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Houston is a very large and vibrant city, with lots of unique spots. However, when it comes to choosing where to go on a night out, most people get overwhelmed and resort to verified, well-known options. But Valentine’s Day is an exceptional holiday, and the choice of a place to celebrate it deserves special...

The modern conception of love is broad, multifaceted and complex, but strangely contained to one word. Is the love you feel for your parents the same kind you feel for your friends or your partner? Definitely not. Why then would these varied feelings be constricted to a single four letter word? The ancient Greeks...

To skeptics, Valentine’s Day is seen as a heteronormative, Christian-adjacent holiday manufactured by corporations to sell candy and jewelry. The truth about how we’ve come to celebrate Valentine’s Day today is far more compelling, albeit cloudy. It’s widely understood that the Catholic feast day honors St....

Missing a bus at a commuter school like UH is not a first (or last) time occurrence. In 2020, when then-freshman public policy senior Sameer Abdulmajeed missed his bus, it led to the start of the infamous Squirrel Society.  In the beginning “One day, I missed my bus. So I was just hanging out near the library,...

The battle for Taylor Swift tickets was over before it even started.  Millions of Swifties were eager to buy concert tickets after Taylor Swift’s release of Midnights only to be left without after Ticketmaster left them in endless queues and unresponsive web pages.  The public sale was even canceled as the...

Women’s organizations and interested parties are invited to a celebration honoring the 45th anniversary of the 1977 National Women’s Conference on Thursday. The celebration will begin with a reenactment of the passing of the torch during a 1977 marathon led by former mayor Annise Parker at the historical marker by...

Fresh from their Tony wins, SIX traveled to Houston and gave audiences an entertaining, educational and empowerful night to remember. Between the sparkling costumes and interactions with the audience, viewers of the show are immersed in an 80-minute musical with multiple elements to keep everyone...

Houston’s own Swishahouse rap legend, Paul Wall, faced Austin’s Grammy Award-winning blues-rock artist, Gary Clark Jr., in a four-round battle of the bands on Thursday night.  With two distinctive artists striving to amplify the beauty of southern sounds, the Red Bull SoundClash was nothing short of a unique...

Most of us expect 17 total years of schooling. Four years of college, four of high school, three years of middle school and six or seven years of elementary school. School already takes up a massive chunk of our lives! Even so, a few of us go further than just an undergraduate career. Enter: the master’s...

Stay-at-home parents get a bad rep, and unfairly so, in my opinion. With school, work, and extracurricular activities, I find myself overwhelmed by my own housework sometimes. When imagining having an extra child and romantic partner to care for, clean up after, and shop for, it’s hard to not feel overwhelmed....