If you didn't read it on Twitter last night (Houstonist's source for all breaking news) the Aurora Picture Show was broken into and robbed a few nights ago. The lowlifes made away with a number of Aurora's expensive projection equipment, so the indie cinema is asking for Houston's help in replacing their valuables. See the wishlist here.
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Are you going to any early Halloween parties this weekend? A local band's last local show? A movie premier? Well, if you have nothing planned yet, shame on you, but Houstonist has some suggestions below.
It's a hot weekend for the art scene here in Houston. From contemporary to AV, check the events below:
- 5 p.m. — Coffee Groundz Two-Year Anniversary. Live local music and drink specials all evening, with some proceeds going towards Friday Habour, a local charity. Free admission.
- 7 p.m. — Leave Your Genre at the Door, a menage Houston artists of varying music styles. MC'd by (You)Genius. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak Drive. $10 bucks, all ages.
- 8 p.m. — High Noon presented by Aurora Picture Show at the Menil. The 1952 film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself. Starring Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper — double meow! Free! 1515 Sul Ross.
Thursdays this summer the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will show free screenings of the film Touched by Water, an exploration into bathing rituals from different cultures around the globe. Curated by Andrea Grover, founder of Aurora Picture Show, the Jacuzzi Movies series will provide jacuzzi seating for the first lucky few who call 713-284-8257 to make reservations. Looks like the CAMH is making good on the promise to create more interactive experiences, though there's no mention of whether the jacuzzi will be drained or if you'll need to bring a suit.
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- The Big Range Dance Festival opens tonight at 8 p.m. featuring new choreographic works by seven different choreographers. There is a second performance Saturday at 8 p.m. On Sunday, at 7 p.m. The Dance Gathering, a show featuring short works 4 minutes and under from 20 distinct choreographers will be presented. Tickets start at $14.
- Unhinged Productions, a GLBT-friendly theater production company in Houston, finishes it's month-long run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch this weekend. Fans of the film would be remiss not to see the stage version. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 otherwise. Show is at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at FrenetiCore Theater.
Aurora Picture Show teams up with Heights boutique Hello Lucky tonight for a preview of green artist-made film shorts and crafts.
There's trouble in Projectorville! Mr. Projector (Houston resident Aaron Ball) needs your help, so he's throwing a party at the Aurora Theater this Saturday.
Day 5 post-Ike, and here's hoping you are all hanging in there, barring any stir crazy tendencies to strangle whoever turned on the lights on billboards before your abode. We hear ya.
If you're anything like Houstonist, you loved Mad Libs as a kid (noun...snot! adjective...stupid! verb...fart! and so on). And if you're not too cool to admit it, you probably still love them now (although, hopefully your vocabulary has expanded somewhat since your playground days).
Summer days may be long but shorts are where it's at — film shorts, that is. For more than 10 years Houston's Aurora Picture Show has hosted a contest for Extremely Short Films (3 minutes and under) from across the globe. This year's Extremely Shorts festival coincides with Aurora's 10th birthday, and to celebrate, the avant garde theater is hosting a weekend of festivities, including a free retrospective tonight at Discovery Green.
::Nights on Blue Bayou: City Soundscapes:: Tonight brings us the second installment of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership's Nights on Blue Bayou series. An awesomely unique event, that brings Houstonians to the banks of Buffalo Bayou for a neighborhood block party-esque event under the stars. Nights on Blue Bayou: CITY SOUNDSCAPES is a multi-dimensional series of events on the banks of the bayou, beneath the historic Sabine Street Bridge, presented by the University of Houston Cynthia...
Wanna find a way to drink on Sunday and feel good about youself? We've been searching for this, and finally it's here. Join movie lovers and lushes alike, this Sunday Oct 7th, at one of our fav-o-rite Montrose watering holes, Poison Girl, as they drink for a cause. Is that the key to avoiding alcoholism? Aurora Picture Show Mini Fundraiser Sunday, October 7th, 5p.m. Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer Drink up for Aurora! Houston's favorite watering...
"Creative Crowdsourcing Through Mobile Technolgy" We couldn't have said it better ourselves, and you'll have to see this to believe the awesomeness of it. This has been on our radar for quite some time and we are so excited it's finally here. The Houston Center for Photography and Aurora Picture Show band together this summer to present the 3rd annual summer SPIN Party and Exhibition Txt Me L8r on August 24 from 8-11pm. On July...
Week's not over yet! Here's your chance to catch some ongoing events standing on their last leg today. Out the door, now. Or you'll miss 'em. Events Closing Today: Black Light /White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art [Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | 'til 5pm] Lunch Films [Aurora Picture Show | 3pm] Houston International Jazz Festival [Jones Plaza | 5pm] Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: On Robert Rauschenberg [Menil today @ 3pm] --- Photo:...
