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The Sports Bar That’s Replacing The Saxophone on Richmond
Will we soon see a 70-foot red pitchfork here? Now that the Orange Show has moved that big blue horn out of the way, the former Billy Blues club at 6025 Richmond near Fountain View is getting a new...
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A 60 Degree Turnaround on Westheimer
Looks like there’s something coming soon to the former Palazzo’s Tratoria at 2300 Westheimer. (And, presumably, someone’s coming to deal with that raggedy palm tree.) A Swamplot reader sends in this...
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The First Inside-the-Loop Dunkin’ Donuts?
Could it be . . . time? A reader claims to have spotted the first inside-the-Loop Dunkin’ Donuts — or at least the future home of it. Last spring, franchise group 521 Interests announced plans to open...
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How To Spot A Fake ‘No Parking’ Sign
A sign like the one shown here is indicative of “a growing problem” inside the Loop, reports abc13′s Miya Shay, who claims that some homeowners and businesses are resorting to a creative way of keeping...
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What Will Become of This Rice Military Corner?
“It looks like someone has bought the whole block between Feagan, Westcott, and Knox in Rice Military next to the Commonwealth Title office building,” a reader writes in accompaniment of a series of...
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The Glow That’s Gone Missing from Washington Ave
Hey! What happened to that neon sign at Huston’s Drugs? Artist Chris Bramel, who’s working to renovate the former pharmacy on Washington in the Old Sixth Ward into a space where he can live and work,...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Stakes in the Neighborhood
“I always have fun explaining to out of town guests what those signs are. For my benefit, I hope they stay up for a while longer, at least until the building is finished and their predictions come to...
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Streamlining Downtown Parking Signs
Downtown District rep Angie Bertinot tells abc13 that the organization counted more than 100 “different unique” parking signs mucking things up for drivers hoping to avoid getting towed or ticketed —...
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Buc-ee’s Putting Itself Above Baytown
Here come more billboard double entendres: The Baytown Sun reports that Buc-ee’s is building a big ’un on the I-10 feeder and John Martin Rd. later this year. And, apparently, the proposed...
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“Stop” Signs Oppose 17-Story Hines Office Building on San Felipe
These understated “Stop the San Felipe Skyscraper” signs started going up about knee-high this weekend in River Oaks and Vermont Commons to protest that shiny 17-story office tower that Hines is...
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Dogging the Morrison Heights Midrise with Doggerel
Across town from the new “Stop the San Felipe Skyscraper” signs popping up in River Oaks and Vermont Commons to oppose the proposed 17-story Hines office building, another crop of anti-development...
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High Above the Southwest Fwy., a Chase Bank Cover-Up Revealed
A reader sends this photo, taken Saturday morning along the southbound Southwest Fwy. feeder, of what the Chase branch in Westwood has been hiding from you all these years — or the branch signage, at...
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