25 Best Places to Live

25 Best Places to Live <p class="p1">Houston’s 20 Hottest Neighborhoods: What’s selling, who’s moving where, and what’s to love about these vastly different parts of the city. Plus, a peek at James Turrell’s three-city retrospective, an illustrated guide to gay pride, and where to find the best pizza in town. </p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

On the Town

Illuminating Turrell: The Light Inside

Catching up with the reclusive Arizona-based artist, whose three-city retrospective opens this summer.

06/01/2013 By Michael Hardy

Theatre

At Home With Holmes

For the Alley Theatre’s Todd Waite, the game is once more afoot.

05/24/2013 By Michael Hardy

Eat & Drink

White Sangria

White Makes Right

A whirlwind courtship at Goro & Gun.

06/01/2013 By Dan Derozier Photography by Shannon O'Hara

Recipes

Barbecue by the Book

A Houston pitmaster’s recipe for spare ribs.

06/01/2013 By Robb Walsh

On the Table

Edgy Understatement

Chef Jonathan Jones’s Monarch Bistro is refined and sophisticated—not exactly what he’s known for.

06/01/2013 By Robb Walsh Photography by Shannon O'Hara

Top Golf

Speedball

Instructions when visiting Top Golf: Eat, drink, swing, repeat.

06/01/2013 By Robb Walsh

Editor’s Note

Editor's Note

An Instinct for Surprise

Never underestimate Houston’s ability to confound first impressions and belie expectations.

06/01/2013 By John Wilburn

Health & Wellness

Best of Houstonia

Top Dentists 2013

221 dentists made this year’s list. Need a dentist? You've come to the right place.

06/01/2013

Best of Houstonia

Top Dentists Methodology

Smile! We've compiled a list of the best dentists in the land.

06/01/2013

Top Dentists 2013

Apnea Bites

Snoring through an intramural feud.

06/01/2013 By Catherine Matusow

Top Dentists 2013

Method Brushing

You’re doing it wrong, all wrong.

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley

Home & Real Estate

Real Estate 2013

Neighborhoods by the Numbers

From price growth and school rankings to crime stats and bikeability—how does your neighborhood stack up?

06/01/2013

Real Estate

25 Hottest Neighborhoods

The best places to live right now.

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley and John Lomax Photography by Todd Spoth

News & City Life

Houstonia 101

What’s in a (Street) Name?

Houston’s street names can be a linguistic minefield.

06/01/2013

HIV/AIDS

Epidemic of Silence

With one in 250 Houstonians infected with HIV/AIDS, is the epidemic over, or have we just stopped paying attention?

06/01/2013 By Michael Hardy Photography by Alyssa Orr

Bayougraphy

Into the Deep

Deborah Mouton, poet, shows us the road to honesty and confrontation, paved with pencils.

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley Photography by Charles Ford

Elements of Style

Stand Up Straight

The personal style of “modern soul” singer-songwriter Brandon West.

06/01/2013 By Alex Gilbert Photography by Felix Sanchez

A Fable

The Prince and the Bakery

The story behind the medieval castle—moat, dungeon and all—in Bellville, TX.

06/01/2013 By John Lomax

The Perfect Party

Contradictions: from Macklemore to Orbit

Five people with whom we’d like to spoon in June

06/01/2013 By Catherine Matusow

Poets Laureate

In the Company of Gwen

Gwendolyn Zepeda, poetry and po’boys at Jimmy’s

06/01/2013 By Catherine Matusow

Lone Star College

Maida in Houston

Of terrorism and terroir

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley

Style & Shopping

Clutch City

Light Touch

Leather has made its way into this season’s warm-weather wardrobes.

06/01/2013 By Kerry H. Photography by Audra Oden

Travel & Outdoors

Open Road

An Uncertain Future

The past is the present in Jefferson and Uncertain.

06/01/2013 By John Lomax

H-Town Diary

Lust in the Gust

Surviving a date with Ike.

06/01/2013 By Catherine Matusow Illustrations by Dan Page