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Sports

Houston sports tech company planning ‘Pokatok,’ a downtown festival and expo, for April 2024

Posted on · The vision for the four-day event, being organized by Gow Companies, is to serve as a world's fair for sports, with attractions for community members as well as those in the athletic, gaming and technology industries.

Arts & Culture

Summer on the Rhine: The Rheingau Music Festival

Posted on · Three years ago, Classical 91.7’s Dean Dalton, host of our Houston Symphony broadcasts, retired from his position as Director of Cultural Programming and now divides each year between homes in Houston and the Transylvania region of Romania.  He spends each summer visiting music and cultural festivals throughout Europe and here reports on his recent trip to the Rheingau Music Festival...

News

Mother Nature Couldn’t Stop the Crawfish Festival

Posted on · They're small, ugly creatures with beady eyes and little claws. But if you ask some people, there's just nothing better than crawfish. The annual Texas Crawfish Festival takes place every year in Old Town Spring, the last two weeks of April. As Bill Stamps reports, this year's fun got off to a very wet start.