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Best Preschools

Chart: Houston’s Best Preschools, Compared

Presenting 126 of Houston’s best preschools, organized by tuition, student-teacher ratio, educational approach, and more.

11/03/2014 By Houstonia Staff

Ready, Set— Wait

Is Your Child Really Ready for Preschool?

Answers to the question every parent asks

11/03/2014 By John Lomax

Best Preschools

When It Comes to Early Education, B is for Bilingual

If you want a polyglottal tot, here’s where you start

11/03/2014 By John Lomax

Think Outside the Sandbox

Preschools’ Educational Philosophies: a Guide

Sorting out the schools of thought

11/03/2014 By Catherine Matusow and Katharine Shilcutt

Best of Houstonia

Preschool Confidential

Finger painting’s nice, but will it get you into Harvard?

11/03/2014 By Peter Holley

Bayougraphy

A Portrait of the Barber as a Young Man

David Silva, Barber

11/03/2014 By Peter Holley

Escaped Converts

New Houstonian Peter Vogel Will Never Go Back to Portland

An occasional check-in with recent arrivals—poor, huddled, and yearning to clog our freeways

11/03/2014 By Peter Holley

Interview

Talking Nightmares With Amanda Stevens

The celebrated romantic suspense author talks about creating imaginary horrors—and recovering from real life ones.

11/03/2014 By Russell van Kraayenburg

Ice House Interview

Turns Out, You Can Grow Tulips In Houston

An interview with Garden Club of Houston’s Dodie Jackson

11/03/2014 By Catherine Matusow

Our Lost Youth

Where Have All the Green Lizards Gone?

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (but with lizards)

11/03/2014 By John Lomax

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Ice House

November’s Perfect Party

Costume Not Optional

11/03/2014 By Catherine Matusow

Weather Report

An Ode To Houston’s Non-Summer

A guide to understanding our best season

11/03/2014 By John Lomax

history

But Ours Is Taller

A visit to the recently reopened Washington Monument prompts a reassessment of Houston's own obelisk.

10/30/2014 By Andrew Husband

Events

The Oprah Example

Thoughts on her visit to the Toyota Center

10/18/2014 By Scott Vogel

Guide

Houston's 8 Weirdest Meetup Groups

Want to meet fellow shamans, ferret-lovers, or paranormal researchers? There's a group for that.

10/13/2014 By Michael Hardy and Allegra Boutch

a modest proposal

Why Houston Should Host The 2022 Winter Olympics

Oslo just bowed out of the competition to host the next winter games. Who's left? Kazakhstan, China, and—us.

10/09/2014 By Cort McMurray

sports

Why Houston Hasn't Embraced José Altuve

The Astros' diminutive second baseman just won the American League batting title, but the city still hasn't gotten behind him. Why? Because the team's lost our support.

10/03/2014 By Cort McMurray

H-Town Diary

When Driver’s Ed Lessons Go Wrong

You’ll never learn to fly if you can’t forget how to drive.

09/30/2014 By Andrew Husband

Politics

Is It Time to Reform Tort Reform?

Tort reform made sense to lots of people at the time, Stephen DiLeo included—that is, until a doctor removed his son’s brain tumor.

09/30/2014 By John Lomax

Bayougraphy

Meet Houston’s Man of Steel

Blaine Herring, Bodybuilder

09/30/2014 By Stephanie Joplin

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