Most Popular Stories
Return of AstroWorld, Jeremy Lin and Johnny Manziel top most popular stories of the year
CultureMap readers are an eclectic bunch. You made 2013 a banner year for our website with a record-shattering number of visits, a lot of time spent on the site and close engagement with our staff — you are never shy about telling us what you think, and we like that!
When it comes to the most popular stories of the year, you couldn't enough of plans for a new AstroWorld-type theme park planned for the Houston area, Rockets star Jeremy Lin's career highs and lows and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel's travails.
Joel Osteen's posh River Oaks mansion remains a source of great debate, along with Carrie Underwood's performance in the TV version of The Sound of Music, mass layoffs at Houston's only classical music station and the winner of the latest season of Project Runway.
And what goes well with reading all of these stories? Why donuts from a River Oaks billionaire's new shop, of course.
Here are the Top 12 most-read CultureMap stories last year:
1. The new AstroWorld sets an opening date: Houston's next theme park to open in 2015
3. Sorry, Johnny Manziel is not humiliated: Smug, taunt-happy Alabama hasn't "solved" Texas A&M wonder
4. After move to $10.5 million River Oaks mansion, Joel Osteen offers Tanglewood land for $1.1 million
5. Spoiler Alert! Project Runway Season 12 winner emerges in hair-raising finale
7. Jeremy Lin exerts his will: Rockets coach Kevin McHale forced to treat guard like a star
8. No Jeremy Lin, no win: Another senseless benching leads to Rockets collapse — and it's on McHale
9. Bloodied Jeremy Lin saves Rockets from coaching blunder, shows class and true skills
10. Billionaires open a new drive-thru donut shop in River Oaks: Who needs Shipley's or Dunkin'?
11. Houston radio station fires its main on-air talent: A classical music bloodbath?
12. Carrie Underwood is no Julie Andrews — and that's a good thing: Secrets of the new Sound of Music