News & City Life

Discovery Green

Celebrate Houston! Celebrate Klineberg!

This year, Stephen Klineberg's annual area survey rates a downtown party

04/19/2013 By Eric Harrison

Astrodome

A Modest Proposal for the Astrodome

Here is an idea for the Eighth Wonder of the World that no one has thought of yet

04/18/2013 By Terry Doody

Theater District

Alley Theatre Plans Major Renovation

Alley Theatre announces $73 million fundraising campaign to renovate iconic building's interior

04/17/2013 By Eric Harrison

Sports

Eyes on the Prize

To wish the Astros luck, Houston's Japanese sister city sent the team president a Daruma doll

04/11/2013 By Phaedra Cook

Museums

Holocaust Museum Executive Director Steps Down

After 12 years at the head, Susan Myers steps down as executive director of the Holocaust Museum Houston

04/11/2013 By Eric Harrison

Award

Blanca! Viva!

The Rothko Chapel gives its twelfth Óscar Romero Award to Mexican labor activist Blanca Velázquez Díaz

04/09/2013 By Audris Ponce

Web Exclusive

Outtakes from our Hakeem Olajuwon interview

Hakeem and former teammate Matt Bullard on Dream's first coming to Houston, his early days with the Rockets, and his start in fashion, plus advice for today's players

04/03/2013 By Jeff Balke

Fashion and Tech

Get Dressed Without My Smartphone? As If!

A New App for the Ensembly-Challenged

03/27/2013 By Magda Rucinski

Coffeehouse Art

Like a Love Machine

Robin Berwick pulls double duty as bar owner and artist

03/26/2013 By Phaedra Cook

Slideshow

NBA All-Star Celebration

03/20/2013

Slideshow

An Evening with Golf Legends

03/20/2013

Poe Elementary Bombing

Suffer the Children

The murder of school children is, sadly, nothing new. But the way we cope with such tragedies is.

03/15/2013 By John Lomax

Cover Story

250 Reasons to Love Houston

Or how a town with bad traffic, little natural beauty, not much history, and unfortunate weather became the greatest place on Earth

03/14/2013

Hakeem Olajuwon

Dream Machine

A hoops legend, still cutting a figure in the city that made him famous

03/14/2013 By Jeff Balke

A Living Mosaic

We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!

Examining Houston's newly-discovered diversity dominance

03/14/2013 By Kerry H.

Ice House

Bowl Movements

The ’Stros’ new homes-away-from-home: an appreciation

03/14/2013 By Jeff Balke

Ice House

Numbers Game at Minute Maid

The art (and science) of rebuilding a ball club

03/14/2013 By Peter Holley

Ice House

The Perfect Party

People we’d most like at our dinner table this month.

03/13/2013 By Catherine Matusow

Ice House

For Better or Worse

Working out Houston's future over a beer.

03/12/2013 By Catherine Matusow