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Underground in H-Town
August 1970 issue of Space City!, cover image courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center “The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is watching you.” An arrow bearing that note was shot into the Space City!...
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Cite 82: 60s and 70s Sites of Counterculture
Cite 82 cover, illustration by Gary Panter The Summer issue of Cite (82) is now in the mail and will soon be at the Brazos Bookstore, CAMH, MFAH, Issues, Domy, River Oaks Bookstore, and other stores....
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A Winning Plan for Workshop Houston
Charrette winner Linh Dan Do stands in front of her team’s design. Not pictured is team member Sarah Simpson. If you think design is for snobs, it’s time you took a visit to Workshop Houston. The site...
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Street Art
Daniel Anguilu’s murals at Main and Drew Streets. Photography by J Alejandro Almanza In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Daniel Anguilu, a prolific street artist...
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Cite 89 Party: Honey Spills, Freeway Water Slides, and More
A mega sports complex mixing Zaha Hadid and Gehry elements drawn by Masa Lemu over a photograph of the Astroworld site by Sharon Steinmann in Cite 81 Last Thursday evening, Cite celebrated the release...
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Before the Menil: On the Emergence of Houston’s Counterculture
Dominique speaks with Mickey Leland at the opening of Some American History. All images from the Menil archives. On Saturday, September 22, the Menil will celebrate its 25th anniversary with...
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DiverseWorks is Dead! Long Live DiverseWorks!
Visual Art Gallery at the old 1117 East Freeway location of Diverseworks. All black and white photos courtesy Bob Warren/rj warren photography “Closing Time” was the last record played as the party...
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An Infrastructure for Cruisers, Racers, Mountain Bikers, Commuters, and BMX...
Overlook on Buffalo Bayou. All images by Peter Muessig. Anyone who’s stalled in Houston’s early evening sea of brake lights might not be inclined to think we have room for an entirely new...
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Lessons from Viva! Streets Austin: A Photoessay
A band of bees. Photo by mrlaugh. Sunday May 19, I packed my two kids in the car and drove two and half hours to participate in Viva! Streets Austin. The event closed one and a half miles of 6th...
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A Brilliant (and Totally Unauthorized) May Day Celebration
Kelly McCann works a sound system mounted on a rickshaw. Photo by Harbeer Sandhu. Before May 1st, it was only from a distance that I had seen the semi-circle of crepe myrtles along Houston’s Memorial...
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Blizard in Houston: An Art Walk
Christie Blizard and Edward Garza walking in Houston. It was 9:24 on a Sunday morning, and I doubted whether I was in the right place. I was planning to join the artist Christie Blizard on her walk...
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Long Live Westheimer, Montrose, and Cafe Brasil
View down Dunlavy from Westheimer. Photograph by Raj Mankad. It’s true that rents are rising in Montrose, and the writers, artists, and other freaks are in retreat. But I am still in love with the...
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Jackson Boulevard: Palimpsest of Urban Life and Southern Myth by Randal Hall
Randal Hall is Editor, Journal of Southern History, and Associate Professor of History at Rice University. Jackson Boulevard is short. Running from Waugh Drive to Montrose Boulevard and a stone’s throw...
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