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HOUSTON’S ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NEWSWEEKLY
VOL 1, ED 25 | MAY 28 - JUNE 10, 2015 | FREE
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LOOKING BACK AT JEDI
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BOVINE & BARLEY
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LETTER RIP
PLEASE DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR HOUSTON
WE ARE AS TOUGH AS TEXANS SHOULD BE
There might be a few misconceptions being
floated around the nation that Texas is underwater. In fact, I’ve even seen a “new” map of
Texas with the Gulf of Mexico reaching into
the Southeastern part of this great state and
touching the outskirts of
Dallas.
Let me reassure you
now, especially those of
you who are under the
impression that Texas is
soon to join Atlantis at the
bottom of a lot of water,
that we are still standing
tall. Regardless of where
you came from, if you are
in Texas, you are therefore
Ken Petty Texas-proud.
Texas-proud knows
no limits. We know no
boundaries as to what we can do. Boundaries
and limits are for those who think that the line
of acceptability is the ultimate goal. Texans go
beyond what is expected by others, and achieve
whatever their minds can conceive. Thank you
Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone (both
adoptive Texans).
Let’s have fun with this. Let’s assume that
everyone is correct (except us Texans) and that
a large portion of Texas has gone underwater
for good wiping out Houston, Austin and the
Tri-Cities (Beaumont/Orange/Port Arthur).
What would this mean to surviving Texans,
after all we do know how to make a good thing
come from a bad thing.
Firstly, Dallas and San Antonio all of a sudden would experience a tourist boom for those
who want access to a large city and its amenities plus close access to beaches! Abilene,
also a coastal city, would experience a boom
in population and tourism. The southern part
of Texas, between the Texas Sea and Mexico,
would be likened to an American version of
Italy with the Texan Hill County overlooking
the western shores of the Texas Sea. In between
the American Italy and Abilene would be the
great oil producing Texas Panhandle, no longer
a desolate and dry region, but one full of life
and farmland!
Unfortunately, we lost both major universities. So, Texas A&M would move whatever
materials they could save and create a campus
at Corpus Christi. The University of Texas
would move its salvageable campus to Dallas.
Traveling by plane between San Antonio
and New Orleans you would fly over the great
remnant of the city of Houston with her tall
buildings sticking out of the water like a modern metal Easter Island.
Texas would not lose population as one
would imagine, but gain some due to new
arable land, beach front property that didn’t
exist before May 1st and cooler climates due to
Texas Sea air meeting with the cooler moist air
from the north.
Texas would not be the only beneficiary of a
population boom. Oklahoma and her two major
cities, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, would be a
mere four hour drive to the Texas Sea coast.
Back to reality...
The Texas Sea, the new beach front property,
major college location shifts and all that is just
a dream, a ‘what if’ scenario that will never
happen.
So what do Texans do when it floods? We help
each other, that’s what we do. We don’t need
the government’s FEMA or Jade Helm 15 to
teach Texans how to survive. We’ve been doing
well and teaching others these skills for the last
150 years. Texans hurt together, strive together
and win together. After all, isn’t that the reason
most of New Orleans came here after Katrina?
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KATE ARNOLD AND ERIC BEASLEY OF CYPRESS CREEK PEST CONTROL TOOK HOME THE TITLE OF “BEST CHILI IN
TOMBALL” FOR THEIR BUSINESS DIVISION ENTRY IN THE RECENT “MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND CHILI CHALLENGE”.
EVEN SPRING SHOWERS
COULDN’T COOL SPICY
CHILI FESTIVAL IN TOMBALL
Despite some sprinkles, more than 2,300
of downtown Houston on SH 249 at FM 2920.
pepper loving festival goers converged on the
For more information about Tomball, please call
historic downtown Depot in Tomball recently
281-351-5484 or visit tomballtx.gov. “Like”
to sample award winning chili and some down
Tomball on Facebook at “Tomball Texan For
home Country music during the 4th Annual
Fun”.
Memorial Day Weekend Chili
Challenge.
Three dozen cook teams from
across the state gathered at the
Chili Appreciation Society International (CASI) sanctioned
event to compete for points
and the title of “Best Chili in
Tomball”. Top honor in the local business chili division went
to new-comers, Cypress Creek
Pest Control, while Community
Bank of Texas took the title of
“Best Margarita in Tomball” at
the margarita pour-off.
First place in the new Junior
Chili Division went to 12-yearold Cameron Cook, a student
at Northpointe Intermediate
School.
In addition to trophies, CASI
cookers who placed were
awarded points toward an invitation to their international chili
cook-off in Terlingua, Texas
later this year.
Proceeds from the Memorial
Day Weekend Chili Challenge
will be donated by the Piney
Woods Pod of CASI to Tomball
Christmas Charities – a group
of area churches caring for the
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD CAMERON COOK FROM NORTHPOINTE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
needy during the holidays.
WON FIRST PLACE IN THE JUNIOR DIVISION OF THE RECENT
“MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND CHILI CHALLENGE” IN TOMBALL.
Tomball is 28 miles northwest
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EXPOSURES
FAST FITNESS, iFLY OPEN NEW LOCATIONS
EL MOJITOS AND COFFEESHOP COMPANY COMING SOON
A high-end Cuban experience is coming to
the FM 2920 corridor on June 10th with the
opening of El Mojito. El Mojito will join other
great cultural restaurants like Taco Crave
(Mexican), Rakuu (Chinese/Japanese) and La
Chef (Argentina) in the same center.
Driving up into The Woodlands on the east
side of Interstate 45 something large and made
of concrete was making its presence known,
somewhat. Its odd shape and concrete building material caused many north Houstonians
to wonder what was being built there.
Part of the cloak of secrecy was a great
marketing ploy for the Austin based company,
iFly, to put a contest together for residents
to guess what that structure was going to
become.
The answer; an indoor skydiving platform.
No longer do you have to risk your life for the
rush or feeling of free falling to the ground.
iFly and their 120 per hour streaming wind
tunnel gives you the exact feeling without the
fear of falling to your, you know, demise.
Personal trainer and local business entrepreneur Jeremy Gallagher has opened up the
fourth location of his Fast Fitness 24-hour
personal fitness company.
Gallagher’s first three locations are in The
Woodlands, Conroe and in Spring. The new
location is his second in Spring near the Timberland subdivision in the Food Giant plaza.
Gallagher found this new location in a bankruptcy sale from the previous owner, another
gym.
Gallagher expressed his desire to continue
to provide quality exercise equipment of all
kinds, from treadmills to kettle weights, from
bar bells to stair steppers. Plus Gallagher is
a personal trainer who knows his stuff. Fast
Fitness offers a 24-hour fitness center starting
at only $19 a month.
Are you tired of Starbucks and/or looking for
an authentic coffeshop experience outside the
Seattle coffee giant’s influence? Coming June
22nd, the Vienna Coffeeshop Company will
open up their first location in the Woodlands
(Southbound I-45 feeder, south of the Woodlands flyover)
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Dolly. Recent credits:
HGO’s Sweeney
Todd, title roles
in Theatre LaB’s
My Name is Asher
Lev and Classical
Theatre Company’s
Dr. Faustus, Alley Theatre: Ether
Dome, Our Town,
The Man Who Came
to Dinner, Christmas
Carol, Stages Repertory: Life Could Be
A Dream, Yankee
Tavern, and Amy’s
View, Unity Theatre:
Forever Plaid, Miller
Outdoor: Thoroughly
Modern Millie. He is
a proud member of
AEA.
TUTS PRESENTATION
DYLAN GODWIN
(Man #3) returns to
TUTS having previously appeared in The
Music Man, Reefer
Madness, James and
the Giant Peach,
Sweet Potato Queens
(workshop), Beauty
and the Beast and 110 in the Shade. National
Tour: Fiddler on the Roof (Motel) Regional:
Good People, A Christmas Carol, Ether Dome,
Amadeus, Peter Pan and Our Town(Alley
Theatre.) Life Could Be A Dream, AltarBoyz
(Stages), The Tempest, Ubu Roi (Classical
Theatre Company). Houston Press Breakout
Performer 2014, Broadway World Best Supporting Actor 2014.
CAST OF FIRST DATE REVEALED
Houston – Get ready for the most fun you’ve
ever had on a date, with a cast you can’t help
but fall for! TUTS Underground brings you
First Date, the hilarious and hopeful musical
about the chances we all take to find love.
This uniquely charming show runs June 11 –
21 in Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center.
When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with
serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy
New York restaurant turns into an uproarious high-stakes dinner when other restaurant
patrons transform into supportive best friends,
manipulative exes and protective parents, who
sing and dance them through ice-breakers,
appetizers and potential conversational land
mines. As the date unfolds, the couple quickly
finds that they are not alone on this unpredictable evening. This is one first date you won’t
want to end!
We bet you’ll ask this cast out on that second date:
A. J. SHIVELY (Aaron) Broadway: La Cage
Aux Folles; Brigadoon (Benefit Concert).
Nat’l Tour: The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: February House (The Public); Unlock’d
(Prospect); ...Guide To A Successful Marriage (Cherry Lane); Things To Ruin (Second
Stage); Little Airplanes Of The Heart (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Old Globe;
CenterStage; George Street Playhouse; Long
Wharf; TheatreWorks; Gulfshore Playhouse;
NYMF; Fringe NYC. TV/Film: “The Daily
Show”; Syrup; HairBrained; Nobody Walks
In LA; No One Asked Me (upcoming). BFA:
University of Michigan.
JESSICA JANES (Casey) is thrilled to be
back at TUTS Underground! TUTS Underground: LMNOP, Reefer Madness. TUTS: The
Music Man. Catastrophic Theatre: Anna Bella
Eema, clean/through, American Falls, Paradise
Hotel, Bluefinger, The Pine, Tamarie Cooper’s
Old As Hell, Tamarie Cooper’s Doomsday
Revue, A Very Tamarie Christmas. Stages
Repertory: Panto Mother Goose, The Great
American Trailer Park Musical. Theater LaB:
See Rock City!, Reefer Madness. Mildred’s
Umbrella: The Flu Season. www.jessicajanes.
net
MARK IVY (Man #2) TUTS: Little Shop
(Seymour), The Music Man (Traveling Salesman), James…Giant Peach (Centipede);TUTS
Underground: Reefer Madness (Ralph); Stages: Xanadu (Thalia), Life Could Be a Dream
(Eugene), Next to Normal (Henry), Rabbit
Hole(Jason), Various Pantos; The Alley: A
Christmas Carol (Travis, Apparition); MSYT’s
Alice in Wonderland (Mad Hatter); BCCM’s
Finian’s Rainbow (Og), On the Town, etc.;
Theatre LaB: True Love Lies (Royce). BFA in
Musical Theatre from SHSU. HSMT and BTP
alumnus! instagram/twitter:@ivyonce.
ADAM GIBBS (Man #1) is happy to return
the TUTS where he was last seen in Hello,
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KATHRYN PORTERFIELD (Woman #2)
is thrilled to be back here at TUTS! Regional
Credits: The Music Man (Ensemble) at TUTS,
James and the Giant Peach (Lady Bug) with
HSMT, Sweet Potato Queens (Flower Tammy)
at TUTS Underground, Panto: Rapunzel
(Rapunzel) and Xanadu (Euterpe) at Stages
Rep, Into the Woods (Lucinda) at Main Street
Theater, Parade (Lucille), The Secret Garden
(Martha) and Les Miserables (Fantine) at Casa
Mañana.
BROOKE WILSON (Woman #1) Favorite credits: Waiting for Johnny Depp (Rita),
Reefer Madness (Sally), Whorehouse (Doatsey Mae), Hands On A Hardbody (Cindy),
Urban Cowboy (Sissy), Whorehouse (Shy),
The Music Man (Ethel), LMNOP (Ruth/LaGreer), When You Wish, Singing In The Rain,
Cats, Beauty And The Beast at TUTS, Trailer
Park Musical (Jeannie), Full Monty (Georgie), RENT (Maureen), Trailer Park Musical
(Pippi), Evita (Eva cover), The Water Coolers
(Judy) (nat’l/inat’l tours), Honky Tonk Angels
(Sue Ellen), Bat Boy (Maggie), Beauty And
The Beast (Babette),Footloose (Ariel), Christmas Carol, The Miser and Forum at The Alley.
www.brookewilson.com
TUTS Underground creative team includes
director Marley Wisnoski, assistant director
Nathan Wilson, choreographer Dana Lewis,
musical director and conductor Jack Beetle,
scenic designer Ryan McGettigan, sound
designer Andrew Harper, lighting designer
Christina R. Giannelli and costume designer
Colleen Grady.
This production of First Date is made possible by the generosity of Mr. David Romero
& Mr. David Greiss.
TUTS Underground offers a contemporary
musical theatre experience featuring local talent in Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center, one of
Houston’s most intimate performance venues
located in the heart of downtown.
VIP Experience: Anticipate the thrill of a
first date by becoming a part of the action
with stage side seats at TUTS Underground’s
new musical, First Date! These special VIP
seats include a private table for two with tasty
snacks, water and an up close and personal
view of the fun and flirty production. VIP
seats are limited - secure yours today by
calling the TUTS Underground Box Office at
713.558.TUTS (8887).
“Don’t be late for your First Date!” PreShow Experience: Enjoy live music from the
show band and the full service bar on stage 30
minutes prior to each performance.
Tickets: $25 - $49, Online: tutsunderground.
com, Phone: 713.558.TUTS
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12th Annual Huntsville Beautification
Golf Tournament
Friday, June 19, 2015 1pm
Raven Nest Golf Course
It’s time to hit the greens at the 12th Annual
Huntsville Beautification Golf Tournament! It’s
a shotgun start at 1 pm on Friday, June 19th at
the Raven Nest Golf Course.
