Houstonians Shoot for the Stars as Newest VR Experience Blasts Off
Evan W. Black
SILVER STREET STUDIOS has arguably never been so silver, as hundreds of guests (many clad in “space-chic” attire) turned out to celebrate the launch of The Infinite, an outer-space-themed multi-sensory installation that landed in H-Town in late December.
Heights Boulevard Set to Undergo Artistic Makeover
Chris Becker
CITYBOOK READERS MIGHT remember artist Rachel Gardner from our “A Day in the Life of the Arts” photo essay, where we caught her in action late at night inside her Heights studio, very pregnant, and surrounded by papier-mâché sculptures of antlered children, coiled snakes and howling wolves.
Debut Album from Improvisational, Rising-Star Jazz Musician Hits All the Right Notes
Chris Becker
GOING BACK TO the very beginning of jazz, at a time before anyone actually called it “jazz,” its earliest practitioners saw the potential for a range of expression on instruments that, at the time, were relatively utilitarian in their use, such as the vibraphone, a percussion instrument consisting of tuned metal bars played with mallets.
