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Hidden just a little north of Houston is a family oriented backyard water park!! Chadillac's Backyard Water park is a public swimming area perfect for Summer fun. Don't miss HTown Summer Festival 2017 at Chadillac's Backyard Waterpark. This is the newest, most exciting Texas Festival of the Year on July 1st - July 2nd! Early Bird Discounts End Soon. Order Your Passes Now:Click Here For Tickets Enjoy two days of music, camping, sun, fun, tasty beverages and games at the park. Chadillac's Backyard Waterpark is a family oriented BACKYARD WATERPARK new to Conroe, TX!! It offers a NEW fun and safe spot perfect for your...

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Last year's Yayoi Kusama exhibit was the epitome of cool. The Instagrammer's dream had us clamoring for those highly coveted and timed spots inside the polka-dotted and mirrored stalactice/stalagmite cave of Love Is Calling and the incandescent, but fleeting, fireflies of Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity. So how does the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, top last summer's blockbuster? It's another light show for sure, but the comparisons end there. "With Kusama, it was instant. That is what Kusama wanted you to have," says Alison de Lima Greene, the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the MFAH and...

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You would never expect an attraction that’s so utterly bizarre to be hiding in a quiet corner of Houston. The National Museum of Funeral History is a collection of artifacts and memorabilia relating to the history of death and dying. It chronicles how people from across the world have dealt with the fact of death and the logistics of corpses over thousands of years. This museum is filled with everything from historical hearses to morbid mementos. Yelp/Teresa F. It seeks to educate the public on the history, science of art of funerals across the globe. Yelp/Scott L. Visitors can wander...

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HOUSTON (FOX 26) - It was pretty heated by the time the cameras came out. Two HPD officers struggling to arrest two men while the crowd gets angrier and angrier.  At one point, you see one of the officers drag one of the handcuffed men. That man is Ellen Jones’ cousin. “All of that was uncalled for. If you know your procedures. Dragging somebody in handcuffs. You are hitting this dude with a taser 4-5 times. No," Ellen Jones said. This happened Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Selinsky. Police had pursued two men into the  apartment complex and...

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According to travel website Skyscanner, two of the best swimming pools in the nation reside in the great state of Texas. Which is good news, because it seems summer came early this year. With temperatures already soaring into the high 90s, Texans need all the help they can get to keep it cool. And really, it’s no wonder only one of the top 10 pools according to the site resides north of Las Vegas. (Cont'd Below) The first Texas pool to make the list is at the new Marriott Marquis Houston. The trendy 1,000-room hotel’s crown jewel is its Texas-shaped lazy river on...

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