Teams of 4 players are signing up now. Individual players are also welcome and sponsorships
are available. The golf package includes green
fees, cart, range balls, dinner, and awards!
The money raised helps buy wildflower seeds,
drought recovery initiatives, and new trees! Join
the efforts to help keep Huntsville beautiful.
For more information call Penny Joiner at 936294-5708.
STAGES
American English - The Complete
Beatles Tribute
Saturday, May 30, 2015 7:30pm
Crighton Theatre
The fantasy lives on with these remarkable musicians who take the music to the highest level
possible. American English is the closest you
will ever get to reliving The Beatles. Whether
you grew up with the Fab Four or not, this show
will be your window to the past.
Witness “The Complete Beatles Tribute” with
American English! From classic Beatle favorites
such as She Loves You, Twist and Shout,and I
Want To Hold Your Hand, to selections from Sgt.
Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour, and finally
the years of The White Album, Let It Be, and
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Abbey Road. Every musical and visual detail is
magically shaped in a colorful journey back in
time!
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear American
English at the Crighton Theatre on May 30th at
7:30 PM!
Ray Wylie Hubbard & Uncle Lucius
June 6, 2015
Crighton Theatre
Outlaw player Ray Wylie Hubbard is best known
for penning the Texas anthem ‘Up Against the
Wall, Redneck Mother’, made famous in a recording by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1973. While not
indicative of Hubbard’s true body of work, that
tune thrust him into the spotlight in the progressive country genre and spurned the formation of
the band The Cowboy Twinkies, one of the first
cowpunk bands that blurred the lines between
country and rock.
While this most recent appearance on the Crighton stage won’t be a song swap, you can count
on some stories from Hubbard between songs
anyway. Ray Waylie Hubbard currently has a
book in production and he is due to release a
new album April 7, The Ruffian’s Misfortune.
Like the city that brought them together, Uncle
Lucius is a gumbo, with hints of Americana and
folk juxtaposed with a slow-cooked roux that is
steeped in classic rock ‘n’ roll and the blues. The
resulting flavor is familiar and unique, roots at
its most refined, albeit with a gutbucket foundation.
After 8 years of touring across Texas and to both
coasts and back, the band was named 2014’s
Best New Band by the Texas Regional Radio
Report. Their most recent release, Live at
Grady’s 66 Pub, is available for free download at
www.noisetrade.com/unclelucius. They are
currently in preproduction for their next studio
recording with George Reiff (Ray Wylie Hubbard, Shinyribs, Band of Heathens), with the
album to be released in early 2015.
Ray Wylie Hubbard and Uncle Lucius come to
the Crighton Theatre on June 6th!
First Date (TUTS Production)
Running June 11 - 21, 2015
Zilka Hall
800 Bagby St. Houston, TX 77002
The final production in TUTS Underground’s
14/15 season is the lighthearted musical
comedy First Date, playing at the Hobby
Center June 11 - 21. Fresh off Broadway,
this hilarious and hopeful musical chronicles
a blind date between Aaron (who has never
gone out with a stranger) and serial romancer
Casey. As the night unfolds, various patrons in
the busy New York restaurant transform into
supportive best friends, manipulative exes and
protective parents who sing and dance them
through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential
conversational land mines.
Participate In TUTS “Worst” First Date
Contest!
In conjunction with TUTS Underground’s
new musical comedy, First Date, send us your
WORST first date stories for a chance to see
your experience come to life in a hilarious
animation.
The TUTS Underground staff will choose the
top three worst stories and have their animations set up for voting by your peers. The
video with the most votes wins a pair (2) of
tickets to the opening night of First Date and a
show poster.
BJ Thomas
Saturday, June 20, 2015 7pm
Crighton Theatre
Sharity Productions in Association with John
Wiesner Automotive is pleased to announce
that they will be producing and presenting
the Stars Over Texas Concerts with Grammy
Award Winner and Recording Superstar BJ
Thomas in concert with eighteen members of
the Conroe Symphony Orchestra at 7:00 p.m.
on Saturday, June 20, 3015 at the Historic
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Crighton Theatre in Downtown Conroe,
Texas. It will be a very special Symphonic
Production of great BJ Thomas Award Winning Songs and Music. A fun-filled night of
great entertainment.
BJ Thomas is a true American Institution
whose iconic pop, country and gospel hits
defined their respective generations. He has
found a unique way to celebrate an incredible
half century in music and some 47 years since
his first gold selling hit on Sceptor Records.
The singer is a five time Grammy and two
time Dove Award winner who has sold over
70 million records and is ranked in Billboard’s
Top 50 Most Played Artist of the past 50
years. The legendary entertainer will be live
on stage to perform, with members of the
Conroe Symphony Orchestra, some of his
greatest hits like, “Rain Drops Keep Falling on
My Head”, “Whatever Happened to Old Fashion Love”, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”,
“Hooked on a Feeling”, “New Looks From
An Old Lover”, “Somebody Done Somebody
Wrong Song”, and more, which made this
legendary artist a recording superstar.
For Show Tickets Call (936) 441-SHOW
(7469) or go online to www.crightontheatre.
org or email: sharityproductions@earthlink.
net.
This should be a sold out performance, and we
encourage everyone to get their show tickets
as early as possible.
sure to put it on your calendar!
“Anyone interested in joining a lineage society
is invited to participate,” said Mary Kokot,
Huntsville Public Library Adult Services
Coordinator. “Bring any genealogical & family materials you have, such as birth, death,
and marriage certificates, bible records, land
records, etc. If in doubt, bring it along. Help
will be available to assist in preparing your
lineage papers, and worksheets and handouts
will be furnished.”
The workshop is taught by Johnnie Jo Sowell
Dickenson, a local professional genealogist
who has helped many with history and lineage
society applications.
ARTS
Hazy Yet Vivid
On View Through July 3, 2015
Fresh Arts
2101 Winter Street, Studio B11, Houston
Fresh Arts presents “Hazy Yet Vivid”, an
exhibition of new works from artist team
Shane Allbritton and Peter Bernick-Allbritton
that features freestanding wooden zoetrope
sculptures, assemblages and collages. Using
photographic techniques such as slit scanning and strip photography, which compress a
sequence of images over time into a collection
of strips composing a singular gesture, the
artists reinterpret their immediate environment
into elaborate visual distortions of memory
Shrek, The Musical
retrieval. The public is invited to an opening
July 10 - 26, 2015
reception beginning at 6 p.m. on May 22 at
Crighton Theatre
Fresh Arts, 2101 Winter Street, Studio B11,
Join our unlikely hero and his loyal steed Don- Houston, TX, 77007. Free parking is availkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the
able.
beautiful (if slightly temperamental) Princess
Fiona from a fire breathing, love-sick dragon.
CSA Pick-up Party #1
Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad, a gang of
Saturday, June 6, 2015
fairytale misfits, and a biscuit with attitude,
Fresh Arts
and you’ve got the biggest, brightest musi2101 Winter Street, Studio B11, Houston, TX
cal comedy around! Featuring all new songs
Join Fresh Arts for a unique pick-up events where
as well as cult Shrek anthem I’m a Believer,
you can meet this year’s CSA artists and see the
SHREK THE MUSICAL brings all the much- work!
loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on
Discover: Get a first-hand peek at the talent right
stage, in an all-singing, all-dancing extravain your own backyard.
ganza. Join the adventure!
Collect: Jump start your collection or original art
Performances for Shrek the Musical are July
with unique pieces from up-and-coming
10-26, 2015! Note that an additional matinee
artists
has been added the last weekend on Saturday
Connect: Get to know the featured artists at fun
at 2pm.
pick-up events.
Support: Build Houston’s creative economy &
DISCOVERY
directly support the work of emerging artists
Those who purchase shares are afforded the opLineage Society Workshop
portunity to discover new artists and gain exposure
Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:30am - 3pm to a variety of disciplines, while receiving six
Huntsville Public Library
pieces of new, original work from local artists at
Have you ever wondered if your ancestors
a fantastic value and playing a part in helping to
fought alongside George Washington in the
cultivate a vibrant art community.
American Revolutionary War, or maybe even
sold provisions to the Continental Army? Per- Marketing Meet-up: Are you looking to
haps they were passengers on the Mayflower.
meet-up with fellow arts marketers?
Want to prove it? Then a lineage society is for Tuesday, June 9, 2015
you. And while a lineage society is a way to
Fresh Arts
take pride in an ancestor’s accomplishments,
2101 Winter Street, Studio B11, Houston
it’s also a great way to test your research skills Fresh Arts coordinates regular Meet-ups by
and learn more about certain lines in your
function area across organizations that
family history.
provide an opportunity for artists and arts
The Mary Martin Elmore Scott Chapter of the organization staff for this purpose.
Daughters of the American Revolution and
Our goal for these Meet-ups is to bring arts
the Huntsville Public Library are hosting their administrators (by function) together across
annual Lineage Society Work-shop Thursday,
disciplines, geography, and budget sizes to
June 11, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
network, as well as share challenges and best
in the Community Room at the Huntsville
practices.
Public Library, located at 1219 13th Street.
The workshop will offer assistance in preparation of lineage applications to any patriotic or
lineage society (for women and/or men). Be
ONGOING EVENTS
ARTS
Conroe Art League
Every Monday 9:30am-12:30pm
Every Wednesday 6pm-9pm
The Wonders of Watercolor Classes
with Carrie Allbritton!
Carrie discounts that old saying that watercolor is the hardest media and unforgiving,
believing instead that when you understand
the paints and what they do on paper, you
will find it fun, rewarding and very forgiving.
Ongoing watercolor classes every Monday
from 9:30am - 12:30pm AND every Wednesday from 6:00pm - 9:00pm at the Conroe Art
League Gallery.
Contact Carrie directly at: carrieallbritton@
gmail.com or 936-444-7303
Cost: $25.00 per class (payable a month in
advance)
Conroe Art League
Every Tuesday 1pm-3:30pm
Oil Painting Classes w/Gary Hernandez
Each student works at his/her own pace in
a creative and pleasant atmosphere. The
students will learn the tools and materials of
oil painting. New students will be painting a new painting at the first session. You
will copy master paintings as a pathway to
creating your own style of painting. You will
learn....
-How to use a grid to quickly layout the
painting.
-How to select the right palette.
-How to select and mix colors.
-How to select the right paint brushes
-How to apply color theory and use the color
wheel.
-How to pick the right canvas and how to
coat a canvas.
-How to varnish a painting.
-How to paint in Grisaille
These are only a few of the tips I will teach
you to create successful paintings and more
importantly have an enjoyable painting
experience.
Ongoing classes every Tuesday from 1:00pm
- 3:30pm at the Conroe Art League Gallery127 Simonton St. - Conroe, TX 77301
Contact Gary Hernandez directly to sign up:
713-569-9209 or garyhernandezstudio@
yahoo.com
Cost: $35.00/per class paid in advance
monthly.
Conroe Art League
Second Tuesday of the month
2:30pm-6pm
Photography Learning Center w/Ed
Gorman
The Photography Learning Center is back at
the Conroe Art Gallery!!
If you have questions about photography
or how to use your camera, whether it’s a
DSLR, SLR, film, cell phone, iPad, etc.,
then come to the Conroe Art Gallery on the
second Tuesday of each month from 2:30pm
- 6:00pm. The Conroe Art Gallery is at 127
Simonton St., Conroe, TX 77301.
Ed will show you how to work your camera
and take better photographs.
Contact Ed Gorman: edgorman1973@
gmail.com or call 936-443-3487 for more
information.
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Conroe Art League
First and Third Thursday 1pm3:30pm
Figure Drawing Group
Classes are at the Conroe Art League Gallery
127 Simonton St. Conroe, TX 77301
Live Model, All Skill Levels Welcome!
For more information contact: Darby
Kachmar [email protected] 936-2285126 or Marilyn Lowry mlowry3@comcast.
net or 936-447-1579
Fee is $10 per session, no reservation necessary
Conroe Art League
Every Thursday 2pm-4:30pm
Painting with Pastels
This is an ongoing weekly course, beginning February 5, 2015. The class meets
every Thursday from 2:00pm - 4:30pm in the
upstairs classroom at the Conroe Art League
Gallery - 127 Simonton St. - Conroe, TX
77301.
Painting in pastels is quick, easy, colorful,
beautiful, very portable - and FUN! Handled
correctly, pastels will last many lifetimes and
their pure colors never fade, crack, or peel.
No stress and no pressure here to paint a
masterpiece. You’ll learn how to turn “happy accidents” into a part of your painting, or
erase it - pastels are very forgiving. Everyone will hjave a chance to experiment with
different techniques and materials, and you’ll
develop your own unique style over time.
For those who are new to art, you’ll learn
the basics of drawing and painting. For
more experienced artists who are new to
pastels, you’ll learn the characteristics and
techniques that are unique to pastels. At the
end of each class, you’ll have a finished or
nearly-finished painting to take home, ready
for framing.
Each student is encouraged to learn at
their own pace. You are welcomed to do a
class-based painting from reference photos
provided by the instructor, or bring in your
own reference materials to use. We may also
paint from life, or go outdoors to paint as the
weather permits.
During this ongoing course, you will:
-Improve your drawing skills, including
proportions and perspective.
-Learn how to see and paint values, types of
underpaintings, both wet and dry.
-Create different effects using hard vs. soft
pastels.
-Layer and blend pastels to get exactly the
color you want.
-Develop and use a portable pastel kit for
outdoor painting and travel.
-Know how to paint trees, clouds and water.
-Learn how to paint and draw from life and
en plein air (outdoors).
There’s no pressure to develop a masterpiece or “do it right”. This class is all about
having fun and discovering the artist in you.
You’ll have lots of individual attention from
the instructor with helpful feedback so your
paintings keep getting better.
