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AstroWorld's 50th Anniversary: A "Magical Time" for the Park's Employees
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 4 a.m. by Susie Tommaney

AstroWorld, Houston's biggest and best theme park, opened to the public on June 1, 1968. Fifty years later we're checking in with former staffers to hear about their experiences working for the coolest employer in town. The Leaders ...
65th Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade: Houston on Parade
Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 3 a.m. by Olivia Flores Alvarez

Plan on getting to the 65th Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade: Houston on Parade early if you want to claim a good spot to watch the festivities. Expect to see marching bands, drill teams, huge floats and balloons, along with not...
“Jonathan Clark: Tracing Towers”
Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 4 a.m. by Olivia Flores Alvarez

Ordinary #2 pencils are the focus of the “Jonathan Clark: Tracing Towers” exhibit. Well, actually, not ordinary #2 pencils. Clark, the gallery and installation assistant at the Rice University Art Gallery, has produced a...
Literary Inspirations: The Art of Carl Köhler
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 10 a.m. by Jim Tommaney

Carl Köhler (1919- 2006) was a portrait painter who never met his subjects, at least in person, though he came to know them intimately through reading their books if they were writers, or learning about their lives, if they wer...