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 with Goro & Gun's White Sangria.

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

Here’s to the linksmen who lunch.

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

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 brushing your teeth wrong, all wrong.

06/01/2013 By Peter Holley

Home & Real Estate

Real Estate 2013

Neighborhoods by the Numbers

We compare over 150 neighborhoods, 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 are nothing short of a linguistic minefield. Can you pronounce them all?

06/01/2013

HIV/AIDS

Epidemic of Silence

Is the HIV/AIDS 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 Galveston-born 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

This month's Perfect Party: 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