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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events, including a historic goodbye

By Joel Luks

05.14.13 | 12:10 pm

On tap this week are Hans Graf's last performance as Houston Symphony's music director, a history boat tour, an artsy evening that raises awareness for breast cancer prevention, dance on wa ...

Main Street Millions

Houston art rumblings: Another theater jumps into the renovation craze, trying to update its Rice Village digs

By Joel Luks

05.14.13 | 10:47 am

How do you solve a problem like Main Street's theater? Doing what this coterie of entertainment professionals does best: Charming their way into the wallets of art-loving consumers. Leave i ...

Breaking Conventions

Adventurous art gets its day (and night): Musiqa honors FotoFest pioneers

By Joel Luks

05.11.13 | 1:29 pm

Every concert is an artistic escapade when it comes to the programs of classical music presenter Musiqa Houston. As such, it was fitting that its 11th anniversary social be titled "Passport to ...

Spring Branch Education Foundation's "Running for the Arts"

05.04.13

Runners and walkers will assemble outside JCPenney at Memorial City Mall to take part in the Spring Branch Education Foundation's 21st annual "Running for the Arts." Proceeds from

A Wild 1970s Party

A glam 1970s party draws John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and white horses to Houston

By Joel Luks

04.08.13 | 1:16 pm

John Travolta was in the house — straight out of Saturday Night Fever. And so were a handful of disco versions of Michael Jackson, Olivia Newton-John and a coterie of bitchin' cool cats f ...

Music Box Musicals presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Music Box Theater

04.11.13 - 05.04.13

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School. Six quirky adolescents (played by adult actors) compete

Houston Grand Opera Ball 2013 "La Belle Époque"

Wortham Theater Center

04.13.13

"La Belle Époque: Opera Ball 2013" is an evening of celebration, luxury and elegance in the Wortham Theater Center. Guests will enjoy French haute cuisine inspired by Belle É

Stages Repertory Theatre 2013 Gala and Auction "1978: Glitter & Glam!"

Stages Repertory Theatre

04.06.13

Stages Repertory Theatre is celebrating its 35th year in Houston by taking a little trip back to the year it was born — 1978. Disco fever was raging, Annie Hall won Best Picture, Ly

2013 Houston Symphony Ball After Party "Russian Rhapsody: Club Russe"

Rice University

03.08.13

The Houston Symphony Gala After Party includes savory bites, extravagant desserts and white Russians cocktails. Guests will dance to the tunes of to DJ Zone of New York City. Attire: Fashionabl

Houston Young People for the Arts

HYPA young professionals rev up an artsy party Prohibition style at Bootlegger's Ball

By Joel Luks

02.04.13 | 4:11 pm

Flappers, gangsters, hoofers and dapper gents transformed the Majestic Metro to its former 1920s Art Deco glory, when it was dubbed The Ritz, Saturday night. Houston Young People for the ...