Meet the 8 Mayor’s Hispanic Heritage Awards Houston honorees for 2025
| October 7, 2025
While Hispanic Heritage Month is coming to a close Oct. 15, the celebrations are still going strong in Houston.
8 places to get the best breakfast tacos in Houston
| October 7, 2025
breakfast | breakfast tacos | CULTURE | food and drink | food trucks | HARDGATE | HTX | LIFESTYLE | tex-mex
From food trucks to family joints, these top spots for breakfast tacos in Houston deliver authentic Tex-Mex flavors with homemade tortillas, fresh eggs, and just the right kick.
A sweet deal for home-based food businesses in TX
| October 7, 2025
Community | cottage food vendors | CULTURE | FARMING | food | food & drink | food and drink | home-based businesses | home-based food businesses | LIFESTYLE | local business | SMALL BUSINESS | TEXAS
It is now easier in Texas for home cooks, bakers and farmers to sell their products to the public.
Chili’s skillet queso fans are nacho happy about the chain’s new menu mixup
| October 6, 2025
chili's | CULTURE | food and drink | HARDGATE | LIFESTYLE | Skillet Beef Queso | Southwestern Queso | TEXAS | White Skillet Queso
Chili’s announced that it’s doing away with its White Queso and Beef Skillet Queso options. The dips will be replaced with a new vegetarian alternative.
Meet the Indigenous people of Texas
| October 6, 2025
Community | CULTURE | Federal Harm | get involved | HARDGATE | History | houston history | indigenous tribes | native americans | TEXAS
Despite efforts to erase Native American history in the US, there are still active tribes in Texas and efforts to recognize the state’s Indigenous history and preserve the remaining communities. Nationally, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is now celebrated on the second Monday in October—what was once Columbus Day, until 1992, when the city of Berkley, CA […]