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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

Terrifying Oklahoma tornado videos and slices of pizza history top links we love right now

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

Home/Design

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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

Making flying sexy: Hooking up at the airport is easy thanks to a new niche dating website

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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The most underrated steaks in Houston: Restaurants that do killer red meat at lunch

By Marene Gustin

04.29.13 | 3:40 pm

I know all the controversy over eating red meat. There’s the health aspect on how fish and fowl is healthier and lower in bad stuff, how being vegetarian is the better lifestyle. I wa ...

El Caballo is in

New high-end Mexican steakhouse looks to change the way Houston eats with communal touch

By Tyler Rudick

02.23.13 | 1:24 pm

The Houston carnivore scene got a unique new player this week with the arrival of La Casa del Caballo, a popular northeastern Mexican steakhouse that has opened its first United ...

Hometown glory

Beef rules: Houston dominates national best steakhouses list, landing 3 restaurants in Top 20

By Tyler Rudick

02.22.13 | 8:47 am

Soak it in, carnivores. Houston has scored three — well, kind of three — slots on Travel + Leisure's new list of the Top 20 steakhouses in the United States. ...

Food for Thought

The $270 six-ounce steak: Real Kobe beef finally hits Houston, brings taste and wallet shock

By Marene Gustin

12.26.12 | 10:45 am

Remember the big debate sparked by Forbes writer Larry Olmsted back in April about Kobe beef, which he called Faux-be beef because no matter what you where paying for it or where you were eating it ...

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An extreme chef: Skateboarding nut cooks up some of Houston's best steaks

By Marene Gustin

09.04.12 | 10:24 am

It takes some extreme heat to sear a steak the way they do at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, but that’s not the only kind of extreme moves that chef/partner James Cole has g ...

Steak me home tonight

The best steak deals in Houston: Eat great meat for bargain prices any night of the week

By Sarah Rufca

08.28.12 | 12:21 pm

Love steakhouses but hate spending $30, $40 or more on a great piece of meat? Never fear: If you know where to go, you can get a decent steak for less than $20 any night of the week, with plenty of ...

Foodie News

Fox News gets it wrong again: Picks San Antonio chef as winner over Houston's steak master

By Sarah Rufca

05.25.12 | 2:28 pm

After defeating Bryan Caswell in a WalMart parking lot to take the Houston steak title in April, Ronnie Killen of Killen's Steakhouse flew to New York this week to battle seven other chefs ...

Foodie News

Staking out new territory: Killen's heading to Stella Sola spot in the Heights

By Sarah Rufca

05.21.12 | 10:47 am

If you've never made the drive down to Pearland to eat at Ronnie Killen's eponymous steakhouse, you've been missing out. But no more — on Saturday Killen officially signed the lea ...

Chicken fried what?

These are Houston's best steaks? National magazine surprises with its picks

By Sarah Rufca

04.18.12 | 4:14 pm

Another day, another foodie-friendly slideshow from Food & Wine. This time the magazine is measuring the best steak in America by city, and the Houston choices are a little unexpected. Desp ...

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One new restaurant's secret: Chef who went vegan continues to cook great meat dishes with a twist

By Marene Gustin

04.15.12 | 8:28 am

One of those food related memories from years gone by recently bubbled up in my conscience so vividly I could almost taste it. I was transported to a backyard in San Antonio where Dad was grill ...

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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	Not-To-Be-Missed Ceviche

CharBar The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium Hearsay La Carafe McElroy's and Molly's State Bar notsuoH	Hugo's Escalante's-Highland Village Cyclone Anaya's Ninfa's on Navigation Pico's Mex-Mex
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Lawndale Art Center Houston City Hall JPMorgan Chase Building University of Houston — Downtown Macy's Downtown	River Oaks Theatre Alabama Theater Astrodome Rice Museum building Sears
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Where the NFL/NBA Players Play	Indie Coffee Joints

Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse Vic & Anthony’s Hotel Icon Sushi Raku Yao's Restaurant and Bar at Houston Pavillions (closed)	Greenway Coffee Co. Brasil Agora Black Hole Café Catalina Coffee Down House The Coffee Groundz
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Hotel Bar Great Escapes	Swell Party Venues

The Bar at La Colombe d’Or Hotel Bar Malatesta Monarch Lounge Monnalisa Vinoteca Line and Lariat	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	Cupcake Heaven

Spanish Flowers BB's Cajun Café Frank's Pizza House of Pies Theo's Smith & Wollensky Taqueria La Tapatia	Sprinkles Cupcakes Crave Cupcakes Sugarbaby's Cupcake Boutique Ooh La La Dessert Boutique Dessert Gallery-Kirby Celebrity Cupcakes Jodycakes
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Places to see an art house movie	Cool hotel pools for chilling

Sundance Cinemas River Oaks Theatre Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium 14 Pews Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park Rice Media Center AMC Studio 30	Hotel Granduca Four Seasons Hotel Hotel ZaZa The St. Regis Hotel Hotel Sorella, CityCentre Westin Houston Memorial City
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Gallery Hopping in The Heights	Free Museum Days

Gallery M Squared Hiram Butler Gallery 18 Hands Gallery G Gallery Redbud Gallery	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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Test Drives: Today's hottest cars	Frosty Sno Cone Stands

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	MAM's House of Ice Tampico Tropical Chill Sno Beach
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Shops for the Hip H-Town Man	The Bow Wows of Dog Parks

Mortar Reserve Supply Company Kuhl-Linscomb Billy Reid Hamilton Shirts	Market Square Park Danny Jackson Family Dog Park Congressman Bill Archer Dog Park Millie Bush Dog Park Discovery Green Ervan Chew Dog Park
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Hangover III could be year's most disappointing movie: Why it's so bad

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Carnaval hits Houston: Young visionaries rock Brazilian-themed party

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Big name Houston restaurant suddenly closes after only a year, cites "legal reasons"

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The Procrastinator's Guide to Memorial Day Weekend

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New low-calorie, high-end chain restaurant tries to measure up to Houston's foodie powers

24 \| may at 1:30 pm	2013 Friday and Saturday Afternoon Lectures at MFAH
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
24 \| may at 6:00 pm	Art opening reception & lecture: "Morning Coffee"
Community Artists' Collective
24 \| may at 6:00 pm	Pura Vida Tequila Bottle Signing with Sully Erna, Lead Singer of Godsmack
Spec's Liquor Warehouse
24 \| may at 6:00 pm	Trill Comedy Festival
Station Theater