Discover Your World Series at Discovery Green

Discovery Green

05.19.13 - 06.16.13

Celebrating Houston's international communities through music and performance, the exciting lineup is made possible in part through the City's Initiative Grant Program of the Houston Arts A

Ranking it

Two Texas universities make list of "Amazing but Overlooked" colleges you haven't considered but should

By Whitney Radley

02.26.13 | 6:00 am

There are factors in higher education that can be measured, like "best value colleges" and "horniest college campus." But some qualities — like amazing cafeteria ...

HAA Partnership

Bayou City Art Festival shakes things up: A new approach to music makes for a better party

By Joel Luks

10.13.12 | 12:03 pm

For more than four decades, the Bayou City Art Festival has curated a visual arts bash that amasses talent from across the country in an effort to bring creative personalities to the city. Through ...

Hidden Houston Video

A true melting pot: Inside Alief, one of Houston's most diverse Super Neighborhoods

By Houston's Voice Correspondent

06.12.12 | 2:10 pm

Janie Yao says that much of her own Chinese heritage she learned through dance. As the director of Mitsi Dancing School, located in Alief, teaching art forms of her homeland has expanded her o ...

CultureMap Video

Music from the soul: Former People's Army musician looks to change the way H-Town looks at Chinese sound

By Joel Luks

05.18.12 | 12:31 pm

Five million residents, 88 Super Neighborhoods and more than 90 languages spoken — Houston is loving it. With those numbers — indicative of the United States' most racially and ethn ...

Cliff Notes

Changing times? All-white jury in police beating acquittal seems strange in diverse Houston

By Clifford Pugh

05.17.12 | 3:01 pm

As I was driving to work this morning, a couple of back-to-back local stories on KUHF-FM caught my attention.  The first story, which has riveted and divided the city, was a jury's dec ...

Diverse reality

Breaking reality TV's color barrier: Ex Houston basketball player aims to become First Black Bachelor

By Karen Labuca

04.13.12 | 11:37 am

It looks like ABC's The Bachelor could use a ratings boost. It definitely could use some long-overdue diversity. That's where Lamar Hurd and his viral "First Black Bachel ...

Screening of Welcome to Shelbyville presented by Alliance for Multicultural Community Services

Té House of Tea

06.29.11

The Alliance for Multicultural Community Services hosts a screening of the documentary Welcome to Shelbyville. Through the vibrant and colorful characters of Shelbyville, the film explores immi

44th WorldFest International Independent Film Festival

04.08.11 - 04.17.11

WorldFest features 10 film major categories including shorts, features, television commercials, music videos, screenplays, new media, television production, business films, experimental, student an

Struggling to Adapt

New Texas Monthly expose rocks the Kinkaid School

By Caroline Gallay

02.17.11 | 5:34 pm

In a a seven-page feature that will appear in the March issue of Texas Monthly (already available online to subscribers), reporter John Spong dissects the results of Houston's prestigious Kinka ...