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6 to Watch: These Top Design Trends Will Be Hot in 2017

Fresh from her turn as a Style Spotter at High Point Market, Houston designer Marie Flanigan shares her favorite new looks, from wood to wallpaper.

04/25/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

The Look

Houston Style Setter: Chris Brown

Houston's new city controller on where to make a fiscally sound suit purchase.

04/12/2016 By Jamie Smith

The Look

Houston Style Setter: Georgeta Teodorescu

The Romanian-born marketing powerhouse on keeping it fresh on those long international flights and how she uses her wardrobe to win business.

03/31/2016 By Jamie Smith

This Must Be the Place

Freedom Place: Once a Summer Camp, Now a Home for Healing

When Freedom Place opened its doors in 2012, it was Texas’s first residential treatment center for domestic children who are victims of sex trafficking.

03/31/2016 By Roxanna Asgarian

Bayougraphy

Bobby Lee Hilton, Galveston Island Treasure

This 82-year-old historian and Hotel Galvez ambassador never gives the same tour twice.

03/31/2016 By Jeff Balke

Hello City

We’re Big on Japan—Like, Really Big

This year’s Japan Fest is expected to draw over 30,000 people—which, as it happens, is 10 times the size of our actual Japanese population.

03/31/2016 By Nick Esquer

Ice House

April’s Perfect Party

Time to bring out a table for the tough and the brave.

03/31/2016 By Catherine Matusow

Praising the Bar

Meet the Lady Who Lives in an Ice House

Just 10 days after Mack’s Icehouse closed down, Ann Herbage moved in. Now the bar counter remains at center stage.

03/31/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

In the Kitchen

Chef's Pantry: Rainbow Lodge's Mark Schmidt

What does the game specialist eat when he's off the clock?

03/29/2016 By Rachel Perlmutter

Film Festival

Reel To Reel Gets Real at Queer Hippo Festival

The first annual film festival sheds light on gay rights in America.

03/28/2016 By Sydney Boyd

Visual & Performance Art

Project Row Houses Wants to See Things Differently

Third Ward arts community Project Row weaves an artistic tapestry of social change in its latest Round 44 group exhibition.

03/25/2016 By Sarah Douglass

Project Row Houses

Taking a Seat at the Black Lunch Table

Third Ward arts collective Project Row hosted Black Lunch Table, a chance for the community to learn more about Houston visual artists of the African Diaspora.

03/24/2016 By Camilla Cook

Benefêtes

Zac Posen Wows a Stylish Crowd at Best Dressed Luncheon

The event honoring Houston's most fashionable and philanthropic women raised more than $500,000 for the March of Dimes.

03/24/2016 By Caroline Starry LeBlanc

Mark of Eggcellence

It's Easter at Cacao & Cardamom

We follow owner Annie Rupani into the kitchen to see how she creates seasonal chocolates.

03/23/2016 By Alice Levitt

Lecture

Gods and Monsters of the Amazon

Explorer and archaeologist Ed Barnhart discusses ancient Mayan deities and iconography at HMNS.

03/18/2016 By Sarah Douglass

The Look

Houston Style Setter: Stephanie Joplin

Houston’s alt-sports darling dishes on what to wear to your first MMA fight, makeup must-haves, and how to keep your hair fabulous in the Houston heat.

03/17/2016 By Jamie Smith