http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dan-Electros-Guitar-Bar/117740365554?fref=ts This Sunset Heights mainstay has long been a place to grab a brew and a show. The bar stocks a healthy supply of Texas beers in addition to the standard Bud family of bottles, and the kitchen doles out eats until the clock strikes 1 a.m. Dan Electro's doesn't serve liquor, but bring your own and for a small fee they'll set you up with some fixings. A smattering of old guitars and groovy fluorescent skating-rink stars decorate the walls, and Dan Electro's corner stage has played host to too many local and regional names to count (most often blues, folk, roots-rock and hard rock). The extensive back garden patio holds many a refuge for those looking to relax in the cool of the evening. That is if you can find the place, since it is off the beaten paths of the Heights. More >>
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Doctors-Office/158604807624892 The Doctor's Office is a DIY music venue that is just down the street from the original Houston DIY, House of Creeps. They're working to become a venue for local and out-of-town artists and musicians, converting an old doctor's office into a space where, they say, "You will listen to music and have trouble remembering it the next day." Not much could be better than that, eh? More >>
http://www.doneraki.com Tastefully decorated with saltillo tile floors and a huge copy of a Diego Rivera mural, the Gulfgate Doneraki is one of the best-looking Tex-Mex restaurants in town. Like all classic Tex-Mex operations, Doneraki claims its chips and hot sauce, chile con queso, fajitas and cheese-stuffed jalapeños are "authentic Mexican." Bless their hearts. More >>
http://www.doseydoe.com Unlikely as it seems, a 100-year-old Kentucky tobacco barn has become the vortex of Montgomery County's bustling country and Americana scene. In less than two years, The Woodlands' Dosey Doe Coffee House has gone from fledgling enterprise to major venue. Sound engineers have marveled at Dosey's beautiful acoustics, drawing performers as diverse as Richie Havens and Jerry Jeff Walker to come by for a show or two. The coffee is always hot, the music is always warm. Dinner shows come fully inclusive and sell out quickly, but they are worth every penny. More >>
A few miles south of Anahuac in the African-American village of Double Bayou, "the Place," as it's known locally, is a ramshackle but friendly Texas original set amid swampy, Spanish moss-draped live oak woodlands near Trinity Bay. Bluesman Pete Mayes and members of his family have owned and operated this hyperfunky juke joint -- the oldest blues bar in Texas -- since the 1940s. Mayes hosts big parties here on special occasions and some holiday weekends -- at these events, the musicians cook up T-Bone Walker-style blues on stage, while outside on the front lawn, local men in cowboy duds smoke brisket and local women offer homemade pecan, lemon meringue and sweet potato pies. More >>
Some of the interesting eye candy drinkers will find at this Wakefield strip locale: Wooden nickels as tender, pieces of whittled beige carpet as buckets-of-beer coasters and a cash register propped up with an upside down Smirnoff Ice cardboard box. And that's just the start of the no-frills offerings — such as cheap Lone Star bottles and women in their mid-forties regaling unprompted tales of lost virginity — that The Dutchman offers. More >>