Your supply list has options to fit a budget,
and everyone is welcomed to register and
join us any time.
Please contact the instructor, Kathy Fediw,
at [email protected] or call her
business number at 281-687-6966, if you
have any questions and for a list of materials.
Cost: $30.00 per class, payable at the first
of each month or at the beginning of each
session.
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Instructor: Kathy Fediw, LEED AP ID+C,
CLP, CLT
EDUCATION
Barbara Bush Branch Library
Ongoing [call for class dates & times]
Ongoing Computer Classes
Dave Smith, computer instructor, will be
teaching seven different computer classes at
the Barbara Bush Branch Library in March
2015. The classes are Computer Basics,
Introduction to the Internet, Email, MS
Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS
Publisher.
He also teaches additional classes which are
offered at various times throughout the year,
including Digital Photography and Smartphone Tips. Please call for the dates and
times of the classes and to register.
Each class meets for a single 2-hour session. As class size is limited to 12 people,
pre-registration is required for each class.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served
basis. Registration opens 30 days prior to
the class.
Please visit the website (www.hcpl.net) or
call the library at 281-376-4610 for more
information and to register for these classes.
The classes are held in the Barbara Bush
Library Friends Computer Lab at 6817
Cypresswood Drive in Spring.
tour and tasting of our products.
Make your reservation online at BigThicketDistilling.com
Big Thicket Distillery’s telephone number is
936-666-1341
GAMING
Beginner HeroClix
Sundays at 4:30pm
Fat Ogre Games & Comics
525 Sawdust Rd, Spring TX, P: (281) 2928444
HeroClix is a fun game that allows players to
pit their favorite Heroes and Villains against
each other in combat! Battle characters from
multiple series, from Lord of the Rings to the
Justice League!
Who will reign victorious on the fields of
battle?
For beginners or casual players
HeroClix Tournament Night
Mondays at 7pm
525 Sawdust Rd, Spring TX, P: (281) 292-8444
HeroClix is a fun game that allows players to pit
their favorite Heroes and Villains against each
other in combat! Battle characters from multiple
series, from Lord of the Rings to the Justice
League!
Who will reign victorious on the fields of battle?
For more experienced players, and competitive
players
Baldwin Boettcher Library
Ongoing
English As A Second Language
The Baldwin Boettcher Library Staff
provides ESL classes for folks who want
to learn to speak English or improve their
English speaking skills. Our beginning
classes are scheduled on Mondays, 6-7:30
pm; Fridays 1-3 pm; Our intermediate
ESL classes are on Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm
and Thursdays, 1-3 pm; Our conversational
English class is on Tuesdays 10-12 pm; Our
advanced English class is on Tuesdays 4-5
pm. Call the library at 281-821-1320 for
more information about the ESL classes.
Netrunner Meetup Night
Mondays at 6pm
Netrunner is an amazing living card game,
with an amazing story and amazing game
mechanics. Players compete using one of two
decks they construct, either the Corporation or
the Runner. In a Matrix style world, Runners
jack into the computer system in order to hack
into the Corporation’s systems in order to
discover their secret agendas.
Casual meetup night for players of all experience levels
Every Thursday noon-1pm
Yoga For Stress Relief
Certified yoga instructor, Linda Popinksi,
offers this free class every Thursday from
12:00-1:00 in the Earl Elliott Room at the
Barbara Bush Branch Library, 6817 Cypresswood Drive in Spring. Both men and
women are welcome. Bring your own yoga
mat and a beach towel.
X-Wing Meetup Night
Tuesdays at 6pm
Star Wars X-Wing is a fun and innovative
dogfighting game, in which you must defeat your
opponents in space combat! Use ships from the
Star Wars universe as you construct your custom
squadrons, and fight for either the Empire or the
Rebel Alliance!
Casual meetup night for players of all experience
levels
Every Friday noon-2pm
French Classes with Marie
Come and learn French with Marie on
Fridays from 12:00-2:00. The class is intermediate level and so some knowledge of
French is required. No registration is necessary. The class will meet in the Robin Bush
Room at the Barbara Bush Branch Library,
6817 Cypresswood Drive in Spring.
AREA TOURS
Big Thicket Distilling
Every Saturday noon, 2pm, 4pm
Big Thicket Distilling Tours
We offer tours at 12, 2 and 4pm on Saturdays. $10 per person. Includes a distillery
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Pokemon League
Wednesdays 5pm - 8pm
Space Cadets Collection Collection
27326 Robinson Road #117 Oak Ridge North,
Free and open to all. Learn to play, trade cards,
have fun with friends and make new friends.
Earn free League only Pokemon foil cards by
playing 7 games (DS or card). On any given
week we have 25-40 players aged from 6-40+
(yes we have moms and dads that play also :)
World War Wednesday
Wednesdays at 6pm
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This is a meet up for all our Historical themed
miniatures games. Bolt Action, Flames of War,
and Saga players rejoice! We have tables as
well as beautiful terrain for players to use. It’s
a great event for both beginners and veterans
alike, and a great way to spend a Wednesday!
Magic Commander Night
Wednesdays at 6pm
Test your mettle in one of Magic the Gathering’s most popular multiplayer format! As one
of the most fun and casual formats for Magic,
Commander night is a blast! Players Construct
a 100 card deck with no duplicates allowed,
and play in a multi-man game leading to some
crazy shenanigans. See you on the battlefield!
Warmachine and Hordes Meetup Night
Thursdays at 6pm
Warmachine and Hordes (commonly known as
Warma/Hordes) is an awesome Miniatures game
where players assume the role of a general leading their warriors into combat. Control amazing
machines called Jacks or harness the wild power
of powerful beasts and monsters to destroy your
adversaries.
Casual meetup night for players of all experience
levels
My Little Pony Collectable Card Game
Thursdays All Day
27326 Robinson Road #117 Oak Ridge North
Come learn how to play the My Little Pony
collectible card game. Free event each week.
Magic Draft Night
Thursdays at 7pm
Players purchase 3 booster packs from standard
(depending on what the group votes to draft),
and an additional 2 booster packs of any available expansion to add to the prize pool! Players
then construct a 40 card deck from the contents
of their draft to compete with, battling for prizes
and glory!
Fun event for players of all experience levels,
and perfect for players to expand their collection
For more Details go to:
https://www.facebook.com/
events/340064569532538/
Friday Night Magic
Fridays at 7pm
Experience one of the most intense and fun
Standard Magic tournaments in the area every
Friday at Fat Ogre! Players bring a 60 card
Standard legal deck to compete in a massive
tournament! A fun night for players of all ages
and experience levels, Friday Night Magic is
your premier Magic event.
Fun event for players of all experience levels
events/510118335795397/
Warhammer Meetup Night
Fridays at 6pm
A fun meetup night for both Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k players,
Fat Ogre has an amazing community for
Warhammer. A great night for players of all
experience levels, new players can feel free
to stop by and learn!
Hero Clix
Saturdays 3pm – 5pm
27326 Robinson Road #117 Oak Ridge
North, TX 77385
Come on out and learn how to play Hero
Clix. We are an official HeroClix tournament
site , so come and enjoy the fun. We have
added a full line of Hero Clix items.
Marval Dice Masters League
North, TX 77385
Learn how to play this exciting new game,
which sold out all over the nation as soon as
it was released. It is an inexpensive game to
start , at around $15 for a starter and $1.00
for boosters. If you have ever played the dace
game Quarriors, this will seem familiar to
you, as it is created by the same company.
Join us!
Board Game Night
North, TX 77385
Bring your favorite board or card game. Meet
up with friends or make new ones while you
are here! Please only bring all ages appropriate games. Monopoly anyone? We want
everybody to be able to participate.
Magic Modern Tournament
Saturdays at 6pm
A fun tournament for Magic the Gathering
players to test their competitive skill with
access to older and more powerful cards.
Players bring a Modern legal deck comprised
of 60 cards, and compete for prizes and glory!
Players may use any Magic the Gathering card
printed after 8th edition, with a few specific
exceptions.
events/1376049572715159/
SUPPORT GROUPS
Free 2B Support Group
Tuesdays, 6:45-8:30pm
Faith Bible Church, The Woodlands
FREE 2B is a faith-based codependency
support group, where those facing relational
difficulties can share their struggles and begin the process of restoring healthy balance
in their lives. Free 2B is open to the public
for individuals and couples 18 and older and
is free to attend. For an information packet,
email Scott at [email protected].
TO THE REPUBLIC
“Circling the Drain”
commentary by Bart Pearston
[email protected]
“This country is a hellhole. We are going
down fast.” Donald Trump
Bart Pearston
Hope you didn’t miss
my article last week.
With all the recent
rain, I sat watching it
run down my drainage sewers and read
THIS startling comment. What was your
initial reaction to that
statement? shock?, sadness?, denial? None of
the above?
If it is shock you are probably one of those
who believes that the reported 5.4% unemployment rate, the quarter million jobs added
monthly, the record all-time stock market
highs, and the six year economic recovery
shows the statement to be ridiculous.
If on the other hand it was sadness, you
probably see the record high number of
working age out of the workforce, below the
poverty level and receiving food stamps and/
or disability, taking psychotropic prescription
medicines, and record national debt combined
with the general decline in civility, public
morals, and trust in our leaders as proof.
from the past are doomed to repeat it) and the
revelation that our past Secretary of State’s
deleted Emails were anything but private and
not just “a distraction and noise”.
What about door number three, Monty Hall?
Maybe you just don’t believe ANY of the
reports that come out. You don’t know what
to believe since so many “experts” disagree
and their reports contradict each other. Even
the major “news” networks are clearly biased
in their stories and their “star” reporters like
Brian Williams and George Stephanopoulos,
have been proven to be dishonest and/or shills
with an agenda. Their selection of “stories” is
even suspect.
The even more shocking statement by
Jonathan Gruber earlier this year that , “We
counted on the ignorance of the American
People” displays an elitist mentality that
makes me join the fourth opinion. I choose
“None of the above”. Yes, I acknowledge the
failures of the promised,
“Great Society” in our society and culture.
Anyone who doesn’t is as willfully ignorant
as an ostrich. But I also don’t believe it is
anywhere close to a “Hellhole’. Why would
the millions come here each year, both legally
and illegally, if it were?
Both sides throw out statistics and numbers
to support their claims. That is when they
bother to let the public know what they are
doing in the first place. This week we saw a
“Trade Bill” that was passed without knowing what was in it, (Those who don’t learn
I don’t believe the American public is all
that confused about our current plight. Many
are engaged in a political “mind game mentality” rooting for “THEIR SIDE” to win like
it is some kind of ballgame. in my humble
opinion, they are the ones responsible for the
government we now have. But most aren’t.
Their interests are “country first” and not,
“me first”. Unless we have independent media
which provides unbiased information, The
Public News, to those who are non-partisan
independents, the divide in our nation politically will become toxic. As long as you continue reading, we will try to be that source.
Our Founding Fathers, especially our first
three Presidents, all warned of the dangers
of political party affiliations that obscure our
country from clearly seeing through corrupt
politicians or candidates who seem to be more
interested in self promotion than problem
solving. Wouldn’t it be nice to actually vote
on candidates in an election based on their
RECORDS (and not their promises) and ideas
minus maybe their names or party affiliations?
THAT may sound crazy and unworkable, but
it might actually solve the growth of voter
indifference and apathy produced by a media
obsessed with “gotcha questions” and scandal
scoops.
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ART TALK
CHINA’S LOST
CIVILIZATION,
THE MYSTERY
OF
SANXINGDUI
story and photos by Rosanne Friedman
[email protected]
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The figure that greets all viewers walking
into the ancient Chinese exhibit, at the Houston
Museum of Natural Science, is monumentally
tall and post-thin from the Bronze Age in
southwestern China. The face is something
never seen before. A stylized mask that is riveting- simple and powerful: clear lines define
the eyes, nose and mouth. Arms held out as
holding something, now fingers and thumb in
perfect circle are wrapped around an empty
space. The joints of the hands are evident and
each finger is rendered separately. This is not a
cartoon generalization of hands but in contrast
to the highly stylized face these sophisticated
huge hands are more natural. Perhaps the figure
was holding an elephant tusk since elephant
tusks are found in the pit. We can only guess at
the reason why. This figure is wearing an embellished tunic that delicately flares to the hem
below the knee. Standing flatfooted and solid
on a pedestal that is engraved, embellished and
carved with stylized shapes that are reminiscent
of bird and beak, the foot of the base curls up
with a lyrical finish.
The resonance between the organic gesture of
life and the stylizations with softened geometry
is distinctive, enthralling.
Entering the gallery we are embraced by the
semi-darkness, comfortable but cool in temperature and warmed by music. Lights are focused
to allow the clarity, dimension and in some
cases cast shadow to define the forms. The
impact is a nonverbal invitation to relax and
join the mystery that surrounds these mesmerizing objects. There are ample places to sit in
reverie. This is a place for those who seek out
mysteries that almost go beyond the reach of
word. No one has seen faces like these. There
was no writing, no handy way to understand
them, archeologists are still in search.
To describe we can make some observations:
a mask like face, both bold and delicate. The
figure seems to be based on a square post. The
ears standing out from the head—is hearing
is emphasized with these stylized ears? The
mouth is wide and narrow, slightly open,
it stretches across and around the face and
in some the lips are gently curved up at the
corners. Are they smiling? The eye socket
as a protruding almond shape that tilts up at
the corner. A line across the face marking a
cheekbone again and again-- that line appears
on a face that’s smiling. Are they smiling at us?
The gentle chin stands out from the neck with
an indication of a square jaw, perhaps an echo
of the structure of the post underneath or some
other intent?
