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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Lovie Olivia’s New Show Is Abstract, Provocative — and Out of this World

Lovie Olivia and her work 'Recess'

THE FIRST THING you see upon entry through the glass doors of ART IS BOND gallery is Houston artist Lovie Olivia’s 9-by-7-foot painting “Portrait of a MOTHERSHIPS INTERIOR.” It’s hung so that the top of the canvas leans forward, about three feet off the wall. This monumental painting is the first stop in Olivia’s show interiority complex, on view through May 20. Look longer and more deeply into this universe so skillfully realized by Olivia in multiple perspectives, and you feel as if you could literally step into the work and travel across time into another dimension.

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The Jewish Deli Is the Subject of This Surprisingly Fascinating Museum Exhibit, on View Now

New York's Carnegie Deli in 2008 (photo by Ei Katsumata)

PASTRAMI, CORNED BEEF, stuffed cabbage, pickles, soups, cheesecake — the mouthwatering menus and fascinating history of Jewish delicatessens is the subject of I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli, an immersive, and very entertaining exhibition at the Holocaust Museum Houston, now on view through Aug 13.

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