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With a city that’s on the up and up like Houston, you might be afraid the time has come to wave goodbye to stuff like cheap housing and taking a date to movie that doesn’t involve table-service wine and a personal reclining leather pod. But we’re here to remind you that you can still get by quite nicely with that $10 bill you found in your dryer. Take that Hamilton to any of these choice locales for some proper budget-friendly fun. FLICKR/LANCE BERTOLINO 1. Become one with nature at Brazos Bend State Park NeedvillePrice: $7Seven dollars will get you into...

A Texas dad keeps good on a promise to his son and now the two are trending online. But it's not one of those promises the teen wanted his dad to keep. The Rockwall teen definitely tried to call his dad's bluff but it backfired on him when his father showed up in class. (Cont'd Below) According to Buzzfeed, 17-year-old Bradley Howard has been getting in trouble for talking too much in his physics class. The teacher kept emailing his dad, who also goes by Bradley, about the issue. So Bradley’s dad threatened his son that he would show up...

The much-anticipated grocery store will be on the ground floor of a new mixed-use development between Studemont and Heights Boulevard dubbed Buffalo Heights District. The first phase, which broke ground Tuesday, will include 230 apartments, three floors of boutique office space, and a ground-floor H-E-B with second-floor parking, a new concept for the store. The seven-story development will be situated between Heights Boulevard and Studemont, just south of I-10. (Cont'd Below) The 96,000-square-foot H-E-B will be larger than the Montrose store, and will include a walk-up cafe and coffee bar. “You’ll see things like a poke bar, a coffee bar, pizza, different...

The boys sprint in white and yellow uniforms down the green turf, grunting and sweating as the coach shouts from the sidelines. “Búscalo, búscalo,” he yells in Spanish, urging the players to sprint for the ball. “Umusitari!” comes a voice on the sidelines — run down the line — from Biganiro Espoir, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Margaret Long Wisdom High School soccer team hails from Central America, Mexico, Africa and points between. Its bench hums with Spanish, Kinyarwanda, Swahili and often English. But its real unifying language — soccer, played hard — is universal. The...

You never know what you are going to catch off Galveston. So when Attalia Bordon saw a woman struggling to land a fish, he grabbed his phone and started rolling. "Everybody starts screaming 'get out of the water, get out of the water. I said 'what kind of fish do they have?' I see this dude pulling a shark out by the tail and it's my length," he said. It appears to be a black tip shark hooked just a few yards off shore on the east end of the island. Bordon says there were plenty of people swimming nearby....