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  5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: AfriFEST, Booze and Return of No-Tsu-Oh

  October 26 at 4 a.m.

  Feeling festive? Well so are those zany actors over at 4th Wall Theatre Company. Mix, mingle and witness the drama up close and personal at their cocktail shindig this Friday. But that's not the only "spirited" fun to be had this weekend: the irreverent Montrose Crawl is back, Heritage Society...

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  The 4th Annual Houston Press Tacolandia Returns to Buffalo Bayou

  October 24 at 5 a.m.

  It's that time of year again, folks. The leaves are green, the temperatures are falling to a bone chilling 75 degrees, and pumpkin spiced everything is everywhere. It's officially fall in the Bayou City and we all know what that means, it's time for the 4th annual Tacolandia festival. On...

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  Fire, Wild Parties and Rule-Bending Museums Shaped Houston's Art Scene

  October 10 at 4 a.m.

  Now we're not saying that James Surls and Bob Graham burned down the University of Houston's Art and Architecture building in 1978 when sparks from their welding torch went awry, though those who knew the chainsaw-wielding sculptor and his protégé think otherwise. As reported by The Cougar, a lightning strike shorted the...

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  Saint Arnold Looks Back On 25 Years of Trailblazing

  October 4 at 6:19 a.m.

  In the mid 1980s Brock Wagner was an undergrad at Rice, learning from his RA how to brew beer in a dorm room. A decade later he quit his job in investment banking and recruited his friend, Kevin Bartol, to start one of the first, and now the oldest, craft...

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  Positive Affirmations: Houston Music Edition

  October 4 at 6:13 a.m.

  We’ll just cut to the chase here: sometimes it’s difficult being a musician. We could list the reasons why, but you already know them and we just vowed to get to the heart of the matter, which is that hardships may abound for musicians. Maybe they’re minor irritations or, sadly,...

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  Women Can Shape Houston's History Through Space Travel, Politics and More

  September 17 at 4 a.m.

  It's the year of the woman, or at least it seems that way in the Bayou City as Houston History Alliance shines its beacon on influential women from the past (Agnese Carter Nelms, the "Margaret Sanger of Texas"), the present (Anoushe Ansari, astronaut and social media pioneer in space) and future...