Holiday chaos already in full swing? Here’s your excuse to bail on the mall and hit up some actual fun. We’ve got giveaways, hometown shows, and festive chaos, starting with Jack Ingram’s Acoustic Holiday Tour at The Heights Theater on December 13 with Calder Allen. Last chance to enter to win a pair of tickets!

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• Thanksgiving. Christmas. NYE. Houston goes all out for the holidays, and our users are busy doing things the entire time. Want your brand to show up where the fun is? Advertise with us this holiday season.*

• Carolyn Wonderland, Marcia Ball, Shelley King, Rosie Flores, and Kevin Russell return Home for the Holidays at The Heights Theater on December 19. Win your way in!

• Don’t be a grinch! We just dropped a sleigh-load of giveaways for White Oak Music Hall shows: Ghostland Observatory (12/29), Don Broco (1/26), Joseph (1/31), Cat Power (2/12), Akaash Singh (3/5), and more. Go win stuff!

• New York’s Sarah Kinsley crafts dreamy alternate worlds through her music. Catch her live with girlpuppy at The Bronze Peacock on April 8.

• Melodic bass heaven incoming. Seven Lions is bringing the Asleep in the Garden of Infernal Stars Tour to ​713 Music Hall on May 9!

FREE MUSEUM DAYS IN HOUSTON

Unwrap some culture this season. Houston’s museums are serving up free admission days all December long! From frosty fossils to holly-jolly history, it’s the perfect way to sleigh your in-laws or escape the chaos. Consider it a gift to yourself.

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As we all know, a laser is an optical oscillator that generates coherent radiation via stimulated emission in a population-inverted gain medium within a resonant cavity... But did you know that they’re ALSO an exceptional way to get rid of unwanted body hair? LaserAway (voted #1 Laser Hair Removal provider by Cosmopolitan) is zapping 75% off select packages until December 8! Walk in, get a quick treatment by their attentively kind medical team, and you’re done! OBVIOUSLY, lasers yield a beam with near-diffraction-limited divergence - but more importantly, they’re a form of self-care.*

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• FIFA will reveal matchups and kickoff times for Houston’s 2026 World Cup games tomorrow at 11AM. Catch it live on FIFA’s YouTube! Group stage, Round of 32, and Round of 16 details incoming.

• The month of November saw restaurants that serve everything from high-end sushi to burgers to seafood boils open their doors around Houston. ⁠Take a look!

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