Call on Sovie, our favorite sales chick in all of Houston. This spacious boutique boasts incredible hard-to-find designer labels like Balmain and DSquared2.
Fabrics used for Zegna suits include, wool, cashmere and mohair found in Australia, Mongolia and South Africa.
Trellis is luxe all the way, using exclusively Carita, Decléor, and Phytomer, three of the world's best and most exclusive skin, face and hair care lines.
Across the lobby from Cavour, Bar Malatesta is one of Houston's hidden gems. There's no better place to order an Old-Fashioned and whisper sweet nothings.
For Curly Sues, Bella Rinova is a great salon option, specializing in dry cuts that work best on curly hair.
The stationery departments at Bering's draw shoppers who normally would balk at going to a hardware store.
The bikes stationed in the parking lot are for customers to ride home, if they so desire. Or West U residents can call the restaurant and be picked up and taken home by an eco shuttle.
Visit the Nature Center where kids can enjoy learning with interactive exhibits and the Discovery Room.
The Texas Medical Center comprises 19 academic institutions, 13 hospitals and 15 support services organizations, with an estimated annual regional economic impact of $14 billion.
In the early 1980s, the basketball team was dubbed "Phi Slama Jama" due to the exploits of Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler.
Parking is a nightmare, so our best advice is shop early in the day or park in the garage and get validation from one of the adjacent stores or restaurants.
This was a Stouffer's in 1990 when Madonna hosted a big party after kicking off her "Blonde Ambition" tour at the Summit (now Lakewood Church) next door.
One of the most beautiful sights in Houston: A white peacock roams the grounds at times.
Cedar Creek purchased tons of furniture from Ninfa's. Look closely and you can spot Mama Ninfa's face hanging on the wall.
Check out the regular seal and sea lion performances – more than worth the price of admission alone.
The bookstore is considered so important to Houston's literary scene that when founder Karl Killian decided to sell Brazos in 2006, a consortium of Houston book lovers chipped in to purchase it.
Executive director Cressandra Thibodeaux is friendly, enthusiastic, and open to suggestions, so let her know if you have an idea for a film you'd like to see.
Provocative, experimental, and edgy, there are screenings of art at 24 frames per second at Rice Cinema almost every weekend during the academic year at Rice University.
Open since 1983, this gallery has focused on early- to mid-career regional artists, and many have gone on to international acclaim.
Look out for large abstract sculptures, modern still lifes and a mythical reference or two.
For a delicious PG evening, Dessert Gallery stocks a few board games, or you could always bring your own and camp out in the overstuffed purple armchairs.
Thornwood has solo and group exhibitions in the main gallery that change so often that we urge you to jump on the opportunity to see new works before they are gone again.
This is the only place in town to find prints by photographic masters such as Kertesz, Cartier-Bresson, and Doisneau.
This longtime powerhouse gallery focuses on American, European and Latin American representational art in the surrealist vein, and concentrates on sculpture as well as works on paper.
Andriola strives to persuade audiences that art is not bound to the guidelines of abstract, figurative, or conceptual ideas but rather comes in many elusive and uncommon forms.
As Houston’s only resource for nationally recognized contemporary craft works of art, Goldesberry Gallery exhibits glass, fiber, wood and metal, including jewelry, painting, collage and mixed media.
In an ad touting Houston for the city's convention and visitors bureau, superstar Beyonce Knowles says This Is It is one of her favorite places to eat.
A. D. Players also runs a children’s theater and provides fun classes and programs to help kids get a head start on speaking in front of an audience and boosting their confidence.
Try the frito pie or black bean nachos after a run or golf game at Memorial Park. C'mon, you deserve it.
