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Bari Ristorante is making itself home at its prime spot at 24 Waterway in The Woodlands, the high-profile space that used to be the home of the lauded Tris restaurant. The 9,000-square-foot space now has a more open feel after extensive renovations, with a great bar part of the B...
For BeDESIGN co-owners Adrian Dueñas and Marcello Saenz, their uber chic emporium on West Alabama serves not only as showroom for contemporary European design but also as a venue that seamlessly combines business with the duo’s penchant for high-style entertaining. Case in point:...
Beyond high prices, shoppers say they’re feeling rising tensions about increasingly high-tech ways businesses from grocery stores to department stores to restaurants are setting those prices....
Amazon is hiring more than 6,000 workers across the Greater Houston area for the holiday season as the company expands its workforce to meet increased demand. The company announced plans to hire more than 300,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time employees across its U.S. operati...
AI is transforming the dining experience at Wok & Karahi, a family-run Asian restaurant in Spring, after they had a server walk out.
Nearly 1.6 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products are being recalled nationwide because they may have been stored at unsafe temperatures, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kayem Foods Inc., based in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is recalling approximate...
Ashley Ruiz will premiere her latest documentary about the Louis White Grocery Store, a historical landmark in the Fifth Ward May 17. Ruiz is a Fifth Ward native, mother, and Harris County 911 dispatcher who purchased the Louis White Grocery at 4101 Lyons Avenue a decade ago with...
Shoppers in several states are being urged to check their refrigerators after Family Farmstead Dairy recalled a batch of raw cheddar cheese that may be contaminated with potentially dangerous strains of E. coli....
Lidl US is recalling one lot of gelato it sold across 10 states because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in some people....
Restaurateur Mack McDonald likes thinking big — like 16,000 square feet big. Known to those who frequent the four suburban locations of his Creole-inspired Rouxpour restaurants, McDonald has ventured into Houston with his new outsized restaurant dubbed Mack Allen’s. Taking up res...
Gov. Greg Abbott asked the U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday, Oct. 15 to provide federal disaster tax relief to individuals and businesses affected by the severe storms and flooding in Texas on July 14....
With Halloween just around the corner, shoppers across the area are gearing up for spooky season—and whether you're planning a classic fright or a last-minute trick-or-treat look, local stores are bustling with activity....
When a storm washes out your road, getting food, water or medical supplies can suddenly become much more complicated. A Houston-area company believes part of the answer could come from above. At the Texas Disasters Expo in Houston, Richmond-based Hylio displayed a large agricultu...
Toy prices have jumped 6.6% over the past year as tariffs, higher energy costs and Middle East conflicts put pressure on U.S. consumers ahead of the holiday shopping season....
Set inside the stunning eleven-acre complex of the new Ismaili Center in Houston is the alluring all-day cafe called Tapestry, created by the talented culinary team at Jackson and Company. The first Ismaili civic and cultural complex in the United States (and seventh in the world...
For one Texas homeowner, solar panel were supposed to mean lower energy costs. Instead, she says the company she paid disappeared, the panels aren’t working and the monthly bill never went away. She’s still paying $79 a month. “I look back at it and I just, I can’t believe I fell...
A Houston film studio owner says his business was burglarized in late August, possibly making him one of the first victims in a series of break-ins targeting production studios....
There are television couples. And then there are our television couples. The ones whose relationships somehow became our business. We rooted for them. We argued about them. We celebrated their weddings and took their breakups personally. We knew when somebody was wrong, when some...
The mansion’s history dates back to 1894, when then-businessman J.S. Price built the property’s original home. However, Houston Lumber baron John Henry Kirby renovated the property in the 1920s....
From Third Ward to the Ion, Houston has technology assets that could become a coordinated engine for Black innovation, ownership and wealth. Credit: ChatGPT For years, technology has been one of America’s fastest-growing economic sectors—and one where Black professionals remain s...
Halloween is getting bigger, and so is the price tag. Americans are expected to spend a record $13.5 billion on Halloween this year as shoppers stock up on costumes, candy and decorations. Americans say these are the most overdone Halloween costumes The estimate comes from the Na...
A leading pest control company is breaking down the cities where rats and mice are the most out of control. Terminix ranked the top 50 cities where the company receives the most rodent-related calls, and the top-ranked city likely comes as a shock to no one....
Episode: 1641 Aaron Montgomery Ward and the catalog that didn’t belong in a store. Today, meet Montgomery Ward.
New surveillance video shows the chaotic moments people ran for safety after a shooting at a grocery store in Houston’s Chinatown Friday night left two people critically injured....
CenterPoint Energy has sent line workers and other personnel from the Houston area to Pensacola, Florida, to help restore power as communities recover from Hurricane Isaias. The deployment is part of a mutual assistance effort supporting Florida Power & Light as crews work to add...
For 30 years, Ron Radler has sold cold water at the same median on Galveston Island. Recently, law enforcement asked him to move away from the median since it violates state traffic laws. Radler says business has since been a lot harder to come by....
While no Houston-area restaurants received new Michelin stars this year, all six of last year’s honorees maintained their one-star status.
Texas has carried out seven executions in 2026, with the most recent taking place Oct. 7, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Jamaal Howard, 46, was the latest inmate executed by the state. He was convicted in the 2000 killing of a convenience store clerk durin...
One favorite restaurant chain of the South, somehow plays an important role when it comes to measuring the impact of a storm and how it will affect a community....
PepsiCo is raising prices on some of its popular chips and sodas, including Doritos, Ruffles and SunChips, just months after cutting prices in an effort to win back inflation-weary shoppers....
A North Texas roofing company has been ordered to pay back multiple people who the company scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said Thursday....
One teenager is dead and another in custody after Harris County officials were called about a stabbing at a McDonald's restaurant in northwest Harris County....
For residents living near 419 Emancipation, the debate over Houston’s homelessness response is about more than what happens inside the facility. It’s about what happens after people leave. Mark Anthony Rodriguez, who lives and owns businesses in the area, said residents have seen...
Three new Texas restaurants received a Michelin Star on Thursday, including Fort Worth's Goldee's Bar-B-Q, while several other North Texas establishments earned Bib Gourmand and recommended distinctions....
Amazon shoppers: check your medicine cabinet. More than 112,000 bottles of Amazon-brand Acetaminophen have been recalled, according to the FDA.
Today: We learn about the effort to restore the Bastrop Promenade in Houston's East Downtown, discuss Farmer’s Markets in the Houston area, and talk with long-time Houston-based comedian Andy Huggins. Plus, this week’s “HPM In Focus.”...
The 1.3‑million‑square‑foot site, located along Highway 79, will serve as a production hub for the company's satellite and communications programs.
