Author Archives: Michael Hardy
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Teen-Curated Show at the Menil Collection Examines Environmental and Social Change
Something about the black and white photograph caught Eli Winter’s imagination right away. A solitary teenager on a bicycle seemed to be riding in circles in a dry concrete culvert, oblivious to
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Introducing Montrose’s First Farm Stand
About five years ago, Teresa O’Donnell, was flipping through the Houston Chronicle when she noticed a story detailing the trouble refugees in Houston were having finding jobs. O’Donnell,co-founder of Bridgeway Software, was pondering the
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Space City Float Introduces Montrose to “Floatation Therapy”
A few years ago, local entrepreneur Michael Black heard that a health spa in Austin had just introduced a revolutionary new treatment called “floatation therapy;” a deceptively simple concept that involves floating
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Painter Fariba Abedin Bridges Art and Science at the Jung Center
When she first moved to Houston with her husband in 1983, Fariba Abedin was already an accomplished artist, with a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Never one to stop learning,
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My Montrose: James Cole Clay, Film Critic
Freelance writer and part-time dog walker James Cole Clay was recently inducted into the Houston Film Critics Society. His film reviews can be found at FreshFiction.tv, a Dallas-based website. Congrats on being
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