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Drinking Liberally Dog House Tavern |
First Wednesday of every month, 6:00pm |
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In 2003, a bunch of New Yorkers started Drinking Liberally as a less formal place to talk politics. There�d be no committees or leaflets or even any issues in specific to address. There�d just be beer and the company of people who think like you do. Since then, 170 chapters have gathered in... More >> |
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"Jon Black's Annual B-Day" With Whorehound, Dickey Hands Boondocks |
Thu., April 9, 9:00pm |
Montrose |
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 You may only know Jon Black as the devastatingly handsome bartender who works the happy hour shift at Boondocks, but when he’s not opening our Lone Stars or trimming his beard, he’s also the lead guitarist for sludge-metal dudes Whorehound. If you haven’t seen them live,... More >> |
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DJ Mike Catbirds |
Fri., April 10 |
Montrose |
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 Every Friday night at Catbird’s is like partying with your Grandpa, back when he was spry and catting around town on leave from the military, way before he met your Grandma and had to start like, a family. DJ Mike spins 30’s and 40’s hot jazz all night to soundtrack your hours... More >> |
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"Dirty Honey" With DJ Brett Koshkin Boondocks |
Sat., April 11 |
Montrose |
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 DJ Brett Koshkin’s monthly “Dirty Honey” sounds like a gritty soul-drenched jukebox, doused with a gallon of the best funk of the past century and set ablaze with by the fiery voice of Mr. James Brown. On the first Saturday of each month at Boondocks, Mr. Koshkin lays down... More >> |
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Young Mammals, Muhammad Ali ,THEART Mango's Cantina |
Sat., April 11 |
Montrose |
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 Carrots is the former Dimes' first full-length, and first physical product of any kind since 2006's Delilah EP netted the quartet a slew of Houston Press music awards and set the local indie-rock community's hearts atwitter long before a "tweet" was anything besides the sound certain birds... More >> |
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"Bodies of Paint, Bodies of Text: A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas" The Menil Collection |
Mon., April 13, 7:00pm |
Montrose |
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 What rhymes with art? We’re hoping the writers at A Poetic Response to Marlene Dumas have more mature responses than ours. Sasha West, a poet and former managing editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, has selected a handful of local wordsmiths whose musings share... More >> |
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"Reverberation" With The Psychedelic Sex Panther, Nam Jam, Baby Jesus, Black Slacks Boondocks |
Sat., April 18 |
Montrose |
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 Since forming in the summer of 2007, the collective behind Houston’s own garage rock crew Reverberation has been making your ass shake and helping us all rediscover the primitive side of rock and roll before stadium rock and disco bore down on America like a glitter-crusted anvil. The... More >> |
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The McKenzies Chances |
Sun., April 19 |
Montrose |
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 One of the newer bands to cause a stir on the Boondocks/Mink/Walter's circuit, the McKenzies display an instinctive grasp of power-pop conceits that nearly qualifies the quartet as prodigies, if not savants. That designation may have to wait until they release a proper LP (at least), but their... More >> |
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Motion Turns It On, Female Demand Boondocks |
Mon., April 20 |
Montrose |
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 The two-man bass n’ drums instrumental assault of Female Demand sounds like Hawkwind as interpreted by the late and lamented Death From Above 1979. Every amount of riff damage that a bass can do is amped up to the hilt, with schizo drums thrown in for weird measure. They released a limited... More >> |
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Angels at Rothko Rothko Chapel |
Sat., December 19, 7:00pm |
Montrose |
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 Is the repeated playing of “Feliz Navidad” making your ears bleed? Take a break from José Feliciano’s famous take on Christmas when Trio Angelico, composed of mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas, flautist Jennifer Keeney and pianist Anita Kruse, performs Season of Light. The... More >> |
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"The Puppet Show" Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., January 17 until Sun., April 12 |
Montrose |
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 A hypnotized man making art against his will, a singing penis and dancing marionettes are just a few of the works you’ll see in “The Puppet Show.” Co-curators Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni have put together a dissimilar and eclectic collection of art that explores the ideas of... More >> |
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Domy: "Familiar Spirits" Art Exhibit Domy |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 20 until Sun., April 19 |
Montrose |
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The art exhibit “Familiar Spirits” is the result of the forced collaboration between artists Matt Furie and Aiyana Udesen. “The Empress of Minor Demons (Aiyana) and I, Lord of Moldovia, did not choose to work together. I had no choice,” says Furie, jokingly…we think.... More >> |
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"Les Boom!" With DJs Fredster, Damon, DJ Cuba Gooding Jr. Numbers |
Every week Wednesday |
Montrose |
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 Morphing out of the Houston hipster-dance monolith known as Boys and Girls Club, Les Boom! is fast becoming a giant onto its own. If it wasn’t for the weekly spots at dives like 1415 and A38 a few years back, electro would have stayed off Main and not made its leather and glitter-crusted... More >> |
