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Weekend Happenings in Houston!!

* Last Concert Cafe has an amazing show Friday night!  Hamilton Loomis and several of Bo Diddley's offspring will be putting on one of the best shows you will see this summer! Head over for some awesome tex-mex, cold beer and live music!

* Columbian Fest is going on Sunday the 20th! Def go check that out! Good food, great art! A wonderful time!

* It's HOT outside BUT you can stay cool with the best handmade, all natural gelato in Houston as Raindrop Chocolate on Waugh! It's exactly what you and the family need to cool off! It's the best you will put to your lips and better for you than ice cream! Head over after the movies for a refreshing treat!! They are open until 10 pm!!

* Bliss on 19th is having a huge SALE!!!! After all...shopping is necessary everyday but with gas prices being what they are who can afford to shop?? Thus the sale! =) Plus, you know your home needs to be perfect for entertaining, whatever you are missing, Bliss has it!

* The 1st Saturday of every month is famous in the Heights! All up and down 19th street there are artists outside of the stores, sales happening and all kinds of social gatherings! Make sure you stop by Bliss on 19th who is breaking tradition just a little bit by having the students from a local school instead of a traditional artist! These kids built a robot and will be demonstrating their robots while selling lemonade to raise money to go to the robot competition!!

* Make sure you go get your grub on at Katz's Deli on Westheimer just east of Montrose! It's the best food you will put to your lips!! I can't help it I gotta tell ya...Katz's never kloses!!! Really! It's open 24/7 including holidays!

* It's getting HOT but that doesn't mean you should avoid being outside! There is an amazing company called LEAN AND GLIDE where you can take 2 plus hour guided tours of anywhere in Houston on a segway! DISH suggests heading down to Kemah and taking the tour there. What a great day! DISH is going next weekend!

* Children's Museum of Houston easing the pain at the pump for families to have hands-on, minds turned-on fun!

Come have cool hands-on, minds turned-on fun and the cost of your first gallon of gas is on us! You heard right. Gas prices shouldn’t deprive you and your family of enjoying a fun-filled summer. That’s why the Children's Museum of Houston will gulp the price of your first gallon by deducting the cost of a gallon of gas off the total of four full admissions.

* This weekend at Discovery Green... Click HERE for details!

Recycling Saturdays, 8- 12 noon Yoga, 9-10:00 a.m. Summer Youth Conservation Corps CFL Bulb Giveaway, 10 a.m. - until bulbs run out Children’s Writing Workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Calvary Chapel Church Prayer Station, 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Discovery Green Art Series, 7-9 p.m. – AFA Conservatory Orchestra

* "Escaping Their Boundaries: The Children of Theresienstadt"
Feb. 22, 2008 through Sept. 28, 2008 (Extended run)
Mincberg Gallery
Located about 40 miles north of Prague in the Czech Republic, Terezin was built in 1780 as a military fortress and garrison town. When Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1941, the town was turned into a ghetto where Jews were gathered before they were sent further east to the extermination camps. The German name for this ghetto was Theresienstadt. In less than four years, more than 150,000 men, women and children were taken to Theresienstadt. Of these, as many as 35,000 died in the ghetto itself, and more than 88,000 people were deported to the extermination camps in Poland. During its existence, more than 12,000 children were imprisoned in Theresienstadt. A group of dedicated adults made it their goal to care for the children, not just by taking care of the children's physical needs but by taking on the role of teacher. Despite their best efforts, it is clear from the children's drawings, diaries and clandestinely produced magazines that the children had an understanding of what was happening around them. For many of the children of Theresienstadt, the objects they created while there are the only things that remain of their lives. This exhibit will explore the ability for children to transcend their physical boundaries through art and writing. The exhibit will feature more than 40 objects on loan from Beit Theresienstadt in Israel, including collages, drawings, diaries, magazines, games and marionettes, many of which have never before been on display. The exhibit will also feature an interactive section that invites visitors, young and old, to reflect on the exhibit and create a continuation of the story of the children of Theresienstadt.

"Darfur: Photojournalists Respond"
March 14, 2008 through Sept. 21, 2008 (Extended run)
Central Gallery
As World War II ended, the world beat its collective chest defiantly and proclaimed it would "never forget" the genocide of the Holocaust so that it could "never again" be repeated. The world - as history has proven - has a short memory. The Holocaust was not the world's first genocide and it has not been the last. Today, in the Darfur region of western Sudan, the world is confronted with human suffering on a scale difficult to imagine. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or forcibly displaced from their homes. The photographers who have witnessed the atrocities first-hand have taken unforgettable photographs that are a testimony to the individual human beings involved in the injustices occurring daily in Darfur. The exhibit "Darfur: Photojournalists Respond" at Holocaust Museum Houston will feature 30 photographs from eight photographers, all of whom participated in the book "Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan," created in partnership with Proof: Media for Social Justice, Amnesty International and Holocaust Museum Houston and edited by Leora Kahn.

"Take Me"
March 14, 2008 through Aug. 17, 2008, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Laurie and Milton Boniuk Resource Center and Library
In conjunction with the exhibition "Darfur: Photojournalists Respond," Holocaust Museum Houston is pleased to display an original work by Houston artist Saul Balagura that vividly embodies the despair that refugees in Darfur are currently facing. The work is accompanied by a poem, also written by Balagura with the same title.

"A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk"
Oct. 20, 2008 through Feb. 8, 2009
Mincberg Gallery
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was described by Eleanor Roosevelt as a "one-man army," using art as a weapon to garner support for the social and political issues in which he believed. Szyk (pronounced Shick) was born in Lodz, Poland. He studied art in Paris and lived in London before immigrating to the United States in 1940. Szyk believed his art could make a difference in the world and became one of the 20th century's most important political propagandists. Throughout his career, Syzk produced illustrated books, illuminated manuscripts, commercial art and posters, stamps for humanitarian causes, and political cartoons which appeared on the covers of many important magazines during World War II. Throughout his work, Szyk portrayed the Jewish people not as victims but as strong, patriotic and heroic. He called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine - a campaign that he continued after the end of World War II. He called for the United States to enter the war against Germany and he created many powerful anti-Nazi and anti-axis cartoons. "A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk" will highlight the private collection of Gregg and Michelle Philipson, and will include loans of important works from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the United States Naval Academy Museum. The public is invited to a free opening reception on Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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