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    Following up to my own somewhat-off-topic post, I got a letter in the mail today from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and it makes a distinction between the parish and the cathedral, too. It reminds me that there is a basic distinction between a church/cathedral and a parish in modern Catholicism. There are plenty of churches and cathedrals with multiple parishes (many in Chicagoland), there are parishes with no church (I've seen this in Seattle), and even churches with no parish (Las Vegas). I think that was the root of my confusion above. I've long seen the two as distinct entities.
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    They're going to feel pretty foolish in ten years when the freeway is gone.
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    I think it might have been torn down before Allison. I worked a block away from 1999 to 2003, and have no memory of that place.
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    Because elections cost money, and the people and companies that profit from sprawl and the status quo donate money to pay for the candidates to be elected.
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    I wonder if the downtown location will stay open. I understand it does good business.
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    I've always found irony in the fact that so many people drive air conditioned luxury farm machinery to a gym so they can sweat.
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    Is about time. That "coming soon" sign has been there for at least two years. Though, I expect that having a gas station on this corner isn't going to be an asset to the neighborhood.
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    There's an article in the Chronicle this morning that Brookfield, which owns the Allen Center, Houston Center, and Heritage Plaza downtown is going to transition all three properties to solar power in the next two years. The power will come from a new solar plant still to be built. Irony: Those buildings are the offices of some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in Texas, and they have to pay Brookfield not only rent, but also for a portion of the building's electricity.
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    Well, now I feel a bit foolish, because I've seen that word a thousand times before, but somehow didn't recognize it this time. Thanks for the clue-by-four!
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    Interesting, thanks. By contrast, Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago does separate its parish from the archdiocese. Interesting that it's not consistent. Perhaps because Holy Name existed before the Archdiocese of Chicago was split off from the Archdiocese of Peoria. (Trivia: A couple of weeks ago, the Archdiocese of Las Vegas was created, split off from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.)
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    I think the best place for new murals in Houston is the giant blank concrete walls of the MFA/H. They own the rights to so many great paintings inside. Why not showcase them on the outside, and liven up the area?
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    All before my time. I didn't land at 39 until 2005ish. I still have a WB39 Houston pencil rolling around here somewhere…
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    Would the bishop be involved at all? I haven't been involved with Galveston-Houston the way I have been at other archdioceses, but in the ones I'm familiar with, this would be a parish-level decision. Like when the roof of the church I went to caught fire during renovations, the archdiocese wouldn't help us pay for a new one.
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    The library has miniature concerts every week at noon year-round. I wonder if this plaza could do something like that, except on a daily basis.
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    My observation of these types of conversions in other cities is that they take just as long, if not longer than condo/apartment conversion. I don't know for a fact, but I suspect the reason has to do with more units = more work to do. More walls to build. More plumbing to run. More fire suppression systems to install. More elevators to rehab. Things like that.
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    I have a couple of those I got from Mariano's markets in Chicago with the big Mariano's logo on the side. They're awesome. But only if I remember to bring them with me, which is not often enough. They're far more durable than they look, so I use them for all kinds of things around the house and neighborhood, otherwise I'd just leave them in the car ready for the supermarket. I used to have four, but I only have two right now. I had a garage sale a couple of years ago, and a guy whose name was actually "Mariano" showed up and his friends goaded him into buying two of them from me. I was just using them to drag things around, and they weren't for sale, but he offered $20 a pop, and I couldn't refuse.
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    Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo?
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    Texas Southern University Campus 3401 Cleburne Street Houston, TX 77004 Please join the Harris County Historical Commission as they host a marker dedication for George Thomas "Mickey" Leland. The dedication event will be held at: Texas Southern University Campus Barbara Jordan & Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs For any questions, please contact Chris Varela at cvarela2@juno.com.
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    If you're environmentally-minded, HEB still lets you have paper bags, instead of plastic.
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    The article I'm thinking of is more recent than that one, because that one was published before I moved back to Houston. I'm pretty sure it was earlier this year, and it was tied into the I-45 demolition.
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    Is this the neighborhood that the Chronicle said used to be known as Scorpion Town or something like that before the freeway came through? There was a pretty extensive article about its impending doom a few months ago. If this becomes a detention basin with a park in it, it would be nice for there to be a monument or something nearby showing what it used to be.
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    Agreed. I was up there a couple of weeks ago when they had the craft fair. Even the urban farm seems mostly dead, except for some rhubarb. I wish I had their light and space for my garden! I'm harvesting bell peppers these days, and all I have is a balcony. The food court is good, but the craft market was lame. These were the vendors: Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Candle lady T-shirt guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Candle lady Home-made jewelry lady Another t-shirt guy selling the same t-shirts as the other guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Home-made jewelry lady Sneaker guy Candle lady Another t-shirt guy selling the same t-shirts as the other guy Another t-shirt guy selling the same t-shirts as the other guy Another t-shirt guy selling the same t-shirts as the other guy Another t-shirt guy selling the same t-shirts as the other guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Sneaker guy Salsa stand At least it was well-attended, but I didn't see anyone buy anything except from the food court. I got a couple of pictures from the roof:
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    I love the part about "This Could be YOUR Street" Well, that's how most streets are in Houston already because people like the Greater Houston Builders Association insist that everyone needs multiple cars, and that public space should be used for storing private property. If the GHBA was really concerned about dangerous streets, as illustrated, it would encourage the better sidewalks and shared driveways proposed by the city so that people will walk and not fill the streets with their dinosaur-burning farm machinery.
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    You might be surprised. Some groups are against any change at all. I got a postcard in the mail from the Greater Houston Builders Association that was loaded with pearl-clutching hysterics trying to convince people that having better sidewalks will make neighborhoods more dangerous. "Tell city hall to keep out streets safe!" it implores, clearly written by someone who's never walked on a sidewalk in Houston before.
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    Sorry, by "try now" I meant "I changed a thing." I didn't expect you to actually be online when I wrote that. Give the system a few hours to re-cache things on its side. If it doesn't work, e-mail me at editor@houstonarchitecture.com.
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