Author Archives: Staff
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Luau Know-How: Bringing a Taste of Hawaii to a Life in Montrose
JoAnn Takasaki has lived in Montrose longer than she’s lived anywhere else on earth. But while she treasures the friends, haunts, and habits she’s had since her first weeks here, when Takasaki entertains,
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Dogged Determination: Caring For Abandoned Canines Is Hard, But For One Montrose Man Not Caring Is Harder
The sixth time Mark Lankford went wooing, he brought a chicken. Lankford, a blond, boyishly good-looking tax auditor who lives in East Montrose, was smitten the first time he saw a little
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A Record Achievement: Montrose Vintage Vinyl Shop Feeds The Senses
The first thing you notice at Sound Exchange, a tiny record store on Richmond Avenue at Hazard, isn’t sound. It’s scent: The place smells wonderful, the record-shop equivalent of a bakery. There’s
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Place Tectonics: Old and New Montrose Meet in a Pleasant Present
If you’ve lived in Montrose over the past decade, you’ve probably passed a bleak convenience store at the corner of Hawthorne and Stanford. In recent years, the potted plants died. The stock
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The Venerable Bead: South African Beaders Help Craft a Massive Montrose Artwork
When viewers lay their eyes on the Art League Houston building this October, Selven O’Keef Jarmon wants them to ask questions. Who covered this metal structure with more than 400,000 giant beads?
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