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  1. torvald
    oh NO! now anyone googling NAMBLA will get HAIF now... a quick HAIF search says this thread is the only mention. frankly, there needs to be more things in houston to honor him... but i guess if it's filled with homeless folks from other parts of downtown, as some of you suggest, then maybe not the new park.
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    HAHAHA! i clicked on this thinking it was about the fomer "metropol" club here in houston. sugarbeats!
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    exactly... that is the old rice hotel. believe me, i know someone who goes on and on about that hotel...
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    signed the petition. here's some houston lore: a friend wrote to me that used to work there and mentioned that at one time there was a plaque (that had been since been removed) which said something theatrical like... "a curse shall fall on your heads if these so fine bricks and mortar be removed from this so sanctified area" ... something like that. anyone know about that? or whether it was put in during construction or added later by theatre staff?
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    ELMER RICE'S THE ADDING MACHINE A Kid Ornery Production In association with the Federal Entertainment Authority Under special arrangement with the Samuel French Company http://www.myspace.com/theaddingmachine Call 832-725-4109 for reservations or more information. WHEN: 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, July 21,22,28,29, 2006, with a special 'pay what you will' performance Monday July 24. WHERE: FrenetiCore Theater, located at 5102 Navigation, in Houston's hyperfunky East End. HOW MUCH: $10 all seats, all shows, except for Monday July 24, when your conscience decides the price.
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    ELMER RICE'S THE ADDING MACHINE A Kid Ornery Production In association with the Federal Entertainment Authority Under special arrangement with the Samuel French Company http://www.myspace.com/theaddingmachine Call 832-725-4109 for reservations or more information. WHEN: 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, July 21,22,28,29, 2006, with a special 'pay what you will' performance Monday July 24. WHERE: FrenetiCore Theater, located at 5102 Navigation, in Houston's hyperfunky East End. HOW MUCH: $10 all seats, all shows, except for Monday July 24, when your conscience decides the price.
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    ELMER RICE'S THE ADDING MACHINE A Kid Ornery Production In association with the Federal Entertainment Authority Under special arrangement with the Samuel French Company http://www.myspace.com/theaddingmachine Call 832-725-4109 for reservations or more information. WHEN: 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, July 21,22,28,29, 2006, with a special 'pay what you will' performance Monday July 24. WHERE: FrenetiCore Theater, located at 5102 Navigation, in Houston's hyperfunky East End. HOW MUCH: $10 all seats, all shows, except for Monday July 24, when your conscience decides the price.
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    the 1935 map lists a great name for a band --- "modern appliances" (um, copyright torvald 2006)
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    over on the agoraphoria website someone was joking that the crown of the building looks like those things in tron. image it really does! i think it also appears more looming because there are no other tall buildings in front of it, just the park. especially when you're in the park.
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    whoa --- i thought it said murphy brother sex position --- but it's not.
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    oh no --- don't say that! the reason i love this site is that everyone here has a healthy curiosity for things (now don't be nasty). whether it's sevfiv researching and photographing houston, groovehouse cataloging art cars, music and everything else, tasteful & distasteful cultural debates, folks sympathizing with the hunt for hulda or others simply curious as to what the two land depressions are at addicks resevior --- the group here at HAIF are like a bunch of investigative reporters and part-time historians. it's so much better than just driving around with the blinders on to all of the character that houston has both culturally or architecturally. i know i'm getting goopy but i remember when i first found this site someone had a query about something pretty random and another person (and i've seen this a few times) said --- i'll have to drive out there and see what that could be --- and the next day they'd report back on what they saw! i was really surprised by that and i think that's when i went from a lurker to a posting torvald.
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    as a bike everywhere sort, i worry about being thieved. if i have anything with my rear basket it's groceries. the two fellas i've known that have been mugged while biking had pretty fancy bikes. one thief actually took his bike at gunpoint, the other was pushed over by a few guys after riding to a corner store and retuning the exact same way. i always try to go round the other way when running errands (especially within the first few blocks) as someone can just conveniently wait for you to ride right by again with whatever you just went out for...
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    that would be a neat museum! i am glad you folks didn't totally ostrasize me for the "arabs living in the crown of a houston skyscraper" topic. i wanted to post it before because every time i see that building i think of that old fella in a tux mentioning the wealthy oil family. after the second fella said it --- i thought ok, this is weird, this rumor needs to go through the HAIF filter... i am not trying to say that someone actually lives there but i am wondering where such a rumor or misunderstanding originated.
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    a few years ago i was at a new year's eve party at the petroleum club. i have never been there and was AMAZED by the view. as i was looking out the window, an older gentleman pointed at a few of the buildings and said some things about a few of them. i was amused that when pointing at the heritage plaza building: additional ha-info page he said, "did you know that someone lives in the top section of that building?" i said that i did not and he said that it was "a very wealthy arab family". i didn't believe it and said, "why that's interesting". well, yesterday a client at work casually mentioned the same thing. the fella is quite intelligent and i would assume he would know what he was talking about. does anyone know the basis for this rumor? or somehow, is it not a rumor?
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    is there an updated link for this? the one above says it no longer exists.
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    i was wrong --- it's not at the Foods. i know it's at brasil, dietrichs, some tapioca places, local galleries, antique shops, fancy restaurants. it seems like they're always around but now that i have to think of a specific place... avalon diner? harry's?
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    really only familiar with sw houston but many galleries and coffee shops have them. also fancy stores like: kuhl-linscomb, whole foods, raye, etc. they are large, color and with fancy coated paper stock --- paid for by the watch ads, i am sure.
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    i'm not usually the paper city type but this month's issue has a large article on the warwick hotel with some vintage photos. it's in one of the middle sections between all of the watch ads.
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    sorry, to respond so late. parking around those few blocks is a bit tight --- between the extra driveways (from other townhomes) and whole foods employees. WFM has no employee parking and with the added high rise later on, you can expect even less. of course, your colleague will have a garage but it may be still be annoying for guests and getting out in the morning...
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    for the longest time i thought it was a prison. when i saw the sign riding by, i was surprised.
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    that's the problem unless i am feeling exceptionally unhealthy, i don't eat that stuff. i'm not a hippie new ager, i'm just not eating meat. hypocritically, i do eat seafood though.
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    last time i checked it was empty and the doors locked (less than a month ago). the windows to the left had cardboard boxes stacked in front of it that had papers from either a school or community college in them. you could also see many more boxes throughout the room. the marquee looks great --- the rest, not horrid but in disarray.
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    i would recommend that place totally. it is near downtown, a real neighborhood diner type of feel, genuinely nice people, good value and good coffee --- not really a fancy brunch place, though. toast comes with refilled coffee for $1.50 and there's a breakfast burrito for $2 that's basically a medium sized omelette in a tortilla with salsa. get oatmeal with little bowls of cinnamon, raisins and brown sugar to fix how you
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    can't they see the bank building as the actual symbol of "a revisitation of the bustling, lively city that was Pasadena in the mid 20th century"!?! they actually have it right there empty, at a low price ---ready to convert into a civic center, community services, anything.. i am supposing that they will demolish the capitan theatre next since it is empty and only currently used as storage.
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    unless i used the search option wrong i couldn't find an exclusive vegetarian thread on the restored HAIF
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