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- Drink Houston Better -- Sunday...
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Sunday, October 4 at 5:00pm - Poison Girl's 5th Anniversary ...
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Sunday, September 6 at 6:00pm - Drink Houston Better -- Tonigh...
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Sunday, June 7 at 5:00pm - Drink Houston Better
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Sunday, April 5 at 5:00pm - Poison Pen Reading Series
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Thursday, March 26 at 8:30pm - Drink Houston Better
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Sunday, March 1 at 5:00pm - Poison Pen Reading Series
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Thursday, January 29 at 8:30pm - Drink Houston Better
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Sunday, January 4 at 5:00pm - Anvil Bar & Refuge - Poison Gi...
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Thursday, December 18 at 6:00pm - Poison Pen Reading Series
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Thursday, December 4 at 8:30pm
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge We'll be opening a little late tonight -- 8 o'clock. We're having our company holiday party (this year, its a polka party!). Happy Holidays, everybody. See you later.
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
The first Sunday of every month @ Poison Girl, all our proceeds go to a local non-profit. Tomorrow night, come out and support Communities in Schools -- http://www.cishouston.org/
Drink Houston Better!
www.cishouston.org
CIS is a campus-based, non-profit organization that works with at-risk students in grades pre-K through 12, as well as with their families and communities, to provide opportunity, hope and change.
You're gonna drink anyway ...
Time:5:00PM Sunday, October 4th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge Photo booth pictures from the party are online @ www.photoconqueso.com All of them. And some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
This Sunday, we'll be celebrating our fifth anniversary!
JW Americana is playing!
Free with a donation of a canned good to the Houston Food Bank!
Time:6:00PM Sunday, September 6th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Tomorrow Night @ Antidote in the Heights
Piano in the Parking Lot
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New Orleans Piano in the Parking Lot
Location:Antidote Coffee
Time:8:00PM Friday, August 7th
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge I am Mesmer -- Free Tonight at 6 at Antidote Coffee in the Heights -- 729 Studewood (Studewood and 8th)
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge Poison Pen Reading Series July 30th 8:30 PM Poison Girl Bar 1641 Westheimer Houston, TX 77006 Readers: Mike Jones Claire Anderson Peter Hyland This month at Poison Pen we have a fan favorite night. It’s a reading so special that we’re putting aside wr
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On the first Sunday of every month, Poison Girl donates all the night's proceeds to a non-profit organization, with an emphasis on local Houston organizations. This Sunday, April 5th, we're thrilled to be supporting Aurora Picture Show.
Aurora Picture Show is a non-profit cinema dedicated to non-commercial film, video..., and media. Aurora has distinguished itself as a home for vanguard work that falls outside of conventional moviemaking, and traditionally has fewer exhibition outlets. Our screenings are in a variety of spectacular settings and non-traditional venues, and we strive to make our film events memorable.
A short screening of films from the hot newAurora Video Label DVDswill be shown. Selections will include shorts fromEnid Baxter Blader'sA Film is a Burning Place,Lost Broadcasts: Videos by Eileen MaxsonandThe Best of Slant Film Festival: Volume One.
www.aurorapictureshow.org
You know you're gonna drink anyway. You might as well drink for a cause.
Poison Girl
1641 Westheimer
713-527-9929
Past Drink Houston Better beneficiaries include:
The Orange Show
Houston Area Food Bank
SNAP
Planned Parenthood
Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre
Workshop Houston
BooTown
Houston Area Women's Center
Mildred's Umbrella
DiverseWorks
Red Cross Tsunami Relief
Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief
Buffalo Bayou Art Park
Houston PBS
Catastrophic Theatre
Infernal Bridegroom
Writers in the Schools
Spammo
GlassTire
Aurora Picture Show
Habitat for Humanity
Spacetaker
Arts Initiative
Pride Houston
Citizens for Animal Protection
Montrose Counseling Center
Literacy Volunteers of Houston
Spark Parks
You're gonna drink anyway ...
Time:5:00PM Sunday, June 7th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
On the first Sunday of every month, Poison Girl donates all the night's proceeds to a non-profit organization, with an emphasis on local Houston organizations. This Sunday, April 5th, we're thrilled to be supporting Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company.
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company was founded in April of 2001 by ...actress Jennifer Decker and poet/ professor Dr. John Harvey. With, no budget , borrowed set pieces and costumes from the actors’ own closets, Harvey’s first play,Kama Sutra, was written, cast and ready to open in August, 2001.
Since that first production, under the artistic direction of Jennifer Decker, the company has created and performed seven seasons of productions, from original work by now resident playwright John Harvey, to Houston premiers of shows performed previously in New York and London (sic, Triptych, By the Bog of Cats, One Flea Spare, A Murder of Crows), to World premiers by prominent contemporary playwrights (Noah Haidle’sA Long History of Neglect). These productions have earned considerable praise from the press, and have won the company threeHouston Press: Best Of Houston awards (Best Theatre Company in 2006, Best Original Show for Rot in 2007, Best Theatre Company on a Shoestring Budget in 2008).The company has also mentioned in the national Magazine, American Theatre for their Texas tour of Rot in 2008 (an original play by John Harvey in collaboration with Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre).
Mildred’s Umbrella loves collaboration, and has worked with Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre, University of Houston Honors College, Houston Community College, The Museum of Fine Arts Houstonand theHouston Public Libraryto further enrich the city’s artistic scene through education and artistic growth.
www.mildredsumbrella.com
You know you're gonna drink anyway. You might as well drink for a cause.
