News & City Life

RIP

Houston Loses a Retail Legend: Tootsies Founder Mickey Rosmarin Dies

Rosmarin and his beloved store have been the at the center of Houston's fashionable and charitable worlds for four decades.

06/17/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Made in Houston

Meet the Houstonian Disrupting the Fashion Industry

Merin Guthrie has a crazy idea: Design well-fitting, wearable clothing that women actually want.

06/15/2016 By Miranda Proctor

Q&A

Kam Franklin Is Not Afraid to Wear Yellow (or Anything Else)

The Suffers lead singer on her style obsessions, breaking the rules and feeling confident at any size.

06/07/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

eye candy

Breaking News: JJ Watt Takes Shirtless Pic

"You know when the light catches you at the right angle? I was like, okay, that has to go out. You don't look like that every day."

06/03/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Baseball

Have the Astros Turned a Corner?

With four months left to go, there's now genuine reason for measured optimism.

06/01/2016 By Adam Doster

Philanthropy

Private Donors Give Nearly $2 Million to Help Tax Day Flood Victims

The nation's most charitable city gives back—to itself.

06/01/2016 By Roxanna Asgarian

Get Out

The Best of the 'Burbs

Postcards from beyond the Beltway, where day-trip-worthy destinations await.

05/31/2016 By Houstonia Staff

H-Town Diary

A Literal Taste for a Physical Tragedy

Sometimes, it’s the opposite of a celebratory meal that stays with us.

05/31/2016 By Alice Levitt

Ted the Head

Brutal Blows: Life After the NFL—and the Concussions, and the Addictions

From NFL superstar to table-busser to radio host, Ted Johnson searches for meaning in it all.

05/31/2016 By Jeff Balke

Postcards From Beyond the Beltway

Best of the Burbs: Come Out to Sugar Land

Take in America’s favorite pastime at the Goldilocks of ballparks.

05/31/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Postcards From Beyond the Beltway

Best of the Burbs: Visit Pearland

Relive the retro roller rink days of your youth.

05/31/2016 By Marianella Orlando

Postcards From Beyond the Beltway

Best of the Burbs: Explore The Woodlands

Where a very different kind of big game hunting awaits...

05/31/2016 By Roxanna Asgarian

Postcards From Beyond the Beltway

Best of the Burbs: Greetings from Clear Lake

The area is home to Armand Bayou Nature Center, one of the largest urban wildlife refuges in the U.S.

05/31/2016 By Andrea Park

Postcards From Beyond the Beltway

Best of the Burbs: Welcome to Katy

Did you know Katy has one of the nation’s only velodromes?

05/31/2016 By Ellie Sharp

Get Out

The Best of the 'Burbs

Postcards from beyond the Beltway, where day-trip-worthy destinations await.

05/31/2016

The Right Stuff

The New Women of NASA

Four extraordinary women make up half of NASA’s most recent astronaut class—and they may go to Mars.

05/31/2016 By Steven Devadanam

Bayougraphy

A Former Texas Gubernatorial Contender, Anything but Retired

Debra Medina may have moved on from politics, but she isn’t out to pasture—not exactly.

05/31/2016 By Adam Doster

Essay

Twenty Years Later, Bun B Reflects on DJ Screw

The legendary June 27 mixtape-heard-round-the-world changed Houston’s hip-hop scene forever.

05/31/2016 By Bun B

Ice House

June’s Perfect Party

Okay-fine-we-watch-RHOD edition.

05/31/2016 By Catherine Matusow

Newstonians

Escaped Converts: Adam Doster

Our occasional check-in with the flood of recent arrivals—poor, huddled and yearning to clog our freeways.

05/31/2016 By Marianella Orlando