bobruss Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 https://www.gq.com/story/houston-restaurants-capital-of-southern-cool Since I thought this would catch most of the people I thought would be interested in this I'm placing it here. This is in this months GQ magazine. Great story about Houston and how it has quietly become cool. Hope you enjoy if you haven't seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBooze Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Awesome article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Goes over the top in denouncing our aesthetics, saying we're ugly, we're ugly, we're ugly, but ugly is cool. Maybe if you're from one of these Eastern cities where all the freeways are sterile corridors of trees then Houston is an adjustment, but we are not ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 I have lived in and out of Houston for 30 years. While it is true that Houston is in the eye of the beholder, I vote for the ugly side. We have our share of Sterile too — just head out to KaSugWood and get read to find all those ticks-tack boxes Pete sung about. anyway, it’s a terrific article, albeit quite long. There is much going on in Houston and much of it is under-appreciated by many, including many who live here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Houston has always been a place that is, as with any other large city (I assume), as good as you make it, or as bad as you make it. I am glad people are writing about how awesome Houston is. I'm sad people will move here specifically because they want to be seen in the cool place they read about. Hopefully the mosquitoes and high temps/humidity will purge those people quickly and leave us with the ones who really want to be here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reporter Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Mosquitos bites and pit stains are the new cool so you better get used to Houston being flooded with a bunch of itchy, smelly, bearded doucheburgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJilliams Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 ^ Thankfully Austin has been receiving a majority of those people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Houston has always been kind of a testing ground for things to come. It quietly comes and quietly goes. Houston was once the city of the future for modernism, then the city of the future for post-modernism, and it will most likely be the same for the next big movement that comes forward. The city is just that flexible and pragmatic. Which seems to be what that "city of the future" might be. A sort of radical pragmatism. The food is evidence of that. So many mishmashing of different flavors and styles. Its pretty cool just how bold and daring the food culture is here and I hope that filters into other aspects of Houston culture, art, and architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 "collision cuisine" seems to be an accurate descriptor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 I thought the guy did his homework. he wasn't over the top chamber of commerce sweet and he made some very astute observations. I thought it was a very even and fair description of Houston. Add that to Anthony Bourdains visit on CNN and those are two pretty positive and remarkable pieces of PR and we didn't even have to come up with a new stupid slogan with T shirts. He obviously did his homework and had some great connections to guide him in the right direction. He could have written about The Woodlands or Sugarland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 On 8/28/2018 at 9:54 AM, bobruss said: I thought the guy did his homework. he wasn't over the top chamber of commerce sweet and he made some very astute observations. I thought it was a very even and fair description of Houston. Add that to Anthony Bourdains visit on CNN and those are two pretty positive and remarkable pieces of PR and we didn't even have to come up with a new stupid slogan with T shirts. He obviously did his homework and had some great connections to guide him in the right direction. He could have written about The Woodlands or Sugarland. Sugarland is hip, because Sugarland doesn't give a **** about being hip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 I'll let you live in that imaginary sugarplum fairy world if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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