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Bayou City Art Festival - Memorial Park

Douglas Demmon: Former National Park Ranger Convicted of Child Porn

National Park Rangers are an American icon, with their Smokey-Bear hats, green uniforms and eagerness to help everyone enjoy the great outdoors. And then there are the Park Rangers like Galveston's Douglas Demmon, who has entered a guilty plea on charges of distributing child porn. Demmon, 65, is ... More >>

Free for All: Art Without a Price Tag

Join us later today when we pop into the opening reception for Sandy Ewen's Pop Up Art Show. This is the first solo art show for the woman who many know as an improvisational musician and who we recently named one of our 100 Creatives 2012. The work is a slideshow using vintage projectors that will ... More >>

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TPWD Raises $335,000 In Three Weeks, But...

It's been about three weeks since the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department put out a frantic call for donations to make up for a $4.6 million budget shortfall caused by the drought. How are they doing? At first glance, it seems okay -- $335,000 has been raised, TPWD says. But that includes a single d ... More >>

Drought-Ravaged Texas Parks Need Money & Visitors, State Says

Texas parks: Visit or send cash or both, please.​The crippling drought of 2011 left Texas parks under-visited and in need of cash to make up a budget shortfall, officials are saying. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is putting out a call for people to come to the parks (and therefore gen ... More >>

Smoking & BBQ Ban Lifted For Most City Parks

Just in time for a freeze​Just in time for the freezing weather, the city of Houston has voted to lift the drought-induced ban on smoking and barbecuing in all but a dozen municipal parks. The bans will remain in effect, though, in two of the city's main parks, Memorial and Hermann. So grab ... More >>

Houston 175 Historic Cemetery Crawl

No BBQing in City Parks Until Drought Lifts

Not in city parks, buddy.​Houston parks are usually fragrant on the weekends with the smell of families barbecuing up their favorite dishes. They won't be for now, and probably for quite some time. Mayor Annise Parker announced a ban on all barbecuing and grilling in city parks because of th ... More >>

The Drought Is Absolutely Killing Memorial Park's Trees

These trees are thirsty.​The never-ending drought hitting Houston and the rest of Texas is having a devastating effect on one of the city's favorite things: the trees in Memorial Park. Barry Ward, executive director of Trees for Houston, took a tour yesterday to assess the damage and was dism ... More >>

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Bayou City Art Festival — Memorial Park

Houston History: Finding Camp Logan Ruins at Memorial Park

Marc BrubakerLouis Aulbach, John Rich and Linda Gorski look at a hand-drawn map of the area. See more pictures of the ruins and hike in our slideshow.​A hidden part of Houston history resides in the underbrush at Memorial Park, and every year a group of amateur urban archeologists sets out to ... More >>

Galveston Island State Park's Makeover: Your Chance For Input

Photo courtesy TPWDGalveston Island State Park in the wake of Ike​Galveston Island State Park was ravaged by Hurricane Ike, but plans are now underway to make it, according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, "a premiere destination within the Texas state park system."Parts of the park h ... More >>

Tails on the Trails

Do it doggie style

Texas Parks Are Like A Tea Party: White, Old & Cranky

​People visiting Texas parks are like a Tea Party convention -- they're white, old and cranky.That's not quite the spin the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department puts on the results from their latest customer survey, but it seems pretty clear to us.TPWD surveyed 27,000 customers over five years an ... More >>

Community Gardens Can't Stop A Crime Wave, Study Finds

​The "broken-window" theory of fighting crime states that if a neighborhood is allowed to deteriorate to the point where broken windows are left unfixed, crime will increase because residents don't give a shit.An offshoot of this says that doing beautification stuff such as planting small, public ... More >>

Explore Buffalo Bayou by Canoe

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Moody Gardens, A Bigger Tourist Attraction Than The White House

If you had your choice to stand anywhere as a tourist in the United States, where would you choose?The Las Vegas Strip? Mount Rushmore? The White House?No way, dude -- you prefer to be standing in Moody Gardens in Galveston.At least you do if you're one of the respondents to what has to be described ... More >>

Nature Trekkers

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The Texas Traveler: Stonehenge II

In a rural field on a little-traveled loop just west of Kerrville stands a sight right out of the set of Spinal Tap -- a miniature replica of the Stonehenge monolith. Stonehenge II stands just north of Hunt, in the middle of the Texas Hill Country. It's an oddity you might miss if you weren't ... More >>

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Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park

See why this outdoor party got a Best Festival nod from the Houston Press Best of Awards

Buffalo Bayou Canoe Trip

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“Cooking Where Your Food Lives: How to Use Local and Seasonal Ingredients”

Monica Pope teaches Houston how to make Bayou City-centric meals

Owl Prowl

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It's Not Just A Bridge, It's A Living Bridge

Grand Canyon Adventure 3D

This new HMNS film is IMAX-imum fun

Bayou City Art Festival

Enjoy the artdoors this weekend

Lisa Marie Godfrey

Take a visit to planet Yellowstone

“The Great Wall of China”

Chen Changfen gets up close and personal with one of the seven wonders

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Dog show Mohawk

Rhymin' Simon

Fruits and Hicks

Get the Shaft

Pole-vaulting classes at Rice U will lift your spirits

Best Bike Path

Married to the Job

The parks director's hubby works for the firm that landed a job at a city park

Let Go

LEGO tourney pits block against block

Best Role Model

Terry Hershey

Fishing Trip

Bring your shrimps to the gulf

The Fonde-mentals

Wanna be a baller?

Best Place to Mountain Bike

Huntsville State Park

Best Place for a Pickup Soccer Game

Bear Creek Park

Best Bureaucrat

City Parks Director Oliver Spellman

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Biked Out

Time may be up for the Ho Chi Minh Trail

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