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Top 10 Restaurants in Midtown

Although Midtown may be more well-known for its bars and late-night clubs, there isn't a shortage of good food to be found -- even if the neighborhood is steadily losing many of the Vietnamese restaurants that once saturated the area. In keeping with Midtown's current incarnation as the drinking-ou ... More >>

Houston Babylon

Four of the spookiest true tales in our city's history

White People Problems

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.

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 >>

Houston Slammed By European Travel Blog: We're Boooorrring

But...but...there's the Kemah Boardwalk!!​Among world cities, in which category does Houston rank second only to Brussels, the capital of the European Union? Tedium, at least according to the European Union-funded wiki blog OpenTravel. According to "Chili," an English-language challenged scr ... More >>

Eating Out on Thanksgiving Day? What's Open

​Not everyone in the city celebrates Thanksgiving, and that should come as no surprise given our increasingly diverse tapestry of residents (something for which Eating Our Words is thankful). And not everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving does so with a big family dinner at home. For these folk ... More >>

“At the Seams…”

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No Idea Festival Returns to Houston March 1

Jawwaad TaylorLocal creative-music organization Nameless Sound has announced the lineup for the Houston installation of the 2009 No Idea Festival, to be held Sunday, March 1 at Art League of Houston (1006 Willard): Mario de Vega (Mexico, electronics); Jawwaad Taylor (New York City, electr ... More >>

Surreal Genius: Max Ernst

The Menil showcases his singular vision and technique

“In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie”

The Menil Collection showcases rarely seen work by Max Ernst

A Modest Proposal: Train the Homeless to Be Better at Being Homeless

"Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone"

The CAMH hosts an engaging, sometimes exasperating show

The Ladybug Transistor

Can't Wait Another Day

Africa, Via Switzerland

Can 33 artists from one man's collection sum up a continent?

Best Transylvanian Restaurant

Charivari

A Killer Nanny

Charlotte Foster wanted a male nanny who’d play sports with her sons. She got an escaped murderer.

Bourne Free

Matt Damon plays an assassin searching for his Identity in a film that doesn't dumb you to death

For the Love of Sauerkraut

Somehow a restaurant from the Black Forest finds its way to Midtown

Dish

Can't Buy Love -- or Armadillo

Bawdiness and Brains

Tom Stoppard's Travesties offers both

Night & Day

May 20 - 26, 1999

One Little, Two Little, 40 Little Indies

Worldfest-Houston offers movies you won't otherwise see

Culture Clash

Deputy constables raid the Menil, confiscate the works of famed artist Robert Rauschenberg and get set for a big old auction that has the local art scene gasping

Defining de Kooning