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Shemekia Copeland's Hard Turn Off Straight Blues Boulevard

By Bob Ruggiero

Aug 15, 2022

Like a lot of mothers who will see their first-born head off to kindergarten this month, Shemekia Copeland will cycle through a range of emotions once the drop-off actually happens. As a Black parent, she knows that she’ll eventually have to have what’s commonly known as “The Talk” with her...

This Week in Houston Food Events: Fajitas, Churros and Beer

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 15, 2022

Here's a look at this week's hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 15 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 bucks every Monday in August, available at all locations for...

Joshua Redman Shuns the Cheetos to Keep Creating Exciting Music for Jazz Enthusiasts

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Aug 12, 2022

Joshua Redman swore, “I’m hardly the intellectual,” in a recent phone chat with the Houston Press, after sounding rather professorial discussing his latest project. Like good students, we scribbled notes and marveled at our luck getting to sit for a bit of a masterclass from one of jazz’s tenured geniuses...

Houston's 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: A Smashburger Pop-Up and Thai Tailgate in the Parking Lot

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 12, 2022

Here's a look at this weekend's tasty food and drink happenings: Platinum Wine Vault Luxury Tasting at at Bayway Cadillac of The Woodlands Friday, 6 to 9 p.m. 16785 I-45 South Wine & Food Week now celebrates events throughout the year, with the Platinum Wine Vault Luxury Tasting taking place...

Rick Springfield & Friends Promise an Evening of "Wall to Wall Hits"

By Bob Ruggiero

Aug 11, 2022

It’s a myth-busting notion that, outside of the 90 minutes or so they’re onstage performing, the reality of a successful touring rock musician is often blur of airports and airplanes, car rides, hotels and room service menus, and sound checks. And sometimes, interviews. As when Rick Springfield calls from his...

Upcoming Houston Food Events: Fiery Burgers Heat Up a “Battle of the Burger” Competition

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 11, 2022

Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: Rodeo Goat, 2105 Dallas, has brought back its in-house “Battle of the Burger” competition, with two burgers battling it out through August 30. See how the returning Hatch Me if You Can burger ($12)—made with white...

Cheap Trick's Early Magic Detailed in New Book

By Bob Ruggiero

Aug 9, 2022

Sure, This Band Has No Past might seem like an odd (and incongruous) title for a book that is very much about the distant past of its subject. But it makes sense if you view it through the slightly askew lens of the history and music of Cheap Trick. It...

Linda Gail Lewis Brings Her Rock And Roll Piano To The Continental Club

By Gladys Fuentes

Aug 9, 2022

As a young girl and little sister to Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Gail Lewis had a front row seat to the birth of mainstream rock and roll. “As Carl Perkins said in that song he wrote, ‘I was there when it happened.’ It was a really cool thing to be...

This Week in Houston Food Events: Blood Bros. BBQ Takes Golfstrømmen and HRW Continues

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 8, 2022

Here's a look at this week's hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 8 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 every Monday in August, available at all locations for dine-in...

Apollo Chamber Players Bridges Cultures Via Music

By Sam Byrd

Aug 5, 2022

Apollo Chamber Players enters its 15th season, themed "Connective Harmony," with the goal to bridge communities and cultures through globally inspired music. The season is inspired by themes of unity, peace, wholeness and strands of musical interest and interconnectedness.

How The Wolf Survived: The Timelessness of Los Lobos

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Aug 5, 2022

Los Lobos' latest Grammy-winning album, Native Sons, features some classics. They're songs we hope to hear when the band performs at Heights Theater August 10. Steve Berlin is the band’s saxophonist, a multi-instrumentalist and producer who understands the essence of a good song. There should be a timelessness to it...

Houston's 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: Oyster Deals and White Linen Night in the Heights

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 5, 2022

Here's a look at this weekend's tasty food and drink happenings: National Oyster Day Friday Houston’s hottest oyster-shucking restaurants and bars are getting down on National Oyster Day with special deals and happy hours, from 50-cent chilled oysters fresh from the Gulf to some of the city’s finest wood-grilled oysters...

Upcoming Houston Food Events: Eat Good and Support the Holocaust Museum Houston During Deli Month

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 4, 2022

Mark your calendars, because you don’t want to miss these deliciously fun culinary happenings: August brings the return of Deli Month to Kenny & Ziggy’s, 1743 Post Oak, in benefit of Holocaust Museum Houston. Joined by delis across the nation, K&Z will offer a multi-choice, three-course menu during lunch and...

These Houston Restaurants Are Shucking Out Deals for National Oyster Day (Friday, August 5)

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 3, 2022

From oyster happy hours to all-day deals on chargrilled bivalves and on-the-half-shell jewels of the sea, here’s where to shuck and slurp this National Oyster Day in Houston. Backstreet Cafe, 1103 South Shepherd Chef Hugo Ortega’s Backstreet has got $1 raw oysters and $2 roasted oysters up for grabs. Back...

Houston Restaurant Weeks 2022 Launches Today

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Aug 1, 2022

August in Houston is hot. The first day of the eighth month in the calendar reminds us that the dog days of summer are about to really hit their stride. For we Houstonians, however, there is more to August than potential hurricanes and record heat waves. For nearly two decades,...

This Week in Houston Food Events: Score a $10 Sando at Dish Society

By Brooke Viggiano

Aug 1, 2022

Here's a look at this week's hottest culinary happenings: Monday, August 1 $10 Featured Sandos at Dish Society In honor of back-to-school season and National Sandwich Month, Dish Society is offering a different house favorite sammy for a sweet $10 bucks every Monday in August, available at all locations for...

Houston's 5 Best Weekend Food Bets: King's Bierfest and X-Mas in July

By Brooke Viggiano

Jul 29, 2022

Here's a look at this weekend's tasty food and drink happenings: Frosty Food Rally at B-52 Brewing Company Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. 12470 Milroy The Conroe brewery invites guests to beat the heat at this frosty edition of its food truck rally. The day’s vendors include Tikiz Shaved ice,...

Visiting Heaven, Hell and Canada with Sum 41

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Jul 28, 2022

There’s Heaven and Hell and somewhere between the two there’s Canada. These wildly different locales are all on the map of our conversation with Jason McCaslin, bassist for Sum 41. The band returns to Houston Sunday, July 31, for a show at House of Blues and McCaslin, simply known as...

This Week in Houston Food Events: $1 Wings and a Beer-Fueled Xmas in July

By Brooke Viggiano

Jul 25, 2022

Here's a look at this week's hottest culinary happenings: Monday-Friday 27th Anniversary Specials at Pluckers Pluckers Wing Bar turns 27 this July, and it’s celebrating with a week of specials and events now through Friday, July 29. The lineup of specials includes $5 Pluckers nachos on Monday, July 25: $5...

Guitar Virtuoso Kelly Doyle To Perform At Under The Volcano

By Gladys Fuentes

Jul 25, 2022

Kelly Doyle is a guitar virtuoso who has spent over the last decade touring with Robert Ellis, Phosphorescent and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady. No matter who he is playing with, his style of playing always stands out while luring the listener into a trance. Last month he released...

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