Material Ghoul is one of many vendors at Black Market Credit: Courtesy
Maitland comics shop Blackbird and Winter Park venue Conduit are teaming up for a night market this weekend.
This Sunday, the duo host the inaugural “Black Market at Forsyth,” a kinda spooky, kinda gothy early evening free clearinghouse for local artisans, vinyl, jewelry and sundry collectibles.
Participating vendors include Material Ghoul, Slug Soft, Doom Witch Soaps and Star Cove Goods, alongside a veritable coven of others.
Black Market at Forsyth happens at 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21. Admission is free and Blackbird’s Instagram is running regular spotlights on vendors.
It’s been quite the week, huh?
Post-Beryl, we hope everyone is safe and well, and we wish you all working electricity
and Wi-Fi, air conditioning and refrigeration, and (hopefully) a well-deserved break
from recovery efforts. If you were lucky enough to come through unscathed, or
just need a place to go with working AC, we’ve put together a list of this
coming week’s best bets. Keep reading for musicals, classical music, a
non-American holiday celebration and more.
Get an early start on Halloween at Insomnia Gallery’s Summer Slashers – Horror Art Show + Night Market at Hardy & Nance Studios.
Photo by Natalie de la Garza
We are officially 112 days from
Halloween, so there’s no better time to celebrate all things horror, which you
can do on Friday, July 12, from 8 p.m. to midnight when Insomnia Gallery presents their
annual Summer
Slashers – Horror Art Show + Night Market at Hardy & Nance Studios. The art
show will showcase the works of local artists, all putting their unique spins
on different scary movies and TV shows, while the horror-themed night market
will feature vendors that specialize in spooky. Of course, you can also expect complimentary
drinks from City Orchard, Equal Parts Brewing, Bad Astronaut Brewing Co. and Eureka Heights Brewery as well as
food from Boom Box Tacos. The show is
free and there’s no ticket required for entry.
Ian Lewis and Danny Hayes in Main Street Theater’s production of The Woman in Black.
Photo by Andrew Ruthven
There’s nothing better than a ghost
story in the summer, and Main Street
Theater has one for you: The Woman in Black,
opening on Saturday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. The play, adapted by Stephen
Mallatratt from a novel by Susan Hill, is about a man named Arthur Kipps, who’s
sure his family is cursed. Danny Hayes, who plays the actor Mr. Kipps hires to
help tell his story, told the Houston Press the play is “really
unsettling,” but that it is “not
just scary for scary’s sake or trying to be scary with silly jump scares,” noting
that the characters “are
very human” and the play is “so
well crafted.” Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through
Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. through August 11. Tickets are available here for $39 to $59.
The 14th of July is Bastille Day, a public
holiday in France that commemorates the day Parisians stormed the Bastille – a
prison that at one time held Voltaire (as well as the Marquis de Sade) – and
kicked off the French Revolution. You can find a little “liberté, egalité, fraternité”
right here in the Bayou City on Sunday, July 14, at 5 p.m. when the Consulate General of France
in Houston hosts Celebrate
Bastille Day at Rice University Stadium.
Francophiles can enjoy a showcase of sports (remember, the Olympics are in Paris this year),
music, space and cuisine during the festivities. We’ll also go out on a limb
and bet you’ll hear at least one rendition of “La Marseillaise.” Admission is
free, but registration here
is mandatory.