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| All Offcite Posts Tagged: Walking | Date Posted | Categories |
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A Stroll Along Hillcroft and 59A ramp arcs over the Hillcroft Transit Center, photos by Rose Kuo In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Raj Mankad, the editor of Cite and OffCite, takes us on a tour of the triangle-shaped area bounded by Highway 59, Hillcroft, and the Westpark tollway. First he braves the feeder [...] |
09.22.11 | Unexpected City |
Street ArtDaniel Anguilu’s murals at Main and Drew Streets. Photography by J Alejandro Almanza In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Daniel Anguilu, a prolific street artist responsible for some of Houston’s most compelling murals, and Alex Luster, documentary filmmaker of “Stick Em Up,” take us on this tour of art [...] |
09.06.11 | Art & Culture Unexpected City |
Writers in the Schools Summer Creative Writing Camp MixtapeThis Hear Our Houston audio tour mixtape and contribution to Unexpected City is a glimpse into the minds of 7th and 8th grade writers who attended Writers in the Schools Summer Creative Camp this year. Breaking the form of the usual Hear Our Houston tours, this mixtape will only let you follow along in your [...] |
08.31.11 | Unexpected City Unusual |
Is It Honorable to Choose Your Lawn Over Our Bay?Galveston Bay, photo from United States Geological Survey, Wikimedia Commons In this special series, OffCite focuses on water and waterways. If this interests you, be sure to check out the Rice Design Alliance civic forum, Water: Challenges Facing the Houston Region, Wednesdays August 24 and 31, 6:30 pm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Brown [...] |
08.24.11 | Environment Infrastructure |
A Walk Down AlmedaIn this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, artist, musicologist, and historian Tierney L. Malone walks along Almeda from Southmore to Wheeler, in Houston’s historic Third Ward that has served as a major hub for some of Houston’s most talented artists and musicians Almeda (mp3, 14 minutes, 11.7 MB) by Tierney [...] |
08.10.11 | Place Unexpected City |
A Walk With WheelsA Walk With Wheels, photos by Addie Tsai In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, writers Kelly Moore and Addie Tsai take a walk from an apartment to the labyrinth at St. Thomas, with a stop at the reflecting pool by the Rothko Chapel. Moore, who uses a wheelchair, contributed [...] |
06.10.11 | Unexpected City |
MicrocosmMicrocosm, photos by Stephanie Toppin In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Visual Artist Stephanie Toppin echoes Bob Stein, the dean of the School of Social Sciences of Rice University: “Hillcroft is disorganized but not necessarily unorganized development. It is what Houston is all about. When you go from one [...] |
06.10.11 | Unexpected City |
Oak TherapyBoulevard Oaks, photos by Lara Appleby In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, avid dancer and banjo player Lara Appleby leads a 10-minute one-way walk along North Boulevard. In her doctoral studies at the University of Houston, Appleby probes the exceptionally small workers made by new ant colonies. In her [...] |
06.07.11 | Unexpected City |
Layered HistoriesFirst Ward, photographs by Regina Agu In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, artist Regina Agu takes us along for her daily wonder-filled walk in the First Ward. As a resident at Elder Street Lofts, she excavates the spiritual from this old graveyard and mental hospital site, appreciates nature’s conquering [...] |
05.26.11 | Place Unexpected City |
A Bike Trail Runs Through ItHorses gallop through Montana-sized utility corridors that crisscross Houston. Two bills before the Texas legislature would create the opportunity for bike trails to crisscross Houston at no cost to taxpayers, but to get them through at this stage will take extraordinary mobilization. Lisa Gray wrote about this effort in the Houston Chronicle and David Nova [...] |
05.19.11 | Environment |
