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Houston Bucket List Part 5 - Floating, Volunteering and Cruising

By Jeff Balke

Jun 22, 2022

Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances...

Neon Boots Dance Hall & Saloon is where EVERYONE feels good dancing.

Houston Bucket List Part 4 - Drinking, Dancing and...Ice Skating?

By Jeff Balke

Jun 16, 2022

Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances...

Houston's Pride Parade is a massive celebration of love.

Houston Bucket List Part 3: Pride, Gators and Galveston

By Jeff Balke

Jun 8, 2022

Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances...

In the spring, bluebonnets cover area roadsides and bayous.

Houston Bucket List Part 2: Flowers, Football and Fresh Fish

By Jeff Balke

Jun 1, 2022

Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to include distances...

Hurricane season starts June 1. Getting ready better be on your bucket list!

Houston Bucket List: The Top 100 Things to Do in Houston Returns

By Jeff Balke

May 25, 2022

It's back! Twice in the last decade, we at the Houston Press have compiled our list of the 100 things every Houstonian must do. The first list was nearly 10 years ago and limited to a very small radius around the city (30 miles). In 2017, we expanded it to...

Michy's Chino Boricua Adds Chinese Puerto Rican Cuisine to Houston's Diverse Food Scene

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

May 24, 2022

Few Houstonians are as qualified as Michelle Lao to expound upon the goodness of Chinese Puerto Rican cuisine. We sat rapt and ready to eat at Lao’s westside restaurant, Michy’s Chino Boricua, as she related her own story with the fare, one which began in China, was forged in Puerto...

10 Tips for First Time Houston Homeowners

By Jeff Balke

May 16, 2022

Recently, we gave you some tips on buying a new home in Houston. As we thought about it some more, we realized this list wasn't quite complete. Yes, all good information, but we know from firsthand experience that buying a home is not even half the battle. Once you land...

Ten Tips for First Time Houston Home Buyers

By Jef Rouner

May 5, 2022

Buying a home can feel like an unachievable goal, particularly for millennials who have consistently seen their wealth and financial stability disappear over the last two decades. However, it’s still possible. We spoke to Houston realtors and a loan officer about how someone could finally find themselves in a house...

Oystering, already tough, got tougher this season.

A Disappointing Season and a Troubling Future For Texas Gulf Coast Oystermen

By Dianna Wray

Apr 12, 2022

Although the future looked bright at the start of the Texas oyster season back in November, it is now clear that those who depend on the public reefs for their livelihood have been having a disappointing season. And for once it’s not due to hurricanes, droughts, or other natural disasters,...

Director Charlie Minn interviews a survivor of the 2021 Astroworld concert.

New Documentary Gives Horrifying Grounds-Eye View of Astroworld Concert

By Jef Rouner

Apr 5, 2022

Charlie Minn’s documentary on the tragic 2021 Astroworld concert is about 85 minutes long At a guess, about 5 percent of the runtime contains the sights and sounds of injured people screaming for help. Concert Crush takes viewers into a minute-by-minute account of the Travis Scott concert that topped off...

Bun B headlined the Texas Takeover Friday night at NRG Stadium

Bun B Shows The Power of Houston Hip Hop With His Star Studded Rodeo Takeover

By DeVaughn Douglas

Mar 12, 2022

The sound of the crowd roaring vibrated off the cinderblock walls as fans in NRG Stadium jumped to their feet. Three candy-colored slabs rode through the dirt around the rotating, star shaped stage, kicking up dust as their drivers hit switches making them jump and pop trunk. E.S.G stood proudly...

RodeoHouston Announces 4 Performances and George Strait Still Has Close Out Duties

By Houston Press

Dec 9, 2021

On January 5, RodeoHouston will announce its full Star Entertainer Lineup for 2022 but it gave fans another early taste Thursday with the announcement of who will be performing on four dates— including country superstar George Strait as previously announced last May. Other performers announced Thursday were Cody Johnson on February 28,...

Uncovering a Sometimes Uncomfortable History About Houston's Black-Jewish Relationships

By S.L. Wisenberg

Dec 7, 2021

There’s no story here. Eight years ago when Allison Schottenstein was communicating with scholars and Jewish Houstonians about mid-century Black-Jewish relations, they told her she was wasting her time. Nothing there. She was in Houston to find a topic for her University of Texas dissertation in Jewish history. Houston had...

Mike Zito offers two fingers and six strings.

Blues Rocker Mike Zito Testifies to the Resurrection

By Bob Ruggiero

Jul 15, 2021

Though he lives roughly 93.2 miles east of our city in Nederland—itself roughly between Beaumont and Port Arthur—blues rock singer/guitarist Mike Zito has a soft spot for H-Town. Even if it might piss off some residents of yet another municipality a bit more northerly. “Houston is by far my favorite...

Artists grateful to show off their work met fans happy to view their offerings at the Art Car Experince by Day

The Art Car Experience Welcomes Houstonians back to an Eclectic World

By DeVaughn Douglas

May 16, 2021

“Houston! You got to give us some time because we are fucking rusty,” says a laughing Felipe Galvan as he stands, beer in hand, center stage in front of the crowd. People scream as he leads his band, Los Skarnales, into the next song of the night. The music starts...

Keith Dupuis and Ted Lee at a prior Bayou Roux Tomball festival performance.

Music Returns to Tomball Depot with Rails & Tails Mudbug Festival [UPDATED]

By Bob Ruggiero

Apr 29, 2021

While the phrase “May Day” typically signals a distress call from a ship or boat, it’s also the traditional nomenclature for May 1 in the calendar year. And for Ted Lee, co-founder/bassist for the Cajun-centric band Bayou Roux, this year’s May Day will be anything but stressful. In fact, he’s...

A WindowWorks art installation on Main Street is yet another attraction promoting pedestrian traffic that would be helped by closing Main Street.

The City is Closing Main Street to Cars: 5 Reasons to Keep It That Way

By Jeff Balke

Dec 1, 2020

Last week, City Council approved the More Space Main Street project, which would close sections of Main Street in downtown, allowing bars and restaurants to spread outdoors and into the street. It is an idea that was floated earlier in the year to help struggling businesses in downtown. But, it...

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building from above certainly makes a mark on the Houston skyline.

MFAH Opens Doors (Free Weekend!) of the New Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art

By Bob Ruggiero

Nov 17, 2020

The culmination of events more than a decade in the making — the Kinder Building for Modern and Contemporary Art — was celebrated Monday at a gathering of media, VIPS and donors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Everyone in attendance was properly masked and seated in socially distanced...

Time to say goodbye, you beautiful weirdo.

Farewell, Disco Kroger

By Jeff Balke

Nov 11, 2020

At roughly 10 a.m. on a regular old weekday, I was walking the main aisle of the Kroger on Montrose Boulevard. I popped across the street, as I did most days, from the building that used to have a nightclub on the roof (RIP Cody's) where I worked. I was...

Oh, sure, it looks all calm and peaceful from a distance, but get a little closer to the tracks and all hell breaks loose.

Canoe Chronicles: Knee Deep in Buffalo Bayou

By Jeff Balke

Oct 19, 2020

This is part four of an ongoing series of posts about my purchase of a canoe during the pandemic. It was a beautiful, if warm, late Saturday morning and I was standing knee deep in Buffalo Bayou. Above me, cars were whizzing by on the West Loop with no idea...

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