Comments on: An Epitaph to Lucky Burger (And What It Signified) http://freepresshouston.com/an-epitaph-to-lucky-burger-and-what-it-signified/ FREE PRESS HOUSTON IS NOT ANOTHER NEWSPAPER about arts and music but rather a newspaper put out by artists and musicians. We do not cover it, we are it. Fri, 24 Jun 2025 17:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: How Oligarchs Destroyed a Major American City | BillMoyers.com http://freepresshouston.com/an-epitaph-to-lucky-burger-and-what-it-signified/#comment-237452 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:26:15 +0000 http://freepresshouston.com/?p=30216#comment-237452 […] This is how ruling oligarchies kill a city: one business, one person at a time, pretending that market forces are doing all the work, when in fact all sorts of incentives and disincentives are at play. Certain websites — Culturemap.com in particular — have emerged during the same period as cheerleaders for gentrification. Culturemap sent Houston’s leading society reporter, Shelby Hodge, to take pictures of the doomed trees, while breathlessly cheering on the Hanover high-rise as a great favor to the environment. The commentators at the real estate site Swamplot.com are often boosters locked into the developers’ myopic viewpoint; not a day has gone by in recent years when Swamplot hasn’t reported the closure of yet another historic restaurant or bar or antique shop. But after about five years of this, there’s nothing distinctive left to shut down anymore. […]

]]> By: How oligarchs destroyed a major American city – Salon.com | movabletv http://freepresshouston.com/an-epitaph-to-lucky-burger-and-what-it-signified/#comment-236921 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:22:17 +0000 http://freepresshouston.com/?p=30216#comment-236921 […] This is how ruling oligarchies kill a city: one business, one person at a time, pretending that market forces are doing all the work, when in fact all sorts of incentives and disincentives are at play. Certain websites—Culturemap.com in particular—have emerged during the same period as cheerleaders for gentrification. Culturemap sent Houston’s leading society reporter, Shelby Hodge, to take pictures of the doomed trees, while breathlessly cheering on the Hanover high-rise as a great favor to the environment. The commentators at the real estate site Swamplot.com are often boosters locked into the developers’ myopic viewpoint; not a day has gone by in recent years when Swamplot hasn’t reported the closure of yet another historic restaurant or bar or antique shop. But after about five years of this, there’s nothing distinctive left to shut down anymore. […]

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