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Rodeo Cookoff is next weekend! Get your cowboy boots ready.

🧧 Lunar New Year 🧧

Ongoing – Radiant Nature @ Houston Botanic Gardens More than 50 larger-than-life Chinese lantern installations come to life in stunning displays that showcase the beauty of nature and celebrate the promise of the Lunar New Year.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY – Year of the Dragon Celebration @ Viet Hoa Center Celebrate the Lunar New Year with back-to-back days of festivities, including appearances by city officials, red envelope ceremonies, dancing and music, lion dance performances, and much more.

All Weekend – ‘The Big Swim’ Opera @ Houston Grand Opera Commissioned in partnership with Asia Society Texas, this modern one-act opera tells the story of the great Lunar New Year Race.

THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 15th

Pinky Patel Comedy Show @ Houston Improv @ 7:30PM

90s Pop Tour @ Smart Financial Centre @ 8PM Featuring Magneto, JNS, Sentidos Opuestos, Kabah, Caló, Moenia, Lynda, and more.

Beartooth @ White Oak Music Hall @ 6PM With The Plot In You & Sleep Theory

Crypta @ Warehouse Live @ 6PM

FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 16th

The Eagles @ Toyota Center @ 7:30PM With Steely Dan

DACAMERA: Danish String Quartet Concert @ Wortham Center @ 8PM

Pablo Alboran @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM

Cold War Kids @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Hovvdy

Ryan Beatty @ White Oak Music Hall @ 8PM

Ray Volpe @ Stereo Live @ 10PM

Ram Herrera & David Olivares @ Warehouse Live @ 8PM

Emo Night @ Scout Bar @ 9PM

SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 17th

Saint Arnold Pub Crawl @ White Oak @ 2PM

Winter Nights @ MFAH @ 6PM Enjoy a cocktail, hear from curators, listen to live music, and spend time up close with your favorite works of art.

Studio Saturday @ MFAH Rienzi @ 10AM Unleash your creativity within Rienzi’s lush gardens, and learn about drawing and sketching fundamentals.

Ongoing – Saturday Stargazing @ George Observatory in Needville

DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live @ Smart Financial Centre @ 8PM Featuring 112, Adina Howard, After 7, Brownstone, Carl Thomas, and others!

Black Violin @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM

Gipsy Kings @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Nicolas Reyes

Ricky Montgomery @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM

Lettuce @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM With Nigel Hall

Joyryde @ Stereo Live @ 10PM

William Black @ Warehouse Live @ 10PM

Susan Carol + Dende @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 18th

Blackwood Farmers Market @ POST @ 2PM Shop, taste, and support fellow Texan makers and organizations working towards the city’s green future.

Family Day @ MFAH Bayou Bend @ 1PM Enjoy an afternoon of family-friendly fun discovering the histories of three hot beverages: tea, coffee, and chocolate.

Wheel of Fortune Live @ The Hobby Center @ 7:30PM One of the greatest game shows of all time has been adapted into a stage show to give more fans access and more chances to win.

‘The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe’ Play @ MATCH @ 2:30PM / 7PM Enter the magical world of Narnia in Main Street Theater’s newest family-friendly production.

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto @ The Grand Opera House @ 4PM International soloist Will Hagen joins the Galveston Symphony Orchestra to perform the mother-of-all violin concertos, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D-Major.

ZiegFest Music Festival @ Karbach Brewing Featuring Muscadine Bloodline, Treaty Oak Revival, and Grant Gilbert

Babytron @ House of Blues @ 7PM

Haken @ White Oak Music Hall @ 6:30PM

Lost Frequencies @ Stereo Live @ 10PM

Twin Temple @ Warehouse Live @ 7PM

Enjambre @ Scout Bar @ 8PM

Karina Rykman @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM

All Weekend

All weekend – Sheryl Underwood & Friends Stand Up @ Houston Improv

All weekend – 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Screenings @ MFAH MFAH presents its annual selection of Oscar-nominated live-action, animated, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night.

All weekend – ‘West Side Story’ Musical @ Crighton Theatre Inspired by the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet, the musical takes Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, and places them in the vibrant battleground of New York City’s West Side in the 1950s.

All weekend – ‘The Revolutionists’ Play @ Stageworks Theatre NEW – This grand comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.

All weekend – ‘It Is Magic’ Play @ MATCH Chaos, mystery, and magic ensue in this latest The Catastrophic Theatre production.

All weekend – ‘Steel Magnolias’ Play @ The George Theatre LAST CHANCE – Filled with crisp and hilarious repartee, The A.D Players’ newest production is a warm and beautiful story of what it means to be a daughter, a mother, and a friend.

All weekend – ‘The Piano Lesson’ Play @ The Ensemble Theatre In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, ‘The Piano Lesson,’ writer August Wilson fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work about the black experience in 20th century America.

All weekend – ‘Laughs in Spanish’ Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre NEW – Stylish and vibrant, this play offers a light-hearted look at the struggles many Latinas go through to gain entry into cultural and artistic spaces that have historically excluded them.

All weekend – ‘Sister’s Irish Catechism’ Comedy Play @ Stages Repertory Theatre Everyone’s favorite sassy nun Denise Fennell leads a brand new catechism class as audience members become her students in this highly improvised, hilarious show.

Ongoing Special Events and Museum Exhibitions

Ongoing – The Rink: Rolling @ Discovery Green This spring, Discovery Green visitors can enjoy roller-skating fun at Houston’s only outdoor roller rink.

Ongoing – Sloomoo Exhibition @ Marq E Entertainment Center Immerse yourself in the joy of sensory play with Sloomoo Institute’s colorful world of never-ending, hand-crafted slime, yummy scents, and soothing ASMR delights.

Ongoing – Winter Colorland @ Houston Color Factory Enjoy Color Factory's glimmering winter wonderland as they have decked out its immersive exhibition rooms for the winter season.

Ongoing – ‘Multiplicity: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage’ Exhibition @ MFAH NEW – Collage works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power.

Ongoing – ‘Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway’ Exhibition @ MFAH Featuring over 200 objects, this exhibition provides an exceptional look at Nordic history and aesthetics across centuries as Bergen stood at the intersection of global trade, taste, and fashion.

Ongoing – ‘Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence’ Exhibition @ MFAH Wiley’s monumental, large-scale paintings of Black and Brown individuals confront and challenge the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice.

Ongoing – ‘Six Scenes From Our Future’ Exhibition @ CAMHThis exhibition challenges the traditional ways of presenting art by offering unexpected pairings and debating the entrenched hierarchies between the fine arts and design.

Ongoing – ‘This Way: A Houston Group Show’ Exhibition @ CAMH The exhibition showcases new work from Black artists who are invited to examine innovative ways of storytelling of their legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town.

Ongoing – ‘Chryssa & New York’ Exhibition @ Menil Greek-born artist Chryssa’s pioneering works combined industrial processes and traditional sculpture-making to create monumental art pieces that respond to our urban, everyday environments.

Ongoing – ‘Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Us’ Exhibition @ Moody Center for the Arts Kahraman’s first solo exhibition features works informed by the artist’s Iraqi-Kurdish heritage and experience as a refugee while highlighting her research-driven practice .