The pulpit for pastor Joel Osteen stands near the spot where Hakeem Olajuwon helped his team win two consecutive NBA titles.
Parking is a nightmare, so our best advice is shop early in the day or park in the garage and get validation from one of the adjacent stores or restaurants.
This was a Stouffer's in 1990 when Madonna hosted a big party after kicking off her "Blonde Ambition" tour at the Summit (now Lakewood Church) next door.
One of the most beautiful sights in Houston: A white peacock roams the grounds at times.
Cedar Creek purchased tons of furniture from Ninfa's. Look closely and you can spot Mama Ninfa's face hanging on the wall.
Check out the regular seal and sea lion performances – more than worth the price of admission alone.
The bookstore is considered so important to Houston's literary scene that when founder Karl Killian decided to sell Brazos in 2006, a consortium of Houston book lovers chipped in to purchase it.
Executive director Cressandra Thibodeaux is friendly, enthusiastic, and open to suggestions, so let her know if you have an idea for a film you'd like to see.
The full size, eighteen-hole golf course is considered to be one of the city’s finest and most challenging.
Provocative, experimental, and edgy, there are screenings of art at 24 frames per second at Rice Cinema almost every weekend during the academic year at Rice University.
Open since 1983, this gallery has focused on early- to mid-career regional artists, and many have gone on to international acclaim.
Look out for large abstract sculptures, modern still lifes and a mythical reference or two.
For a delicious PG evening, Dessert Gallery stocks a few board games, or you could always bring your own and camp out in the overstuffed purple armchairs.
Thornwood has solo and group exhibitions in the main gallery that change so often that we urge you to jump on the opportunity to see new works before they are gone again.
This is the only place in town to find prints by photographic masters such as Kertesz, Cartier-Bresson, and Doisneau.
This longtime powerhouse gallery focuses on American, European and Latin American representational art in the surrealist vein, and concentrates on sculpture as well as works on paper.
Andriola strives to persuade audiences that art is not bound to the guidelines of abstract, figurative, or conceptual ideas but rather comes in many elusive and uncommon forms.
As Houston’s only resource for nationally recognized contemporary craft works of art, Goldesberry Gallery exhibits glass, fiber, wood and metal, including jewelry, painting, collage and mixed media.
In an ad touting Houston for the city's convention and visitors bureau, superstar Beyonce Knowles says This Is It is one of her favorite places to eat.
A. D. Players also runs a children’s theater and provides fun classes and programs to help kids get a head start on speaking in front of an audience and boosting their confidence.
Try the frito pie or black bean nachos after a run or golf game at Memorial Park. C'mon, you deserve it.
The focus of McClain Gallery is on the exhibition and sale of museum-quality contemporary and 20th-century work from artists in New York, Europe, Asia and Texas in a full range of media.
If you find a rare flavor you just can't live without, Amy's will put you on a list to contact when they make it. Never miss out on lychee ice cream again!
In its previous life, this hotel was a Houston landmark known as The Warwick. Bob Hope once remarked that the greatest view in the world was from the top of the hotel.
The elevated lounge area in the bar has already earned a saucy nickname — insiders call it the Cougar Den.
While there are other Ninfa's around town, the location on Navigation is the original. Much of the waitstaff has been there for years.
Here you can acquire or stop by to appreciate American art from the period of 1860 to the present.
