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    freedom!

    Country star Clay Walker comes home to Houston for Freedom Over Texas' explosive return

    Steven Devadanam
    May 31, 2022 | 3:00 pm
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    Houstonians who have waited for the return of the city’s annual Fourth of July spectacle need wait no longer. After two years of COVID-pivoted celebrations, the Shell Freedom Over Texas summer event will take place on July 4 from 4 to 10 pm at Eleanor Tinsley and Sam Houston Parks, the Mayor’s Office of Special Events announced.

    Houston-area native, Clay Walker is this year’s musical headliner, while fellow country act Sawyer Brown, rapper Blanco Brown, country sister duo Walker County, and Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws will open for the platinum-selling star.

    Attendees who show up downtown to both Eleanor Tinsley and Sam Houston Parks can expect the Walmart All-American Kids Zone, a children’s entertainment area with a stage featuring performances for young and old; the Bud Light Seltzer Summer Sizzle, for sunny fun; the Dr Pepper Cool Zone, featuring Houston professional sports teams, live music, and food; Liberty Park, featuring tributes including Symbols of Freedom the Space City Experience, and a salute to all five branches of the military; and, as always, the grand fireworks finale, per a press release.

    Admission to the event is $10 per person online and at gates, children 5 and under admitted free. Tickets are available online. Volunteers are also welcome and will receive the official event t-shirt, free parking, complimentary food, and drink. (Register to volunteer here.)

    Those not camping out downtown can watch the entire event on ABC13, which will broadcast the festivities in their entirety.

    Walker has sold over 11 million albums and boasts 11 No. 1 singles and four RIAA Platinum and two Gold certified albums. His fans can delight in a setlist that promises hits such as “Live Until I Die,” “Rumor Has It,” and “She Won’t Be Lonely Long.” Walker will also perform his newest single, “Need a Bar Sometimes”; the tune has nearly 20 million on-demand and video streams.

    “Shell Freedom Over Texas is one of my favorite signature events, and we are thrilled to announce the return of the popular family-friendly celebration,” said Mayor Sylvester Turner, in a statement. “I invite everyone to come and enjoy the entertainment lineup, followed by the spectacular fireworks.”

    Sawyer Brown will also perform.

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    Sawyer Brown will also perform.
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    Houston-born director Wes Anderson gets career-spanning 10 movie box set

    Craig D. Lindsey
    May 29, 2025 | 9:32 am
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    With his latest film The Phoenician Scheme about to hit theaters, prestige home-video distributor The Criterion Collection has just announced it will release the definitive Wes Anderson 4K/Bllu-ray box set this fall.

    Titled The Wes Anderson Archive, this twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the Houston-born filmmaker’s first 10 films, over 25 hours of special features, and 10 illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition. Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sunwill also be released as 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions.

    Wes Anderson Archives Criterion CollectionThe 10-disc set is priced at $400.Courtesy of The Criterion Collection

    Anderson’s partnership with Criterion goes back 25 years, when the company dropped a special-edition DVD of his breakout 1998 sophomore feature Rushmore. (Who remembers checking that out at the old Hollywood Video on Westheimer near Montrose?) The set goes for $399.96 and will be available for purchase on Tuesday, September 30.

    If you wanna check out some Wes Anderson movies on the big screen in the meantime, the River Oaks Theatre is currently in the middle of a Wes Anderson film series. His 2004 seafaring comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissouwill be playing this Saturday, May 31, while his 2009 adaptation of Road Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson’s stop-motion-animated debut) will screen on Saturday, June 14.

    River Oaks Theatre is also part of “The Houstonian Scheme,” a week-long, promotional tie-in where the theater and other spots (Brazos Bookstore, Voodoo Doughnut, Leo’s River Oaks) will be serving up Phoenician-related goodies. You can also win a chance to attend a preview screening of the movie before it hits Houston theaters on Friday, June 6.

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