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Chase Hamblin churns out buttery melodies the way some people sweat, which has made him one of the most beloved Houston roots artists, able to grab fans from all age brackets. The older folks get wowed by his old-school Kinks charm, and the younger folks get their power-pop fix. A new album,...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Valentine's Day, Music |
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No doubt you have already heard Estelle's British coo on this side of the Atlantic, attached to the dulcet voices of Kanye West or Rick Ross. West and Estelle's "American Boy," detailing a humorous culture clash, was easily one of the most earworm-ready singles of 2008. Whereas American R&B...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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The brash phenomenon of Trombone Shorty and his infectious, wildly eclectic, New Orleans-spawned "supafunkrock" (as it's been lately dubbed) rolls on with the recent release of For True. Arriving a year and a half after his major-label debut (Backatown) rocketed Shorty (a.k.a. Troy Andrews) to...
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A passionate city like New Orleans needs a passionate rock band like Cowboy Mouth. Steered by Dash Rip Rock alum Fred LeBlanc, a singing dynamo of a drummer who pushes his kit as far to the front of the stage as he possibly can, the band has cultivated a steadfast Gulf Coast following largely...
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If you like your punk rock with a good shot of country, and a lot of people ‘round these parts do, only Social Distortion can match the Supersuckers’ potent blend of twang and venom. Eddie Spaghetti and his forked-tongue henchmen first crawled out of Tucson nearly 20 years ago, making...
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Former Moscas and Chango Jackson bassist/singer/songwriter Tino Ortega fronts this good-timing, thought-provoking American cumbia band. Over the Colombian-born genre’s 4/4 infectious hiss-clomp-hiss-clomp beat Americanized with wailing rock guitars, Ortega mixes his own songs of devilish...
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For years, James McMurtry has been singing the stories of hard-drinking, vaguely murderous itinerant boyfriends; hard-drinking, unhinged women; kids with hard-drinking parents; and, occasionally, guys who might just be doing all right. With a sense of humor much drier than his novelist father...
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Music |
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The windshield-rattling bass lines of most Excision tracks sound like Bernie Worrell's bottomed-out Minimoog from Parliament pumped through the UFO sound system in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's a buzz so momentous and melodic, it doesn't need rap vocals to be menacing or interesting,...
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Carolyn Wonderland has the twang, the attitude, the pipes and more talent than most normal people could ever hope for. She dropped out of high school in Houston to pursue music full-time and became one of her hometown’s most decorated musicians. After moving to Austin in the early 2000s,...
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Every Thursday night, the Continental Club turns into either Liverpool’s Cavern Club or Shea Stadium, depending on what Houston’s best Beatles cover band decides to play. Either way, you will be twisting and shouting and holding hands through Beetle’s three-hour magical mystery...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Music |
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Lawndale Art Center :
Daily from Thu., August 18 until Sat., June 30
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Daniel Anguilu is quickly becoming Houston’s go-to guy for big outdoor murals. Just drive around the East End and Midtown, and you’ll recognize the angular, sometimes abstract, signature of his work, particularly on Midtown’s vacant MHMRA building, which Anguilu has been steadily...
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Galleries |
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Alley Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 3 until Sun., March 4
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Houston audiences will revel in Josie de Guzman, James Black and the rest of the ensemble cast performing in The Seagull at the Alley Theatre. The 1895 classic by playwright Anton Chekhov deals with the emotional and romantic tangle a group of artists find themselves in on a Russian estate....
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Theater, Arts |
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Romance gets the once-over by Mercury Baroque during today’s A French Valentine. The group performs cantatas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, including Orphée, the tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. She dies on their wedding day, leaving Orpheus so heartbroken that he travels to the...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Performing Arts, Music, Arts |
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British dramatist Nicholas Wright’s new play Traveling Light is a wonderfully mesmerizing view into the early world of cinema. It takes place during a time when the movies were a completely new, and still very much inspired, art form. At the center of Wright’s drama is the fictional...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Film - Repertory & Special Screenings, Arts |
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Ensemble Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., February 26
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In 1955, energetic 14-year-old Emmett Till was visiting Mississippi from Chicago. After allegedly whistling at a white woman, he was taken by a group of white men, tortured, murdered and then discarded in the river with a weight tied around his neck for his “crime.” Till became an...
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Theater, Black History Month, Arts |
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DiverseWorks :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 19 until Sat., February 25
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Choreographer Zoe Scofield’s work has been described as “post-dance.” It’s a term that even she’s not sure she completely understands, but somehow it seems fitting. As illustrated by her latest project, zoe|juniper: A Crack in Everything, she and partner Juniper...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Visual Art, Performing Arts, Music, Dance, Arts |
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 4 until Sun., April 8
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Susie J. Silbert, curatorial fellow at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, has some high praise for the work in ''Alyssa Salomon: The Handmade Print'' ''I think the way she composes her photographs and titles them is poetry. I think of poetry as these few words that are supposed to evoke an...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Visual Art, Photography, Arts |
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Every Glover Gill song tells a story. Like a good book or movie, it grabs you at the beginning, sinks its hooks into you near the middle and gives you at least one good surprise before coming to an end. And without the vocals or lyrics, either. Quite the scholarly musician, Glover Gill studied...
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Alley Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 13 until Sun., February 12
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Only six months after appearing in Rock of Ages at the Hobby Center, Constantine Maroulis is back in Houston. This time he's at the Alley Theatre playing Melvin Ferd the Third in the musical The Toxic Avenger.
"He's an earth scientist who hopes to rid New Jersey of all its pollution and toxic...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Theater, Performing Arts, Arts |
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Toyota Center :
Daily from Fri., February 10 until Sun., February 12
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Think of Michael Jackson: The IMMORTAL World Tour by Cirque du Soleil as the show that Jackson wasn’t able to do. It pays homage to Jackson’s body of work and asks “what if” about the show he was rehearsing at the time of his death. Acrobats, dancers, aerial artists and...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Dance, Performing Arts, Circus, Music, Arts |
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When Albina Shagimuratova was 12 years old, she heard a recording of Maria Callas singing the role of Violetta in La Traviata. “I was crying. I was really deeply moved by her singing,” she tells us. “That’s how I started to love opera, but I never thought I had...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Opera, Arts |
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A gazebo made of recycled license plates? A steel tree that rains? Guy Hagstette, Discovery Green Conservancy’s president and park director, explains it all on the downloadable Discovery Green Audio Tour. Fire up the half-hour audio on your iPod and take a self-guided tour that includes...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Tours, Parks & Preserves, Outdoors, Free Events, Family Events |
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Originally from Austin, Clory Martin is a singer-songwriter who now (thankfully) calls Houston home. She grew up singing in choirs and playing piano, but eventually chose the guitar, and now her simple chord progressions blend with her strong alto voice and come forth as indie-folk with a...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Music |
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Discovery Green Conservancy :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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Nestled in downtown Houston, Discovery Green is full of recreation and entertainment. Visitors can view international and local music artists year round or grab a bite to eat at the Lake House Restaurant. Kinder Lake is transformed into an ice-skating rink in the winter seasons. Discovery...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Parks & Preserves, Outdoors |
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Houston Police Museum :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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Anyone who's visited the Houston Police Department headquarters during the last few months has seen bits and pieces of the new Houston Police Museum peeking out from behind partitions during its construction. Now it's finished and open for viewing. A scaled replica of an HPD helicopter is hung...
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Downtown/ Midtown
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Museum Exhibits & Events, Family Events, Arts |
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