Houston Design Center Talk

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

By Joel Luks

05.13.13 | 12:08 pm

To know the Rice folks is to have an extended family. You're instantly adopted — and you don't have a choice or say in the matter (if you know what's good for you). That's ...

Author talk & book signing: Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living by Ronda Rice Carman

05.15.13

The Houston Design Center welcomes native Houstonian and author Ronda Rice Carman, who will talk about and sign her new book, Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living. Carman,

Book launch: It All Started with a Turtle by Lisa Holthouse

Children's Museum of Houston

03.23.13

The Children's Museum Houston will host the launch of Lisa Holthouse's new children's book, It All Started with a Turtle, with author readings and a signing, a lemonade stand serving le

Story time and book signing: It All Started with a Turtle by Lisa Holthouse

04.06.13

River Oaks Bookstore will host Lemonade Day co-founder and author of It All Started with a Turtle, Lisa Holthouse, for a story time meet and greet and book signing. Fresh lemonade will be serv

Lecture and book signing: Crucible of the Self: The Spiritual Memoir by Sarah Cortez

The Jung Center

03.07.13

Learn about the spiritual memoir from Houston's published memoir writer, Sarah Cortez. From Augustine's Confessions to Elizabeth Gilbert's recent Eat, Pray, Love to Jung's Memories,

Book signing: Celebrating the publication Nic Nicosia

02.23.13

Nic Nicosia is the first major publication of the artist's work and covers his entire oeuvre through 2011. Accompanying the catalog is an overview of Nicosia's career by Menil curator Miche

Books in Conversation: The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph

Asia Society Texas Center

01.15.13

The Illicit Happiness of Other People is Manu Joseph's anticipated second novel following his PEN Open Book Award–winning Serious Men (2010). In a similar spirit, yet derived from a time

Book signing: Neti the Yeti by Darcie Goodwin

11.11.12

Neti the Yeti enjoys life high in the Himalayan Mountains, but one day he notices his snow is disappearing. Neti heads down to the valley to discover why. The story promotes green values, encouragi

The CultureMap Interview

Bobbi Brown reveals 3 must-have beauty items, what's in her purse & how to be Pretty Powerful

By Rachael Abrams

10.29.12 | 9:00 am

Natural beauty Bobbi Brown is a professional, well, everything. She is the founder and CEO of the makeup line that bears her name, author of (now) seven books, including her latest, Pretty Pow ...

A Fresh Hand

Interior designer insights: Antique furniture and modern art create a new age of elegance

By Whitney Radley

10.20.12 | 2:01 pm

"It was like daylight in the swamp," says interior designer Alex Papachristidis, who will deliver the keynote at the Houston Design Center Fall Market on Tuesday. He is describing the epi ...