CultureMap Houston Manager: The pulpit for pastor Joel Osteen stands near the spot where Hakeem Olajuwon helped his team win two consecutive NBA titles.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: Open since 1983, this gallery has focused on early- to mid-career regional artists, and many have gone on to international acclaim.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: 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.
CultureMap Houston Manager: The focus of McClain Gallery is on the exhibition and sale of museum-quality contemporary and 20th-century work from artists in New York, Europe, Asia and Texas in a full range of media.
CultureMap Houston Manager: If you find a rare flavor you just can't live without, Amy's will put you on a list to contact when they make it. Never miss out on lychee ice cream again!
CultureMap Houston Manager: In its previous life, this hotel was a Houston landmark known as The Warwick. Bob Hope once remarked that the greatest view in the world was from the top of the hotel.
CultureMap Houston Manager: While there are other Ninfa's around town, the location on Navigation is the original. Much of the waitstaff has been there for years.