Houston's East End got an occult-themed rock bar and the underground moved in. Black Magic Social Club at 7036 Harrisburg Boulevard, in the Second Ward along the East End's old commercial spine, is a 21-and-up bar with a stage that has made itself the city's home for everything rock, punk and metal - a roughly hundred-capacity room where touring crust punk, thrash, dungeon synth and darkwave acts play inches from the crowd and the bar keeps pouring until two. The occult theme is set dressing do.....

Halloween night 1950 was opening night for the University of Houston's grand hall, the east wing of an Art Deco administration building designed to give the young university a front door worthy of a city. Cullen Performance Hall at 4800 Calhoun Road occupies the eastern half of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, designed by native Houston architect Alfred C. Finn - the man behind the San Jacinto Monument - with long classical wings and regularly spaced pilasters. The building was announced in March.....

Houston's East End got its CBGB when the pandemic cleared the field, and the kids built the scene themselves. The End at 7124 Lawndale Street sprang to life as older venues shuttered during the lockdown years, establishing itself as the city's essential DIY room - an all-ages, all-genres space a mile south of Mason Park. The layout is pure DIY economics: two stages, one indoor and one outdoor, with the indoor stage sitting six or seven feet from the front doors so the audience walks straight in.....