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Houston Art Car Parade.
Byline: CHRIS JACKSON
The scene is familiar to anyone who's ever participated in a concours: After preparing the car, you wait in line and chat with other contestants while masking both your excitement and apprehension. After what seems like forever, it's time to maneuver your prize as gracefully as possible to the judging tent, put on a smile, and explain to the assembled experts why you have glued 3200 marshmallow bunnies to your car.
Pebble Beach it's not. But the 16-year-old Pennzoil Art Car Weekend in Houston is the largest and oldest festival of its kind, celebrating "public art at its most public,'' in the words of the event's organizers, the Orange Show Foundation.
Last month's Houston Art Car Parade consisted of more than 250 car and bicycle entries from all over the continent show- ing off for 250,000 ...
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- Cartier exhibits jewels at Houston art museum.
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- News wire article from: Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX) April 2, 2007 700+ words
Apr. 2--The Red Hat ladies, a covey of Corvette aficionados and former First Lady Barbara Bush came. So did kids from more than 120 schools, visitors from across the United States and from Australia, Germany, England and other countries. One couple hopped over to the museum in a cab when their
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- News wire article from: Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX) April 25, 2002 700+ words
...impeccable credentials. In last year's Art Car Parade, she rode a caged bicycle while...feathers. She owns only one car, an art car called La Natmobile, which has a huge...project. Yes, Pennzoil. But why? The Art Car Parade is not like a NASCAR race; spectators...
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...souvenir hard hats an hour before Houston's Art Car Parade started Saturday. Each bore the...works for, SpawMaxwell, just like his art car, a 1958 Edsel Pacer. The Edsel, redone...I went to them and said let's do an art car," said Stanley, decked out like a construction...
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