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Yeah, this is highly carrier- and location-dependent. AT&T's wireless coverage has always been iffy in parts of the Greater Heights area, and I have to think they just don't have as many cell towers in the area as competing carriers do. I've lost count of the times in the past that I was eating at Lola (11th and Yale), and was unable to get anything but a pitifully weak connection from AT&T's LTE network. You'd think that it would be possible to get a strong signal at one of the busiest intersections in the Heights, but no. After both the derecho and Beryl, AT&T cell service was basically nonexistent at my house, which is definitely not the norm. I had to connect to my wife's work phone, which uses Verizon's network, to get anything approaching a usable signal. It remained like this for several days after the derecho, but was thankfully back to semi-normal a day or so after Beryl. I think when there's a large power outage, AT&T's cell network gets overloaded quickly in this area as everyone's unable to use their regular home internet service. Verizon and T-Mobile don't appear to have the same issues, at least not to the same extent that AT&T does.

No real issues with Xfinity internet or TV after the power came back on. There was one period of several hours where the connection would randomly drop for a few minutes and then come back up. The Xfinity cable drop from the utility pole to my house is hanging quite a bit lower than it should, but I haven't gotten around to having them send out a tech yet as it isn't affecting service. Xfinity has generally been reliable, and on the odd occasion when there's an outage, I use my phone as a personal hotspot to provide internet access to my computers (I work from home, and my cell service is with AT&T - I figure that if Xfinity and AT&T are both down at the same time, we've probably got bigger problems than lack of internet access). After Ike I was without Xfinity service for almost a month, thanks to the cable between several utility poles being taken down by a tree branch. I called Xfinity every day until a crew finally showed up to make the necessary repairs. Had to depend on public wifi access points at branch libraries and places like Discovery Green until service was restored.

It was built expressly for the Chronicle. From the Handbook of Texas:

Given the location of the lumber company, it's safe to say that Dincans St. was named after the company and/or its namesake.

There's plenty on Reddit, but as usual, there's more heat than light (pun fully intended).

Better that than a candy company on 22nd Street.

Every time this thread gets updated, I'm hoping to see what the marketing team for this development has come up with.

According to comments at Cinema Treasures, it was renovated into a live-performance venue in 1978. There's also a list of films that played there that covers from 1960 up until the end of 1975. It's not clear if they screened any films between the end of 1975 and the renovation in 1978.

We crossed that threshold some time ago, when molecular gastronomy became a thing.

Wow, I had almost completely forgotten about Herfy's. I have almost no recollection of the food there, just their logo bearing a picture of a steer. If a Whataburger were to ever be replaced by an In-N-Out, that would probably be grounds for a mob bearing pitchforks and torches to converge on it.

Joseph Cullinan's gravesite at Glenwood Cemetery, a short distance away from Howard Hughes' gravesite. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3754/joseph-stephen-cullinan

I think you may be confusing this mansion, which was built in 1994, with the 1937 mansion Fayez Sarofim lived in, and which was put on the market last year. The latter was indeed designed by Briscoe, but by the time this one was built, Briscoe had been dead for more than twenty years. Unless it was designed and then not actually built until much later? 1937 River Oaks home owned by the late Fayez Sarofim goes on the market for $13.5M

If the Pure Gas app is to be believed, that will be only the third gas station inside the beltway that sells ethanol-free gas. Unfortunately it's almost certainly a curious outlier rather the harbinger of a broader trend. Most (all?) Buc-ees seem to sell it as well, but they're not exactly convenient.

Originally the home of the Briargrove 3 Cinemas, which, if not the first dollar theater in town, had to have been one of the earliest (it didn't start out as a dollar theater, but it couldn't have been a first-run house for more than a few years following its opening in 1977). The three sections on the Plaza sign with the interchangeable letters used to function as the theater's marquee when it was still in operation. Sun & Ski Sports currently occupies the space where the theater was.

Have been eating at Nielsen's for over forty years. Before they were in the current location on Richmond, they were on Montrose near 59 (4500 Montrose). That location was the first one I visited, but there was at least one location (and possibly others) that preceded it. Definitely a Houston institution, and I'm reminded that it's been a while since I've had my usual roast beef and swiss on rye with a dixie cup of their famous potato salad.