Photos by Craig Hlavaty
As Aftermath was cradling his camera, taking pictures of Buddy Guy on Friday night at the House of Blues, he got a bittersweet twinge in his music-loving soul. Once he and B.B. King shuffle off this mortal coil and join the big blues jam in the sky, there will be nobody left.
I don't mean to say that no one else is doing what Guy does. That's for sure. It's just that no one else does it the way Guy does it, and so purely. He learned it all
Photo by Eric SausedaGalveston had a ceremony recently naming their skatepark after Johnny Romano, a 10-year-old skater who died last year after fighting leukemia."He would be embarrassed we were making such a
fuss over him," Rhonda Gregg, a family friend who spearheaded
construction of the skate park, told the Galveston County Daily News. "Johnny was a rock star little skater
pro, but he did it just because he loved it."We were on hand for some photos; check out the slideshow here.
Photo by Katharine ShilcuttThe Kingpinz Summer Session will soon be underway at the Lee & Joe Jamail Skatepark tomorrow afternoon. Skater or not, the contest will be fascinating to watch, as the two events -- grommet run and best trick throwdown -- will feature some of the slickest skating in town. The youngsters will compete in the grommet run ("grommet" being slang for young'uns) while more veteran skaters will show off their skills in the best trick throwdown.
The Jamail Skatepark
Lois Bernstein​Skateboarding Twinkies, ninja squirrels and space hamsters are making their way to Houston, with Commander Mark leading the way. Things might get a little weird.
Mark Kistler, the self-styled Bob Ross of children's art, will be holding drawing camps in the area over the next two weeks. Kistler got his start teaching after-school drawing classes, and in 1985 he left college to start his own public television show.
"I'm a little more hyper than Bob," Kistler, who has dropped the
