George R. Brown Convention Center

New Year’s Eve Live

Ta-ta, 2011

Kiss the year goodbye at a hot New Year's Eve party.

Upcoming Events: Lend a Helping Hand on Thanksgiving

"Serving" can take on many meanings at Thanksgiving.​Thanksgiving is what? It's next week? Wait, are you serious? If you, like me, are terrible at planning (or knowing what week of the month it currently is), turn to Lauren Marmaduke's excellent guide to dining out on Thanksgiving Day or orde ... More >>

Lebanese Queso and More at the Fabulous New Phoenicia Downtown

No, seriously. I want to live inside that bowl.​I feel almost obligated to turn in my Texan card for saying this, but the "queso" I enjoyed at the MKT Bar (1001 Austin) inside the new downtown Phoenicia grocery store earlier this week was better than any Tex-Mex queso I've ever had. This has ... More >>

Tiny Cars and Expensive Wine at the 3rd Annual Italian Expo

Photos by Christopher Patronella, Jr.Wine: a guarantee of a good time.​The 3rd annual Italian Expo was held this past weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center, directly next to one of the gun shows that seems to rotate throughout Houston every other weekend. Walking up to the conventio ... More >>

Upcoming Events

Photo by rdpeytonThis gumbo is from Emeril's in New Orleans; the gumbo at Under the Volcano will likely be just as good.​If you've been missing Robb Walsh, here's your chance to catch up with our former food critic outside the busy environs of his new restaurant. On June 7 and again on July 12 ... More >>

HGO, Symphony Officials Fear City Will Shaft Them in Favor of Convention Center

The GRB will get all the maintenance funds, HGO and Symphony fear.​Representatives from the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Symphony went before City Council this afternoon to say a) they're worried privatizing the operations of key downtown facilities will end up favoring the George R. Br ... More >>

The Top Five Biggest Blights on the Houston Skyline

Photo by Jeff BalkeSee how nice that looks with nothing in the way?​Houston gets a lot of negative publicity for things like sprawl, pollution and other problems common to urban areas short on zoning and long on business interests. Notable, however, is the downtown skyline, which, for all the ... More >>

The Final Four Is Coming to Town

John RoyalThe NCAA is coming to town​The NCAA Final Four is coming to town in April. So get ready for the hype. Get ready for the out-of-towners bitching about what a crappy city Houston is. Get ready for complaints from people having to stay in hotels out in The Woodlands. And get ready f ... More >>

Gloworama New Year’s Eve

John RoyalThe NCAA is coming to town​The NCAA Final Four is coming to town in April. So get ready for the hype. Get ready for the out-of-towners bitching about what a crappy city Houston is. Get ready for complaints from people having to stay in hotels out in The Woodlands. And get ready f ... More >>

2022 World Cup Host Is... Not the US

Brittanie SheyUSA! USA! Did not win!​Houston city leaders, members of the Dynamo organization and soccer fans gathered at a bunting-filled room at the George R. Brown Convention Center this morning to hear the international announcement of which countries will be hosting the 2018 and 2022 Worl ... More >>

2010 International Quilt Festival

Brittanie SheyUSA! USA! Did not win!​Houston city leaders, members of the Dynamo organization and soccer fans gathered at a bunting-filled room at the George R. Brown Convention Center this morning to hear the international announcement of which countries will be hosting the 2018 and 2022 Worl ... More >>

Pasta with Ricotta and Bottarga

​The second annual Italian Expo went on this past weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center. As the name implies, the event featured everything Italian, from vintage sports cars to runway fashion shows to displays of modern furniture. However, these things were merely walls of a maze ke ... More >>

Dinner in Lombardy

Sweetbreads.​In celebration of the second annual Italian Expo happening this weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center, the Hotel Granduca hosted a dinner event featuring a menu inspired by the Lombardy region in northern Italy. So what's a dinner like in Lombardy? It's three hours of d ... More >>

