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Redhawk Native, American Arts Council, hosted the 18th annual Gateway to Nations NYC Native American Heritage Celebration at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. The festivities included Native American food, music, crafts, art, pony rides, and a live bird-of-prey exhibit.

For over 30 years, the Brooklyn ¼ Scale Drag Racing Association has held RC drag racing events at Floyd Bennett Field every Sunday. Larry, the host, explains that the rules are the same as in real drag racing, but on a smaller scale. There are test-and-tune, elimination, a Christmas Tree, and a timer to record track speed and time.

New York Video is a group of entrepreneurs curating the future of online video. Once a month, Steven Rosenbaum, the event host and M.C., organizes this networking event via Meetup's popular social platform. This month's Meetup was held at AOL's headquarters in Manhattan, with a discounted admission of $10 per person.

Land lovers came by the boatloads to see all the sea life that washed up on Coney Island's beaches for the 30th Annual Mermaid Parade. Mermaids and mermen moved east on Surf Ave in a rainbow of colors, not to mention exhibitionism, during their "fish out of water" experience.

DeKalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn turned into a time machine, transporting fun-loving attendees back to the 1970s for the Down & Derby Roller Disco. Afros, tube socks, headbands, and anything in the '70s were the dress code for the evening.

Have you ever taken your pride and joy to a performance shop for upgrades, and the shop ends up fucking up your shit? You know what? It's probably your fault. Yeah, that's right — you're to blame, and it's time for tuners to look within, according to Vinny Ten.

Many factors go into building a thriving startup community: events, co-working spaces, media and marketing, talent, access to top universities, and access to venture capital, to name a few. Houston’s young startup scene can use a helping hand in accessing venture capital, and Startup Grind is doing its part to provide a solution.

It's not hard to find cultural events in Houston, but finding something different is challenging. PeaceUvMine, HUEston's premier music and lifestyle enhancement agency, accepted this challenge with its new event, HueMASS.

Exposure is a new, exciting nightlife event in Houston created by DJ Nimbus, the organizer. You may ask, “What is so exciting about this event?” As electronic dance music dominates Houston’s club scene, musical diversity is lacking. DJ Nimbus’s vision for Houston’s party-goers is a nightlife that brings together people of all races and cultures, moving to the beat of House music.

For the past six years, ordinary adults have emerged out of nowhere for an annual Halloween ritual called The Montrose Crawl. This Halloween tradition differed as adults shed the skins of their daily, mundane routines to roam Westheimer, laying waste to food and drinks. We risked our lives to capture this devastation on film because most journalists refuse to set foot in this neighborhood on Halloween.

We stopped by The Texas Hookah Lounge to check out the wide variety of shisha flavors available to patrons and those looking to replenish their supply. Hookah lovers can mix and match tobacco's different characteristics to find the perfect blend for their hookah.

What began as a simple event to promote their business and provide exposure for local DJs has grown into Houston’s largest DJ competition, Mega DJ Center’s Last DJ Standing. According to Alan Herrera of Axxis Media, the competitions consisted of four rounds on Thursday at BLU, with the fourth and final round at Brixx on Washington Avenue.

The Greater Houston Black Chamber (GHBC) marked its over 80-year history in the Houston community by releasing its first edition of the Buy Black Business Directory, which lists more than 500 black-owned businesses. What makes Buy Black different?

The Houston Interactive Marketing Association (HIMA) hosted its second Show & Tell Mixer. What exactly is it? It’s a networking event where marketers present their most successful campaigns. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the video speaks volumes.

The Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) and the Texas Motion Picture Alliance (TXMPA) hosted a Film Industry Town Hall Meeting to address the issues facing Texas’s film industry. We hoped this meeting would provide solutions, but it fell short of our expectations. Filmmakers wanted a solid plan from their leaders, but got nothing.