So are you the next Quentin Tarantino? Kevin Smith? Akira Kurosawa? Well you’ve got two days and seven minutes of screen time to prove it. The 48 Hour Film Project is happening next weekend, beginning on Friday, June 6th. Filmmaking teams are assigned a common character, a common prop, and a line of dialogue that must appear in the flick. Then the teams have 48 hours to make a short film, which will be screened......

Are you a big fan of dream sequences? Perhaps you'd like to give yourself a headache? Maybe you're a fan of avant garde films? If you answered yes to any of the preceding questions, you should check out David Lynch's Eraserhead at River Oaks Theatre. Like much of Lynch's material, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead" target=new>Eraserhead promises to warp your brain with a hard to follow story, astounding visuals and lots of stuff to make you go hmmm.......

::HOME: The Aramco Brat's Story:: Tonight, River Oaks Theatre hosts the Houston screening of the feature length documentary, HOME: Aramco Brat's Story, a film depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as seen through the eyes of the Western expatriate children who grew up there between 1933 and present day. With all the attention given to the Middle East today, it is important that the Western public receives a complete picture in order that their......

A museum membership really is the gift that keeps on giving. Twerpette blogged this week about a museum passport program that lets you get in free to nearly 300 museums all over the country if you're a member of one of the participating institutions. Included on the list are the Houston Children's Museum and the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science. Twerpette has a link to the list of all the museums,......

Since Weingarten Realty Investors announced its plans Friday for the redevelopment of part of the River Oaks Shopping Center, Houstonist has gotten several e-mails from readers asking about the future of the other sections of the center. Specifically, we've heard a lot of questions about the fate of the River Oaks Theatre because of media reports including an article in the Houston Business Journal headlined "Theater safe as Weingarten plans $15M redevelopment at River Oaks......

Weekend Festivities Kick-off World Premiere of Houston-inspired film A few months ago, Houstonist ran across a unique website that encourged Houstonians to leave comments and mark favorites places on a map of the city. We later learned, the site (www.hottowncoolcity.org) was one part of a treasure map of Houston’s hidden gems presented in two parts, website and film, as described and suggested by Houstonians. This weekend, the film portion of the project is being premiered......

Films for Water: Screening Raises Awareness for World Water Crisis Tonight, Starbucks invites the public to a complimentary screening of "Running Dry," "One Water", and "Kenya – Ethos". "Running Dry" is an explosive in-depth documentary inspired by former U.S. Senator Paul Simon's book Tapped Out. Narrated by Jane Seymour, the film frames the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it. "One Water" is a short film that will run......

Tonight the River Oaks Theatre will feature Pink Floyd The Wall as this week's midnight movie. This trippy rock opera is one of our favorites (coming in as a close second only to Tommy). Billed as "visually and sonically overwhelming"--as the cover might suggest--the movie documents the isolation and mental breakdown of a troubled rock star. As every Houstonian with a computer knows, the River Oaks Theatre is in danger of being shut down. As......

The River Oaks Shopping Center is hosting an event this Friday and Saturday promising free wine tasting, hors d’ooeuvres (extra “o” for extra emphasis?) and live jazz music. Cleverly named the “Art, Jazz, & Wine Event,” there will also be an array of Audi autos to peruse while enjoying the festivities, courtesy of Momentum Audi. We assume that somewhere there will be some sort of art thrown in to the mix, too. We can’t remember......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Laanba. This, of course, is the interior of everyone's favorite bookstore, the Bookstop. It's a great piece of Houston architecture that Houston's leading douchebags are planning to destory. At the very least, we've got great shots like this one (has the inside of the Bookstop ever looked better?) as part of Assignment Houston #4. This includes less colorful, but equally as powerful photos such as......

Many tenants of the River Oaks Shopping Center have been slowly let in on a growing probability: the demolition of initially two parts of the complex - first of which is the northeast corner of the center at Shepherd and West Gray, designed by Hugh Potter, and constructed beginning in 1937. The second is our favorite theater in Houston, the River Oaks (2009 West Gray), which was opened in 1939 and is run by Landmark......

Investigative reporter of both television and print, New York Times bestselling author, guy who leads investigations for governments ... is there anything Greg Palast doesn't do? This British journalist, who has produced a documentary on the Bush family also does fun stuff on his side of the pond, where he worked his way into British PM Tony Blair's inner circle...and promptly published a scandalous expose. His new book, Armed Madhouse, comes out this month, and......

Don't tell anyone we told you, but we hear this greenhouse gas emissions stuff is, like, bad for the environment. We know, we know... we couldn't believe it either. We were pondering the implications of the supposed lack of "renewable energy" when in our inbox plopped an invitation to use Kroger's new corn-based, alternative ethanol fuel. According to the press release, Kroger is the first Houston station to offer ethanol fuel, and 17 more......

When Houstonist was growing up in the suburbs, we knew people who never bothered to go into Houston unless they were sick or needed to get on an airplane. So when we grew up and moved to town, we were surprised to find a similar attitude — of course, people who lived in Houston had been to Houston, but had they really seen Houston? In many cases, we found out they had never taken the......