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$40M Menil Drawing Institute Begins Construction

This past weekend, Mayor Parker and local philanthropists oversaw the groundbreaking of the 30,000-square-foot, $40 million Menil Drawing Institute in Midtown. The building comes as part of a $110 million campaign for the Menil Collection campus. Mayor Parker said, "Today we are launching the building of the Menil's new gift to the city of Houston. The museum was truly a gift when it opened, and it has been a gift every day since - a gift that is growing and becoming more precious over the…

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Houston: ‘America’s Next Great Food City’

By John Egan Want to dine in what GQ magazine touts as "America's next great food city"? Then prepare to whet your appetite in Houston. "Houston is our fourth-largest city in population," famed restaurant critic Alan Richman proclaims in GQ's March 2015 issue, "but in food it's poised to move into the top three." In dishing about Houston's eating environment, Richman singles out three restaurants: Oxheart, a tasting-menu spot featuring American-style meat, fish and vegetables; Uchi, which…

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Houston Museum District Mixes Culture and Conference Space

By John Egan The Houston Museum District paints a cultural picture like no other in the country. Within a roughly 1.5-mile radius of the Mecom Fountain in Houston's Hermann Park, the 19 institutions that make up the Museum District attract more than 7 million visitors a year. That's more people than the entire population of the Houston metro area. The district's 19 institutions reflect the impressive ascent of Houston's ethnic and cultural diversity, a transformation that's "more dramatic…

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