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  6 Best Bets This Weekend: Bluebeard, Bikes, and Going Topless at the Beach

  May 16 at 4 a.m.

  After umpteen straight days of rain, we could sure use a break, and it looks like the sun is finally peeking out from behind those clouds. Which is awesome for the hard-partying Jeep enthusiasts heading to Crystal Beach for Go Topless, the 1920s costume contest at Discovery Green, and BikeHouston's...

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  Paddlers Just Might See Beavers Along Buffalo Bayou During This Year's Regatta

  February 21 at 4 a.m.

  It's been said there are no new frontiers, but we beg to differ. How many Houstonians can actually claim they've seen the Bayou City from along its actual bayous and waterways? The numbers are growing, with more and more converts getting regatta fever each year. Of course it helps when...

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  Houston DJs, Artists, and Party Goers Bounce and Turn at Imperial HQ

  January 27 at 8:25 a.m.

  Bounce and Turn hosted its monthly party at Imperial HQ. Sounds were provided by DJ Shante and Kay
  Illah along with a special live performance by DJ Jay Smith and Siddiq who performed songs from his new album Worldwide, which dropped at the end of 2018. DJ Havin’ Thangs celebrated her birthday, and several guests finished off the night with an energetic freestyle session. (Photos by Doogie Roux)

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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Boats, Bikes, Lowriders and Bun B

  January 4 at 5 a.m.

  Don't wait until Jaws takes a bite out of your watercraft. If "you're gonna need a bigger boat" then get yourself over to opening weekend of the Boat Show at NRG Center. In fact, mobility is the name of the game when it comes to this weekend in Houston: check...

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  Southern Smoke Rolls Through the Rain

  Monday, October 1, 2018 at 9:39 a.m.

  Many of the country's best chefs and masters of smoked meats gathered in Houston for the Southern Smoke Festival. This year's festival again benefited the Multiple Sclerosis cause. Last year the event decided to direct Southern Smoke profits to those in the food and beverage industry affected by Hurricane Harvey. This year's goal was $300,000 to the MS Society as well as establishing an emergency assistance fund for food and beverage industry workers. Chefs Aaron Franklin of Franklin Barbecue in Austin and Ryan Prewitt of Peche Seafood Grill in New Orleans returned, along with a few new faces:
  
  Daniela Soto-Innes: The James Beard Awnedard-winning chef of Cosme in New York is also chef/partner of Atla in New York. She got her start here in Houston with stints at Brennan's of Houston, Triniti and Underbelly.
  
  Chris Bianco: Considered one of the world's finest pizza makers, he's the owner of Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. The James Beard Award-winning chef is considered the driving force of America's artisanal pizza movement. He also is the owner of Bar Bianco, Pane Bianco and Tratto in Phoenix.
  
  Edouardo Jordan: The owner of JuneBaby and Salere in Seattle, Jordan won Best Chef Northwest at this year's James Beard Awards for Salare while JuneBaby nabbed Best New Restaurant. Jordan was named Food & Wine's Best new Chefs in 2016; JuneBaby was named Best New Restaurant by the same publication in 2018.
  
  Bill Durney: The owner of Hometown Bar-B-Que in Brooklyn, N.Y., Durney helped solidify the New York barbecue movement. He currently is working on opening Hometown Pan Fired Chicken and a Jewish-style deli, both in Brooklyn, and a live fire and barbecue restaurant in Miami.
  
  Vivian Howard: The owner of The Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, N.C., Howard is the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-winning producer of "A Chef's Life" on PBS. She also is the author of the cookbook "Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South" which was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
  
  Jason Vincent: Vincent's restaurant, Giant, was named one of the Best New Restaurants in 2017 by Bon Appetit. He and his partners recently launched City Mouse restaurant in the Ace Hotel Chicago.
  
  Pat Martin: The owner of Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint in Nashville is a master of whole hog barbecue. Last year he also opened Hugh-Baby's BBQ & Burger Shop in Nashville. He is a member of the Fatback Collective which advocates heritage breed livestock.
  
  Sam Jones: A third-generation whole hog barbecue cooker, Jones is the owner of Sam Jones BBQ in Winterville, N.C. In 2012 he was named one of the "Top Ten Pitmasters in the South" by Southern Living. His family owns Skylight Inn in Ayden, N.C., a standard bearer for wood-cooked eastern North Carolina-style barbecue. This year he was a James Beard Award semi-finalist for Best Chef Southeast.
  
  Southern Smoke also featured the cooking talents of the HOUBBQ Collective (Seth Siegel-Gardner and Terrence Gallivan of The Pass & Provisions, Manabu Horiuchi of Kata Robata, Justin Yu of Theodore Rex, Ryan Pera of Agricole Hospitality, Hugo Ortega of Hugo's, Erin Smith and Patrick Feges of Feges BBQ, Brandi Key of Lasco Enterprises, Lyle Bento formerly of Southern Goods and Chris Shepherd of UB Preserv and One Fifth.

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  Ball and Chain: The Best Houston Music of The Week

  Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  This week Houston has options from Social Distortion, Rise Against, Fat Tony, The Crystal Method, First Aid Kit, Owen, The Daphne Blue, and The Hates. Tonight you could catch the punk sounds of Chicago's Rise Against over at Revention Music Center. These guys have been going hard for a good...