Bayou City Arts Festival: Call for Entries The Bayou City Art Festival Downtown (not to be confused with the Sping Festival in Memorial Park) has announced the call for entries for its third annual “Art on Water” floating art competition on the City Hall Reflection Pool at Hermann Square. This year’s theme is “Water in Motion.” "We’re asking local artists to express movement through artwork either stationary or through kinetic nature of sculpture or installation,”...
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Is it country? Is it Cajun? We think the answer is yes. Get your fill of mudbugs this weekend at the Second Annual Bayou City Crawfish Festival, happening right downtown at Hermann Square. Dance off your crawfish, etouffee, funnel cakes, bbq and fajitas with live Cajun, Zydeco and Texas Country Music. Try the mechanical bull, or if your stomach doesn't take spicy so well, the pony rides. Face painting, a kids zone, a rock...
Mayor White is ready to party, and we're all invited to Houston's Annual Holiday Celebration downtown this Friday.
Houstonist is bleeding Cougar red these days — yeah, we know, it's actually the color we always bleed, but given UH's winning the Conference USA football championship Friday, it seems appropriate. At any rate, we were excited to hear that the city's throwing a celebration for the Coogs downtown today. The rally — with head coach Art Briles, the team, the UH marching band and Mayor Bill White — will start at noon at Hermann...
Besides being blustery, today is special because it is World AIDS Day. An estimated 40.3 million people are HIV-positive worldwide, a rise from 2004's 39.4 million. A slew of events are planned in Houston. Among them: noon: World AIDS Day Luncheon at the Corinthian downtown. The luncheon honors Jackson Hicks for his assistance to AIDS services and prevention education. It might be too late to go, but check with Julie Eberly at eberlyj@afhouston.org to...
It’s nice outside today. Feels like a good day for a protest, right? Sure! They’re happening all across the country (we were tipped off by reading LAist). And sure enough, Houston is partaking in the trend. After all, we already established that we’re hip. It’s being organized by The World Can’t Wait. And if you’re “red”, this will not, we repeat, NOT be your cup of joe. However, if you’re more on the “blue”...
to the Rothko Chapel's reflecting pool. The metal sculpture has been undergoing an 18-month restoration because it corroded faster than expected, but the interesting part of the story is how the piece got where it is.
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