Steve Jansen
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Patty Waters Sings Again, Scheduled to Make Her Texas Debut
Patty Waters made two life-changing albums in the 1960s and then vanished. Now she's back and performing, including a scheduled Nameless Sound gig in... → Read More
Most Overrated and Underrated New Year’s Resolutions
Houston Press jots down the trendy New Year's resolutions that you can go ahead and skip as well as some underrated lifestyle choices that are much... → Read More
The Sheer Weight of Harvey's Floodwaters Sank Houston by Two Centimeters
Hurricane Harvey caused the Earth's crust to flex, making Houston approximately two centimeters lower. → Read More
Dream Machine 2017 Cooks Up an All-Night Art Rager
Hannah Bull's Dream Machine immersive art event seeks to marry Day for Night, Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico, artist Brion Gysin’s hallucinatory... → Read More
The Complete History of a Texas Art Movement Is On Display In Victoria
A never-before seen history of contemporary glass artworks in Texas will be shown at The Nave Museum in Victoria through September 17. → Read More
Testifying On Behalf of Judas, It's Satan and Sigmund Freud
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Gravity Players takes a compassionate look at Christian ideology. → Read More
Houston Gets Its First Ever Southern Fried Chicken Festival
Who makes the best fried chicken in Houston? Find out during the inaugural Southern Fried Chicken Festival, scheduled to take place on Saturday, August... → Read More
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Makes Its Houston Premiere
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, the first Coltrane flick in over a decade, chronicles the life of the legendary artist from start to finish. → Read More
Inside Holocaust Museum Houston's $49.4 Million Renovation and Expansion
On Tuesday night, Holocaust Museum Houston, which will soon rival holocaust history museums in Washington D.C., Los Angeles and the Chicago-area, unveiled details on its size-doubling-plus expansion. It’s going to be quite fancy. Backed by a $49.4-million capital expansion campaign, HMH will expand from its current 21,000-square-foot space to a... → Read More
What to Expect When an Asteroid Hits Texas
Dr. David Kring will talk about the asteroid that destroyed dinosaurs, all humankind and Texas at Asteroid Day 2017 at the Houston Museum of Natural... → Read More
Holocaust Museum Houston Will Soon Become the Nation's Fourth Largest
Holocaust Museum Houston on Caroline Street is about to double in size, thanks to a $49.4 million expansion campaign. Once it's finished in 2019, HMH... → Read More
10 Reasons Why Nobody Cares About Your “Art”
Making a living as an artist is a tough go. It doesn't help to fall into one of these 10 pitfalls. → Read More
Flying Tow Hitch Ball Crashes Through Windshield, Kills Woman on I-10
Over the weekend on Interstate 10 in Houston, a metal tow hitch ball crashed through a windshield, killing a female motorist. → Read More
Lege Returning to Austin to Debate Abortion, Bathroom Bill, Property Taxes
Apparently, the 180-day session of the 85th Texas Legislature wasn't enough. On Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a special session that... → Read More
Into the Depths of Houston's Seedy Tow Yard Underworld
There wasn’t any broken glass on the street next to First Presbyterian Church in the Museum District when Daphne Scarborough went to retrieve her Ford F-150 pickup. She figured that her truck, now missing, had been towed and not stolen. Scarborough, owner of The Brass Maiden and a Montrose community... → Read More
Wheel Flies off a Pickup Truck and Kills Another Driver on I-45
A grotesque Houston traffic accident — a wheel launched from a truck, crossed incoming lanes, and struck and killed a motorist — is the reason for the... → Read More
The Side Effects of Middlelands: A Homeowner Sleeping in a Closet, Puke All Over a Car Window, Drug Arrests
Charla Ward turned up her TV to 50 inside of her insulated home and could still hear the sound. When the thumping wouldn’t stop, Debbie Smith slept in a closet of the home she had just moved into a week before. And the deer that were spooked by the 96-hour... → Read More
Comicpalooza: From Literally Nothing to Texas’s Largest Pop-Culture Shindig
It's a long way to the George R. Brown from the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse-Katy. → Read More
Sunnyside is Feeling Dumped and Down in the Dumps
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, backed by a just-completed environmental study, says that it's safe to build a new Sunnyside Multi-Service Center on a... → Read More
Middlelands Hopes to Gracefully Import EDM Vibe to RenFest Country
Local residents, for now, remain ho-hum about the over-the-top production that aims to unseat EDM kingpin Electric Daisy Carnival. → Read More