07/27/15 8:30am

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Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/24/15 8:30am

Fountains at Memorial City parking garage

Photo of Fountains at Memorial City parking garage mural: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/23/15 8:30am

buffalo-bayou

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/22/15 8:30am

Pearl Residences and CityCentre Pearl

Photo of Pearl Residences and CityCentre Pearl: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/21/15 8:30am

mosaic-condos

Photo of the Mosaic Condos: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/20/15 8:30am

braes-bayou

Photo of Brays Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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07/17/15 3:15pm

Stewart Beach, Galveston

It’s the middle of summer; parking lots are sizzling and beaches beckon. Starting today, Swamplot will be putting its regular publishing schedule on “pause” for a few weeks. Our daily roundups of Headlines will continue — they’ll still go up every weekday morning (look below this post if you don’t see them) — but the rest of our Houston coverage will have to wait for the new editorial team that’ll take over when Swamplot returns. You can speed the process along by sending the best candidates you can drum up for that job opening we’ve been advertising our way. And by continuing to send us tips we can use when Swamplot is back at full strength.




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Photo of Stewart Beach, Galveston: Dana Smith [license]

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07/17/15 12:00pm

SWAMPLOT WANTS TO HIRE YOU (OR SOMEBODY YOU KNOW) Help WantedAre you a sharp reporter, an engaging writer, and someone who gets a kick out of delving into this city’s many peculiarities? Swamplot, we announced earlier this week, is looking to hire an editor. Here are the details. (What?? That’s not you? Then go ahead and forward this to that perfect candidate.) Photo: Flickr user DrPantzo [license]

07/17/15 8:30am

Comet Cleaners with Balloon, 2612 S. Shepherd Dr. at Westheimer Rd., Upper Kirby, Houston

Photo of Comet Cleaners, 2612 S. Shepherd Dr. at Westheimer: Allyn West

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07/16/15 4:00pm

THE PARTS OF TOWN WHERE THOSE STREETCORNER MINI MURALS ARE POPPING UP Mini Mural by 2:12, Stella Link at Latma Dr., Woodside, HoustonIf you’re wondering where you can find more of those painted-over traffic signal control boxes —- like the one pictured here, which just appeared at the corner of Stella Link and Latma Dr. in Woodside — there’s a . . . website for that. UP Art Studio, the mural project’s instigators, has pics up of more than 2 dozen of the altered streetcorner cabinets colorfully transformed by artists so far, as well as an interactive map for scouting them out. The project is restricted (so far, at least) to the southwest part of town inside the Beltway. In all, 14 artists have been commissioned to reimagine 31 metal boxes. [UP Art Studio] Photo: 2:12

07/16/15 2:00pm

Key Maps Store, 1411 W. Alabama St., Montrose, Houston

Key Maps Store, 1411 W. Alabama St., Montrose, HoustonYou have until tomorrow, maybe, to grab some of the cartographic treasures remaining at the longtime Inner Loop home of Key Maps, Houston’s homegrown map company. Items you buy will be 70 percent off — or free if you fish them from the yellow Dumpster parked out front at 1411 W. Alabama. But it’s a pretty chaotic scene, a reader tells us: Framed wall-maps, Key Map books that used to be found in the back seat pocket of most Houston cars, and other items are being loaded into moving trucks in preparation for a relocation to a new storefront at 5622 Richmond Ave., on the north side of the strip near Chimney Rock.

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07/16/15 12:15pm

Frame from Photo Sphere Tour of ExxonMobil Campus, Springwoods Village, Houston

Update, 4 pm: Well, whaddya know? The photo sphere images have mysteriously disappeared from Google Maps, rendering our embeds defunct. Guess you might want to go ahead and set up that meeting after all.

Employees have been populating ExxonMobil’s new consolidated Springwoods Village campus since last year, but the company hasn’t exactly opened the place up to visitors. Which makes it a little odd that immersive virtual tours of the place, featuring both indoor and outdoor spaces around the 385-acre complex, have now appeared within Google Maps. If you just want to have a look around, there’s no need to bug your employee pal to arrange an on-site “business meeting” for you. All you need to do is poke around the photo spheres. From each spot you’ll have 360-degree 4Ï€ steradian views around you, if you click and drag within the image:

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07/16/15 8:30am

god-mural

Photo of “Preservons la Creation” at 2800 San Jacinto: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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