My Neighbor Is Going as a Bungalow
My neighbor Ruthie built a Rainey Street bungalow costume out of H-E-B boxes for Halloween. Before she got it past the mailbox, it attracted two buyers, a rezoning request and a rooftop bar.
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Ruin Leads by Six at the Half
It's August, which on the festival calendar counts as halftime, so I tallied the Ruin Counter category by category. Ruin is up six. The home team has heart and no parking.
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Scene Report from the Yellow House That Still Has Its Original Porch
The yellow bungalow at Rainey and Davis used to let you drink $3.50 whiskey Cokes on its actual porch with zero irony; last Friday the same address had a $12 cover, a bouncer checking IDs against a tablet, and a bride-to-be group from Houston doing tequila shots while a speaker played remixed Willie Nelson at volumes that rattled the original glass.
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Porches That Once Held Swing Sets Now Hold $500 Bottle Service
Turned onto Rainey at 1:17 a.m. to find the 1923 bungalow where old man Delgado repaired lawnmowers in his carport now demanding a $20 cover to access what used to be the front yard; same corner that smelled like mesquite charcoal in 2004 now smells like Red Bull, Axe body spray, and the quiet death of a neighborhood.
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Rainey Street Remembers
Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.
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