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Texas, Hurricane Ike
Bring Back the Babes
Galveston goes retro for a beauty pageant
From 1920 to 1932, Galveston hosted an annual "pageant of pulchritude" on the beach in...
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Kids can create a moving, swirling, spinning mobile during today’s Kinetic Sculptures play activity at the Children’s Museum of Houston. Using normal household items...
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The World Affairs Council of Houston hosts former Bush adviser and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes for the lecture Who Are We to the World?...
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A field of 72 drum corps performances were narrowed down to just six for the film DCI 2009: The Countdown and you can see for yourself which is the best of all. Drum corps...
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Kid’s Play: The Musical makes its premiere today with a performance by Hope Stone Inc.’s Kid’s Play Ensemble accompanied by the boys band YouthSound. Hope Stone...
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At the opening of the comedy No Sex Please, We’re British, a young wife has just sent off for some mail-order Scandinavian glassware (brides do that sort of thing, you...
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See what happens when American ideas meet Mexican techniques, and vice versa, in “The Harmony of Mexico/Matizando México,” an exhibit of works by a group...
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In the early 1940s, Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Auschwitz. He was seven years old. Fast-forward to the present, and he’s a member of the International Court of...
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Hormone-filled high-schoolers will identify with the tragic duo at the center of Opera to Go’s performance of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Far from the stuffy, boring...
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Depending on your point of view, Kinky Friedman is either the funniest or most unfunny guy in Texas. But one thing there’s no doubt about is that Friedman is an animal...
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There’s a double meaning to the title “Retablos: Art for the Masses.” The art exhibit, based on guest curator Bob Briddick’s private collection, includes...
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See who has become more-than-friends with Give Up in “Casual Encounters.” “The artists involved are people I’ve come to know and respect both artistically...
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Seeing the Found Footage Festival might make you a little more careful with the videos and DVDs you throw away. FFF is made up completely of footage found in dumpsters and at...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a quirky musical that enjoys a cult following, along with some pretty fabulous press. The New York Times called the rock musical about gender...
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Photographer Amy Blakemore considers her camera a tool for collecting bits and pieces of stories. “Instead of picking up stuff,” she’s said, “I leave with...
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Writer Deirdre Shaw’s Love or Something Like It: A Novel has been called “piercingly insightful,” “graceful” and “razor-sharp.” That’s...
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The Houston Indie Book Festival is your once-a-year, one-stop-shop for all things local, literary and underground. The event brings together independent publishers,...
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Maestro Hans Graf and pianist James Dick join the Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas” for a Tchaikovsky Birthday Celebration. Before everyone sings “Happy...
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Calling all graphic design fans — Chipp Kidd, an “incredibly charming, dapper and funny” guy according to Russell Etchen, manager of Houston’s Domy Books,...
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Admit it, Houston looks like UPS just dropped it off. A tangle of residential, industrial and commercial properties (all next door to each other), the city’s lack of...
