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Usher In the Year of the Rat When You Attend a Lunar New Year Festival in Houston Image
Usher In the Year of the Rat When You Attend a...
Come celebrate the Year of the Rat at the annual Lunar New Year Festival held by the Houston Chinese Community Center! Check out the largest Lunar New Year Festival to date this Saturday, January 25th! The Rat is the first of all zodiac animals. According to one myth, the Jade Emperor said the...
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Hear Turkish Music Not Commonly Played in the United States at This Festival on Friday Image
Hear Turkish Music Not Commonly Played in the...
Join the Asia Society Texas Center in exploring the unexpected during the 3rd Annual Turkish Music Festival! this festival promises to be a blast on Friday, January 17th! The first night will highlight the thousand-year connection between Turkish music and that of the surrounding cultures of...
Ground Hog Day
Legend has it that on this morning if a groundhog can see its shadow there will be six more weeks of winter. If it cannot see its shadow, spring is on the way. Since a groundhog hibernates for the winter, its coming out of the ground is a natural sign of spring. Germans who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the mid-1800s began keeping an eye on the groundhog. Due to the groundhog population, the rodent made a handy agent for this particular weather superstition.