East End Stories

Our friends at Shrimp Boat Projects and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, the organizers of this Saturday's Buffalo Bayou Shrimp Festival, need our help! They've put out a call for volunteers to help set up and operate this weekend's event. Can you spare a few hours?   [button link="http://volunteertrhou.eventbrite.com" color="red"]Sign Up to Volunteer![/button]   Register for…

Once a year, the Houston Chronicle's Alison Cook publishes her selection of Houston's top 100 restaurants. Does it take her a whole year to visit, sample, and review Houston's culinary scene? It must. We really don't know how she does it, but we're glad she does. Cook's tour de Houston cuisine brought her to the…

Condé Nast Traveler recently published an article asking a simple question: Is Houston the new "it" city? We may be slightly biased in our love for the Bayou City, but we see great things happening in Houston, especially right here in the East End. Between our thriving art scene, the newly designated cultural district, the…

Cyclists enjoyed the first taste of fall weather in Houston this morning by taking part in the sold out Park to Port ride, put on by the Hermann Park Conservancy. Riders started at the Bill Coats Bridge in Hermann Park and rode all the way to Brady's Landing Restaurant in the East End before turning…

The East End Houston team took a field trip to Austin last week to eavesdrop on a meeting of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) and we came back with a souvenir. We are pleased to announce that Houston's East End has officially been designated as a cultural district of the great state of Texas!…

Anchored right in the heart of EaDo, START offers a professional and fun space for designers, developers, freelancers, entrepreneurs, employees and thought leaders to collaborate together in the technology space. Joe Martin of the Houston Business Journal offers a glimpse into START resident The Iron Yard, an intensive coding school, following their inaugural graduation. [quote]Last…