Houston Police Department has promoted Samanda Rubin, a Houston native and attorney, as commander of its South Gessner Division, also known as Patrol District 17. Capt. Rubin joined HPD in 2006 and rose to the rank of sergeant before being elevated to her new assignment. Rubin shared her thoughts about her new role after working [...]
Deepti Patel For Deepti Patel, BollyX dancing isn’t an exercise craze, it’s a calling. Patel, a longtime volunteer for India House Houston, is using her love for dance and fitness to bring people together through the dance form, sharing its rhythms and movements that she says promote health and happiness. “It’s so engaging [...]
Grabbing a tasty lunch at Sazón Garifuna in the Brays Oaks Management District also means visiting the scene now represented in a Washington, D.C., museum to teach the world about the culture and history of the Garifuna people. Writer John Nova Lomax captured the scene, with two truck workers, in a photo that accompanied his [...]
Karolena Serratos Trust. It’s the number one reason consumers are reluctant to get work done on their car, even if they know something is wrong. And that is where Karolena Serratos comes in. Karolena is a second-generation owner-operator of Professional Auto Care at 9916 Honeywell in the Brays Oaks Management District. She takes [...]
Aron Mandl, center, & staff join Mayor Turner as tree-planting volunteers Few attorneys can say they deal in happiness, but Aron Mandl is emphatic that his firm does just that by, as he explains, “making dreams come true.” Mandl, a practicing immigration lawyer for the last 23 years, owns the Law Office of [...]
Colette White, left, & Kay Wasden Meyerland resident Kay Wasden was looking to donate to Westbury High School and Fondren Middle School the college test prep books her children no longer need. But she quickly found out the students’ needs are much more basic. School staffers said they would accept the books — [...]
The newest Houston-area Crafty Crab franchise restaurant draws the senses immediately with bright lighting and piped-in music in its 7,000 space that presents some surprises. A group of owners and investors including David and Teresa Kang opened the restaurant on Fondren Road in Brays Oaks in July 2022 as part of a Florida-based chain that [...]
Jamila Lakhani, left, & customers Housed in a colorful, 8,700 square foot building with room to grow, Gessner Kiddie Kollege in the Brays Oaks Management District offers far more than daycare for children cared for by adults who work full time. Billed as an early childhood education center, it is more of a [...]
Saghian , left, Kornhaber, Sherman It’s the kind of quaint coffee shop that has been a neighborhood staple since the late 1970’s. For the New York Coffee Shop at 9720 Hillcroft, the décor hasn’t changed much, and the steady crowd of neighborhood people are now coming as first- to third- generation customers to [...]
If you’re into the natural habitat and the sights and sounds in our area, including the many diverse bird sounds, naturalist Mary Ann Beauchemin leads the perfect activity for you. She leads the Nature Trail Bird Walks in the Brays Oaks District multiple times a year. Several neighborhood people joined the October bird walk ready [...]
