Let’s face it – it’s all about Taylor Swift this weekend.
Her new album The Lifetime of a Showgirl will drop this Friday and there can be many celebrations occurring within the metropolis, from listening events at Sig’s Lagoon, Pizaro’s Pizza Napoletana and Rooftop Cinema Membership Uptown to weekend-long launch events at such film homes as Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra and River Oaks Theatre.
In fact, a lot of different issues are popping off this weekend, from the Unique Greek Pageant to the Southern Smoke Pageant to a “PAWZtober Fest.” And, if in case you have a pal or a cherished one who’s a trainer, take them out on World Lecturers’ Day this Sunday – possibly even get them tipsy as hell at the Shaboozey live performance.
Thursday, October 2
59th Annual Unique Greek Pageant
A cornerstone of the native fall competition season and the most important of its sort within the nation, the Unique Greek Pageant options do-it-yourself Greek meals, conventional Greek dancing, all types of genuine purchasing, and a possibility to study extra concerning the Greek Orthodox religion and tradition. The family-friendly, three-day competition additionally affords home craft beers, genuine Greek beer Repair Hellas, plus quite a lot of imported Greek wines accessible by the bottle and glass. 5 pm (11 am Friday and Saturday).
Mid Essential Houston presents First Thursday Block Get together
Mid Essential’s First Thursday Block Get together returns with stay music, artwork, meals, and activations, this time benefiting Camp For All, a nonprofit that transforms the world for youngsters and adults with difficult sicknesses, disabilities, and particular wants. Sorry, Sarah, Sam Turner and the Cactus Cats, and Davey Knowles can be performing stay outdoors, whereas stay mural portray and sculptures by Scrapdaddy can be among the artwork activations happening. Saint Arnold Brewing, eighth Surprise Brewery, Condesa Gin will include the drinks. 6 pm.
Cirque du Soleil: OVO
Cirque du Soleil: OVO options an all-new manufacturing that transports the viewers right into a hidden ecosystem alive with motion, shade, and acrobatics. Agile bugs crawl, flutter, and leap via an explosion of life, celebrating nature’s magnificence with Cirque du Soleil’s signature awe-inspiring performances. Composed of 100 individuals from 25 totally different international locations, together with 53 artists, OVO (“egg” in Portuguese) brings to the stage high-level acrobatic acts redefining the boundaries of the human physique. 7 pm (3 and seven pm Saturday; 1 and 5 pm Sunday).
Friday, October 3
ARTECHOUSE presents Julius Horsthuis: “Fractal Worlds” opening day
ARTECHOUSE Studio and visible artist Julius Horsthuis invite audiences to step contained in the infinite, exploring how arithmetic shapes not solely our bodily world but additionally our notion, emotion, and creativeness. Guests can go on a cinematic four-part fractal journey with 16K visuals and 31-channel Hyperreal sound inside ARTECHOUSE’s 270-degree Immersion Gallery. They’ll additionally step inside ARTECHOUSE’s infinity room, the place kaleidoscopic fractal formulation take guests into different dimensions. Via Sunday, March 1. 10 am.
Gabby’s Dollhouse Dwell
Sure, there’s a Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film at present in multiplexes. However when you actually need to blow your children’ minds, take them to Gabby’s Dollhouse Dwell, based mostly on the worldwide preschool sensation from DreamWorks Animation. On this new musical present, Gabby uncovers a particular acorn that wants the magical contact of a rainbow to develop. However when CatRat causes a shade cat-astrophe and breaks the rainbow, Gabby and the Gabby Cats should discover the colours once more to set issues proper. 6 pm.
Moody Middle for the Arts presents Moody Mission Wall: Guadalupe Hernandez opening reception
Moody Middle for the Arts will have fun unique work from Guadalupe Hernandez on the opening reception for the Fall 2025 Moody Mission Wall. Organized along side Hispanic Heritage Month, the occasion will embody remarks from the artist and a particular providing of tamales and Mexican scorching chocolate. Friends will study extra concerning the work, titled “Hijos de la Virgen morena,” and the inventive contributions of Rice college students who crafted papel picado components via a sequence of artist-led workshops. Via Saturday, December 20. 6 pm.
