life in houston
Charlie Rose talks with Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp
Charlie Rose featured an interview with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach for America (official website) last week. For anyone interested in education the conversation is a fascinating one, following the recent publication of her book One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way.
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Houston Ready for its Close Up, Bucks National Economic Trend
Daniel Gross has nominated Houston as the poster child for bucking the recent downturn in the economy in Newsweek’s Houston, We Have No Problems: Houston has become a sort of Silicon Valley for the global energy industry. Urban cowboy? Think suburban geek.
To find a hot spot where soaring oil and commodity prices, and the booming […]
Cardboarding, like Snowboarding, but without Snow or Excitement
This Houstonist post brought back fond memories. Since my elementary school had a giant hill behind the playground cardboarding was a frequent pastime in the spring and fall, as was sledding in the winter. How we didn’t break our little faces I’ll never know.
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The Caroline Collective
The irrepressible Monica Danna clued me in to her new project the Caroline Collective, the city’s first creative coworking space; here’s the shpiel:
coworking is a cafe-like environment that provides freelance workers, artists, designers, and entrepreneurs a space to conduct business in a community environment; complete with office space, desk space, a conference room, coffee, wireless […]
That Ain’t No Beaver Kid…
That, son, is a grown-ass nutria rat. Look at the freakin’ TAIL for chrissakes… not that you have any business feeding french fries to a beaver either. via the Houstonist.
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Slice of Houston, Expats Fuel Thriving Amateur Cricket League
A visiting professor remarked that Houston was not quite what he expected as I was driving back to the airport after one of our conferences. The image projected is a bastion of oil-rich, good-ole boy, SUV-driving, God-fearing, Bush-loving conservatism, and like most images, the reality is a lot more complex.
Case in point, the Houston Chronicle […]
S.O. Young’s Historical Collections of Houston Stories
Houston Chronicle Blogger J.R. Gonzales at Bayou City History clued us in to two classic titles in early Houston history being reissued in limited edition sets by Copano Bay Press. Dr. S.O. Young’s “A Thumbnail History of the City of Houston, Texas” and “True Stories of Old Houston and Houstonians.” Copano Bay is producing 500 […]
Houston Police Department Tests Unmanned Spydrones
Acting from a tip from farmers convinced the government was turning their pasture into some sort of Area 51, Click2Houston stumbled onto a cadre of Houston police surreptitiously testing an unmanned aircraft. As for the purpose of the craft, it looks like our beloved red light cameras were just the tip of the 1984-iceberg.
Montalvo told […]
Google Street View Comes to Houston
Google added Street View mapping to Houston last week, making it possible to browse photographs of the city’s major streets from your computer as if you were standing on the corner. Above, is Google’s shot of my house. I wish they would have told me they were coming, I would have tidied up a bit.
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Inprint Brown Reading Series 2007-08 season lineup announced
The Inprint Brown Reading Series season lineup has been announced. My personal highlights include Michael Chabon and Dave Eggers, founder of publishing house McSweeney’s whose Internet Tendency is a daily read. See the Inprint Houston website for more information.
Houston Chronicle: Inprint Brown Reading Series
• Oct. 15: Richard Powers and Jennifer Egan. Powers (The Gold Bug […]