Oh, how we wept and wailed when Ming's closed. We rended our garments in the streets, gnashed our teeth and decried the unfairness of it all. How could they move to Austin and leave us without convenient, if mediocre, Chinese food after a long night at Numbers? Never more to mourn, people. A new late-night sheriff is in town: Little Big's. Bryan Caswell, native Houstonian and head chef at the popular Reef, and his partner,......

You weren't happy with your close proximity to downtown, the Medical Center and the Museum District; your tree-lined streets and quaint houses; your dining options that run the gamut from upscale (Hugo's, Indika, Feast, Da Marco) to down-home (Baba Yega, Cafe Montrose, Ziggy's, Lankford Grocery); your endless thrift stores and antique shops and clothing boutiques; your quirky coffee shops and bars. It just wasn't enough, was it, Montrose? Now you want your own farmer's market,......

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! David Bowie's 1972 manifesto could be the theme music for the last few weeks on Houston's restaurant scene. It's been busy to say the least, as demonstrated by several resignations, hirings and announcements. Houstonist is here to round up the highs and the lows. The newly-opened Americas in The Woodlands has lost both their head chef, Jonathan Jones, and their pastry chef, Plinio Sandalio. Jones was the original chef at Max's Wine Dive and......

After many years at their location on Montrose just off of Westheimer, Ming's Cafe has shut it's doors for greener pastures in Austin. Austinist, take note and indulge in your new Chinese food overlords! We found out about Ming's closing via three sources, a friend of Houstonist, the HAIF forum and the SheEats blog which wrote a well rounded blog post about Ming's. But of course, we couldn't believe it and had to drive down......

When the night has come / And the land is dark / And the moon is the only / Light you see / No, I won't be afraid / No, I won't shed a tear / Just as long as you come / To Domy Domy Books, the bookstore you've been searching for your entire life (whether you knew it or not), is screening that classic coming-of-age film that made us all frightened of train......

We're not entirely sure what to think about this week's shelterporn home, a contemporary North Montrose model. Is it a house with a beautifully clean and modern exterior? Why yes — but what's inside is even more interesting, not least because it features (gulp) shiny black ceilings. No, really. The shiny ceilings, it turns out, are ebonized maple which, for better or worse, matches the floors in most of the house. It's good, in......

We hate most of the townhomes gobbling up inner-Loop neighborhoods these days: Many of them are bland, poorly constructed cookie-cutter houses that destroy the character of the neighborhood they're built in. Which makes it all the better when we run across really good townhomes, like these on West Alabama in Montrose. The 505, designed by Jim Evans of Collaborative Designworks, has won all kinds of awards since it was finished a couple of years......

Forty-years ago today a man with the dream was assassinated in Memphis but the effects were felt across the country. Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up as the son and grandson of a pastor and would become one himself in 1954. Ten years later King would become the youngest person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation in the fight against racism. King was killed after having......

Houstonist reader Ben called our attention to a piece of modern architectural history for sale: John Zemanek's award-winning Japanese modern home off Richmond and Dunlavy. Zemanek, an architect who teaches at UH, built the house in 1968; it has received the Texas Society of Architects Honor Award, was featured in the Harvard Design Magazine and is listed in Stephen Fox's Houston Architectural Guide. Not bad. The interior of the house is minimalist and amazing,......

::DRAG QUEEN BINGO!:: Ripped form the headlines of Facebook, today we bring you: Drag Queen Bingo! We're no strangers to Drag Queen Bingo at JR's, with it's wacky prize giveaways, gender bending antics, and some of our f Tonight's charity is the Montrose Counseling Center , so come on down and get ready to jiggle those balls, er, tuck 'em. Your first round is gratis, and each additional card is $3, well worth seeing......

It's March now; the freakish weather is in full effect and your allergies are making you wish the spring was a figment of your imagination. What better way to celebrate than to go outside? We know: go outside and listen to good music, look at some great art and meet your Montrosian neighbors at The Free Press' Westheimer Block Party on Saturday, April 12. It looks like a veritable schmorgasboard of local goodness, folks. If......

Westheimer Road is a long, thriving, paved snake of potholed infrastructure. It guides you into town from the Grand Parkway through Beltway 8 and Loop 610 until it brings you all the way into a cozy, little enclave of town we lovingly refer to as The Montrose. Not really the heart of Houston, because that would probably be the Medical Center, but more like the liver or one of the kidneys of Houston as......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor j-a-x. This is an incredible view from downtown of River Oaks, The Galleria area and beyond. It's an amazing image that must be seen large to really appreciate it. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 230 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Axelhouston who brings us this iconic random Montrose neighborhood shot. Street parking, plants in the ditch, the glow of the city street lights and lots of trees, pure unzoned bliss. All these things help bring together the uniqueness that is The Montrose. On a side note, directly to the right of the stop sign is the original locations of Barnaby's and......