Sur Sizzles

Closing out iFest: What it's like to rock when everybody wants to go home

By Karen Labuca

04.30.12 | 11:20 am

By the time the last time slots at iFest approached Sunday night, the crowd was winding down and thinning out. It's a somewhat strange location for the H-E-B Cultural Stage to be situated r ...

Do the tango

Your survival guide for iFest Argentina: Getting the most of Houston's music street party

By Joel Luks

04.18.12 | 1:07 pm

Get ready to be tangofied. The Houston International Festival is just around the corner and that means that the downtown takeover of the cultural fiesta, which runs this weekend and next, has b ...

2012 Houston International Festival (iFest) "Argentina"

Sam Houston Park

04.21.12 - 04.29.12

Currently celebrating its 42nd year, the downtown festival features continuous music, dance and cultural performances on 10 stages. Each year, iFest presents world music and dance to demonstrate ho

Houston International Festival Kick-off & Foundation Fundraiser "Adelante!"

02.23.12

Guests will enjoy flavorful appetizers, South American cuisine, Malbec wines, Argentine cocktails and tango dancing to sultry tunes by Argentine guitarist Jorge Ahuali and grooves by Houston's

It's been a struggle

Copa craziness: The other big soccer games this weekend are intriguing for Argentina and Brazil

By David Theis

07.16.11 | 6:00 am

This year’s version of the Copa America—the biennial South American soccer championship—has been long on drama and intrigue, and kinda short on exciting futbol. The drama come ...

Rare Birds

Train projecting: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola puts art in motion to get on a Houston roll

By Chris Becker

07.14.11 | 1:29 pm

Pablo Gimenez Zapiola’s alchemic art is rooted in his love of drawing, painting, architecture, photography, film and video. An exhibition of his works opens Friday at Spacetaker Artist Resour ...

Latin Wave 6: Screening of Rompecabezas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

04.30.11 - 05.01.11

A housewife receives a strange yet compelling gift for her 50th birthday: A 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of the bust of Nefertiti. She spends the whole night putting the puzzle together and, in doing

Wine Tasting: Postales line of Bodega del Fin del Mundo

13 Celsius

02.21.11

Sample five wines from the Postales line of Bodega del Fin del Mundo. Using grapes sourced from vineyard sites at the southernmost tip of Argentina, these wines hail from Patagonia, a region situat

Foodie News

A new restaurant brings an Argentine passion for tango to the Galleria food scene

By Ruthie Miller

12.04.10 | 8:47 am

Few things are as typically Argentine as a robust glass of wine and a seductress of a dance — which is precisely why Tango & Malbec, the new Argentinean restaurant on Sage at Alabama, is ...

The Complete Metropolis

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

09.02.10 - 09.06.10

Come see the complete version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), the grandfather of science fiction film. About 20 to 25 minutes of lost footage was discovered at the Museo del Cine in Buenos A