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If you're anything like Houstonist, you've put off the majority of your holiday shopping until the very last minute, which means that this weekend is nearly your last opportunity to get out there and get it done. After a long day spent fighting crowds and traffic, what could be better than relaxing with some great music and a glass of wine? Nothing, we tell you.

Champagne Bubble Bath The Tasting Room - River Oaks Saturday, December 8th 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. 2409 W. Alabama 713.526.2242 Taste some "sparkling wines", (hey, it's not Champagne, unless it is actually made in Champagne, France, just saying) and try some appetizers. The cost is $50/ per person, but, you get a $5 discount if you donate a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots! Holiday Farmer's Market and Wine Tasting The Tasting...

Here you go Houston, more food and wine events for you to peruse. We are going to work to get you more than one Culinary Events posting per week, as the holidays can increase the number of events, dinners, fund-raising food and beverage activities and festivals. Also, we strive to give you some advance notice - as you can't always get your reservations or tickets, which ever the case may be, on the day...

Better late than nevah - here's our roundup of feasting and imbibing in the very near future. See the bottom of the post for some Thanksgiving food ideas, we'll be continuing to update that, and no, we won't add Grandma Kroger to the list, or any other supermarket, for that matter. Well, maybe Central Market or perhaps Whole Foods, maybe. Great American Bake Sale -Dessert Gallery, Sugar Land Friday, November 16th – 6:00 p.m. until...

We've been seeing Christmas decorations going up around town earlier and earlier every year. This was the first time we could remember seeing green and red before Halloween. Still, retailers must remind people that it's almost time to go into debt in celebration of the birth of Jesus, so that's their right. The Galleria is celebrating the lighting of their huge Christmas tree (and the attendant shopping rush) with a performance by former Olympic skater...

Wine + Art at the Tasting Room Tonight, the Tasting Room River Oaks joins two of our favortie things: art and wine. Not a novel concept, but a welcomed one on a rainy week in H-town. The Tasting Room - River Oaks is proud to welcome winemaker Matt Steel from Green Point winery in Victoria, Australia and artist Robert Glick. The Tasting Room is very happy to be displaying a number of Robert’s works...

Five Smackers Wine Tasting If you week is going anything like ours, you could use 2 bottles a glass of wine right now after work. Got five bucks laying around? If so, we have just the thing for your humping-hurry-up-and-be-over Wednesday. There aren't many things that get us OTL these days, but since you can technically see 610 from Uptown Park, we usually let it slide. Head to the Tasting Room in Uptown Park for...

No, it's not by driving as fast as we can around loop 610, but it does include city-wide celebrations, all hoping for the same thing: No rain. Here are a few of the events we'll be checking out tomorrow. Where will you be? Tell us, maybe we'll ditch our plans and join you. But probably not. >>Freedom Over Texas Festival Houston's Official 4th of July Celebration. Chevy presents a concert and Independence Day celebration at...

I have a huge problem. I’m a big Bears fan (and a huge White Sox fan, but I’ll let that slide for the time being as to not open old wounds), but as this weekend approaches, I realized that I have nobody to watch The Game with. For years, I would be watching The Game with a few dozen other sweatpants-wearing, brat-eating, true Chicagoans — and for the first time in my first month as...

Each week, Houstonist highlights a few of the more interesting events going on in the city. Check back each day for more details. Is that so much to ask?! Monday, Jan 29 Movies Houstonians Love @ MFAH: Barbara Bush The Museum of Fine Arts' series, Movies Houstonians Love is back. The former First Lady kicks things off with a guest lecture preceeding her favorite movie,Life Is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni (Italy, 1997, 116...

It’s an annual tradition on Thanksgiving night to drive over to Uptown Park for the holiday lighting ceremonies. It’s a great way to kick-off the Christmas holiday season with all of those Christmas traditions: Santa, lights, large crowds, vendors, funnel cakes, and fireworks (those are all traditions in your family, right?). If you’ve never experienced the Uptown Holiday Lighting celebration, you need to at least once. You’ll see the simultaneous lighting of over half a...

Houstonist has more culinary adventures for you this week, including a favorite local festival. Here’s what’s to do involving food and beverages in the area this coming week: • Greek Festival: The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church – 3511 Yoakum • Texas Harvest Dinner: Bistro Le Cep – 11112 Westheimer • Jaime Casco Trio Plays: Central Market – 3815 Westheimer • Benny Q & the Nite Crew Plays: Central Market – 3815 Westheimer • Haaktoberfest:...

Yellville, Arkansas hosts a “Turkey Trot Festival” each year. Up until 1989, it included dropping turkeys out of a low-flying plane. It inspired the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati to write the script for the popular 1978 Thanksgiving episode where Les Nessman reported live while turkeys were being dropped from a helicopter onto the streets of Ohio (“As God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly,” said Station Manager Arthur Carlson, played by Gordon Jump)....