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The year of Queen Bey: Houston singer makes Forbes list of World's Most Powerful Women

Menil Picasso vandal sentenced to two years in prison; plans eventual return to UH

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Best memories: Eight powerful performances that made this arts season special

City Life

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Fake pastor scam: Houston man pretends to be a religious leader to bilk divorcee out of $650,000

Everything is bigger in Texas: Houston is second-fastest growing city in the nation

Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — bras and bridesmaids galore!

New Urban Harvest executive director aims to plant seeds of growth

Fashion/Style

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Designer Toni Whitaker makes a dramatic comeback after a forced hiatus from fashion

Diamonds, pearls & 1920s flair mark Tiffany & Co. collection for The Great Gatsby

Great Gatsby movie flapper gown can be yours — for a mere $19,000

Fashion with a conscience: Chan Luu creates jewelry line from a world perspective

Food/Drink

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Houston restaurants dominate region's best list: Oxheart beats Austin's best easily

Another in-town Mexican restaurant announces closing after 15 years in business

Brewpub freedom: Texas House loosens craft beer restrictions; Gov. Perry will decide

Revamped Heights ice house is a craft beer and food truck Drive Inn haven — and it's not too hip

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Inside The Tinderbox: New craft shop emerges amid the restaurants and bars of Mid-Main

Inside great designer homes: Lifestyle blogger Ronda Rice Carman gives everyone house envy

The coolest gifts online: Houston entrepreneur aims to make handmade chic & cheap

Hometown girl turned celeb tastemaker Ronda Rice Carman lets you inside her drawers

Real Estate

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Houston is getting a new live music restaurant — and it comes with Montrose cred

Houston home sales hit highest point in six years as prices rise; no slowdown in sight

Defying the demolition craze: New $80 million downtown hotel to save a 102-year-old skyscraper

Historic Heights church to be bulldozed as more restaurants and stores move into 19th Street district

Social Scene

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Houston's most powerful room: Heavy hitters pack a ballroom to show H.E.A.R.T.

Art flies off the walls at this first-time gala: Montrose gallery draws a happy crowd

Rubber duckies rule as young professionals cowboy up at a hot restaurant

Hot men, cool cars and cigar girls: This Boys Night Out is beyond sizzling

Sports

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J.J. Watt tries to clone himself: The Texans force changes things up, sets a new mission

Snow cone vendor at Minute Maid Park is caught with his pants down

Houston Super Bowl to include a rocket ship ride, a Space Needle and big-name concerts

Astrodome future not tied to Super Bowl, judge insists: But forget those neat save it ideas without money

Travel

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Vail in the summer? Colorado reps descend on Houston to try and pump up mountain tourism

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National magazine dubs Houston one of most affordable travel destinations in America

Punk times are back: New NYC fashion exhibit shows off spiked hair, safety pins and more

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Inprint's birthday

An ultra hot book party: Tickets for 87-year-old author's reading disappear in an Internet flash

By Tarra Gaines

05.13.13 | 2:42 pm

Turning 30 usually calls for a blowout birthday party, but for Inprint, Houston’s preeminent literary arts organization, turning 30 was the perfect excuse to create a whole, new party genre, ...

Inprint Reading Series

The Ecstasy of The Shining: Novelist and fan champion Jonathan Lethem enters Room 237

By Tarra Gaines

04.21.13 | 3:34 pm

If given the opportunity to interview an acclaimed and award-winning novelist, I would not advise to begin with: “Hey, is it cool if instead of discussing your latest work, we talk about this ...

Inprint Reading Series

Hurricane Katrina troubles and inspires National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward

By Tarra Gaines

03.24.13 | 12:49 pm

In 2005, author Jesmyn Ward was staying with her family in her hometown of DeLisle, Miss., when Hurricane Katrina stuck. The storm destroyed homes, devastated the community and silenced Ward as a f ...

Book Talk

The replacement: Michael Chabon sends Houston's book-loving community into a tizzy

By Tarra Gaines

01.28.13 | 6:46 am

When Zadie Smith had to bow out of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, there was much disappointment that was soon followed by much rejoicing when Michael Chabon agreed to take her pla ...

Author Shuffle

The reading must go on: Zadie Smith bows out of Inprint talk and a Pulitzer Prize star steps in

By Tarra Gaines

12.18.12 | 2:31 pm

In a shake up to the 2012-2013 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, one celebrated author exits as a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist agrees to take her place. Novelist Zadie Smith will ...

Inprint Series

In search of freaks & nobodies of history: Author Emma Donoghue creates characters led Astray

By Tarra Gaines

11.11.12 | 9:19 am

Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue, the best-selling author of Room, is on a journey to Texas on her tour for her new book Astray. So perhaps it is appropriate that her collection of sho ...

Inprint Reading Series

How Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz plays with his readers — & ended up in Vogue

By Tarra Gaines

09.23.12 | 2:30 pm

Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Junot Díaz likes to play games with his readers. "Not games of manipulation," he assured CultureMap during a phone conversation in anticipatio ...

