We’ve got a busy week on the concert front. Our favorite duo from New York arrives at The Meridian tomorrow night. They Might Be Giants have been making quirky alt/pop songs for grown-ups over 20 years now, and a few albums for the kids that us grown-ups enjoy, too. Wilco’s Friday night show at Verizon Wireless Theater is sold out, but if you’re willing to pay a little, you can still get your hands......

If you missed out on the Beer Can Opener last Friday (because you were embroiled in the LRPC - any other excuse will not be accepted, unless accompanied by a note from your Dr.), you have a second chance to attend a special event. Join Mayor Bill White as he honors and officially opens the Beer Can House to the public, along with the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. This Thursday, March 6th at......

Tomorrow night, several 90's R&B hit-makers emerge on Reliant Arena for the Ladies Night Out Tour (this has been a popular theme this week). One of those is Bell Biv DeVoe. Bell Biv Devoe (also known as BBD, not to et confused with other 90's bands like NKOTB) arose from the ashes of New Edition. While Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant went solo, the other three members decided to form this group, which had......

With this colder weather hitting us, what better way to stay warm than with a nice glass of wine? We have some great events coming up. Food, wine, and maybe a little of bit of fun thrown in makes for a happy Houstonist. Check out the upcoming events! Sempre Vive Wine Dinner at 1926 BICE Ristorante Wednesday, December 5, 2007 6:00-11:00 PM, $125 Sempre Vive is hosting a wine tasting paired with a delicious......

Last week the AIA hosted their annual home tour, and tomorrow the Downtown Houston Alliance is giving folks a chance to see residences in some of Houston's most historic and moneyed buildings. The Live Downtown Home Tour is from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, November 3rd. Stops on the tour include Commerce Towers, The Beaconsfield (not the Savoy across the street!), the Four Seasons, Hogg Palace (no, not this place), and several other loft properties.......

::Live Downtown Kick-off Party:: Before you have to battle the Spoon vs. Girl Talk decision tonight, stop by an event that doesn't require you to choose between your two favorite children. Ok, maybe missing Spoon isn't THAT life changing. We'll be at Girl Talk. Tonight, in preparation for Saturday's Live Downtown Home Tour, guests are invited to the Live Downtown Kick-Off Party on the rooftop terrace of the Commerce Towers. From 6 - 8 p.m.......

Houston! We’re going to be rounding up current food and wine events once a week, so you don’t have to. Previously, we posted these gastronomic opportunities, along with festivals and the like – having let that slip was criminal! Once again, Culinary Adventures comes your way!!! Tour de Donut – “The Sweetest Bike Ride in Texas”Sunday, November 4th – beginning at 8:00 a.m. Sun & Ski Sports @ Katy Mills Mall $25/participant in advance $35/participant......

This weekend (Oct. 27 and 28) stop ogling your neighbor’s house from afar -- get in there and indulge your high design fantasies (legally of course). For one weekend every year the AIA allows even the unlikely likes of you a first-hand experience in top-notch architecture. We won’t even mention what it would actually cost to own these gems, but at $25.00 a ticket the fantasy seems like a pretty good deal. This year’s......

Attention Lance Lovers! Texas' most famous cancer survivor will be visiting Houston tomorrow to lobby in support of Proposition 15. You can click here to read it in its entirety, but it's not any kind of Engrish that we recognize. The short story is that Prop 15, if passed, would result in a constitutional ammendment allowing for obligation bonds to raise money and establishing the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Lance explained......

GHPA Walking Tour: Old Sixth Ward In perfect timing with last week's City Council designation of Old SIxth Ward as Houston's first and only Protected Historic District, the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance will hold it's monthly walking tour this afternoon in the historic neighborhood. On the second Sunday of every month, GHPA presents a docent-guided walking tour of an architecturally and/or historically significant area of Houston. $10 per person ($7 for GHPA members). Reservations are......

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,......

Behind the Scenes Tour at HMNS If the only thing dinosaur bones make you think of is Ross & Rachel's first, um, romp, then maybe you (like us) should look into one of the Museum of Natural Science's Behind the Scenes Tour. Tonight at 6pm, HMNS presents Behind the Scenes Tours: Hall of Paleontology Tour the Hall of Paleontology with David Schwimmer Temple, associate curator of paleontology. Learn the facts and fictions of the ancient......

Minute Maid Clubhouse Tours Be one of the first to see inside the Astros Clubhouse. The Houston Astros Tour Department is now offering fans an inside look at the Houston Astros Clubhouse. Fans of all ages will visit the Astros Locker Room while making stops at the Training Room, Weight Room and Batting Cage facility. This tour is limited to the first 75 people in each timeslot and tickets must be purchased in advance......

A couple of concerts original scheduled this week were either canceled or postponed. The "Smooth Groove Tour," featuring Cameo, Morris Day and others has been postponed. If you have tickets, check the Reliant Arena website soon for the new date. If you had tickets to see American Idol Taylor Hicks, you can get a refund, but you won't get a chance to see the premature gray-haired Idol. His show was canceled due to bad......

