Results tagged “knitting”

Bayou City Arts Festival - Downtown Need tickets to this weekend's Bayou City Arts Festival? We gotcha covered. We scored a few pairs, so drop us an email at monica (@) houstonist dot com and we'll hook you up. (And not like the time we tried to hook you up with our boyfriend's 3rd cousin. Sorry about that.) This all can be yours, for the low, low price of free (aka send an email to...

Signal to Noise is a globally distributed quarterly magazine focusing on improvisational and experimental music. You'd be hard pressed to find a larger, more eclectic mix of album reviews and artist spotlights in any other publication. It's celebrating its 10th birthday this year. Editor Pete Gershon now calls Houston home and sat down with us to talk about his magazine and his favorite topic – music. How did Signal to Noise begin? Ten years ago,...

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: While the name of the show might be hitting a little close to home after this weekend's ACL sunburn, the Eastman Gallery's Skin exhibition is a neat way to check out local artists and the way they view the human form. Hit the...

Hey Houston ladies - dudes cramping your artsy time? Boys getting in the way of your needlework? Significant other not respecting your personal papier mache space? Ditch 'em and join the Art Partiers for a chicks rule and boys drool evening of creative chica camaraderie at Terror Cat Studio this Thursday at 7pm. Pack up your knitting needles and BYOBooze - it's going to be a wild and crazy night. What: Ladies craft Art...

On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author. Happy December 31st! Since our resolutions pretty much stay the same from one year to the next (lose weight, get a better job, spend more time with the kids, get the drinking under control, stand up to that troll under the bridge), we need another way to note the passage of time. People in...

It’s no secret. Everyone knows how bad traffic sucks in our fair city. Whether you drive from The Woodlands to downtown, from Katy to the Galleria; even just crossing the street can take an hour. Add an accident and you can forget making that Midtown happy hour.

Just as Houstonist was thinking we'd seen it all in the realm of street art came the Houston Press's report on Knitta, a pair of Montrose moms who are tagging the 'hood one stitch at a time. No, you're not dreaming: It's knit graffiti. The moms — who go by AKrilik and PolyCotN — are working mothers who never had the attention span to finish a normal-scale knitting project, so they've turned to tagging door...