Mark Your Calendar

Literary Twofers: Inprint brings a double dose of fictive fun with Emma Donoghue & Hari Kunzru

By Tarra Gaines

09.04.12 | 6:46 am

Editor's Note: As part of CultureMap's State of the Arts series, we are highlighting upcoming fall arts events you won't want to miss. The fall arts season is set to harvest a bumpe ...

Inprint Reading Series

With help from James Franco and Felix the dog, Gary Shteyngart explains our Super Sad future

By Tarra Gaines

03.25.12 | 10:30 am

Why are the bleakest of literary landscapes sometimes the most fertile ground for comedy? This is a question I posed to a master of dystopian satire, novelist Gary Shteyngart, the best-selling auth ...

Genre-bending literature

Margaret Atwood talks satire, Sundance, and science fiction before her sold-out Inprint event

By Tarra Gaines

01.22.12 | 3:45 pm

Margaret Atwood, novelist, poet, activist and Canada’s national treasure, is a bit of a literary tease. The Booker Prize-winning author is not quite certain how “daring” she&rsquo ...

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Imperiled Architecture	Gallery Hopping in The Heights

River Oaks Theatre Alabama Theater Astrodome Rice Museum building Sears	Gallery M Squared Hiram Butler Gallery 18 Hands Gallery G Gallery Redbud Gallery
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The Bow Wows of Dog Parks	Where the NFL/NBA Players Play

Market Square Park Danny Jackson Family Dog Park Congressman Bill Archer Dog Park Millie Bush Dog Park Discovery Green Ervan Chew Dog Park	Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse Vic & Anthony’s Hotel Icon Sushi Raku Yao's Restaurant and Bar at Houston Pavillions (closed)
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Frosty Sno Cone Stands	Hotel Bar Great Escapes

MAM's House of Ice Tampico Tropical Chill Sno Beach	The Bar at La Colombe d’Or Hotel Bar Malatesta Monarch Lounge Monnalisa Vinoteca Line and Lariat
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Places to see an art house movie	Free Museum Days

Sundance Cinemas River Oaks Theatre Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium 14 Pews Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park Rice Media Center AMC Studio 30	The Menil Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Houston Museum of Natural Science Children's Museum of Houston Holocaust Museum Houston Blaffer Art Museum
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Quirky Houston attractions	Happy Hour treats

Beer Can House National Museum of Funeral History Orange Show Center for Visionary Art Anderson Fair Glenwood Cemetery	Uchi Benjy's-Washington Alto Pizzeria (Closed) Bistro Bar Brennan's of Houston Fleming's-River Oaks Down House
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Downtown Watering Holes	Indie Coffee Joints

CharBar The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium Hearsay La Carafe McElroy's and Molly's State Bar notsuoH	Greenway Coffee Co. Brasil Agora Black Hole Café Catalina Coffee Down House The Coffee Groundz
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Test Drives: Today's hottest cars	Swell Party Venues

Formula One technology hits the streets: A sneak peek at McLaren's new supercar Revving up summer in the 2011 Chevy Camaro convertible: Does the top down love stack up? A sporty new Range Rover that's big on style: CultureMap previews the new Evoque The Ford Mustang GT convertible is the original pony car, but is it the best? An exotic tour of the town with Houston Motor Club: Inside the culture of hot car swapping Volvo S60 T5 strives to be a little naughty, but with nifty features it sure is nice The comeback kid: Chrysler experiences a renaissance with the 200 and 300	The Corinthian Goode's Armadillo Palace Hotel ZaZa Houston House of Blues Houston Hudson Lounge La Colombe d'Or Lucky Strike Lanes
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Late Night Bites	Not-To-Be-Missed Ceviche

Spanish Flowers BB's Cajun Café Frank's Pizza House of Pies Theo's Smith & Wollensky Taqueria La Tapatia	Hugo's Escalante's-Highland Village Cyclone Anaya's Ninfa's on Navigation Pico's Mex-Mex
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A-List Art Deco	Shops for the Hip H-Town Man

Lawndale Art Center Houston City Hall JPMorgan Chase Building University of Houston — Downtown Macy's Downtown	Mortar Reserve Supply Company Kuhl-Linscomb Billy Reid Hamilton Shirts
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Cupcake Heaven	Cool hotel pools for chilling

Sprinkles Cupcakes Crave Cupcakes Sugarbaby's Cupcake Boutique Ooh La La Dessert Boutique Dessert Gallery-Kirby Celebrity Cupcakes Jodycakes	Hotel Granduca Four Seasons Hotel Hotel ZaZa The St. Regis Hotel Hotel Sorella, CityCentre Westin Houston Memorial City
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05.24.13

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Arsonist breaks into creepiest grin ever after getting caught: Molotov cocktail attack rocks apartments

05.24.13

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Polarizing restaurant loses its chef: Goro & Gun gets a kitchen change a few months after opening

05.24.13

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Comcast SportsNet Houston faces yet another obstacle: A la carte pricing changes the game

05.24.13

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Craziest wedding party ever? Always a Bridesmaid bash pushes the envelope at Rienzi

05.24.13

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Houston airports among most expensive in the entire country: Hobby fares skyrocket

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