A Golden Globe-nominated actress built Houston a theatre company on faith. A.D. Players was founded in 1967 by Jeannette Clift George - the Houston-born Alley Theatre veteran whose film debut as Corrie ten Boom's companion in The Hiding Place earned a Golden Globe nomination - as a professional resident company producing what she called challenging, redemptive and joyful stories from a Christian worldview. After nearly four decades at the Grace Theater on West Alabama Street, the company opened .....

One dance hall, two bars, three stages, and a state-of-the-art kitchen define Goode Co. Armadillo Palace at 5015 Kirby Drive in Houston's Rice Village area. Part of the Goode Company restaurant family founded by Jim Goode, the Armadillo Palace is a full-service restaurant and honky-tonk hybrid that combines Texas barbecue traditions, live music, and a dance floor built for two-stepping under hand-painted murals and vintage neon. The kitchen goes well beyond standard bar food: mesquite-smoked re.....

In the Upper Kirby neighbourhood, the Color Factory is an immersive walk-through experience that turns colour itself into the subject of an entire museum. The Houston outpost, which opened in autumn 2022, joined sister venues in New York and other American cities operated by an independent design company that began as a pop-up project before evolving into the polished, ticketed art-experience model that has become a fixture of the immersive-attraction movement. The visit unfolds along a self-pa.....

In the heart of Houston's Uptown district, near the Galleria shopping centre, the Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park is a 2.8-acre urban park whose unmistakable centrepiece is a soaring sixty-four-foot semicircular sculpted concrete wall down whose face an extraordinary 11,000 gallons of recirculated water cascade every minute, producing a powerful, almost theatrical roar audible across the surrounding plaza. The waterwall was designed by the celebrated firm Philip Johnson and John Burgee Architect.....

In a striking former arena complex just south-west of downtown Houston, Lakewood Church is one of the largest single-congregation churches in the United States and the home base of the celebrated televangelist Joel Osteen. The non-denominational evangelical Christian congregation traces its founding to May 1959, when Joel's father John Osteen began a small church in a converted feed store on the city's east side, growing the congregation steadily over the following four decades before his death .....

In the upscale Galleria area of west Houston, the Museum of Illusions is the local branch of an international chain of interactive illusion museums founded in Zagreb in 2015 and operating in some forty cities worldwide. The Houston venue opened in 2022 in a brightly lit space at the Galleria mall, one of the largest shopping centres in the United States, drawing on the steady flow of mall visitors and the surrounding residential neighbourhoods for its mix of family weekend visits and weekday sch.....

On Westheimer Road just west of Houston's central business district, the Galleria is the largest shopping centre in Texas and the seventh-largest shopping centre in the United States. The 2.4-million-square-foot complex opened in November 1970 as one of the first large-scale enclosed shopping centres in the southern United States and has been expanded several times since, most recently with a major renovation completed in 2017. The mall is operated by Simon Property Group and houses more than 4.....