How to Train Your Dragon Rated PG for sequences of intense action and perilRotten Tomatoes Score: 80%In TheatersIn 2010, Dreamworks and filmmaker Dean DeBlois blew us away with the spectacular animated film How to Train Your Dragon, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. Fifteen years later, they are teaming up again to bring the…
Wine has been around for centuries, tracing back to around 6,000 BC. Those early people found by accident that grapes can ferment into a nice beverage and also found it can easily turn bad in the air. That is why olive groves in the Old World were found around wineries. Those early natives found that…
   In 2017 after the final set of the Conroe Americana Festival, my wife and I thought we would pop in to say goodbye to friends at the Corner Pub in downtown Conroe. Folk Family Revival, who had performed twice at the festival, were playing an impromptu set and closed with a lengthy cover…
The Conroe Lake Conroe Chamber of Commerce, which celebrated its 90th anniversary last year, has been named a finalist for a national 2025 Chamber of the Year award. The award is given by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives based in Alexandria, Va. The organization has more than 1,600 chambers of commerce and related…
Rotarians have been working world wide to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Polio has been wiped out in the United States, but in third world countries, Polio was threatening millions of children. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio…
June is a month of celebration in our Parrot Head world, and June of 2025 will be no exception for The 5 O’Clock Phlock. Because we always Party With A Purpose, it will also be a month of service and charity. The first gathering of the month will be tomorrow night June 10th at the…
What are you doing for Father’s Day? Join the fight against hunger by participating in Montgomery County Food Bank’s annual Outrun Hunger event, Saturday, June 14 starting at 7:00am at the Lake House at Grand Central Park. The event features a 5K Trail Run/Walk & 1K Color Dash. Register online: www.runsignup.com/Race/TX/Conroe/OutrunHungerMCFoodBank. Every $1 raised provides 4…
The Phoenician Scheme Rated PG-13 for smoking throughout, nude images, bloody images, some sexual material, and violent contentRotten Tomatoes Score: 78%In Theaters In Wes Anderson’s latest creation, Benicio Del Toro plays an industrialist and arms dealer named Zsa-Zsa Korda who is trying to survive a series of assassination attempts and near-death experiences in order to makes…
Wine bottles tell you a lot about its contents. In the past, heavy bottles usually denoted high quality wine. That was before sustainability percolated into the philosophy of making wine. Heavy glass bottles are frowned upon in the wine industry because the bottle are more expensive to make and then to ship to the winery…
Before it was a hit Netflix series, Kim’s Convenience was an award-winning play of the same name that went on to inspire the popular series. Main Street Theater is now producing the regional premiere of Kim’s Convenience by playwright Ins Choi.  Kim’s Convenience opened May 17 and runs through June 15 at MST’s Rice Village location,…