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As it celebrates its 25th year as one of the city's most beloved family eateries, the original Carrabba's Italian Grill in River Oaks has embarked on a bold ...
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Construction crews started clearing out the interior of now-defunct Borders on Kirby this week, in preparation for two new high-profile tenants — the popular cosmetics store Ulta and Texas Children's ...
Energy Power
Houston's home market will be on an impressive upswing over the next couple of years as the city’s energy industry surges and the local economy adds new jobs ...
Hidden Houston
Where can you get a cheap, memorable music fix? Walter's in the the north downtown warehouse district (no longer on Washington). Though Walter's on Washington had a catchy ...
Opens Friday
Until now, there have been two Neiman Marcus concept stores in the Houston area — the luxury retailer's Galleria showcase and the Last Call clearance center at Katy Mills Mall ...
Shelby's Social Diary
Once you reach a certain stage in life, less is decidely more. Thus, as former Mayor Bob Lanier, 87, and Port Commissioner Elyse Lanier look to the future, they are ...
Stuck In the Past?
Verizon Wireless Theater, that Bayou Place music mainstay, almost quietly has become the Bayou Music Center. First indications of the new name came in early March, tucked inside of a ...
Who's house? Brit's house
Turns out Britney Spears' dramatic meltdown of 2007/2008 has paid off . . . at least in the rocky California real estate market. According to TMZ, the pop star's 15,930-square-foot ...
It's not over
Those who thought the 4-1/2- year debate over construction of the Ashby High Rise ended last month when Mayor Annise Parker told neighborhood groups that the city had settled ...
One Floor Every 10 Days
Representatives of the Redstone Companies have had the 6.5-acre plot of land at 2200 Post Oak Boulevard in their sights since the early '90s. Now, more than 20 years ...
WTF
What's going to become of the beleaguered Astrodome? That was the question facing Harris County Judge Ed Emmett as he talked to KUHF's David Pitman on Wednesday morning ...
The CultureMap Interview
The name Gerald D. Hines carries a considerable amount of weight in Houston. Not only is there a school of architecture named after the celebrated real estate developer, but a ...
Not With Our Taxes
Houstonians are being rooked. Their attention is being diverted from the colossal waste of their taxpayer money, the real issue, to talk of what our Astrodome could become  — even if ...
Klotman At Work
When Dr. Paul Klotman joined the Baylor College of Medicine as president and CEO in late 2010, he had quite a task ahead of him. Beyond a broken budget and ...
Real estate round-up
Remember the see-through office buildings of the '80s? That’s when Houston office towers were so vacant you could see through them like a J-Lo blouse. Times have changed. Houston ...
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