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Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few...
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See some serious seashells in “The Shell Prints of Jean Charles Chenu.” The exhibit features a shellection (err, we mean selection) of original hand-painted,...
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Perhaps it’s due to a desire to just stay out of the heat, but Houstonians seem to have a particularly strong attachment to the movie theater. Today, as part of their...
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In the film Crips and Bloods: Made in America, street philosophers recount how the Watts riots in the mid 1960s eventually led to the birth of the Crips and Bloods a...
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Two women from the Middle East examine concealment and disclosure in an exhibit cleverly called “Conceal/Disclose.” Israeli painter Hagit Barkai and Iranian...
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Over the last year, the Literacy Through Photography program put hundreds of students together with dozens of teachers and artists. LTP gave the kids just one mandate: Show us...
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Pasadena is the Strawberry Capital of Texas — the tiny town once shipped freight-loads of the sweet treats to Chicago and Kansas every day. A blast for adults and kids...
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This is one time that being called a degenerate is a good thing: German artists from the 1930s and 1940s whom Hitler found objectionable were labeled “degenerate.”...
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We dare you to try to look away from the works in “Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama” at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston. The art might make you uncomfortable...
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Actress Bree Welch plays Antigone, the woman at the center of a struggle that will forever change not only her family but her nation as well. After her uncle, the King of...
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Back in 1984, nobody knew we were watching the future governor of Cali on screen in the sci-fi thriller The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the ultimate cyborg assassin...
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The founding member of the first openly gay punk rock band Pansy Division, Jon Ginoli, is in town today for a reading and singing of his book Deflowered: My Life in Pansy...
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Take a look at Jeanette Degollado’s For Cassie and you might get the wrong idea about the new premiumgoods exhibit “Reload.” The painting shows a young woman...
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If you live by the pen (or just pretend you do to impress chicks), hit the George R. Brown Convention Center for the National Black Book Festival this weekend. Hosted by...
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Chances are Darwin had no idea that his theory of evolution would still be causing such a controversy 150 years after he published Origin of the Species. As the debate in...
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BooTown’s Houston Fringe Festival shows you things you’ve never seen before. For the annual presentation, local theater troupes, filmmakers, playwrights and...
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Become one while you enjoy the other at Collectors and Cocktails, a fund-raiser for Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. You can bid on artworks donated by Houston...
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While mother and daughter “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale are, respectively, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, it is their personal...
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Author Louis Sachar’s series of hit children’s novels is the basis for Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Set in a school that was built with all the classrooms...
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The Russian Cultural Center’s latest exhibit, “Recollection of Havana: The Art of Vladimir Frumin,” is a collection of photographs of the Cuban capital by St....
