Share Got this from a co-worker, can’t take any credit for it, but had to post it. 1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is “Hue-stun,” not “Ewe-stun”, or “house-tun” Oh yea, the street is pronounced ”San Phil-ee-pay,” not” San Phil-eep” ( San Felipe) Enunciate, you idiots! 2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Houston [...]

Share The end of another decade is upon us. The inevitable profiles of what’s was what and who was who will be coming down the pike any day now. I’ve been thinking a lot about Houston’s last decade for a few months now. We’ve had our fair share of triumphs and defeats over the past [...]

Share For the record, I do not think Houston is the greatest city in the world. That title, in my opinion, belongs to New York City. However, it’s a helluva lot better than most people are willing to admit. Their frustration, I feel, lies in their inability to accept certain truths about Houston. They come [...]

Share So I wasn’t ever really interested in getting into political issues when I started this blog. For one, I can’t stomach the extreme ends of the political spectrum enough to make myself a target of their attacks because I may not agree with them on a particular issue. Besides, convincing people of Houston’s greatness [...]

Share Black Water Rising by Attica Locke should have been two novels. Locke forced two tenuously linked plots into the book to the detriment of both. What makes this all the more disappointing is the book is actually very well written. The novel begins with attorney Jay Porter taking his wife Bernie on a cruise [...]

Share So this is a repost of something I wrote nearly two years ago. A friend who I went on a date on when I first wrote this post discovered it after searching the Interwebs for the Win a Date with an Urban Houstonian contest. I found myself laughing out loud when I read it [...]

Share I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Medical Center/Hermann Park skyline has undergone quite the upgrade over the past two years. One of the more noticable edifices is the twin towers of Mosaic and Montage. Sitting just off 288, they have become the premier residential location south of Downtown. Did you know Bob [...]

Share Thanks to everyone who supported the Win a Date with an Urban Houstonian Contest. You can’t do something like this without some great people to make it work, and I am blessed with some of the best. In the end, I received one entry. Yeah, only one. I’ m not going to lie, it [...]