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10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: RenFest, Indian Film, Season Openers

By Susie Tommaney
Oct 3, 2019

Get ready for another round of throwback cosplay, giant turkey legs and now even full armored combat with the kickoff weekend of TexRenFest. This first weekend of October also brings season openers for Houston Pride Band, Opera in the Heights, Company OnStage and Mercury, while over at BBVA Stadium we're...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Mother of Dragons, Fringe and AsiaFest

By Susie Tommaney
May 9, 2019

It's time to get your cosplay on because Emilia Clarke, Mother of Dragons, is headlining at Comicpalooza this weekend. There's tons more fun to be had outside GRB so our advice is for some strategic planning with your datebook: Brett Cullen is returning to UH, the 'Stros are trying to...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Star Wars, Kentucky Derby and J.J. Watt

By Susie Tommaney
May 3, 2019

We can bet on the trifecta this weekend with multiple reasons to celebrate: Cinco de Mayo, the Kentucky Derby, and Star Wars Day. Feel-good events are in the mix too with the JJ Watt Foundation Charity Classic and the BARC pet walk at Rice. Dance, comedy, a divot stomp at...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Cotton Fest, Cosplay and Canine Fun

By Susie Tommaney
Apr 25, 2019

What's up is down during this wacky weekend in Houston with free cotton candy and wrestling at Market Square Park, a woman singing the role of Mozart in HGO's newest opera, and live music rattling the hallowed halls at MFAH. It's also a celebration of animals, from Attwater’s prairie chicken to...
Comicpalooza 2019 Adds Barry Allen AKA The Flash to its Lineup

By Houston Press
Apr 8, 2019

The Comicpalooza folks have added another big name to their headliner lineup with the announcement that Grant Gustin who plays Barry Allen/AKA The Flash on The Flash will be at the May 10-12 festival. Gustin, who was in the Broadway revival tour of West Side Story and on the third...
Game of Thrones' Mother of Dragons is Coming to Comicpalooza 2019

By Margaret Downing and Houston Press
Mar 27, 2019

Never let it be said that Houston's Comicpalooza doesn't know how to catch lightning in a bottle. Just announced: Emilia Clarke who plays Daenerys Targaryen on Game Of Thrones (about to enter its much-anticipated final season) will headline the event. Also present during the May 11-12 event at the George R...
Disney Princesses Are Hosting The Most Magical Party In Town At Houston Improv

By Vic Shuttee
Oct 9, 2018

"The idea of Princesses extends both Broadway and Live Action Role Players," says Egan."I think we should throw them a party, give them another place to wear their dress!”
Take Two for Fandemic in Houston Brings Smallville, Walking Dead Stars

By Susie Tommaney
Aug 30, 2018

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! And now it seems that super-fans of the Man of Steel have even more to get excited about when Fandemic Comic Convention Tour makes its Houston debut. The convention's first attempt last year was interrupted by, ahem,...
Comicpalooza 2018 Begins and Fans Are Out in Force Be With You

By Margaret Downing
May 25, 2018

Talk about a takeover. Beginning at noon today Comicpalooza 2018 took over the George R. Brown and so far so good, everybody seems pretty happy about it. You can still buy one- or three day tickets to see celebrities such as actors Tom Holland, John cusack, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox.....
Comicpalooza 2018 Adds John Cusack to its Line-up

By Margaret Downing
May 10, 2018

Mr. High Fidelity himself, John Cusack (Say Anything) is the latest addition to the Comicpalooza 2018 lineup, The actor who most recently played Beach Boys songwriter and performer Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy will be in Houston over Memorial Day Weekend along with several other well known faces. Spider-man...
Boycotting Anime Matsuri? Here Are 12 Other Things to Do Easter Weekend

By Susie Tommaney
Mar 21, 2018

It seems that the Internet has become the front line for some battles, and there's a lot of social shade being thrown by advocates of Anime Matsuri, Boycott Anime Matsuri, Boycott Boycott Anime Matsuri and Boycott the Boycott Boycott Anime Matsuri. Now that's meta! We've reported in the past about how...

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