How fun stuff can one do on a typical weekend in Midtown, Houston?

Answer 1

MIDTOWN (Midtown Houston is a district southwest of Downtown Houston, Texas, bordered by the Montrose area and U.S. Highway 59.)
Midtown has become one of the hotest nightspots in town, and is filled with a number of restaurants, bars, theatres, and art galleries.
Some notable restaurants are:
Julia's Bistro
The Fish
The Breakfast Klub
Farrago World Cuisine
Ponzo's Italian Food
T'afia
Van Loc
The Ensemble Theater in Midtown Houston. Also seen are the two kinds of street signs on the same pole (one for Midtown and one for the Main Street Corridor) that are seen along Main Street in Midtown.Bars include:
Pub Fiction
Red Door
Front Porch Pub
Wet Spot
Little Woodrow's
Tipsy Clover
Theatres, art galleries, and museums, which include:
The Ensemble Theater (a theater that focuses on African-American themed plays)
The Community Artists' Collective
Houston Fire Museum
Houston Center for Contemporary Arts
Lawndale Art Center
Midtown Art Center
Destiny's Child's Recording Studio

THE GALLERIA (just outside the city's I-610 inner beltway)
Anchor Stores:
Macy's (Galleria IV) (opened 2003 as Foley's, became Macy's 2006)
Macy's (Galleria III) (opened 1986)
Neiman Marcus (opened 1969)
Nordstrom (opened 2003)
Saks Fifth Avenue {opened 1997)
Other notable stores in the Galleria include:
Adrienne Vittadini
Anne Fontaine
Apple Store
A/X Armani Exchange
Baccarat
Bally of Switzerland
Bang & Olufsen
Barneys New York CO-OP
BCBG Max Azria
Betsey Johnson
Brooks Brothers
Bulgari
Burberry
Cartier
Chanel
CH Carolina Herrera
Christian Dior
Christofle
Club Monaco
Coach
Cole Haan
David Yurman
Discovery Channel
Disney
Duo
Emporio Armani
Energie
Fendi
Fila
Forth & Towne
French Connection
Gianni Versace
Giorgio Armani
Gucci
Jacadi
Jessica McClintock
Jimmy Choo
Kate Spade
Kenneth Cole
Lacoste
Lalique
Louis Vuitton
Luca Luca
Marmi
Max Mara
Michael Kors (opening soon)
Miss Sixty
Montblanc
Movado
Oakley
Puma
Ralph Lauren
Salvatore Ferragamo
Sony Style
St. John
Stuart Weitzman
Swatch
Tiffany & Co.
Tourneau
Tumi
Wolford
Yves Saint Laurent
Zara
There is also an ice skating rink inside!

THE MUSEUM DISTRICT (http://www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org/default.asp?id=70)
The Houston Museum District is an area of Houston, Texas where many of the city's museums are located. The district is centered on the Hotel Zaza (currently being renovated) and the adjacent Mecom Fountain. The Museum District also houses Rice University, the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research and Hermann Park which includes the Houston Zoo and the Miller Outdoor Theatre. The Museum District is also near the University of Saint Thomas.
Some of the museums and institutions include:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Children's Museum of Houston
John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Natural Science
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston Center for Photography
John C. Freeman Weather Museum

THE THEATRE DISTIRCT (DOWNTOWN)
The Houston Theater District, a 17-block area in the heart of Downtown Houston, is home to Houston's nine world-class performing arts organizations, the 130,000 square-foot Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas and parks.
The district is ranked second in the United States for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area and is one of only five cities with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines (the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Ballet, and The Alley Theatre).
One of the several attractions in the district is the Bayou Place Entertainment Complex—a large multilevel building that is home to full service restaurants, bars, live music, billiards, multiple theatres and art house films. The Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre stages a variety of live concerts and the Angelika Theatre presents the latest in art, foreign and independent films.

NEARTOWN--AKA MONTROSE (Neartown is bounded by U.S. Highway 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north, Bagby Street on the east, and Shepherd Drive to the west.)
Neartown is an area located in west-central Houston, Texas and is one of the city's major cultural areas. The location comes with distinctive character of eccentricity and diversity. The location and boundaries of Neartown is colloquially referred to as Montrose. Once a magnet for the hippie movement, Houstonians would consider it as a hybrid of San Francisco's the Haight-Ashbury and The Castro.
Museums
Menil Collection art museum
Rothko Chapel
Houston Center for Photography
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Museo Guadalupe Aztlan
Museum of Printing History
Dan Flavin permanent exhibit

Consulates
People's Republic of China
Norway

Everything is quite closee to one another and some of these areas seem to blend into one another. It is al ot of fun on the weekends!

Answer 2

Houston has one of the Best nationwide Jazz senes, definately Cezanne's is a must. Also, in midtown, you close to the theater and museum district. The plays at the Ensamble theater are great. Of course you can catch the rail downtown and enjoy the clubs and nightlife. Also your close to the Zoo, tatoo parlors, really what ever your into you have a good centralized location.

Answer 3

Go wandering down Montrose in Houston: great shops, art galleries, coffee shops, a British pub called the Black Labrador, Restaurants aplenty. Interesting neighborhood around the W. Grey/Montrose/Westheimer area.

You can just drive down Westheimer and look at everything, stopping when you want to shop.

You can go to the Galleria too.

Answer 4

They have several restaurant and clubs downtown

Answer 5

shopping