It may be the Asian Year of the Tiger, but at Daboba bubble tea in the International Management District, you can come face-to-face with a bear. When you order your bubble tea from recently-opened Daboba, at the Universal Shopping Center at 11360 Bellaire Blvd., your drink comes in an adorable cup, the top of which [...]
Youngblood Intermediate fifth and sixth graders dig in the dirt to harvest sugar snap peas and red beets they grow from seed. For the last several years, Alief ISD school students have been hard at work planting, weeding and harvesting fruits and vegetables in the Youngblood plots of the Alief Community Garden, a 6.5-acre garden [...]
Debris and trash can take a toll on quality of life and the spirit of a neighborhood. Wouldn’t it be great if there were someone you could call or report these nuisances to? A team that could help us keep our neighborhoods and community free of the blight if and when the city Solid Waste [...]
Vy Tan Hoang Van Thinking outside the box comes naturally for Vy Tan Hoang Van, who has built a stand-out private school in Houston that rethinks the approach to motivating young people to succeed. In just a five-year span, Van Houston Academy, at 13618 Bellaire Blvd. in the International Management District, has grown [...]
Madan Luthra of Houston was a child refugee when he first learned about selfless service to others. Born five days after the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, in what is now Jodhpur, Pakistan, Luthra lived in government camps in India. “In early childhood, [I saw] that when you don’t have anything, the only thing [...]
On a crisp, sunny morning recently, workers installed the first of many bright green and white street signs along Bellaire Boulevard to honor the roles of South Vietnamese army generals in the Vietnam War. The signs at major intersections west of the Sam Houston Tollway mark the new Walk of Honor, a project of the [...]
HOPE Clinic is a non-profit network of Houston health centers that cares, in 35 languages, for patients regardless of their ability to pay. Now it has officially started construction on a $33 million, three-story multi-purpose complex in the Alief area. By itself, dynamically upgrading the availability of healthcare in the multi-ethnic International Management District and beyond [...]
The Houston Police Department’s Westside Command Station is the city’s largest, serving a population of 300,000 people (plus businesses, visitors and more) with a staff of about 300 officers per day in addition to a civilian support team. Its boundaries are I-10 on the north, South Gessner on the east, the I-59/69 on the south [...]
Quynh Vora Quynh Vora, an interior decorator and real estate investor, was 8 when she and her family of refugees from Vietnam arrived in Houston: “It was hot and humid and reminded us of life in Vietnam. As a little girl, I remembered taking the Metro bus with my mom to all [...]
Armando Castelan considers himself lucky to be able to live in Houston, known as the most diverse city in the United States. One of the epicenters of cultural diversity is the Alief community, where on any given day one can hear countless languages spoken, from Spanish to English to Vietnamese, Urdu, Arabic, Tagalog, Chinese – [...]
