Tonight: Catch Khruangbin's Hometown Show Before Their Global Tour

FOUNDED IN HOUSTON in 2010 by guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee, and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Khruangbin is a rock band Miles Davis would have loved to have played with, for space is the key to their interlocking, antiphonal ambience. It’s (mostly) instrumental music you can listen to alone, or enjoy with a few thousand of your closest friends.

Top Chefs Serve Up Food Frenzy at Four Seasons, Support Camp for Kids Touched by Cancer

Jeff Gremillion

SOME OF HOUSTON'S most noted chefs gathered in one of the city’s grandest hotels to raise about $85,000 for children touched by cancer.

Pop and Pour! New Cali Food and Wine Festival Ropes in Texas Celeb Chefs, Spotlights Sonoma

Robin Barr Sussman

READY FOR A long weekend of Northern California sunshine, fine wine, and epic natural beauty? It’s well worth the 3.5-hour flight for Houstonians to attend the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience (May 20-22) and stay a few extra days to explore the glorious region.
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Holthouse: After Disease, Disaster and Dissonant Discourse, It’s Time to ‘Feel Good’

IT FEELS LIKE calm has mostly returned. I'm almost hesitant to say so for fear of the inevitable chaos we have grown so accustomed to dealing with. But as I ruminate over the climate of our society and life in general, I feel a sense of pacification at the moment. I genuinely feel that the tidal wave of tumult in so many areas may be in our rearview mirror, and it feels so good.

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Levi Goode Presides Over Rodeo-Alternative Cookoff on Houstonian Hotel Grounds

Houstonian Hotel GM Steve Fronterhouse, Executive Chef Neal Cox & Celebrity Judge Levi Goode

HOUSTONIANS HAVE BEGUN dipping their toes back into in-person events — witness the Houston Symphony Ball in late February — and the Houstonian Hotel is on the leading edge. The grand hotel hosted an outdoor, socially distanced barbecue cookoff at its Manor House on it lush grounds, with none other than Levi Goode of Goode Co. Barbeque, Armadillo Palace and other top restaurants as celebrity judge.

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