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August 22, 2012Hurricane Ike can seem like a lifetime ago, but the feds are still doling out the cash to deal with the devastation along the Galveston waterfront.
Some of that devastation involved the Elissa, the historic tall ship that has long been giving island visitors a taste of Galveston's past in the age o ... More >>
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August 10, 2012It's been a long time so it's hard to remember exactly, but some time in the winter of 1970-71, Taj Mahal played the Houston Music Hall. Between 1968 and 1971, he had put out five albums and become a staple of the hippie music scene.
Yet with his soulful reinterpretations, permutations and homages ... More >>
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May 28, 2012What better time than Memorial Day to remember Will Hogg, the man who founded Memorial Park?
If that (and the Arboretum) was all Will Hogg gave Houston, that would rank as one of the grandest local legacies anyone has ever achieved. But Will Hogg did so much more.
He founded and developed River Oa ... More >>
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February 28, 2012Mayor Annise Parker announced two things today: 1) Houston is a big Spring Break destination, which we admit we never really realized; and 2) She wants you to use specific routes to get to some tourist hotspots during this time.
Again, we didn't realize there were Spring Break tourist hotspots in t ... More >>
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February 3, 2012Next weekend: Prepare for all the chicken soup you can nosh.Attention, DIY-ers and wild food fans: Two upcoming events are right up your paths.
Follow chef Randy Rucker down one path for a Tapas on the Trails evening Saturday, February 11, at the Houston Arboretum. The food-filled evening wi ... More >>
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September 30, 2011The drought has taken its toll on Houston area plant life of all kinds, but the potential damage this drought could cause to trees seems to generate the most worry among residents. Despite the fact that people who have never visited Houston have the impression we are a dusty cow town akin to Dry Gul ... More >>
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September 14, 2011Coming soon to a park near you?First they came for your barbecue grills, and you didn't speak out because you just microwave your meals.
Now they may be coming for your cigs.
Discussion at City Council today included talk of banning smoking in city parks because of the fire danger brought o ... More >>
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September 6, 2011All but about 100 acres of the 6,000-acre Bastrop State Park have been blackened by fire, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says, and they've posted this video to show why.
With surprising alacrity, a fire creeps across the land, with nothing to stop it and wind to push it along.
And that is w ... More >>
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April 20, 2011Possum Kingdom, the beloved state park west of Fort Worth -- celebrated in song by The Toadies -- has been very unlucky when it comes to the wildfires hitting west and north Texas.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has released some official video of the event, including interviews with firefig ... More >>
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March 31, 2011You can skip the Beer Can HouseSo, you've made it to town for the Final Four and you are shocked to find out there are no tumbleweeds, we all aren't walking around in 10-gallon hats and the area surrounding downtown and the medical center is not filled with strip malls and urban decay. Welcom ... More >>
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February 24, 2011The search for remnants of Houston's past
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February 1, 2011My cup runneth over.I realize Egypt is in chaos and everyone north of the Mason-Dixon line is going to be flash frozen like a bag of Birds Eye broccoli florets and Charlie Sheen is apparently the reincarnation of Grigori Rasputin, but that is no excuse, no excuse, for the criminal lack of att ... More >>
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December 13, 2010Photos by GroovehouseRev. Chester J. Makowski, Vicar of St. Augustine and Neil "Bigmista" Strawder share a laugh in the church's kitchen."My momma told me the church was gonna have a celebrity barbecue," recalled Neil "Bigmista" Strawder as he stood heads and shoulders above everyone else in ... More >>
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August 6, 2010Flickr photo by mlhradioStonehenge II, the worse-for-the-wear roadside attraction Texas Traveler visited early last year, is getting a new home and a new coat of paint, thanks to a local arts organization.
The replica, two-thirds the size of the prehistoric original, was built in a corn fiel ... More >>
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January 28, 2010Go into the dark with some furry, flying creatures
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December 17, 2009Step back in time to the holidays, 1890s style
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October 22, 2009Do something different, trick-or-treating through the woods
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June 23, 2009
Got a couple of hours to spare Wednesday morning? The Buffalo Bayou Partnership is looking for some "heat-resistant" volunteers to help put in 9,000 wetland plants at the still under-construction nature park, Buffalo Bend Nature Park. (Okay, with that many plants it might take a little more tha ... More >>
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April 3, 2008One photographer likes his shots without people, one likes them with
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February 7, 2008Rubbers, nipples, sucking mouths. Now that we have your attention: reduce, reuse, recycle
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December 2, 2004Stroll the knolls with the Houston Happy Hikers
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December 18, 2003Bad kids learn good lessons at Christmas time
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December 18, 2003Endangered cranes have come to winter on the Texas coast
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October 30, 2003American history as seen through the clothes of little girls
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September 18, 2003Texas Master Naturalists give kids a peek at life in the gulf
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September 26, 2002Armand Bayou Nature Center
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September 26, 2002Wayne Dolcefino, KTRK-TV, Channel 13
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September 21, 2000Barker Reservoir, Highway 6 at Briar Forest
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March 11, 1999Residents look for answers but find only a developer's arrogance
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January 21, 1999The city doesn't seem to care that a Houston developer's plans for high-density apartments and a supermarket rest atop abandoned oil fields and possible contamination
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April 18, 1996A man named Verious plants a seed, and a vision takes root in the Third Ward
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January 11, 1996Death Valley does its talking through its playing
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