::Art Car Parade Volunteer Orientation:: We know, we know. You've been sooo busy the last few weeks lounging about in the beautiful weather that you missed the first Volunteer Orientation for this year's Art Car Parade. No worries, we gotcha covered. For all you last minute joiners, (no judgement!) stop by Capital One in Midtown tonight for one of the last Volunteer Orientations. You know it wouldn't be the Orange Show without some hoopla, though,......

::Movies Houstonians Love:: Joanne King Herring presents Tea With Mussolini An on going series we love to love returns to Museum of Fine Arts tonight. Movie Houstonians Love has two primary goals: to provide speakers with the opportunity to show another side of themselves, and to introduce new audiences to the year-round film programming offered in the museum's Brown Auditorium Theater. Previous participants have included rapper Bun B, former First Lady Barbara Bush, baseball......

::CASE Magazine Release Party:: Three things we CASE magazine issue release party and GIVE UP show closing reception team up tonight at the new Aerosol Warfare Gallery. If you had any inclination to see the installation GIVE UP (the Houston street art legend) did at the gallery this will be the last chance, and the first chance to get the new issue of CASE featuring: Gary Baseman, DUEL, Atmosphere, The Faint, Sage Francis, Bask and......

::Age Matters: A Conversation about Age & New Media:: Ever tired to teach your mom how to attach a document to an email? Well we did, and it wasn't pretty. Hell, our 84-year-old grandmother picked up email quicker than her. Age is an important marker of identity. Why has it been neglected area of inquiry in the arts? How does age matter in the production of new media? This panel will utilize age as a......

::Sangria & Salsa at the Tasting Room:: Does dancing With the Stars make you wonder just how many washed up D-List stars are in Hollywood? Us, too. Who's next? The cast of Gimme a Break? Check out some Houston A-List dancers tonight as the Tasting Room in Rover Oaks hosts Sangria and Salsa Wednesdays! Heck, it takes us a few bottles glasses before we're any good anyway. Enjoy great music from the Charlie Perez Trio......

::The Kids in the Hall at Verizon Wireless:: Annoying Boy: "How much would my head cost if it were veal?" Annoying Boy: "I'm not selling." Butcher: "Too bad." If this made you spit coffee all over your computer screen, you're probably of the population who has been pining for Kids in the Hall, the Canadaian sketch comedy troupe, to make it's return since the show went off air in 1995. Not even 1996's Brain......

::Houston Institute for Culture presents Sustainable Living Films Screening: Houston Institute for Culture presents two films on sustainable living, Saturday, April 21. The first, The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, is a success story on a national scale. Cuba lost more than half its oil imports when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Filmmakers Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy documented the changes that enabled the Cuban people to survive, including the......

::Aurora Picture Show's Media Archeology presents: Negativland:: It's a short ride from copyfight infamy to mashup immortality. Negativland, an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s, took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song. The current core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, Richard Lyons, Don Joyce, David Wills, and Peter Conheim, but......

::Writers in the School presents: A Light in the Forest:: If you missed last week's NetSquared speaker, Writer's in Schools, you can catch them in action tonight at the Arboretum & Nature Center for a Poetry Reading of A Light in the Forest. Some of Houston's best young writers take center stage and read their poems and stories at the Writers in the Schools (WITS) A Light in the Forest Reading, held at the Houston......

::Monday Night Movies at Domy Books:: It's baaaaack! No, not Heather O'Rourke; Domy Books' Monday Night Movies!! (Ok, waaaaay too excited for Monday. We'll take it down a notch.) Domy Books, in association with Domy Films, is pleased to present, MONDAY MOVIE NIGHTS, Mondays at Domy Books, curated by the Movie Dudes. April 14: Liquid SkyDrugs, 80s art punks, and aliens translated through director Slava Tsukerman would be the easy way to describe Liquid Sky.......

::Bend Studio Concert Series presents: Bob Schneider:: Is it just us? Or does it seem like Bob Schnieder is in Houston more than the Mayor? Everytime we turn around, Austin's son is knocking at our door. Not that we're complaining. Jus' sayen. That's mostly why were checking out this new idea from Bend Studio and Nia Moves Yoga Studio. Experience something new and unique to the Houston area. Enrich your body and soul through music......