The only standing figure in the exhibit is tall,
dignified, to see this figure is to look up, tall
and yet higher on a pedestal. If this is meant
to be admired or intimidating in its power, I
am admiring and am in awe. These figures and
masks are powerful and there is something
modern about their simplicity: Picasso- known
to steal ideas from any studio he entered-would steal them.
But maybe others found their designs worth
emulating: the imagination of an art historian
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could go into action here- a
look at the ancient Scythians metalwork and there are
similarities with some of the
objects. The Scythians were
nomads who roamed the Eurasian steppes and Central Asia
at their peak they dominated
Central China. They were
a few hundred years after
the Sanxingdui, but around
the same time as the Jinsha
peoples.
We enter here and are
invited in comfort to sit and
ponder about the possibilities
of what these objects might
have been understood to be—
Gods or idols, performing rituals for peacekeeping—good
weather, water, or warriors
calling troops to battle? And
what we might see them to
be: an extension of the love of
things Chinese as we love the
echo of the delicacy of designs
reminiscent in later Chinese
art, or curves of design found
in yet other civilizations.
The bold mask like face
with eyeballs that are posts,
as if posts were the act of
staring, capture abstraction
in the object and then live in
the viewer’s memory as only
iconic images are able to do.
Finding these objects was
much like finding archeology
all over the globe-- A chance
meeting, a chance digging.
There is a hole somewhere
something dropped in it. The
farmer digging a drainage
ditch came upon some jade in
this area as far back as 1929.
And there were wars and politics to digress
from their uncovering. There was exploration in the 1950’s and 1960’s and finally in the
1980’s an international professional archeological dig came into places that were further
southwest in China than things were ever found
and found these, upsetting the status quo and
story about what happened where and when,
giving archeologists new objects and new mysteries to uncover. We may join them here. The
exhibit continues through September 7.
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PUBLIC NEWS GIG GUIDE
CONROE
Backwoods Saloon
230 Lexington Ct., Conroe 936-273-0203
no website
Open Mic every Thursday 8pm with Dan Scott & Friends
Sat May 23 9pm Earl T and the Tattered Hearts
Fri June 5 8pm Lyssa Warren Cerise
Sat June 6 9pm Charlie Parker Band [Frank Ingram
Benefit]
Fri June 12 8pm Groove Bone
Sat June 13 9pm .07 Blues Band
Sun June 14 4pm Open Mic Jam
Fri June 19 8pm Dark Energy
Sat June 20 9pm Dunville [Roy Jimenez Benefit]
Fri June 26 8pm Rainchild
Sat June 27 9pm The Rod Brothers [Operation Sunscreen]
Sun June 28 4pm Open Mic Jam
Bernhardt Winery
9043 County Road 204, Plantersville
www.bernhardtwinery.com
All Shows start one hour prior to sunset
Shows are $10 - ages 18 and up
Sun May 31 The .07 Blues Band
The Corner Pub
302 N. Main St., Conroe 936-788-2390
www.thecornerpubinconroe.com
Tuesday Open Mic with Jeremy Bankhead
Wednesday Hippie Night with The Lankfords Brothers
Thurday FarLand jams with Adam McFarland
Sat May 30 9pm Texas Johnny Boy
Dosey Doe Music Cafe
463 FM 1488, Conroe 936-321-2171
www.doseydoe.com
Thurs May 28 8:30pm The Circle Slide 25th Anniversary Tour
The Choir & Kevin Max w/Michael Roe of the 77s [$15]
Fri May 29 8:30pm Thom Shepherd Solo [$15]
Sat May 30 8:30pm Gary Kyle – Band [$15]
Sun May 31 7pm Sibling Rivalry – EP Release [$10]
Tues June 2 8pm Scott Brown & Friends w/Rich O’Toole [$12]
Thurs June 4 8:30pm Tommy Castro & the Painkillers [$24]
Fri June 5 8:30pm The Chubby Knuckle Choir [$15]
Sat June 6 8:30pm Paula Nelson & Tony Ramey “In The
Round”[$20]
Game On Sports Bar
1717 N. Fraiser Conroe 936-788-6209
www.gameonsportsandmusic.com
Open Mic Every Wednesday at 8pm
Sat May 30 9pm Cadillac Blues Band
Kat Daddy Bar
463 FM 1488, Conroe 936-273-9342
www.katdaddysbar.com
Every Sunday 4pm Corey Micheal, Caleb & Friends
Papa’s On The Lake
9400 Hwy 105 W., Lake Conroe 936-447-2500
www.papasonthelake.com
No Music Reported
Red Brick Tavern
119 Simonton, Conroe 936-539-2000
www.theredbricktavern.com
Every Sunday Gospel Sunday Brunch
CYPRESS CREEK
Acadia
3939 FM 1960 W., Houston 281-893-2860
www.acadiabarandgrill.com
Fri May 29 9pm Apothica,Everything Shatters, DML
Cartel, Chaotic Justice
Sat May 30 9pm Disciple Of Doom, Oceans Of Slumber,
The Choosen, Tracing Over Evil
Fri June 5 9pm Sounding Angels, Ases Of Eagles,
Chester Rushing, Sixl6
Sat June 6 9pm Reachdown Radio Showcase (Free
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Show With Ticket)
Fri June 12 9pm Winters End, Cortez, Carranza, Never
Quite The King
Sat June 13 9pm Ozz, No Remorse, Ratchet Dolls
Fri June 19 9pm Sugarball Exp,Hacksaw Man,The Cory
Michael Band
Sat June 20 9pm The Van Hagar Project, Judas X
Fri June 26 9pm Wellwell, When All Is Lost, The Rest Of
The Guys, Polly Suede
The Concert Pub North
2470 Cypress Creek Pkwy., Houston 281-583-8111
www.theconcertpub.com
No Music Reported For This Week
Swanny’s Bar & Grill
6224 Theall Rd., Houston 281-440-1308
No Music Reported For This Week
MAGNOLIA
Genuwine Tasting Room
6503 FM 1488 #401 Magnolia 832-934-2675
www.mygenuwine.com [no cover unless stated *] Fri. May 29 7:30pm The Silvertones
Sat. May 30 7:30pm Sean Harrold
Thurs. June 4 7:30pm Duane Dulane
Fri. June 5 7:30pm Chase Gassaway
Sat. June 6 7:30pm Scott Haskins
Thurs. June 11 7:30pm Sheri Lavo
Fri. June 12 7:30pm Jenn Harris
Sat. June 13 7:30pm Mike Allen & Stephen Sullivan
Thurs. June 18 7:30pm Morgan Taylor Wilson
Fri. June 19 7:30pm The Silvertones
Sat. June 20 7:30pm Russell Boyd
Thurs. June 25 7:30pm Grant Harrison
Fri. June 26 7:30pm Sean Harrold
Sat. June 27 7:30pm Chase Gassaway
MONTROSE
Rudyards
2010 Waugh Dr Houston 713-521-0521
www.rudyardspub.com
Weekday shows & Sunday, doors open at 8pm
Friday and Saturday, doors open at 9pm [unless otherwise
mentioned]
First band listed is headliner/or plays last. Music starts
at 10.
Thur. May 28 Rudyard’s Beer Tasting @7pm
Fri. May 29 Slow Future, Hired Goons, Spare Bones
(Doors at 8:30pm) [$8]
Sat. May 30 Vanity Crimes-CD Release w/ Carry the
Storm, Switchblade Lover
Wed June 3 Western Swing Wednesdays/7-11pm FREE!
Thu June 4 Deathpunk Slursdays w/Killer Hearts and
Screech of Death
($3 Cover)
Fri June 5 Brumes, Dead to the World, Black Irish Texas,
Jason Bancroft and the Wealthy Beggars
Sat June 6 Poor Dumb Bastards, The Beaumonts, The
Bad Drugs,
Wed June 10 Western Swing Wednesdays/7-8pm Free!
8pm-11pm $5
Thu June 11 Silver Blueberry, Saturday Night Soldiers,
We are Computers
Fri June 12 BLOWFLY, Modfag, DJ Black Slacks [$13
Presale, $15 Day Of Show]
Sat June 13 Hounds of Jezebel,Dead Woods,
Sun June 14 Level Up Comedy Night?
Mon June 15 7:30pm Open Mic Comedy FREE!
Tue June 16 Bootown presents: Grown Up Story Time
8pm Show and 10pm show [$5]
Wed June 17 Western Swing Wednesdays/7-11pm
FREE!
Thu June 18 SILS, Ak’chamel, Bayou Vimana, Dead
Horseman Revival,
Fri June 19 Letters to Voltron, End Is Now, The EarthAsWeKnowIt,$8
Sat June 20 Raceway, Camera Out, Eric Todd [$8]
Thur June 25 Rudyard’s Beer Tasting featuring Brash
Brewery
Fri June 26 Visionary Noise presents: TBA
Sat June 27 Mike Stinson, Hard Luck Revival
Wed July 1 Western Swing Wednesdays/7-11pm FREE!
Thur July 2 Deathpunk Slursdays featuring Supergrave
and Unconvicted($3)
Fri July 3 Alex Riddle,Cavern Hymnal, Belvoir, $8 Cover
Sat July 4 Happy July 4th!!!!!
NORTH SPRING
19th Hole Grill & Bar
202 Sawdust Rd #118, Spring 281-363-2574
www.19th.cc [$10 cover on all shows]
Thu May 28 8pm Tribe Hill
Fri May 29 8pm Bury the Burden, Rockett Queen,
Another Pearl Harbor
Sat May 30 8pm Bow Before Horus, Royale, Desecrated
Remains, The Earth As We Know It, Scavenger, It
Fri June 5 8pm Hitting Subset, Calamity Jane, The Victory At Maple
Sat June 06 8pm Intrinsic
Thu June 11 8pm Grand Antler Teeth
Fri June 12 8pm poor dumb bastards, The Guillotine,
Supergrave
Sat June 13 8pm Southbound 45
Thu June 18 8pm Big E & The Lowdown
Fri June 19 8pm Carter, The Chase Meridian
Sat June 20 8pm Killa Maul, Snake Skin Prison
Sat June 27 8pm Pussy Factory
Sat July 04 8pm Mezzanine, The Fifth Fire
Fri July 17 8pm Vagrant Sons, Vanilla Whale, The Dirty
Seeds, Stone Machine Electric
Fri July 24 8pm Big Bald Brian
Cocktails & Rumors
314 Sawdust, The Woodlands 832-663-9669
www.cocktailsandrumors.com
Crabby Daddy
25186 I-45, The Woodlands 281-296-2722
www.crabbydaddy.com
Fri May 29 7pm Yelba
Sat May 30 7pm Reveron Johnny & The Band Of Gizmos
Crescent Moon Wine Bar
440 Rayford Rd., #115, Spring 281-364-WINE (9463)
www.crescentmoonwinebar.com
Thur May 28 8:30pm Salsa Night
Fri May 29 8:30pm Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Sat May 30 8:30pm Luther and the Healers
Thur June 4 8:30pm Salsa Night
Fri June 5 8:30pm Buck Yeager Band
Sat June 6 8:30pm Next Level Band
Thur June 11 8:30pm Salsa Night
Fri June 12 8:30pm Johnny & the Spinsters
Sat June 13 8:30pm The Goods Band
Dosey Doe Big Barn
25911 I-45 N., The Woodlands 281-367-3774
www.doseydoe.com
Fri May 29 8:30pm Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros
Sat May 30 8:30pm Shawn Colvin
Thur June 4 8:30pm Bucky Covington
Fri June 5 8:30pm Lari White and Chuck Cannon
Sat June 6 8:30pm Willis Alan Ramsey with Special Guest
Alison Rogers
Sun June 7 7:30pm Acoustic Alchemy
Thur June 11 8:30pm Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes
Fri June 12 8:30pm Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion
Papa’s Ice House
314 Pruitt Rd, Spring 713-364-8140
www.papasicehousetx.com
No music announced
OLD TOWN SPRING
Cross Track Ice House
http://www.cross-track-tx.com
200 Magnolia St., Old Town Spring 281-907-0711
Puffabellys
100 Main St, Spring 281-350-3376
www.puffabellys.com
Wednesdays 8pm Davin James’ Songwriter Showcase
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Thursdays 6pm Open Mic
Wunsche Brothers Cafe
103 Midway, Spring 281-350-1902
http://www.wunschebroscafe.com
Public News sends good thoughts to Wunsche Brothers
Cafe and their employees and families as they rebuild
from the March 29th fire.
