City Cast Houston

Food, culture, news and nature in the sweaty Bayou City. Join Host Raheel Ramzanali and the City Cast Houston team as we celebrate and interrogate this sprawling place with our favorite journalists, thinkers, leaders, neighbors and gadflies. Learn more and subscribe to our daily morning newsletter, Hey Houston, at houston.citycast.fm.

Daily News
Society & Culture
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Texas GOP Is Putting Trans Rights (and Lives) i...
The Trans Fight For Equality
14 min
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The Hottest Summer Read by a Houston Novelist
One of India’s Best-Selling Novelists Lives in Houston
17 min
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Spiking Temps, Electricity Prices, and COVID Cases
It's that time of the week y'all!
21 min
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What Houston Eats (and Drinks) to Beat the Summ...
City Cast Houston's best hot day treats!
20 min
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Dina Kesbeh Versus All the Bugs
Hate Insects? Don't – We Need Them!
19 min
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Google Earth Images Tell The Tale of Htown
Have you ever wondered what Houston looked like before it was fully developed?
19 min
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The Case Against the Ike Dike
Houstonians could help prevent storm damage
18 min
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TX's War on Trans People, New Gun Bipartisanshi...
It's a Friday Roundup!
19 min
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We're Kolache Rich, Y'all!
So many cultures...one yeasty roll
18 min
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Bit By a Snake? Don't Panic!
It's summertime, you're walking around barefoot running through the grass and you get bit by a snake, what should you do?
14 min
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PART II – Keri Blakinger: She Was a Prisoner, N...
Keri Blakinger's story: Part II
16 min
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Keri Blakinger: She Was a Prisoner, Now She Rep...
Keri's redemption.
18 min
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Special Edition: TribCast Discusses Aftermath o...
Hey City Cast Houston listeners, today we have something different for you.
36 min
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School Safety, COVID in Our Poop, and Who's Ser...
Today we're looking back at a weeks worth of news around Houston.
22 min
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It's Hurricane Season. Here's What You Definite...
The City Cast Houston team talks hurricane season
21 min
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Hurricane's 101 With Eric Berger
It's officially hurricane season.
17 min
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Ready or Not, It's Hurricane Season
From clear skies to Cat-5's, we've got you covered
16 min
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The NRA’s Here, And Houstonians Are Up In Arms
Our nation has experience yet another tragic mass shooting.
22 min
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Are H-Town Amusement Parks a Thing of the Past?
Roller coasters? Funnel cakes? Ferris wheels?
15 min
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The Deep Past and Shocking Future of Texas’ Coa...
We think of rising sea level’s effect on Texas’ coast as a new thing
12 min
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Is it Racist to Love Magnolias?
15 min
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Teaching on TikTok? This U of H Professor Has T...
13 min
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BONUS: Sleepycast Houston
Fall asleep to the Houston Municipal Code, read by Lisa
16 min
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Harvey Funds Diverted, the Precarious Texas Gri...
It's a news roundup!
19 min
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Talking Accents and Dialects with John Nova Lomax
'Y'all,' 'Doodlebugs,' and Other Features of Texas Accents and Dialects
20 min