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Tab Benoit, The Blue Threads Fitzgerald's |
Fri., June 19 |
Heights |
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 One thing about Louisiana-born guitarist Tab Benoit that most people don't know is that he’s a dedicated activist for his native state’s environment; back in 2005, he and some fellow musicians got together to make a disc warning of the danger a hurricane might bring if the levees... More >> |
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Indie Houston: White Lies, Black Sheep Indie Houston Space |
Fri., June 19, 6:00pm |
Third Ward |
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 White Lies, Black Sheep, James Spooner's latest film, chronicles a young man's struggle with racial identity in New York City's underground rock scene. Spooner wowed film festivals with Afro Punk, a documentary exploring black life in the alternative music world. He's followed suit with White... More >> |
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"Gulfcoast Juneteenth Festival" With Trombone Shorty, Orleans Avenue, Keith Frank, Diunna Greenleaf, I.J. Gosey, Earl Gilliam Miller Outdoor Theatre |
Fri., June 19, 7:00pm |
Outer Loop - SE |
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 Even though you generally don’t get to take off work, Texas state holidays just seem cooler than their federal counterparts. Who needs the Fourth of July when you’ve got San Jacinto Day? The same holds true for Juneteenth, which commemorates the day – June 19, 1865 – when a... More >> |
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Brazilian Movie Night: Se Eu Fosse Você Brazilian Arts Foundation |
Fri., June 19, 7:30pm |
Heights |
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 Claudio and Helena have been married for a long time in the Brazilian film Se Eu Fosse Você (If I Were You). Boredom has set in, and both have very little respect for each other. Just before Claudio’s 50th birthday, the couple gets into a “compared to me, you’ve got it... More >> |
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Scott Miller & The Commonwealth McGonigel's Mucky Duck |
Fri., June 19, 7:30pm |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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 Scott Miller's new album, For Crying Out Loud, finds Miller still rocking, but often in a folky, more Appalachian approach than on previous records. Working with Nashville vet Michael Webb, Miller has put together a rocking album that stays true to his mostly rural musical roots. Of course,... More >> |
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Michael Schenker Group, Metavenge House of Blues |
Fri., June 19, 8:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Metavenge scare us? Why you ask, would a group of metal kids, some not old enough to buy porn scare us? Metavenge already have metal locked down and they haven’t even taken their first sip of legal booze, that’s why. They sound like they walked right out of 1985 and opened up for... More >> |
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The Narrows - Live Rave Motion Pictures Yorktown 15 |
Fri., June 19, 8:00pm |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 Can't get to the New York premiere of The Narrows? You can still be part of the fun at The Narrows - Live, a live simulcast featuring Sophia Bush, Kevin Zegers and Vincent D'Onofrio answering real-time questions from the nationwide audience (sent in via text message). The movie is about a... More >> |
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Flo Rida Hush |
Fri., June 19, 9:00pm |
Outer Loop - SW |
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 Over the course of a torrential two-year chart reign, Flo Rida has become the king of the earworm and the prince of the nagging hook. Since 2008’s “Low”, Rida has been a dance staple in hip-hop clubs and iPod’s the world over. Last year’s Tropic Thunder saw Tom... More >> |
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Slaid Cleaves ListeningRoom @ NiaMoves |
Fri., June 19, 9:00pm |
Heights |
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 Slaid Cleaves has always had an interesting musical niche. Folkies and the Texas music crowd alike swoon over the laconic Yankee-turned-Texan whose music always seems like it was made for rainy days and stormy nights. Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away is only Cleaves's third (he's never... More >> |
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Gabriel Prusmack: "Street Tempted" Aerosol Warfare Gallery |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., June 11 until Sat., June 20 |
East End |
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 Gabriel Prusmack's exhibit "Street Tempted" combines stencils, graffiti, installation and found art. Paintings on found material are adhered to the gallery's walls and incorporated into larger images, making the four walls one seamless work of art. The 21-year-old Prusmack is quickly making a... More >> |
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The Farnsworth Invention Alley Theatre |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., June 10 until Sun., June 28 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Idiot box, boob tube, babysitter, best friend, however you regard your television, you should give a shout-out to boy genius Philo T. Farnsworth. He's the guy who created the electronics behind TV. The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin's historical play The Farnsworth Invention looks at the... More >> |
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — Abridged ACE Theatre |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 19 until Sat., June 27 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 See a parody of Hamlet reduced to just 43 seconds in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — Abridged. All of the Bard’s comedies, tragedies and dramas are reworked into short snippets (all 37 plays are performed in 97 minutes). The story’s major elements are more or less... More >> |
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Mark Todd: “Oh, Man.” Domy Books |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 13 until Thu., July 23 |
Montrose |
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 Comic books, cars, fire, Kurt Russell — it’s no wonder Mark Todd calls his exhibition “Oh, Man.” Because that’s exactly the kind of stunned/amazed response his paintings and illustrations coax from viewers (mostly nerds). Todd re-creates vintage comic book covers and... More >> |
