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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Cynthia J Drake

‘We welcome everybody’: a local’s guide to Houston, Texas

Dancer at the East End Street fest
Houston’s East End Street Fest celebrates the city’s Mexican and Chicano community. Photograph: Dan Joyce Photo

Houston is one of the cultural urban heavyweights of the US, and its influence is felt everywhere. It’s the city of Beyoncé and a feverish fanbase for homegrown hip-hop. It’s the city of two-time baseball World Series winners the Houston Astros. A city of 2.3 million people, with no majority race or ethnicity, Houston is uniquely representative of Texas’s strong diversity, whether you’re looking for incredible cuisine, sightseeing adventures you won’t find anywhere else, or the arts and music extravaganza that is the East End Street Fest, which celebrates all things Mexican and Chicano.

Food and drink
Becky Salgado, Houston-based blogger for Becky’s Travel List, never runs out of interesting food recommendations to share with friends and visitors to her hometown. “The food scene in Houston is so diverse,” she says.

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