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Houstonians share new bike route maps
Jay here! I wanted to share a pair of crowdsourced maps I can't wait to try out on my bike.Why it matters: With a budding but incomplete bike network, Houston streets can be less than hospitable to those of us who pedal to get around.Since riding with traffic is nearly inevitable, it's important to have the inside scoop on which roads are bike-friendly.The intrigue: Madeleine Pelzel, a cyclist, organizer and urban planner, compiled Houston's best and most dangerous bikeways in Google Maps.The map works as a wayfinding source strictly for cyclists, with a clearly labeled legend showing specific streets' bikeability,...
Things to do in Houston April 12-14
Here's what's going on in Houston this weekend.🎨 Head north for The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday.Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors, military members and veterans.💃 Shop and dance cumbia at the Como La Flor Market along The Esplanade at Navigation on Saturday.11am-4pm.🚲 Learn about Houston's bike trails with ENDVR Active Community on Saturday.Free. 11:30am-4pm.🍺 Find your next favorite beer at the Sawyer Yards Brewery Crawl on Saturday.Free. 5pm.🐦 Birdwatch with Houston Audubon along the Columbia Tap Trail on Sunday.Free. 9am-11am.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Things to do in Houston April 12-14
Here's what's going on in Houston this weekend.🎨 Head north for The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday.Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors, military members and veterans.💃 Shop and dance cumbia at the Como La Flor Market along The Esplanade at Navigation on Saturday.11am-4pm.🚲 Learn about Houston's bike trails with ENDVR Active Community on Saturday.Free. 11:30am-4pm.🍺 Find your next favorite beer at the Sawyer Yards Brewery Crawl on Saturday.Free. 5pm.🐦 Birdwatch with Houston Audubon along the Columbia Tap Trail on Sunday.Free. 9am-11am.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Whole Earth Provision partners with Texas parks
The Lone Star State's home-grown Whole Earth Provision Co. is helping raise funds for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department through the end of April.The big picture: The partnership is in its 13th year and has raised nearly $300,000 for the parks department's visitor programs, trail maps and facilities maintenance.Driving the news: All month long, Whole Earth Provision is asking customers to donate at the register.Customers receive a limited-edition sticker pack for a $5 donation, a $5 Texas State Parks gift card for a $20 donation, and a Whole Earth Provision and Texas Hill Country Provisions exclusive snapback hat for a $50 donation, while supplies last.What they're saying: Jack Jones, founder and CEO of Whole Earth Provision, said the Texas parks department provides "places of natural beauty and recreational opportunities to refresh our spirits and create treasured memories."Meanwhile, Texas park rangers will be available for one-on-one questions from 2pm-4pm Sunday at Whole Earth Provision's six locations throughout Texas, including Houston's locations in Uptown and Upper Kirby.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Explore Houston bookstores during a monthlong Bookstore Crawl
Bookworms, get excited about a new challenge: exploring Houston's local bookstores on a unique crawl through the city.State of play: 18 Houston-area bookstores have united for the first annual Houston Bookstore Crawl, encouraging book lovers to discover and visit indie bookstores.How it works: Pick up a bookstore crawl card at one of the 18 bookstores. Get your card stamped or signed by each of the stores you visit through the end of April.Once you visit 10 of the booksellers, you can submit your card to any of the participating bookstores to be entered into a raffle for special gifts.Every store...
Explore Houston bookstores during a monthlong Bookstore Crawl
Bookworms, get excited about a new challenge: exploring Houston's local bookstores on a unique crawl through the city.State of play: 18 Houston-area bookstores have united for the first annual Houston Bookstore Crawl, encouraging book lovers to discover and visit indie bookstores.How it works: Pick up a bookstore crawl card at one of the 18 bookstores. Get your card stamped or signed by each of the stores you visit through the end of April.Once you visit 10 of the booksellers, you can submit your card to any of the participating bookstores to be entered into a raffle for special gifts.Every store...
White Linen Night in The Heights will cost $10 in 2024
White Linen Night in The Heights will no longer be a free affair.The big picture: The annual gathering celebrates the community's vibrancy and resilience that occurs despite the grueling summer heat.The tradition originated in 1994 in New Orleans as an effort to bolster NOLA's arts district when hot weather slowed business.Former New Orleans residents who moved to the Bayou City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina introduced White Linen Night to the Heights in 2007. The event has taken place nearly each year since.The intrigue: The event features shopping from vendors and businesses along 19th Street, local food trucks and...
