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500 McKinney Ave. Houston, TX 77002

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Fact or Fiction Book Club

12:00 p.m. fourth Tue. of every month

Can't decide between a fiction or nonfiction book club? If you enjoy the flexibility to discuss books based on a broad topic, please join us for th...

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 »

This Is Our Home and It Is Not for Sale

By D. L. Groover | Thu, February 02, 2012

In the 1930s, the exclusive and restrictive River Oaks neighborhood wasn’t open to Jewish buyers. So the Jews created their own version of the swanky neighborhood, Riverside Terrace. Situated on the southeast of downtown on the banks of Braes Bayo... More »
An Evening with David Eagleman

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 16, 2011

Neuroscientist/author David Eagleman is smart. We don’t mean perfect-score-on-his-SAT smart, we mean Albert Einstein/Stephen Hawking smart. Somehow he sees beyond the physical world and is able to unravel the mysteries that have baffled humans for... More »
“40 Seasons of Jazz — Photo Exhibit”

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, June 16, 2011

When jazz drummer Bubba Thomas saw that talented young students weren’t getting the musical education they needed, he put to-gether the first Summer Jazz Workshop. That was back in 1972. “40 Seasons of Jazz — Photo Exhibit,” currently on display a... More »
Judging Books and Their Covers

By Margaret Downing | Thu, August 23, 2007

A city library in the River Oaks area has been replaced at a cost of $6.2 million. The Looscan branch has grown by two-and-a-half times and its staff will double. Neighborhood groups came together and raised $1 million for additional land for the ... More »
Houston Public Library, energy policy, Houston Chronicle, blogging

By Richard Connelly | Thu, June 21, 2007

The Morris Frank branch of the Houston Public Library sits near the intersection of West Bellfort and Fondren, an area that's been ground zero for Katrina evacuees and ensuing problems with violence. It's a tough environment for a kid — or anyone... More »