Photography by Daniel Ortiz
Styling by Todd Ramos
Models Brock Knighten and Samara Zuckerbod for Page Parkes Agency
Hair and makeup by Edward Sanchez for Arched Beauty
Special thanks to Chapman & Kirby
Bombpop Slushies at Heights & Co.
Looking for ways to make the night sparkle? Try Mutiny Wine Room's flight of sparkling wines for just $25. Try the NV Poulet et Fils; NV Domaine de Bois Mozé Crémant de Loire Brut Rosé; and 2019 Jean-Paul Brun “Charme” Crémant de Bourgogne. What a lineup!
Bread pudding at Brennan's (photo by Debora Smail)
Beginning tomorrow, July 2, and running through the end of the month, the Houston institution hosts a date-night special: three-course, pre-fixe dinner menu for two for just $99, and for an extra $30, tack on a bottle from Wine Guy Rich Carter's list. Cheers!
Il Bracco to-go specials
These fun Post Oak go-tos offer star-spangled to-go bundles this week! Whether you're feeding a group of 4-5 or 8-10, or just want a Fireworks Show (a.k.a. large-format cocktails and wine), these spots have you covered. Get faves like Il Bracco's housemade focaccia with whipped ricotta, or Balboa's coconut shrimp and sushi rolls, and your party will thank you.
BombPop Lemonade (photo by Rachel Low)
Try the BombPop Lemonade all week long. The 20-ounce iced beverage is just $6, and tastes like summer. Or try the coffeeshop's new Energy Wave drinks to get the party started — the Shark Bite is tropical Red Bull and blue raspberry, and the Hawaiian Punch is watermelon Red Bull with Hawaiian Island syrup.
Granger's cocktail (photo by Becca Wright)
Hitting up Miller Outdoor and Hermann Park this July 4? Walk to the just-opened, upscale-American restaurant Granger's before or after and light things up with a festive cocktail (it comes with a sparkler!).
Smoked ribs at The Warwick (photo by Jenn Duncan)
Red, white and... barbecue?! Sounds good to us. This July 4, The Warwick serves up a sizzling plate of ribs and brisket and one side of your choice for just $15 until closing time at 7pm.
FM Kitchen & Bar frozens (photo by Shawn Chippendale)
The Washington Ave. mainstay and new next-door PKL Social is hosting a special giveaway all week long — winners are announced each day at 4pm (you must be present to win). Whether or not your name is called, definitely grab frozen cocktails for the crew: For $60, get a half-gallon of the triple-layered, red-white-and-blue drink — it's frosé, margarita and Ocean Water.
Bomb Popsicle Slush
Movie night! Heights & Co. screens Independence Day at sunset. Arrive early to snag a spot and enjoy a Bomb Popsicle Slush made with frosé to keep you cool!
Hot dog basket at Christian's Tailgate (photo by Becca Wright)
The Houston classic knows the assignment: $2 hot dogs all day long, and Bombpop 'Ritas for just five bucks.
A Dance of Fire and Ice (photo by Jenn Duncan)
A Dance of Fire and Ice, with vodka, Blue Curacao, Cointreau, grenadine and soda water, is the newest addition to the cocktail menu here. It's half red, half blue, and 100 percent patriotic.
Artist Tierney Malone
Once the needle hit the vinyl, the listener was treated to a ridiculously funky two-chord bass pattern, followed by drums, electric guitar, and the words, “Hi, everybody. I’m Archie Bell of the Drells of Houston, Texas!” followed by a directive for listeners to dance the Houston-born dance, the “Tighten Up.”
“Archie Bell helped to put Houston’s music scene on the world map,” says artist Tierney Malone, whose multimedia installation BLACK STEREO, a tribute to Houston’s musical culture and history, is on view at Hogan Brown Gallery through Aug. 11.
The exhibition, co-curated by artist Robert Hodge and Community Artists’ Collective executive director Michelle Barnes, is part of the Community Music Center of Houston’s Annual Legacy Project, a month-long series of programs celebrating musical artists, educators, and facilitators who have come from or have ties to Houston’s Third Ward.
'Stereo Sound' by Tierney Malone
Black Stereo reference source collage installation by Tierney Malone
'Anita Moore' by Tierney Malone
The June 9 opening of BLACK STEREO included a performance by the H-Town Orchestra upstairs in the Eldorado Ballroom. Originally built in 1939, and once known as the “Home of Happy Feet,” the Eldorado Ballroom is where hometown talent such as Milton Larkin and His Orchestra and crooner Horace Grigsby regularly performed to packed houses of dancers. A free artist talk by Malone and a performance by Grigsby, who turns 90 this year, will take place at Hogan Brown Gallery on Saturday, June 22, from 2-4pm.
For Malone, who was born in 1964 in Los Angeles, and grew up in Mississippi and Alabama, Houston’s musical history is a never-dry wellspring of inspiration for his art-making. In 2016, while an artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses, he literally built from the inside out the Jazz Church of Houston, remodeling the interior of a shotgun house to create a 30-seat venue that was part art installation, history museum and juke joint.
BLACK STEREO is a natural extension of The Jazz Church, with Malone’s instantly recognizable photo and music ephemera collages — alongside paintings and works-on-paper of words and fonts pulled from jazz, R&B, and classical music album covers and show bills — cut up and remixed to poetic effect. New to Malone’s oeuvre is a series of cobalt-blue digital collage cyanotypes, in which vintage photographs of jazz luminaries Arnett Cobb and Jewel Brown are recast as fully suited-up astronauts, pioneers in the fields of space and time, who made history through the ephemeral art of music. (Each cyanotype is credited to “J.E.T.” an acronym for Malone’s wife Jehn, their daughter Essie, and Tierney.)
“Black music is a connection to our past and a source of inspiration,” says Malone in a press statement, “a space-creating force that encourages and seeds dreams for the future.”