::Love/Reflection/Protest:: Opening tonight atDiverseWorks , "Love / Reflection / Protest," a concert featuring modern art song by Dutch, South African, and American composer, will be presented by the Foundation for Modern Music. Internationally-recognized artists, soprano Julia Bronkhorst and pianist Maarten Hillenius in The Amsterdam based duo will present an evening emphasizing tolerance, healing, and understanding, while uniquely expressing the complex and entwined relationship between the cultures represented within the program. Bronkhorst, an authority in Dutch......

::Houston Mod + RDA Present Gwendolyn Wright:: Houston's Impact on Modern Architecture Lecture + Book Signing Professor of architecture at Columbia University, Gwendolyn Wright, will be in town tonight to discuss her new book and explain how Houston has played a part in the development of modern architecture. The lecture will take place tonight, Wednesday, April 9th @ 7pm at the Museum of Fine Arts, Brown Auditorium. A book signing and refreshments will follow the......

::NetSquared Meetup at Stag's Head:: Join the Houston NetSquared Meetup tonight as they welcome Robin Reagler, Executive Director of Writers in the Schools (WITS). She will discuss the history of WITS and ways that her organization is reaching out to low income students and changing lives. Who should attend? Anyone who has a passion for social issues and a love/morbid curiosity for technology should attend our Net2 discussions! We welcome all techie levels, as......

::Reflections of the Soul: A Legacy of Forbidden Music:: Holocaust Museum Houston presents "Reflections of The Soul: A Legacy of Forbidden Music," a special program of string quartet masterpieces by Jewish composers whose music was considered "degenerate" and banned during Nazi occupation. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for this concert of chamber music by three 20th-century Jewish composers whose careers were greatly affected by the Holocaust. The program will feature works by Alexander Zemlinsky, Erwin......

::Max's Goes Underground:: Max's Wine Dive first caught our attention way back in December of 2006 with what has to be the best URL ever conceived: www.friedchickenandchampagneaftermidnight.com Since then, Max's has been serving up home cooked goodies alongside a steller wine and spirits list. Tonight, Max's embarks on a new concept, Max's Underground. About MAX’s Underground This new addition to Max's Wine Dive is a club that gets members exclusive details on all things......

::How do you say 'suspense' in French?:: Tonight, the Tournées French Film Festival presents a screening of the award-winning 2005 film Caché (or Hidden for the Franco-illiterate) at Rice University. Directed by Austrian director Michael Haneke, who most recently directed the English-speaking remake to 1997’s Funny Games, the film’s plot circles around the life of successful literary critic and television host Georges (played by Daniel Auteuil), his book publishing wife (the always amazing Juliette......

::SNEAK PREVIEW: Dance Salad:: Get a sneak peak tonight of the fourth annual Dance Salad Festival as the MFA hosts a Choreographers’ at 6:30 p.m. in the MFAH’s Brown Auditorium, Caroline Wiess Law Building. This free event highlights the creative process of making dance and is a wonderful opportunity to understand some of the work being presented at Dance Salad Festival from the choreographers’ perspective. A reception to meet the panelists follows the program,......

::DRAG QUEEN BINGO!:: Ripped form the headlines of Facebook, today we bring you: Drag Queen Bingo! We're no strangers to Drag Queen Bingo at JR's, with it's wacky prize giveaways, gender bending antics, and some of our f Tonight's charity is the Montrose Counseling Center , so come on down and get ready to jiggle those balls, er, tuck 'em. Your first round is gratis, and each additional card is $3, well worth seeing......

::St. Patty's Day Celebrations. Duh.:: Sure, we could sit here and try and incorporate every Irish saying we know into this post, and impress you with our vast knowledge of the land of green. (But then we'd probably have to admit we learned it all from working at Bennigan's for 4 years. Doh!) Here's a list of where you are sure to find some green beer tonight. And maybe an Erin to take home,......

