What changed this week. The city's fall calendar dropped — the Market runs through November 21, Grito Fest is October 3 with De Parranda, and the parade is Thursday, December 3. Cali Kitchen is confirmed closed and off the site; Texas Roadhouse says it's moving in the first quarter of next year. A new sales-tax permit was filed for a restaurant on Garth we can't name yet; the openings page will. The ferry is back on weekend hours, which means eleven, which means don't show up at nine.
The weekend. A Market Saturday and the first weekend the heat index stays under a hundred. Do the Market at ten, the Nature Center at three, Thompson's at seven. Sunday, the ferry at eleven and Yepez at one.
The plants. Nothing to report. ExxonMobil's next big turnaround isn't announced; when it is, the hotels will tell you before we do. CAER line: 281-476-2237.
Then and now. Texas Avenue, 1950s: the department-store block with the Brunson marquee lit. Today: Art Alley on the same wall. Photo credit and license on the history page.
The question. "Can I fish off the Fred Hartman?" — No. It's not allowed, there's no shoulder, and you'd be the county's most expensive rescue. The shoreline near the approaches on the Baytown side holds fish; the fishing guide says where.
Corrections from last week: none; this is the first.