Free Events Thursday!
Championship BBQ Contest
Friday and Saturday, February 28th- March 1st from Noon- 11 pm
Reliant Stadium
All you can eat BBQ!
Price: $15
Downtown Rodeo Parade
Saturday, March 1st at 10:00 am
Price: Free!
Conoco 10K Run and 5K Run/ Walk
Saturday, March 1st at 9:20 am
Saturday, March 1st at 9:45 am
Find out more at http://www.conocophillipsrodeorun.com/events/10k/Pages/logistics.aspx
Price: $35
Sam Houston Race Park
Friday-Sunday, February 28th- March 9th at 7:00 pm
Watch thoroughbred live racing this weekend and next weekend!
Find out more at http://shrp.com/
Price: $7
Macbeth
Main Street Theater
Rice Village, 2540 Times Boulevard
February 27th- March 9th (Schedule daily)
Even though Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s shortest plays, Main Street Theater will be putting on an 80-minute version with no intermission courtesy of visiting director and actor Guy Roberts in a co-production with the Prague Shakespeare Company.
Price: $20-39
Last Tip of My Hat
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. every Sat. from March 1 until March 31
12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. every Sun. from March 2 until March 31
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. from March 3 until March 31
National Museum of Funeral History
501 Crawford St., Houston, TX 77002
Every rodeo season the National Museum of Funeral History does its part in the spirit of the Wild West with its “Last Tip of My Hat” exhibit, which celebrates death in the time of the cowboy. The usually modest event has been ramped up considerably this year. As always, there will be a traditional pine box coffin on loan from Cowboy’s Last Ride casket company in Early, Texas. These simple containers were a common method of burial in the West, since pine was plentiful and easy to work with. “A cowboy is a simple man, hard-working, and finds a pine box to be a fine representation of who he was in life,” Edward Castillo, owner of Cowboy’s Last Ride, said via email.
Also on display will be memorial folders from the funerals of the one and only Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale “The Queen of the West” Evans. The duo was featured in more than 100 different cowboy movies and television shows. You can see plenty of other funeral folders from Hollywood cowboys in the “Thanks for the Memories” section of the exhibit, including those belonging to Michael Landon, John Wayne, Gene Autry and Tom Mix. Also represented are Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels (whom you may know as The Lone Ranger and Tonto, the ones from before the Johnny Depp movie).
Price: $7 to $10
Free Events Thursday