A tragic plane crash cut short country singer Patsy Cline's brilliant career in 1963. She was just 30 years old. Cline went on to become a legend and was the first female solo artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. The musical Always…Patsy Cline, now making its 25th... More >>

Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light installation at Rice Gallery is unapologetically pretty. It's a glistening, iridescent canopy of shimmering pinks, purples, blues, greens and yellows that resembles anything from a fish's scales to a spider's web wet with raindrops. Despite the apt comparisons,... More >>

The fact that film director Guillermo del Toro, master of the horror genre, is a fan of Steve Burdniak's work tells you a lot about the Austin artist's work. Burdniak's assemblages use real human blood, mummified squirrels, octopus tentacles, centipedes and gyrating Mercedes hubcaps to create a... More >>

Multidisciplinary art, including performance art, is the focus of ''Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane.'' Both proto-feminist artists, Jonas and Pane worked on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with Jonas based in New York and Pane in Paris. The exhibit explores the characteristics their... More >>

If one looks with an appropriately observant and objective eye, he will discover streets filled with art, or at least, artistic assemblages, that somebody ''made'' in the discarding. Mesquite-born artist Andy Coolquitt transforms these cast-off eye-catchers for ''Andy Coolquitt: Attainable... More >>

Every Thursday, Houstonians of all drinking ages twist and shout through Beetle's three-hour magical mystery happy hour set. Covering every single stop along the Fab Four's pop odyssey, the weekly event has a devoted following, which means the Continental Club's dance floor can get crowded. Get... More >>

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... More >>

Artist Forrest Bess was as troubled as he was talented. The Bay City native battled both alcoholism and schizophrenia. He lived in isolation for much of his adult life and famously mutilated his own genitals in an attempt to become a hermaphrodite. At the same time, he received considerable... More >>

A weekly gig is about the best way for guitarists to hone their craft, and Houston's Paul Ramirez has done just that Wednesday nights at the Continental Club for more than a year now. It pays off in Sex With a Dragon, his debut CD that throws in a little Santana and New Orleans R&B into... More >>

The Museum District has replaced its annual Museum District Day with four smaller, zoned versions called The Museum Experience: Meet the Museums. Today it's Zone 2 (Asia Society Texas Center, Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Czech Center Museum Houston, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center... More >>

Solo bluesman John Egan sings in a tone that suggests someone is constantly walking over his grave, and his lyrics are loaded with bad mojo like nature gone haywire and apocalyptic visions. All he needs live is his National Resonator, one of those shiny silver guitars that sting and snarl. More >>

DJ Sun isn't hard to find. He has a residency most evenings out of the week, either solo or with the crew from his long-running Saturday-night KPFT show Soular Grooves. As affable as he is industrious, in 20 years Sun has become a soft-spoken cornerstone of the Houston music community, often... More >>

We got to partake in the pleasure that is the Hideaway on Dunvale for steak night one Tuesday, and it included the magical blues stylings of Rick Lee & The Night Owls. Lee and his band do ZZ Top, Bobby "Blue" Bland and B.B. King covers. We also witnessed the man playing his axe with the leg of... More >>

Who doesn't love Mr. Barry Manilow, with that fabulous catalog of adult contemporary hits. From "Mandy" to "Copacabana," he's the quintessential singer-songwriter, touting a career that has spanned decades, during which he's earned himself an accolade list a mile long. Known as the "Justin... More >>

Gospel brunches -- a Sunday morning mash-up of culinary and cultural tourism -- may have originated in Harlem, where visitors have long flocked to immerse themselves in African-American culture, but they have now spread across the country. For decades, praise song-and-fried chicken... More >>

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston doesn't usually arrange its exhibits according to color, but for ''The Artist's Palette: Primary Colors on Paper,'' it's doing exactly that. Drawn from its holdings of prints, drawings and photographs, ''Palette'' features works that emphasize one of the three... More >>

When you think of the dragonfly, however, do you think of exploration? I'm not sure that I do, but these two concepts make up the theme for the new exhibit at the Museum of Printing History. "Where the Border of Water Meets the Air, Dragonflies Gather" is the title of the collection organized... More >>

Six pairs of Texan and French artists create 60 uniquely hand-painted doors in ''Open the Door,'' the citywide art project that's part of the 2013 French Cultures Festival. Each artist will create a work on one side of a door, the other artist on the other side. ''This stems from the idea that... More >>

A staple on the Baker Street/Sherlock's/Watson's rotation, Shinolah is a self-proclaimed keg of rock n' roll whoop-ass. The Shinolah trio has been covering rock anthems for eight years now, so they've carved out their own niche in the Houston bar scene, playing sets that touch down on... More >>

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... More >>

Artists working with repurposed materials take things some would consider to be at the end of their usefulness and create something new. That's the premise behind the ''full circle'' exhibit at the Art Car Museum, which features new works created from recycled and reappropriated items, from... More >>

The luxurious splendor and artistic style bejeweled Fabergé eggs became synonymous with Imperial Russia and the ruling Romanov family, and were a popular gift item among Europe's elite back in the day. More than 350 eggs and other objects—all from the private McFerrin... More >>

Calling a mélange of Gulf Coast musical styles a “gumbo” is a cliché, so we’ll call what Nick Gaitan whips up for his Umbrella Man project a “caldo” instead. It’s a tasty H-Town stew, equal parts blues, Tejano, swamp pop, rockabilly, ska,... More >>

There aren’t many places inside the Houston city limits where you can see a guy dressed up like a goth George Washington nursing a dirt cheap Long Island Iced Tea and shadow-dancing, but such is the reality at “Classic Numbers” every Friday at well, Numbers off Westheimer. The... More >>