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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Stitching Together Magazines and Textiles, Popular El Paso Artist Hangs First Museum Show at CAMH

'This Body is Not a Fortress #5,' 'Tacuche #4,' and detail of 'America Is Woven of Many Threads #1' (images courtesy of the artist and Company Gallery, New York)

HOUSTONIANS WILL LIKELY remember El Paso-born artist Troy Montes Michie from two group shows at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH): Outside the Lines (2013) and Stonewall 50 (2019), which was inspired by the 1969 Stonewall riots and emergence of the LGBT civil rights movement. Now 37, Montes Michie’s first solo museum exhibition, Rock of Eye — a visually dazzling and politically provocative collection of collages, drawings, and mixed-media works, including a 40-foot-long collage inspired by the “Chicana matriarchs” in his family — opens at CAMH Friday, Sept. 23.

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Glam Slam at Tootsies Draws Attention — and an All-Star Crowd — to Great Causes

Jose and Nina Altuve (photo by Jacob Power)

ASTROS STARS LANCE McCullers, Jr., Jose Altuve and Kyle Tucker hosted a glam slam at Tootsies to raise money for their respective organizations, and their teammates and fashionable fans showed up in support.

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