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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: Soothe the remnants of your weekend hangover with the (free) strains of a Rice University music faculty concert from 8-9:30pm at Alice Brown Pratt Hall. Suck it up - if Mozart and Brahms aren't usually your homeboys, you can always make up for...

VIEWER'S CHOICE EDITION So tell us what you want, what you really, really want. Since the announcement that England's favorite fabulous five will be reuniting, we've been unable to concentrate on our weekend plans. With so much drama in the HOU, it's kinda hard figuring out what we should do. So we need your help. (in so many ways). Leave your comment as to what YOU think WE should do tonight. Here are our top...

Tomorrow night at The World Famous Orange Show, for the low, low price of $10 - you can hear four brands of new folk music. QuadroFolkia will be headlined by Jana Hunter - backed by a full band! Now, we know we told you there was a burgling incident - however, we have been assured that the show will go on! If there is a merchandise table, you really should pick up her new CD...

Folk Legend Bert Jansch, who has influenced artists from many genres, including Neil Young (who refers to him as the acoustical version of Jimi Hendrix), Devendra Banhart, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Nick Drake, Beth Orton, Noel Gallagher (Oasis) and Mike Oldfield, will make a rare live appearance at the Orange Show. Infused with American folk, blues and Traditional British Isles music, his style is singularly unique and his song-writing very affecting....

Bill Callahan Performs at The Orange Show On the heels of releasing his latest CD, Woke on a Whaleheart, crooner Bill Callahan performs tonight at the Orange Show Monument. With a voice that recalls Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, this maverick songwriter returns to the Orange Show for an encore performance. Callahan's darkly personal, yet dry and witty lyrics have made him a favorite with Houston audiences. Callahan, also known as Smog and (Smog),...

Even though he’s been recording for almost 30 years, most people don’t know who Daniel Johnston is. His profile was lifted a couple of years ago with the release of a tribute album, with artists like Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes and Tom Waits covering his songs. The following year, a documentary of his life won an award at the Sundance festival. This year, Houston’s Infernal Bridegroom Productions created and performed a rock...

We who bring you Fun For A Hamilton tell you to email us things we miss, and today, someone actually did. And we're glad, because in all our perusal of Houston's arts scene, we'd somehow missed this one. Thanks are due to fellow blogger Greg. The Orange Show is one of Houston's strangest and most endearing art institutions. A folk-art/achitecture environment created from 1956-1979 by the late Jefferson Davis McKissack, a Houston postal worker, the...

Add one more thing to the list of southeast Houston attractions: a 71-foot-long nuclear missile in a residential neighborhood. Actually, it's not a missile — it's a car disguised as a missile. And it's art. Houston native Mel Chin designed it, along with art students from East Tennessee State University. They call it "WMD - a Warehouse of Mass Distribution". [...] It is an exact replica of a Peacemaker nuclear weapon, 71 feet long and...