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::Lawndale Opens Día de los Muertos Exhibit:: Today kicks off one of Lawndale's longest running annual exhibits, Día de los Muertos. For 20 years, Lawndale has hosted an open call exhibition of artworks created especially for Día de los Muertos, featuring over 300 Texas artists who contribute their contemporary interpretations of traditional retablo devotional painting.Every year the works created for this exhibition range from the very traditional to very contemporary and abstract. All proceeds...
Spent all your cash on girlie drinks and shattered dreams again this weekend, didn't you? No worries - Thriftster gives you the lowdown on cheap stuff to do until Paycheck Friday. Monday: Soothe the remnants of your weekend hangover with the (free) strains of a Rice University music faculty concert from 8-9:30pm at Alice Brown Pratt Hall. Suck it up - if Mozart and Brahms aren't usually your homeboys, you can always make up for...
If your classic car collection is missing that certain something, may we suggest that you head down to Seabrook this weekend for the Worldwide Group Houston Classic Auction? A bunch of classic autos will be on the auction block, including a sweet '53 Corvette roadster, an elegant '52 Jaguar, a '70 American Motors AMX Fastback — oh, and what will undoubtedly be one of the stars of the show: the hearse that carried JFK's body...
Houston Arts & Media Fundraiser + Silent Auction @ Saint Arnold's Brewery There are very few combinations that we can think of better than BEER and ART. No, we're not talking about the Beer Can House, but we ARE refering to the Houston Arts & Media Fundraiser @ Saint Arnold's Brewery tonight. Admission is only $20, a small price to pay for all the beer, food, music, and fun you can stand. Perfomring will be...
Tonight, the Houston Center for Photography's Anniversary Auction Exhibition opens with a Reception from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the exhibit runs through February 7th. Featured in the exhibit are Ruth Bernhard (we are showing her Classic Torso, from 1955), Peter Brown, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Michael Kenna, Edgar Martins, and Robert Langham. The event is free to attend - we love free (keep those "cheap" comments to yourself!) The HCP print auction raised...
Hoist a pint, go home with a hound (aye-chihuahua)- or thinking of rescuing one. The Ginger Man Pub is the place to be on November 11th from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., especially if you are interested in Animal Rescue. Besides, what goes better with a pint of your favorite beer, ale or lager than, (yep - that tired old line - again) a warm fuzzy! The sad fact is that some people dump...
Houstonist will strive to apprise you of food and beverage adventures (either or both) - as they are discovered. To that end - here are a few ways to relieve your wallet - and appease the "food baby" - and possibly your sense of adventure: • Now Crave This, A Perfect Pastry Competition: The National Association of Catering Executives (NACE): • Rombauer Wine Dinner: Kiran’s Restaurant • For the Love of Lobster: Trevisio •...
Have you ever lost something and wondered where it went? If you happened to be at Texas A&M, it might have been sold to someone else in the school's biannual Lost-and-Found Auction, which was held yesterday. The event, sponsored by a campus service group, lets people bid on a variety of items found on campus, from electronics to sporting goods to clothes — even a foosball table. Sure, the stuff might not always have been what buyers were looking for, but one has to be pragmatic about these things:
Everyone knows about the World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Thousands of less than full, but slightly inebriated, gather around picnic tables like Black Angus to get a taste of …slow cooked Black Angus. Yum. What most forget about, as they lean back and unbutton their top buttons, is to save room for the wine. After the rib bones and napkins have been shoveled, the corks will be popped at...
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