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Hot Pick: Houston Beer Festival
The inaugural Houston Beer Fest will, this weekend, officially become the closest beer festival in driving distance from us and it’s lookin’ pretty good. There’s more than 15 bands performing on three...
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Identity Festival Houston: It is time to dance now. Almost
Yo, have you seen the line-up for the new Identity Festival? The summer dance music fest hits the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at the Woodlands on Saturday and it’s a veritable who’s who of current...
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The aspiring A.D.D: More than a lil Mello
Photo courtesy of the artist In 2002, Houston’s ever-growing hip hop community took a major hit when gangster/Southern rap artist Big Mello died in a car wreck. And his son Andrew Davis — currently...
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Johnny winter revisits his roots
Johnny Winter Everybody in town seems to have a Johnny Winter story. From impromptu (and often drunken) performances at local dive bars to encounters with the visiting rock star while he rode his bike...
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Houston’s Free Press Summerfest: A primer
The Flaming Lips When it comes to the Free Press Summer Fest, I barely know where to begin. The music, the food, the layout, the free stuff — this two-day Houston festival is a win, frankly. This...
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Actual magic from Houston psych-pop band Featherface
Featherface. Courtesy photo Conjure, if you can, the image of a broad, flat field beneath a clear night sky so filled with stars that it’s almost undulating with celestial magic. You wander around,...
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Houston artists we’ve got our ears on
Tyagaraja. Photo by Kori Bearden Consider this our Houston music bucket list — we’d kill to have any of these bands on our home turf for one night. Or, in some cases, we’d just like to see them come...
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Three’s a band
Bang Bangz. Photo by Anthony Rathbun Bang Bangz began as a boyfriend, a girlfriend and a desire to create “cool night-time music,” Mario Rodriguez said. But less than two years after the band started,...
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The Men of La Bare bring ab muscles, awesome stripper names to Club Heat
This is 4Play. Hi 4Play. Photo courtesy of labare-houston.com Hey, ladies. Interested in watching muscular, oiled-up men gyrate for your enjoyment? A few gentlemen from La Bare, a Houston ladies’ club,...
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Food trucks, juleps and Passion Pit: A guide to FPSF 2013
Free Press Summer Festival 2011. Todd Spoth/Chronicle We don’t normally plug running off to Houston for the weekend, but Free Press Summer Fest is an exception. A big exception. Now in its fifth year,...
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Road Trip: Karbach gives beer lovers a peek at the brewing process
Karbach Brewing Co. in Houston. Beth Rankin/cat5 At first, Karbach Brewing Co. looks not unlike the other warehouses on the street — Karbach Street — where this Houston brewery is nestled away. Then...
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Untapped Fest blends indie music & beer – good beer
Untapped was created to showcase quality independent music and quality beer, and this year’s Houston line-up has a little of both: more than 200 beers from 65 breweries with music supplied by the...
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Identity Festival Houston: It is time to dance now. Almost
Yo, have you seen the line-up for the new Identity Festival? The summer dance music fest hits the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at the Woodlands on Saturday and it’s a veritable who’s who of current...
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Magic Hour: The Tontons get hip to Orange, Texas
The Tontons It’s a funny thing being the face of a city’s hipness. When you see the Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau’s campaign — which argues that “Houston is hip” and “tasty” and “inspired,”...
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Creative Class: Kaz Edwards at Uchi
Creative Class: Kaz Edwards at Uchi Houston foodies might be surprised to learn that the chef de cuisine at one of Houstonia’s top eateries is actually a Beaumont boy. Kaz Edwards grew up on Golden...
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