Spring Branch's Dożynki turns 20 this year, with Houston Dynamo's Mateusz Bogusz joining the polka bands and pierogi.

Violet Royale hits White Oak Music Hall next month, with poker winners eyeing a week at a Galveston getaway.

The Jimmy Burke Activity Center replaces an 800-person hall with 65,000 square feet of ballrooms, a museum, and even emergency shelter space.

Memorial Assistance Ministries celebrates Saturday with a bigger boutique, a new cafe and a library maker lab on Blalock Road.

Once farmland for oil workers, the dense Houston neighborhood now speaks over 50 languages and is getting its first big park makeover.

Emery/Weiner grad Mandy Stein's Neema International now supports over 250 children and families in Tanzania's Uru village.

Free pie-eating contests, a live concert and an 8:55 p.m. fireworks finale hit Waterway Square on September 6.

About 4,500 people typically pack Reliant Center's Hall E for the country's largest quinceañera trade show, organizers say.

Tickets start at $350 for the September 16 event, which will honor two humanitarian award recipients at the Galleria.

Dallas-Fort Worth alone counts over 630,000 LGBTQ+ adults, even as state lawmakers push record restrictions.

The district's 22nd annual fundraiser tees off September 28 at a newly rebranded PGA TOUR venue in Sugar Land.

Main Street's monthly street party kicks off its fall run September 3, with student mariachi and marching band performances benefiting HISD.

Asia's House gives Houston teens ages 15-17 six beds and no need for Austin. It opens September 1 in Montrose.