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    art cars are back

    Houston's wildest and wackiest wheels rev up for Art Car Festival & Parade 2023

    Craig Lindsey
    Feb 21, 2023 | 3:33 pm

    Get ready to catch those outrageously made-up machines out on these city streets once again – art car season is back.

    The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has announced the line-up for The Orange Show’s 36th Annual Houston Art Car Festival & Parade. Following a record year in 2022, the oldest and largest celebration of art cars in the world will take over the city of Houston from Thursday, April 6 to Sunday, April 16, with the big parade being held on Saturday, April 15.

    As always, the beloved fest will showcase more than 250 mobile masterpieces from across the country, including nearly 100 new, never-been-seen creations, while engaging the public with over 10 days of opportunities to express their personal artistic vision.

    Starting this year, the Orange Show will honor three individuals annually during the festival that have made lasting impacts on the Houston arts community. This inaugural year, the honorees will include sculptor and painter Sharon Kopriva, Northside High School art teacher Anna Bass, and business leaders and arts philanthropists The Mafrige Family.

    More favorites include the Easter Orange Art Car Hunt (Saturday, April 8), The Main Street Drag (Thursday, April 13), the Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green (Thursday, April 13), and the Art Car Awards Ceremony (Sunday, April 16). Kind-and-family-friendly events abound this year; check the official site for a full schedule.

    Back for another year is The Legendary Art Car Ball, which will dazzle guests on Friday, April 14 at The Orange Show World Headquarters (2401 Munger St.). Expect wild costumes, rockin' tunes, interactive and performance art, food, drinks, and a huge selection of illuminated and fire-breathing art cars. This year's entertainment includes New Orleans avant-garde “rap cabaret” sensation Boyfriend, Austin’s lauded electro-pop performer Caleb de Casper, Houston’s DJ Amarji, the high energy Free Rads 2nd Line, and more, per a release.

    Art offerings for the ball include immersive and interactive art installations by INPUT/OUTPUT, Moon Papas, and Maria Chavez, fire performances from Ms. YET & The Renegade Carnies, and more. That's all on top of the entire 8-acre campus full of hundreds of glittering, twinkling, bouncing, and pulsating art cars. Tickets start at $40 and are available at www.thehoustonartcarparade.com.

    Houston Art Car Parade

    Photo by Danitza Ladwig

    If it rolls, it rolls in the Art Car Parade.

    This highly anticipated vehicular art spectacle will also prominently feature a contingent of art bikes — decked out, modified, and artistically designed bicycles — in advance of The Second Annual Houston Art Bike Festival, taking place on Saturday, May 13 at MacGregor Park and the Orange Show World Headquarters.

    For the uninitiated, the fest features more than 100 student-led, art bike projects of all shapes and sizes. The public is also invited to create their own art bikes and register to participate.

    Additionally this year, the Houston Art Bike Parade will incorporate the 50-year-old Moonlight Ramble, an evening bike cruise around the city.

    More information on the Art Car Festival & Parade can be found here.

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    The Pussycat Dolls dance into Houston on 20th anniversary tour

    Alex Bentley
    Mar 12, 2026 | 11:30 am
    The Pussycat Dolls
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    The Pussycat Dolls will perform at Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas on August 1, 2026.

    Pop supergroup The Pussycat Dolls will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, PCD, on a world tour that will include a stop at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on Friday, July 31.

    The PCD Forever tour will start in Palm Desert, California on June 5, traveling to 33 cities in the U.S. and Canada over the course of two months before heading to the U.K. and Europe in September and October.

    In addition to Houston, the group will perform in Dallas on August 1. The two Texas stops are scheduled to be the final two dates on the North American leg of the tour.

    Lil’ Kim and Mya will join as special guests on all North American dates.

    The Pussycat Dolls, originally comprised of Nicole Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, and Kimberly Wyatt, started off as a neo-burlesque troupe in 1995 before transitioning into music in the early 2000s.

    They only released two albums — PCD in 2005 and Doll Domination in 2008 — before disbanding following the 2009 Doll Domination tour.

    Various attempts were made at reforming the group or reuniting the original lineup over the years, including a planned 2020 tour that was canceled due to COVID.

    This tour will feature three original members — Scherzinger, Wyatt, and Roberts — performing their biggest hits, as well as the new "Club Song," the group's first new song since 2019's "React."

    Scherzinger has become the biggest star among the group's members, serving as a judge on multiple reality competitions and starring on Broadway, where she won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

    Ticket sales for the tour will begin with the Pussycat Dolls Artist Presale on Wednesday, March 18 at 10 am. Fans can register for the presale at signup.ticketmaster.com/thepussycatdolls, with all registrations due by Monday, March 16 at 10 pm Central.

    No codes are needed — access is tied to each individual Ticketmaster account, and anyone who signs up can join the sale.

    Additional presales, including one for Citi cardmembers, will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday, March 20 at 10 am local time at livenation.com.

    The Pussycat Dolls North America Tour Dates

    • Jun 5 – Palm Desert, CA – Acrisure Arena
    • Jun 6 – West Hollywood, CA – OUTLOUD Music Festival
    • Jun 9 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
    • Jun 10 – Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
    • Jun 12 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
    • Jun 13 – Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre
    • Jun 15 – West Valley City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
    • Jun 18 – Kansas City, MO – Morton Amphitheater
    • Jun 19 – Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
    • Jun 21 – Milwaukee, WI – North Stage at Summerfest Grounds
    • Jun 23 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
    • Jun 25 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
    • Jun 27 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
    • Jun 28 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
    • Jun 30 – Grand Rapids, MI – Acrisure Amphitheater
    • Jul 1 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
    • Jul 3 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre
    • Jul 6 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
    • Jul 8 – Syracuse, NY – Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview
    • Jul 10 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheater
    • Jul 11 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
    • Jul 12 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
    • Jul 14 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
    • Jul 15 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
    • Jul 16 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
    • Jul 20 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
    • Jul 22 – Charlotte, NC – Truliant Amphitheater
    • Jul 24 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
    • Jul 25 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
    • Jul 26 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
    • Jul 29 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
    • Jul 31 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sponsored by Huntsman
    • Aug 1 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
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