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.

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Society & Culture
826
Insects We Hate and Why We Shouldn't
Houston's got a lot of insects but we shouldn't try to get rid of them all
19 min
827
Houston's "Pothole Czar" is batting 1000
Potholes 101
13 min
828
What to do about Houston’s homicide rate?
2021 was one of Houston’s worst years for Homicides
15 min
829
Who doesn't love H-E-B?
Texas does!
15 min
830
Part 2: Could you loop around 610 on a bike? Th...
Raj Mankad, the Houston Chronicle's op-Ed editor has made a project of riding his bike around Loop 610
19 min
831
Could you loop around 610 on a bike? This man did.
Raj Mankad, the Houston Chronicle's op-Ed editor has made a project of riding his bike around Loop 610
17 min
832
West Houston’s otherworldly art experience
Seismique's immersive playground
13 min
833
Black Towns Matter: Preserving Independence Hei...
One group's efforts to conserve history
15 min
834
Lil' Keke and the Houston Rodeo
All part of Bun-B's H-Town Takeover
14 min
835
Spending millions on gunshot technology that do...
ShotSpotter is coming to Houston
13 min
836
Is Houston losing its eccentrics?
Who’s our next nude unicyclist?
13 min
837
How the Brazos River explained the death of the...
Iridium on the Brazos
11 min
838
Texas is the Job Quitting Capital
Is Houston still the country’s hardest hustling city?
13 min
839
Our power grid still can't take a big freeze
Texas hasn't done enough to prevent another black out ahead of winter
12 min
840
Yodelers for Beto O’Rourke
The band "Babes in Betoland" are bringing hot fiddle tunes to an already heated campaign
14 min
841
Death-row radio: Jesus, heavy metal, and rom-coms
Death-row inmates build a community through radio
14 min
842
You're not from around here, are you?
David Plotz Vs. Houston
20 min
843
The Extremely Last-Minute Houston Gift Guide
Check out these killer Houston gift ideas
11 min
844
Omicron takes Houston
What's to know about the variant that has taken over COVID in Houston?
17 min
845
“So my enchilada plate is going to cost more?”
City Cast Houston breaks down our COVID economy
14 min
846
Beto needs to shoot a feral hog!
Will Beto's past gun comments come back to haunt him in the upcoming election?
14 min
847
Lakewood's toilet money saga
Why is there always something with Lakewood?
14 min
848
Holiday gifts by Houston’s creatives
A gift guide that won’t break the bank
13 min
849
A safe Christmas in Houston
What to do in Houston this Christmas with Omicron on the loose?
12 min
850
Delicious oysters. Clean Gulf.
Raz Halili is doing good work keeping the waters around Galveston clean
11 min