Subject: Montrose

• Shhhh!

  “The Boardroom” artists are keeping secrets

  March 5, 2009

• Lunch is Overrated Anyway

  January 11, 2007

• 14:58, 14:57, 14:56...

  July 18, 2006

• Found...and Now We’re Lost

  April 11, 2007

• I Was a Lunchtime Eyewear Model

  October 25, 2007

• Disco Kroger Gets SexyAttacked

  May 6, 2008

• Public Service Message: Last Day To Register To Vote, Dudes

  October 6, 2008

• $13 at The Black Labrador Pub on Montrose

  Where: The Black Labrador Pub, 4100 Montrose Blvd, 713-529-1199 What $13 gets you: Many of their main course dishes for either brunch or lunch. The Black Labrador during the daytime has the most wonderful ambience. Located next to the Montrose branch of the Houston Public Library, you can go in for a book and then sit outside and read while you order and eat. The outdoor tables allow patrons to bring their dogs along and there were several there on a recent pleasant Saturday. It's best to

  January 6, 2009

• "Knitta, Please" Lives On And Goes International

  It's been three years since we first wrote about Knitta, the Montrose artistes who were pioneering the art of guerrilla knitting.Since then the phenomenon has spread worldwide, according to today's UK Telegraph."Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing'" is the headline.You'll have to imagine hearing this in a plummy BBC accent:The phenomenon, called Yarnbombing, is thought to have originated in the US but knitters are now beginning to cover British streets in woollen 'tags'.Quite oft

  January 30, 2009

• Wilshire Village: More Bad News For Residents

  Photo by Monica FuentesWe've been keeping you updated on developments at Wilshire Village, that semi-decrepit, yet somewhat charming, Montrose apartment complex at Alabama and Dunlavy.Maybe we should take the "semi-" out of that description: the West University Examiner is reporting that the Fire Department has put "fire hazard" warnings on the place and told residents to get in touch with the fire marshal."The order from Senior Inspector Mike Thomas said 'occupancy is dangerous to human life' a

  February 19, 2009

• BB's Cheeseburger Cries Out for Gravy

  photo by Robb Walsh Why did I order the cheeseburger and fries at BB's Cajun Cafe on Montrose when they have so many great poor boys? Granted, the handcut fresh-out-of-the-fryer shoestring potatoes were nothing short of spectacular. But the ground beef patty on the burger was too lean, pressed too thin, and overcooked. The fluffy soft bun and the big pile of lettuce, tomato and chopped onions helped. But the burger still tasted a bit dry, even with pickle chips, mustard and mayo. My tablemate

  March 23, 2009

• Making Change on Montrose

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Vaya con dios, Taco CabanaThe intersection of Montrose and Westheimer is nothing if not mutable.  From being a sleepy residential neighborhood in the 1920s to the 40s to a run-down hangout for drug addicts and rough types in the 1970s and early 80s to a haven for LGBT community in the late 80s and throughout the 90s to the rapidly gentrifying area it is today with million-dollar townhomes and upscale restaurants, Montrose is always changing. The restaur

  April 1, 2009

• Sliders at Little Bigs

  February 26, 2009

• Khun Kay Thai Café

  January 15, 2009

• “The Journey of a Chinese from East to West”

  Artist Peihong Dong Endris looks to the past for new inspirations

  November 27, 2008

• The Emperor’s New Clothes

  Web exclusive!

  November 27, 2008

• Autumn Poetry Festival

  November 13, 2008

• "Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970"

  CAMH reveals the women behind the camera and their contributions to contemporary art

  October 16, 2008

• Bowl opens next door to Absinthe Brasserie

  June 19, 2008

• “Perspectives: 160: Dawoud Bey”

  Dawoud Bey captures the real face of American high-schoolers

  March 20, 2008

• “Design Life Now: National Design Triennial”

  A Smithsonian exhibit makes a stop at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

  January 24, 2008

• Playback Theatre

  Jung Center hosts an improvisational comedy troupe

  November 29, 2007

• “Liquid Light” exhibit by Joseph Marioni

  Go to the Menil, then Wade Wilson art

  November 22, 2007

• Art Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  September 13, 2007

• Indie Picnic

  May 18, 2006

• Art Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  June 14, 2007

• CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

  Thai Sticks

  October 5, 2006

• This Tart's for You

  Tart Cafe

  August 10, 2006

• What a Duck

  The Golden Room

  July 20, 2006

• Hot Duck

  O'Rourke's Steakhouse

  January 19, 2006

• Where Have You Been All My Life?

