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skyphen

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  1. I went there today for the first time. Looks like a mall without a roof. Not impressed.
  2. Spring break + good weather (for Houston) = lots of kids, families, and other people out and about at Hermann Park and the museums! The newest addition to the Children's Museum is AWESOME, by the way. Can't wait to see what's in store for the HMNS.
  3. Is this true? Where did you hear it? What about the Bookstop on Alabama? Anyone know its fate? OH, they are! What is the deal with the Chronicle??? NONE of the other Texas papers have this problem. Why can't they name a link instead of number it? I'm guessing they re-use the numbers for some weird reason? I really don't get it. Don't they realize it hurts readership not being able to read a link after it expires? And it expires pretty quickly, so they direct you to find it ih the archives, but their search NEVER works, so you have to go to the cached page. It's crazy!!! I think I'm going to write a strongly worded letter!
  4. If those are the same townhouses I'm thinking of, roughly right across the boulevard from Hickory Hollow, they are closer to two feet than ten feet from the tracks. And around $300K if I recall correctly. Insanity! Agreed!! OMG I almost fell out of my chair laughing!
  5. Thanks! They have a blog about the construction of the cross on their website. They call it the Living Proof Project. http://sagemontblog.startlogic.com/living-proof/
  6. Ah. So Grace Community is the church with two campuses, north and south, and the 150 ft cross with globe combo. Does anyone know the name of the ginormous plain white cross church?
  7. A bit confused, as usual. Is the cross posted in the picture (plain white cross near the Beltway) the same as the one talked about in the original post? What happened to the globe and arches under it?
  8. I really would have liked Houston Metropolitan University or City College of Houston. There's a City College of San Francisco. I always thought that had a cute ring to it. It's short, sweet, and to the point, if nothing else. Suggests the open admissions policy, mission, and location of the college in few words, and there would have been absolutely no mistaking it for any other college.
  9. These are all pretty terrible choices. Are these the finalists? I guess one with Southeast in the name if we have to go directional. Definitely not South Texas. There's a South Texas College of Law downtown... they'll be right back here in a few years if they change it to that. UST... TSU... both of which we already got. Terrible choices. It will be interesting to see if this name change affects their enrollment numbers any. Some alumni I've known liked the association/confusion with UH main campus. Not to mention we are in Southeast Texas, not South Texas. Culturally and geographically different worlds. Ugh. Again, terrible choices.
  10. I have to agree about some Houstonians not having a sense of place and people getting the two campuses confused. I met someone the other day who thought (UH) Third Ward was located (UHD) downtown... they didn't get that there was a difference between TW and DT at all. I've also known a person who referred to Midtown as downtown. They were both transplants who figure anything near downtown IS downtown. I think the lack of a sense of place and not knowing the city is a downside to the growth Houston has seen. These people may work downtown or may not, but spend most of the time bypassing these neighborhoods on the freeways. On the contrary, the natives I know here have a great sense of place and history and know the city neighborhoods very well.
  11. Whatever they choose, I hope it keeps Houston or some reference to it rather than Texas in the title. How many colleges are there with Texas in the title already? Among recent unnecessary borderline stupid name changes was Southwest Texas State U to Texas State U. I hope they don't go with anything remotely similar to that.
  12. I wrote in and suggested other names, but I think HMU works. Other cities like NYC, SF, and Denver have a Metropolitan College or City University. I think these names accurately reflect the institutions' mission statements and their respective student bodies. Oh wait, I thought I read here they changed it to Houston Metropolitan U, but then reading again it doesn't seem like it?
  13. The comment about the showerheads for Jones Plaza was right on point! That's exactly what it reminds me of. I like this vision, and the beggar musicians, Jackson Square, all of it. That's exactly what we need. Houston has so many great artists and talented people. The city is really squandering an opportunity, missing the boat on not exposing them to a wider audience, although it has gotten better at doing so over the past few years. Disco Green has been a big step in the right direction as far as that goes. Is there a plan to make downtown upscale? I hope not. Downtown should be for the people, all people. "Downtown" should not be "Uptown."
  14. Yeah, I think they own the house Inprint is in, right across the street.
  15. Actually, if anything, having it enclosed and hidden like it is would have the opposite effect. If the stores were open and facing the street, they would be more visible to cars and pedestrians passing by, and to cops, if anything shady were going on. I would hate to be a young girl working late in one of those stores the way they have it now. Having it enclosed does very little to add to the street-level vibrancy of the area, which I'm more concerned about than "seedy types." Does anything scream "I LIVE IN THE SUBURBS" more than the use of "seedy types?"
  16. I couldn't quite put my finger on what was bothering me about this development, but that's it exactly. The lack of street level access. I will patronize and support it anyway, but that was certainly a missed opportunity. It sort of reminds me of the MarqE on I-10 and Silber.
  17. It is a part of the UH system. They could call it University of Houston at Allen's Landing, or University of Houston at Buffalo Bayou.
  18. Great news! Plus weekday tours, live bands, and the possibility of residential space? NICE! Now a new (old) place close in to take friends when they visit from out of town.
  19. I know, right? And within walking distance for me. It's about damn time.
  20. You're such a rebel.

  21. Agreed! I'm thinking about making a trip down there for a burger and beer right now...
  22. Wow! The website looks FAR better than it used to! It's nice to see HPL finally tuning into the 21st century.
  23. But what about continuity? The theater would look out of place if it were the only part saved from demolition and everything that went up around it looked like the piece of crap in that rendering. One of the great things about the River Oaks Shopping Center is its continuous uniformity, which is found so rarely in Houston as it is.
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