Author: Houston Press

The New American Voices Playwriting Festival, now in its ninth year, will move online this year because of the coronavirus, its sponsor The Landing Theatre Company has announced. The festival, originally planned for April, will now take place July 28 t…

Starting July 3, Houston ISD is restricting access to all of its buildings through Sunday July 19 and cancelling all athletic practices. Students who had been expected to turn in their lap tops can keep them until the fall. No one will be there to acce…

On Saturday Gov. Greg Abbott wrote another in a long line of executive orders lately, this one allowing restaurants and some bars to sell to-go, pre-mixed drinks. This action follows his decision to once again close bars in Texas for in-person guests a…

Well it appears Operation Safe Open, the undercover task force the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, has been busy — suspending the permits of 17 bars and restaurants across Texas who weren’t doing what they should have been doing to slow the spread…

Fans of  Matthew McConaughey will have a great opportunity to hear from him today at 10 a.m. when the Oscar-winning actor and his wife, model and designer Camila Alves McConaughey, will read Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Does someone…

This September, Theatre Under the Stars audiences were going to have a chance to see the much-anticipated Broadway-bound revival of 1776. But today TUTS is announcing that because of continuing risks related to  COVID-19, it is having to put those…

Lucky’s Pub in the east end, known for hosting block parties on Saint Emanuel for Dynamo and Astros games, is apparently closing its doors tonight – well at 2 a.m. early tomorrow. As Houston Food Finder is reporting, the bar located just east of d…

On June 27, everyone who can motor their way to a drive-in theater in the United States and Canada will be able to see country superstar Garth Brooks perform in a one-night concert. According to a press release: “The concert will be the largest ever on…

Houston ISD Interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan just announced that six curbside summer meals sites have been canceled after a confirmed case of the coronavirus. The silver lining is that health officials do not think that families who came to pick u…

Saying that many of the new COVID-19 cases are coming from people at nursing homes, meat packing plants and jails, Gov. Abbott announced he was ready to go to Phase II of his reopening plan and that effective immediately, all businesses in Texas are ab…