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The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Coffee Shops

The last time we compiled a list of Houston's best coffee houses was in February 2011, and things have certainly changed since then. In just the last several months, Houston's caffeine scene has benefited from several new entrants, all of which are determined to raise the city's coffee profile just ... More >>

Taste Wine, Hook Up at Houston Wine Tastings This Month and Beyond

The most important thing my mother ever taught me is that every wine tasting is a singles event. It's not the only wisdom she imparted to me. But especially in the light of what I do for a living (writing and talking about wine), it's the most important. Even back in the 1980s, when my mom was work ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

New Year's Eve 2012 Guide

Kenny Rogers' Luck: The Gambler's Story More Than Breaks Even

Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir By Kenny Rogers William Morrow, 304 pp., $27.99 Having recently produced a television special commemorating his 50 years in show business, this memoir from the Gambler seems long overdue. And indeed, during his '70s and '80s heyday, Kenny Rogers was an artist t ... More >>

50 Rad Things Now on the Sig's Lagoon Walls

Within the past month, the walls of Sig's Lagoon have been transformed into a sprawling pop-culture collage of posters, photos, newspaper clippings, magazine covers, picture discs and cardboard cutouts courtesy of former Sundance Records owner Bobby Barnard. Since the longtime San Marcos music stor ... More >>

The 10 Best Places To Get Married In Houston

June is the month for weddings, because if there's one situation you want to find yourself in, it's at an outdoor wedding in a Houston summer. With the closing of longtime wedding fave Vargo's, Houston has lost a go-to wedding destination. But there are plenty of other places that would make a good ... More >>

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 7 Downtown Bars

Life is about perspective and so is Houston's downtown. Perhaps some look at it as a commercial district and once wannabe party king who lost its luster with the emergence of its cousin Midtown. Or you can see it as a beautiful skyline -- the best in Texas -- that's lightly peppered with a magnifice ... More >>

JFK in Houston in His Last Hours: New Film

The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas has released new silent home-movie footage of JFK's Houston visit to a LULAC chapter in the Rice Hotel the night before he was murdered. Roy Botello, a LULAC official, shot the film. It shows Kennedy with his professional smile on, greeting visitors in a receiving l ... More >>

Ten Charmingly Strange Old Houston Postcards

You think you have it tough these days as a Houstonian, trying to sell your city as a tourist destination? Try it back in the days before...ummm...before the Downtown Aquarium Family Fun Restaurant!!! Thanks to the folks at cardcow.com, we can see what Houston used to highlight about itself. And s ... More >>

Showcase Showdown

Great moments in HPMA history

“Greetings from Houston: Vintage Postcard Views of the City”

Wish you’d been here

Last Call For Art: Shows Closing this Weekend

Photo courtesy San Jacinto MuseumThe Gothic comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest closes on Sunday. Pulitzer-Prize winner Beth Henley's play is about Carnelle, a young woman with a less-than-perfect past who has entered the local beauty pageant in order to restore not only her reputation but her self- ... More >>

R.I.P. Jerry J. Moore, In The Obscurity He Hated

A Houston businessman who makes the Forbes 400 list of richest people twelve times, who gained fame for his large and luxurious car collection....a guy like that dies, you kinda expect the Houston Chronicle to notice.But apparently not.Jerry J. Moore died November 23 and, as best we can determine, t ... More >>

All about Eve

Our guide to Houston's best New Year's parties

Houston in Black & White

Bad Advice

More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys

Dispatches from the 17th annual Houston Press Music Awards

Downtown H-town Throwdown

Tearing it up at the Music Awards Showcase

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Best Downtown Bar

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Pride of Place

Scenes from the 15th annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

A Century of Progress

Guitarist Huey Long is from all the eras

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Benefit to Living Downtown

Sense of community

Pam's Last Stand

A final orphan hangs on in the historic building that beckoned the parentless, posh and punk

Tippling from Tap to Tap

Down and out (and drunk) in NoDo

Please Pass the Puccini

Gianni Schicchi makes the menu at the Rice Hotel

NoDo Invades; Rebels Skirmish

A downtown taxing zone flushes the Warehouse District from its quaint quarters

Best Contribution to Downtown Redevelopment

Randall Davis Company

Irish By Design

Slainte -- Bronx Bar -- Lucia's Garden -- Sur La Table

Roots of Rice

Hosing Housing

HUD auditors find conflicts and abuses in Houston's affordable-homes program

Sweet Music

Staccato's is new (very new) and good (very good)

GOP Sweeps Week

Republicans complete Texas political reconstruction

Castles for Welfare Kings

Come 2023, Rice Hotel redevelopers can own their federally assisted project for a cool $1,000

Hello, Columbus

Is the mayor's housing adviser about to hand the Fourth Ward over to a for-profit developer?

Press Picks

Letters

To the Tapas

At Solero, small things add up to quite a lot

Downtown-on-the-Wold

The Great Land Grab

A nonprofit "charity" is pursuing millions in taxpayers' money to redevelop the Fourth Ward. The question for Houston Renaissance is, charity for whom?

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

The True Tradition of Houston

Mr. Stevens' Neighborhood

Dollar-a-year mayoral assistant Michael Stevens has been given unprecedented power and funding to transform the inner city. And he answers to just one man.

Lofty Aspersions

Some renters find that downtown life ain't so grand. Tough, says their landlord.

Press Picks

A History Lesson

The Confederate House feeds us on what Houston was -- for better and worse