Freedom Over Texas 2013

Eleanor Tinsley Park

07.04.13

Fireworks will ignite the Houston sky and an array of diverse music will set the stage for an extraordinary patriotic celebration at the City of Houston's official Fourth of July event, Southwe

Pix of the day

The best view of Houston's fireworks ever: 44 floors up with the booms

By Karen Burd

07.05.12 | 3:13 pm

Fourth of July celebrating called for some good ole American food and of course fireworks. Around Houston, there were a lot of great vantage points to watch a show. But maybe none better than t ...

Thanks For Coming!

Worst fireworks show in America shows no staying power: Inside the great premature ignition

By Tyler Rudick

07.05.12 | 12:48 pm

Houston's Freedom Over Texas celebration may have its trove of celebrity musical guests that draws more than 100,000 people  year after year  . . .  But no America ...

The CultureMap Interview

Country fireworks: Sara Evans opens up on her Brady Bunch family & coming back Stronger

By Joel Luks

07.03.12 | 10:28 am

Juggling a full house of nine isn't for everyone. Neither is a career as a country music star, Dancing with the Stars contestant and author. Singer/songwriter Sara Evans' journey hasn&# ...

Calendar Closeup

The best Fourth of July parties in Houston: Where to see fireworks, major music and more

By Joel Luks

07.02.12 | 4:21 pm

Let freedom ring, so they say. Don't let this Independence Day morph the land of the free into the land of the couch potatoes. The city at large has many parties, gatherings and celebrations to ...

CultureMap Exclusive

The secret is out: This year's Freedom Over Texas headliner music acts are . . .

By Whitney Radley

05.11.12 | 11:39 am

Freedom Over Texas, Mayor Annise Parker's Fourth of July celebration, will bring family-friendly activities and Billboard names as big as the annual fireworks extravaganza f ...

Fringe Fire

Wild rockets: Local groups demand that Mayor Parker cancel Houston's Freedom fireworks

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

07.01.11 | 3:45 pm

What's the Fourth of July without fireworks? Well, it's practically un-American, that's what. Or perhaps it's actually un-Texan to have them. Some area residents say that pu ...

It's a nationwide trend

Galveston goes low key in its Fourth of July fireworks show & maybe that's more than all right

By Chris Baldwin

07.05.10 | 5:20 pm

The crowd lined up against the seawall dispersed like a cannon shot at the last firework's boom. There was more than a little muttering from the slower-exiting, beach-watchers below, something ...

A Boogie & a blast

Houston fireworks: Pat Green is just the Texan to get grown folks to go Fourth and act like foolish college kids

By Michael D. Clark

07.04.10 | 6:42 am

Lee Greenwood may be thought of as more patriotic and George Strait might be the tallest Texan on country radio, but few can draw raw, raucous, holiday-hootenanny excitement in volumes like  P ...

Hurricane, schmurricane

Will Hurricane Alex rain on your Independence Day party?

By Sarah Rufca

06.30.10 | 11:05 am

Houstonians have learned not to expect many concessions from the unhabitable South Texas weather, so we make only three humble requests: Sunny and clear on Memorial Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of ...