OK, we’re psyched that Document Retailer Day is occurring this weekend, as vinylheads all around the metropolis will flock to Cactus Music, Sig’s Lagoon, Vinal Edge, and different document spots for some candy, licorice-pizza offers.
However numerous different issues are popping off this weekend: the grand opening of a brand new restaurant, an elephant migration, a profit gala that includes Boyz II Males, some extra Philly soul over at Miller Outside Theatre, a tacos and tequila competition, and, in fact, ART CARS!
As a sure Swedish pop group would say, you’ll have the time of your life.
Thursday, April 10
Terra Restaurant & Lounge Grand Opening Celebration
Terra,a trendy new restaurant and lounge in Uptown Houston, invitations the neighborhood to affix them for a grand opening celebration this weekend. The brand new restaurant brings fashion, taste, and ambiance collectively, mixing French and American delicacies with fashionable class and a premium, speakeasy-style lounge. The brand new 7,000-square-foot venue provides an opulent, wealthy ambiance for eating and mixology with a social vibe. 5 pm.
Memorial Hermann Broadway on the Passion Middle presents Mamma Mia!
Set on a Greek island paradise the place the solar at all times shines, a story of affection, friendship, and id (which spawned a film model and its sequel) is fantastically advised by the timeless hits of ABBA. On the eve of her wedding ceremony, a daughter’s quest to find the daddy she’s by no means recognized brings three males from her mom’s previous again to the island they final visited a long time in the past. 7:30 pm (2 and seven:30 pm Saturday; 1:30 and seven pm Sunday).
Levels presents Dixie’s Tupperware Get together
Dixie’s Tupperware Get together stars Dixie Longate, the fast-talking, gum-chewing, ginger-haired Alabama gal who’s bringing your grandma’s Tupperware occasion into the twenty first century. Dixie demonstrates the numerous different makes use of for the enduring plastic kitchen staple. Stuffed with outrageously humorous tales, heartfelt accounts, viewers participation, and a bit little bit of empowerment and homespun knowledge, Dixie’s Tupperware Get together leaves your coronary heart a bit greater and your meals a bit brisker. By April 20. 2:30 and seven:30 pm (7:30 Friday and Sunday).
Friday, April 11
Hermann Park Conservancy presents “The Nice Elephant Migration”
Hermann Park Conservancy will welcome “The Nice Elephant Migration,” an set up serving to the human race share area with the world’s magnificent wildlife by spreading the message of peaceable coexistence. For the primary time in Houston, the herd of 100 life-sized, Indian elephant sculptures will probably be joined with the largest elephant but. Every elephant is one-of-a-kind, created by The Actual Elephant Collective, a neighborhood of 200 Indigenous artisans residing inside India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Southern India. By Wednesday, April 30. 6 am.
Disney On Ice presents Let’s Dance!
Disney On Ice will current Let’s Dance!, a present jam-packed with audience-favorite Disney characters — together with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy — who will turn into DJs, remixing Disney tunes into colourful tales. The manufacturing invitations friends to belt out Disney’s chart-topping tunes as their favourite tales are dropped at life on and above the ice. The present will spotlight determine skating, acrobatics, stunts, particular results, and extra. 10:30 am and seven pm (11 am, 3 and seven pm Saturday; 1 and 5 pm Sunday).
KIPP Texas Houston Profit Gala
The KIPP Texas Houston Profit Gala is held yearly to fundraise for KIPP’s greater than 21,000 college students within the Houston space — 93 p.c of whom are economically deprived. The gala will function an outdated Hollywood theme, in addition to a efficiency by Boyz II Males. The 2025 gala may even honor Dr. Renu Khator, president of the College of Houston, and Karen Arnold for his or her steadfast help and dedication to positively impacting KIPP college students throughout Texas. 6 pm.
Group Music Middle of Houston presents Philly Soul Sound Vol. 5
Group Music Middle of Houston presents The Philly Soul Sound Vol. 5, a tribute to Frankie Beverly and extra. They may pay homage to certainly one of Philadelphia’s personal, the legendary Frankie Beverly, whose clean vocals and timeless contributions to soul music have left an indelible mark on the style. Along with celebrating his iconic legacy, the night additionally celebrates The Sound of Philadelphia — the legendary soul/funk motion formed by icons like Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, which suggests they’ll additionally play traditional Philly Sound hits. 8 pm.