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Bombshells
21005 I-45 North, Spring 281-288-2769
www.4bombshells.com
Fri May 29 9pm The Playboys
Sat May 30 9pm Revamp
Sun May 31 9pm JB Barnett
Fri June 5 9pm Spider Monkey
Sat June 6 9pm JB Barnett
Sun June 7 9pm Sick Dick
Fri June 12 9pm 3peace
Sat June 13 9pm UFC
Sun June 14 9pm Lou Adams
Fri June 19 9pm Obsolete August
Sat June 20 9pm Level One
Sun June 21 9pm RJ Tamburello
Fri June 26 9pm Not The Rachels
Sat June 27 9pm Fal Skye
Chicago Joe’s
18433 Kuykendahl Rd Spring 281-533-3000
www.chicagojoesspring.com
Thurs, Fri & Sat Dueling Pianos
Mak’s Place Sports Bar & Grill
5200 Louetta Rd., Houston 832-698-1611
www.maksplacesportsbar.com
Fri May 29 9pm Bon Ton Mickey
Sat May 30 9pm Dunville
That One Bar
4660 Louetta #100, Spring 832-562-3942
www.thatonebar.com
Fri May 29 9pm Treynwrek
Fri Jun 5 9pm Space Monkey
Sat June 13 9pm JB Barnett
Fri June 19 9pm .07 Blues Band
Fri June 26 9pm Sundance Head
Sat June 29 9pm Under Cover Brothas
Two Mules Tavern
http://www.twomulestavern.com
100 Cypresswood Dr., Spring 281-528-0600
Fri May 29 9pm VCR
Fri June 19 9pm Texas TNT
Fri June 26 9pm VCR
THE WOODLANDS
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
2005 Lake Robbins Dr, The Woodlands, 281-210-1105
www.woodlandscenter.org
Thu, May 28 8pm Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band
Fri, May 29 8pm The Music of Led Zeppelin with the
Houston Symphony
Sat May 30 7:30pm Train with The Fray and Matt
Nathanson
Fri June 12 8pm Disney In Concert
Sat June 13 4:30pm Boom Bash – King of the Mic with LL
Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip
with Doug E. Fresh, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, Scarface,
DJ Jazzy Jeff, Grandmaster’s Furious Five, Sugarhill
Gang and Public Enemy
Wed June 17 7:30pm MOVE with Derek & Julianne
Hough
Fri June 19 8pm Texas Music Festival Orchestra FREE
Sat June 20 2:30pm 93Q’s A Day In The Country with
Darius Rucker, Brett Eldredge, Brothers Osborne, A Thousand Horses, Chase Bryant, Drake White, Casey James
and Michael Ray
Thu July 2 7:30pm Third Eye Blind & Dashboard Confessional
Fri July 3 8pm Star-Spangled Salute with the Houston
Symphony
Fri July 10 6:30pm Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon
Jones & the Dap Kings and Doyle Bramhall
Sat July 11 4pm Bud Light Weenie Roast with Shinedown, Blue October, X Ambassadors, Meg Meyers and
Nothing More
Fri July 17 7:30pm The Avett Brothers with Old Crow
Medicine Show
Sat July 18 7pm Steely Dan with Elvis Costello & The
Imposters
Tue July 21 6:35pm Sublime with Rome with Rebelution, Pepper & Mickey Avalon
Wed July 22 7pm Kid Rock with Foreigner
Fri July 24 7pm Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa with
Hoodie Allen
Sat July 25 7:30pm Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire
Thu July 30 8pm “Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll” with the
Houston Symphony
Fri July 31 8pm Idina Menzel
Sat Aug. 1 1pm Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival
with Slayer, King Diamond, Hellyeah, The Devil Wears
Prada, White Chapel, Thy Art Is Murder, Sworn In,
Jungle Rot, Sister Sin, Code Orange, Feed Her to the
Sharks & Kissing Candice
Sat Aug. 8 7:30pm 5 Seconds of Summer with Hey
Violet
Sat Aug. 15 8pm Grease Sing-A-Long
Wed Aug. 19 6:15pm Incubus & Deftones with Death
From Above 1979 and The Bots
TOMBALL
Brautigams Bar & Grill
106 Market St, Tomball 832-698-4461
www.brautigamsbarngrill.com
No Music Reported
Cheers
916 West Main St., Tomball 281-351-2599
no website
Sat May 30 Corey Michael Band
Main Street Crossing
111 West Main St., Tomball 281-290-0431
www.mainstreetcrossing.com
Thurs May 28 8pm Jerrett Zoch and the OSR Band
Fri May 29 8pm 2 Bit Palomino CD Release with Special
Guest Derek Arambrau
Sat May 30 8pm Steve Krase with Special Guest Trudy Lynn
The Empty Glass
104 Market Street, Tomball 832-698-4722
www.theemptyglass.com
Fri May 29 8pm Micky Hobbs
Sat May 30 8pm TBA
Fri June 5 8pm TBA
Sat June 6 8pm TBA
WEST HOUSTON
Shakespeare Pub
14129 Memorial Dr, Houston 281-497-4625
http://www.shakespearepub.net
Thur May 28 9:30pm Sonny Boy Terry
Fri May 29 9:30pm Erin Jaimes Band
Sat May 30 9:30pm No Refund Band
Sun May 31 9pm Sparetime Murray & The Honeymakers
Blues Jam
Thur June 4 9:30pm Sonny Boy Terry
Fri June 5 9:30pm Erin Jaimes Band
Sat June 6 9:30pm No Refund Band
Sun June 7 9pm Sparetime Murray & The Honeymakers
Blues Jam
Blues Jam
Blues Jam
Exuding passion and embracing wonder
in every endeavor may well be the most
defining quality of Asheville, North Carolina’s native-daughter and rapidly rising
star that is Rainey Qualley. She moved
to Nashville to pursue songwriting but
quickly embraced her desire to entertain,
and she is now the flagship artist for the
new label Cingle Records.
Born in New York, NY, Rainey’s family
moved to Missoula, Montana when she
was two. Living on a farm in the Big Sky
state with her parents, older brother and
younger sister afforded wide open spaces
to roam and play. Her love of the outdoors and animals were firmly entrenched
by the time the family moved to Asheville, North Carolina when she was nine.
“We didn’t own a television, so my
brother, sister and I and friends would be
outside playing catching salamanders,
climbing trees – everything most kids do
outside,” said Rainey.
A student of dance since the age of two,
Rainey always loved the performing arts
and was a passionate participant in school
plays, dance competitions, and choirs
throughout her childhood. She credits
dance for giving her an appreciation for a
wide variety of music genres and styles.
Between dance, the music her father
listened to at home and in his own bands
and her own eclectic tastes, she credits
Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Otis Redding,
Etta James, The Temptations and others
for helping drive her love of music.
“Being in the Appalachian Mountains,
those sounds are really native to my ears,
and I love the historical element of Country music – it’s so native to America,” she
said. “Country is innately earthy, which
I’m drawn to.”
Rainey began creating her own songs
as a young child, and her father taught
her how to play guitar. Her love of writing and performing eventually led her to
Nashville, where she immersed herself in
the creative community.
“I love the songwriting atmosphere in
Nashville. Everyone is making music,
and there’s a real sense of community
here.”
Second only to her passion for songwriting and music is her love for animals.
She calls herself the “crazy cat lady” and
confesses to carrying cat food in her car
to share with strays she encounters. Her
own two cats, Myrtle and Wizard, were
rescued from the basement of a vacant
house.
Rainey was recently announced as the
flagship artist on the new Nashville label
Cingle Records, and she is currently
working on her debut album with acclaimed producer Russ Zavitson.
Her song, “Turn Me On Like The
Radio,” was added as a “Highway Find”
on SiriusXM’s The Highway and rose to
#17 on their countdown. Her debut single
“Me And Johnny Cash” hits country radio soon. TURN DOWN THE LIGHTS
will be released on June 2, 2015.
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MAY 28 - JUNE 10, 2015
15
NICK’S LOCAL EATS / COVER STORY
5.ATE Café
Gourmet food in a rock climbing gym
an interview with Chef Charlie Williams
story and photos by Nick Rama
[email protected]
Left to right: Charlie Williams, Elisa Godina de Chavez, Natasha Jiminez, Jared Hobson
The first time I walked into 5.ATE Café, I
really had no idea what to expect from this walk
up counter inside of a rock climbing gym. By
the time I left, I was using words like “delicious”, “genius” and “original” to describe my
experience.
5.ATE was recommended to me by a fellow
foodie, Matt Bessey, and
it’s a good thing word
was starting to get out on
social media about this
café, or I would never
have found it. Located
just inside the entrance to
the Inspire Rock Climbing Gym, owner/chef,
Charlie Renee Williams
and crew are cooking up
some absolutely amazNick Rama ing and wholly original
dishes from their small,
open concept, kitchen.
Upon walking up to the counter I was cheerfully greeted by Shane who after learning it was
my first visit to 5.ATE, was happy to tell me a
little bit about two of his favorite dishes. The
Vietnamese Banh Mi with Pork Belly is a slow
roasted pork belly, spicy pate, mayo, house pickled daikon and carrots topped with cilantro and
thinly sliced fresh jalapenos, served on a bolillo
roll. Shane’s second recommendation was the
Shar-Warma Burger, a crispy patty of freshly
ground certified angus beef, banana peppers,
feta cheese, creamy tzatzki sauce an a garlic
chili sauce on a house made sourdough English
muffin, topped with lettuce, tomato and onion.
Being a fan of Greek/Mediterranean flavor
profiles, I ordered the Shar-Warma burger with a
side of garlic fries. I’ve got to be honest, I love a
good banh mi and that is normally what I would
have ordered, but I couldn’t help but wonder if
I could really find good pork belly inside of a
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rock climbing gym (a week later I would find
out, that I absolutely could).
I took a seat at one of the four top tables
and waited for my order to be delivered while
watching people of all ages and fitness levels try
their hands at indoor rock climbing. Once Shane
brought out my order, the first thing I noticed
was how incredible the food smelled! I took my
first taste of the burger and was instantly a fan of
Chef Charlie and 5.Ate Café.
The beef patty had crispy edges, while still
being very juicy; it reminded me of a good
gyro, which worked incredibly well with the
Greek seasoning in the meat. But was still juicy
and perfectly seasoned. The toppings and two
sauces work so well together with the tartness
from the banana peppers being complimented
by the creamy tzatzki sauce and the brininess of
the feta and the bit of spice from the garlic chili
sauce all combining to make this one of the best
burgers I have ever had. Holding this master-
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piece together is a house made sourdough English muffin that is thicker and yet a bit lighter
than your standard English muffin. The texture
of this was a welcome change from your average hamburger bun and the served to soak up
those two wonderful sauces rather than having
them just fall out onto your plate as normally
happens with other burgers.
My garlic fries were perfectly cooked; slightly
crispy on the outside and tender and fluffy
inside. Generally, when you order garlic fries,
it’s a sad tablespoon of jarred garlic dumped
onto some fries, but not at 5.Ate. Chef Charlie
brushes the fries with garlic butter and tops the
fries with paper-thin slices of freshly sautéed
garlic. These things were the essence of garlic.
I finished my meal and went back to work
where I told a few of my coworkers about my
outstanding lunch. A few of them decided to
make the short drive and try it for themselves
and also became instant fans. Just as my wife
and mother-in-law did when I took them to
5.Ate for dinner that same night. Yes, this place
was so good I ate there twice in one day!
When I returned that evening, Chef Charlie
recognized me from my visit earlier in the day
and warmly welcomed me back. I couldn’t
decide which of their stone baked pizzas to try,
so Charlie suggested I try a half and half pizza. I
told him to surprise me and I’m really glad I did.
When my pizza was ready, Chef Charlie
brought it out and explained that half of the
pizza was the Ratatouille and the other half was
their Sausage and Peppers. The Ratatouille has
a layer of roasted eggplant and garlic spread,
topped with provolone cheese, sweet crushed
tomatoes, capers, thin and vertically sliced pan
dried zucchini and squash, finished with Grano
Padano cheese. The Sausage and Peppers
contained Chef Charlie’s Mediterranean red bell
pepper sauce and was topped with sliced Italian
sausage and provolone cheese.
I have never been to Italy; this is what I imagine pizza tasting like there, with a nice chewy,
light and airy crust with slight charred spots
from their stone baked pizza oven. I have found
that generally, when you put too many vegetables or meats on a pizza the crust becomes
soggy, especially in the center and Chef Charlie
manages to avoid this while still providing a
generous amount of toppings to his pizzas. The
toppings were so fresh and of excellent quality,
with the Italian sausage being the real stand
out ingredient here. It had a very nice texture,
and the flavor and the sweetness of the sauce
complimented it.
Since that first day and over the course of
10 months, I have tried just about every menu
item and what is so nice about being a regular
customer at 5.ATE, is that you never know what
type of specials you will find yourself walking
in to. So far they have all been incredible. Charlie had told me that his burgers are supposed to
be messy to eat, which is fine with me because
his flavor combinations always work so well
together.
While there are only six burgers on the regular
menu, I’ve been lucky enough to try about twenty different burgers at 5.Ate, thanks to Charlie’s limited special edition burgers, which are
occasionally posed on the café’s Facebook page
(when this happens, get there quickly because
they sell out fast). I have been so impressed by
Charlie’s offerings that I chose him as Chef of
the year on my 2014 Best Of list (see Public
News issue #7), along with Best Gourmet Pizza,
Best Gourmet Burger and Best Restaurant. We
even had a tasting with a group of 35 people for
our Spring/Woodlands Foodie Tasting and Deals
members. That night was all rave reviews.
Charlie’s creativity is unmatched in my opinion. I would love to see him on a show like Food
Network’s Chopped and let him go with a basket
of secret ingredients to see what he would come
up with. Some of Charlie’s off menu items have
been his over the top specials that have been
very successful. Here are a few highlights:
-The Peppercorn Burger that is a play on
a steak au poivre, and consists of a crispy
pressed Angus patty coated in Dijon and
cracked peppercorns then smothered in a
cognac and mushroom cream sauce.
-The Chipotle Triple-Threat, which had
crispy pressed freshly ground certified
Angus beef, spicy chipotle cream, chipotle
tamarind BBQ sauce and chipotle gouda
cheese with hickory smoked bacon and a
dill pickle slice.
-Turkey Day Burger, which was a Thanksgiving time special. In this one he used
turkey burger patty mixed with dried
cranberries, pecans and Gorgonzola
cheese topped with a slice of flat top grilled
cornbread stuffing made with duck broth.
cranberry sauce adorns the top half of the
sweet potato bun while the bottom half gets
a light spread of honey butter served with a
side of pickled green apple/red onion slaw.
-The Underground, which is a Wagyu
burger topped
with excellent
quality gorgonzola
and topped with a
house made caramelized onion and
fig bacon jam.
-Pot Roast
sandwich that will
make you forget
your grandma’s.
It has boneless
black Angus short
ribs braised with
Southern Star
Buried Hatchet
Stout, perfectly
cooked carrots on
a butter roll with
pickled shallots in
a gremolata.