A N00b Runs the Houston Chevron Half-Marathon

Photos by Jason McElweenie / Click here for a slideshowRunners in the marathon, some of whom dressed like Disney characters.​Every January for the last several years I have stood on a curb along Allen Parkway, cheering for my friends in the early hours of a Sunday as they competed in the Chevr ... More >>

Let It Glow, Let It Glow, Let It Glow

While we might be short -- extremely short -- on snow in Houston this holiday season, we had plenty to glow about on Saturday night at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Houston's famous art cars were on display as the public had never seen them before at the first annual Gloworama. People accu ... More >>

Man Food for Your Man Cave

Eating Our Words headed over to The Guy Expo at the George R. Brown Convention Center this past weekend, where we found -- as expected -- a plethora of manly products for sale, manly sports to play, manly women to ogle (wait, that came out wrong...) and manly foods to sample. Check out our favorite ... More >>

Hit Hermann

In time for summer, the park's had a facelift.

Say Hello to EaDo

We once described the area immediately to the east of the George R. Brown Convention Center as a "silent, godforsaken stretch of no-man's-land" that is neither the Warehouse District, nor the Third Ward, nor the East End. We employed that bulky definition because by 2000, its 1980s and '90s name - ... More >>

2009 Chevron Houston Marathon/Aramco Houston Half Marathon

This year’s runners include Olympians, past winners and a whole lot of hopefuls

Trae's Cartoon Is a Big Hit on the Web

  Go ahead and add "Cartoon rappers smacking the shit out of each other" to the ever-growing list of popular Internet entertainments, then file that under "Things that come as absolutely no surprise at all." Since premiering on worldstarhiphop.com a few days ago, the first installment of ... More >>

What $9 Billion Would Have Wrought

  Go ahead and add "Cartoon rappers smacking the shit out of each other" to the ever-growing list of popular Internet entertainments, then file that under "Things that come as absolutely no surprise at all." Since premiering on worldstarhiphop.com a few days ago, the first installment of ... More >>

The Edward James Olmos 6th Annual Houston Latino Book and Family Festival

See writers, writers everywhere at the GRBCC

George R. Brown Serves Again

See writers, writers everywhere at the GRBCC

This Just In: Drama at the Ozone Awards

See writers, writers everywhere at the GRBCC

Congratulations to Trae da Truth...

See writers, writers everywhere at the GRBCC

Better Than Tarzan and Jane: The Grove Restaurant in Discovery Green

See writers, writers everywhere at the GRBCC

International Quilt Festival

This patchwork party is the SXSW of its industry

Cake Tease

This patchwork party is the SXSW of its industry

Fear the Quilters

A powerful group almost rises up

Mullet Over

Roll over to the Rolling Thunder Monster Truck Challenge

Jottin' Jocks

Sports greats show off their signature moves

A Good Run

The elite and the goofy converge at the HP Houston Marathon

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The elite and the goofy converge at the HP Houston Marathon

Book of the Month

Learn to pen your own novel with a 30-day guarantee

Baller's Ball

Ex-Rocket Steve Francis returns for the Summer Fiesta Slam Fest

Riding High

Horsing around at the Houston Polo Club

Civil Wars

Cops and firefighters take a beating

Turkeys Fly

Houston actually pulls off one crazy week

Pats and Cats Bring It Back

The biggest of them all returns to Houston

Dead Can Dance

And so can you on Día de los Muertos at Mango's Cantina

Go, Team, Go!

No one's bored with this board game

Sporting Goods

Memorabilia show offers rarities, photo ops

Cash Cow or White Elephant?

The return of the convention center hotel plan

Night & Day

November 19 - 25, 1998

Press Picks

November 19 - 25, 1998

Press Picks

November 19 - 25, 1998

Press Picks

November 19 - 25, 1998

Forecast: Raining Stadiums

Forget the committee -- the city's sports future already is being negotiated by the mayor

Press Picks

Forget the committee -- the city's sports future already is being negotiated by the mayor