Festivals and Parades

Houston Shakespeare Festival 2012

12th Annual Houston Hot Sauce Festival

3rd Annual Houston Wine Festival

39th Annual Dickens on the Strand Victorian Holiday Festival

Downtown Rodeo Parade

East End Street Fest

Upcoming Events: Mucho de Mayo

As May approaches, more Cinco de Mayo events are announced every day. Here are a few of our favorites. La Mexicana in Montrose is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. And while the restaurant doesn't normally host a big Cinco de Mayo bash, it's blowing off the roof on Saturday, May 5, with t ... More >>

Richard III

An Afternoon with the Artists

Houston Via Colori ® The Street Painting Festival

Night After Monsters: Winner and Craft Beer Labels Announced

Brooklyn's Oktoberfest: the label that proved toughest to guess.​We had 29 entries for last week's Night After Monsters contest, in which we asked our readers to identify 15 craft beer labels which had been edited to remove all identifying text. And of those 29 entries, an impressive 19 got al ... More >>

Colores del Carnaval Dominicano

Mystic Krewe of Aquarius Fat Tuesday Parade

Mardi Gras: Krewe of Barkus & Meoux Parade

Where Are We Drinking?

The last days of margarita season are upon us. It's difficult to enjoy the icy, citrusy concoction when autumn beverages like Oktoberfest beers and cherry-topped Manhattans are calling out. Think you know where we're drinking this week? ​Leave your best guess in the comments section below.

Upcoming Events

Photo by Reggie BibbsThis winsome wench and many more are waiting to pour you a flagon of mead at Ren Fest.​As mentioned earlier this week, food festival season is upon us in Houston, with some of our favorite festivals kicking off this weekend. The 44th annual Greek Festival started yesterday ... More >>

Upcoming Events

I own three of these shirts.​Fall is in the air (what, you can't feel it? just trust us), which means that the first of the fall ingredients are hitting tables across the city. At Prego (2520 Amherst), Chef John Watt is featuring a menu of mushroom madness courtesy of the wonderful organic mus ... More >>

Baytown's 4th of July Parade and Celebration

Houston's small-town neighbor throws a big, big independence bash

Girl Talk Toilet Paper Mash-Ups Balloons = Party!

Marc Brubaker​ Aftermath didn't think it was possible to up the ante any more at this year's Summerfest until Girl Talk took the stage Saturday night. In our estimation, it was the biggest and baddest Summerfest party to date. We might even venture to say that achieved the biggest and baddest summ ... More >>

Traders Village 5th Annual Cinco de Mayo

Celebrate this Mexican holiday with a little music, a little dancing and a little (or a lot) of drinking

It's Not Easy Being Green: How Venues And Festivals Handle All That Garbage

Marco TorresSold-out Jay-Z crowd = A lot of trash at Toyota Center.​ On any given night, 18,000 to 25,000 people fill the Toyota Center, whether to watch the Rockets play or to see Lady Gaga in full regalia. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than ... More >>

Wowee Zowee! Summerfest and Pegstar Do It Again!

​ Since the Summerfest 2010 announcement in February, Houston has been abuzz about the festival's line-up, heading up the Flaming Lips and Girl Talk. Word came down last night that another name has been added to the list of headliners. Let's just say that you summer babes may have to cut your hair ... More >>

Houston Hispanic Book Festival

Reading is fundamentale

It's True: Flaming Lips Headlining Summerfest In First Houston Show In 8 Years

In case you hadn't already heard (like on our Twitter feed), the Flaming Lips are this year's headliner for Free Press Summerfest, the Oklahoma psych-rockers' first Houston appearance since their joint tour with Beck stopped at Jones Hall back in 2002. The Free Press' Omar Afra and Pegstar's Jagi K ... More >>

3rd Houston Brazilian Carnaval

Katia Moraes brings her infectious rhythms to Houston

2009 Concert Rewind: Backtracking to Free Press Houston Summerfest

Craig Hlavaty"Hippie Mike" may have been a bigger hit at Summerfest than any of the bands.​ Craig Hlavaty: "The two-day concert reminded us of a fun-size Austin City Limits Festival, with the best bits of Westheimer Block Parties of yore thrown in for good measure, with sprinkles of Houston's ... More >>

Festival of Lights

We don't want to see Moody Gardens' light bill

Thanksgiving with Santa

Get grateful with the big guy

The Celebration of African Arts and Music Festival

Web exclusive

12th Annual Festival of Originals

Theatre Southwest's annual production of new one-acts has drama, comedy and something in between

Houston Brazilian Carnaval

Web exclusive!

Local Gays Marching For Obama On Inauguration Day

The gays haven't exactly been pleased by Barack Obama since he chose Christian conservative Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. But Obama's inauguration parade will be the first to have an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group -- the Lesbian and Gay Band Association ... More >>

Reel Teen Festival Editing Session

Web exclusive!

Slideshow: HEB Thanksgiving Day Parade in Downtown Houston

Low-riders, art cars, SpongeBob, Santa Claus, D-list celebs, marching bands, stick-fighting Sikhs and plump Shriners in souped-up go-carts -- where else could it be but the HEB Thanksgiving Day Parade? And although we lack quality photographic proof -- amazingly, even Sheila Jackson Lee was there. ... More >>

58th Annual H-E-B Holiday Parade

See floats, bands, balloons and more at this “Circus Celebration”

Space City Snapshots

The Boys Are Back

Escape Artists

Rennies stay on after the gates close at the Texas Renaissance Festival each night, living lives from centuries ago

People-Watchin'

The Westheimer Street Fest returns to its rightful home

Fests of Fury

Alex Lozano trumpets a 420 soiree and the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

Seabrook Music Festival

October 4-6

Gay Ride

The Pride Parade comes out like a light

The Music! The Gaiety! The Samba!

The Houston International Festival

Women at Work