The Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige takes the stage at the latest installment of Vh1 Storytellers, airing tonight at 7pm on Vh1.
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Reigning “Queen of Funk” Sharon Jones [pictured] and her band the Dap-Kings will perform tomorrow night at Walter’s on Washington. The soul revivalists are touring in support of their critically acclaimed album, 100 Days, 100 Nights, a gritty homespun recording of retro R&B that has proven to be the group's breakthrough moment.
As the 1980's began, Pearland was still a small town, where you could walk across the street to Dairy Queen for lunch in high school. It was also the time when the town produced their own little new wave band that would end up becoming a regional favorite: The Judy's.
::Dame Julie Andrews to speak at Hobby Center:: "The Hobby Center's alive, with the sound of Juuuu-lieeee." Yeppers, Marry Poppins herself makes an arrival at the Hobby Center tonight, as part of the Brilliant Lecture Series. The voice, the music the memories.... The Brilliant Lecture Series presents A Conversation… with Golden Globe, Emmy and Academy Award winner, Dame Julie Andrews. Join us for a rare and candid conversation with the legend. Andrews has rebuilt her...
It’s like Divas Las Vegas 2007 this week, but in a good way! Celine Dion, Alicia Keys, and the Queen of Soul all have new albums debuting on the charts. It took us a little longer than usual to warm up to Alicia Keys’ new single, “No One” from her latest album, As I Am. But now that we’ve heard it endlessly on the radio and on TV, and it’s formed its own repeat loop...
During our daily scrummage though Houston's many local music blogs, we ran across this event brought to us by HoustonSoReal. We'll just let you hear it from Sonzala... Thursday Sept. 27th Witnes and I are bringing DJ Queen Majesty and Grimy Styles to the Proletariat for a Punky Reggae Party. For those who don't know, Punky Reggae is a term, I think coined by Bob Marley and/or Lee Scratch Perry, anyway it was their reaction...
Monday Moive Nights @ Domy Books We're loving this monday night movie series at Domy. It gives us an excuse to get out of the house on a Monday night, and a reason to watch cheesy cult classics. All the more reason to love Domy Books. Monday, August 6: "Forbidden Zone" A chaotic musical fantasy. The story revolves around a family who unwittingly stumble into a gateway to the sixth dimension, wherein the denizens are...
Today’s Photos of the Day comes from flickr users and Houstonist photo contributors Philosopher Queen, erci, cybertoad, mrp1001, presson_on, Jeff Balke, mx5tx and Graustark. These are all shots of local stadiums, ballparks and playing fields, all worthy of inclusion in todays collected Photo of the Day. Keep the sports related photos coming readers and contributors. Our Photo of the Day theme this week is sports. Submit your sports and Houston related images to our...
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Looking back, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 18th century poem may have been a bit progressive. As the world rallies around water preservation this month, Houston is doing our part, to make sure our H20 stays safe. Starting tomorrow (Friday) morning, the Dow Chemical Company, in partnership with the Blue Planet Run Foundation are sponsoring a 36-hour, 240-mile, overnight relay event around the Houston area to help raise...
Houstonist has heard a lot of suggestions on how to improve students' TAKS test scores, but Mayde Creek High School's approach may be one of the most unusual: Earlier this month, the school held three TAKS rallies in which students were divided by race. The three rallies — one for black students, one for white students and one for Hispanic students — didn't sit well with some parents, including Deon Franklin. "To me, that"s segregation,"...
A Conversation with Sir Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier is known the world over for his sensitive and powerful portrayals in such socially charged films as Cry, the Beloved Country, The Defiant Ones, To Sir With Love, In The Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field (for which he received his first Oscar) and many others. This actor, director, best selling author, husband, father, grandfather and quite recently, great-grandfather has...
In celebration of the upcoming Oscars, AMC Theatres will host an "AMC Best Picture Showcase" event Saturday, Feb. 24, at 79 select AMC theatres nationwide. In Houston, the marathon will take place at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, AMC Willowbrook 24, AMC Deerbrook 24, AMC Studio 30, AMC First Colony 24. The day-long event will showcase the five films nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "Best Picture." Guests are invited to...
We get all our Beyonce--and other celeb--news from PerezHilton.com. The deliciously mean Perez--who calls himself the Queen of All Media-- has been getting lots of press recently, and his site is the place for gossip. Admit it, everyone reads US Weekly sometimes. And if catty columnists are your thing, check out this blog for a ton of guilty-pleasure fun. As an added bonus, the proudly gay and Latino Perez has also got great taste it...
On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author. So it’s Christmas Eve, and you aren’t done with your shopping. Sure, you’ve carefully wrapped a present for your mother that is so amazing it will remove the memory of every bad gift she’s ever received, and your kids each have their own Play Station XVIII. But you still have to buy for your...
This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own, Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all. Phillyist paid tribute to her this week with a heartfelt letter to her and an obituary. And now, the awkward...
The Queen of Pop has just announced her tour dates for the "Confessions" spring tour, and she'll be hitting all the major cities — L.A., New York, Philly, Chicago, Miami, Boston. Heck, Madonna's even taking her pointy boobs to Phoenix, Fresno, Hartford and San Jose ... but not Houston. Houstonist isn't a diehard Madge fan, but we're curious enough that we might check out her show if she came to town. But now, we're kinda wondering if we like her at all.
Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to...
Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness...
Houstonist loves music, and we love sharing good music with you — that right there sounds like a '70s love ballad. We all got together to structure a list of our favorite albums of 2005. After lots of debating and a few bloody noses (OK, OK, Arcade Fire’s album was technically released last year, so we won’t include it — geesh!), we finally settled on our favorite albums of the year, in no particular order:...
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