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Theatre Suburbia: Natural Disasters Theatre Suburbia |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 5 until Sat., July 4 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 Jack Heifner's 1976 play Vanities ran for five years, and his musical revue Leader of the Pack (he wrote the book) was nominated for a Tony Award in 1985, so while he's not as renowned as Albee or O'Neill, he certainly knows what he's doing. In Natural Disasters, the two--comedy package... More >> |
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“The Transitional Museum: Architecture by Mauricio Rodriguez Anza” Space 125 Gallery |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., June 18 until Tue., June 30 |
River Oaks |
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 Here’s an exhibit about an exhibit space. Houston’s Museum of Art and Design is set to open next year, but you can see “The Transitional Museum: Architecture by Mauricio Rodriguez Anza” now and get an idea of what’s to come. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.... More >> |
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Lost and Found Summer Art Workshop Blaffer Gallery |
Every week Tuesday, Thursday from Tue., June 16 until Fri., June 26, 9:30am-12:00pm
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Third Ward |
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 This summer, tell the kids to put down those coloring books — Blaffer Gallery’s Lost and Found Summer Art Workshop will show them that art can be more than trying to stay within the lines of SpongeBob’s head. Under the direction of artist Patrick Renner, they’ll tour the... More >> |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: In A Dream Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Fri., June 19, 7:00pm
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Kirby-West U |
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 When he was making a documentary about his father, the late Isaiah Zagar, who was perhaps the most important mosaic folk artist in America, filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar got the bright idea to ask Dad to tell him a secret. Caught off guard, the elder Zagar blurted out that he'd been having an affair... More >> |
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Black Acre Theatre: Love Song Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., June 12 until Sat., June 20, 8:00pm |
Outside Houston |
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 They're both under 25 years old, kinda young to be the heads of a theater troupe, but Ben Chai and Mary Black are exactly that. Founders of Houston's newest youth theater, Black Acre Theatre, Chai and Black also act in the group's first production, Love Song. John Kolvenbach's comedy about an... More >> |
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Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival 2009 Ovations |
Fri., June 19, 8:00pm
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Kirby-West U |
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 Four miniature operas explore what it means to be female in the Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival 2009. Along with Maid to Mistress, Lady of Monte Carlo and The Women, there’s Doctor Miracle. The opera by Bizet has been keeping audiences laughing for 150 years. See why at 8 p.m. Friday and... More >> |
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"Energy" BNIM |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., June 18 until Fri., August 28 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Blakely Bering and Austin James have taken "Energy," a collection of their new works, to BNIM, an architectural firm. "It's new works, mixed media on panels, all very vibrant and incredibly energetic, hence the name," says Cali Alvarado, gallery director for Bering & James Gallery. "The work is... More >> |
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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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Gordon Phillipson: "Par Avion" Canal Street Gallery |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., June 5 until Tue., June 30 |
East End |
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 Houston artist Gordon Phillipson grew up making model airplanes in his native Jamaica. Those childhood memories are the inspiration for his art exhibit "Par Avion," currently at Canal Street Gallery. In press materials, Phillipson says, "It's a craze, really, my passion for airplanes. It's... More >> |
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Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor Houston Museum of Natural Science |
Daily from Mon., May 18 until Fri., October 16 |
Kirby-West U |
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 You’ll be awed when you come face-to-face with the terra cotta warriors that were created by China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Meant to protect the emperor’s spirit after he died in 210 B.C., 14 of the warriors, which ride chariots, wield weapons and stand in battle-ready... More >> |
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Gallery Sonja Roesch: "Jan van der Ploeg" Gallery Sonja Roesch |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., May 16 until Sat., July 4 |
Third Ward |
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 Ariane Roesch, assistant gallery director for Gallery Sonja Roesch, says visitors should expect to be surprised at the "Jan van der Ploeg"exhibit, the first-ever Houston show by the Dutch artist. It's a very striking composition, with lots of color, she says of the show's centerpiece, the... More >> |
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Cabaret Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., June 16 until Sun., June 28 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Oh, those naughty girls of the Kit Kat Klub — they’re back and lovelier than ever in the brand-new, totally revamped revival of Cabaret from Theatre Under the Stars. According to Lauren Lovell, TUTS’s public relations manager, the revival of the musical about a German club in the... More >> |
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