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Critical Operación: A Group of Venezuelan Ex-Pats Fights a Crisis Back Home

What started as an informal drive for medical supplies grew into Houston-based Operación Saludos a Venezuela.

07/18/2017 By Jasmina Kelemen

Ice House

Who Is That Marine on the Montrose Bridge?

Mark Perez regularly stands on the Woodhead Street bridge over the Southwest Freeway in salute to raise awareness of PTSD.

07/18/2017 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Ice House

August's Perfect Party: Cash-Us-Inside Edition

We'd love to chat up a new Women's Basketball Hall of Famer, Top Chef winner Paul Qui, and other movers and shakers in Houston. And we have some questions for Danielle Bregoli.

07/18/2017 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Ice House

5 Stand-Up Paddling Spots to Try This Summer

These waterways will show you what's SUP, no matter your paddle-boarding speed.

07/18/2017 By Roxanna Asgarian

Ice House

What Happens When You Change a Street Name?

Dowling Street recently became Emancipation Avenue—but what exactly does that process entail?

07/18/2017 By Morgan Kinney

Ice House

At Casa Juan Diego, a Home Far, Far Away from Home

What's the driving force behind the oldest Catholic Worker community in Houston? Endless opportunities to help—and the zealous Louise Zwick.

07/18/2017 By Katharine Shilcutt

Hunker Down

A Century of Stormy Weather in Photos

If there's anything that history teaches us, it's that no matter what we do or where we build, this city has and always will continue to flood.

07/18/2017 Edited by Katharine Shilcutt

Top Doctors

These Houston Doctors Seek to Diagnose the Previously Un-Diagnosable

A network of Houston hospitals forms one of the world's seven clinical sites in the international Undiagnosed Diseases Network.

07/18/2017 By Alice Levitt

Hunker Down

Has Houston Always Flooded?

Space City Weather's Eric Berger and Matt Lanza answer your most pressing questions about our city's weather and how it's changing.

07/18/2017 By Eric Berger and Matt Lanza

Hunker Down

10 Tips for Surviving a Hurricane in Houston

Don't worry—you probably won't die.

07/18/2017 By Jeff Balke

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Hunker Down

When the Weather Gets Nasty, Houstonians Take Refuge in Laughter

It's better than panicking.

07/18/2017 By Jeff Balke

Into the Storm

How Weather Shaped Houston's History

Our inclement weather-prone city has seen it all over the past 100 years—fires, hurricanes, floods, and yes, even snow storms. Let's talk about it.

07/18/2017 By Jeff Balke, Eric Berger, and Matt Lanza Edited by Katharine Shilcutt

Bayougraphy

The Woman Who Reinvented Healthy School Meals in Detroit Is Ready to Do the Same for Houston

Betti Wiggins: 'Rebel Lunch Lady,' HISD

07/18/2017 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Cutting edge

Bored? Try Recreational Axe Throwing

A guide to Houston’s latest adrenaline rush.

07/17/2017 By Kara Fields

Fri-yay

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, July 14–16

Shopping, sporting, tai chi-ing—all in one weekend.

07/13/2017 By Spencer Vogel, Arman Badrei, and Kara Fields

Just Breathe

Family-Focused Mindfulness Makes Its Way to Rothko Chapel

Psychologist Ann Friedman will lead a session on mindfulness for all ages at Rothko Chapel in August.

07/13/2017 By Cara Maines

Mixing It Up

Meet the Man Who’s Trying to Put Houston on the Map…for Podcasting

It took an unlikely Houston transplant to launch a successful podcast about the quirks and charms of the Bayou City.

07/11/2017 By Laura Furr Mericas

Meet Gus (while you can)

HMNS Shows Off Antarctic Wonders... While They Last

Gus the penguin is enjoying his time in Houston, but we're worried about the future of his home continent.

07/11/2017 By Hannah Lauritzen

Jolie Laide

Meet Gus, Houston Zoo's Newest Baby

You'll be surprised how cute a baby warthog can be.

06/30/2017 By Alice Levitt

Declare it loud, declare it proud

Forget the Fireworks—Spend the Fourth Debating the Constitution

"The Constitution is our civic religion, our secular religion in a sense, that runs the country.”

06/30/2017 By Allyson Waller

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