshua House in front of the Covington Builders 4-story townhome development at 3821 N....
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When Google Maps Reveals Your Home’s Soggy Shame
“Google Maps has outed us as a city that floods,” laments meteorologist Brooks Garner, giving voice to would-be sellers of flooded homes worried that recent soggy aerial views will remain in the...
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