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H-E-B Asking for Residents' Vote on New Montrose Store Design

What used to be at West Alabama and Dunlavy, in case you'd already forgotten.​It seems that H-E-B is eager to make at least a few concessions to area residents on its way to constructing a brand-new store in Montrose on the site of the late-lamented Wilshire Village. As recently as October 18 ... More >>

Unidentified Male, 42, Bayou Body Count No. 249

Stabbed to death near the 527 overpass in Montrose​A man was stabbed to death Saturday night in Montrose after an argument, police say.The 42-year-old victim, whose identity is still being verified, had been arguing "with several unknown males" in the 200 block of West Alabama about 9 p.m. Saturda ... More >>

Fourth Annual Montrose Pub Crawl

Prowl lower Westheimer bars in your costume

Montrose Match

The Vallones somehow fit right in with Houston's funkiest neighborhood.

Dr Pepper Takes A Dive Off A Highway Ramp

Photo by marcusdoesurmomFire and rain in Montrose​Heavy rain squalls marched over Montrose in the last hour or so, and likely led to this crash on 288 near Alabama. Twitter reports from witnesses say the driver was on Alabama and flipped on the highway below, being ejected from the truck. But tho ... More >>

Embargo

UH and Rice make deal with Chron

Openings and Closings

Photo by Daniel EssNo more pabellon criollo at Miguelito's.​It's been a busy week in Houston's restaurant scene, with just as many closings as openings. And some of the closings are certainly blows to the small ethnic dining scenes to which they belonged. Miguelito's Venezuelan Restaurant (55 ... More >>

The Five Most Overrated Neighborhoods In Houston

"Hip"? Maybe to your grandma​Last week we told you about Houston's most underrated neighborhoods; now it's time to determine the area's most overrated places to live. Where to begin? Let us travel north for starters. 5. The Woodlands Recently the author of something called The Nordstrom Guide to ... More >>

Tea Party Caucus: Rest Easy, Montrose -- Your Congressman Has Joined This Elite Group

He'd be comfortable in Montrose, apparently​If there's one part of town we think of when we ponder the noisy-old-people phenomenon that is the Tea Party, it's Montrose.The `trose is just packed with factually challenged, self-deluded Obama-haters...isn't it?Not really, of course. The neighborhood ... More >>

Pasta Night at Baba Yega

Photos hastily taken with iPhone: When pasta is involved, I don't mess around.​The Tuesday night special at this longstanding Montrose institution is pasta. That doesn't sound too exciting, does it? But how wrong you are. If Sunday brunches at Baba Yega are the Montrose equivalent of enormous ... More >>

True to the 'Trose

Colorful eatery Canopy is becoming a neighborhood fixture.

Unidentified Man, 32, Bayou Body Count No. 116

Death on a Montrose afternoon​A woman who was being attacked in Montrose by her ex-husband shot and killed him, police say.The incident happened in the 3400 block of Yupon about 4:30 p.m. Sunday."The female victim was stabbed multiple times by her ex-husband," HPD says. "The woman managed to retr ... More >>

"Emily Sloan: NAP (Napping Affects Performance)"

Jump into a cuddle puddle, you never know what you'll find.

A to Z Food & Deli # 7: A Chevron Breakfast

​I love food served at gas stations and convenience stores. Every time I've passed by that Chevron on Montrose and Alabama, I've seen that picture of a two-egg breakfast plate on the window outside. And every time, I think, "Does their breakfast really look like that?" I got up early one day a ... More >>

The King Cole: Our New Fave

​We popped into the King Cole to pick up a gin and tonic set up and started admiring the small quaintness of this Montrose cornerstone. This 70-year-old booze haunt, which is no bigger than a walk-in closet but is, for some reason, really comfortable inside.

Dogfighting Bust Whimpers Out

Plus: Big new park for Montrose?

Sunday Brunch at Canopy

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt The Gin Blossom at Canopy​Another new restaurant, another Sunday brunch "preview" in its opening days. This time, we landed at Canopy, Claire Smith's latest culinary endeavor (her most well-known being Shade, on 19th Street in the Heights). And landed is certain ... More >>

"Obsession of the Essential"

Brent Kollock cuts up faces for love

Festa Italiana

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...it's time to mangi

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 ... More >>

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 r ... More >>

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, th ... More >>

"Reduced Visibility"

Abstract art takes on serious social issues

"Annual HSPVA SHOW"

Houston's youngest artists make their mark in this juried show

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 arou ... More >>

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 eclecti ... More >>

“At the Seams…”

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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 Wes ... More >>

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

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“No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston”

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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 hav ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Shhhh!

“The Boardroom” artists are keeping secrets

Sliders at Little Bigs

“The Boardroom” artists are keeping secrets

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 De ... More >>

"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 ima ... More >>

Khun Kay Thai Café

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 ima ... More >>

$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 ... More >>

“The Journey of a Chinese from East to West”

Artist Peihong Dong Endris looks to the past for new inspirations

The Emperor’s New Clothes

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Autumn Poetry Festival

Roses are read…and so are poems by dozens of local writers at Houston’s first-ever fall celebration of rhymes

"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

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

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

Bowl opens next door to Absinthe Brasserie

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

Disco Kroger Gets SexyAttacked

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

“Perspectives: 160: Dawoud Bey”

Dawoud Bey captures the real face of American high-schoolers

“Design Life Now: National Design Triennial”

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

Playback Theatre

Jung Center hosts an improvisational comedy troupe

“Liquid Light” exhibit by Joseph Marioni

Go to the Menil, then Wade Wilson art