Arts & Events: July 2009 Archives

For the Week of July 6th - 8th, 2009 We hope everyone had a booze and band-filled Fourth of July. We wound up at a pretty kickass show at Super Happy Fun Land. The past, however is past. Here's what's coming up this week in Houston.

It's festival time in Spain. Hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Pamplona and other townships to participate in Sanfermines and the daily encierros, or bull runs, during which lunatics brave souls flee from bulls loosed in the streets. 2009 marks the third year of New Orleans own version of an encierro, but flat track roller girls do the chasing instead of bulls.

For the Weekend of July 2nd - July 5th, 2009 Queue the mother lode. It's the Fourth of July weekend, so we're certain there will be a plethora of booze, burgers, brats, and of course, bands.

Cactus Music brings us another in-store performance, this time from Austinites Wooden Birds.

Millionaire?" As a bonus, show hopefuls were also being considered for Millionaire's 10th Anniversary week (hosted by Regis) and their movie week, which features only movie trivia. As for the question, "who wants to be a millionaire?" Houstonist, and over 1,000 other Houstonians, said "Um...hello. We do! We do!"