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  The Community Music Center of Houston Celebrates 40 Years with Lessons Learned (and Still Learning)

  August 8 at 5 a.m.

  It’s 9:45 on a Saturday morning at St. Mary’s United Methodist Church on Scott Street in the Third Ward, and music is coming from inside. But instead of a hymn or gospel tune that you might expect on the next day, it’s the sound of several violins cautiously playing Bach’s...

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  SRV's Life Told by Those Who Knew Him at His Best...and Worst

  July 31 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort 368 pp. $29.99 St. Martin’s Press He was one of Texas’ greatest guitar heroes, a fiery player with one foot in the blues and one in rock who had a growing base of fans and...

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  Rodney Crowell Pays Homage To Texas With A Little Help From His Friends

  July 23 at 4 a.m.

  The Houston kid is coming back. Texas gold, Rodney Crowell, left behind his well-documented and rocky past with Houston many years ago, but has always held onto his roots. Crowell will be back in Houston August 15 to perform at the Heights Theater and celebrate the release of his new...

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  Maxo Kream and Reading With A Rapper Deliver a Session at Worthing High

  July 20 at 7:38 a.m.

  The lights in the auditorium at Worthing High School in the historic Sunnyside area of south Houston dimmed and the room was quiet. A teacher excitedly spoke of metaphors and similes while she pointed and paced under the highlighted sentence of a paragraph projected onto a large screen. Normally a...

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  Mickey Gilley on Houston, Honky Tonks and Hollywood

  July 15 at 4 a.m.

  Mickey Gilley is probably not into numerology. But there are two double digits that he brings up several times each during our interview: 83 (his age) and 17 (his Billboard No. 1 country music hits – the titles of most which he rattles off with ease). “George Strait has more...

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  Houston Rappers Celebrate 713 Day With Houston Bar Code's 713 Cypher

  July 14 at 8 a.m.

  Saturday was 713 Day, the unofficial day to celebrate all things Houston. Downtown’s Market Square Park was buzzing with activity all evening as people went in and out of surrounding bars and shops while dodging scattered showers. The second floor of Henke and Pilot, which overlooks the park, was also...