Results tagged “houstonpubliclibrary”

FRIDAY
• 8 p.m. — KUHF presents Metropolis, probably the greatest silent film at Discovery Green, 1500 McKinney in Downtown. This film has been rained out twice, so here's hoping for better weather. Original music performed live by the Golden Hornet Project. Free.

As a kid, Houstonist would spend every summer break hanging out at the Community Center/Library in our hometown, where Mom dropped us off each morning on her way to work. more ›

"Wolff’s essays and performances explore autobiographical narratives as daydreams and fantasy through a filter of the American pop culture idiom. "Dead Dogs" and "Why I Hate Debra Winger" are two works in progress about change, loss and personal evolution.

Tickets to the iFest will set you back $15 but Houstonist has some options that won't break the bank. more ›

Houston is getting its first library for lazy people. more ›

Update: Extreme Wii has be rained out. Sad face. But it's on again next Wednesday! more ›

Laura Dave knows divorce. Okay, maybe she doesn't know divorce in the biblical sense, but she sure knows how to write about it. more ›

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug up from deep within our photo pool archives and we hope to expose you to even more wonderful Houston photography. more ›

We're always looking for more ways to learn about our great city, so why not start at home? Not only is it interesting to know about the plat upon which you live, but it can also help to paint part of the picture of Houston's interesting, albeit short history, and there are quite a few on and offline resources to help with research. An easy way to start is to find the specific name of... more ›

The Friends of the Houston Public Library invite you to peruse the more than 80,000 books of all genres that will be on sale at bargain prices this weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The sale, held annually, benefits the Houston Public Library - and you, of course. Who doesn't love cheap books? Friday is preview day for members of the Friends, but you can join at the door for $20. On Sunday,... more ›

Houston Public Library's Julia Ideson building, which houses the Texas Room and Archives/Houston Metropolitan Research Center, is long overdue for an expansion. Not only did Cram & Ferguson, Watkin, and Glover's original 1920s plans of the library include an additional wing that was to the south of the building facing Lamar St., but local archives have been amassing in the building since the late seventies. The Julia Ideson Preservation Partners was created at the request... more ›

Yes, we know Houston doesn't boast the famous haunted places some of our sister -ists do — London, for example, where you can hardly turn around without running into some long since beheaded spirit (or, for that matter, spirits). But still, in the spirit of the season, we combed the Interweb and found some local haunted sites, some of which you might have heard of and some you might not know about. So steel your... more ›

It's raining, it's pouring, so get out of the wet and join Houstonist in finding out what's doing in H-town for ten dollars or less.... Friday, July 28 Houston Shakespare Festival presents fantastic, professional productions of Shakespeare's masterworks at Miller Outdoor Theater in Hermann Park. Tonight, they present Titus Andronicus, an early and oft-misunderstood Shakespeare about lust, power, greed, revenge, and, oh right, gore. 8:30 pm. Free. (100 Concert Dr. in Hermann Park). Saturday, July... more ›

The Chronicle reports today on the most and least popular books in the Houston Public Library system — and it turns out HPL users are (still) crazy about the Harry Potter series. The six Potter books count for 75 percent of the books checked out most often at the library's branches in the past two years, possibly because it attracts both kids and adults. "Harry Potter is a phenomenon all its own," said [HPL technology... more ›