HOUSTON’S MURAL HONORS GEORGE FLOYD MURAL.
1. Prince
A lively Prince can be heard on “One Night Alone … Live,” drawn from several shows in 2002. He offers extended jams on “The Rainbow Children” and “Xenophobia” while also presenting older favorites like “I Wanna B Ur Lover.” Of course, the four-LP/CD set’s diamond and its pearl is “Starfish and Coffee,” a perfect song that only occasionally found its way into set lists.
Where: Check local music retailers. Andrew Dansby
2. Metamorphosis
Houston bands Los Skarnales, Bayou City Funk and Lords of Kool head up Metamorphosis, a drive-in concert set for Saturday at Minute
Maid Park. The multiple-stage event can accommodate 350 cars, and every person will be given a pair of silent disco headphones with three channels, one for each stage. Concertgoers can stay in their cars to enjoy the music. If you choose to walk around the area, you must wear a face covering and practice social distancing.
Where: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Minute Maid Park, Lot C, 501 Crawford
Where: $25 per person; eventbrite.com Joey Guerra
3. Orange Show Drive-In
Three months into a pandemic, the drive-in movie theater experience is bouncing back, making a socially distant night out possible. Houston’s beloved art space the Orange Show is getting into the game this weekend with screenings of “The Princess Bride” on Friday and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and “The Big Lebowski” on Saturday. Cost is $30 per vehicle.
Where: orangeshow.org/
upcoming-events Andrew Dansby
4. Second Saturday Open Studios
The six buildings of Sawyer Yards reopen to the public Saturday for an afternoon of studio visits and an outdoor market. More than 350 creatives have spaces there. In the Winter Street building’s unit C-6, Lisa Morales and Stacy Gressel are inviting people to add to their community-based installation “The Thought Hive,” which compiles comments about the pandemic written on old book pages and inserted into a chicken-wire support.
Where: 2101 Winter and surrounding area; sawyeryards.com. Molly Glentzer
5. Arthur Jafa
Arthur Jafa’s six-and-ahalf-minute video “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death” conveys decades of black life in the U.S. with an evocative mix of archival film clips and audio. (In the middle, a young woman asks, “What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?”) The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions are streaming the piece for 24 hours Saturday. For more insight into Jafa’s work, check out interviews with the artist on YouTube, including the Louisiana Channel’s excellent “Not All Good, Not All Bad” from last year.
Where: metmuseum.org Molly Glentzer
6. ‘Front to Back and Side to Side’
Houston choreographer Lydia Hance debuts “Front to Back and Side to Side” June 15 as part of the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers 2020 showcase of dance-forcamera works. Videographer David Rivera filmed the twominute solo for Jacquelyne Boe, who performs within artist Raul Gonzalez’ colorful, geometric duct tape installation at Art Pace in San Antonio. Composer Charles Peck’s clocklike percussion and clarinet duet sets a playful tone. Hance’s work is one of four on a program called “A Feast for the Senses: Films That Delight, Surprise and Thrill.” The filmmakers speak via Zoom sessions at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Where: adfmbm2020.com Molly Glentzer