Of course, it being the holidays and all (not to mention Houston in general; when people gripe about this city, they fail to recognize that in a place this big, there’s always something cool going on, somewhere. There’s literally a festival every freaking weekend in some part of the city, some film being shown at […]
My mom’s in town for the Thanksgiving holiday, and driving around with her has reminded me just how damaged Houston, Galveston, and the rest of our Gulf Coast area still is — she keeps pointing out how wow, those telephone poles are all leaning halfway out over that ditch, how there’re blue tarps all over […]
This is seriously causing me some cognitive dissonance, folks. First there’s the bill at blues & jam-rock haven Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar, which is renowned for being a downhome place to see good, bluesy, funky bands — tonight’s headliners are local street-punk badasses Deathbed Repentance, garage-y punk rockers The Delta Block, and fellow punks Molotov […]
Meant to post about this sooner… Tomorrow & Sunday (November 22nd & 23rd) there’s a cool-sounding festival going on up on the edges of downtown, in Sam Houston Park, at Allen Parkway & Bagby. It’s called Via Colori, and it’s supposed to be a “street painting festival,” with over 175(!) artists creating their own unique […]
Aaaaaaaaaand, here we go. There’re just too many fucking cool shows coming up in the next several days for me to skip talking about ’em in good conscience. I’m sleep-depriving myself for you, people. Can you feel how much I sacrifice for you? You may, once you read the half-coherent writeups below… Sat., November 8: […]
No, I’m not talking about a Denzel Washington movie, The Scorpions, or any attempt at a lame-ass, after-the-fact “list of songs to listen to while a hurricane pummels your city” playlist (hell, in our ‘hood we barely listened to music, period, with the lights out & all). I’m actually talking about trying to help out […]
Okay, so it’s kind of sad we apparently can’t do this around here, but it’s good news, even still. Per Sara @ HandStamp, a bunch of good-hearted folks up in Luckenbach are holding a benefit tomorrow, Sunday, October 26th, to help raise money to rebuild the fine, fine Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe down in Galveston. […]
