Bryan Garcia A new café serving Mexican-style crepes, caramel frappes, and macchiatos, marquesitas and old-fashioned cookies and cheesecakes, is already becoming a popular community gathering place for students and faculty of nearby schools in East Aldine. Café La Luna, at 2421 Aldine Mail Route Rd., is a cozy community coffee house with a [...]
While many East Aldine residents are tending their poinsettias and Christmas cacti, Gina Benitez and Nately Hinojosa already are making plans for Valentines’ Day. The mother-daughter duo, who work together at Pistol and Petal Florist, at 2021 Aldine Mail Route Rd., have been providing “budget friendly” floral designs for quincañeras, bridal showers, weddings and funerals [...]
Martinez with Connie & Alex Esparza Two talented artists with strong ties to East Aldine have shown through their murals that home is where the art is. Cease Martinez, who attended MacArthur High School, was recently putting the finishing touches on the “Greetings from East Aldine” mural on the wall of Ace Dental [...]
It’s the kind of place where the waitresses serve regular customers’ drinks before they even sit down; where some of those regulars come to eat every single weekday. Mom’s Country Kitchen, a long-time East Aldine tradition, is also a favorite place for some Houston travelers to avoid the craziness of the parking and drop-off confusion [...]
Many drivers in the East Aldine area will get vouchers – rather than traffic tickets – if they are stopped for non-functioning vehicle lights. The switch from a costly citation to a money-saving certificate worth up to $250 is part of a new $50,000 pilot program for Harris County that goes into action starting Monday, [...]
MacArthur High School on Aldine Mail Route Road in East Aldine opened in 1965 and was named in memory of Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Army General who died a year earlier. Post 548 of the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans service organization, sits on the same street. And typical of working-class neighborhoods across the [...]
People who shop in East Aldine can now get 10% back on what they buy at hundreds of businesses, thanks to a free app launched by the Management District. The app is called Open Rewards and can be downloaded for free on standard cell phones. Here’s an example of how it works when you [...]
Do East Aldine families celebrate the annual Dia de Los Muertos — the Day of the Dead — in traditional ways or with the neighborhood’s distinct flair? Actually, they do both in celebration of the Mexican holiday — as was seen at an advance celebration hosted by the East Aldine Management District. Here’s what kids [...]
One busy afternoon in mid-October, the popular Pan Riko bakery was sold out of pan de Muertos — the “bread of the dead” that is placed on Day of the Dead altars — by mid-afternoon. But, store manager Rogelio de Jesus said, the absence of special bread didn’t stop a crowd of loyal customers from [...]
For 50 years, residents of East Aldine have purchased everything from chicken feed, plumbing fixtures, screws, bolts, pipe and extension cords to gardening supplies, lumber and propane from Jed’s Hardware. At the intersection of the Eastex Freeway and Aldine Mail Route Road, the neighborhood institution was founded in 1973 by brothers Weldon and Clyde Bailey, [...]