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The Menil Collection: "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave" The Menil Collection |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 27 until Sun., June 21 |
Montrose |
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The exhibit “Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave,” the first-ever mid-career exhibition for the painter, covers the years from 1980 to the present. Dumas is well known for using the human face and figure to explore the ideas of social identity, race and sexuality, and now we can... More >> |
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Contemporary Conversations, John Chamberlain, American Tableau The Menil Collection |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., March 19 until Sun., August 2 |
Montrose |
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Museums spend a great deal of time and money staging grandiose, big-name traveling exhibitions, so it’s a relief, especially to frequent visitors, when they look within their own collections for something to feature. The Menil Collection has done just that with its decision to showcase... More >> |
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Art League Houston: "Repository: Photographs and Videos by Sarah Sudhoff" Art League, Houston |
Every week Saturday from Sat., March 14 until Fri., April 17, 11:00am-5:00pm
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Montrose |
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Illness, especially cancer, is never something you really want to think about, but it’s worth it in the case of “Repository,” a photo and video exhibition by artist Sarah Sudhoff. After being diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2004, Sudhoff began to artistically document her... More >> |
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Art League Houston: "The Boardroom" Art Exhibit Art League, Houston |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., March 6 until Fri., April 17, 9:00am-5:00pm |
Montrose |
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 Off the streets and into the gallery, “The Boardroom,” Art League Houston’s first-ever graffiti exhibition, isn’t your average scrawl on the bathroom wall. The show features large-scale, original murals created collaboratively by artists WEAH, ACK! and Raiko Nin (this is... More >> |
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"Perspectives 165” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston |
Every week Sunday from Sun., March 1 until Sun., May 10, 12:00pm-5:00pm
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Montrose |
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Teens do more at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston than just look at art — they exhibit art, too. The museum’s sixth exhibition of work by local teens, “Perspectives 165: Contents under Pressure,” is centered on the theme of containment and containers. Artist Dario... More >> |
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"Camaro" With DJ Mr. Castillo Boondocks |
Every week Thursday |
Montrose |
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 Dan Castillo is one of Houston’s most prolific and rock and roll poster artists. Castillo does show flyers for most every venue in town, most extensively with Warehouse Live and Boondocks. Last fall, he began a Thursday night residency at Boondocks, spinning classic rock and newer bands... More >> |
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“Way Way Out West” Art League, Houston |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., April 9 until Fri., May 1, 8:00am-6:00pm |
Montrose |
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 What’s Asian Heritage Month without a little art? “Way Way Out West” guarantees that you won’t have to find out with a presentation of ceramic, photographic and mixed-media works by Bennie Flores Ansell, Sandria Hu, Rahul Mitra and Terry Hagiwara. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays... More >> |
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"Speakerboxx" With DJs Squincy Jones And Dayta The Mink / The Back Room |
Every week Thursday, 10:00pm |
Montrose |
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"Classic Numbers" With DJ Wes Wallace Numbers |
Every week Friday |
Montrose |
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 There aren’t many places inside the Houston city limits where you can see a guy dressed up like a goth George Washington nursing a dirt cheap Long Island Iced Tea and shadow-dancing, but such is the reality at “Classic Numbers” every Friday at well, Numbers off Westheimer. The... More >> |
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"Rock Steady Mondays" With DJ Sun The Flat |
Every week Monday, 10:00pm |
Montrose |
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 Monday can be a hard night of the week to head out to the bar. Most people are still licking their wounds from their weekend adventures, let alone considering going toe to toe with a couple drinks and a healthy dose of music. But when you have a guy like seven time Houston Press Best DJ award... More >> |
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Little Joe Washington Boondocks |
Every week Tuesday |
Montrose |
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 On his second album for Austin's Dialtone Records (following 2003's Houston Guitar Blues), the blues flows so effortlessly out of Little Joe Washington's guitar it's hard to believe any of these 14 songs needed more than one take. Washington's feverish runs and penetrating leads - which fly by... More >> |
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First Tuesdays at the Houston Center for Photography Houston Center for Photography |
First Tuesday of every month, 7:00pm-9:00pm |
Montrose |
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 You can spend hours in the darkroom, numb your eyes with Photoshop or trek into the woods in search of the perfect shot, but if you never show anyone your photographs, you might as well point-and-shoot a blank wall. That’s why First Tuesdays at the Houston Center for Photography welcomes... More >> |
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