Sierra Rozen
Sierra Rozen is COURIER HTX’s newsletter editor. Sierra has lived in Houston for more than 15 years and has worked across various media for more than five years. You can typically find her at her local movie theater seeing the latest horror release or updating her bookstagram> to share her latest reads.
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Official center for Juneteenth in Galveston searching for master planning partner
| October 24, 2025
Nearly 160 years after the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, a new national Juneteenth center could be opening in Galveston in the next few years.
Grab a free ride to the polls during early voting in Houston with METRO
| October 20, 2025
Community | HOUSTON LEAD STORY | HTX | lawmakers | local politics | political | politics | state legislature | VOTING IN TEXAS
Transit authorities across Houston are offering free rides to the polls during the early voting period (which lasts until Oct. 31) and on Election Day (which falls on Tuesday, Nov. 4 this year). The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County is offering free roundtrip rides to Houstonians looking to cast their vote.
Here’s the only Texas property to receive a Michelin Key distinction for 2025—and it’s in Houston
| October 17, 2025
You’ve heard of the yummy dishes you can get at prestigious Michelin-starred restaurants (and maybe you’ve even trotted out the fun fact that the tire people are the ones who give those stars out), but have you ever heard of a Michelin Key?
More film and tv productions hope to see filming in Texas with new incentives, production campus
| October 16, 2025
Art | celebrities | Community | CULTURE | dallas news | ECONOMY | ENTERTAINMENT | filming | horror movies | local | media | money | movies | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story | tv shows
And with a new incentive, the Lone Star State could see even more movies and TV shows being filmed here. The program, headed by Houston First Corporation and announced in October, will offer productions filmed in Houston 10% back on local spending. This will apply to up to $100,000 per project, with $400,000 available each year.
Burgers with a West African twist: ChòpnBlọk and Trill Burgers collab for an unforgettable Houston foodie night
| October 15, 2025
If so, make sure to hop on over to the collaboration event between ChòpnBlọk and Trill Burgers on Oct. 23, hosted at 3607 S. Shepherd Drive, Houston from 9-11 p.m. This is the second event between the two restaurants, with the previous one happening earlier this month.
I-10 project to shut down major lanes of Houston traffic until 2026
| October 14, 2025
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Houston traffic is, frankly, only about to get worse with the news of what’s going down on I-10.