Saturday, April 12
Tacos and Tequila Competition
The Tacos and Tequila Competition is a throwback hip-hop competition coming to Houston for the primary time. It would function performances from hip-hop artists corresponding to Houston’s Paul Wall and Mike Jones, T.I., Lil Jon, Chingy, Child Bash, Yung Joc, Petey Pablo, Twista, and DJ Ashton Martin. Along with the music, the competition will function tacos for buy, margaritas, a tequila tasting lounge, Lucha Libre wrestling, an unique automotive showcase, a chihuahua magnificence pageant, a salsa and queso competitors, artwork installations, photograph ops, and extra. 1:30 pm.
thirty eighth Annual Artwork Automotive Parade
For its thirty eighth 12 months, the Houston Artwork Automotive Parade rolls by downtown Houston, with over 250 wild and artistic autos. Led by grand marshall Carl Lewis, the parade kicks off on Allen Parkway on the I-45 overpass, loops round Metropolis Corridor, and heads again out alongside Allen Parkway. Followers are inspired to reach early to get pleasure from beverage and merchandise stations on the lineup occasion, plus meals vans, the HEB Child Zone, leisure, and extra. The final word viewing occasion at Hermann Sq. provides front-row views, bites from high native cooks, cocktails, stay leisure, and reserved parking. 2 pm.
Pablo Cardoza Gallery presents London Ham: “The Hand of God, with a Paring Knife” opening reception
Pablo Cardoza Gallery will current a solo present that includes works by London Ham. “The Hand of God …” is a modular picture system for producing dynamic visible compositions. Its core consists of two artist-designed algorithms that make use of machine studying and laptop imaginative and prescient to extract and recombine figures from cinematic imagery. Whereas the artist selects the supply materials, the act of segmentation and composition is carried out by a machine. The venture is as a lot about human selection as it’s about what the machine sees. By Sunday, June 1. 6 pm.
The Museum of FIne Arts, Houston presents The Annihilation of Fish
Poinsettia (Lynn Redgrave) strikes right into a LA boarding home the place she meets Fish (James Earl Jones), a Jamaican widower simply launched from an establishment. Within the face of private challenges and variations, they be taught new issues about themselves by the nuances of romance and happiness. This lately restored drama from celebrated filmmaker Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is a humorous, tender examine of outsiders and misfits discovering love and acceptance by a wholesome dose of tolerance. See it in wonderful 35mm! 7 pm Saturday (5 pm Sunday).
Khruangbin in live performance
The Houston-based psych-rock trio, comprised of guitarist Mark Speer, bassist/fashionista Laura Leezy, and drummer Donald Johnson Jr., has been driving excessive since they teamed up with retro R&B singer Leon Bridges on the 2020 Texas Solar EP. They’re touring behind their 2024 launch, A La Sala, which earned the 14-year outdated band a nomination for Finest New Artist on the 2025 Grammy Awards. 7:30 pm.
Sunday, April 13
Metropolis of Houston presents Tour de Houston
Tour de Houston, the annual bike journey that celebrates the wonder, historical past, variety, and vibrancy of Houston’s neighborhoods, will start and finish at Discovery Inexperienced and Avenida Plaza in entrance of the George R. Brown Conference Middle in downtown Houston. The journey travels west by downtown, Memorial Park, Tanglewood, Piney Level Village, Bunker Hill Village, and Briar Forest to Freeway 6 earlier than returning to downtown. 8 am.
Burning Bones Press presents “It Got here From The Bayou!”
Printmakers from throughout the nation will descend upon Houston throughout Burning Bones Press twelfth annual “It Got here From The Bayou!,” a celebration of printmakers and printmaking. The occasion will provide work on the market by printmakers from throughout the U.S. Meals and chilly drinks from Saint Arnold will probably be accessible for buy. There will probably be music by Felipe Galvan’s Pachuco Boogie Sound System. 11 am.
Aziz Ansari: Hypothetical Tour
Aziz Ansari is an award-winning actor, director, author, and comic finest recognized for co-creating, writing, directing, and starring within the Netflix unique collection, Grasp of None. In October of 2025, he’ll launch the movie Good Fortune, which he wrote, directed, and co-stars with Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. He’s additionally recognized for co-starring in NBC’s Parks and Recreation. His newest particular, Nightclub Comic, is now streaming on Netflix. (However we nonetheless know him from his MTV Human Big days.) 7 pm.
My Morning Jacket in live performance
Fronted by the charismatic Jim James, My Morning Jacket’s sound combines indie rock, people, blues, and psychedelia, drawing from the late ‘60s. The Louisville-based band involves 713 Music Corridor in help of is, their tenth studio album. 8 pm.
