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Amazon Prime Helps Bring The SXSW Film Festival To Audiences At Home

By Gladys Fuentes
Apr 27, 2020

With the decision to cancel SXSW this year also came the decision to cancel the SXSW Film festival, leaving participating filmmakers with little to no options to find an audience for their films. The SXSW Film Festival was the first film festival to cancel instead of postponing their event during...
Beautiful Noise: LEYA Finds Ground Between Worlds [UPDATED]

By Gladys Fuentes
Mar 12, 2020

With the decision to cancel SXSW, bands from all over the world and venues in Austin are trying to fill in the gaps and make due with the current situation they find themselves in. One of those bands is New York-based experimental duo, LEYA who had been accepted as an...
Born To Ramble: Ramblin' Jack Elliott Rambles To Houston For Two Special Events

By Gladys Fuentes
Aug 30, 2019

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is the Holy Grail of folk music. His long career has been honored, studied and copied by artists since the ‘50s, with his most famous apprentice by far being a young Bob Dylan. The 88-year-old rambler will be passing through our town yet again for two special...
5 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Houston's B-Day, Murals and a Lost Ark

By Susie Tommaney
Aug 29, 2019

We're casting a wider net this weekend, but it's all for a good reason. There's a chance to hear John Williams' epic score for Raiders of the Lost Ark in The Woodlands and a stop in Galveston to celebrate the 125th anniversary of The Grand 1894 Opera House. Closer to home,...
MFAH Puts "Jazz on Film" and In Your Ear

By Bob Ruggiero
May 30, 2019

For the seventh anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “Jazz on Film” series, Founder and Curator Peter Lucas has once again put together a screening schedule as varied as the music itself. Running over three weekends, it includes a mixture of material from the Jimmy Stewart drama Anatomy...
Gimme That Old Time Religion: Pokey LaFarge Will Perform Solo This Weekend

By Gladys Fuentes
May 30, 2019

Pokey LaFarge has often been accused of pining for the past. A snapshot of LaFarge and his music could easily be confused for a picture of someone who lived long ago, but speaking with the artist is it very clear that he has both feet planted firmly in the present...
An Interactive Experience: Montopolis Performing the Legend of Big Bend at the MFAH

By Gladys Fuentes
Apr 22, 2019

Every Texan knows when to clap during “Deep in the Heart of Texas” but not every Texan has had the chance to see the stars burn big and bright. Montopolis, an Austin based rock and roll chamber orchestra, is bringing The Legend of Big Bend to Houston’s MFAH, bright stars...
10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Star Wars in Concert and at Rice Owls

By Susie Tommaney
Mar 21, 2019

We're just months away from celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, though we're never too far from that final frontier here in Space City. This weekend brings a Star Wars themed concert and screening with Houston Symphony, dueling lightsabers at Rice Owls, and a sci-fi dance of...
Go Global: Five World Music Artists to Soothe Your Soul

By Lisa Strain
Dec 27, 2018

What is world music? According to Dictionary.com it is, “ traditional music from the developing world.” In a much broader sense, it is any and all music incorporating different styles from around the globe. It has been popularized in Western culture through pop stars such as Sting, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, and George Harrison.
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!”
Willy Wonka Comes to Town With Two Golden Ticket Winners in Tow

By Bob Ruggiero
Sep 5, 2018

In the world of pop culture, there are only a handful of things that Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials can all agree upon for their level of sheer awesomeness. One would be the music of the Beatles, and another is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Equal parts children’s...
Bill Frisell: The Guitar Player's Guitar Player Focus of New Doc

By Bob Ruggiero
Jun 15, 2018

While he’s not a household name, among guitar players and fans of contemporary jazz, Bill Frisell’s reputation – like his playing – is clean, impeccable, and adventurous. That he also plays in other genres like classical, avant garde, Americana, rock, and world music only adds to his sonic pedigree. In...
How the Beatles Got 'Tooned in to the Times

By Bob Ruggiero
Feb 27, 2018

It’s not often that an artist has his work denigrated by the very subject of it and can laugh about it decades later. But that’s exactly what has happened to animator Ron Campbell, the director of “The Beatles” cartoon series. The Saturday morning show ran from 1965-69 and featured clean-cut,...
Walking Brooms and Disney's Fantasia Come to Life with the Symphony

By Sam Byrd
Jan 3, 2018

The magic of Disney and the beauty of music will merge when the Houston Symphony presents Disney Fantasia - Film with Live Orchestra Jan. 5 - 7 at Jones Hall. The musicians will play the iconic score to selections from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 while the movie plays on a screen above the orchestra.

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