Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersFeatured in the Houston City GuideDiscover the best things to eat, drink, and do in Houston with our expertly curated city guides.One of the side effects of living in a city that runs on oil and gas is that time feels cyclical. Instead of progressing from the past to the future, life in Houston has historically alternated between boom and bust. It’s as if the city runs on some Mayan calendar that repeats itself over and over as—according to —it counts down to the apocalypse.Stephen Klineberg’s new book (Avid Reader Press) breaks that wheel....…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersFeatured in the Houston City GuideDiscover the best things to eat, drink, and do in Houston with our expertly curated city guides.One of the side effects of living in a city that runs on oil and gas is that time feels cyclical. Instead of progressing from the past to the future, life in Houston has historically alternated between boom and bust. It’s as if the city runs on some Mayan calendar that repeats itself over and over as—according to —it counts down to the apocalypse.Stephen Klineberg’s new book (Avid Reader Press) breaks that wheel....WW…

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersHouston is hard to escape. Development sprawls in every direction—“the blob that ate East Texas” is what the Economist once called the nation’s fourth-most-populous city. The never-ending urban landscape encompassed by the Grand Parkway is . Yet there is a spot in Memorial Park, just a couple of miles west of downtown, where the city disappears.Get out of your car at the Clay Family Eastern Glades, which opened in July 2020 after a major overhaul. This hundred-acre park-within-a-park is the first completed project in the city’s ten-year, $205...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersHouston is hard to escape. Development sprawls in every direction—“the blob that ate East Texas” is what the Economist once called the nation’s fourth-most-populous city. The never-ending urban landscape encompassed by the Grand Parkway is . Yet there is a spot in Memorial Park, just a couple of miles west of downtown, where the city disappears.Get out of your car at the Clay Family Eastern Glades, which opened in July 2020 after a major overhaul. This hundred-acre park-within-a-park is the first completed project in the city’s ten-year, $205...WW…

This spring, in the early days of the lockdown, my family joined thousands of other Houstonians in taking advantage of the car-free streets to go for long bike rides. It was surreal. Streets in Houston are for cars, not people, and yet there they were: People on brand-new bicycles, seeing the city up close for the first time. Kids rode bikes in packs like characters from The Sandlot. Families, like mine, luxuriated with toddlers on once-dangerous streets. Bike rentals skyrocketed.In cities across Texas, people were unable to gather in their usual spots—offices, malls, movie theaters—without...…This spring, in the early days of the lockdown, my family joined thousands of other Houstonians in taking advantage of the car-free streets to go for long bike rides. It was surreal. Streets in Houston are for cars, not people, and yet there they were: People on brand-new bicycles, seeing the city up close for the first time. Kids rode bikes in packs like characters from The Sandlot. Families, like mine, luxuriated with toddlers on once-dangerous streets. Bike rentals skyrocketed.In cities across Texas, people were unable to gather in their usual spots—offices, malls, movie theaters—without...WW…