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VillaSport Announces Summer Safari - 2023 Summer Camp for Kids
Non-Stop Fun All Summer Long
VillaSport Athletic Club and Spa, with 3 Houston area locations in The Woodlands, Cypress and Cinco Ranch, is bringing summer-long excitement to the greater Houston area with Summer Safari camp for ages 5 - 12. Registration opens Saturday, February 4, and weekly camps start on May 30.
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Bestselling Authors on Board for SMU's Dallas Literary Festival
Novelists, poets and literary agents scheduled for free March 4 festival
SMU’s Dallas Literary Festival is bringing a blue-ribbon list of authors to Dallas on Saturday, March 4, for a day packed with discussion and inspiration.
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Texas Renaissance Festival Hosts Annual Job Faire
Festival Vendors Seek Employees for 2023 Festival Season
The Texas Renaissance Festival will hold their annual Job Faire on September 9, 2023, at the Texas Renaissance Festival grounds, starting at 10am.
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Damien Chazelle shows support for WGA strike at Venice Film Festival
The 2023 Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday amid the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes in the entertainment industry.
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Local Chef with Le Cordon Bleu Roots to Star in Food Network Halloween Series
Asukar’s Adesuwa Elaiho will make her national TV debut and represent San Antonio on the Halloween Baking Championship series.
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Film about the unhoused elderly comes to Black Public Media's "AfroPoP Digital Shorts" series
Black Public Media’s AfroPoP Digital Shorts series continues on MLK Day on Monday with the story of one man’s 40-year battle with homelessness on the mean streets of Hollywood.
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Ariana Grande Holds Benefit Concert in Wake of Terror Attacks
Ariana Grande returned Sunday to Manchester to honor the lives of those lost there. The singer and some of her famous friends held a benefit concert in the English city to benefit the victims of a terrorist attack that took place following her performance there nearly two weeks ago.
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Vice President Mike Pence Gives Stern Warning to North Korea
US Vice President Mike Pence doubled down on the US commitment to Asia Pacific with a stern warning for North Korea, which he called the "most dangerous and urgent threat" to the region.
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Imad's Syrian Kitchen: Bringing the Tastes of Damascus to London
As a Syrian refugee living in the UK, Imad Alarnab has faced many hardships. But even in the most difficult of times, one thing never faded: his love of Syrian cuisine.
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US Customs seizes Ohio family's life savings at airport
Members of an immigrant family in Ohio say US Customs and Border Protection seized $58,100 of their life savings. Now they want it back. Rustem Kazazi, 64, was headed to his native Albania to visit relatives in October, according to a federal lawsuit that he, his wife, Lejla, and son, Erald, filed this week in Ohio against the agency and others.
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Putin says he speaks regularly to Trump, isn't trying to divide Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he and US President Donald Trump "regularly talk over the phone" and that the pair work well together in the fight against international terrorism, but suggested a formal summit between the two was not imminent despite mounting speculation.
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Suicide by Surgery – It Happens
This is a very sensitive subject that has been on my mind for nearly thirty years. I don’t believe there can be a stronger love than that of a son for his mother. My mother died in 1988 and hardly a day goes by without me having thought or remembrance of that beautiful lady who unconditionally showed love for me every day. It is a rough and dirty world out here but mothers find ways to protect their children (nurture and protect). It was clear to anybody who knew my father that his love for her was just as strong as mine and my brother’s.
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Trump: 'We've only heard thank yous' From Puerto Ricans
President Donald Trump squarely focused on one task as he landed in Puerto Rico: portraying his administration's response to the devastation on the still-recovering island as a tremendous success.
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Mississippi Senate runoff: Here's what you need to know
Mississippi voters will decide on Tuesday between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy in the last Senate race to be decided in 2018.
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Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against US
Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday for conspiracy to act as an illegal foreign agent in the United States.
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Booker rallies Iowa Democrats to 'stay faithful' after Kavanaugh confirmation
Setting foot on Iowa soil for the first time as a possible presidential contender, Sen. Cory Booker urged Democrats discouraged by Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the US Supreme Court to "stay faithful" in defeat and rally to action in the upcoming midterm elections.
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Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo declare public health emergency due to COVID-19
Local Health authorities say the action will help save lives and contain spread of the disease.
Mayor Sylvester Turner today signed a proclamation declaring a Local State of Disaster Due to a Public Health Emergency to help contain and mitigate COVID-19 from spreading. As a result of the emergency order, the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo will close down immediately and city-sponsored, produced and permitted events will be postponed or cancelled through the end of March.
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When Military Meets Art: Honoring Buffalo Soldiers
Turning the pages of history books there was always something vastly missing… the story of African Americans. Sure, there was plenty of information about the dreadful life of a slave who spent long days picking cotton, being sold like property, and being demoralized every minute of their lives. A little was told about the Jim Crow era when African Americans lived in a country where they were thought of as interior and where cheated of rights and privileges and treated less than. Never were the true tales of the days when African Americans were king and queens, inventors and innovators, and savers and heroes. Thus, affecting how African Americans saw themselves.
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Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn
Special counsel Robert Mueller has released a January 2017 memo detailing the FBI's interview that month with Michael Flynn -- a moment that led to a high-profile criminal case against the former Trump national security adviser.
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IKEA Hosts Swedish Midsummer Feast to Celebrate Summer
Discounted Tickets Available for IKEA FAMILY* Members for $12.99 Per Person / $2.99 for Kids 12 and Under
IKEA invites you to celebrate the start of summer and the longest day of the year with its annual Midsummer Smörgåsbord on Friday, June 21, 2019 at participating stores nationwide**. Tickets for IKEA’s all-you-can-eat buffet are available for only $16.99 per person / $4.99 for kids 12 and under, or at a discounted rate for IKEA FAMILY members ($12.99 per person / $2.99 for kids 12 and under).
