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  Turner and Santa Announce Houston’s Holiday Spectacular Will Be Virtual This Year

  November 17 at 11:26 a.m.

  On Tuesday morning, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the 101st annual Reliant Lights Mayor’s Holiday Spectacular will be a totally virtual affair this year due to COVID-19. Just as the city reimagined its annual Fourth of July celebration because of the coronavirus, the 2020 holiday spectacular will feature a...

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  Best Virtual Bets: Scary Stories, Día de los Muertos, and the Fringe Festival

  October 29 at 4 a.m.

  Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos from your couch with this week's best virtual bets.

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  Houston Film Critics Society To Hold Virtual "POTUS Fest" On October 25

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  You may have heard there's an election coming up. In the spirit of the American Experiment, the Houston Film Critics Society is celebrating the "reel lessons of leadership" with a salute to films about U.S. Presidents and the election process in POTUS Fest: Cinema in Chief. Society members’ comments and reviews on...

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  Texas Renaissance Festival Starts Saturday For Those Ready to Party in a Crowd

  October 2 at 4 a.m.

  It's that time of year again, time for the Texas Renaissance Festival. — nine fun-filled weekends of visitors going to a rural area of Texas and pretending they live in another century. Although come to think of it, the early years of the Renaissance in Europe had a plague too...

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  City of Houston Will Have Fireworks, But Wants You to Watch from a Distance

  July 2 at 4:30 a.m.

  The city has canceled the annual Freedom Over Texas event they hold every year in downtown Houston due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19. This was not unexpected given the state order mandating no crowds larger than 100. Freedom draws thousands of Independence Day revelers each year. But, the...

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  Another Madness Monday: Madness On Main Continues Their Weekly Livestreams [UPDATED]

  June 1 at 4 a.m.

  Local music festival Madness on Main was due to mark its sixth year this month but like everyone else, it has had to adapt to the times. The yearly event focuses on local and Gulf Coast region bands and was founded to draw attention to Houston’s vibrant local music scene...