I could go on and on about the specials I have
had, but another aspect of this place that really
I love is the friendliness of the staff. You really don’t expect any follow up care in a casual
environment like this, but they will ask to get
refills for you, ask how everything is with your
meal and if Charlie has time he will even come
out and check on and chat with his customers.
If you are looking for a fabulous gourmet meal
and don’t want to get dressed up to go dine out,
I highly recommend checking out 5.ATE Café…
you just never know what yummy goodness he
will have on the menu on any given day. If not,
get my new favorite burger the Garlic Butter and
Kale Burger.
I got to sit down with the mastermind behind
5.ATE Café and here is what he had to say.
What made you decide to open your establishment in a rock climbing gym?
Family. When my brother-in-law finally got the
go ahead for the gym, there was extra room and
he called my wife and me. The rest is history.
Please explain where the name 5.ATE Café
came from?
5.ATE is a play on the rock climbing difficulty
scale. 5.1 - 5.15
What are your most popular menu items?
We sell quite a few hamburgers. I planned to
be a pizza restaurant but we are in Texas. Folks
love to try the unexpected so anything off menu
goes quickly.
So, you set out to be a gourmet pizza joint inside a rock climbing gym. Tell us more about
your style of pizzas.
Dough is the key. I love thin hand tossed Italian
style pizzas. To be chewy but light and crisp.
The sourdough gives outs a little extra Flavor
as well.
I see you have some quirky names for some of
your regular menu items. How did you come
up with those names?
I try to keep with rock climbing related names if
possible such as the Hueco Tanks. A climbing site near El Paso. Also the Shar- warma is
named partially after a famous climber.
You have some off-the-wall crazy specials
weekly. What is your inspiration to come up
with them?
I shop for groceries every day, sometimes twice
a day, and I see all the fresh produce. That’s
one. Second would be great memories of food
growing up and things I’ve eaten while traveling.
I have personally had quite a few of your
burger/sandwich specials, my favorite being
The Peppercorn, The Underground and The
Chipotle Triple threat. How do you decide
what will eventually go on the menu and for
how long you run a special burger?
Hummm, some burgers are over the top and I
love them but they might not work in a quick
service setting like we have at the gym so they
wouldn’t last long as a special. Simple flavors
are more likely to stay on for the long haul.
I see you have pork belly on a few menu
items. Tell us about your cooking technique
on this?
Dry rubbed for a few days and then 4 hours low
and slow after a quick hot sear.
What is your favorite meal here? What has
been the most successful menu item?
I love love the Banh Mi. It’s not traditional
bread but sometimes food takes on local ingredients. Our Banh Mi uses a staple of the area, the
bolillo. I like to use the best of what’s available,
plus the roof of my mouth prefers the softer
less crumbly Mexican style roll. We also use a
large 1/4# portion of our slow roasted pork belly
which isn’t as common traditionally
The Classic is our most popular item. 1/4# fresh
ground Angus chuck, white cheddar and pickles
on a freshly made English muffin style bun
dripping with homemade 1000 Island (aka Cafe
sauce).
What can someone expect walking up to
order at 5.ATE Café if they have never been
there before?
A smiling face, a computer screen with our
menu and probably one of the only gyms
they’ve ever walked into that smells of garlic
and onions.
Quality seems important to you, from the
meat that you use all the way to the house
made English muffin buns and bread. Can
you tell us more about what special ingredients you use and a little more about the meat
and buns?
I only use the freshest most healthful ingredients, which is the main reason I shop so much.
The meat is Certified Angus and is hard to beat
for flavor and quality. The buns and pizza dough
are sourdough but the rest is a closely guarded
secret.
Where did you learn your craft?
I’ve had a few food related jobs during high
school and college, BBQ and fast food, also running a grill at the dining hall in college, but I’m
mostly self/TV taught. I started watching Great
Chefs of the West when I was little before there
was a Food Network.
What drives Chef Charlie Williams?
What a great job I have making people happy.
I always want to work to the best of my ability
like I was cooking for the Lord. I want to bring
glory to God by the way I run my business, how
I treat my employees and how that translates
into food. This is the best I can do.
Tell me about your staff. You have some culinary school students working with you; what
do they bring to the team?
We have three basically full time kitchen staff.
Elisa Godina de Chavez has completed the first
half of her culinary degree and Natasha Jiminez
has graduated, both from LeNôtre here in Houston. My Sous Chef Jared Hobson has grown up
in kitchens with nearly 10 years in the business.
When you have a small restaurant, its invaluable
to have a group who consider this a career rather
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WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING
ABOUT 5.ATE CAFE’
“I would like to see Chef Charlie on Chopped
or a Throw Down competition with Bobbie
Flay, because yes he is that good at what
he does and I think he would be victorious!
Guy Fieri of Diner’s, Drive-In’s and Dive’s
– 5.ATE Cafe is waiting for you!” – Nick R.
“What can I say about Chef Charlie? He is
a very talented chef that understands the flavors of the ingredients he uses. Every recipe
is composed with such thought and attention
to detail to the flavor profile of the dish that
each bite reminds me of the first time I was
there. The shar-warma burger is the absolute best burger I’ve ever had and the braised
pork belly banh mi is over the top good. It’s
still hard for me to believe that this little cafe
with killer food is tucked away in the corner
of a rock-climbing studio!!! What a gem!!!”
–Wade E.
“If I was a pig, I would sacrifice my belly to
5.ATE Cafe! Charlie’s food is so creative,
balanced with incredible flavor and texture
combinations. He makes exciting food! “ Kerry S.
“Unassuming is a good word to describe both
the location of 5.ATE Cafe and Chef Charlie
Williams. Fabulously creative would also be
another way to describe how Chef Charlie
practices his art form. The food will catch
you totally by surprise the very first time you
venture there. You don’t normally expect
to find gourmet burgers on fabulous house
made English muffin buns or scratch made
pizza in a rock-climbing place. They peaked
my interest with the Shar-Warma Burger
and blew my socks of with the Peppercorn
Burger with a creamy cognac sauce. And
the garlic butter fries... Sorry, but I need a
moment alone now. Seriously, do yourself
and your taste buds a big favor and give Chef
Charlie and 5.ATE Cafe the opportunity to
work their magic on you.” – Mike F.
“Chef Charlie is a culinary genius! He is always coming up with new flavor combinations and innovative menu items. 5.ATE is
one of my family’s places to dine. If I don’t
feel like cooking dinner, I know I can rely
on 5.ATE for a quality meal my family will
enjoy.” – Jamie A.
“One whiff of roasting pork belly. One bite
of carefully crafted deliciousness and you’ll
forget you’re sitting in a rock climbing gym
and think you’ve passed through the wardrobe into Narnia. I could eat here (and have)
every day of the week and thrice on Saturday and leave wondering what Charlie could
possibly put in front of me next time to top
what I just finished and yet somehow he
manages to do just that.” – Matt B.
“I am so glad to have 5 Ate as a dining option in Spring. It’s been a perfect spot to
meet up with friends and introduce them to
something a little different than your average burger place. Chef Charlie really thinks
about some unique flavor combinations
and you can tell he takes pride in the product he is putting out. My favorite has to be
the Farmhouse with the Rueben coming in
a very close second, of course you cannot
forget the garlic fries which are out of this
world!” -Kelly B.
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BOVINE & BARLEY:
Serving up Beef &
Brew with Style
by Jamie Alvear
[email protected]
The downtown Houston bar scene is hopping these days
and adding to that excitement is Houston’s newest gastropub,
Bovine & Barley. Gone are the days of slamming a generic
beer with a handful of bar nuts. Bars have finally realized that
foodies want a craft brew and a gourmet meal.
Partners Michael Collins (The Fish, The Refinery Burgers &
Whiskey) and Jason Lowery (Proof Rooftop Lounge) opened
Bovine & Barley in the former El Centro location at Prairie
and Main. The space has been completely transformed into
a sophisticated yet bold lounge filled with rich wood accents,
custom tables, and Edgar Allan Poe quotes. In the center
of the restaurant is a magnificent u-shaped bar that is very
comfortable and welcoming. Of course you can’t miss the
hundreds of light bulbs that adorn the wall spelling out HTX.
There’s also a private room upstairs that is perfect for meetings
or intimate gatherings. Plans are currently in the works for an
outdoor patio that will seat up to 30.
When it comes to the Barley part of B & B, they have really
taken care of business. Over 40 beers are available on tap
and many of those are from local breweries. Since the selection changes frequently, the menu is shown on computerized
screens. Don’t worry about feeling overwhelmed with the
selection. Matt Heer has created a superb bar program and
his staff, which include awesome bartenders like John Havens
(AKA “Red”), are extremely knowledgeable and ready to help
make a suggestion. I started with a Union Jack IPA; it was an
exceptional beer with notes of citrus and honey. Wanting to try
something a little bolder, my next pick was Deschutes Obsidian Stout Nitro. This luscious beer could easily pass for liquid
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dessert. It was deep and robust with hints of
espresso and chocolate.
Although beer is obviously the main focus
of B & B, wine and cocktail drinkers will
find something to enjoy as well. They have
a full bar, but be sure to try one of their draft
cocktails. These barrel aged cocktails rival
any libation being served by local mixologists.
You have the benefit of a great craft cocktail
without having to spend 10 minutes watching it be made. Eventually, there will be up to
six choices. I tried three that were currently
being offered, the Sauvage Collins (Lone Elm
Vodka, Citron Sauvage Liqueur, Lemon Juice,
Simple Syrup), the Old Swine (Fat Washed
and Un-Fatwashed WhipperSnapper Whiskey,
Water, Turbo, Angostura and Mole Bitters),
and the Smoke & Fire Mule (Mezcal, Lime
Juice, Simple Syrup, Ginger Beer, Hellfire
Shrub Bitters).
Now about the Bovine part. B & B offers
a “beef-centric” menu masterfully created by
Chef Harold Wong (The Fish, Azuma). I was
interested to see how his approach would be
to this meat centered menu considering he is
known for his skills with a more delicate cuisine. I have to say I was quite impressed. B
& B has an assortment of “comfort food” type
entrees with a rich, beefy goodness to them.
The small bites are perfect for sharing and
include options like Meatloaf Muffins, Steak
on a Stick, Meatball Flatbread, HTX Sliders,
Cast Iron Queso, and Jalapeño Bacon Bites.
My favorites were the Steak on a Stick (beef
skewers with shishito peppers, grilled onions,
and Thai chili sauce) and the Jalapeño Bacon
Bites (pineapple chunks wrapped in jalapeño
bacon and stuffed with cream cheese). For a
heartier fare, I recommend the Bovine Burger.
It’s a ½ pound Angus beef patty topped with
bacon, cheddar cheese, fried onion strings,
lettuce, and tomato. B & B does offer a few
non-beef items like Southern Fried Chicken
and a Tuna Steak burger, as well as salads.
People of all ages will find something to
love about Bovine & Barley. They are open
for lunch, happy hour, and dinner. Bovine
& Barley is a great place to drink, dine, and
be merry! In the words of Edgar Allan Poe,
“What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
Bovine & Barley is located at 416 Main
Street in Houston, Texas. Their phone number
is (832) 742-5683 and you can find them on
the web at www.bovineandbarley.com
They are open Mondays through Wednesday
from 11am to midnight; Thursday and Friday
from 11am to 2am; Saturday 4pm to 2am and
Sunday 4pm to midnight.
than a job. They all bring passion, dedication
and a range of culinary backgrounds which
inspires and frees me to create more!
I overheard that what you wanted to accomplish in three to five years you did just in one.
What do you contribute your growth and
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I obviously believe we’re here for a reason and
I’m grateful for the gym’s success as well since
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Social media has played a huge role in bringing
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What is the future of 5.ATE Café? Do you
see yourself expanding or moving to a larger
space?
We hope to someday open a second location
with a few more tables.
What are your hours?
We are open Monday thru Saturday 11am – 9pm
You have specialty coffees and smoothies too.
What makes your coffee and smoothies different from the national chains?
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I heard that you have done some catering
and special events. Do you plan to do more of
those in the future?
We catered a wedding last fall for 200 and had
a great time! This summer we have another for
200 as well. Catering is fun because we get to
think outside the Café box and create whatever
the customer wants, so I hope there are many
more to come!
5 words to describe 5.ATE Café?
Always better than you remembered!
5.Ate Cafe is located inside the Inspire Rock
Climbing Gym located at 403 E Louetta Rd
in Spring, TX 77373. Their telephone number is
832-980-5283 and you can check them out on
the web at www.5atecafe.com.
They are open six days a week Monday through
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and Russian dressing. A Steak au Poivre
hamburger with a peppercorn encrusted
patty topped with a brandy cream sauce and
sautéed mushrooms. A Chicken Fried Steak
hamburger with a breaded and deep-fried
patty topped with white cream gravy, diced
bacon, and crispy kale. These are my three
favorites, and they only begin to showcase
the creative talent at work at 5.Ate Café.” –
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FRAME BY FRAME
‘Return of the Jedi’:
Looking Back Before Looking Forward
story by Glen Ryan Tadych
[email protected]
As Public News looks back on the last two
weeks, I finally get to dish out my first Star
Wars piece with nothing better than a Star
Wars Day commemoration.
Now, to avoid any confusion regarding timeliness, I’d like to clarify that I’m recognizing
the true Star Wars Day—May 25—as opposed
to the other group of Star Wars fans who continually choose to celebrate the late Margaret
Thatcher’s 1979 electoral victory in the United
Kingdom—May 4. I wrote a similar piece last
year explaining the difference in significance
between the two dates, but as I am now serving a new audience, I’d like to briefly provide
the facts once more.
The phrase, “May the Fourth be with you,”
originally emerged as a congratulatory message not only for Thatcher’s general electoral
victory in 1979, but also she was the first female British prime minister. Her party bought
an ad in the London
Evening News stating,
“May the Fourth be
with you, Maggie.
