My Brays Oaks
Creative couple is building a neighborhood distillery
Lori and Jeromy Murphy are architects. Their creativity goes well beyond designing buildings, too. After meeting as students at Texas Tech University, they created a [...]
Westbury High will dazzle with its 1st Art Car Parade entry
Victoria Tarkington flanked by student artists Westbury art teacher Victoria Tarkington always wanted her students to have the experience of creating and parading [...]
Eid al-Fitr celebrations abound in southwest Houston
Across southwest Houston, celebrations such as Bollywood performances, bazaars and poetry competitions are planned for early April as Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the [...]
Health care, recreation, civic life will merge along Keegans Bayou
Wildlfowers on the bayou When District J Houston Council Member Edward Pollard informed his constituents that Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital was willing to [...]
New kosher restaurant: Tantalizing food with motherly love
After so many of her catering customers raved about her kosher home-cooked-style food and encouraged her to bring it to a wider audience, Meital Betesh [...]
Mikki’s Café soul food comes in delicious heaping portions
It’s easy to see why people flock to Mikki’s Soul Food Café, where there is a long, winding line at most times as customers wait [...]
Brays Oaks hobby shop takes control of model car motion
Matt Keller One of the most popular local hobbies has a big following in a Brays Oaks Management District store called RC Hobby [...]
Excitement about dramatic new library ramps up in Brays Oaks
A recent “sneak-peek” inside the soon-to-open public library branch in the Brays Oaks Management District revealed a cutting-edge facility with kaleidoscopic window panes, a cafe, [...]
Homegrown civic leader saluted, fittingly, with outdoor enhancement
The Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy recently honored a very deserving local resident with a new art installation. Kathleen Tinsley Ownby, who grew up in Brays [...]
Market meticulously meets demand for Israeli/kosher products
Ofir Azran, a native of Israel who made his home in Houston, decided in 2017 that if he missed the products of his homeland, there [...]