Poison Girl
1641 Westheimer
713-527-9929
Past Drink Houston Better beneficiaries include:
The Orange Show
Houston Area Food Bank
SNAP
Planned Parenthood
Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre
Workshop Houston
BooTown
Houston Area Women's Center
Mildred's Umbrella
DiverseWorks
Red Cross Tsunami Relief
Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief
Buffalo Bayou Art Park
Houston PBS
Catastrophic Theatre
Infernal Bridegroom
Writers in the Schools
Spammo
GlassTire
Aurora Picture Show
Habitat for Humanity
Spacetaker
Arts Initiative
Pride Houston
Citizens for Animal Protection
Montrose Counseling Center
Literacy Volunteers of Houston
Spark Parks
Tonight at Poison Girl
Time:5:00PM Sunday, April 5th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Pen Reading Series
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
1641 Westheimer
March 26th
8:30-10:00
Readers:
Antonya Nelson
Kathleen Lee
Rus Bradburd
A good commando knows four things:
1) The importance of piano wire both as a way to silently dispatch your targets and as a way to compose little tunes and pass the time on long SST fligh...ts
2) strong record keeping skills (never know when you'll have to turn on your bosses and hand over your extensive notes to a senate subcommittee)
3) the importance of good literature
4) the frenzied unequaled passion of bloodlust
This March's reading will help you complete step three of your Commando training. At its completion you will be certified as an Ace Marksman in Bookishness and been given the opportunity to purchase a t-shirt as a handsome commemorative item to remember your achievement by.
This is elite training this month. You miss this training and you will find yourself a shabby back-alley assassin for hire, knocking over paperboys and cats who scatter the litterbox gunk all over the rumpus room.
No, really. This reading will change your life.
Kathleen Lee has traveled extensively for two decades in Asia, South America, and the Middle East. She has written for Conde Nast Traveler magazine, and her work appears in Best American Travel Writing 2001 and 2002. Her collection of stories is Travel Among Men.
Rus Bradburd is the author of Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops. Chicago native Rus Bradburd coached college basketball at UTEP and New Mexico State for fourteen seasons before stunning the basketball world by resigning to pursue an MFA degree in 2000. Since retiring from college coaching, his essays have appeared in The Houston Chronicle, El Paso Times, Las Cruces Sun-News, Heartland Journal and Newspaper Tree. Rus went to Ireland in 2002 to coach Tralee's Frosties Tigers.
Antonya Nelson needs no introduction to Houston readers. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and five short story collections. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Best American Short Stories, and her essays have appeared in Texas Monthly. Her new collection of stories is titled Nothing Right, which will be for sale at the reading.
Tip your bartenders
This Thursday @ Poison Girl
Time:8:30PM Thursday, March 26th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
On the first Sunday of every month, Poison Girl donates all the night's proceeds to a non-profit organization, with an emphasis on local Houston organizations. This Sunday, March 1st, we're thrilled to be supporting The Orange Show.
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art was founded in 1980, to preserve and present ...works of extraordinary imagination and provide people the opportunity to express their personal artistic vision. Our programs for children and adults include hands-on workshops, music, storytelling and performance, the award-winning Eyeopener Tour program and Houston's most popular public art event - the Art Car Parade & Festival. Our internationally acclaimed stewardship efforts preserve two of Houston's most famous cultural icons The Orange Show Monument and the Beer Can House. Our archive and library are used by students, scholars, the media and artists.
www.orangeshow.org
You know you're gonna drink anyway. You might as well drink for a cause.
Poison Girl
1641 Westheimer
713-527-9929
Past Drink Houston Better beneficiaries include:
Houston Area Food Bank
SNAP
Planned Parenthood
Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre
Workshop Houston
BooTown
Houston Area Women's Center
Mildred's Umbrella
DiverseWorks
Red Cross Tsunami Relief
Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief
Buffalo Bayou Art Park
Houston PBS
Catastrophic Theatre
Infernal Bridegroom
Writers in the Schools
Spammo
GlassTire
Aurora Picture Show
Habitat for Humanity
Spacetaker
Arts Initiative
Pride Houston
Citizens for Animal Protection
Montrose Counseling Center
Literacy Volunteers of Houston
Spark Parks
Time:5:00PM Sunday, March 1st
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
Poison Pen Reading Series
Thursday January 29th, 2009
8:30-Ripe
Poison Girl
1641 Westheimer
Before we begin this month's scheduled announcement:
It's really important to eat apples. And Poison Pen is proud to have been invited to serve on the President's Special Commission on the Intersection of Youth Culture and Apples. We,... of course, serve at the President's pleasure, but make no mistake we're gonna get to the bottom of some of the youth gang influence peddling going on in the dirty underbelly of the apple world. We cannot be bought. We cannot be threatened. No matter what your varietal. So take that, you Braeburn punks. You can go core yourself.
Thank you.
This month's reading features (and their corresponding apple*)
The Fallawater - Chuck Carlise – Poet/essayist – Beneath its tough skin the greenish yellow flesh is firm, juicy and mildly tart. Best when cooked into sauce or made into pies as it does not rate high for fresh eating.
The Belle De Boskoop: Casey Fleming – Fiction/essayist – Excels as a longtime keeper, sweetens in storage. Greenish-yellow flushed with brick red and a light russeting. Flesh aromatic, acid tart and crisp.
And, all the way from Northern Ohio
The Beautiful Arcade himself
Michael Dumanis – Poet and Author of My Soviet Union, Co-Editor of Legitimate Dangers - Good sauce and culinary apple. Large, green fruit turning to light green upon ripening. Sometimes over 6 inches in diameter. Sub-acid to mildly sweet flavor.
* All apple information taken from that warehouse of apple data: allaboutapples.com
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Time:8:30PM Thursday, January 29th
Location:Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge
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