Mini Concrete Incense holder

MONTROSE COLLECTIVE, THE "community-forward" Montrose project by Houston-based real estate firm Radom Capital that this fall will be bringing nearly 197,000 square feet of new retail and office space — along with the new digs of Houston Public Library's Freed-Montrose branch — to Westheimer, has a new tenant. And although the owner of the shop does indeed work in concrete, she won't be helping with construction.

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People + Places

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LAFAYETTE, LA-REARED "boylesque" performer Rex Nightly — who goes by his given name of Tyler Watkins when he's not titillating local crowds by the flamboyant and carefully choreographed removal of his clothing — spent the early part of the pandemic building a person-sized and fully openable and closeable clam shell.

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Art + Entertainment

WHEN THE SUFFERS take the stage tomorrow for their sold-out show at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art's 2021 Houston Art Car Experience, it will mark the band's first in-person, full-band performance in over a year. The band had been touring pretty non-stop since 2015, but just like every other band on the planet, the Suffers found themselves indefinitely grounded when the COVID-19 pandemic reared its ugly head and shut down stages the world over.

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