Sometimes life does feel like a (dance) movie. 

Rewind to last year on our second day of 2024 Houston Rodeo. My friends and I were moving through the crowd, a post-Major Lazer tide of cowboy boots and concertgoers surging across the grounds. This was our second day and we were determined to wring a bit more from the experience—one more drink, one more dance, one more chance to make it count. Crowds are also second nature to us. We’ve spent entire days at Disneyland and survived the shoulder-to-shoulder gridlock of multi-day festivals like Coachella and EDC. Sometimes you let the current carry you; sometimes you fight it. But this time, it carried us straight into a flash mob: Copperhead Road.

Our first foray into line dancing was April 2023 for a good friend’s birthday who tastefully selected line dancing as his birthday activity. None of us had done it before. None of us questioned it. We, however, were instantly line dance-pilled! Tuesday’s at Moonshine Beach became a ritual. We went so often that the bouncer started saying “they’re good” to us instead of checking our IDs. With a long and growing list of routines to learn, we vacillated between eager to get on the dance floor and overwhelmed with how much we didn’t know. 

A year later in 2024, we’re dancing at Houston Rodeo in an unplanned flash mob just walking around the carnival grounds. Did we know the steps fully? Sorta. Were people recording? Yeah, but we didn’t care. Was it fun? It was amazing! The song ended, and the dancers scattered as if it had never happened, the way the best moments do. I was still thinking about it days later, how it felt like a movie. Something about the fleetingness made it feel even more precious.

By this year’s 2025 rodeo, we were a bit more seasoned. At The Hideout: Country girl shake, Flex, Copperhead Road, Boots on the Ground, Outlaw, Tamia, alternating from dances we learned when we first started to dances we picked up recently here in Houston. And then at some point, we realized we weren’t sitting out anymore. We hit a new milestone and were on the floor non-stop.

I understand now why line dancing feels like a kind of spell. It isn’t just movement. It isn’t just muscle memory. It’s a way of being together without speaking, a silent pact between strangers that, for the length of a song, makes them something else. From strangers to neighbors, a perfect fleeting whole.

Houston is unironically the perfect place for that.

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APRIL LOOKING AHEAD

We had some readers express they needed more heads up on highly sought out events. Every first newsletter of the month we’ll try to curate some events on the horizon that look interesting!

All of April

• See the Great Elephant Migration at Hermann Park.

• Spring Nights in MFAH. Every Saturday evening in April. $40. Buy tickets. 

• 2025 Houston Bookstore Crawl

• Build your own “gardening” 🍃 piece at Smashed Studio. Starts at $25.

April Events

• April 8: Rufus Du Sol tribute night at The Kennedy. Make reservations.

• April 11: ROCO connections presents live performance with accompanying classic films, The General and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony Music Land at the River Oaks Theater. $45. Few seats left. Buy tickets.

• April 11: The Legendary Art Car Ball. $50. Buy tickets. (We went last year and it’s fun! Has a Burning Man, mini music festival, art enthusiasts vibe.)

• April 17: Houstonia’s spring magazine launch party. Free. RSVP.

• April 18: Houston Unfolded hosts their monthly game night. Free. RSVP required.

• April 19: Big Blanket giant picnic and community cookout. Tix starting at $15. Buy tickets.

• April 25 & 26: New Wave documentary at River Oaks Theater. $21. Almost sold out. Buy tickets.

• April 26: VICTORY Houston presents A Night at Moulin Rouge at 713 Music Hall benefiting cancer research. $500. Buy tickets.

WEEKEND EVENTS

Thursday, 4/3

7:30pm-9:30pm, Line Dancing Class | Get your boots on and take a line dancing class at Neon Boots. Line dancing until 12am. Karaoke in Esquire Room. Free. See more info.

Friday, 4/4

4:10pm, Outdoor Movie | Watch The Devil Wears Prada at Rooftop Cinema Club in Uptown. Tix start at $17. Buy tickets.

8pm-10pm, Live Music | Miller Outdoor Theater is presenting “Louisiana in Texas” and celebrating king of Zydeco’s 100th birthday, Clifton Chenier. Free! See flyer. 

Saturday, 4/5

9am-5pm, Art Sculptures | Houston Botanic Garden presents “Rich Soil” which opens on this day. It’s an exhibit that “features figures that rise like spirits to pay tribute to ancestors.” $12 for entry. Buy GA tickets.

10am-2pm Charm Bar | Create your own charm necklace with Valencia Charm Bar at Postino Wine Cafe. Drinks and small bites will be available for purchase. Free. See flyer.

2pm-10pm Festival | Houston Zydeco Fest will be at Emancipation Park and will be a day of “dancing, eating, party, and smiling.” GA is $13. Get tickets.

6pm-8pm, Poetry and Music | Join a night of poetry and music inspired by the honeybee! “A live performance by poet and scholar Joseph Campana and performer Kurt Stallmann. Free. See flyer.

6pm-9pm, Block Party | Art League is hosting a Spring Block Party feature music by Ice House Radio and local vendors including Asana Ceramics, Tyler Darling, and much much more. Free. See flyer. 

7pm, Live Music | We love the Monarch Chamber Players! Experience a French Romance evening showcasing beautiful compositions of the renowned French composer Gabriele Fauré along with Edith Piaf. $20. Buy tickets.

12am, Sports | Watch the Japanese Grand Prix at Gristworkz! Race starts at 12am and last call is 1:45am. See flyer.

Sunday, 4/6

12pm-5pm, Flower Market | Houston Plant Market is hosting Flower Power Market at M-K-T for a vibrant market feature local vendors of plants, jewelry, candles, art and more! See flyer.

4pm-7pm, Live DJ | Stop by Golden Hour with Eden at POST Houston. Chill with a glass of wine and savor Spanish-inspired bites in Eden’s plant-filled oasis. Free with RSVP.

Four good reads in Houston

Our Highly Memeable Freeways Redefined Who’s a “Houstonian” (Houstonia Magazine)
Houston is literally (and culturally) a spiderweb—just look at the freeways! This in-depth piece by “Houstorian” James Glassman, gets into the history of Houston’s freeways and how it tells the city’s story of growth. When we say “Houston is an hour from Houston” that means freeways. “Whether you’re driving yourself from Katy to downtown, or semi-awake in a pre-dawn Park & Ride bus zipping down an HOV lane, the freeways work.”

Inside the Manor House With Mezcal — The Houstonian Hotel’s Storied Enclave Morphs Into a Mexican Dream Restaurant (Paper City Magazine)
A fun peek into the “Tribute to Mezcal” event at the Houstonian Hotel’s Manor House. It offers everything we’d want in an evening event: Mezcal tastings, live entertainment, beautiful decor, and lots and lots of food—a buffet to be exact. Looks like the Houstonian is planning to offer this event to corporate groups and clients who’d enjoy a regionally inspired party.

Coffee shop raves are becoming the next big thing in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Ok we wrote about this two weeks ago and our opinion is that these coffee parties are just a scene. We’d be surprised if the popularity of these continued (not just here in Houston but everywhere) but again, people need any good reason to get out and dance.

Exploring MFAH's "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within exhibit" (Axios)
We wish this was more in depth but it’s definitely encouraging me to go see this exhibition!

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