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Dinosaurs! at the Houston Zoo

  • May 03, 2012 to October 28, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Houston Zoo
  • Address: 1513 North MacGregor, Houston, TX 77030
  • Location: Houston Zoo
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Come face to face with the massive, fearsome creatures this summer. This year the Houston Zoo is featuring almost twice as many dinosaurs and highlighting species that were once found in Texas, with ...

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Gemstone Carvings: The Masterworks of Harold Van Pelt

Marvel at the extraordinary artworks of Harold Van Pelt in the exhibition Gemstone Carvings: The Masterworks of Harold Van Pelt.  For more than 35 years, Harold Van Pelt has quietly been perfect...

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HMNS Paleo Hall Opens

The Houston Museum of Natural Science's innovative new Paleontology Hall, packed with prehistoric beasts, will not have displays of ancient skeletons in a row as visitors are accustomed to viewing....

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Juneteenth Summer Celebration

The Juneteenth Summer Celebration is the flagship event of the Texas Black Expo. This annual event celebrates African-American culture--showcasing business development seminars, entertainment, shoppi...

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Texas Music Festival

  • June 04, 2012 to July 01, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: University of Houston Moores Opera House
  • Address: 4800 Calhoun Blvd., Houston, TX 77004
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The Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival was founded in 1990 to provide young professional musicians with a challenging musical environment in which to develop skills in orchestral, chamber...

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Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Experience Titanic 100 Years Later On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shaking the world's confidence in th...

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Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, declared one of the top 10 museum exhibitions by Time Magazine, set attendance records during its stint in the U.S., including a blockb...

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Berryhill Father's Day Special!

  • June 17, 2012
  • Location: Berryhill Baja Grill - Galleria, River Oaks, West University, Woodlands and Memorial City
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Dads eat free with the purchase of a combo or entrée on Father’s Day! This offer is only available at the Galleria, River Oaks, West University, Woodlands and Memorial City locations. Ho...

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Celebrity Mystery Theater

  • February 04, 2012 to November 10, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Actor's Gem Productions
  • Address: 901 W. Commerce St., Houston, 77002
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Imagine yourself enjoying dinner socializing with friends, having a few drinks ....when suddenly a murder is committed. Let the wacky antics of two famous detectives, never seen together before any w...

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Cells: The Universe Inside Us

  • January 28, 2012 to August 26, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: The Health Museum
  • Address: 1515 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004
  • Location: The Health Museum
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Cells is a traveling exhibit from the Maryland Science Center. This interactive exhibit explores the complexity of the human body at the cellular level. The human body is made up of millions of ce...

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Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections

  • May 04, 2012 to September 16, 2012 (Every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Location: Asia Society Texas Center
  • Address: 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston, TX 77004
  • Location: Asia Society Texas Center
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"Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections," one of the Texas Center's compelling inaugural exhibitions, showcases work by Asian and Asian American artists who have lived in Texas or whose ...

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Driving Miss Daisy

  • June 15, 2012 to July 01, 2012
  • Location: Pasadena Little Theater
  • Address: 4318 Allen Genoa Rd., Pasadena, TX 77504
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By Alfred Uhry Directed by Julie Owen A warm-hearted story of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety, white Southern lady, and a black man in the deep south in 1948. Note: We do ...

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Father's Day at Smith & Wollensky

Smith and Wollensky is offering a Prix Fixe menu for Father's Day at $65 per person, featuring a Coffee & Cocoa rubbed bone-in rib eye.  Enter to win a round of golf for four at Black Horse ...

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Galveston Ghost Tours: Haunted Silk Stocking Historic District

  • September 07, 2011 to December 22, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
  • Address: 911 24th St., Galveston, TX 77550
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Step through the shadows, gather your courage and discover the chilling and ghastly tales of murder, revenge, passion, heartache and breath-taking history! This exciting Ghost Tour in Galveston takes...

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Ghost Tour Haunted Heights

  • September 17, 2011 to December 23, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
  • Address: 3911 W. 19th Street, Houston, 77008
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Haunted Heights Ghost Tour takes you on a 90 minute fascinating walking tour through the historic and haunted Heights district featuring the spirits "living" within the fine Victorian homes...

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High Caliber Gun and Knife Show

At this gun show you can do just about anything! Except shoot. Browse through all the discounted items of ammo, books, knives, knife sharpening, coines, camouflage and of course, new and old guns. Whi...

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Impressions: Print Group Exhibition for PrintHouston at Wade Wilson Art

  • June 01, 2012 to July 07, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Wade Wilson Art
  • Address: 4411 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: Wade Wilson Art
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Artists: Lucinda Cobley, Jill Moser, Ellen Orseck, Althea Murphy-Price, Joelle Verstraeten, Robert Ryman, Mark Williams, Joan Winter, and Nazar Yahya Wade Wilson Art is proud to announce that they...

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Instructables: Made In Your Mind Exhibit Debut

Made in Your Mind is a new hands-on, do-it-yourself exhibit that strives to instill the importance of problem-solving in kids through a hands-on, step-by-step process based on the concept of the Inst...

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Kemah Ghost Tours: A Haunted Walking Tour of Legend, History and Mysteries

  • January 07, 2012 to November 07, 2013 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours
  • Address: 603 Bradford Ave., Kemah, 77586
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Take a journey through time to experience legend, history, and real life supernatural mysteries with Kemah's Ghost Tours. Enjoyable for all...skeptics and believers alike, this is not a haunted ...

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Messina Hof Winery & Resort Hosts “TGIWine Sunday” at the Wine Bar

Messina Hof Winery and Resort, one of the fastest growing award-winning wineries and resorts in Texas, continues its “Thank Goodness It's Wine Sunday” (TGIWine Sunday) series, at the wine...

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MLS ¡Futbolito!

  • June 17, 2012
  • Location: Houston Amateur Sports Park
  • Address: 12131 Kirby Dr., HOUSTON, TX 77045
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The 4 vs. 4 MLS ¡Futbolito! tournament is coming to the Houston Amateur Sports Park on June 17th. Receive a free ticket to the Dynamo vs. Toronto F.C. match on June 20th and the chance to wi...

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Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

In celebration of the 10-year anniversaries of the MFAH Latin American art department and MALBA, MFAH permanent collection works went on view at MALBA in fall 2011 and MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamer...

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Myke Venable Painting Exhibit

  • May 10, 2012 to July 06, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Public House
  • Address: 2802 White Oak, Houston, TX 77007
  • Location: Public House
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Public House Heights will host a reception for local artist Myke Venable. The exhibition of Venable’s work is the first of many full-scale exhibitions planned at the bar. Venable, a Houston...

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Noises Off

  • May 25, 2012 to June 24, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Alley Theatre
  • Address: 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
  • Location: Alley Theatre
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The funniest of modern comedies, and a farce within a farce, Noises Off takes the clichés of the genre and shakes them up in a wild comic blender into a hilarious melee of compromising situat...

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Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

This June the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut the exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, as part of a three-venue national tour in the U.S. An ...

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