White Linen Night in The Heights will cost $10 in 2024
White Linen Night in The Heights will no longer be a free affair.The big picture: The annual gathering celebrates the community's vibrancy and resilience that occurs despite the grueling summer heat.The tradition originated in 1994 in New Orleans as an effort to bolster NOLA's arts district when hot weather slowed business.Former New Orleans residents who moved to the Bayou City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina introduced White Linen Night to the Heights in 2007. The event has taken place nearly each year since.The intrigue: The event features shopping from vendors and businesses along 19th Street, local food trucks and...
What to do with your eclipse glasses now
Before you toss out your eclipse glasses, consider donating them to Warby Parker.Why it matters: Reduce, reuse and recycle, folks.How it works: Warby Parker is accepting all solar eclipse glasses that are still in usable condition — so not bent, scratched or broken — at its stores through the end of the month.The prescription glasses retailer will donate the eclipse glasses to Astronomers Without Borders, which will distribute them to educators and students around the world.There are Warby Parker locations in Rice Village, The Heights, the River Oaks area and Memorial City.Alternatively … you could save them for the 2044 U.S. total solar eclipse, if you've mastered the art of not losing stuff over two decades.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
What to do with your eclipse glasses now
Before you toss out your eclipse glasses, consider donating them to Warby Parker.Why it matters: Reduce, reuse and recycle, folks.How it works: Warby Parker is accepting all solar eclipse glasses that are still in usable condition — so not bent, scratched or broken — at its stores through the end of the month.The prescription glasses retailer will donate the eclipse glasses to Astronomers Without Borders, which will distribute them to educators and students around the world.There are Warby Parker locations in Rice Village, The Heights, the River Oaks area and Memorial City.Alternatively … you could save them for the 2044 U.S. total solar eclipse, if you've mastered the art of not losing stuff over two decades.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
What to do with your eclipse glasses now
Before you toss out your eclipse glasses, consider donating them to Warby Parker.Why it matters: Reduce, reuse and recycle, folks.How it works: Warby Parker is accepting all solar eclipse glasses that are still in usable condition — so not bent, scratched or broken — at its stores through the end of the month.The prescription glasses retailer will donate the eclipse glasses to Astronomers Without Borders, which will distribute them to educators and students around the world.There are Warby Parker locations in Rice Village, The Heights, the River Oaks area and Memorial City.Alternatively … you could save them for the 2044 U.S. total solar eclipse, if you've mastered the art of not losing stuff over two decades.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Hermann Park enhancements debut this week
A complete renovation of 26 acres inside Hermann Park finally opens to the public this week.Why it matters: The Commons, located in the southwest corner of the park, is a major piece of the Hermann Park Conservancy's $52 million Play Your Park campaign and broader 20-year master plan.Driving the news: The conservancy is hosting a celebration to open The Commons at 9am Saturday, when the public will be able to experience all the upgrades for the first time.Zoom in: Those upgrades include the 2-acre Play Gardens, which feature interactive playgrounds with a 45-foot-tall rocket ship slide, splash pads, a carousel...
What to do in Houston April 8-12
Here's what's going on in the Bayou City this week.🖼️ Check out a Viva Frida! group art exhibition at MECA, showcasing contemporary artists across Texas who've been influenced by Frida Kahlo's work.On view from Monday-Friday, 10am- 9:30pm. Free.👶 Take your toddlers to interactive story time at Discovery Green.Free. Tuesday, 10:30am-12:30pm.🙀 Watch the Amazing Acro-Cats, who were featured in the Netflix series "Cat People," at MATCH.Wednesday's show begins at 7pm. $40-$70.🌳 Play bingo at Rally Pavilion. General admission is $15, and all proceeds go to the Memorial Park Conservancy.Wednesday, 6pm-8pm.💃 Skill up on your salsa dancing. The beginners salsa class at Henke & Pillot starts at 7pm Wednesday.$15.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Houston solar eclipse: Clouds, storms lead abysmal forecast
Cloud cover and storms may spoil Houston's view of Monday's total solar eclipse, but local astronomers are still optimistic about the experience.Catch up quick: The Moon will eclipse about 94% of the Sun over Houston starting at 12:20pm.The eclipse will peak at 1:40pm and end at 3:01pm.Yes, but: A majority of the U.S. inside the path of totality — including Houston — is expected to see cloud cover anywhere between 30% and 80% Monday, according to the latest models from the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.Meteorologists predict Texas could see anywhere from 30% cloud cover near Dallas to 60%...
