News & City Life

Cake Wars

The Booming Business of Competitive Parenting

Keeping up with the Joneses meets social media.

09/01/2015 By Marianella Orlando

Ice House Interview

Not All Lawyers!

By providing legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children, Kids in Need of Defense turns the conventional view of attorneys on its head.

09/01/2015 By Catherine Matusow

Slow Commotion

Our Patience for Trains is Running Thin

Why do so many freight trains run through the center of an otherwise modern metropolis?

09/01/2015 By Jeff Balke

OBITUARY

Ryan Roberts, GM of Cullen's American Grille & Whisk(e)y Bar, Passes Away

The popular whiskey connoisseur was a fixture in Houston's food and beverage community.

08/31/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Cheap Date

Happy Hour of the Week: MFAH

A plan that Ferris Bueller himself would approve of (if he were of drinking age).

08/27/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Back to the School of HBO’s Hard Knocks: Texans Edition, Episode 3

Is it already time for another How Can JJ Watt Be Human moment?

08/26/2015 By Chris Skiles

Back to the School of HBO’s Hard Knocks: Texans Edition

Recapping the first two episodes of this season's Texans-centric Hard Knocks, F-bombs and all.

08/20/2015 By Chris Skiles

#SLGT

LocalLocal Wants to Make Sure Your Local Food Is Legit

An informative new website aims to connect diners, restaurants, farmers and ranchers.

08/12/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Chat Room

The 10 Best Answers from Chef Mark Cox's AMA on Reddit

The chef/owner of Mark's American Cuisine took to Reddit yesterday to talk Tony's, tuna fish and tacos.

08/11/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Sneaker Wars

James Harden Could be Adidas's $200 Million Sneaker Man

More proof that the world needs a beard-tastic James Harden signature sneaker.

08/04/2015 By Samantha Ketterer

Feature

Close Encounters

The Texas Medical Center’s latest, greatest advance is neither pill nor procedure.

08/04/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Interview

The Wilfork: Two-Pronged and Barbecue-Friendly

Training camp is approaching, but the Texans’ new nose tackle looks forward to pursuing interests, shall we say, off the field.

08/04/2015 By Robb Walsh

Bayougraphy

The Art of Crime

Lois Gibson, Forensic Artist

08/04/2015 By Marianella Orlando

Ice House

August’s Perfect Party

Pat-Pat-Pat-Nope-Naw-Maybe-Maybe-Swoon edition

08/04/2015 By Catherine Matusow

Dept. of Inventions

Saving Children With—and From—Car Safety Seats

A Rice engineering team invents a system for saving infants left in hot cars, but will it make it to market?

08/04/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Newstonians

Escaped Converts: Marianella Orlando

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

08/04/2015

Marriage Equality

For PopVows, Months of Wedding Preparations Pay Off

On a historic day, one Houston group made sure no couple would go without a wedding.

08/04/2015 By Catherine Matusow

Get Stuffed

The Dying Art of Taxidermy

It’s not only the animals that are endangered these days.

08/04/2015 By Trey Strange

A Textbook Case

Readin’, Writin’ and Rewritin’ History

Are Texas’ new history textbooks as bad as you’ve heard?

08/04/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Back in (Ruggles) Black

Bruce Molzan Turns to Crowdsourced Fundraising for Baby Ruggles

Does the city need another Ruggles? Does it need a paleo bakery? Does Kickstarter actually work?

07/29/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

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