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Boheme Looking To Open the Brewheme Brewery, Around the Corner from the...
A reader sends Swamplot photos of this TABC notice posted on the door of 2505 Mason St. in Avondale. That’s the side address of the Pictures Plus framing company and Hyde Park Gallery building, whose...
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League of Extraordinary Brewers, World’s First Brewery Incubator Brought Down...
“Never would a game of strip Twister be so badly regretted,” writes Lucrece Borrego in announcing the sudden closure of her innovative Downtown food-business incubator turned brewery-incubator...
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Freshly-Painted Mango’s for Lease on Lower Westheimer
A Montrose hang for lovers of live punk, metal and experimental sounds, Mango’s nightclub has sprouted a “for lease” sign. The building at 403 Westheimer Rd. next door to Avant Garden has a history as...
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The SPJST Is Not Czeching Out of Shady Acres, According to Lodge Chairman
Talk of an upcoming sale of the SPJST Lodge #88 is no more than just talk, according to the lodge’s chairman of the board Mildred Holeman. “The consensus has been that it will not be sold at any...
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A Flash of Red Graces Midtown Bar Bourbon on Bagby
A patron of Bourbon on Bagby, the latest incarnation of the former OTC Midtown bar at 2708 Bagby St. in Midtown, notes a city inspector has found some basic problems with the bar. Something about not...
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A Mission Athletic Club and Drinkery Wants To Stretch Out and Serve Drinks in...
A TABC notice went out earlier this week to neighbors of this 1,430-sq.-ft. bungalow on a 10,000-sq.ft. lot on the northeast corner of Patterson and Nett streets in the West End. Hoping to serve beer...
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Stag’s Head Pub Can’t Renew Its Lease, Is Calling It Quits for Now
The Stag’s Head will be closing later this month, the owner of the Shepherd Plaza pub at 2128 Portsmouth St. reports. “The Landlord has decided not to renew our lease,” writes Michael Holliday on the...
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Sub-Bourbon Revolver Gunning for Outlaw Dave’s Washington Ave Spot
The owners of fellow just-shut-down Willowbrook Mall bar Revolver are now in possession of the remains of Outlaw Dave’s Worldwide Headquarters, Houstonia’s Katharine Shilcutt notes. And a reader tells...
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Gilley’s To Be Revived as a Family-Friendly Entertainment Center in La Porte
Urban cowboys, hold your horses: A Gilley’s rebirth is in the works near the Ship Channel, but it will be neither as rootin’ nor as tootin’ as its world-famous Pasadena ancestor. Last month La Porte’s...
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Fire Smokes Out The Eagle from Montrose Nest Back to Former Franklin St. Dungeon
A Saturday-afternoon fire has temporarily flushed Montrose bar The Eagle from its roost at 611 Hyde Park Blvd — day-drinkers at the hotspot’s newish location reported smelling smoke and seeing lights...
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Comment of the Day: Where To Go To Avoid a Bar Fight in the Heights
“I remember well the battles between restaurants/bars and residents as the Montrose started to gentrify in the late 1990s. It never ceased to amaze me that someone would buy a pricey townhome right...
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Freshly Sold Hans’ Bier Haus Shutting Down in 4 Weeks
The little beer garden and bocce court at 2523 Quenby St. announced its planned July 15th closure this afternoon, following 21 years of fond but fuzzy memories (give or take a few neighborly physical...
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