Critics say Texas 288 construction violates agreement with feds
A drainage project along Texas 288 near North MacGregor Way is drawing questions from nearby residents.Why it matters: Community leaders suspect the work, which Texas Department of Transportation contractors started this week, is part of the massive, $9.7 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), which cannot legally commence before August.Friction point: TxDOT, which is overseeing both construction projects, denies the current construction is part of the NHHIP despite claims to the contrary from organizers with the group Stop TxDOT I-45, the MacGregor Super Neighborhood, and at least two elected officials.Context: In a voluntary resolution agreement in 2023, TxDOT agreed...
NASA jets will chase the eclipse for pictures of the Sun
Two Cold War-era jets from Houston will chase the eclipse path to capture observations of the solar corona, or the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere.Why it matters: Aside from this experiment being really cool, the aim is to understand more about the Sun's corona — in particular, why the atmosphere of the Sun is hotter than the surface, per Scientific American.Driving the news: Two of NASA's WB-57 jets will take off from Ellington Field and will fly southwest to Mexico, over Mazatlan, during the total solar eclipse on April 8.The jets are mounted with telescopes to capture these observations,...
Things to do in Houston the weekend of April 6-7
Here's what's happening in Houston this weekend.🤓 Nerd out at Collect-A-Con Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.Tickets start at $25. 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday.🚶 Join Walk and Roll Houston for a town hall about the Montrose Boulevard project Saturday at Wharton Dual Language Academy's Spark Park.Free. 10am-noon.✌️ Vibe out at the Menil Collection's annual Neighborhood Community Day on Saturday.Free art, music, poetry and family-friendly activities run from 1pm-5pm.🪁 Go fly a kite at Hermann Park during the annual kite festival Sunday on the Miller Hill.Free. 10am-3pm.🎷 Listen to Ghost-Note and the Monterey Jazz @ TSU All-Stars play at the weekly Jazzy Sundays series at Buffalo Bayou Park's Water Works.Free. 5pm-7pm.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Things to do in Houston the weekend of April 6-7
Here's what's happening in Houston this weekend.🤓 Nerd out at Collect-A-Con Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.Tickets start at $25. 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday.🚶 Join Walk and Roll Houston for a town hall about the Montrose Boulevard project Saturday at Wharton Dual Language Academy's Spark Park.Free. 10am-noon.✌️ Vibe out at the Menil Collection's annual Neighborhood Community Day on Saturday.Free art, music, poetry and family-friendly activities run from 1pm-5pm.🪁 Go fly a kite at Hermann Park during the annual kite festival Sunday on the Miller Hill.Free. 10am-3pm.🎷 Listen to Ghost-Note and the Monterey Jazz @ TSU All-Stars play at the weekly Jazzy Sundays series at Buffalo Bayou Park's Water Works.Free. 5pm-7pm.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
Things to do in Houston the weekend of April 6-7
Here's what's happening in Houston this weekend.🤓 Nerd out at Collect-A-Con Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.Tickets start at $25. 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday.🚶 Join Walk and Roll Houston for a town hall about the Montrose Boulevard project Saturday at Wharton Dual Language Academy's Spark Park.Free. 10am-noon.✌️ Vibe out at the Menil Collection's annual Neighborhood Community Day on Saturday.Free art, music, poetry and family-friendly activities run from 1pm-5pm.🪁 Go fly a kite at Hermann Park during the annual kite festival Sunday on the Miller Hill.Free. 10am-3pm.🎷 Listen to Ghost-Note and the Monterey Jazz @ TSU All-Stars play at the weekly Jazzy Sundays series at Buffalo Bayou Park's Water Works.Free. 5pm-7pm.Sign up for Axios Houston for free.
First Texas Original location opens in Sugar Land
Texas Original, the state's largest medical cannabis provider, recently opened its first medical cannabis prescription pickup location in Sugar Land.Why it matters: Texas Original CEO Nico Richardson tells Axios that the company plans to keep expanding throughout the state and adding more locations to improve access to regulated products for patients.Catch up quick: Though it's low profile, Texas does have a medical marijuana program. The state's small and intensely regulated Compassionate Use Program allows approved doctors to legally prescribe low levels of THC to treat conditions like cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder and epilepsy.Across the state, 5,000 to 6,000 orders are...
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