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Kendra Scott's Newest Boutique Shines in the Heights

Julia Davila

ESTEEMED TEXAS JEWELRY brand Kendra Scott is expanding once again, this time to Heights Mercantile — just in time for holiday shopping.

Megan Thee Stallion to Headline Grand-Opening Concert for City’s Newest Music Venue

Evan W. Black

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, globally touted POST Houston complex opens next Saturday in the converted Barbara Jordan Post Office building, which sat abandoned in a northern pocket of Downtown for years. On Dec. 3, Grammy winner and Houston native Megan Thee Stallion will perform a grand-opening show marking the debut of 713 Music Hall, the city's newest music venue, located inside POST.

On a Roll! Popular Sushi Joint Spins Off New Spot in North Houston

Evan W. Black

THOSE WHO HAVE loved Uptown Sushi for more than 15 years will be thrilled to know that its spinoff, Sushi Rebel, is now open at City Place on Houston's north side.

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Fertitta Buys River Oaks District, Expanding Luxury Footprint

An aerial shot of River Oaks District (photo by Shannon O'Hara)

ACROSS 610 FROM his Post Oak Hotel at Uptown, Tilman Fertitta has just purchased the 14-acre mixed-use River Oaks District development. The acquisition is his second luxury-property purchase in recent months; the Rockets owner bought the Montage Laguna Beach for $650 million in November 2022.

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New Novel Probes Houston Culture, Friendships and the Wrath of Hurricane Harvey

Jhane Hoang

WHEN HURRICANE HARVEY unleashed its wrath, Mumbai-born author Nishita Parekh and a few family members, some of whom had homes in evacuation zones, holed up in her second-story apartment, safe from the flooding — but trapped. “Five adults and two kids, crammed into this one-bedroom space,” recalls Parekh. “We ended up having a good time. But that experience planted a seed in my mind that this would make a good premise for a mystery."

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