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StubDog.com is giving one lucky winner a FREE pair of tickets, each month, for an entire year. This is your chance to see the best events Houston has to offer, all year round on our dime!
Living Legend: Honeyboy Carries on the Delta Tradition in 2010
This week marks the end of Black History Month, and if we had to choose one living African American who has made the biggest cultural contribution in the past century, 94-year-old music legend David “Honeyboy” Edwards would seem a pretty clear choice.
One of the only surviving practitioners of true Delta blues, the earliest style of [...]
Rag Dolls: Burlesque Strips Down to Its Origins in LA
Once upon a time, burlesque was a well-loved and relatively respectable form of American theater that incorporated humor, eroticism and elaborate costumes. But post-Pussycat Dolls, when any group of women dancing in their underwear now seems to qualify as a burlesque troupe, the art has long lost its mystique, particularly in Los Angeles.
Amanda Marquardt, aka [...]
This Month: Help StubDog.com Help Haiti
In light of the recent drastic decrease in donations to Haiti relief organizations, this month, StubDog.com, Flavorpill and more than a dozen venues and arts organizations in NYC, LA, Houston and Dallas are partnering to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. All proceeds from tickets sold the week of Feb. 22 will go directly to [...]
St. Patty’s Day Fest: Irish Tradition, LA Style
Unless you’re in Ireland, an “authentically” Irish St. Patrick’s Day celebration is probably pretty hard to come by– which is fine, since some of the best St. Patty’s Day parties don’t even try to be authentic, and instead take inspiration from Irish cultures add their own local flair.
Such is the case with the Los Angeles [...]
LIMP: iO West’s Crash Course in Filmmaking
In LA, catching a movie being filmed is nothing to bat an eye at, let alone pay for as a form of entertainment. But how many Angelenos can say that they’ve seen a film shot, scored and edited before their eyes in the span of a Saturday night out?
LA comedy landmark the iOWest’s the Live [...]
Haute Hobbies: The Houston Hobby Center
Judging solely from its name, one would expect the Houston Hobby Center to be a quaint community center that hosts quilting bees and scrap-booking parties. But upon seeing the HHC, a visitor quickly realizes that it’s anything but a place for Texan soccer moms to do arts and crafts. Made of 60-foot sheets of glass, [...]
KCRW: All About the Music
In a time when payola rules, it’s tough to take a radio station seriously when it claims to be “all about the music”– especially in the music industry capital, Los Angeles. But even jaded industry professionals have to tip their hats to KCRW, one of LA’s longest-running and most respected public radio stations. Once a [...]
Too Many Artists in The Kitchen
New Yorkers know that the art world is a notoriously difficult one to penetrate. In the country’s art capital, big galleries are often inaccessible to just-out-of-school artists, and it is increasingly difficult for experimental artists to receive the funding and recognition they deserve. Fortunately, small artist collectives like The Kitchen are determined to bring under-recognized [...]
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