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  Neon Lights and Thrilling Rides: What's New at RodeoHouston's Carnival

  February 12 at 4 a.m.

  Forget all the talk about 5G cell towers; something bigger is happening on the Midway. Ray Cammack Shows, the folks who put the fun in carnival entertainment at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, are debuting the new Titan that pulls close to four Gs. "The Titan ride is brand...

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  Stuffed: Brisket Kolache from Kolache Shoppe

  February 5 at 4 a.m.

  We set out to find and devour stuffed food from every possible culture right here in the Bayou City. From empanadas to dumplings, kolaches to samosas, we're getting stuffed. So far this series has neglected the most essential of Texan stuffed meals — the almighty kolache. This week, we put...

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  First Look: Ayie's Filipino Food

  January 30 at 5 a.m.

  In Houston, it's not easy to find a Filipino restaurant that's not a buffet. Ayie's Traditional Filipino-American Food is here to remedy that. If you are missing your Manila mama's home cooking, there's a mama in the kitchen named Analyn Demeterio, better known as Ayie, who will recreate your childhood...

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  15 Shows to Kick Off Your Podcast Habit in 2019

  January 28 at 5 a.m.

  Stop us if you've heard this before — the podcast industry is booming. Sometime around 2014, podcasts went from niche to mainstream overnight thanks in no small part to Sarah Koenig and her unfathomably popular true crime podcast, Serial. While podcasting had, in theory, been around since the 1980s and in...

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  Stuffed: Colombian Empanadas at La Fogata

  January 15 at 4:30 a.m.

  We set out to find and devour stuffed food from every possible culture right here in the Bayou City. From empanadas to dumplings, kolaches to samosas, we're getting stuffed. Ah, the empanada. The universal street food of Latin America. Every major cuisine south of the Rio Grande has its own...

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  First Look: La Corona Mexican Restaurant

  Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  Most diners in Houston have more than a handful of favorite Mexican restaurants in their dining out rotation. In our booming city, one can find the upscale, creative cooking of James Beard-award winning chef Hugo Ortega, the handmade tamales of someone's abuela and a multitude of Tex-Mex joints ranging from...