University of Houston-Downtown

Burgers Off the Beaten Path: Poppa Burger

There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in Brewster McCloud -- the movie set in Houston that wasn't Reality Bites or Terms of Endearment -- in which you can spot a multicolored billboard on the side of Main Street for Poppa Burger. The building on the other side of the street is the M&M Building, ... More >>

The Top 10 Houston Music Stories of 2012

Looking back over the major music-related stories around Houston the past 11 and a half months, 2012 was light on the kind of headlines you'll usually see in a year-end "music scene" recap: Obituaries, arrests, venues closing down, malfeasance, bad behavior, that sort of thing. There was some of tha ... More >>

Downtown Light Rail Closed This Weekend

If your weekend plans including tooling around downtown on the light rail, get ready to make some adjustments. Businesses and residences will be open as usual, but construction between the Downtown Transit Center and UH-Downtown stations will be suspended and buses will be used instead. The shuttl ... More >>

Ka-Ching! UH-Downtown Gets $3.2 Million Federal Grant

The University of Houston-Downtown has been awarded a $3.2 million federal grant earmarked for first-generation Hispanic students. The university is one of only 19 in the nation (and three in the state) to receive the U.S. Department of Education grant, administered through the the Title V Developi ... More >>

Science Cafe — Science and Religion: Angels and Demons?

Last Night: Buxton & The Tontons At Discovery Green

Buxton, the Tontons Discovery Green May 24, 2012 I was pretty proud of myself Thursday night: I managed to kill three birds with one stone. I'd never seen local darlings Buxton or the Tontons live before, and I'd never been to a concert at Discovery Green, either. Thanks to UH-Downtown's Thursday C ... More >>

FabriFaction 2012

Harvard, CU-Boulder Design Downtown Houston of Your Dreams, Possibly

That up above, the dreamy rendering of the area that used to house the downtown Post Office? It's "Bayou Commons," which is "strategically designed to be downtown Houston's first residential district celebrating cultural diversity and urban lifestyle." But don't go looking for it yet.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

An iconic Houston music venue settles into new digs amid a hint of controversy.

Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Who Was That Masked Man?, Sylvia

Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Three Murders and It's Only Monday, Who Was That Masked Man?

“Storied Beads: The Art of Teri Greeves”

Comment Of The Day: Loving Houston

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Houston Poetry Festival

Roses are red, violets are blue, listeners are happy and you will be too

"Melanie Crader: The Eula Project"

The artist responds to items found in her grandmother's old purse

Allen’s Landing Walking Tour

Walk this way

Metro Light Rail Expands Hours For Bike Riders

The Iron Horse welcomes velocipedes​Metro and BikeHouston have reached an agreement that expands the hours bike riders will be allowed on light-rail trains.Bikes are still barred during peak travel hours in the morning and afternoon, but the definition of "peak hours" has changed.Bikes can now be ... More >>

The Glass Menagerie

The Landing Theatre Company is starting at the top

"Enchanting Taiwan"

The island nation reveals its culture in this photography exhibit

Don't Depend On Light Rail To Get You Anywhere This Weekend

​If you were thinking you could drink freely downtown this weekend and take the light rail home, think again. It's "Set Back the Clock" weekend at Metro, as they abandon the sleek 21st-century wonder of light rail and regress back to smelly old buses.A new pedestrian bridge is being installed over ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Retablos And UH-D's Musical Debut

Among the annual must-see shows is Lawndale Art Center's "Retablo Exhibition." The show is winding down, with Saturday as its last day, so if you haven't seen it yet, get to it.Dozens of Texas artists re-interpreted the Mexican tradition of retablos or devotional paintings for the show. The arti ... More >>

Don't Believe The Hype! The Press Mayoral Debate Is Not Only Still On, It's Already Been Broughten!!

​Anti-trust lawyers began searching collusion law last night as word began to emerge that Houston's field of mayoral candidates had agreed to drastically cut back on the number of forums/debates they'd attend.Then they put the law books away, because even they agreed there were far too many mayor' ... More >>

Here's Your Chance To Ask The Next Mayor A Question

​Whether you like it or not -- and it seems most people couldn't care less -- there will be a mayoral election in two months.Your next mayor will either be the city controller (in which case Houston will be the largest city in the U.S. to elect an open gay or lesbian as mayor), a city council memb ... More >>

"RAW"

Three artists dust off classical drawing’s cobwebs

Light-Rail Will Be Limited In Downtown This Weekend

Photo by pfrench99Metro's announced they'll be doing track maintenance this weekend, so if you're planning on cruising the light rail through downtown, think again.There will be no service between the Downtown Transit Center and UH-Downtown from 5:30 am til 2 pm on both Saturday and Sunday, Metro's ... More >>

UH-Downtown's Max Castillo, We Hardly Blew Ye

That was some send-off the Chronicle gave over the weekend to Max Castillo, outgoing president of UH-Downtown. It was the kind of glowing profile some cynical journalists call a "blow job."In it we learned that Castillo:a) is "a bilingual Hispanic, at a time when 85 percent of college presidents are ... More >>

Seguin State University, Here We (Don't) Come

This is it, people - the pivotal moment we've anticipated for weeks, nay, months.The new name for the University of Houston-Downtown is...in the final stages of being decided. UH System Chancellor Renu Khator and UH-D President Max Castillo will pass on this afternoon five tentative finalists to the ... More >>

UH-Downtown Gets Set To Vote On World's Least Necessary Name Change

Max Castillo, president of UH-Downtown, confirmed to the Houston Chronicle what he told us last month: he really, really wants to change the name of his school.And now he's taking it online!The school has put up on its webpage a whole collection of facts, lists, criteria and suggested names for stud ... More >>

A UH-Downtown By Any Other Name

As we first reported back in August, UH-Downtown is trying very, very hard not to be UH-Downtown anymore.The rumored change is more or less a done deal; all that's left is to decide what the new name will be.Why give up the brand name of UH, especially as UH is embarking on an aggressive (if possibl ... More >>

Floyd Newsum's "Primary Concerns"

Joan Wich & Co. Gallery presents recent work by a local artist

"American Civil War Field Notes: Sketches from Cairo to Columbia"

Embedded Illustrators on display at O'Kane Gallery

Will UH Try To Take The "UH" Out Of UH-Downtown?

Capsule Art Reviews: "City Glow," "Ellen Orseck," "Nexus Texas," "RED HOT" and "Sawing Logs"

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

“Suddenly One Summer”

Trifecta of art

Scooby-Dooby-Done

The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Stylish Scavenging

Troll for art at the Downtown Stomp Around

Going Batty

Efforts mount to make downtown home to a new kind of nightlife

Look Back in Anger

A short-film series plumbs a dark cultural data bank

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Roger Cooper

Oenophile, Bert Wheeler's Liquors, 6518 Westheimer

Best Place to Get a Traffic Ticket

Revitalized section of downtown

Night & Day

November 26 - December 2, 1998

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

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Crisis on Cullen Boulevard

Funding is down. Faculty is fleeing. And 50 professors are in semi-open revolt. Is the University of Houston on an irrovocable slide toward mediocrity?

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