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2012 Summer Guide: Summer in the City

The 2012 Houston International Festival - Chevron Argentina Living Museum

iFest 2012 Heavy On Latin Rock, Funk, South Americans

The Houston International Festival officially announced its 2012 lineup this morning. The music is heavy on Latin-flavored rock, reggae and funk, with Texas well-represented as always and an exceedingly rare Houston appearance by Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat giant Fela, and his group Egypt 80. Among ... More >>

iFest's Second Weekend Brings It All Back Home

Jason WolterTexas Connection: Joe Ely, Lucinda Williams and Townes Van Zandt (not pictured)​See lots more iFest pictures from Saturday and Sunday (and some food) in our slideshows. Yes, it was hot at iFest this weekend. Houston hot. Sunday afternoon, partway through Lucinda Williams' surprisi ... More >>

iFest's First Weekend Thick With Music, Humidity

GroovehouseJimmie Vaughan (left) and his band gave the large iFest crowd some saxual healing Saturday.​Lots more iFest in our slideshows: The bands, the performers, the crowds and even the food. For something that was still going on 24 hours ago, the first weekend of the Houston International ... More >>

Join Team Chile, Help Fight AIDS

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>

Silk Degrees of Separation

Boz Scaggs turns to jazz, knows his Lightnin' Hopkins.

Prized Possessions

Homeless in Houston share their most important objects.

Hit Hermann

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

iFest: This Is Our Party

Better music than ACL and fewer hippies

Houston Children’s Festival

Web exclusive!

28th Annual Houston Humane Society K-9 Fun Run & Walk

Web exclusive!

Houston Music Festivals

The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

George Clinton

Q&A with the master of funk

To NOLA, with Love

Musicians from far and wide are "Bringing Back the Big Easy"

Curry Favor

Cozy up to India at the International Festival

New Year's Eve Guide

Where will you be hoppin' when the ball is droppin'?

Going Batty

Efforts mount to make downtown home to a new kind of nightlife

This Old House

The City of Houston wants to further spiff up the area around Minute Maid Park. The historic Cohn House stands in its way.

Tis' The Season For Holiday Events

Events calendar

Bulldozers at the Gate

Houston fiddles while its architectural and cultural heritage disappears

The Curbside Critique

(Houston Sculpture 2000)

Accordion Corleone

(Houston Sculpture 2000)

Blueprint

The sky's the limit for Montrose town homes

Bungle in the Jungle

Beneath the pretty facade of the Houston Zoo lies a world where animals, and their keepers, are being shortchanged

Night & Day

March 18 - 24, 1999

Letters

March 18 - 24, 1999

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

March 18 - 24, 1999

Press Picks

March 18 - 24, 1999

Shifting Foundation

Two decades ago, the Burkitt Foundation saved the historic enclave of Hyde Park. But now the foundation is pulling out, and Hyde Park -- as well as many of the social service agencies it houses -- may really become a thing of the past.

Press Picks

Two decades ago, the Burkitt Foundation saved the historic enclave of Hyde Park. But now the foundation is pulling out, and Hyde Park -- as well as many of the social service agencies it houses -- may really become a thing of the past.

The Insider

Two decades ago, the Burkitt Foundation saved the historic enclave of Hyde Park. But now the foundation is pulling out, and Hyde Park -- as well as many of the social service agencies it houses -- may really become a thing of the past.

Press Picks

Two decades ago, the Burkitt Foundation saved the historic enclave of Hyde Park. But now the foundation is pulling out, and Hyde Park -- as well as many of the social service agencies it houses -- may really become a thing of the past.

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

The Insider

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

1996 Summer Guide