Subject: South Houston

• Drenched in Blog: Listing 2007

  December 17, 2007

• Slideshow: High School Photo Contest

  February 27, 2008

• After the Storm Comes the Fire

  September 17, 2008

• Death of a Family

  Lee Brewer started stepping out on her husband of 30 years. She told him it was over. But Pete Brewer had other endings in mind.

  October 19, 2000

• Drunk Drivers: Here's The Person Who's Giving You Hope

  October 27, 2008

• Santa Round-Up Part Four: Finding The Real Thing In A Dying Mall

  This and every Christmas season the most important person is the baby Jesus, with a bearded, white-haired toy factory owner coming in a close second. Every year we flock to the malls to sit in our kids down on Santa's lap. Sometimes they run off screaming, while others take to the old guy just like they would an elderly relative.Santa Round-Up #4: Wednesday December 17, 2008. 6 pm, Almeda Mall Almeda Mall had its heyday sometime in the late eighties. Opened in 1966, it was the consumers' jewel o

  December 18, 2008

• Impeaching South Houston

  August 4, 1994

• A Sense of Placement

  April 18, 1996

• East End Transit

  November 27, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• The Last Conqueror

  March 5, 1998

• Sole Of Houston: Mapping Out The Past & Future

  With another Sole stroll nigh, we thought now was as good a time as any for a look back at what we've accomplished already. Here is the Google map of our past adventures. View Larger Map Looks like we're gonna need to tackle Fifth Ward / Kashmere Gardens, the Heights, Sunnyside, Acres Homes, Memorial Villages, the Northside barrio and Pasadena / South Houston before we can consider this project close to done.

  March 5, 2009

• Under Siege

  November 12, 1998

• Letters

  November 19, 1998

• Letters

  November 26, 1998

• Letters

  December 3, 1998

• Letters

  December 10, 1998

• Letters

  December 31, 1998

• Up To Date on '98

  January 7, 1999

• Another Night, Another Song

  February 18, 1999

• Houston Turns Back to Tap Water

  August 14, 2008

• Illegal Immigrants in the Restaurant Industry

  December 20, 2007

• Da Bombing

  The postering of West Gray

  June 29, 2000

• Tale of Two Cities

  Catholic priest John Chinh Tran re-created Vietnam's Thai Xuan Village in Houston with an iron hand. These days his control is slipping away.

  December 15, 2005

• System Failure

  Tropical Storm Allison destroyed houses that never quite got fixed, thanks to bureaucratic bungling and cheaters

  December 8, 2005

• Great Moves

  Sometimes it's all in being in the right place at the right time

  June 16, 2005

• Life on the Sunny Side

  A lucky few homeless people experience life ten miles out from the Pierce Elevated

  March 31, 2005

• Altar Egos

  An Episcopalian gets bounced from her church for pressing the issue of female priests

  February 10, 2005

• Letters

  November 20, 2003

• Dead End

  Downtown redevelopment and economic doldrums are taking Houston’s homeless into even harder times

  June 26, 2003

• Going off the Rails

  A proposed line into the Bayport Industrial District has residents from Clear Lake to the East End vowing to stop the "toxic train" in its tracks

  April 18, 2002

• Paper Chase

  August 9, 2001

• Clinic at Death's Door

  With a local Democratic Party official at the helm, an AIDS agency nears collapse

  May 10, 2001

• Sex Toys and Videotape

  Adult-shop raids raise the issue of what's nice and what's vice

  November 4, 1999

• New Wave Good-bye

  Houston's The Shivers ready for Austin

  August 19, 1999

• The Private Life and Public Death of Frank Koury

  Frank Koury wanted to keep his gay life at home and his legal life at Fulbright & Jaworski separated. But when he died, everything was revealed.

  August 11, 1994

• Here's The Latest On School Closings Due To The "Don't Call It Swine" Flu

  Hamilton Middle School, which was closed Thursday and Friday over swine flu concerns, has reopened, HISD and city officials said.Hamilton had been closed because an individual "had exposure to a known case" of the flu, Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kathy Barton tells Hair Balls. "And subsequently, we have received some testing that says they are good to go, and they've not had anybody develop [the] disease."The district is sending out automated phone messages to parents and staff at Hami

  May 4, 2009

• Loaves and Fishes

  July 23, 2009

• Houston Breakfasts vs. Austin Breakfasts

  Photo by Robb Walsh​This plate of huevos rancheros with bacon and homemade flour tortillas set me back $2.29 at Taqueria Jesus Maria in South Houston. You can breakfast equally well at dozens of other taquerias all over town -- Kiko's on Fulton and Pancho Villa's on Wilcrest both charge $2.99. Dos Amigos on Washington gets $3.25 for an excellent Tex-Mex breakfast special. So imagine my amazement when a commenter recently bemoaned the fact that Houston didn't have any breakfast restaurant

  August 5, 2009

• Cherry Top Bakery's All-Day Burrito

  Photos by Robb Walsh​In August of 2004, I asked a truck driver in the parking lot of Laredo Taqueria on Patton if he agreed that the spectacular breakfast tacos we just ate were the best in the city. "Second best," he said, "the best is Cherry Bakery." I had never heard of Cherry Bakery, and I begged the guy for the location of this El Dorado of the breakfast taco. ​The truck driver said "East of I-45 near Hobby." I have been trying to find the place ever since. After a five-year se

  August 11, 2009

• Noodles You Need to Know About

  Photos by Robb Walsh​I got a medium pho with steak and brisket at Pho Binh at 10815 Beechnut for lunch the other day. I was coming down with a cold and it worked at least as well as chicken soup. Pho Binh on Beechnut is located in a shopping center. It was the winner of Best Pho in the 2007 Houston Press Best of Houston® edition. But pho fanatics generally prefer the original Pho Binh location in a ramshackle trailer at 10928 Beamer in South Houston. Here's Jay Francis's video tour. There

  August 18, 2009