Comment of the Day: Nothing To Fear but an Attack of Zombie Pirates
“You expected they would swim in from the Gulf?” [Ian V, commenting on Galveston, You Have Been Warned: Zombies Will Come from the North]
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Drive Up the Hill to Your Own Galveston Island
Yes, there’s a mini seawall wrapped around the base of this Ostermeyer Rd. winner in Baybridge Estates in Galveston — and it “protected the home” from Hurricane Ike, according to the listing. Other...
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Jack Johnson, Still Drawing the Crowds in Galveston
On the agenda for the next meeting of GRACE, the homeownership organization in charge of The Oaks housing development at 4300 Broadway in Galveston: A discussion of Earl Jones’s sculpture of former...
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Disturbing Details from the Flagship Hotel Demo Accident
A letter written by Grant MacKay Demolition owner Grant MacKay paints a harrowing picture of the circumstances surrounding the death of 65-year-old company worker Tauelangi Angilau in a collapse at the...
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Get Out of the West: Sweeping Proposals for Galveston
A new report from Rice University’s Shell Center for Sustainability includes a few suggestions for the future of Galveston: step all development back from the beach in anticipation of continuing...
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George Mitchell Wants To Buy Galveston Piers
Billionaire George Mitchell’s Mitchell Historic Properties has been leasing Piers 19-22 on the dock side of Galveston since 1993. The leases don’t expire until 2065, but he now wants to buy the...
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Rice Study Wishlist: Houston Ship Channel Watergate, Galveston Bay Levees,...
What could possibly have been worse than Hurricane Ike? Super Ike, a stronger hurricane aimed 30 miles further west, causing a larger storm surge, more deaths, and significantly greater damage to...
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Galveston Elementary Still in After-School Detention
Well into Burnet Elementary School’s third year of post-Ike limbo, a school district spokesman says one idea is to fix the hurricane-ravaged property’s exterior, roof, and air conditioning so it can be...
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Galveston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Hitting the High Notes
13918 Grambo Blvd. [HAR]
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Hotel Galvez Bar and Grill To Be Renovated, Renamed
A new look, new menu, and new name are coming to Bernardo’s at Hotel Galvez on Seawall Blvd., says hotel owner Mitchell Historic Properties: To be adventurously rechristened Galvez Bar & Grill,...
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How Italian Artists Get Stuck in Galveston
Art writer Debra Barrera gets the inside scoop on some of the banana-peel art put up by Italian artist Davide Savorani for this past weekend’s exhibition at the Galveston Artist Residency compound at...
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Unloading Galveston’s Bishop’s Palace
The Galveston-Houston Archdiocese has put up for sale the 1892 Bishop’s Palace, a.k.a. Gresham’s Castle, at 14th and Broadway. The price? $3 million. But the archdiocese isn’t going to let just anyone...
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Galveston Historical Foundation Closes On Bishop’s Palace
With the Moody Foundation’s $1.5 million donation as a nice starter, the Galveston Historical Foundation was able to raise the rest of the $3 million it needed to buy the 1892 Bishop’s Palace from the...
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Some Real-Life Occupants for Galveston’s Long-Abandoned Brewery?
The endangered historic Falstaff Brewery that once harbored a bunch of scared architecture students in a horror flick might become a real refuge for Galvestonians looking for cheap housing — or so...
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Galveston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Bodies of Water
20615 Sandhill Dr., Galveston [HAR]
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