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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: Movie night!! MFAH (1001 Bissonnet St.) continues their $7 'Movies Houstonians Love' series with a pick by Dr. John H. Lienhard (the dude from NPR's Engines of Our Ingenuity) - No Highway in the Sky. Afterwards, steak night at Baba Yega (2607 Grant...

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: Start the week out on a socially responsible note with the Houston Grand Opera at the Museum of Fine Arts Brown Auditorium (1001 Bissonnet St.). The event is honoring writer Leah Lax and who interviewed hundreds of Houston immigrants from around the globe...

Houstonist Happy Hour at Kay's Lounge It's been over a two months since Houstonist last caroused with our readership. It's been far too long; we're ready to get it on. Join us at Kay's as we test out their new hard liquor license and put on our beer goggles. Comments on the site are great, but face-to-face chats are more better. Drop by and let us know what you think about fun topics like...

One of our favorite cover songs is The Gourd’s bluegrass version of Snoop’s “Gin and Juice.” Sure, the band has some even better original songs, but this is the one that people scream for at the show. Who knows, you might be able to persuade The Gourds vocalist/guitarist Kevin Russell to sing it tonight at Under the Volcano – but you may have to buy him a few gin and tonics for the persuasion to...

Houstonist headquarters is powered by caffeine, oompa loompas & Matlock reruns. Old Ben has inspired us to investigate options for Thursday evening fun. Let's review the case facts: + We like you. + We love beer. + Kay's has lots of cold beer One guess as to where we'll be. Why not join us and make it a pawty? Happy hour specials will be in effect, but even at full price, Kay's is still...

Our hangover from the pub crawl is finally gone. Time to make another one. Join us at Kay's Lounge on May 17th for some good old fashioned beer drinking and carousing. What's not to love about throwing back a cold beer while seated around the Texas table? The plan is to focus our efforts on only one joint this time around. However, we can't be held responsible if a pub crawl evolves since Volcano...

No matter what image problems Houston suffers, its architecture, caught in the right light, can be beautiful. Today Brazos Bookstore is hosting a book signing by world-renowned photographer Dr. Valentin Gertsman of his new book, Philip Johnson in Houston: Image and Imagination: To call Dr. Valentin Gertsman remarkable would be an understatement. Born in Moscow in 1925, Gertsman endured the repression of Communism, the brutality of war and the estrangement of his family. In 1974,...

With voter turnout generally decreasing each year, some government bodies are looking for incentives to get people to vote. In Arizona, they’re trying a million-dollar lottery for voters. In Houston, we had the free flu-shots at some locations for the elderly, until that was shot down. Houstonist doesn’t need an incentive to vote – we educate ourselves on the issues and then go to the polling station to cast our vote. However, we like Under...

If we made a list of movies that lend themselves to psychoanalyis, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita would be on it. Fortunately, though, we don't have to make that list — the Museum of Fine Arts already has. And you can catch Lolita this evening as part of the MFAH's series "Close-ups: Psychoanalysts Look at Film." Lolita, of course, is the screen adaptation of Nabokov's story of a middle-aged professor's lust for a teen "nymphet," starring...

Houstonist is the first to admit that Houstonians are wimps when it comes to cold weather. You disagree? We present for your consideration the first day in the fall when the temperature drops below 70 and you see people walking around in parkas. When it gets below 60, we start covering exposed skin. Hey, better safe than sorry. So this week, the first legitimate cold snap we've had this year (shouldn't this have happened...