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    West World

    Business+Innovation Views: 112

    The booming state-of-the-art oil fields of West Texas’ Permian Basin are reshaping the energy industry and, some say, changing the global balance of power. Many young Houstonians, facing danger and hardship to...

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    The Big Idea

    New App: Take a Hike

    Business+Innovation Views: 202

    Axis Earth helps outdoorsy athletes connect with other nature lovers for fun in the sun. ...

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    Mr. Bean

    Business+Innovation Views: 532

    Inside a hip Montrose hangout, New York restaurateur Jason Giagrande, 38, takes a sip of his chilled mezcal and answers the question he often gets asked about his new venture: Why Houston?  “At the airport it says,...

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    Duos

    The Entrepreneurs

    Business+Innovation Views: 1061

    She’s a next-wave fitness pro. He’s a seasoned impresario. Together, the Van Deldens own three of the city’s most buzzed-about new haunts. ...

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    Architecture

    Man of the ‘House’

    Business+Innovation Views: 1235

    Through a sometimes rocky half-century relationship with Houston, architect Philip Johnson designed the city’s most famously restrained modern mansion and its most imposing Reagan Era skyscrapers. A new book...

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    Web Exclusive

    Houston Doc Awarded Nobel Prize

    Business+Innovation Views: 524

    CityBook ‘Leaders & Legends’ pick Jim Allison of MD Anderson has won the world’s top honor....

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    Made in Houston

    Business+Innovation Views: 857

    Well known as the nation’s capital of energy and medicine, H-Town is home to plenty of other proprietary products and bold breakthroughs. Here’s our annual collection of concepts, businesses, fashion and more, all...

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    NERD TECH!

    Business+Innovation Views: 1542

    A brand-new sci-fi video game of epic proportions! Multiple conventions for throngs of cosplay crusaders and the comics cult! An arena for professional gaming on a huge new scale! The nation’s portal for audacious...

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    Pool of Thought

    Business+Innovation Views: 989

    A husband-wife duo dives into a burgeoning biz — a fun, family-friendly, year-round approach to kids’ swim lessons. ...

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    Business

    Whole Latte Love

    Business+Innovation, Food+Travel Views: 3401

    A power couple trades club life and magazine making for a new grind — a budding international coffee empire....

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    Make It a Double

    Business+Innovation, Food+Travel Views: 2139

    After scoring with a trendy Heights burger joint, Irish import Ian Tucker, the former cocktail king of Dublin, opens Wash Ave’s sexy upscale resto Poitín this spring. Pro tip: Expect moonshine. ...

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    innovation

    Catch Fire

    Business+Innovation Views: 3118

    At the Cannon, a vast co-working space and startup-incubator outfit coming together in west Houston, CEO Lawson Gow is courting the next wave of hip entrepreneurs....

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    Web Exclusive

    Med Center’s Mega-Campus

    Business+Innovation Views: 1092

    Already known for its groundbreaking innovation and research, the Texas Medical Center has announced another cutting-edge project: the TMC3 30-acre research campus, a collaborative endeavor from the Baylor College of...

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    Checking in With Tilman

    Business+Innovation Views: 880

    With The Post Oak Hotel, touting 250 guest rooms and a 5,000-square-foot Presidential Suite, now open, billionaire Tilman Fertittas 10-acre mixed-use complex is set forth as a destination for travelers. But locals will...

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    Better Together

    Business+Innovation Views: 697

    Freelancers and entrepreneurs seeking to shape ideas and share equipment often turn to coworking spaces. These facilities offer a trendy environment and amenities (bottomless coffee!) to their members, who in turn...

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    Innovation Nation

    Business+Innovation Views: 1206

    Cultivating a creative community and pushing equitable innovation, Roland von Kurnatowski’s decade-old TXRX Labs is on the grow. ...

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    Innovation

    A Cut Above

    Business+Innovation Views: 3612

    An ambitious young entrepreneur transforms an EaDo warehouse into a one-stop-men’s-shop, proffering high-end haircuts and custom suiting for all....

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    Flash Pads

    Business+Innovation Views: 910

    More and more Houstonians are taking up residence in high-end hotels. ...

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    Massage Moguls

    Business+Innovation Views: 6043

    After making millions in the energy biz, these Houston entrepreneurs are turning their attention to … your skin! ...

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    Research

    The Battle Rejoined

    Business+Innovation Views: 2548

    On World AIDS Day, two nonprofits announce a bold new partnership with a UH scholar to help render the still-epidemic virus ‘undetectable’ in Houston once and for all....

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    Development

    Remaking Main Street

    Business+Innovation Views: 1680

    Dan Zimmerman, a former Rice football star whose family is known for creative redevelopment in Montrose, is tackling a forgotten corner of Downtown. Will his Main & Co. restoration project, planned as a co-working...

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    Innovation

    Houston Saves Sex

    Business+Innovation Views: 3030

    Sexual medicine was once a dirty little secret, considered, at best, a vaguely lascivious pseudoscience about which decent people should only whisper. But times are changing fast, as Houston’s top docs and savviest...

