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Another clue is that Houston is the largest U.S. city to have an openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, a Democrat, who has pressed President Obama to act on gay marriage, which is banned in Texas.
May 31, 2024 · Craig Melvin is an award-winning news anchor on NBC News' TODAY, a co-host of the 3rd Hour of TODAY and a host of syndicated Dateline NBC broadcasts.
Sep 12, 2024 · We put together a tournament bracket so host Raheel Ramzanali and executive producer Laura Isensee can narrow down the choices with the help of Deborah Duncan, host of Great Day Houston on KHOU, to crown one icon as the ‘Most Houston’ thing ever!
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Sometimes, you only miss something once it’s gone. Take a Houstonian we know who had the gall to move to New York. She got an apartment so high in the sky she could no longer hear the rain; it made her desperate for the sound and oddly sad. She found herself dreaming about miles of open road swishing by her as she sped out of town to San Antonio, a...
Why did George Ballas create the Weed Eater? Simple: when Houstonians can’t find the right tool for the job, they invent it. Thus, when Herbert Allen’s wife had trouble with a traditional corkscrew, he invented the Screwpull, which, three and a half decades later, remains the most elegant way to extract a cork from a wine bottle. Allen had already ...
Houston owes its existence to Augustus and John Kirby Allen, a pair of land speculators with the temerity to reinvent a swamp as a city, which is to say a math professor and a bellhop with the temerity to reinvent themselves as land speculators. From that day to this, people who care about such things have consistently called us the best town in th...
You’re sitting in a Bombay-style chaat shop, eating masala dosas and curried lentils while your kids pick out a new variety of milk fudge from the Indian candy counter. The latest Punjabi dance tune is blaring from the sound system. Everybody else in the place is speaking Hindi (or is it Urdu?) Suddenly your out-of-town guest exclaims, “Wow! I can’...
World-class this, world-class that. Houston is forever being bombarded by such empty compliments. And like anything one hears again and again—the sounds of cars zipping by on the freeway, say—such hyperbole is quickly forgotten or ignored. It speaks to our particular character that the 2004 slogan “Houston. It’s Worth It.” and the books it inspired...
The buckyball, that adorable 60-carbon-atom molecule shaped like a soccer ball, was first created in a Rice University lab in 1985, conferring upon two pioneering professors a Nobel Prize for their founding role in the history of nanotechnology. But you probably knew about buckyballs already—hell, you probably really knew them as buckminsterfullere...
Austin treasures the delusion that it is the sole repository of all that is weird in Texas. But how weird is it really, compared to our own maniacal metropolis? Yes, Austin has a bat colony downtown, but we have one too, under the Waugh Drive Bridge. And while their colony’s bigger, our bats stay here year-round. (Their bats, desperate to flee Aust...
When last year’s “superstorm” and its 80 mph winds moved hysterical New Yorkers to declare that the Apocalypse was at hand, the inescapable conclusion was that Houstonians were made of tougher stuff, or at least more alive to the impermanence of life. Gazing at the corner of Main and Dallas, for instance, where the downtown Macy’s may soon be level...
Houston is a paradise for scientists of every sort, what with the Johnson Space Center, the petrochemical complex, the Port of Houston, and the Texas Medical Center. But ours is as much a city of art as a city of science, especially that most mysterious of popular arts, songwriting. The Bayou City gave the world Rodney Crowell and his desperate tal...
Pay a visit to any locality near or far, from Baytown to Baku, Brussels to Beijing, and you’ll find indisputable evidence of Houstonians changing the world, mainly in areas like energy, finance, manufacturing, and law. But the world’s changed us even more. It’s not just the 92 consulates in this town or the fact that HISD students speak more than 8...
The City Cast Houston team is doing the unthinkable, they’re selecting the ‘Most Houston’ thing ever with the help of Deborah Duncan, host... The Latest Houston's Best September 25
Dec 8, 2022 · A new report is reinforcing why Houston is a great global city after it ranked No. 42 globally, beating Dallas and Austin, and ranked No. 1 in Texas.
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Jun 5, 2019 · Our No. 11 spot officially makes us the best large city in Texas—duh—with other Lone Star State contenders coming in at No. 13 (Dallas) and No. 27 (San Antonio). “Smart, skillful, and soulful,...
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