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April 30, 2012
Saturday: iFest in Downtown Houston -- War, Bombino & More
Houston International Festival Downtown Houston April 28, 2012 Check out our slideshows from this weekend: iFest bands and food and faces from iFest. Also, be sure to read our write-up of iFest's artistic and cultural offerings. It's hard to know what to experience first at iFest. Long before you ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Houston Children's Festival 2012
Houston International Festival Downtown Houston April 28, 2012 Check out our slideshows from this weekend: iFest bands and food and faces from iFest. Also, be sure to read our write-up of iFest's artistic and cultural offerings. It's hard to know what to experience first at iFest. Long before you ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
This Weekend's Via Colori Bands Include Sideshow Tramps, Roky Moon, Ben Wesley And Many More
The Literary GreatsThis Saturday and Sunday at Sam Houston Park Downtown, the Via Colori Street Painting Festival once again marries professional and beginner sidewalk chalk artists with some of the best bands that Houston has to offer sound-tracking the event. For two days, the concrete in t ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Houston Via Colori ® The Street Painting Festival
The Literary GreatsThis Saturday and Sunday at Sam Houston Park Downtown, the Via Colori Street Painting Festival once again marries professional and beginner sidewalk chalk artists with some of the best bands that Houston has to offer sound-tracking the event. For two days, the concrete in t ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Lucinda Williams, Spearhead, Kronos Quartet Headed To iFest
The Houston International Festival, better known as iFest, announced its 2011 lineup late Thursday night. Here are some of the highlights: FRIDAY, APRIL 29 World Stage: Kronos Quartet feat. Homayun Sakhi; Houston Youth Symphony String Quartet; Houston Grand Opera SATURDAY, APRIL 30 World ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Upcoming Events
Wine and beer lovers, now is your time. This weekend, the inaugural Houston Wine Fest kicks off at Sam Houston Park starting on Saturday, September 25, at noon and continues through Sunday evening. A $35 one-day ticket gets you a glass and five tasting tickets, while a $65 two-day pass gets you 10 ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Downtown's Sam Houston Park Getting $2 Million Facelift
Photo courtesy GHCVBSam Houston Park -- often forgotten, but it's there, dammitSam Houston Park -- come on, it's that picturesque if undervisited piece of grass and historic homes just outside of downtown -- is about to get a makeover.The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the city's Capit ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
Aftermath: George Clinton & His P-Funk Army Seriously Funk Up iFest
Groovehouse For nearly two hours on Saturday night, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic tickled every single funk bone in iFest's sun-drenched body. For a festival so family-friendly and altogether worldly, Clinton and his gang made the lawn in Sam Houston Park feel sleazy in the most ad ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
iFest: Of Drew Brees and Discount Perfume
Photo by Jason WolterEvery year since 1971, iFest has grown. And every year, it becomes less and less distinguishable from any other festival in Houston, for better or for worse. This year's iFest spans two weekends and roughly ten city blocks around City Hall. It's filled with more sights, s ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
"Why Can't It Be More Like Jazzfest?" Rick Mitchell Debunks The Top 10 Gripes He's Overheard About Houston's iFest
All photos courtesy of www.ifest.orgOzomatli: 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Bud Light World Music Stage A couple of days ago, Houston International Festival Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell emailed Rocks Off and asked us if we'd mind reprinting something he wrote for the blog on iFest's Web ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Via Colori¨ Houston 2009
Supporters of the Center for Hearing and Speech paint the town red
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October 13, 2009
Epicurean Adventure at Bayou City Arts Festival
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt David Cordua in the demonstration tent.Perhaps we our hopes were too high for what is essentially a street festival (large and wonderful though it may be). Or perhaps our bodies were still too water-logged and mud-coated from last weekend's three-day exercise i ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Upcoming Events
Photo by Cortney MartinThe 13th annual Bayou City Arts Festival hits downtown this weekend, and it's not just for art lovers. A large section of the festival each year is devoted to wine and food, and this year's festival is no different. In fact, all of Sam Houston Park (along McKinney and Bagby ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
Sunday's Walk for the Breast Cancer Network of Strength
Photo by Margaret DowningBetty Trobaugh was there in a wheelchair. She enlisted the help of her three daughters to push her through the three-mile course. The first half of the non-competitive walk which started at Sam Houston Park and went down Allen Parkway wasn't bad -- all downhill. Coming back ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
Some Further Thoughts on iFest, and Festivals
Photos by Chris Gray Skyscrapers - something you won't see at Austin City Limits. Western Swing maidens the Quebe Sisters performed in the shadow of the Jesse H. Jones Library.Previously, Rocks Off's idea about what a "festival" should look like, and what to expect, came from his exper ... More >>
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November 23, 2008
Via Colori in Downtown Houston
Artists of all ages representing local schools and businesses were in full and colorful work mode this weekend on the streets running behind the central branch of the Houston Public Library and next to Sam Houston Park. The streets were closed off so the artists could spread out and apply chalk to t ... More >>
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November 20, 2008
Via Colori
The Center for Hearing and Speech holds its annual draw-a-thon
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October 16, 2008
Bayou City Art Festival
300+ artists from around the world offer up creations in 19 different media
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November 16, 2007
Make It a Funky Weekend
300+ artists from around the world offer up creations in 19 different media
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November 15, 2007
Via Colori
The Center for Hearing and Speech takes over Sam Houston Park for an all-out street-painting festival
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March 9, 2007
To Do: AIDS Walk on Sunday
The Center for Hearing and Speech takes over Sam Houston Park for an all-out street-painting festival
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May 11, 2006
Here Comes "Trouble"
Roll up to Everyone's Art Car Parade
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May 26, 2005
We Know What You Should Do This Summer
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January 13, 2005
Do Not Enter
Outside the gates of the Forbidden City
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December 30, 2004
High Rollers
The party is tall and sexy at Forbidden City
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October 7, 2004
Getting Kinky
The Friedman-of-all-trades whips out a new book
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March 18, 2004
Sit, Stay, Run!
A race goes to the dogs
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March 11, 2004
Viva la Causa
Strap on a red ribbon and walk for AIDS awareness
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December 11, 2003
Holiday Puree
A pinch of this culture, a dash of that make Fiesta Navideña
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December 11, 2003
A Closed System
Matthew Ritchie puts the finishing touches on a complete cosmology
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July 31, 2003
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June 19, 2003
Starry Night
Eyes on the skies at Moody Gardens
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April 24, 2003
Dancers and Daredevils
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December 6, 2001
Less Is More
Historic homes are dressed up in holiday decorations appropriate to their time
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April 6, 2000
Closer to Home
Not all the best acts at the festival carry passports
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