When: Friday May 9 at 10:00am

Where: Bering & James , 805 Rhode Pl. # 500, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Art Byte by Virginia Billeaud Anderson

Man has had many histories. Ptolemy assigned us to a geocentric universe that was ordered by heavenly bodies. Medieval theologians gussied up that ancient worldview with Hebrew and Christian mythological concepts such as creator gods and free will. What could be weirder than original sin? In the seventeenth century a Galilean-Copernican heliocentric model eclipsed the Ptolemaic one. Pioneering heliocentric theorists were somewhat courageous, the Ch

Where: , , (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: The Iris project is launching its world tour of “Listen up” a post-modern, pluralist, material appropriation, relational aesthetic, sound graffiti installation. This revolutionary approach to expanding the conversation between highbrow art theory and sound graffiti-landscape painting will take over Houston in the Downtown Houston, Montrose, Medical Center and Museum District area and activate it throughout the month of May with hundreds of recorded sound buttons installed at public an

When: Friday May 9 at 11:00am

Where: Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Organized by The Menil Collection, form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting presents a selection of approximately 10 oil paintings and 30 watercolors dating from the late 1990s to 2006 by the abstract American painter Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), who has long been overlooked by museums in the United States. Her works on canvas and paper offer a reinvigorating perspective to the influential history of large-scale abstract painting.

Through the sensitive, assiduous arrangement of color, for

Where: Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Max Neuhaus, a pioneer in the use of sound in contemporary art, coined the term “sound installation” to describe his practice based on the creation of unique sounds for specific locations. As opposed to the temporal experience of hearing a piece of music, his work uses sound as a continuous material to engage our perception of the physical space around us. Using the invisible medium of sound alone, Neuhaus alters the way we both see and experience the world. He has said, “We each

Where: Miller Outdoor Theater, 100 Concert Drive, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Sleeping Beauty has never experienced winter until the mysterious Winter Fairy appears. Presented by Opera to Go! , this classic fairy tale comes alive in a vocal adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s luminescent ballet score.

Produced by HGOco, Houston Grand Opera

When: Friday May 9 at 11:00am

Where: Hello Lucky, 1025 Studewood, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Hello Lucky presents Flora and Fauna featuring work by Rene Cruz, Woody Golden, David Krueger, Dana Pike and Christine West.

Shop hours
Thursday 11-5
Friday and Saturday 11-6


http://www.hello-lucky.com

Where: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium, (Map)

Price: $7

Description: Since the days of the Roman Empire, Italy´s Mount Vesuvius has erupted more than 50 times, devastating whole cities and towns. In A.D. 79 the volcano destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying people alive as they ran to escape its fury. Lost and forgotten for more than 1,600 years, the once-thriving trade center of Pompeii has been successfully uncovered by archaeologists. At Herculaneum, human skeletons were found in a fatal embrace. Although Vesuvius is sleeping now, this active volcan

Where: Houston Arboretum, 4501 Woodway Dr., (Map)

Price: $15

Description: Why fight the traffic? Slow down and relax in the peaceful beauty of the Arboretum during a one-hour yoga session in the Arboretum's classroom with a view of the forest on Thursday evenings.

Cost is $50 for month of May or $15 per session.

Registration is required.

Where: Buffalo Bayou, , (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Join the Buffalo Bayou Partnership for night of stargazing, boat rides, storytelling and more along the Sabine Promenade. The Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Discovery Dome will be on hand as well as bayou boat rides for anyone over 4 years old.

Bring a picnic or purchase food and drinks on site. Blankets and lawnchairs, canoes or kayaks are encouraged for optimal stargazing.

Nights on Blue Bayou – evenings under the stars at downtown’s waterfront park, the Sabine P

When: Friday May 9 at 6:00pm

Where: Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Works by Daniel Adame, John Adelman, Annette Lawrence, Cory Wagner & The Art Guys

Mezzanine Gallery

"For artists of all backgrounds and disciplines drawing is a fundamental part of the art-making process. For some the result has finality and results in a product; The Drawing. For others it is a way to think through engineering of a more elaborate project and results in a sketch. This is not to say that picking up a pencil and putting pencil to paper is the basis for art-making ac

Where: Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Work by Catherine Colangelo

Grace R. Cavnar Gallery

Catherine Colangelo works with notions of time and memory, using drawings in gouache, pencil and dye on paper, to explore the passage of time, the hit-or-miss snatches of memories that our brains recall. For her installation in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery, Colangelo created a 4” x 6” drawing every day for 90 days. Together they become a whole that represents a visual record of the artist’s life (moods, artistic inclination

Where: Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Works by Joshua Smith.

The Suburbs of the Emerald City consists of handmade geodes with Monopoly houses in the formation of housing developments inside each. Geodes take millions of years to form through tremendous heat and pressure and are considered precious when found. The housing development which in many cases build up over night carry in them an immediacy of the ideal. The installation raises questions dealing with but not limited to individuality versus conformity, the ideal versus th

When: Friday May 9 at 6:30pm

Where: Lawndale, 4912 Main Street, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: The Good Vibrations Tour 2008
work by Teresa O'Connor
Part of "What We Want is Too Late"
with Danny Kerschen and Lynne McCabe

When: Friday May 9 at 7:00pm

Where: Blaffer Gallery, 120 Fine Arts Building, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Last fall, artists working and living within a 100-mile radius of Houston were invited to submit recent works for inclusion in the Houston Area Exhibition. Roughly 350 artists responded to the open call and sent in their art in the form of CDs, e-mails and slides. After an extensive portfolio review, curator Claudia Schmuckli made 50 studio visits in preparation for the show.

