Matthew Bannister on Patricia Stephens Due, James Whitaker, Josh Gifford, Jim Riordan and Whitney Houston Fri, 17 Feb 12 Matthew Bannister on the American civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due who went to prison after entering a whites only lun...
Kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, but has spent half of his 87 years in Paris. There he developed a worldwide following for works that challenge how we see color. His illusion-filled pieces are now on display...
Visitors to the Museum of Natural Science in Houston revel in the sight and smell of the corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanum) Over the past few weeks, thousands of people flocked to the Museum of Natural Science in Houston, to see - and smell - a r...
The sub-prime mortgage collapse that led to the current U.S. financial crisis has not had as deep an impact in the middle of the nation as it has had on the east and west coasts. But economists say a credit crunch will affect all regions of the coun...
Hurricane Ike is bearing down on the Texas coast with the fourth largest city in the United States squarely in its sights. Houston is preparing for the first direct hit from a major storm in 25 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated G...