Heights Small Business Saturday
Heights Small Business Saturday-Enjoy Your Shopping Saturday is the perfect day to do your Christmas shopping in the Heights. Not only are the funky shops on W 19th St the perfect place to get unique gifts, it is also Small Business Saturday. (Since American Express launched itsSmall Business Saturday campaign three years ago, the day has […]
Painted Ladies & Haight Ashbury
I just got back from the NAR Realtor Conference in San Francisco last week. The conference was good; the city was great. Here are the Top 10 Tidbits I picked up about San Francisco. Number of people: 1.34 million. Number of stop signs: trillions…there are stop signs on all 4 corners of every street! Going across town […]
Cattle Rustling in the Heights
If you live in the Heights you’ve seen the local magazine OurBlok. They offer insights into local business and rewards for shopping. OurBlok itself is in the news this week because they just suffered from cattle rustling. Their fiberglass mascot cow, Thunder, disappeared sometime over the weekend. Scott Talley described the missing cow as cow-sized, […]
Save the Dome
This isn’t Heights related, but it is twisted. All of a sudden we have Save the Dome, after year of neglect and tons of money spent on it. Never mind that we passed previous bond issues on this money pit. Never mind that we had promises from our previous football team. Never mind that the […]
Drive Through Margaritas – W Grill
I’ve never understood the concept of drive-through daiquiri places. How can that be legal in Texas with it open-container law? W Grill, with their margaritas-to-go have found a way to do it. I can understand it in Louisiana. Lake Charles and odd places like Holly Beach had them everywhere when I lived there. In fact, […]
Zombie Walk 2013
Heights’ very own Darren Tompkins will lead the expected crowd of 3000 at this years Zombie Walk. If you want to be creeped-out by hordes of walking dead (~3000 of them) this is the place to be Saturday 10/19/13. Everything from little kids with face paint, to Hollywood style effects. It’s a haunted house spilled out […]
Flores Spices
Flores Spices on Airline Dr Flores Spices is cool place to visit. The store is mainly bulk; scoop out what you want; and obviously heavy emphasis on Mexican/hispanic spices. Lots of whole and ground chiles of course, but a lot of exotics too, even Himalayan sea salt. I even picked up some tamarino beans. I haven’t […]
El Gran Malo
It was my birthday…tequila and tacos…what could be better. My son Jeff took me to El Gran Malo Saturday for my birthday. It’s a restaurant bar on the edge of the Heights, 2307 Ella Blvd. I had snapper tacos and shrimp tacos. Delicious, wonderful. Everything on the menu looked good. Next time I’ll try the mango […]
Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead
Dia de los Muertos in the Heights is centered on Casa Ramirez Art Gallery. 214 W 19th St, in the middle of the Heights 19th St shopping district. Originally a pre-Columbian indigenous tradition of honoring the dead. It is now a combination of ancient beliefs and religious teachings. This year the celebration is on November 1st & […]
Dan Electro’s Bar
Dan Electro’s looks like a dive bar, but it’s actually a music venue. A music venue with just beer and wine. Not only is it funky looking (my favorite type of bar) but the location is funky too. It’s on the edge of the Heights. Closer to the Farmer’s Market on Airline, than the “real” […]
