Share I made my first trip to Sam Houston Race Park on Friday night. I remember the days I used to pass it on Beltway 8 when I was heading to 45 North to get back to Fort Worth for school. I must say I had only a passing interest in actually visiting the facility. [...]
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Share Happy Thanksgiving from Urban Houstonian. Here’s wishing you an yours a wonderful, finally seasonal holiday. Today is the day to sit back, and be thankful for everything you have in your lives. As for Urban Houstonian itself, I consider all the great things Houston has to offer, and am grateful to have the opportunity [...]
Share This weekend was a showcase of all that is great, as well as, everthing that so frustrates me about our professional sports teams in Houston. The current leaders of the pack, both in their own league and among their Houston brethren, are the Dynamo. Sunday’s victory over the New England Revolution was a textbook [...]
Share July 3, 2004, approx. 11:00 PMA friend and I head out one night to Meteor. It’s like any other evening where we are going out, having a good time, scoping the scene and having a cocktail or two. I meet this guy while we are there. He’s cute, we have pretty good conversation. July [...]
Share SONA: Wind, Rail and TrainsOriginally uploaded by urban_houstonian SONA: Wind, Rain, and TrainsMusic by Kurt StallmannVideo by Alfred GuzzettiFeaturing Enso String Quartet Thursday, November 15, 7:00PMSabine-to-Bagby PromenadeSONA fuses environmental sounds and images based on Houston’s surroundings: freight trains traveling through the city produce bellowing horns and deep rumblings juxtaposed with the rhythms of falling [...]
Share There has been a lot I have been wanting to write about these past couple of weeks, but I have really made the appropriate time to sit down and write it. I hope to take some more time in the coming week to catch back up on some subjects that I have been interested [...]
Share I reported on Toby Topek’s mosaics in a previous edition of Thoughts. In this morning’s Chronicle, there was an update that the Houston Downtown Management District has budgeted $70,000 for the restoration of the artwork. How will these mosaics fare better than the originals? Well, they will using a more resilient epoxy instead of [...]
Share I was very upset to hear that both the Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo voiced their opposition to redevelopment plan for the Astrodome. While it is clear to me that there are obvious aspects of this project that we are not 100% clear on, I refuse to believe that both organizations [...]