What's Happening This Week in Houston

Not just for Black History Month, but anytime is good time to share stories about African American elders. That's one of the reasons Melisa Waddy-Thibodeaux is performing her one woman show, "The Resurrection of Harriet Tubman" at home, this weekend in Houston.

Melisa has inspired audiences around the nation with her reenactment of the iron-willed chief conductor on the Underground Railroad, for escaped slaves. The Friday night show features a 20-minute Q&A with the playwright. View more details about this event at llu.Com

TSU Tigers Homecoming Game

Steeped in tradition and worn with pride, the maroon and gray has been flying high around Midtown Houston all week, as Texas Southern University celebrates its homecoming. You can expect a sassy parade and a slew of all-day tailgate parties Saturday, as the Tiger football team gets prepared for their must win battle against Mississippi Valley, at Durley Field.

Headcoach Johnnie Cole's gameplan is to get his team out of the cellar and back on top of their division. Cole was selected SAIC coach of the year while at Lane College, where his most memorable player has to be Jacoby Jones, the explosive return man now playing for the Houston Texans.

Texans Vs Baltimore In Reliant Stadium

After losing their last game to the Viking and quarterback Matt Schaub to injuries, the Texans are hungry for a win. Don't be square, be there in Reliant Stadium to witness them kicking some Baltimore butt this weekend.

If you need to buy or sell tickets to the Texans games or any event in Houston, click on Midtown Live's Stubhub ticket center.

What's Happening In Midtown Houston's Museum District

Cinema Remixed & Reloaded explores the notable contributions of black women film and video artists to contemporary art in America. Sporting projections, installations, interactive CD-ROM projects and more the exhibition spans across generations of artist.

This collaborative effort between CAMH and Spellman College Museum of Fine Arts showcases works from more than 40 artists, such as Adrian Piper, Carroll Parrot and some of today's emerging stars. There are more details to be had by visiting the CAMH.Org webspace.

Unbelievable Dinosaur Mummy Found

If you're looking for something a little more adventurous this weekend, checkout "Dinosaur Mummy CSI" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The 77-million year-old duck billed creature named Leonardo, is the best preserved, plant-eating dinosaur mummy fossil ever discovered.

During your visit this world tour premier, you may even unearth your own dinosaur mummy or win a cool paleontology prize.
To learn more about this event checkout HMNS.Org.

Free Concert

Miller's outdoor stage will be transformed into an elegant New York-style cabaret, for their annual Miller fundraiser. Take a friend and support a worthy cause, where you"ll get a chance to hear the great jazz and pop singer, Ann Hampton Callaway and partake of a delicious buffet!

On Sunday Hippie Hill becomes the setting for KPFT-FM radio's Pan-African Rhythm concert with Alonzo "Doc" Peters and Friends on the Miller Outdoor Theater plaza, featuring Funk Bank and other artist.

For show times and more details call (713) 533-3276 or follow the link to MillerOutdoorTheater.Com

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What’s Happening at Houston’s Museum of Natural Science This Summer?

What’s all the hoopalooza over Houston’s museum of natural science’s summer-long “Geopalooza Hard Rock Anthology” ? Maybe, you too have seen the billboards and other ads touting the show. The Midtown Houston attraction, has stocked the place with an amazing array of rock, gem and mineral specimens.

Some of the huge geodes on display are taller than the average person and come from all over the world, a few, out of this world. That’s right, some of them are part of NASA’s moon rock collection while others are meteorites that have traveled from the far regions of outer space to be a part in this amazing exhibit.

Interactive Exhibits

The exhibition features ancient fossils, including trilobites, crystallized slices of petrified wood and fluorescent rocks that glow in every color of the rainbow.

This isn’t your everyday hands off exhibit. The interactive “Geopalooza Hard Rock Anthology” allows you to participate first hand in a geological discovery. You can actually select the geode of your choice and witness it being opened for the very first time.

There is also a “Dig Pit” to keep the littlest paleontologist, children from ages 3 – 11, busy by digging for fossil replicas.

Geopalooza: Houston’s museum of natural science’s exhibit, pulls out all the stops to make sure everyone can enjoy this geological adventure. The museum has gold panning kits available, where you can try your luck at finding minerals or even gemstones. Don’t fret, no one will go home empty handed, each patron gets to take home a souvenir vial with a specimen.

Rare and Beautiful Treasures




If you’re partial to those refined rocks or gems, check out the museum’s spectacular display at Cullen Hall. It boasts more than 750 beautifully crystallized mineral specimens including, some are the world’s rarest and most beautiful gems.

You will marvel at these precious gems and how the fiber-optic lighting creates such a unique view of these dazzling treasures in their walk-around display cases.

If you are visiting the city and want to find the museum, just remember the Museum District is on the Southside of Midtown Houston, near Herman Park and the Texas Medical Center. Tickets, museum hours, reservations for groups and lots more information on some of the other exhibits can be found at the museum’s website hmns.org.

[Where: One Hermann Circle Drive, Houston, TX 77030]

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