Houston’s first gay Latina city councilmember has made history, but the attention she’s getting goes far beyond identity. In her first year, At-Large Councilmember Alejandra S ...

Emily Hynds has covered Houston City Council meetings independently since June 2020. In her monthly Houstonia column, she shares all the latest intel about what’s happening at City Hall. Want to check ...

Dinner. Drinks. Dancing. Dinner. Drinks. Show. Dinner. Drinks. Movie. Dinner. Drin…you get the idea. Sometimes it feels like there isn’t much to do in Houston after dark, other than the usual. Blame ...

This June crop of restaurant openings is very Houston, showing global range and that some of the best things start out small. A matcha pop-up landed a permanent home, a sandwich truck claimed a ...

Houston’s claim to some of the best Tex-Mex in the world isn’t up for debate—this is the city that gave the country fajitas, after all. But the dining scene here goes well beyond sizzling platters.

With rising labor and food costs and a dicey economy, the dining scene across the country is undoubtedly undergoing shifts, and Houston is no exception. This month has brought some crushing restaurant ...

Emily Hynds has been independently covering Houston City Council meetings since June 2020. In her monthly Houstonia column, she shares all the latest intel about what’s happening at City Hall. Want to ...

It’s Record Fair night at 93’ Til in Montrose, and the vinyl-covered hangout is filled with curious diners and guests buzzing around storage boxes full of records. The stacks of vinyl—a combination of ...

An assassin tracks a terrorist across a continent. A soon-to-be-divorced woman finds herself becoming an avenging angel. A private eye wrestles with personal demons as he tries to bring murderers to ...

Could this be one of Houston's most exciting batches of restaurant openings of 2026? We'll let you decide. A James Beard Award winner quietly opens an eight-seat tasting concept next door to her ...

If Houston had its own Walt Disney, it’d be Roy Hofheinz. After losing a special mayoral election in 1955 following backlash over his integration of public spaces, the man known affectionately as “the ...

I read somewhere this week that the receipts for love are grief. Houston has been counting them since Monday, after learning that Thy Mitchell, a local restaurateur, and her two children were killed.