Category Archives: In Neighborhood News
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Growing Home: A Refugee Gardener And Refugee Plants Take Root In Montrose
A full block away from J.C. Nguyen’s house, you can hear the music from his past: the Marine Corps Hymn, blaring briskly from a CD player on the porch. Step closer, and
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Opting Out: A Group of Montrose Parents Say No To High Stakes School Tests
This week, in public schools across Montrose, testing season began again: the familiar and, for many, unhappy ritual of hushed campuses, cardboard isolation screens, and silent filling-in of bubbles on standardized test
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Spring Has Sprung: 8 Events In Montrose This April
The spring event season is officially underway, kicked off by Cigna Sunday Streets in Montrose last weekend. If you’re looking for things to do this April within the neighborhood, there’s plenty of
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Less Is More: New Shopping Center Design Gets A Revamp Before Breaking Ground
A new Montrose retail center designed by Ziegler Cooper Architects is close to breaking ground, but only after undergoing an overhaul to help it fit better within the neighborhood. The Houston Business Journal reports
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Mistress of Spices: Anita Jaisinghani Taught Texans to Love Indian Haute Cuisine. Now She Wants New Yorkers To Love the Texas-Sized Flavors of Indian Street Food.
Early one morning in 2008, Anita Jaisinghani was puttering at Pondicheri, the then-new spinoff of her Montrose restaurant Indika. A customer, lured by the blackboard announcing Indian breakfast, studied the menu. His
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