We really wish Gomez was performing a headlining show here, but we have to settle with them just being an opening act for The Fray (along with Eisley) this Friday night in The Woodlands. However, Gomez is playing a stand-alone show Saturday night in Austin, if you're lucky enough to find tickets for it. Some veteran Houston acts play around town this week. Beaumont's Clay Walker will perform after the races at Sam Houston......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

Word Around Town Poetry Tour Happy Monday! (Because Fridays shouldn't have all the fun.) With high hopes for a drier week, today's Daily-ist is actually a Weekly-ist. Yep, folks. You're getting more bang for your buck with this one. Wait, you don't pay for these? You mean to tell me you get these events just GIVEN to you everyday?! Madness, I say! Lucky you. The second annual Word Around Town Poetry Tour descends upon, around,......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor frankienose who gives us this hockneyesque image of the bar area at Bitterman's Market Square Bar & Grill. This would be a great place to visit before or after the GHPA Walking Tour of Market Square this Sunday. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining 300 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If......

Last chance, folks. That's right - somehow you have managed to overlook a re-occurring local event, and now it's about to end. Houstonist is saving the day, though, and letting you know about the FINAL Thursday Twilight Tour at the Rienzi on May 31. Every Thursday since May 3rd, elegant Htowners have been gathering for wine and wandering at the Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts. Sadly, these Thursday Twilight Tours are coming to an......

Four Walls: Untitled Exhibit Opening @ Winter Street Studios As we are all recovering from the Houstonist Happyist last night @ Kay's, it's on to thinking about tonight's festivities. Some of us will be all-electronica'ed out at Warehouse, but if you are looking for a treat for your other senses, check out Winter Street Studios exhibition, Four Walls: Untitled Check out what Spacetaker.org has to say about the opening: "If you have ever been......

Found Magazine publishes the flotsam and jetsam literature: birthday cards, notes written on receipts, lost love letters, doodles, whatever happens to give a glimpse into other people's lives. The magazine has proved wildly popular and it tours all over the country, giving readings and events, while also collecting said flots/jetsam. Found has had events in the past at the Aurora Picture Show, but this one's going to be a little bit different. Dirty Found......

This Saturday is the Inner Art Corridor's Second Annual Open Studio Tour. That means that all artists in the warehouse and private art sector will open their studios to the public. This is a great opportunity for artists and art lovers alike to see new works of art and to meet and chat with artists at their studios. The tour is made up of twelve studios and countless artists. Hot spots include David Adickes' studio......

Before we get into this week's calendar, here are some upcoming concerts recently added that you may want to snag tickets for in advance: The Shins – 3/6 @ Verizon Wireless (on sale today @ 5 p.m.) The Toadies – 3/14 @ Verizon Wireless (reunion show) My Chemical Romance – 4/14 @ Reliant Arena Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – 4/26 @ Warehouse Live As for this week: if you want some Willie on......

Mayor Bill White, who just happens to be one of the fittest mayors in the country, officially announced the date of the 3rd annual Tour de Houston. The bike ride (sponsored by Guaranty Bank) will take place on Saturday, March 17th, beginning and ending downtown in front of City Hall. The ride is a recommended tour for those who are interested in participating in the larger BP MS 150 April 21-22, which will take you......

One week into the new year and you still haven't made any resolutions? Let us help. Thinking of resolving to exercise more but searching for a not so cliche term? Combine your health goals with a mission to learn more about your city, and join the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance's Monthly Walking Tours. See the city while shedding some pounds. You overchiever, you! This month's walk will take place this Sunday in one of Houston's......

You may remember that last month our fair neighbor Galveston was in the news because of the perceived need to hire a marketing firm to revamp the city's image. North Star Destination Strategies out of Nashville, Tennessee was hired to try and persuade a few more folks to head south to the island. After conducting a few surveys and finding out that most thought of Galveston beaches as dirty, stinky cesspools of sorts, North Star......

George Mendes reached the Pacific Ocean yesterday near San Diego after covering over 3,400 miles in 61 days and raising nearly $25,000 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation in the process. Houstonist first introduced you to George Mendes when he'd just left The Woodlands nearly three weeks into his ride, "Tour de Isidro." He may have reached the Pacific, but Mendes plans to continue the journey according to schedule, concluding in the Bay Area around November......

Space 125 Gallery, in conjunction with "Dance USA On Tour" presents "flashDance: photography of Houston choreographers & dancers", beginning November 9th and running through December 22nd. The showing is free and open to the public. The exhibit will feature the works of David A. Brown, Jim Caldwell, Louie Saletan, Amitava Sarkar and Jennifer Leigh Wood. The opening on November 9th is from 6 pm - 8 pm. Regular gallery hours are Mon-Fri from 10 am......

Yeah, yeah, we know it's not Saturday, but this is worth a special Shelterporn mention: This weekend, you can indulge your list for architect-designed homes (admit it, you have one) at the AIA Houston's 2006 Home Tour. The tour will include 10 architect-designed houses, including a recent Texas Society of Architects award-winning design: 505 West Alabama, a four-unit townhome project by Collaborative Designworks 4029 Chatham, a contemporary home on a Highland Village-area lot by Val......

Wednesday You can call him Black Francis or Frank Black, it doesn’t matter. What does matter, is that the Pixies leader is playing solo shows again, after a very successful reunion tour with his band over the past two years. We’d love to see Kim Deal as a surprise guest, but we won’t hold our breath. 8 p.m. at the Meridian | tickets and info Bound Stems is a “math rock” band. What is......