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Why the Newest Bar in Houston Isn’t a Bar
A sudsy education center for the “beer curious,” Premium Draught tore the butcher paper from its windows and started pouring this week at 733 Studewood, the former Kaboom Books spot. The store shares...
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Strip Club Where Anna Nicole Smith Met Her Billions Gains Houston’s Approval...
The city of Houston granted a demolition permit yesterday to a company called Magnolia Services, allowing it to demolish the Pleasures Men’s Club, aka Pleasures Cabaret, off Highway 290 at 34th St. As...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Bedroom Practice
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View ArticleComment of the Day: Who Wants To Stay Downtown?
“. . . I ride my bike around downtown for pleasure on some evenings (unthinkable 15 years ago) and am always impressed by the level of activity after dark. Restaurants, bars, music venues and Discovery...
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How About Washington Ave Jitney Rapid Transit?
It’s not as well-designed or well-funded as the Post Oak Bus Rapid Transit that Uptown’s got in the works, but Houston Wave owner Lauren Barrash thinks her jitney service could work for the Washington...
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Sawyer Park Marquee Leaves Cryptic Reopening Message from the Great Bar Beyond
A reader sends this photo from the Washington Corridor: Is Sawyer Park coming back from the dead this September? The 4-year run of the 2-story sports bar with a checkered past at 2412 Washington came...
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From the River Bottom to the Docks in Midtown
Swamplot commenter drlan34 reports (and that Dumpster in the photo above would appear to confirm) that a good gutting is going on to renovate the old dive bar Brazos River Bottom into a new...
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Say Howdy to the Largest Gay Country Bar in Texas
Lamenting the closing of Brazos River Bottom in Midtown, the new owners of the 1955 Esquire Ballroom — where a young Willie Nelson, among other country crooners, cut his teeth — say they are restoring...
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Bar Takes Old Guadalajara Spot on Washington
A reader has spotted some signs hanging on the fence outside 4003 Washington near Leverkuhn, where the Guadalajara Bakery used to be: The slick one in the photo above for La Roux, and another just a...
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Importing Pieces of Paris to a New Washington Ave Club
The owner of Hughes Hangar is building another bar about 50 ft. away on Washington Ave. Culturemap reports that the De Gaulle, rendered here with old-timey airplane, will share the property at 2811...
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Comment of the Day: Club Some Time Ago
“Wow . . . far cry from the Emo’s and Club Some days that were housed on the first floor. Anyone remember the algae stricken pool as well as skateboard half pipe that was in the courtyard? Or better...
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Downtown’s Little Dipper Will Be Visible This Saturday
Now there’s an astrological sign on the window foretelling all the boozing to come: Eater Houston’s Darla Guillen reports that the owners and operators of hipster havens Antidote, Poison Girl, and...
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And Yet Another Bar Is Coming to Main St.’s Happening 300 Block
The stretch of Main St. downtown between Prairie and Congress that’s been nominated for the Ground-Floor Retail Award in this year’s Swampies will soon have another bar to add to its growing...
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Latest Expletive-Laden, Landlord-Blaming, Bar-Closing Tirade Comes from The...
Cottage Grove lesbian bar The Usual shut down its patio-by-the-railroad-tracks location last week, and marked the occasion with a Facebook announcement declaring enough was enough: “We planned on...
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The Bar on South Shepherd Dr. Where the Pants Went on Backward
Why would patrons at Rita Wanstrom’s Roaring 60s bar at 2305 S. Shepherd Dr. — just north of Fairview — regularly retreat to the bathroom to put their pants on backwards? In the late 1980s, the site...
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How the Montrose ‘Skybar’ Building Demo Is Going Down
If it doesn’t look like much of the 10-story building at 3400 Montrose Blvd. has been taken down yet, that’s because you’re looking at it (in the above photo, at least) from the front. Come around to...
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Comment of the Day: Need More Bars High in the Sky
“It’s amazing to me how many people appreciate what Cody’s Skybar offered Houston, while it never seemed to inspire imitators. It’s remarkable how a little elevation can lend so much atmosphere to a...
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Zimms Martini and Wine Bar Migrating to Whiskies and Beer; Opening New...
The restaurant spot at 4319 Montrose Blvd. just south of Richmond Ave (at left in the photo above) that until mid-February was home to Thai Sticks — and was earlier the longtime home of Monica Pope’s...
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Extremely Well Hidden Bar Off Willowbend Blvd. Now Impossible To Find
Carolyn’s, the dive bar at the corner of Craighead and Willowbend Blvd. across the train tracks from the Willowbend subdivision closed sometime around the end of last month, a reader notes. Back in...
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That Bar on the Rice Hotel Balcony Is Closing
Another change coming to the Rice Lofts, now that an entity connected to the Trammell Crow family has purchased the building from Post Properties, and apartment-management duties are being turned over...
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