sigh. I’d meant to post about the damn thing before it got underway, but, as with these things, that didn’t happen… So, instead, here we are, and the FrenetiCore group’s Houston Fringe Festival is under way…
Hopefully going to do a more “full” rundown of all the musical-type stuff going on today (Sat., July 24th) later on — because there’s quite a bit — but there’s one that’s starting this afternoon at 4PM that I wanted to make sure to mention early…
Y’know, I wish intersections like this happened more frequently; there’ve been a few collisions of the art, theater, and music worlds in town lately (like the production of Speeding Motorcycle a while back that included glam-y rockers Roky Moon & Bolt as the band and local musician Matt Brownlie in the lead role), but I […]
Another cool-sounding event for the holidays — tomorrow night, Wednesday, December 23rd, that crazy gang known as the Sideshow Tramps and countrified songsters Robert Ellis and the Boys will be leading a crew of Christmas carolers around the Montrose ‘hood, singing and marching and partying as they go. They’ll start off at Taft Street Coffee […]
Gotta hand it to those Caroline Collective folk — they always come up with quirky, unique, fun stuff to do. This time out, they’re staging what will (hopefully) be their First Annual Gingerbread Build-Off, just in time for the holiday insanity. You’ve probably already guessed the idea: teams of up to three (in categories for […]
In the unlikely event that you haven’t heard about this before now, yep, the title there is pretty much true. Tonight (Wed., December 2nd) up at DiverseWorks, The Catastrophic Theatre — several members of which theater-going folk will probably recognize from the sadly-departed Infernal Bridegroom Productions — is staging a “preview” of its new play, […]
Back in the day, when I had far more disposable cash than I have right at the moment, I was a big, big, big, totally-and-completely comic nerd. Not Comic Book Guy, thank God, but still, I would hit the comic store (and the music store, too, naturally) as soon as I got paid each week […]
These things always strike me as being damn cool, I have to say, and this year sounds like it’s no different… Today and tomorrow (Sat., November 21st & Sun., November 22nd), the Center for Hearing and Speech — a local Houston nonprofit that helps kids who can’t hear learn how to speak — is having […]
This is a cool one… Over the past several years, I’ve seen some truly amazing show posters floating around, most of ’em created by awesomely talented local H-town artists. Seriously, in all the time I’ve spent in this scene, I’ve never seen poster art as good as this, and that’s the truth. So it seems […]
How freaking cool is this? The next two nights (Fri., October 16th & Sat., October 17th), the good people over at DiverseWorks are hosting a music/dance performance piece called Heaven, created by Minneapolis- based choreographer Morgan Thorson, lighting designer Lenore Doxsee, set/costume designer Emmet Ramstad, and — wait for it — musicians/composers Alan Sparhawk & […]
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but hell, I happen to think it’s very cool, so I think it’s worth re-mentioning. Local musician and all-round cool guy Jason Smith, who plays bass/keys in sweet, flat-out rock band Alkari, also happens to be an architecture nerd, focusing on a particular local H-town architect named William R. […]
Yes, the world of zines (and most other types of printed/self-published art & writing, whatever you want to call it) is a thing near & dear to my heart. And I know firsthand how much of a ridiculous pain in the a–er, labor of love it can be to get a zine from brain to […]
Not a music-related deal, really, but given the circumstances, I think it’s well worth mentioning. Jason Nodler, the founder of the much-celebrated, ultra-indie local theater troupe Infernal Bridegroom Productions and current Artistic Director for (and also founding member of) the relatively-new Catastrophic Theatre, was apparently hit by a taxicab over in Amsterdam right at the […]
This is a cool one; I’d missed it last time out, but apparently the folks at Houstonist are doing a followup photography show to 2007’s 600 sq mi: Photos from Houston exhibit, and the idea this time is to get local photogs here in our fair city to come up with pictures of the “hidden […]
A bit early, but after missing Steve Earle at Cactus this past weekend, I do not want to drop the ball on this one, especially since the wife & I had to miss ’em the last time they came through town, back in 2007… So, here we go with the good news: weekend-after-next, Friday, May […]
Yeah, yeah, I know — as if there wasn’t already a ridiculously huge pile of stuff to do this weekend? Don’t sideline this one, though, because it promises to be damn cool. This year’s edition of Zine Fest Houston will be happening this coming Saturday, May 16th, over at the ever-fun Caroline Collective, and will […]
Absolutely non-music-related, but still, this is amazingly cool. At one not-too-distant point in my life, I went on a seriously heavy travelogue-reading jag, devouring books by smart, quirky people going places nobody in their right mind (or, at least, nobody I actually know) ever goes to. Not all of it was great, I’ll freely admit […]
I’ll be honest about it: the whole MUNNY thing? I don’t get it. Maybe I would’ve as a kid, back when I was a D&D nerd who loved (but sucked at, frankly) painting miniatures, but these days, eh, it ain’t really for me. A totally blank, featureless toy I’ve gotta paint myself? Why the hell […]
For those who like things cinematic (and good, obviously), there’s some really, truly cool stuff coming up. Today (Thursday, April 16th, that is) marks the start of the third-annual Houston Palestinian Film Festival, a showcase of movies by Palestinian filmmakers, and it looks pretty great. Here’s the overall mission statement, if you’re curious: The second […]