Congratulations,” after
the election. Upon
Star Wars fans’ official
recognition of the date
in correlation to George
Lucas’ franchise four
years ago, May 4
became a gargantuan
Glen Ryan Tadych commercialized annual
celebration profiting
both the franchise, and now The Walt Disney
Company.
Myself and many other fans choose not
to pair May 4 with such significance, as we
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perceive it to be nothing more than a gimmick. For us, May 25—the release date for the
original film in 1977—is the true Star Wars
Day, and the date which should be universally
acknowledged as such.
Of course, in light of such a debate, some
out there would probably say, “Who the hell
cares?” But the fact of the matter is more
people care about this than one would think,
as asinine as it is, and that’s exactly what the
nerd culture of the world has to offer.
As we have a new Star Wars film hitting
cinemas in December, I feel it’s important to
touch on the film preceding (chronologically/
numerically) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
before diving into any serious discussion
regarding the franchise’s future. The prequels
have certainly had their day in debates, discussions and being outright bashed, but now is
the time for post-Galactic Civil War subject
matter. And given the unfair criticism Return
of the Jedi (1983) often receives, I’ve elected
to focus this commemoration piece on its
defense, similar to what I did with Star Wars
Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) last
year.
Personally, I enjoy Jedi just as much as the
other films. Although it’s not my favorite (or
the best) of the franchise, as both those titles
belong to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) in
my opinion, I still feel Jedi is a well-made and
satisfying conclusion to the original trilogy.
The film has a few issues when compared to
its predecessors, but I don’t hold it in the same
negative light as many other fans. For this
piece, I’ve chosen to examine what I feel are
the three key issues many have with Jedi.
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Jedi. It just prevents the film from diving into
a deeper sanctum of edginess and drama. And
quite frankly, I don’t know if I would enjoy
the film as much as I do had he been killed off,
because I’d probably think, “Oh, well Han’s
not in this one, so that’s no fun.”
Some fans may be disappointed that Han
lived on, but that doesn’t automatically make
the film terrible, and one shouldn’t regard the
film as such for that reason either.
Han Solo
One concern, which some might find odd,
with viewers as well as the film’s creative
team was the continued inclusion of Han Solo
(Harrison Ford). Of course, it’s unfathomable
to imagine a film in the original trilogy without the charming and witty space pirate. Han
is probably one of the most beloved characters
next to Luke and Darth Vader, so why kill him
off?
As it turns out, the making-of documentary
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars
Trilogy (2004) discloses the fact both Ford and
screenwriter Lawrence Kasden wanted to kill
off Han as a means of upping the tension.
Ford felt because Han had no family to
leave behind, he should sacrifice himself for
Luke and Leia, as well as the Rebel Alliance.
Kasden felt one of the main characters should
meet a tragic end early on in the film so the
audience would begin to worry about the
fate of everyone else. Lucas was, of course,
against this. His reasons are his own, but one
can suspect that he simply wanted his heroic
trio to make it through to the end and have a
happy ending.
Us not losing Han doesn’t necessarily hurt
Boba Fett
A part of the film many fans have an
overwhelming grievance with is the death of
Mandalorian bounty hunter Boba Fett. Not
only was the character killed off in the first
act without having even uttered a word, but he
was also killed in what fans consider a cheap
and lame manner—tumbling down the mouth
of the Sarlacc Pit after his jet pack is unexpectedly and unintentionally activated by a
blind Han. The result of this untimely demise
led to one simple conclusion: Jedi sucks.
The death of Boba Fett is a subject for
which opinion is polarized unlike any other in
Star Wars fandom. Due to his overwhelming
popularity following Empire, Fett’s fate was
opposed to the point writers felt the need to
resurrect him in Star Wars literature (the now
non-canon Expanded Universe), giving him a
more significant place in the franchise. I, however, find this treatment to be unnecessary and
ridiculous, and rendering Jedi awful because a
minor character with an awesome outfit died
too early is outright absurd.
I often think of Jay Baruchel’s dialogue in
Fanboys (2009) when discussing Fett, which I
feel puts things into perspective perfectly:
“You guys have both got to stop perpetuating this myth that Boba Fett is some kind of
badass, alright? What? He has a jetpack! So
did The Rocketeer. Really cool! I mean, when
it comes time for battle, the man’s Michael
Bay: All style, no substance.”
The fact of the matter is Fett is a two-bit
character with only four spoken lines and six
and a half minutes of screen time (this does
not include the animated segment from the
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), or Star
Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)).
Yes, he succeeded where other bounty hunters
failed in tracking the Millennium Falcon in
Empire, and he had an awesome outfit, but
that’s it. At the end of the day, Fett only got by
on his appearance when considering what he
actually contributed to the trilogy. Hell, of his
four lines, none of them were even in Jedi.
Fett admirers act as if he were Luke Skywalker, or Darth Vader for that matter, and
deserved to go out in a blaze of glory. Why
should a minor character get such a meaningful exit when so much else has to happen?
Jedi isn’t about Fett, but about the relationship
between Luke and Vader, the fall of the Galactic Empire and Vader’s redemption. I don’t see
how making a huge deal of a random, coollooking bounty hunter adds to any of that. To
say Jedi sucks simply because Fett died too
early or not in fulfilling way is just stupid and
not fair to the film itself.
Also, to anyone who justifies Fett’s significance with random facts from a random EU
book about the character: It wasn’t in the movies, so it doesn’t count. That being said, if the
writers decide to include him in the upcoming
sequel trilogy, that’s a different matter altogether. And while I wouldn’t be particularly
happy with such a decision, there obviously
isn’t much I’d be able to do about it.
Ewoks
This is probably the most significant point
in terms of unfair Jedi criticism. I cannot even
begin to express how much this complaint
irritates the hell out of me. When Jedi bashers
insult the film because it was “only made to
sell toys” or “teddy bears defeated the Empire,” all I hear is narrow-minded ignorance
tearing apart a good movie. People my own
age weren’t even alive when Jedi debuted 32
years ago, so I know when they spew these
irrational comments, they’re only regurgitating their parents’ views or those of older fans
without applying critical thinking.
I will admit using Wookies instead Ewoks
would have been a more awesome way to
go for Jedi’s climax, as this was the original
intention when Lucas began drafting the story
in the early 1970s. But this was also before he
split the story into three parts, effectively making Han’s co-pilot a Wookie in fear of Wookies never making an appearance. When Jedi
finally came along, the Wookies in the forest
battle were substituted with Ewoks.
I don’t see the “selling toys” point as a valid
argument. It’s Star Wars, and anything with
the Star Wars name will sell itself. The filmmakers wouldn’t need to insert “teddy bears”
into the movie to make children’s merchandise
more marketable, so that point really doesn’t
even make sense. I simply see the Ewoks as
being a way to help differentiate Chewbacca
from the Endor natives since they were originally going to be Wookies. I can’t say I would
actually have a problem picking Chewie out
from the rest of the bunch, but I can understand that reasoning more than needing to sell
toys.
Plus, if you had essentially 200 Chewies
assisting the Rebels in battle, the Imperials
honestly wouldn’t stand much of a chance.
The damn thing would be over before it began. We’ve witnessed Chewie’s strength and
usefulness in combat situations, and that’s just
him. So in the context of what’s seen in the
film, an army of his kind would make the Empire’s efforts on the ground a waste of time.
On the subject of the forest battle and
Chewie, I’m going to say this: The Ewoks did
not defeat the Empire. Such a rationale for
denouncing Jedi is even dumber than Fett’s
death, not to mention inaccurate. Several elements contributed to the Rebels’ winning the
battle, and while the Ewoks certainly helped,
Chewie actually deserves most of the credit.
The Rebels didn’t start winning the battle
until Chewie commandeered one of the enemy
scout walkers. Up until that point, the Empire
had supreme firepower and weaponry, and
Chewie turned the tables on that disadvantage.
It’s actually pretty damn clever when you
think about it because the whole time you’re
watching the battle, you’re thinking, “Why
don’t they just take one of the walkers?” What
would make the battle stupid is if Chewie
hadn’t taken such action.
The Ewoks weren’t useless though. Their
numbers and surprise offensive caused the
Imperial troops to break formation, scattering throughout the forest to subdue them, and
provided the Rebels the necessary distraction
to escape capture; i.e. divide and conquer.
Some of the Ewoks’ weapons and methods
were ineffective, but not all of them. Stoning
Stormtroopers from a tree, which is actually
somewhat brutal when thinking about it, will
certainly do some damage. And before anyone
goes, “Yeah, but they’re wearing helmets
and armor,” think about the physical injury
football players endure. Regardless whether
you’re wearing a helmet, blunt trauma to the
head is going to hurt, and a stone the size of
your head still has the potential to kill you.
Besides, a Stormtrooper’s “armor” is essentially just a military uniform. Luke even
describes it this way in the original film. Off
the top of my head, I can’t even think of a
moment in the original trilogy where a Stormtrooper’s attire is even referred to as “armor.”
So I really don’t know where the notion that
Stormtroopers are invulnerable to anything
and everything comes from, especially given
the fact they’re always killed with ease (often
as a result of their own actions), and don’t
have accuracy worth a damn. Militarily speaking, Stormtroopers are pretty worthless, so the
Ewoks being able to take them on shouldn’t
come as much of a shock.
Regarding the walkers, the Ewoks’ traps
used against them aren’t that far-fetched
either. The swinging logs could totally crush a
scout walker’s hollow head—as was demonstrated in episode 208 of MythBusters—and
unless the vehicle is made out of vibranium, I
see no reason why this device wouldn’t work
given the right set of circumstances.
The rolling log trap was another ingenious
feat of the Ewoks, and strategically similar
to how the rebels brought down an AT-AT in
Empire. A scout walker seems like it would be
difficult to maneuver through rugged terrain
considering it’s basically a giant box balanced on two thin legs. I can only imagine
attempting to drive one over a stream of logs
wouldn’t end too well.
The Ewoks are certainly included in Jedi
for comic effect, but they do serve a purpose,
and when one breaks down the forest battle, it
isn’t hard to see the Ewoks aren’t 100 percent
ridiculous, or that Chewie is ultimately the
real hero.
Jedi may not be better than its two predecessors, but it does a fine job wrapping up the trilogy and keeping the space fantasy atmosphere
alive. It’s a good movie, and naysayers’ arguments for what drags the movie down only
diminish the film’s true quality and legacy.
Fans should appreciate Jedi for what it is, and
use the film as a catalyst to gear up for Force
Awakens in December.
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May 29
San Andreas
PG-13 114 min Action | Drama | Thriller
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake
in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes
a dangerous journey across the state in
order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Director: Brad Peyton
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra
Daddario, Carla Gugino, Colton Haynes
Aloha
PG-13 Comedy | Drama | Romance
A celebrated military contractor returns
to the site of his greatest career triumphs
and re-connects with a long-ago love while
unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging
Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams,
Bradley Cooper, John Krasinski
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Entourage
R Comedy
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with
his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are
back - and back in business with super
agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold.
Director: Doug Ellin
Stars: Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven,
Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara
Spy
R 120 min Action | Comedy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to
go undercover to infiltrate the world of a
deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Jude Law, Raad Rawi, Melissa
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Insidious: Chapter 3
Certificate PG-13 97 min Horror
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A prequel set before the haunting of the
Lambert family that reveals how gifted
psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees
to use her ability to contact the dead
in order to help a teenage girl who has
been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Director: Leigh Whannell
Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott,
Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell
Love & Mercy
PG-13 120 min Biography | Drama |
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In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian
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he is a broken, confused man under the
24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr.
Eugene Landy.
Director: Bill Pohlad
Stars: Elizabeth Banks, John Cusack,
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Testament of Youth
PG-13 129 min Biography | Drama |
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A British woman recalls coming of age
during World War I.
Director: James Kent
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton,
Colin Morgan, Dominic West
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting
on Existence
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A story centered on a pair of traveling
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Director: Roy Andersson
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ASK JODY
MOTIVATING KIDS TO
DO MORE, BE MORE
by Jody Reed
[email protected]
Dear Jody,
Thank you for introducing your column last week.
I’m hoping that you can give me some
advice, seeing that you also are a mom. I have three
boys, ages 7, 10, and 12. They’re good kids, but all
they want to do is play video games. I don’t want
them to fry their brains or just be lazy, but if I cut
them off their games they
just end up fighting or
moping around. Do you
have any suggestions for
me?
A.L. in The Woodlands
Dear A.L,
I’ve had to deal with similar issues from my own
children. I’m not in favor
of cutting them off comJody Reed
pletely because you want
to have something they
enjoy as an incentive for being productive each day.
Make a simple chart for each son that includes five
or six things they must do daily before they can
earn X number of minutes of screen time (video
games, TV, electronics, etc.) each day. Examples
include completing homework, 15 minutes of reading, 20 minutes of outdoor play, any type of chores,
random acts of kindness, etc. Be creative but not
burdensome, and you can tailor each chart to fit the
needs of each child. Place the charts in clear sheet
protectors, hang them in a convenient location,
and place dry erase markers beside them so they
can easily check off each item they accomplish.
Soon after the initial complaints of implementing a
new system, you will see positive changes in your
household. And the boys will see a positive change
in Mom, who is finally celebrating (not nagging)
that her sons are playing video games... because
they have earned it by being productive!
Jody
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An aspiring novelist enters into a relationship with a woman,
though there’s just one catch: She’s married, and the couple
can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7 each evening.
Director: Victor Levin
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby,
Lambert Wilson
Adult Beginners
R 90 min Comedy | Drama
A young, narcissistic entrepreneur crashes and burns on the
eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in total
disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged
pregnant sister, brother-in-law and 3-year-old nephew in the
suburbs - only to become their nanny.
