Tonight: Catch Khruangbin's Hometown Show Before Their Global Tour

FOUNDED IN HOUSTON in 2010 by guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee, and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Khruangbin is a rock band Miles Davis would have loved to have played with, for space is the key to their interlocking, antiphonal ambience. It’s (mostly) instrumental music you can listen to alone, or enjoy with a few thousand of your closest friends.

Top Chefs Serve Up Food Frenzy at Four Seasons, Support Camp for Kids Touched by Cancer

Jeff Gremillion

SOME OF HOUSTON'S most noted chefs gathered in one of the city’s grandest hotels to raise about $85,000 for children touched by cancer.

Pop and Pour! New Cali Food and Wine Festival Ropes in Texas Celeb Chefs, Spotlights Sonoma

Robin Barr Sussman

READY FOR A long weekend of Northern California sunshine, fine wine, and epic natural beauty? It’s well worth the 3.5-hour flight for Houstonians to attend the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience (May 20-22) and stay a few extra days to explore the glorious region.
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Go ‘Window’ Shopping for Popular Photographer’s Lesser-Known Work at This Heights Gallery

Baraban's '4836'

FOR MORE THAN 40 years, Houston photographer Joe Baraban has found success as an in-demand master of commercial photography, shooting ads for Coca-Cola, IBM, and most of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Time-Travel to Paris via MFAH's Latest Exhibit of European Masterpieces

A detail of Vincent van Gogh's 'Tarascon Stagecoach' (photo by Bruce M. White) and Édouard Manet's 'Young Woman in a Round Hat'

THIS SUMMER, THE Museum of Fine Arts, Houston invites visitors to travel back in time to Paris at the turn of the century to explore the cross-cultural connections between some of the most revered artists of the modern age. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation, which opened May 21, features 38 paintings from the collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman, including works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Gaugin, and van Gogh. Works from the MFAH’s collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern paintings are included in the exhibit, complementing the Pearlmans’ interest in how these displaced European artists met and influenced each other in the years leading up to World War I.

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