Author Archives: Staff
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Ghosts of Design: In Some New Montrose Construction, Echoes Of The Old Can Be Found
Pick your way down any Montrose street, and chances are the newest building there is haunted by a ghost. Contemporary, faux-Versailles, or medieval village, even the most unlikley new construction in Montrose
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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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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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The Neighborhood Astronaut: Koichi Wakata Lives In Montrose, But He Works In Outer Space
As a five-year-old in Tokyo, Koichi Wakata watched the Apollo lunar landing on TV with awe and longing. He yearned to go to space one day himself. And he knew it was
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