Lunch Films at Aurora Earlier this week, we told you about one great event happening tonight in the Heights. And here's another just down the road. Lunch Films premieres today and tomorrow at Aurora Picture Show. “By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. I bought a filmmaker lunch because he was broke. I asked for a short film in return for the cost of the lunch and wrote rules on a napkin to...
This week, we told you all about the upcoming opening of the much talked about Hotel ZaZa in the Museum District. Seems like the new hotel is on everyone's radar. Including New York Magazine. This week, the popular entertainment and culture magazine's website (www.nymag.com) featured Houston as their Weekend Escape Destination, describing a stay at the "highly theatrical" Hotel ZaZa as a way to earn some street cred in the Bayou City. The article...
Art Car Weekend kicks off tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. at the Art Car Museum with an assist from neighboring Aurora Picture Show. Shop Talk! - Dynamic Art Car Presentations is FREE and open to the public! Part of Heights Boulevard will be closed to through traffic and art cars will be parked on the street for your viewing pleasure. The cars will have illuminary-like very special effects and such - like, say a disco ball,...
Ah, the warm fuzzies of childhood. Marlo Thomas's hippy love-in for kids is memorable for those of us who grew up in the seventies, what with "It's All Right to Cry" and "William's Doll" and "Boy Meets Girl." The album, book and show were among the first of its kind to talk about gender politics, divorce, the media, global perspectives and a multicultural world to children.
Found Magazine publishes the flotsam and jetsam literature: birthday cards, notes written on receipts, lost love letters, doodles, whatever happens to give a glimpse into other people's lives. The magazine has proved wildly popular and it tours all over the country, giving readings and events, while also collecting said flots/jetsam.
Never Been to Houston Gallery Talk If our post about the Never Been to Houston show at the Lawndale Art Center couldn't convince you to go, and our interviews with some of the photographers didn't do the trick either, we have just the thing for you: a gallery talk! Jon Rubin, co-curator of the exhibit, along with Aurora Picture Show, will be speaking about the show tonight at Lawndale. Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose...
GHCVB presents: One Day in Houston Ever wonder what famous Houstonians have to say about the Bayou City? Find out tonight as the Greater Houston Convention and Visitor's Bureau premieres a Zen Film production of One Day in Houston, a promotional film designed to promote Houston from within. No, we're not talking ANS or Space Cadet, this film features positive Houston advocates such as George Foreman, Chloe Dao, Lauren Anderson, Brian Ching, Yolanda Adams,...
Houston is pretty image-conscious, and rightly so. We've been labeled fat, dangerous, and not exactly the best place to have a kid either. Houstonians know our city's tops, but how do we tell the rest of the world that? The Aurora Picture Show and professor Jon Rubin (who's never been to Houston himself) are curating an exhibit about Houston by people who have never been here, and the results are very interesting. Rubin and APS's...
We start off this Tech Buzz with a list of The 50 Most Important People On The Web, Houstonist isn't on the list, but we know our 11 readers love us! We hope by now, you have changed your clocks for Daylight Savings Time. Jay Lee over at The Chron lovingly refers to DST as Y2K7 and reminds us to patch our systems and devices. Looks like we missed BarCampAustin at SXSWi this weekend....
When Houstonist was growing up, You Can’t Do That On Television was sadly the edgiest kids/pre-teen show around. While we got a kick out of seeing a young Alanis Morissette watch as a cast member gets covered with green slime (which happened everytime a cast member said “I don’t know), looking back, it was a pretty stupid show. Nowadays, the kids have it better. Sure, the stupid shows aimed towards kids far outnumber the smart,...
Being smack dabbed in the heat of the summer, where you still break a sweat at midnight outside, we can’t think of a better way to spend our weekend evenings than indoors watching flicks. This year’s Dusk ‘Til Dawn Film Festival offers a wide variety of independent films for your viewing pleasure.
So here's a civic project to get excited about: Tonight, Buffalo Bayou Partnership will host "Blue Bayou," a party to celebrate the opening of the Sabine to Bagby Promenade, a new park along Buffalo Bayou from downtown to the Sabine Street Bridge. The $15 million park — which doubles as a flood-control project — includes 2 miles of hike and bike trails linking the Allen Parkway/Memorial Drive trails with Sesquicentennial Park, 12 new street-to-bayou stairways...
Found magazine is making a stop in Houston with the Cavalcade of Thrills Tour 2006. It's a 33-city tour with the masterminds behind the unique magazine introducing the Found II book, the second compilation of doodles, love notes, shopping lists and whatever else Davy and Peter Rothbart find. The Rothbart brothers make a living putting these found items, which could easily be dismissed as trash, together for the publications. At 8 and 10 p.m. tomorrow...
The national media occasionally forgets about everything it criticizes Houston for — sprawl, smog, oil, heat, bugs, lack of topography, Enron — and admits, though sometimes begrudgingly, that our fair city ain't such a bad place after all. The latest such nod is from the AP, which is carrying a story touting Houston as a budget vacation spot. "There's lots of Texas-size fun to be had for less than $20 in the nation's fourth largest...
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