  Señor Rita's Margarita Village

  January 5, 2006

• Battle Scars

  Big John hustles on the streets of Montrose. He's been there since he was 13. For now, there's no plan B.

  September 15, 2005

• There's No Place Like Home

  Especially when you're eating at Montrose Diner, where the food's subpar and the wait's long

  May 5, 2005

• Spoon Up the Grease

  Montrose Diner

  April 14, 2005

• Best Neighborhood Bar

  September 23, 2004

• Best Greeting Cards

  September 23, 2004

• Best Park

  September 23, 2004

• Sideways Stories from Wayside School

  May 14, 2009

• The Acadian Bakers in Montrose

  Photos by J.C. ReidMontrose has seen some exciting new restaurants open lately: Poscol, Little Big's and Feast. It's fun to discover something new. But there's also the opportunity to "discover something old" in the Montrose. For the last 15 years I've lived a block away from the intersection of West Alabama and Audubon Place. At the northwest corner of the intersection is an unassuming shopping center. Since moving to the neighborhood, I've driven, biked, walked, and jogged past it literally hu

  June 17, 2009

• “No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston”

  May 7, 2009

• “At the Seams…”

  July 9, 2009

• A Chat with Isang Undoinyang of Boheme

  Photo by Vu Banh​Isang Undoinyang is one of those guys who started waiting tables in college, thinking it was a temporary gig, and just never stopped. After more than five years on the floor and behind the bar at Two Rows, he's bounced to Bar Boheme (307 Fairview St., 713-529-1099), an eclectic wine bar in the heart of Montrose. What inspired the change? "Working at Two Rows was so easy, and it allowed me to not do anything else," says Undoinyang. "You get used to it. You wake up at nine o

  August 7, 2009

• Houston 101: Cruising Westheimer: The Favorite Teenage Pastime of Reagan-Era Houston

  ​For such a big city, '80s Houston was in some ways still a small town. Case in point: the teenage ritual of cruising Westheimer, in which the fourth largest city in America did its best to impersonate a one-Dairy Queen town, one where all you can do is drive down the strip and then turn back around. While cruising Westheimer has multiple connotations, especially as you approach Bagby, back in the Reagan Era, to most it meant getting in your car and driving aimlessly east from west Houston, g

  August 12, 2009

• "Annual HSPVA SHOW"

  August 20, 2009

• "Reduced Visibility"

  September 3, 2009

• Montrose Is One Great Neighborhood, Experts Say, Despite The Things That Are Gone

  Photo by @Hella​The American Planning Association, an organization that no doubt takes planning very seriously, has named Montrose one of the ten "great neighborhoods" in America.Says the APA: One of Houston's original streetcar suburbs, Montrose has a sliver of everything. Eclectic and urbane, the neighborhood is a fusion of architectural styles, land uses, and people (former residents include President Lyndon Johnson and billionaire Howard Hughes). The neighborhood has a thriving art, museum

  October 7, 2009

• In Case You Missed It: A Little Bit Of The Public News Returns

  ​Our thread on all the favorite things gone from (The) Montrose garnered a lot of great replies, as people remembered a mystical time 10 or 15 years ago when townhomes were not on every block.One caught our eye, not only for its snappy prose style but for its byline: one Mel Sharkskin.It may not ring any bells with you whippersnappers on the nets, but oldtimers will instantly remember the Public News, the alt-weekly that ruled Houston before we got to town.PN offered Sharkskin's taut takes on

  October 9, 2009

• Health Department Roundup: 006 Edition

  ​The 77006 zip code straddles the Montrose and Midtown neighborhoods, the first known for go-go boys and old mansions, the second for youngish professionals who do not care for porch swings or driving to work. The zone fosters a mix of restaurants and clubs evincing both burnished seedy charm and plasticized hipness. May that equilibrium endure. Here are some health inspector hotspots for Midrose/Montown in the last two weeks: The Hollywood Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant (2409 Montro

  October 13, 2009

• Festa Italiana

  October 15, 2009

• "Obsession of the Essential"

  November 12, 2009