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    Of Melodies and Medicine

    Business+Innovation Views: 7057

    Therapists at one Houston hospital are proving that music heals — and now even former skeptics are singing a new tune. ...

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    Video

    March 2017: On Location

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel, Video, Wellness+Giving Back Views: 1719

    The new issue is out now! Here's your behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of the March issue, full of fashion, the hottest parties, and the biggest ideas in Houston. And, as always, it's all local. From cover to...

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    Video

    Super Bowl Blast!

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel, Video Views: 1071

    Want to party with Michael Phelps, James Brolin and Common? Here’s your VIP ticket inside one of Super Bowl 51’s best bashes, the CityBook-sponsored Big Game Big Gift blowout!...

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    Media

    ‘Texas’ Takeover

    Business+Innovation Views: 2313

    After nearly two decades of out-of-state stewardship, ‘Texas Monthly’ is back in Texas hands. Its new owner, Houston’s Paul Hobby, and new editor, Tim Taliaferro, are quickly finding their grip....

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    Giving Back

    Gaming the System

    Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home Views: 19621

    As the Super Bowl bows, stars like Josh Brolin step out to celebrate, and step up to raise big bucks for charities....

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    Real Estate

    Get a Room

    Business+Innovation Views: 2043

    Over the last decade, Houston has grown in both population and cosmopolitan chic, and many believe the city’s hotel marketplace hasn’t kept pace. But with one brand new mega-hotel just opened Downtown, and other...

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    Video

    Winter 2017: On Location

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel, Video Views: 1548

    We’ve hit the streets — and the Super Bowl-savvy restaurant and nightlife scene — to cover the best of Houston food, fashion and fun now. Here’s your intimate peek inside the third issue of the hottest new...

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    Holiday 2016: On Location

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel, Video, Wellness+Giving Back Views: 2940

    Welcome back for round two! Here's your intimate behind-the-scenes look at the sophomore issue of the most exciting new magazine in Houston....

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    Business

    Last Exit to EaDo

    Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel Views: 2045

    Peopled by collaborative young entrepreneurs, funky festival promoters and earnest street artists, EaDo may just become Houston’s answer to trendy Brooklyn districts. But it will have to survive its own good fortune...

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    Food Culture

    The Godfather

    Business+Innovation, Food+Travel Views: 10234

    In a beautiful new memoir/cookbook, one of the city’s standard-bearers of Italian cuisine — and family tradition — tells all....

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    Brand New ‘Day’

    Business+Innovation Views: 2148

    Downtown’s Barbara Jordan Post Office shuttered last year. But when the highly anticipated second iteration of Omar Afra’s Day for Night festival hits there Dec. 17 and 18, the site will once again be — ahem —...

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    ‘Book.’ Marked!

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation Views: 3597

    THE PREMIER ISSUE of Houston CityBook was the most talked-about publication of the year, and we were honored to throw a buzzy party to match! Executive Publisher Lisa Holthouse and her husband, Michael, opened up their...

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    Launch Party

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Video Views: 2200

    ‘Houston CityBook’ has officially debuted, with a posh Memorial party and sexy crowd. Here’s a peak inside the event of the season!...

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    Technology

    Into The Jungle

    Business+Innovation Views: 4737

    Using LiDAR, the most high-tech laser technology ever devised, UH engineers and researchers are leading an international effort to unearth Honduras’ storied Lost City of the Monkey God. It may seem like a plot stolen...

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    Real Estate

    Hell or High Water

    Business+Innovation Views: 1487

    In Meyerland, where some homes were deluged twice in a year, property values fall when floods rise. Is the City doing enough to help?...

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    Business

    ‘Buy’ and Large

    Business+Innovation Views: 2370

    For billionaire Tilman Fertitta, starring in a reality show is ‘just something fun.’ But reshaping the Galleria-area skyline is the culmination of a lifelong dream....

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    Design

    Artifact Check

    Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home Views: 1180

    Art-Loving Interior designer Garrett Hunter and architect Michael Landrum have opened Tienda X...

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    Shops

    Sister Act

    Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home Views: 2203

    Fashionable Sisters and online retailers Kailey and Kaygan Tissue quietly opened the doors this summer in Rice Village to their first permanent brick-and-mortar location ...

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    Shops

    On a Whim

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation Views: 23957

    Who doesn't remember Cindy Reich’s stylish fashion boutique Wink? Reich closed up her beloved shop in 2008 to focus on family, ...

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    Business

    The New Lee Ellis

    Business+Innovation, Food+Travel Views: 2898

    Restaurant innovator Lee Ellis, who sees Frito pie as fine dining and creamed corn as an ice cream flavor, is quickly rebuilding his company — after leaving behind his empire....

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    Video

    Premier Issue: On Location

    Art+Culture, Business+Innovation, Fashion+Home, Food+Travel, Video, Wellness+Giving Back Views: 2421

    Go behind the scenes with ‘Houston CityBook,’ the hot new magazine for the most fascinating town in America! ...

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