I didn’t know her, myself, but the tragic death of local artist and Houston Photography Center staffer Leigh Boone has rocked the local arts/music community here pretty hard — it’s awful to see somebody taken so young and in such a bizarre, freak-accident kind of way. Now, if you want to help out with the […]
It’ll sound odd, but I really can’t express how happy it makes me to see that they’re now sporadically showing movies outdoors downtown at Discovery Green. Stupid, I know, but in movies of “cool” cities, the thing that always kills me is when Protagonist & Love Interest manage to end up at an outdoor showing […]
I’m all for helping folks out when you can, and when it comes to local art institution The Orange Show, that help is well-deserved & beyond. It’s a cool place, one of the most unique of H-town’s many (no, really) unique things, and on top of that, the upcoming bands they’ve got scheduled are pretty […]
Ah, Rad Rich — man, you amaze me. Not only is he a walking embodiment of H-town skate-punk, but he also comes up with some craaaaazy-yet-entertaining ideas. The latest? He’s planning to dress up in his wrestling gear to go see tonight’s 10PM showing of (duh) The Wrestler over at the River Oaks Theatre. And […]
Again, lots of good stuff going on this weekend. And since I mentioned the microcinema thing, two of H-town’s indie-est theaters, the Rice Media Center and the Aurora Picture Show, both have intriguing-sounding films this afternoon & evening. (Damn, I love that picture…) The Aurora (800 Aurora in the Heights, if you didn’t know) is […]
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 […]
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This weekend’s pretty much filled to overflowing, so I’m having to kinda pick and choose which events to mention here; this one is obscure as hell but still sounds damn cool, so for the moment, it wins. The 7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival will be rolling into Houston tonight, Sat., October 25th, around 8PM […]
Ran across this one fairly randomly, and I have to say, it’s pretty cool. It’s mostly focused on art, but the Case crew hits on music, too — interviews with Henry Rollins, GZA, The Faint, Sage Francis, & Girl Talk mashed in between…
I don’t get out to art exhibits as much as I’d like, but the stuff they have at The Station always grabs me, for some reason; they seem to have a lot of art from downtrodden, oppressed folks, and that kind of thing tends to be stark, raw, and intriguing. (At least to me, anyway.) […]
Remember Sugar Shack? I sure as hell do — I can remember a time when they were the one and only band (that I knew of, anyway) signed to a “big-name,” outside- of-Houston label (Estrus), and they were looking like H-town garage rock’s Last Great Hope. They were raw, loud, aggressive, angry, and reportedly tough […]
Ah, this is cool — and just in time for Halloween, too. (I’m guessing that was the general idea…) If you’re up for some weird cinema and eerie music in a tranquil urban-yet-green environment, well, tonight’s your night. KUHF is putting on a set of old-timey silent films that’ll be set to live music, meaning […]
Okay, so this is somewhat of an urgent plea for assistance from local folk artist Cleveland “The Flower Man” Turner, whose house is a bona-fide landmark — his place is the kind of thing that makes me happy to live in a city where somebody can just let loose their creativity without a worry in […]
Yes, I definitely live in the digitalized-to-hell online world, it’s true, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still keep warm a quiet, soft spot in my heart/soul for things made of paper. Once upon a time I scoured zine racks at SoundEx & Soundwaves, trying to find the coolest, most intriguing, most eye-opening/mind-blowing zines I […]
In somewhat cheerier news: the awesome-sounding Toypunks documentary will be showing tonight & tomorrow night (August 16th-17th) at the Aurora Picture Show. Showtimes are 8PM tonight & 3PM tomorrow. The film looks at the crazy, Technicolor world of Japanese toys, which these days blend in with fashion, design, and art in general, w/lots of interviews […]
Okay, so it seems I inferred incorrectly from a very-very-very brief conversation w/Jacob Calle that he was also doing some kind of organizing for the Creature Comforts Art Show this coming July 12th, and I’m currently feeling like a big ol’ idiot. Per more informed sources than me, Jacob’s not running the show, but just […]
Damn…my head’s spinning and I really, really need to get to bed, but dammit, this sounds too cool to pass up writing about. According to our inside source over at cool-ass Midtown record store Sig’s Lagoon (which is coming close to eclipsing my love of Cactus, I have to say), awesome poster artist Uncle Charlie […]
Long-time e-zine/site readers and friends of SCR will probably recognize the name Marc Hirsh — back in the day, Hirsh was one this site’s earliest, best, and most hardworking writers, a guy who also served as the “Bad Cop” in the bugging-you-about-reviews realm. In the intervening years, he’s moved up to Boston, attended and dropped […]
I’ve been very remiss in posting about local faves Sharks and Sailors lately — sorry about that, y’all — but as part of my penance, I feel compelled to mention that this member of the “H-town’s Most Likely to Succeed” crew will be playing tonight, Friday, June 13th, up at Walter’s on Washington. It’ll be […]
Okay, so I just rechecked cool ex-Proletariat person Shawna’s initial post about this and saw it listing the party as being on Friday (i.e., last night), not today like I’d thought, and had a brief moment of panic…crap, did I miss another of these damn things? Lucky for me/you, though, it turns out that tonight […]
Spent most of the day either having an impromptu pool party with The Munchkin or driving to & from the in-laws’ house, but I managed to make a relatively quick stop at the Zine Fest Houston up at The Shady Tavern (still going on, actually, so stop on byi; check the details here). And while […]
