National Ride Your Bike to Work Day: The League of American Bicyclists got together and decided to designate May as the National Bike Month, way back in 1956. Now, 57 years later, we are here to remind you that tomorrow, the third Friday in May, is Bike to Work Day! That means you, the responsible, Earth loving consumers that you are, get the chance to utilize all that empty bike rack space at your office, and forget about fighting your coworkers for a parking spot in your garage! Aside from all the added health benefits of riding a bicycle, some ... Read More »

The Wrong Ones’ reverence for all the good proto-metal, punk, garage, classic, and psychedelic rock has insured that the band would go on to create an album that did as great a job paying tribute to their heroes as it did of taking their work to the next level. The organ riff pulsating through the Hammond B2 that kicks off this record assures the listener they are in for a trip. The driving beat and muted guitar chug that brings the rest of the band in assures me that this is a punk album, but the following guitar solo is ... Read More »

  This Week In Music, May 10th-15th:   Free Press Pick of the Week! Little Ozzy (Ozzy Osbourne tribute) – Live at The Concert Pub Galleria, Friday, May 11th Everyone needs a little Ozzy in their lives, but now you can literally have a little Ozzy in your life. If you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I wish Ozzy were shorter, so I could experience his music on an entirely different level” then you should get yourself over to the Concert Pub. Either way, the band is solid, and Little Ozzy will certainly be winning the crowd with his charm. ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up, May 3rd-May 9th:     The Free Press Pick of the Week! The Queers and The Dwarves free in-store performance at Heights Vinyl should prove to bring the raucous. I can imagine a lot of energy for that show if the place gets packed. If you like punk rock, you won’t want to miss this!    Friday, May 3: Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Malitia Malimob- Live at Fitzgerald’s Neon Moon: Dirty 33 1/3, DJ Craig Hlavaty and DJ LJ Walker- Live at Big Top Saturday, May 4: MFAH Mixed Media, featuring Young Girls, GoREALah Soul, Xander ... Read More »

Whether you have kids, don’t have kids, or have kids yet tend to act like a kid yourself, you’ll be stoked to know that LEGO KidsFest is coming to Houston, May 17-19, 2013  at Reliant Center. The LEGO Model Museum features Lego models of all shapes and sizes and the LEGO Club and Master Builder Academy workshop is the ultimate initiation into the Master Builder guild (no hazing required). Live demos by LEGO Master Builders will take place throughout the fest and in the LEGO Challenge Zone families will compete in fast-action activities like speed tower building. Do you have ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up! What’s going on this week, you ask? Quite a lot. This weekend there are literally dozens of shows, and a lot of those shows coincidentally fall on the 20th of this month, which a lot of people seem to be excited about. The FREE PRESS WEEKLY PICK OF THE WEEK: Black Sabbath Tribute Band: Lords of the Universe Look at this poster. This show is on 4/20. There will be fog. Black Sabbath songs, performed with the kind of love and faithful attention that only true die hard metal head Sab fanatics could possibly give. Are ... Read More »

On April 30, Word Around Town (WAT?!), Rebel Crew, and Nuestra Palabra will present the second ever Poet Draft at Taft Street Coffee. Poet Draft participants will compete for seven spots in the eighth annual Word Around Town Tour. The Word Around Town Tour is a spoken word competition that will take place from August 4 to August 10 at a different location every night. The event was introduced in 2006 with the intent to expose both audiences and poets to cool Houston hang-outs, and of course bring together great poets. Poets competing in Poet Draft for a spot in ... Read More »

On Saturday, April 20, Inprint will put on the 2013 Houston Indie Book Festival, which will take place alongside the Menil Community Art Festival. The Houston Indie Book Festival brings together an eclectic bunch of prose writers, poets, performers, editors, and entrepreneurs for a fun and stimulating literary experience. Come learn about the industry of publication, hear emerging authors talk about craft, listen to readings, and get exposed to hard-to-find literature. The event is free and celebrates Houston’s vibrant writing community. For an hour, beginning at one, Austin Tremblay, Sophie Klahr, and Adam Peterson will discuss their time spent as ... Read More »

While some may find the task of reading to be a tedious endeavor, others relish in the infinite possibilities that books hold. Reading is often less about the story and more about the journey – the places, the people, the memories that heighten your senses and expand your imagination with every page turned. That’s why Young Adult literature, better known as YA Lit, has such transformative potential for not just teens, but also for any reader willing to suspend reality a bit and let the words take over. Interestingly enough, Houston is home to a number of YA authors, reviewers, ... Read More »

As a part of their ongoing series, Science On Screen, 14 Pews presents the film Away From Her, coupled with a lecture by Dr. Stephen Wong. Introduced by 14 Pews’s founder, Cressandra Thibodeaux, Science on Screen brings to the community professional talks relevant to featured films. The upcoming topic of discussion is degenerative neurological disorders, specifically Dementia and Alzheimer’s. Dr. Wong (Ph.D., P.E.) is an esteemed researcher and founder of the department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Methodist Hospital Research Institute. He is author of more than 300 peer reviewed essays, and currently teaches at the University of Houston.Prior to the showing of Away From ... Read More »