::SUCHU DANCE: 8:10 Assembly:: Contemporary dance has found a home in Houston, in the shape of north downtown's Barnevelder Movement Complex, and this weekend is your last chance to catch Suchu Dance's 8:10 Assembly. As unpretentious and laid-back an evening as you'll find anywhere, this newest production from Suchu Dance lets things unfold at an unforced and casual pace, like what you might get to experience when people-watching out in public... including witnessing those......

::HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLAFFER!:: Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, is pleased to announce that the museum turns 35 years old in March. A handful of events are planned this spring in conjunction with its birthday, including a 35th Anniversary Celebration on March 13 and the 2008 Blaffer Gallery gala, HOT on H-TOWN, on May 15. The 35th anniversary celebration will take place on Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in......

::Poison Pen Reading Series with Robert Wilder:: Robert Wilder has taken an extremely fun column about parenting from the Santa Fe Reporter and has turned it into a book, Daddy Needs a Drink: an irreverent look at parenting from a dad who truly loves his kids. He's written for NPR, Salon.com, Details, Newsweek and elsewhere, and when he's not writing, he's teaching -- hence his second book, which came out in December: Tales from......

::Sonja Roesch Gallery Talk: Jac Leirner:: “I try to find a place for things that don’t have a place.” - Jac Leirner Join art lovers and lovers of installation art for a gallery talk with Toby Kamps, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, about Jac Leirner's exhibition at the Gallery Sonja Roesch: January 23, 2008, 6pm Jac Leirner creates installations, sculptures, and mixed media pieces using everyday objects like business cards, plastic bags, cigarette......

::Your Beat is Nice Tuesday:: Houston's got it's own Music Tuesday tonight with four chances to see our diverse music scene in action:a surviving grunge rocker, a Texas Marine, a mock-yeah-ing-yeah-bird-yeah Hollywood star, and a string quartet. Pick your poison. Foo Fighter at Toyota Center Dave Grohl and his fighets of Foo visit the Toyota Center tonight in support of their 2007 release Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a......

::HCP Print Auction Preview Party:: Houston Center for Photography announces its largest annual fundraiser, the 26th Anniversary Print Auction. The auction preview and exhibition open on Thursday night, January 17 from 6-8pm and continue through February 13. The auction will take place on Friday, February 15 from 5:30-10pm at the Junior League of Houston, with world-renowned photography specialist Rick Wester as guest auctioneer. Cocktails and silent auction, as well as a live auction preview are......

::Spacetaker's Artist Saloon: Gene Morgan, Skeez 181, and Cory Wagner:: The salon and the saloon meet at the Winter Street Studios Gallery. Artists and art afficionados gather for drinks and an informal converstaion about art. Artists will present and give a short talk about their work. After the artist talk there will be the opportunity to ask questions/begin a dialogue with the artists. About The Artist Saloon Every third Wednesday of the month, Winter Street......

::Rice University Scientia Lecture: "Aspects of Memory":: If you are anything like us, the extent of your long term memory is directly dependent on well vs. premium liquor from yesterday's happy hour. Hell, we are still trying to remember where we parked our car this morning so that we can go to lunch. Rice University Scientia, an Institute for the History of Science and Culture, presents the colloquium "Aspects of Memory" by guest lecturer Rachelle......

::KTRU DJ Night at the Proletariat:: Yes, folks the rumors are true. The Proletariat will officially be closing it's doors on Feb 3rd, 2008. We've had a few weeks to stomach the news, but still get a little misty-eyed when we think about those damn red walls being knocked down. Leading up to the closing, the Pro is hitting it hard, with some killer events scheduled to bring the prolific Houston dive down with......

::Diverseworks Exhibit Opening Night: Two exhibits we are particularly looking forward to seeing both open tonight at Diverseworks. An opening reception will feature a special performance by Brent Green's 3 Piece Band, MK Guth's Ties of Protection & Safe Keeping Interactive Sculpture, and the DiverseWorks Silk Screen Station where you can build you own t-shirt. And everyone loves t-shirts. Flicker Fusion Since 1914 when the first animated film was made, artists across the globe have......