Director: Ross Katz
Stars: Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Joel
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Aloft
R 112 min Drama
Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she
abandoned 20 years earlier.
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Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent,
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When Tony Stark tries to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to
stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.
Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris
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Black Sea
R 115 min Adventure | Thriller
Soon after losing his salvage job, former naval officer Robinson (Jude Law) assembles a misfit crew of unemployed
sailors for a risky mission: Find a sunken Nazi U-boat,
rumored to contain a fortune in gold. Promising each man
an equal share, Robinson leads the mixed British and Russian crew to comb the depths of the Black Sea. Before long,
greed takes hold of a crew already divided along language
and cultural lines -- and the fewer men that make it back
alive, the more gold to go around.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Jude Law, Jodie Whittaker, Ben Mendelsohn, Tobias
Menzies
Cinderella
PG 112 min Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy |
Romance
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella
finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her
daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella’s fortunes begin
to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Helena
Bonham Carter
Danny Collins
R 106 min Comedy | Drama
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s
rocker Danny Collins, who can’t give up his hard-living ways.
But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers
a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John
Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a
heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and
begin a second act.
Director: Dan Fogelman
Stars: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby
Cannavale
Effie Gray
PG-13 108 min Drama
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era
England, the film tells the story of Euphemia “Effie” Gray. At
19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John
Ruskin, but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage.
Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite
painter John Everett Millais, and finds a friend and champion
in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. After five years trapped in
a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian
society.
Director: Richard Laxton
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, Emma
Thompson
Ex Machina
R 108 min Drama | Sci-Fi
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world’s largest internet
company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private
mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of
the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location
he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and
fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the
world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of
a beautiful robot girl.
Director: Alex Garland
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac,
Sonoya Mizuno
Furious 7
PG-13 137 min Action | Crime | Thriller
Dominic Torretto and his crew thought they left the criminal
mercenary life behind. They defeated an international
terrorist named Owen Shaw and went their seperate ways.
But now, Shaw’s brother, Deckard Shaw is out killing the
crew one by one for revenge. Worse, a Somalian terrorist
called Jakarde, and a shady government official called “Mr.
Nobody” are both competing to steal a computer terrorism
program called God’s Eye, that can turn any technological
device into a weapon. Torretto must reconvene with his
team to stop Shaw and retrieve the God’s Eye program
while caught in a power struggle between terrorist and the
United States government.
Director: James Wan
Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jason
Statham
Home
PG 94 min Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family |
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on
Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he
forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named
Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic
adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And
while he changes her planet and she changes his world,
they discover the true meaning of the word home.
Director: Tim Johnson
Stars: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez
Hot Pursuit
PG-13 87 min Action | Comedy
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing
widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued
by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Director: Anne Fletcher
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del
Negro, Michael Mosley
Insurgent
PG-13 119 min Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Now on the run from Jeanine (Kate Winslet) and the rest
of the power-hungry Erudites, Tris (Shailene Woodley)
and Four (Theo James) search for allies and answers in
the ruins of Chicago. They must find out what Tris’ family
sacrificed their lives to protect and why the Erudites will do
anything to stop them. Side by side, Tris and Four face one
seemingly insurmountable challenge after another, as they
unravel the secrets of the past and -- ultimately -- the future
of their world.
Director: Robert Schwentke
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James, Kate
Winslet
Little Boy
PG-13 100 min Comedy | Drama | War
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to
end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story
reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy
and the love a son has for his father.
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Stars: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, David Henrie, Michael
Rapaport
Mad Max: Fury Road
R 120 min Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two
rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who
is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland.
PUBLIC NEWS DINING GUIDE
The Lava Cookie SANDWICH/CAFE
27326 Robinson Road 115, Conroe, TX 77385
(832) 785-8906
Hours: Open every day at 11am, closed on Sundays
A Counter Cafe providing the best designer sandwiches and
other comfort food inside Space Cadets store.
Featured photo: The Ron Swanson Sandwich
Le Pam’s House Of Creole CAJUN
1644 FM 1960 West, Houston, TX 77073
(281) 444-1464
Hours: Opens at 11am to 7pm, except Fri (8pm), Sat (6pm)
and Sun (4pm)
www.lepamshouseofcreole.com
Le Pam’s brings the taste of New Orleans to Houston
You probably noticed that the Public News Dining Guide has changed.
No longer is the Dining Guide a “phone directory” of restaurants.
We’re glad to present the best of the best in dining experience with those
establishments who put forward their best for our readers.
The Dining Guide is an invite only for those establishments that the Public News
feels provides the best dining experience for metro Houston.
Taco Crave MEXICAN
5200 Farm to Market Road 2920 #120, Spring, TX 77388
(281) 288-0940 www.tacocrave.net
Hours: Open at 11am every day, closed Sundays
The best Mexican street tacos this side of the border. Also offers
Quesadilla and huge Burritos. Tasty flavors like beef or chicken fajita, beef brisket, chicken chipotle and a handful more. A must have
dining experience. Flavor for the month of June: Venison & Potato.
La Chef ARGENTINE
5200 FM 2920 #180, Spring, TX 77388
(832) 585-1840
Hours: Open daily at 11am, closed Tuesdays
Argentine cuisine at its best served in a side cafe style restaurant. They offer over 15 styles of handmade empanadas, a few
destined to become your absolute favorite. Probably the best
kept secret in Spring, until now.
The Lasagna House III ITALIAN
Rakuu ASIAN
217 Cypress Creek Pkwy, Houston, TX 77090
(281) 580-7797 www.lasagnahouse.com
Hours: Open daily at 11am till 9pm; 10pm Thurs; 11pm Fri & Sat
Authentic Italian Cuisine. Everything from pizza, pasta, salad
and of course several kinds of mouth watering lasagna. Great
staff, delicious food, great atmosphere, plus a great selection of
wines and local craft beer. Check them out today!
5200 FM 2920 #190, Spring, TX 77388
(281) 651-5464
Hours: Open 7 days a week 10:30am to 10pm
www.rakuurestaurant.com
Rakuu offers authentic, deliciously healthy Asian food and Sushi
Bar with friendly service and great prices.
FILM IN THEATERS
Director: George Miller
Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë
Kravitz
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
PG 94 min Action | Comedy
After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has
earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with
his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But
safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart
answers.
Director: Andy Fickman
Stars: Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Eduardo Verástegui,
Daniella Alonso
Pitch Perfect 2
PG-13 115 min Comedy | Music
After a humiliating command performance at Lincoln Center,
the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no
American group has ever won in order to regain their status
and right to perform.
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld,
Brittany Snow
Poltergeist
PG-13 93 min Horror | Thriller
A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces
must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after
the apparitions take her captive.
Director: Gil Kenan
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Saxon Sharbino
The Age of Adaline
PG-13 110 min Drama | Romance
A young woman, born at the turn of 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life,
she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality
for.
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Stars: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Kathy
Baker
The Gunman
R 115 min Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the
minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier’s successful kill shot
forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later,
he becomes the target of a hit squad himself. A former
Special Forces soldier (Sean Penn) who has PTSD tries to
reconnect with his longtime lover, but must first go on the
run across Europe to clear his name.
Director: Pierre Morel
Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca, Javier
Bardem
The Last Five Years
94 min Comedy | Drama | Musical | RomanceThe Last 5
Years by Tony award winning composer and lyricist Jason
Robert Brown is a musical deconstruction of a love affair
and a marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie
Wellerstein is a young, talented up and coming Jewish
novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely
through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of
Cathy’s songs begin at the end of their marriage and move
backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while
Jamie’s songs start at the beginning of their affair and move
forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center
when Jamie proposes
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Natalie Knepp, Meg
Hudson
The Water Diviner
R 111 min Drama | War
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
Director: Russell Crowe
Stars: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Isabel
Lucas
Tomorrowland
PG 130 min - Action
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific
curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a
mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time
and space that exists in their collective memory.
Director: Brad Bird
Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey
Cassidy
True Story
R 100 min Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Jonah Hill plays Michael Finkel, a recently terminated New
York Times journalist who’s struggling for work after a story
gone wrong. One day, he receives a phone call from a man
regarding an FBI Most Wanted individual named Christian
Longo, who’s been captured and claimed to be living as
Finkel. Longo and Finkel meet and form a potentially marriage shattering bond while Longo is in prison awaiting his
trial. Finkel exchanges journalism tips for the real events
behind Longo’s alleged heinous acts of murdering his family.
Through the twists and turns in the movie, only at the end
will Finkel uncover the True Story.
Director: Rupert Goold
Stars: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Ethan
Suplee
Unfinished Business
R 91 min Comedy
A hard-working small business owner (Vince Vaughn) and
his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) travel to
Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But
what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails
in every imaginable - and unimaginable - way, including
unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global
economic summit.
Director: Ken Scott
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, James
Marsden
What We Do in the Shadows
86 min Comedy | Horror
Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three
flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s
obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast
on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are
finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main
artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe
without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with
the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore
wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate
conflicts
Directors: Jemaine Clement | Taika Waititi
Stars: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori
Gonzalez-Macuer
Woman in Gold
PG-13 109 min Drama
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on
the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully
belongs to her family.
Director: Simon Curtis
Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie
Holmes
BRAVADO SPICE
A conversation with James Nelson
by Nick Rama
Bravado Spice was developed by three guys
(two of them right here from Spring, TX and one
from Houston), who have created some really great
tasting sauces and products that are “Big. Bold.
Bravado.”
As their mission statement tells us, their goal is
“To craft bold, incredible hot sauces that are undeniably delicious; we focus on raw flavor instead of
just heat. Our products bring something awesome
to the table, from pineapples to ghost peppers,
Bravado Spice Hot Sauce is unlike anything else
out there.”
Originally selling their products at local farmers
markets around the Houston and surrounding areas,
the Bravado brand has been growing their business
by slowly adding having their products added to the
shelves of numerous retail stores.
Bravado focuses on handcrafted sauces that are
preservative free and that contain natural ingredients that you can actually pronounce, made in
Houston. These sauces are not mass -produced
and have very complex flavor profiles. I personally do not like hot sauces that are all heat and no
flavor, and Bravado perfectly pairs heat and flavor
together.
Bravado Spice currently has three hot sauces
that are all excellent and each are different from
the usual hot sauce offerings on your grocery store
shelves: Jalapeño & Green Apple, Ghost Peppers &
Blueberry, and my favorite, Habanero & Pineapple
(especially great on grilled shrimp). Bravado Spice
is currently adding two more products (and you can
actually help them with that - more on that later).
I got to talk with James Nelson of Bravado Spice
and here is what he had to say
Who are the minds behind Bravado Spice?
Bravado Spice is Jeremiah Tallerine, Ryan Harcourt, Vince Blasco & myself.
Where did the name ‘Bravado Spice’ come
from?
Bravado means brave or foolish, which is pretty
much what we are.
Who is the master creator/chef of your products?
I guess you could say me, but the entire team collaborates on our products
What are your best selling products and tell us a
little more about each of them?
Our Pineapple & Habanero is currently our most
popular product. The Crimson Hot Sauce, once
launched, will probably give it a run for its money,
though. Bravado Spice specializes in handcrafting
our three award winning hot sauces. Our focus has
always been on flavor first and heat second.
-Jalapeno & Green Apple Hot Sauce, a mild,
flavorful combination of jalapeno and granny smith
apples which is fantastic for breakfast tacos &
grilled chicken.
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-Pineapple & Habanero Hot Sauce, a moderately
spicy combination of fiery habaneros & sweet, hand
cut pineapples which is perfect for seafood, grilled
pork and cocktails
-Ghost Pepper & Blueberry Hot Sauce, a hot blend
of scorching ghost peppers & tart blueberries, an
excellent partner for smoked meats such as brisket,
and grilled beef.
Currently where can someone buy Bravado
Spice products?
Whole Foods, Specs and various retail locations.
We’re currently in at over 165 retail locations
across 30 states.
I see that you recently launched a Kickstarter
Project, for the readers that are not familiar
with Kickstarter tell us what that is all about
and how someone can get involved in fulfilling
your dream?
Our Kickstarter is about re-launcing a hot sauce
dear to our hearts, Crimson Hot Sauce, and introducing our Chili & Garlic Pickles to the world. You
can go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/
bravadospice/bravado-spice-bigger-and-bolder/
description to learn more about the project and join
in on the fun.
What are your goals for Bravado Spice in the
future?
Keep growing, bringing on new vendors and keep
making products that our customers love.
I heard you are a little bit of a celebrity, tell me
more about your experience getting there and
where someone might have seen you before?
Ha, more like a d-list celebrity. I was on season 4 of
Fox’s Masterchef. I placed 5th.
How much do you use Bravado Spice sauces in
your everyday cooking?
Almost daily. I’m always finding new ways to use
our products.
Share with us your favorite recipes that uses
Bravado Spice?
Hands down, Pineapple & Habanero ceviche, it’s
simply a red snapper ceviche, Peruvian style, with
some hot sauce mixed in. It is divine.
Are any restaurants using your products in their
dishes?
Just a handful. We haven’t really broken into
restaurant service yet, but several locations such as
Ruggles Green and Royal Oak offer dishes made
with our hot sauces.
5 words to describe Bravado Spice?
Bold. Delicious. Big. Inspired. Fun.
Check out the Bravado Spice website and like
them on Facebook as well so you won’t miss out
on some big things coming from Bravado Spice in
the future.
http://bravadospice.com
https://www.facebook.com/BravadoSpice
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must have 3 years experience and is able to work
weekends, nights and holidays.
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I-45 Diner looking for help in service and cooking.
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Top class North Houston restaurant hiring for all
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