Sports
September 21, 2023
When Hockey Great Gordie Howe Turned Houston Into “Howeston”
Fifty years ago, the Houston Aeros stunned the hockey world by bringing the 45-year-old Howe out of retirement to play with two of his sons.
Anniversaries
Sports
September 20, 2023
The “Battle of the Sexes” Sparked 50 Years of Sports Progress
Billie Jean King's 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome capped off a summer of momentous change led by the tennis great.
Libations
September 12, 2023
At 90, Riley’s Tavern Is Filled With Smoke, Music, and History
This Hill Country bar and honky-tonk—the first in the state to obtain a liquor license after Prohibition—still fosters community after nine decades.
Food & Drink
August 1, 2023
Theme Restaurant Magic Time Machine Is Just as Mystifying as It Was Fifty Years Ago
One writer—who was served by Velma and ate from a salad bar in a Roadster—finds the eatery, with locations in San Antonio and Addison, equally unnerving and enticing.
Travel & Outdoors
August 11, 2014
One Hundred Years of Greyhound
The Dallas-based national bus line got its start in 1914 transporting iron ore miners in Minnesota.
January 21, 2013
John Glenn’s Historic Orbit, 50 Years Out
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth.
Business
December 2, 2011
Enron: Ten Years Later
It’s been exactly one decade since the energy company filed for bankruptcy, forever changing Houston and the U.S. economy.
Politics & Policy
October 3, 2011
A significant anniversary in American history
October 4, 1957. It was the day that the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space and caused a near panic among Americans who feared that their country was failing in the Cold War and in the space race. John F. Kennedy exploited the concern of a “missile gap” to win
The Culture
February 1, 2008
Ha-ha! We’re 35!
Somewhere out there is a sourpuss (there’s always one) who’ll ask, after picking up this special issue, what the fuss is all about. And he’ll have a point, sort of. Thirty-five years? Lots of publications have been around that long or longer. Just last year, one of the most iconic