My International District
Entertaining combo: All-you-can-eat Korean BBQ & hot pot
Korean BBQ restaurants and hot pot restaurants are trending along the Bellaire Boulevard corridor, meaning that more customers are learning how to assemble and cook these delicacies at their tables. This is the happy story [...]
District funds college scholarships for 4 outstanding AISD grads
From funding extra security patrols to promoting new businesses, removing litter and displaying public art, the International Management District takes actions that produce immediate results. But the District also invests in the future, as shown [...]
Spotlight shines on district’s Vietnamese breakfast speciality
Last year, comedian Mo Amer put Alief in the national glare with his Netflix TV series called “Mo.” Alief scenes and cultures are the backdrop as the main character, played by Amer, grows into adulthood [...]
Women’s artworks honor Alief’s legacy at new center
Windbloom In 1917, a tiny farming settlement called Dairy was renamed Alief in honor of Alief Ozelda Morris Magee, one of the area’s first settlers. She had served as its first postmaster. Today [...]
Nonprofit founder shapes the CHAT about immigrants
Two striking scenarios take place in the Gulfton community: In one, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, driving a car owned by his family, finds himself chased by seven police officers for disobeying a traffic light whose [...]
New Alief schools chief tackles budget, sets goals
Three months into his new job, Anthony Mays takes seriously the fact that he is the first Black superintendent of the Alief Independent School District, whose student body is 90 percent “minority.” “I don’t take [...]
