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April 07 – August 18, 2013
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Dear John & Dominique: Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives

  • August 10, 2012 to January 06, 2013 (Every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Address: 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: The Menil Collection
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This exhibition commemorates the Menil’s 25th anniversary. It celebrates the founders of the Menil Collection, John and Dominique de Menil, through the words and images in the letters and drawi...

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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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Houston Restaurant Weeks

  • August 01, 2012 to August 31, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Restaurants across Houston
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Houston Restaurant Weeks returns in August with more than 100 restaurants participating. The month-long event is designed to bring business to area eateries during a typically slow period and also ra...

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KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil

  • July 27, 2012 to September 09, 2012 (Every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Location: Sam Houston Park
  • Address: 7575 North Sam Houston Parkway West, Houston, TX 77064
  • Location: Cirque du Soleil
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KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil in that it combines two circus traditions: acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The colorful show tells the story of The Innocent and hi...

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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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2012 Harvest Finale Celebration Weekend

After a brief orientation, you and your group are sent off to our 42-acre estate vineyard to pick the grapes that will be placed into service! You may even break into a Sicilian song with the winemak...

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Alice in Wonderland

  • August 03, 2012 to August 19, 2012 (Every Sunday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Location: the Red Door Theatre Company
  • Address: 4513 Red Bluff Rd, Pasadena, TX 77503
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As Alice strolls through the mushrooms and croquet grounds; unwittingly she stumbles into the middle of a nonsensical and politically volatile land. The Queen of Hearts will stop at nothing to rul...

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Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass

Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass, is the first major solo museum survey of work by this African-American photographer. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1948, Baltrop died from cancer in 2004 at a Manh...

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Art exhibition: FunkMotor

  • July 14, 2012 to August 18, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Peveto
  • Address: 2627 Colquitt, Houston, TX 77098
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FunkMotor, an exhibition curated by Andy Grotfeldt, brings together a network of four artists who originated from the Houston area and whose interrelated histories have produced shared, cooperative a...

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ArtHouston: Justin Garcia and Winston Lee Mascarehnas

  • July 12, 2012 to August 18, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Address: 4411 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: Wade Wilson Art
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Wade Wilson Art is proud to announce a joint exhibition featuring new and recent works by Justin Garcia and Winston Lee Mascarenhas. Both artists explore the translucent and the illuminated, along...

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Cafe Tacuba

Cafe Tacuba is a Mexican band from Naucalpan. Their musical style covers a wide variety of genres, though it is most commonly labeled as Rock en Español. Their music has been heavily influence...

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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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Discovery Green Flea by Night

  • July 21, 2012 to September 15, 2012 (Recurring monthly on the 3rd Saturday)
  • Location: Grace Event Lawn
  • Address: 1500 McKinney Street, Houston, TX 77010
  • Location: Discovery Green
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Treasure-hunt at this monthly, one-of-a-kind market nestled in the shady southeast end of the downtown park. The destination market features an array of artful kitsch, vintage items, mid-century mode...

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Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Renowned in his lifetime for his elegant designs and superior craftsmanship, Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) remains to this day America’s most famous cabinetmaker. In the early 1800s, furniture...

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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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Glass Graphica

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Glass Graphica, an exhibition about the possibilities of glass to convey graphic punch. The show also serves as an unlikely Texas reunion of two arti...

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Houston Roller Derby Bout

It's the battle of the final seedings! Game 1: Bayou City Bosses vs. The Valkyries Game 2: Psych Ward Sirens vs. The Brawlers

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Houston Texans vs. San Francisco 49ers

Week two of the Houston Texans Preseason.    

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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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Jane Alexander: Surveys From the Cape of Good Hope

Jane Alexander's sculptures, installations, and photomontages are firmly rooted in her South African experience. Alexander's body of work throws into relief the asymmetric relations and practices t...

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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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