East End Stories

As a kid in the 1980s, Bolivar Fraga remembers the Waco Street bridge across Interstate 10 as a dividing line. Latinos lived to the south, in the Second Ward. Blacks lived to the north, in the Fifth Ward. Fraga lived in Second Ward. If you rode your bike across the bridge, he said, “you were taking a risk.”

On February 13, 2016 from 1:00 to 5:00, just in time for Valentine's Day, visit East End artist studios, galleries, and theaters on a self-guided tour of some of Houston’s most interesting creative spaces. The second East End Houston Cultural District open house will give visitors a glimpse into some of the incredibly unique cultural…