Botanica presents The Cursed Cauldron
The Cursed Cauldron is casting its spell as soon as once more with a mystical metamorphosis. After two profitable seasonal runs, the beloved spooky pop-up has discovered its everlasting annual dwelling on the lately opened Botonica, the place it is going to bewitch company this fall. Situated on the backside of Sky Home River Oaks high-rise residences, the house can be designed as a three-part realm, immersing company additional into the witch’s world as they progress. Via Sunday, November 2. 4 pm.
Saturday, October 4
The Unique Ninfa’s Uptown and Lone Star Pawz current PAWZtober Fest
The Unique Ninfa’s Uptown will accomplice with Lone Star Pawz, a non-profit animal rescue and rehabilitation group for cats and canines, for a fundraiser dubbed PAWZtober Fest. The free Tex-Mex-themed occasion will elevate funds and consciousness for the group and people it serves. Friends of the occasion will get pleasure from stay music by native rock and social gathering band The Guzzlers and raffle prizes together with Houston Texans tickets, Astros tickets, a present card to The Unique Ninfa’s, two processed deer packages, and a St. Arnold’s reward basket. 1 pm.
Southern Smoke Basis presents Southern Smoke Pageant
Get able to obtain all of the smoke this weekend. The Southern Smoke Basis, a Houston-based nonprofit group devoted to offering emergency reduction funds nationwide and entry to psychological well being providers for meals and beverage employees, will current its annual, park social gathering fundraiser often known as the Southern Smoke Pageant. Greater than 70 culinary stars from throughout the nation will serve meals, and there will even be drinks from one of the best wine, spirit, and beer producers, in addition to stay music. 4 pm.
The Bald Brothers Tour that includes Tony Baker & KevOnStage
Comedians Tony Baker and El Paso-born KevOnStage, often known as the hosts of the Bald Brothers podcast, come to Houston as a part of their 2025 co-headlining tour. Baker has appeared on NBC’s Final Comedian Standing, Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution, Comics Unleashed, and different comedy TV specials, whereas KevOnStage has appeared on the HBO Max sequence, A Black Girl Sketch Present, and was additionally the host of Will Smith’s Dad’s Simply Don’t Perceive. 7 pm.
The Museum of High quality Arts, Houston presents ASCO: With out Permission
This genre-defying movie (executive-produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna) profiles the provocative Los Angeles–based mostly, Chicano artist collective ASCO. From 1972 to 1987, the members merged activism and inventive follow as they challenged the shortage of illustration within the mainstream artwork world, Hollywood, and the information media. There will even be a post-screening dialogue with director Travis Gutiérrez Senger; Houston Latino Movie Pageant programmer Pedro Rivas; and Latin American and Latino Artwork assistant curator Cindy Peña. 7 pm.
Sunday, October 5
Mai’s Áo Dài Storytime with Thái Nguyễn and Monique Truong
Houston’s vibrant Vietnamese American group and ebook lovers citywide are invited to expertise a particular cultural celebration. Celeb designer Thái Nguyễn and award-winning creator Monique Truong will current their acclaimed kids’s image ebook Mai’s Áo Dài, illustrated by New York Occasions-bestselling image ebook artist Dung Ho, at the Mid-Autumn Moon Harvest Truthful. The authors will host a particular storytime through the competition, which runs from 11 am to five pm at DoubleTree Westchase. 3 pm.
Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng: Hasan Hates Ronny | Ronny Hates Hasan
Comedians Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng had been so hilarious when they confronted off on The Day by day Present that they’ve now turned it right into a full-fledged comedy present. The 2 comics will come to Houston as a part of a nationwide tour the place they’ll air their grievances — onstage, on the similar time. They are going to debate about presidents, warfare, the economic system, immigration, infrastructure, meals, relationship, household values, and extra. 6 and eight:30 pm.
Sasha Colby: Stripped II
Worldwide drag icon Sasha Colby involves Houston as a part of her Stripped II tour. As a proud trans-Hawaiian girl, Sasha is a staple within the American drag business. Sasha can be the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15, the primary Hawaiian and trans contestant to be topped. Submit Drag-Race, Sasha based a line of hair extensions, Sasha Colby Hair, and launched a brand new single, “Really feel The Energy,” that includes producer Glovibes and vocalist Luciana. 8 pm.
