John Lucas Celebrity NBA Lockout Game

Basketball never stops. This is the moniker… the battle cry of sorts… that every locked out, NBA basketball player has lived by during this nearly 6-month NBA lockout. With no hope of a professional basketball season on the horizon, many NBA players who have stayed stateside have turned to local, patchwork “pickup” games across the country […]

Art Crawl Houston 2011

We love exposing Houston’s hidden gems through our articles on MyHoustonLife. Really, every city has their fair share of  hole-in-the-wall restaurants, music venues, etc., but leave it to Houston to have an entire underground, hidden culture of art! It is in the mystique of this culture where the beauty and allure of the annual Houston […]

Art Crawl Houston 2011

We love exposing Houston’s hidden gems through our articles on MyHoustonLife. Really, every city has their fair share of  hole-in-the-wall restaurants, music venues, etc., but leave it to Houston to have an entire underground, hidden culture of art! It is in the mystique of this culture where the beauty and allure of the annual Houston […]

MHL Learns to Restaurant Crawl

It seems like every weekend a new restaurant is opening it’s doors in the Washington Avenue area of Houston. Hey, this MHLer is definitely not complaining. And it’s easy to see why — the Washington area continues to be this city’s hottest night spot and has emerged as the newest incubator for Houston’s culinary scene. […]

Renaissance in the 21st Century

Every year, the young and the young at heart gather together to celebrate the rebirth of their childhood fantasies — where they can be anything they want to be — at the Annual Texas Renaissance Festival. The stories of fairies and pirates, kings and queens, witches and wizards, all come to life in Pleasantville, Texas […]

Which crawdad is for me? MHL knows.

So you’ve decided to head out to the Texas Crawfish Festival (hopefully you were inspired by MyHoustonLife’s coverage) and you are determined to consume your fair share of the 70 tons of crawfish being cooked there. But 70 tons of crawfish is a lot of crawfish! And they are being prepared by dozens of different […]

MHL goes to The Texas Crawfish Festival

Spring, Texas- 20 miles north of Houston or for us natives a normal drive to just about any side of Houston. Droves of people and the MHL crew descend upon Olde Town Spring. The location, a seemingly quiet town just off the beaten path (I-45) has been home of the Texas Crawfish Festival for more than 24 […]

MHL goes to The Children’s Festival

The Annual Houston Children’s Festival was this past weekend and MyHoustonLife was out at Tranquility Park in Downtown Houston to celebrate our own inner children. Benefitting Child Advocates, The Children’s Festival is a celebration of all things adolescent. From stallwarts such as Ronald McDonald, which had all of the adults at the festival reminiscing about our own […]