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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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....
