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Kids can blast off into 2009 during the New Year’s Eve Party and Overnight at the Jewish Community Center with a trip to the Rockets game (they’ll be meeting the...
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Younger partygoers can get an early start on welcoming 2009 with some afternoon fun at Sharkey’s New Year’s Eve at the Downtown Aquarium. Sharkey’s invited a...
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Kids, why not make a day of it at the New Year’s Eve Bash at the Children’s Museum of Houston? At the stroke of noon, there’s a Time Square-like ball drop and a...
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Just because a poet’s dead, doesn’t mean her rhymes are, especially not at today’s Dead Poet’s Slam. Each volunteer reader will perform two poems from a...
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Kids can see nature up close at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center’s Cool Critters camps, where students age five to 12 will learn about forest animals and the...
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Got a bored kid on your hands this winter break? Send them to one of several day camps over at the Jewish Community Center and they’ll be bored no more. The JCC has lots...
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Put your kid on a career path starting now at the Downtown Aquarium’s Marine Biologist and Zoologist for a Day events. During the Marine Biologist’s session (December...
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The Blues Revue makes sure you step into 2009 with some soul in your shoes. Hear all the classics from a pair of faux (but pretty convincing) Blues Brothers (Tom Sofka as Jake...
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Kuumba House Dance Theatre’s Wumwoyo Wa Kwanzaa/The Spirit of Kwanzaa is unlike any other holiday celebration you’ll see this year — because Kuumba House Dance...
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Bargain hunting is the new cool. And Theatre Southwest is offering a bargain--hunter’s dream date for the most important party of the year. After appetizers, Peter...
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Back Road Diner teaches us the quickest way to a man’s heart is not through his stomach — it’s through his chest…with a knife. The horrific and humorous...
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It was back in 1966 when grad student Maulana Karenga, upset about the Watts riots the year before, decided the African-American community needed a nonsecular holiday of its...
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Sometimes it’s what you don’t see that’s important. Case in point: “Tempo: Photography by Lorena Guillen Vaschetti,” currently on display at the De...
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Hollywood lore is full of instances when an actor’s tour de force performance defines a generation. Think Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, De Niro in Taxi Driver and...
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Muriel’s Wedding is one of those well-it’s-about-this-but-it’s-not-really-about-this kinds of films. If you couldn’t tell by the title, the 1994 Australian...
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Brand X knows that the best part of going to the movies is watching the previews. The local film collective begins its -Monday-night screenings at Domy with a series of old...
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Here are a few things you probably don’t remember about the 1942 film Holiday Inn: One, Bing Crosby’s character has a nervous breakdown and spends some time in the...
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Face it, dude: Your kicks are sooo 2008. So freshen up that mess at the H-Town Sneaker Summit — Winter ‘09. The biannual shoe show features all the latest in wearable...
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Contemporary Asia’s recent cultural and artistic eruption — and the privilege and pain associated with it — is the topic of the Museum of Fine Arts,...
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It isn’t a straight line from Romeo and Juliet to Scream World 4, but comedian/actor Jamie Kennedy seems to have found his way just the same. Satires like Malibu’s...