The Houston Area Exhibition has been a significant component of Blaffer Gallery's program since 1974. This year&#

Where: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Auditorium, (Map)

Price: $7

Description: Currently playing the art-house circuit in a new 35mm CinemaScope print, the sumptuous Last Year at Marienbad now stops at the MFAH, offering Houstonians the chance to decipher its myriad mysteries. At a lush hotel in France, a man (Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to convince a woman (Delphine Seyrig, in gowns by Coco Chanel) to run away with him. He claims to have met her at the very same hotel the previous year, and as the film unfolds, his repeated words "Last year . . . " introduce a s

Where: various, , (Map)

Price: $7

Description: The second annual Houston Palestine Film Festival brings an honest and independent view of Palestine and its diaspora's society, culture, and political travails through the art of film. This group of groundbreaking cinematic texts rise above the degrading stereotypes or reductively politicized depictions that are so familiar to Houstonians. A major goal of the Festival is to directly expose our local community to the perspective of artists as a first step toward circumventing the many gover

Where: Country Playhouse, 12802 Queensbury Lane, (Map)

Price: $15

Description: Family rivalries play out against the backdrop of a family of eccentrics who plot the untimely demise of their visitors. Two charming and innocent ladies prefer to populate their cellar with the remains of only "acceptable" roomers, whereas the brother thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother have left an international trail of blood.

Fridays & Saturdays, APRIL 25th through MAY 10th at 7:30pm
Matinees: Sundays, APRIL 27th and MAY 4th at 2:30pm

When: Friday May 9 at 7:30pm

Where: Mosaic on Hermann Park, Hermann Park, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: The Title says it all...except which "Sex in the City" Star will be partying with the crowd. This event benefits Planned Parenthood of Houston. Visit the Planned Parenthood website to make your reservation (required).

Where: Ensemble Theatre, 3535 Main, (Map)

Price: $18

Description: Marta Henderson has the awesome task of fulfilling her grandmother’s dying wish to be cremated and have her remains sprinkled over Africa. This ignites an internal explosion of family struggle. Filled with love and humor that lends to the powerful African American family dynamic.

Performances:
Thursdays 7:30pm, Fridays 8 pm, Saturdays 2pm and 8 pm, Sundays 3 pm

Tickets start at $18

Where: Theater Lab Houston, 1706 Alamo, (Map)

Price: $20

Description: “I am not the kind of guy who should be in a place like this at this time of morning, Sunday 6 a.m.” and so begins the Off Broadway musical BL, BC. Based on the novel by Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City concerns the life of young New Yorker - Jamie who seems to have it all: good looks, a successful model wife, a job at a prestigious magazine and many friends. During one week, however, his life spins out of control and his search for his true self begins anew. Jamie, a twenty-so

When: Friday May 9 at 8:00pm

Where: Midtown Art Center, 3414 LaBranch, (Map)

Price: $13

Description: Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company presents the Houston Premiere of Naomi Wallace’s, One Flea Spare, running April 24 – May 10, 2008 at the Midtown Arts Center, 3414 La Branch at Holman. One Flea Spare is the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Obie Award for Best Play, and voted The Best of Theatre in 1996 by Time Magazine.

Darkly comic and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that des

When: Friday May 9 at 8:00pm

Where: AvantGarden, 411 Westheimer Rd., (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: Creative Spirits Craig Kinsey [former monk and musical frontman for The Medicine Show and Sideshow Tramps; http://www.myspace.com/craigkinseystuff ] and Dune-Micheli Patten [Houston-based mixed-media multi-visual artist, and founder, of URBAN EXPRESSIONISM and DMP STUDIO; http://www.dunespirit.8m.com ] embark on an audio/visual collaborative journey that brings together Music and Art in a mixed media consciousness that breathes life into the Houston Art/Music scene.

This collaboration inextr

Where: Miller Outdoor Theater, 100 Concert Drive, (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: A classical ballet adaptation, set to Puccini’s magnificent score, of the memorable love story of the beautiful geisha Cio-Cio San and American Lt. Pinkerton.
Produced by Houston Ballet

Where: Montrose Counseling Center, 401 Branard, (Map)

Price: $20

Description: Theatre New West takes great pride in presenting The Vagina Monologues. In a unique twist and in celebration of the 10th anniversary of this theatrical phenomenon, the production will be performed by members of Houston’s transgender community. The production will open May 9th and run thru May 31st.

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, is a poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, it is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and m

When: Friday May 9 at 9:00pm

Where: Sammy's , 2016 Main, (Map)

Price: $10

Description: R&B with Faye Robinson and the Mid City Players every Friday and Saturday Night @ Sammy's.

When: Friday May 9 at 9:00pm

Where: Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose Blvd , (Map)

Price: Free!

Description: The Old, Weird America will be the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and history in American contemporary art. Curated by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Toby Kamps, the exhibition illustrates the relevance and appeal of folklore to contemporary artists, as well as the genre’s power to illuminate ingrained cultural forces and overlooked histories. The exhibition borrows its inspiration and title—with the author’s blessing