Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
It’s official. The long-awaited, über-chic Thompson Houston hotel is scheduled to open its doors on December 21 and is now accepting reservations. The just-released first images of the luxe hotel provide a peek into the sleek interiors that are a…
Read MoreIn the realm of home care and repair services, one name stands out for its commitment to excellence, ease, and customer service – Goodsmith Home Care & Repair. Our homes are often our most valuable and treasured assets. We have all been there, na…
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — When you’ve hit 882 feet worth of home runs in a game your team needs to seize its Pat Riley worthy playoff destiny, you’re probably entitled to gloat a bit. That is not Jose Abreu’s way, though. And on a glorious sun an…
Read MoreOnly a few weeks before the 30th anniversary celebration of Rice University’s Baker Institute director and former ambassador David Satterfield is on this day readying for a Q&A program scheduled for that evening between the famed Dr. Peter Ho…
Read MoreI am going to begin this story about my trip to the wild and wonderful Galápagos Islands by admitting that I didn’t get the fuss at first. At a glance, the islands look scrubby and prehistoric — why, I wondered, would anyone hop a plane to Ecuador to s…
Read MoreMy Goop love has been well documented during my time as a Texas writer. I somewhat obsessively covered the 2018 Dallas Goop Pop-Up, and I did in fact drive to Austin to attend the short-lived Goop League wellness series in 2019. What can I say, I dig t…
Read MoreCarlos Correa sure sounds like a forgiving fellow. He insists that Houston Astros fans booing him — one of the original Core Astros who made this golden age of Bayou City baseball possible — does not bother him. In fact, Correa completely. . . understa…
Read MoreAn unusually smiley Justin Verlander keeps looking up to the Minute Maid Park stands as he’s interviewed live on national TV. To a luxury suite where Verlander’s wife Kate Upton and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter Genevieve are wavin…
Read MoreYordan Alvarez is so physically imposing, so prone to feats of superhuman baseball strength that he sometimes is reduced to being talked like some modern folklore hero. A Paul Bunyan for a Taylor Swift era. People watch Alvarez pulverize baseballs and …
Read MoreChas McCormick still remembers the defensive talk, the little things talk, that Carlos Correa gave the Houston Astros early in McCormick’s run with the team. Correa has a way of making his talks hit home and all these years later, with Correa a M…
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