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FFW – The Free Press Preview for October 20 – 25, 2026

October 20, 2026 – 10:28 am | No Comment

This Week’s Featured Show

Friday October 21

Hell City Kings

LP/CD Release Party

with

TeXXXaSGhost Town Electric

The Freakouts

@ Fitzgerald’s

Well, Say what you want about the Hell City Kings but damn if they don’t know how to promote a record release …

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The Big Uneasy April 29, 2026 – 10:13 am | No Comment

People who know Harry Shearer only as the bass player from This Is Spinal Tap (Derek Smalls) or through his voice work in The Simpsons (Mr. Burns among others) are about to be surprised. Shearer’s …

Testify - Cole Alexander of the Black Lips April 29, 2026 – 8:45 am | No Comment

Black Lips (Photograph by Zach Wolfe)

The Black Lips‘ brand of 60’s inspired garage rock is the kind of stuff that immediately strikes a chord with anyone. It’s sassy, smart-ass, precocious, in your face, weird, and, …

The Greatest Story Ever Sold April 28, 2026 – 11:55 pm | No Comment

The Greatest Story Ever Sold explores the art of product placement, and once the film wraps you’ll have no doubt extracting monies from corporate entities to have their products appear in the frame of a …

Fast Five April 28, 2026 – 11:11 pm | No Comment

Time was when action movies had real explosions and effects. Nowadays movies CGI in all the mayhem, and the action sequences look patently false. Case in point Fast Five, the fifth in the serious of …

FFW - The Free Press preview for April 28 - May 4 April 28, 2026 – 3:12 pm | No Comment

This Week’s Featured Show(s)

Record Release Parties (WOOOOO!)

Thursday, April 28

The Literary Greats (CD release)

with

The Orbans, Beetle

@ The Continental Club

Pale

(CD release)

with

The Shiny Darks, Come See My Dead Person

@ Warehouse Live (Studio)

Satuday, April 30

The Energy

(CD release)

with

OBN III’s, …

Latin Wave 6 April 28, 2026 – 9:49 am | One Comment

A wave of diverse movies from Latin America descends on Houston in the form of the Latin Wave 6. The sixth annual festival of films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia and Mexico unwinds at …

Houston Hackerspace announces summer class series April 27, 2026 – 3:41 pm | No Comment

Tx\Rx members constructing what looks like a baby tardis

Houston’s one and only Hackerspace Tx\Rx Labs has announced there spring/summer class series. The two-year-old organization, headquartered at 2026 Commerce St., is composed of over …

Testify - Ary Warnaar of Anamanaguchi April 27, 2026 – 8:43 am | No Comment

Anamanaguchi’s “Airbrushed” Art by Paul Robertson

Ah technology. We use it and then discard it for the next shiny toy that tempts us with promises of better and faster computing. In garages and in landfills …

Secret Mall: The Mall April 26, 2026 – 5:57 pm | No Comment

By Jacob Calle

Secret Mommy’s latest release is a 27 minute soundtrack to a Darren Aronofsky film that does not exist. These 8 tracks have no beginning nor do they have an end as they seamlessly …

Tomatoes for Winning! April 26, 2026 – 3:25 pm | No Comment

By Jacob Calle

Charlie Sheen will be dumping his “Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour” here tonight at Verizon Wireless. You all may have heard that his tour has not been the best for him as people …

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Steve Thompson, Jr.’s Complete Guide to Houston’s Haunted Houses First a little disclosure- I am not, by nature, a very brave person. Though I am a seemingly large, rugged, and sophisticated gentleman, I scream like George Michael without the slightest provocation. I …