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500 McKinney Ave. Houston TX 77002

100 Creatives 2013: Danielle Burns, Art Curator

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Wed, March 06, 2013

Art curator and professor Danielle Burns says she has the best of both worlds at the Houston Public Library where she coordinates exhibits using art and artifacts to tell stories about culture and hi... More »
$Free for All: Emma Richardson Cherry, Children\'s Film Fest and Jon Read$

Free for All: Emma Richardson Cherry, Children's Film Fest and Jon Read

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, December 13, 2012

After spending some 50 years in storage, a large cache of paintings by Houstonian Emma Richardson Cherry have gone on display at the William Reaves Fine Art gallery. The exhibit is our recommendation ... More »
“Faces, Places & Spaces”

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 14, 2012

One thing is obvious at the exhibit “Faces, Places & Spaces.” Houston women at the turn of the 20th century wore far too much clothing. Despite the city’s mild winters and sticky, steamy summers, local women frequently donned heavy furs and... More »
$\'\'Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston\'s First Modern Artist\'\'$

''Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston's First Modern Artist''

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 14, 2012

Art curator Randy Tibbits is on a mission: to give late Texas painter Emma Richardson Cherry the attention she deserves. ''We're trying to have people see her in a different light, and actually, to have people see in Houston in a different... More »
$Best of New York International Children\'s Film Festival$

Best of New York International Children's Film Festival

By Jef With One F | Thu, June 14, 2012

When talking about modern children's classics, it always seems like The Gruffalo series gets left off the list. Expose your munchkin to this excellent series of well-done animated shorts based on the books by Julia Donaldson as part of the Best... More »
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2011 | Best Place to Reinvent Yourself

If information is power, the Houston Public Library can make you King Kong. Forget about those shushing librarians guarding stacks of books. Today's HPL system is more like a vast multimedia network filled with experts and information. It's all there, at your fingertips, everything you ever wanted to know about everything you ever wanted to know. Start off a regular old goober and end up highly informed, intelligent citizen of the world. If you can learn it, you can learn it at the Houston... More »
2004 | Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars

Houston Public Library Maybe it's not as glamorous as one or two brand-spanking-new sporting arenas. And maybe it doesn't have the sexy, futuristic cachet of the automobile-hunting light rail. But the Houston library system offers something those other budget-gobblers can't: free knowledge. Sure, there's the occasional overdue-book penalty, but it's relatively cheap compared to the price of getting the light rail dents out of your car. And really, nothing's more forward-looking than free... More »

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500 McKinney Ave. Houston, TX 77002

832-393-1313

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100 Creatives 2013: Danielle Burns, Art Curator

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Wed, March 06, 2013

Free for All: Emma Richardson Cherry, Children's Film Fest and Jon Read

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, December 13, 2012

“Faces, Places & Spaces”

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 14, 2012

''Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston's First Modern Artist''

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 14, 2012

Best of New York International Children's Film Festival

By Jef With One F | Thu, June 14, 2012

2011 | Best Place to Reinvent Yourself

2004 | Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars

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