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The article offers reviews for several restaurants in Houston, Texas, which include Mai's Restaurant, Asia Market and Pondicherri.

The article features Discovery Green, a welcoming oasis in Houston, Texas. Suzanne Theis, Discovery Green's program director describes year one as insane but wonderful. Theis says that they have done more than 400 events and about 60 to 70 of those are convention-related. Fine-dining restaurant The Grove, which is found on the Discovery Green, offers indoor/outdoor event space on the second floor Treehouse balcony. Other mixed-use projects in the city are described.

The article provides information on recommended meetings sites in Houston, Texas. "Successful Meetings" editor-in-chief Vince Alonzo and Meeting News editor-in-chief Elizabeth West recommends the Grove, located just across the street from the George R Brown Convention Center that has a rooftop lounge that can accommodate receptions of up the 300. Alonzo was also impressed with The East Club at Reliant Stadium. West enjoyed Mama Ninfa's, a Mexican restaurant that can accommodate approximately groups of 150.

The article reports on the social impact on opening of various retail stores by Pinto Ranch, retailer of handmade cowboy boots, hats and other apparel, accessories, on 2004 in Texas. Its audience is quite urban with the combination of people who have ranches including lawyers, doctors and bankers who do a lot of work there on weekends. According to Chief executive Officer (CEO) Walter Pye Jr., the draw few real cowboys but mostly fashion-oriented city slickers who wants a sense of Western style.