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Actually, Say Critics, ‘One Bin for All’ Maybe Not Best Idea
Mayor Parker’s prize-winning garbage program was questioned yesterday by activists and environmentalists, reports Hair Balls’ Vanessa Piña — especially because the $1 million the city won from Mayor...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Dirty Truth About the Hotel ZaZa’s Theme Rooms
“You want the low down from an insider? I worked there for a year as a concierge. The dirty truth is that there is no dirt. There are seven multi-room suites, ten one-room concept suites and four...
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DNA Testing Helping Texas Apartments Deliver Justice To Unscooped Dog Poop
Up in Dallas, reports Click2Houston, dozens of apartment complexes are requiring tenants to file their dog’s DNA. That way, any poop that’s not cleaned up can be directed to the proper authorities —...
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Poop Science Comes to Fairmont Museum District Apartments
And one of the “amenities” that the doubling-in-size Fairmont Museum District wasn’t ready to announce would seem to be that poop detection service picking up steam in Dallas: Houston Chronicle’s...
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Moving Day at Maryland Manor
A Swamplot reader sends in this update on the progress at 1717 Bissonnet, where the Maryland Manor apartments are still standing in the way of the Ashby Highrise: ”I live around the block . . . and it...
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MacGregor Park’s MLK Memorial Tree ‘Doesn’t Look Good’
Last spring, Metro spent $100,000 to relocate this tree out of the way of the expanding Southeast Line. Planted in 1983 near Old Spanish Trail and MLK Blvd., the tree was meant to stand in for an MLK...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Church of the Shuttered Walmart
“Conversion into Goodwill and flea markets has a kind of internal logic. Can’t say the idea that school district administrators are overflowing into defunct Walmarts soothes me all that much, but...
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Unmarked Graves Uncovered in Dickinson African-American Cemetery
Over the weekend, volunteers clearing brush and whacking weeds at the Magnolia Cemetery, the African-American cemetery between League City and Dickinson near FM 646 and Highway 3, found hundreds of...
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Judge Emmett Not Impressed by Texans, Rodeo Plan To Demolish the Astrodome
A study paid for by the Houston Texans and the Livestock Show and Rodeo has determined that tearing down the Astrodome will cost a hair more than $29 million, reports Fox 26, but Harris County judge...
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The End Coming for Marfreless in River Oaks
And the low-light, low-key make-out den behind that signless blue door in the River Oaks Shopping Center says it’s closing at the end of March in a press release quoted here in the Houston Chronicle:...
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Roger Goodell: 2,500 Extra Parking Spaces Does Sound Pretty Good
The study paid for by the Texans and the Rodeo that found the Astrodome could be torn down and replaced with 2,500 parking spots for $29 million — the one Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said he’s...
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Now on Your Mobile Device: Why You Can’t Breathe
A team comprising researchers at UH, Air Alliance Houston, and the American Lung Association have launched OzoneMap, an app that “monitors chemical weather,” reports John Metcalfe of The Atlantic blog...
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