Looking for something fun to do tonight that doesn't involve sitting in your sweltering house? Something that involves drinking, poetry, funny people and music? Grab whatever you've salvaged from your freezer to BBQ, snag your guitar and poetry and show up tonight at Caroline Collective (4820 Caroline St.) from 5 - 9pm tonight, Thursday September 18th for Open Spirits. Caroline Collective will host ‘Open Spirits’ our first open mike happy hour and BBQ. Party......

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. We've been trying to get out and about the last few days to blow off some steam, and it does seem to be helping to get out around other citizens, albeit if only to swap favorite between shower remedies. Good news is, the......

Texas Girls For A Cure is throwing an 80's themed extravaganza benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Saturday, September 6 at the Caroline Collective. The party starts at 6:00 PM and will feature screenings of The Breakfast Club (8:00 PM) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (10:00 PM). Texas Girls For A Cure was officially formed in January 2008 by two best friends, Erin Nies and Carissa Hernandez, who met while training for endurance events......

This weekend Houston will hold it's third BarCamp at the Houston Technology Center. BarCamp is an "unconference", or a user generated series of participatory sessions. BarCamps are held all over the world on six continents. Topics covered at BarCamp range from new web applications to open source technologies. Open and free to the public, BarCamp requests that all attendees participate in a session. As the wiki states: "This is called sharing, and we like......

Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh, 23, is the youngest board member of ArtStorm, but not by much. The average age of the eight board members hovers around 30, and everyone but Brumbaugh attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts here in Houston. After leaving to attend college in other well known art cities like San Francisco and New York, founder Melissa Juvan returned to Houston to develop the art community here. In ArtStorm,......

Tonight ArtStorm provides proof that Houston's art and music scene is smokin' hot, as the young, hip and artsy will no doubt flock to sweat it out at the opening reception for "Creature Comforts" (guest curated by Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh). This exhibit, the second for ArtStorm in their new space at The Caroline Collective, will feature Toronto-based artist Deforgeo and local contemporary artists Lisa Marie Godfrey, Rene Cruz, Shane Hillman, and Jacob Calle. Local......

Looking for a place where you could go way to work off all those hot dogs you're bound to cram down your big American mouth on Friday? Spend Saturday, July 5th jumping around to the sounds of Jeremy Jay and the Don't Fight It DJs at the Caroline Collective for a post-4th bash. Described by Pitchfork as "Peter Pan, or a left-coast Jonathan Richman" Jay has been raking in the accolades of late, surrounding last......

Sometimes there's a man; sometimes, there's a man. Jason McElweenie of The Low End Theory is hosting the first annual Houston Lebowski Bash this Saturday, June 21st, at the Caroline Collective to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the day that man arrived on the scene. If you're a Big Lebowski-aholic, an entered Big Lebowski apprentice or simply a neophyte who's never heard of The Dude or The Jesus and simply wants to have a good......

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here: The highly-anticipated grand opening of the Caroline Collective takes place this Saturday, June 7th beginning at 7:00 p.m. as Houston finally welcomes a coworking home of our own. The mission of the Caroline Collective is to provide a stimulating work environment for anyone who doesn't have a traditional office setting, but still wants to participate in a communal workspace and have a base of......