Houston (Specifically Montrose) made Travel and Leisure mag (Austin, Cactus: skateboarding, neighborhoods)

[groovamos]

Travel and Leisure picked 10 "great neigborhoods" across the USA and Montrose made the list. I moved here in '89 from Austin and could not conceive (being from Austin) of settling in any district other than Montrose and stayed there 11 years. (I'm now in Timbergrove). Interesting this is the subject of my first thread on this site after hundreds of posts I think. The link takes you right to the page but be sure and check out which other neighborhoods made the list, we are in spectacular company:

America's Most Beautiful Neighborhoods- Page 11 - Articles | Travel + Leisure

[testmo]

montrose has made the list and similar ones in years prior as well

[theSUBlime]

You are not kidding about being in great company. I lived in Montrose, work in Back Bay, Boston, and absolutely LOVE the view in Brooklyn Heights, NYC.

[Lije Baley]

Sorry if the following sounds like an advetisement but music is a major influence in my life so felt I had to write this.....

For anyone into buying music and helping to support the artists who make it, of the few brick-n-mortar music stores still in existence here, two of them that I regularly patronise are in Montrose (calling it the "Museum District" seems too p.c. to me): one is Soundwaves (http://soundwaves.com/a/ - broken link) and the other is Cactus Music. I'm not totally sure if Cactus - which regularly features live music on their small inside stage - is technically in the same area, but that's the way I think of it! BTW if you're into surfing or skateboarding, Soundwaves dedicates half their store to those sports, and they also have a coffee bar too. Cactus Music is pretty much all music and has a huge selection of vinyl, new and used.

Anyone who is say under the age of 25 and grew up forced to shop for their CDs at a big-box store while walking by washers & driers and peghooks full of computer RAM chips will enjoy themselves at stores like the above - the atmosphere is totally different partly because you & the other people there are just there for *music* so you share something in common, sort of an unsaid feeling of community I guess. Plus the employees, most of them anyway, actually like and know about music, instead of someone who was forced into the music dept of a big-box store but actually wanted to sell computer gear (I know about this issue because I used to work at just that type of store!).

[heightsian]

Very cool. It's neat to see Houston make a positive list :-)

[David Dollar]

A very small part of Houston made it. I go to both of those places. Black Dog is also very cool although it doesn't sell many cd's. Soundwaves (for me) actually has a much better selection of music than Cactus. I am getting ready to hit up the Montrose dive bars tonight!