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: If you're still in the Halloween mood, after all that blood red jell-o shot slurping and blacklight body paint application, hit the Lawndale Center's (4912 Main St.) retablo exhibit. Doors close at 5pm, which gives you plenty of time to nosh on some...
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If you can't find a live show you like this week, then you're not trying hard enough. Tonight, NYC's (once) indie-rockers Interpol hits the Verizon Wireless Theater. For something more local, check out John Evans roots rock set at the Mucky Duck. Tomorrow night, German DJ Paul Van Dyke will have everyone dancing at Warehouse Live. The Meridian turns down the amp (just a bit) on Thursday night to host Americana flavored Junior Brown...
Contain Yourself! After days and days of driving down Main, nearly vearing off the road from craning our necks to check out the interesting graphic on the window of the Center for Contemporary Craft, we've finally figured it out (and a good thing for pedestrians!). Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets From the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, is an exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft continuing through Sept. 23. More than 40 artists are represented...
Sweet Charity Opens Tonight at the Hobby Center Sweet Charity, starring Trading Spaces darling, Paige Davis, opens tonight and runs through July 8th at the Hobby Center. Charity Hope Valentine is the eternal optimist. While working at the seedy Fandango ballroom, she is often taken advantage of and continually experiences bad relationships. Finally, she seems to have met a decent fellow in Oscar. Trying to hide her true profession, she lies to him and tells...
When Chris Isaak released his album Heart Shaped World in 1989, the album that features "Wicked Game," it barely made a dent on the charts. A year later, film director David Lynch featured the song in his movie Wild at Heart. That's when Isaak's luck changed. The video is now a classic -- arguably, one of the sexiest videos ever made. It doesn't hurt that they casted model Helena Christensen to teasingly play with...
If you can't catch Wicked tonight, may we interest you in the Houston Civic Symphony performance at the Hobby Center's other spectacular venue, Zilkha Hall? Tonight's performance will showcase the winners from the Young Artists competition held earlier this year - and it's free! The Houston Civic Symphony is the city's "first and finest community orchestra." They perform 5 concerts at different venues each year. The Young Artists competition is an annual event, but this...
The Houston Farmers' Market might be moving into new digs, according to Stories from a Houston Life. Rumor has it that the popular Rice Village-area market could be making the jump to the stadium parking lot at Rice University as early as April 3. We loved how prominently Houston's farmers' markets are featured in Hot Town, Cool City and we're excited to see them expanding. The Rice Village Houston Farmers' Market is currently housed in...
Wicked Returns to the Hobby Center It's baaaaack! If you were one of the unfortunate ones who missed last year's run of the prequel to The Wizard of Oz, do yourself a favor and don't miss it this year. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular....
TUTS Apprentice Conservatory Training holds Auditions for Teens Got teens? Then you probably got drama, too. Put that pouty, self-absorbed, emotional crap to good use: the THEE-ata! Houston's Theater Under the Stars' Humphreys School of Musical Theatre announces its fourth annual ACT@TUTS (Apprentice Conservatory Training at Theatre Under The Stars). The program will hold open auditions for The Stephen Schwartz Project, a new musical revue featuring songs by the award-winning Broadway composer and lyricist...
Tuesday Born in Colorado, Jonah Werner now calls Texas his home. He’s a story-teller singer/songwriter that is celebrating the release of his new CD Better Things tonight at the Duck. Music: "Derail" (requires Real Player) 8 p.m. at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck | info Wednesday It’s hard to take a group seriously when they call themselves a “Nintendo band” – so we won’t. The Advantage’s songs are instrumental pieces that sound like they could have...
After a dead week of live music, there's almost too much to choose from on the concert scene in Houston this time around, but here are a few we recommend: Tuesday Gainesville, Florida isn't necessarily known for country music, and Cassette isn't exactly country, but that's the easiest way to describe Samantha Jones, who is the voice and centerpiece of the band. Austin's Saw Wheel and Houston's O Pioneers!!, who are a little louder...
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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