For Better or Worse
It was late afternoon on a recent Sunday down at the West Alabama Ice House. The smell of steaming tables of crawfish mingled with the sight of skirmishing dogs and flying billiard balls, the distant...
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The Perfect Party
We’re definitely inviting the great Lila Downs, and anyway, she’s already coming to town (Apr. 5). The question is, dare we serve the cuisine of her birthplace, Oaxaca? (Maybe some of those fried...
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We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!
Because we live at a time wherein all information must be presented as eithera slideshow or a listicle, you have no doubt heard, and heard again, that Houston is the “most diverse” big city in America....
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Dream Machine
Image: Justin Calhoun Hoops Legend Hakeem Olajuwon It’s safe to say Richmond Avenue along Greenway Plaza has never seen such a sight before or since: a black man in a suit and a white man without a...
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250 Reasons to Love Houston
Face it, you're unique.Sure, you nod sympathetically when far-flung friends and family sing the blues about whatever recession-battered metropolis they still find themselves trapped in. You listen...
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Suffer the Children
Photo courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library, Bert Brandt Collection MSS 0087.Like everyone else in the world, Susan Cooley was riveted by the events of Friday,...
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Like a Love Machine
Image: Chuck Cook PhotographyRobin Berwick is a co-owner of Double Trouble Caffeine and Cocktails in midtown. Most of her customers probably have no idea that she’s also a professional artist with a...
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Outtakes from our Hakeem Olajuwon interview
As I interviewed Hakeem Olajuwon back in February inside West Mansion, home of his DR34M clothing line’s flagship store, it was clear why the word “focus” (often lovingly pronounced foh-KAHS by fans in...
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Holocaust Museum Executive Director Steps Down
Susan Myers, executive director of the Holocaust Museum Houston since 2001 and a leader in the international Holocaust community, will retire effective May 1, the museum has announced. A national...
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Alley Theatre Plans Major Renovation
Image: Alley Theatre Planned renovations would enlarge the stage, extend it further into the audience and allow for bigger productions with more elaborate scenery.The Alley Theatre Wednesday announced...
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Celebrate Houston! Celebrate Klineberg!
Dr. Stephen L. Klineberg of Rice University has conducted area surveys about Houston's economy and demographic changes for 31 years. The co-director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research has...
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For Your Amusement
Word is that RCS Entertainment,led by a former Astroworld manager, is “developing a family-oriented 2,500-acre theme park resort in the Houston, Texas area,” which is exactly what you would expect a...
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Don’t Ask, Compel
Last January, when the Pentagon officially lifted its ban on women serving in military combat roles, many applauded the move, a few opposed it, and fewer still made a pilgrimage to the cemetery at 2911...
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A Farewell Toast
In 2001, when Hans Graf moved to Houston to become music director of the Houston Symphony, he and his wife Rita purchased a duplex loft on the tenth floor of a Rice Village high-rise. Dismayed by the...
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That Ship Cray
Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard“You were made in Texas, eh?” asked a woman at the bar dryly, as a man approached wearing a T-shirt that said just that.“Born and raised,” replied Danny Kennedy, without...
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Silence Emboldens
We have never shot a gun before—not a pellet gun, not an air gun, not a paintball pistol or laser tag blaster, nothing beyond the orange and white Nintendo Zapper used in Duck Hunt circa 1989—but we...
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Setting the Bar
Image: Todd SpothIn Warren’s Inn on a slow Monday, Carolyn Wenglar tells her stories with equal parts grace and fluidity. “I’ve lived in Houston all my life and I’ve never run from a hurra-ken,” she...
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Fiesta Patrias
Image: Dan PageThe supermercado of my undocumented childhood is the Fiesta on Bellaire at Hillcroft. If by some chance you’ve never been to a Fiesta Mart—which celebrated its 40th anniversary last...
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Strip Search
Image: Wesley AllsbrookA fleeting glimpse of him—that’s all we’ve gotten. We’re bored, hungry, and in the two-plus hours we’ve been in line, Uncle 9 has appeared precisely once. Still, for a moment,...
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Slow Dancing with the Muse
Few couples have ever altered a city as indelibly and imaginatively as John and Dominique de Menil altered ours. Although they were beneficiaries of a vast fortune and had homes on three continents,...
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